The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-05 00:00:00

FRANCE.—The principal object of the supplemental article
is the regulation of the transit dispatches which may be sent
through France from or to the Swiss cantons, Algeria, &c.
It is thereby provided that letters from the United Kingdom
to Switzerland, and reciprocally, may be transmitted through
France. either paid to their destination or unpaid, at the
trair'et's pleasure. For all letters paid in the respective
conntrits, the English Post-office is to account at a rate of
21. 40c. for every 30 grammes net weight ;.receiving, on the
other hand, Is. per ounce British for letters from or to the
United Kingdom, and 3s. 4d. per ounce for those for or to the
colonies and countries beyond sea.
Newspapers from Switzerland to Great Britain pay 40
centim,ss transit postage. Between Switzerland and the co-
lonies (except Canada), ld. is to be paid by the French Post-
office on every journal or printed sheet of paper that may
be conveyed by British vessels ; and lid. when conveyed in
like manner between Canada and Switzerland, Algeria,
France, and those countries where France maintains post-
offices.
HANOVER.—The convention provides for a regular trans-
mission of letters twice a week from the central post-offices
established in England, at London ; and in Hanover, at
Bremen. The postage for every single letter is to be 9d.
sterling, of which 6d. is to belong to England, and 3d. to
Hanover. This postage may be paid either by the sender or
the receiver. One rate is to be charged for letters not ex-
ceeding half an ounce; two rates from to 1 ounce; four
rates, 1 to 2 ounces; and for every additional ounce or frac-
tion, two rates are to be charged. For transit letters through
the respective countries 6d. per half-ounce is to be charged
in England, and 2d. in Hanover, except in the case of letters
for Saxony, or the countries beyond, when the charge is 3d.
These rates of 6d., and 2d., or 3d. respectively, to be com-
bined into one of Bd. or 9d., of which 6d. will belong to Great
Britain, and 2d. or 3d.'‘to Hanover. The two Post-offices
mutually to account with each other for that portion of the
postage which is due to each other on the. zorraotpuidence
forwarded by them. The Post-office of Hanover to allow the
transmission of the closed mails, containing the correspond-
ence between Great Britain and the East Indies, British pos-
sessions in the Levant, &c., on a payment of 101., in lieu of
transit postage on every such mail. The Hanoverian Post-
office to defray the expellees of transmission in the ordinary
manner, but, if the British deem it expedient to employ
any special trains or convoy, the expense must be borne by
itself.

For newspapers not higher than ld. to be charged by the
British Post-office, or tha.n two-thirds of a good groschen
(about ld. sterling) by the Post-office in Hanover. But this
article is not to invalidate the right of either of the offices
to refuse to deliver such of those newspapers as may not
have fully complied with the laws respecting their publica-
tion and circulation.
BRUNSWICK.—The convention includes the Duchy of
Brunswick in the previous treaty with Hanover, so that
letters from or to the United Kingdom may be sent to or re-
ceived from Brunswick at the same rate as those agreed
upon with the Hanoverian Post-office. The closed mails
between Eng Land and the East Indies are to be forwarded
through Brunswick, should it be deemed expedient to adopt
that route, on a payment of 51. each. Newspapers to be
sent or received ou terms similar to those with the Hano-
verian office.
BELGlum.—The only additional article to the postal con-
vention with Belgium provides for the direct communication
between the Post-office of Antwerp and the British office at
Hull, by means of private ships navigating between those'
two ports. The communication to be in all respects conform-
able with the stipulations contained in the general convention
of-October 19, 1844.

IRELAND.
CONCILIATION HALL.

Dunme, FEB. usual weekly meeting of the Re-
peal Association took plow in Conciliation Hall on Monday
last, James O'Kelly, Esq., V.P., in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN addressed the meeting at considerable
length on the present political prospects of the country, in
the course of which he expresxied his determination not to
attend his duties in Parliament.
Mr. STEELE next addressed the meeting, and denounced a
series of resolutions which had been proposed in the Ameri-
can House of Congress, suggesting the annexation of Ireland
to that country upon requisition from Ireland. Those reso-
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pool last week.
Mr. S. O'BniEN addressed the meeting at considerable
length, and spoke of Sir F.. Peel's policy as being wholly di-
rectel to the advancement of English interests, regardless of
benefit to Ireland, and assei-ted as his opinion that that would
be in a great measure its effect. Ile contended that the
police of Ireland ought to be' borne upon the public revenues,
without any reference to a corn-law.- Mr. O'Brien went on
to detail his views upon the corn- laws, which are not, as his
speech at Limerick will have shown, in unison with those of
Mr. O'Connell. But upon oue view of the effect of the re-
peal of the corn-laws, the Hon. Gentleman said there was no
difference of opinion, and that was, that repeal of the corn-
laws would advance repeal. It was certain that the admis-
sion of Irish corn into England without the imposition of a
'duty had been bestowed upon Ireland as an advantage, and
the Irish people were not so stolid as to
.give up this
advantage without feeling that wrong was inflicted upon
their country. The Irish gentlemen find that England can
obtain her corn from Bremen and Odessa, and her bacon
from America, on the same terms that Ireland hereafter can
send it into that country, and they cannot be content until
they have security that an Ei tglish Legislature shall not have
the power to deprive themselves and their country of an ad •
vantage.
Mr. O'Nstm seconded the aLloption of the report.
After some routine business, _ . .

Mr. Douce proceeded to address the association. He read
a report upon the subject of Lunatic Asylums in Ireland, in
the course of which he stated that, of the officers employed
in that association, there were 3,863 Protestants, and only
763 Catholics. _

-The ;ieei7s rent, it was stated, will be about 2701.
THE SCARCITY—PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES.

We (Cork Reporter) are informed that the extensive mills.
known as the Lee Mills and stores in this city, have been
taken by the firm of Baring, Brothers, of London, from
Messrs. Beam ish end Crawford, at a rent of 6001. per annum.
It is generally understood that this is part of the precaution-
ary measures re?erred to in the Queen's Speech for the pre-
vention of any scarcity of food that may arise in the ensuing
season in this couptry.
AWFUL Ieff.URDER NEAR PORTUMNA.

Another frightful murder has been added to the daily in-
creasing list of crime in this country—another victim has
been sacrificed to the vei igeance of lawless legislation. On
Wednesday evening last:, about five o'clock, as a man named
Madden, who was in the .employment of Mr. Stoney, of Port.
land, was going home froril his daily labour, he was shot by
some assassin, in a grove .convenient to the entrance-gate to
Mr. Stoney's house, near Portumna. The assassin, not
satisfied with shooting his -victim through the body, liorally
dashed his brains out with his own spade.—Ballinasloe
Advertiser.