The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-26 00:00:00

THE &UN-EI:PRESSES, tc.

Frees the Scotsman, Wednesday, April 18.)
On Sunday last, at two o'clock, the most splendid turn-out
(Wale citizens that ever took place since the Royal visit, was
witnessed at the Post.office, awaiting the arrival of the mail,
which was expected to bring the division of the Lards upon
the " people's Bill." From the Register Office to the Calton_
stairs, the street was occupied by a dense mass of persons, all
belonging to the respectable classes of society, and a consWer-
able number of ladies and gentlemen took up their station on
the Calton-hill. The weather was genial, with bright sun.
shine, and the appearance of so vast a multitude, congregated
together by feelings of common anxiety for the nation's fate,
was redolent of moral beauty, and in scenic effect highly im-
posing. We should think from 12 to 15,000 individuals awaited
the mail curricle, and besides, the two bridges were crop l 9
with passengers, who lingered on their way to citurtA, until
the post came in. Although the mail did not tirin7, the wished-
for news, an express was expected to arrive Sfrortly afterwards ;
and so great was the public anxiety on thi-, occasion, that watch
was kept by numerous groups during the whole of the after-
noon. In the evening hundreds of all classes assembled in St. .tsidrew.square, around Mes-srs. Taylor Smith and Co.'s ge-
neral newspaper and advveasing office, and waited in eager ex.
pectation the arrival of the anticipated express, Abort seven
o'clock a general cr.,- was heard to clear the way, when-a
chariot and four drove up to the door with an extraordinary
express from the Proprietors of The Soar, bringing the debate
on the all, engrossing question, which only terminated the pre-
ceding morning at seven o'clock. The exprecn had posted
down in the short space of thirty-six boars, and the news was
tho.s received in Edinburgh about ninetten hours before tl'.'e
arrival of the regular mail, When the majority For the
:second reading of the Bill was announced, -a Unanimous
shout of approbation was given by the joyful multitude
assembled. The exertions made epee this important occa-
sion, cannot be too much eulogised, The cost of the ex.
press must be great, but the expenditure of money c!aitUs
not a tithe of our gratitude in comparison with the speedy &-
fusion of that intelligence 'which has brightened up trie country
from end to end, and replaced with joy and contentment the
fearful despondency of a mighty nation, The drivers of the
express were decorated with broad white ribands and rosets,
and by this sign, and the slashing pace at which the vehi-
cle drove, the villages where no stoppage took place knew
at once they carried the message of peace--a favourable
division on the Bill. We understand they were loudly
cheered t.ltrough all the towns which they passed.
At Ha:svick, the good people stormed the reading-room—Sun-
day though it was—and brought a gesltieman out with rie
Sur., whom they placed upon an old dyke, and coortiled him
to read aloud the words of the oracle. At Glorgow the news
were received on Sunday night with the Kinost gratification.
In the coffee-rooms the intelligent!!! w.ts hailed with cheers, and
on Monday, throughout the city And suburbs numerous nags
were unfurled from the wiudOws and house-tope in hottair of
the event. At Paisley the inhabitants hailed the Ilea's with
equal enthusiasm. During the whole of Mtifiday flags were
seen flying in all directions of the town- Sattlig which a large
tricolour bare a conspicuous part. preparations are already
in course there for getting up an 'extensive range of petitions.
Greenock was also in ecstacy en the arrival of the news, and
next day the Trades' banners were unfurled, as also the flag
from the steeple. It is stated, that had it not been for the
alarming state of cholera there, public demonstrations of joy
of a more pointed nature would have been manifested. We
have only to add, that in our own city the inhabitants are so
much gratified by the happy issue Oh Reform, that they
scarcely know in what way to demonstrate their feelings cor-
rectly. Numerous parties met on Sunday evening to ex.
change congratulations, and dinner parties were got. Op on
Mouday for th- same object. At Leith some heerty libations
were also bumpered to the triumph of Reform, and the vessels
in the Wet Docks and Harbour were gayly decorated with
flags full mast high. We shall be ambled on Saturday, when
the country papers have reached us, to give a more detailed
account of the " sensation" produced throughout Scotland by
the glorious news; in the meantime we augur well fbr the
next quarter's revenue. While we write, these is something
on the tapis here for a public demonstration, which will be ex-
plained in another paragraph.

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(Fro in the Dronfriesandfilalktuay Courier, Tuesday, April 17.)
THE BlLL—During the interval of public worship on
Sabbath last, we received an express from London, via Lock-
erby, covering two copies of The Sun newspaper, containing the
division in the House of Lords on Saturday morning, and an-
nouncing the inexpressibly glad tidings that the second reading
of " the Bill" had been carried by a majority of Nine. A stanch
Reformer who saw the messenger alight, and anon wend his
way to our domicile, followed in tfteathless haste, in the full be-
lief that something extraordinary was going forward, and in the
hope of gaining the earliest possible intelligence of a measure
big with the fate of the British empire. Nor were his expec-
tations disappollittd The packet was easily opened, and the
more so that ft had obviously been opened previously. A chaise
mnd four, careering at the rate of fifteen miles per hour, changed
horses at Lockerby on Sunday, re.started in a twinkling; and
iu the interim, a messenger, whom public rumour, by a sort of
forced creation, elevated to the dignity of the editor of The Sun,
ordered our packet to be despatched by a post-boy, well
mounted, and with positire instructions to spare neither whip
nor spur, even if the "'galled jade should wince." The lieges
in Lockerby stood,as became them, on the qui vice; and, all
things considered, we excuse them from our hearts for peeping
into, without detaining, our precious packet ! In fact, we sin-
cerely rejoice that they read it, and that through their instru-
mentality, the shepherds in Eskdalemuir, and other remote
and secluded districts, were put in possession of the glorious
news some hours sooner than the members of either the
Glasgow or Edinburgh Union! The chaise and four al-
luded to passed Beattock for Glasgow at half-past one
o'clock, as we learn from a gentleman who happened
►o be on the spot ; and two hours earlier a similar con-
veyance left the city of Carlisle for Edinburgh—so that by
six or seven o'clock the news would be known on the banks
of the Forth and the Clyde, and nearly as speedily in Ben-
frewshire. Dumbarton, and the kingdom of Fife. One of the
two Journals so kindly transmitted to us, we immediately de-
spatched to the Commercial Reading-room, agreeably to in.
structions received from Mr. 31. Young; and to confess the
truth, the intelligence flew like wildfire, and was conveyed
before the sun went down, to at least a dozen surrounding pa-
rishes. Still there was no expression of feeling inconsistent
with the sanctity of the Sabbath, beyond a few friendly greet.
ings en the streets. The Scotsman of Saturday states that for
days previous thousands had surrounded the Post office in the
expectation of learning the result of the division; and a simi.
lar proof of "re-action" was witnessed in Dumfries, although
on a much smaller scale. And if the 14th of April had hap-
pened to be a week day, certain we are that the welkin would
have-rung with :dads elicited by the consummation of a na.
tion's hopes; and it is even possible that the town bells
would have been heard sounding, not " The Downfall of Pa-
ris," but the Downfall of the Rotten Burgh System! The de.
bate in the House of Lords closed on Saturday, at seven
o'clock—a day that will ever be memorable in our annals—and
by eight, or shortly atter it, the public-spirited Proprietors of
The Sun had expresses on every aorta and acne cave of Great
Britain, Our own cleared a distance of 340 miles in 29 hours,
and must have travelled at the rate, including stoppages, of
snore than 12 miles per hour. But the Musical Doctor said or
sung long ago, in the rejected prologue for Old Drury, which
he insisted was far better than Byron's--
" When energising objects men pursue,
What are the prodigies they will not do !"
The post-office, we believe, in such cases, issues an order which
franks the tolls; but still the other expenses must be such as
would harry a poor provincialist out of house and hall, and
compel him to live on short commons for as long a period as has
elapsed since the first introduction of the Reform Bill. But
still the gentlemen alluded to will not go without their reward,
and we can honestly assure them that their exertions have
been appreciated to the extent of three hearty cheers, and nu-
merous private expressions of obligation by the whole reforming
public of Dumfries.

(From the teedock Adecrtiser, Tuesday, April 17.,
The exertions of The Sun London daily paper, in communi-
cating to the provinces the latest intelligence of the Parlia-
mentary proceedings of the day—sometimes at a heavy pecu-
niary loss to the proprietors in forwarding expresses—has been
often noticed and gratefully acknowledged by the provincial
press. But the important debate and division in the House of
Lords on the second reading of the Reform Bill, has afforded an
opportunity, of which the Proprietors of The Sun have fully
availed themselves, not only to outstrip all competitors in this
mode of gaining public favour, but likewise of out.doing its
own past efforts to win it. The division did not take place till
the morning of Saturday was far advanced, yet, at seven
o'clock, The Sun was issued with nearly twenty-three-columns
of the final debate, when Mr. Murdo Young, Editor and Co-
Proprietor, left the metropolis in a post-chaise and four, with
copies, and arrived in Glasgow on Sunday evening, in the in-
credible short space of thirty-six hours. We have no doubt
Mr. Young liberally distributed his interesting news by the
way; but we would call the attention of our local readers to
the fact, that even when arrived at his journey's end, his zeal
for its extension throughout the West of Scotland did not
abate or repose a moment. In conjunction with his agent, Mr.
Atkinson, he immediately despatched a rider to Paisley and this
town with copies; and we have to acknowledge, that the first
of these, which was delivered here, accompanied by a polite note
from Mr. Young, was put into our hands by his messenger at
eleven o'clock. Along with our copy was one for each of the
Coffee-rooms, but which (they being shut an hour before) could
not be Perused there till morning. We do not doubt that the
managers of the rooms will take an opportunity of thanking
Mr. Young for his spirited exertions and polite attention, and it:
gives much pleasure to state that to these, exclusively, we are
indebted for being enabled to anticipate our usual period of
publication, and to place before our readers the fullest abstract
our time and limits will permit, of tht closing discussion on the
second reading.

(From the Derby Reporter, Thursday, Apyill9.)
- • THE REFORM BILL.—The last week has been one of in.
-tense anxiety and expectation, with all classes and parties,
throughout this county—we may truly say this empire, for
. there is no place so isolated that the inhabitants do not feel
_ that weal or woe will succeed the fate of the important BilL
now lying upon the tablO of the House of Lords. During the'
whole of Wednesday and Thursday till seven o'clock at night,
the people lingered in the streets with a restless, unsettled air,
of incapable of applying themselves steadily td their various
ceilings while there was the least probability of the arrival o?
an express with the division of the Lords on the Reform Bill
Numerous calls were made at our ()dice throughout both days!