The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-13 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.—Sox OFFICM, APRIL 13, 1360.

THERMOMETER, IN THE IMAMS.
50—highest since noon yesterday.
45—lowest this morning and during the night.
47—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.02.
WIND, North-Easterly ; light, with dull rainy weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, Gh. 57m.—Afternoon, 7h. 29m.
To-mORROW.-Morning, Bh. 7m.—Afternoon, Bh. 49m.

THE POST-OFFICE AND
NEWSPAPERS.

Scarcely a day elapses that we do not
receive complaints of newspapers missing,
being too late, or arriving several posts be-
hind time. This is an intolerable nuisance
to our subscribers, and is, besides, highly
prejudicial to ourselves. Where rests the
evil ? It is idle to complain, for polite
answers and promises avail nothing.
Surely Sir Rowland Bill will have some
merciful consideration,• and endeavour to
redress the grievance. It is a double griev-
ance, for we are made to pay for not send-
ing the paper, which is often kept back till
next morning, which loses a day to our
subsZribers, who truly say that old news is
no news, causing anger rather than benefit.
If the General Post-office be not large
enough, then extend it, or build another
capacious enough for every purpose, be the
cost what it may. It will serve for all
time. tt e make this suggestion in a spirit
of good will, and hope that good may come
of it.
Sun Office, April 4, 1860.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1860.

As the BOANERGES of Birmingham elegantly
expressed it last evening, in the course of his
triumphal speech delivered in the Free-trade Hall
of Manchester, we have now arrived at an interval
or sort of half way house in the session of Parlia-
ment. It is an appropriate occasion, therefore, Mr.
BRIGHT thinks, for energetic M.P.'s like himself
to dismount for a moment for the purpose of having
a quiet drain together while (metaphorically speak-
ing) the horses are being changed, and prior to the
moment when the gallant old JEHU shall give the
signal for a fresh start, gathering up anew in his
experienced grasp the slackened reins of the Go-
veinment. It is as if Mr. BRIGHT had taken, in
this respect, a leaf out of the book of Mr. WAcK-
FOR) SQUEERS, who was so fond upon similar oc-
casions of " stretching his legs," as he delicately
expressed it, in the course of his memorable stage-
coach journey down into Yorkshire.

Mr. BRIGUT spoke yesterday (the reporter e arc-
fully informs us through the electric telegraph),
for exactly " one hßur and twenty minutes," as
though timed by r .
of
017 Shrewsbury clock. And during
this interval Hour and twenty minutes, the
hon. member for Birmingham
(accord of h
(according to his wont twits for the most part
e)affording another
gratuitous illustration of thewisdom of the advice
emblazoned upon his title-
Page by one of the
cleverest of the young novelists of our day (w
ALTER
TEIORNBURY)—the advice conveyed through those
few significant words, "Every Man his Own
Trumpeter." The member for Birmingham, as we
ought to know by this time, is never loth to be his.
He is always ready enough to put the brazen mouth-
piece to his lips, and to indulge us, for an hour and
twenty minutes at a time, with a prolonged and sono.
rous series of flourishes upon his own peculiar in-
itnment of self-glorification. We all remember