The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-03 00:00:00

JULY 3, 1846.

MANCHESTER and SOUTHAMPTON

RAILWAY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Thursday Morning.
SIR,—In last night's report of the proceedings before
the Committee on this line, the Chairman is made to
observe, " That the evidence which had hitherto been
tendered had been chiefly by the Great Western and
South-Western line, but that the Committee required
more impartial evidence in favour of the line." I pre-
sume he meant to observe, that the evidence against the
line had been tendered chiefly by the two opposing mo-
nopolies, and that, therefore, he considered it partial
and intereeted. And this brings me to the question I
wished to propose, viz., because a line of railway be-
tween two places is conceded to a certain body of share-
holders to construct, is the whole adjacent country ne-
cessarily included ? In other words, is the whole south
and west of England to be handed over to the tender
mercies of the two gigantic monopolies above-men-
tioned ? Or is an independent company, consisting
mainly of the inhabitants of the various towns and land-
holders along the line to be permitted to construct a
line, three-fourths of which already belong to them ? I
assure you that the most intense dislike has been ex-
cited in the minds of the inhabitants of Southampton
against Mr. Sheriff Chaplin and his company, by the
gross ingratitude shown, in return for their liberality
in granting them a site for their • terminus out of the
town property, by the utter indifference to the interests
of the town, Mid by the mean persecution of some of the
tradesmen who presumed to differ with his mightiness.
If the Committee reject the Manchester and Southampton
line, it will be considered tantamount to a decision that
no line shall approach that port, except under the aus-
pices of the detested South-Western management.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
A NATIVE OF SOUTHAMPTON.

POSTAGE (ENGL AND and FRANCE.)
The following additional articles to those agreed upon
between the Post-office of Great Britain and the Post-
office of France, for carrying into execution ti e conven-
tion of the 3d of April, 1843, were, on Saturday, issued
by order of the House of Peers.
In pursuance of the powers granted by the Articles 49
and 87 of the convention of April 3, 1843, between Great
Britain and France, to the two Post offices, to settle the
matters of detail, which are to be arranged by mutual
consent for ensuring the execution of the said convention,
The undersigned, duly authorised for that purp•se by
their respective offices, have agreed upon the following
articles :

Art. 1. The British Post-office shall pay to the French
Post-office, for postage on unpaid letters originating in
the kingdom of Wurtemberg, and addressed to the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the British
colonies and possessions, at the rate of two franca for
every thirty grammes' net weight.
Art. 2. The British Post- office shall likewise pay to
the French Post-office; for postage on the letters origin-
ating in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the British colonies and possessions, which
shall be paid to their destination in the kingdom of
Wurtemburg, at the rate of two francs for every thirty
grammes net weight.
Art. 3. The present articles shall be considered as
additional to those agreed upon between the two Post-
offices for carrying into execution the convention of the
3d of April, 1843, signed at London, the Ist of May
following, and shall come into operation the Ist day of
June, 1846. . . .

Done in duplicate, and signed at Paris, the eleventh
day of May, 1846, and at London, the fourteenth of the
same month.

(Signed) W. L. MABERLEY,
Secretary of the General Post-office
United Kingdom.
Approved.
(Signed) ST. GERMANS.
Postmaster-General of the United Kingdom.