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

(From the Preston Pilot, Saturday, April :21 )

DESPATCH.—The news of the division on Saturday morn-
ing arrived from The Sun Office at this town a little before
twelve o'clock the same night. The express could not have
left town till near nine, so that it was only fifteen hours on the
road, and must consequently have been conveyed at the rate of
fifteen miles an hour.

:From the Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier,

Tuesday, April 17.)
By last evening's coach from Dublin, we were favourQ by
those indefatigable and successful agents for the Press, Messrs.
Johnston and Co. of Dublin, with a copy of an express edition
of The Sun, containing a full report of the debate in the Lords,
down to the division. Saturday's mail arrived this morning
in course.

(From the Aberdeen Observer, Friday, April 13.)
By the extraordinary exertions of the spirited Proprietors of
The Snu newspaper, we were favoured yesterday with an ex-
press edition of that paper, which brought the proceedings in
the House of Lords down to nine o'clock on Monday evening,
and furnished us with the conclusion of Earl Grey's speech on
moving the second reading of the Reform Bill.

(From the Dublin Morning Register, Thursday, April Pi)
Monday evening, as our readers are aware, was fixed for the
second reading of the Reform BilL The proceedings are re-
ported up to nine o'clock in successive editions of The Sun, and
Lord Grey's opening speech is given in full even to the con.
elusion. This is an extraordinary anticipation of the or-
dinary channels of intelligence, and reflects the greatest credit
on the activity and enterprise of the conductors of that paper.

;From the Portsmouth Herald, Sunday, April S.)

We are again indebted to The Sun Newspaper for the ear-
liest intelligence of the proceedings in the House of Lords on
the momentous occasion of the division on the second reading
of the Reform Bill. We acknowledge with our best thanks
the receipt of the express edition of that paper, which gave us
a full report of the debate at half-past four o'clock yesterday
afternoon.

(Froto the Reading Mercury, Saturday, April H.)
We have to express our obligations, and those of the inhabi-
tants of this part of the country, to the Editors of the Courier
and The Sun, for copies of their papers, containing full reports
of the important debate, which reached our office as early as
ten o'clock this morning. The Sun had about five minutes'
start of the courier. The public can have no idea of the

exertions that must have been made by the spirited Con.
ductors of the above journals the House did not adjourn till
seven,—so that the decisiOn was carried from Westminster to
the offices in the Strand, there composed, prepared for the
pres., and printed, and afterwaids conveyed a distance of forty-
two miles, in the short space of three hours! The exoresses
proceeded hence for Bristol with the satiic rabidity. Immense
anxiety was visible among en cases to learn the decision, and
the result was Wila with general and enthusiastic joy,

(From the (Edinburgh) New North Briton, April 21.)
CUPAR.—The intense interest excited in Scotland in re-
gard to the fate of the Reform Bill, at its second reading in the
House of Lords, was met by exertions commensurate with the
occasion on the part of the spirited Preprietlys tf ire Sun.
The anxiously looked for intelligetict terq by 11PICab's
coach earl• en Mmida'k, The news were quickly spread—
gladetess r*rk,idid the political atmosphere; save a few dingy
IfOil, whose darkness rendered the general cheerfulness more
apparent—and the merry sounds of tvells were soon heard ex-
tending themselves in every direction. The Sun, arrived in
tdinturgh in toe remarkably short space of 36 hours after the
diVlsion; which took place on Saturday morning, at seven o'clock

(From the Shrewsbury Chronic?e of Ptiday, April 20.)
The arrival in this town, on Saturday night, of theintelli.
gencc of IS 'akcess of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords,
tt2'3ited great joy. The news was expected by the Wonder
Coach, at eleven o'clock at night, and nearly three hundred
persons assembled long before its arrival at the. Lion Trn;', rtd
welcomed the majority of Nine
,by loud "cliteting :—the chief
streets were traversed atat ITACI-day, and gratulations were ex_
changed ber.:f6S Passengers. The Morning Chronicle and
!"c`e !,"iin Newspapers arrived at the News-room, St. John's_
hill, on that evening, giving the debates, which concluded only
at seven o'clock that morning.

(From the Glasgow Chronicle, Monday, April 16)
By the unparalleled et'zertiOns of the Proprietors Of The Sun
we are again put in possessron, no lesb than tWenty houri hi ad-
vance of the mail, of the 151'0mi:ling! in the House of Lords on
the Reform Bill, with the division on the second reading. The.
debate terminated at seven o'clock on Saturday morning, the
ieport, to the extent of twenty-two columns and a half, was
printed before eight, at which hour Mr. Young, the Editor;
left London in a chaise and four, and arrived at Mr. Atkin_
son's at half-past seven. o'clock, having Accomplished the
journey in thirty.five hours and a half—including about three
hours' delay from the difficulty of procuring good horses.

(From the Air Advertiser, Thursday, April 19.)
By the praiseworthy exertions of The Sun newspaper the
news of the second reading of the Reform Bill, for which the
people were waiting in anxious suspense, reached this place on
Monday morning, and was received with heartfelt gratitude
towards those who have so efficiently done their duty to their
country. But as the rejoicings of the people met a check on a
former occasion, they with prudent caution refrained from
giving full vent to their feelings. In the evening some guns
were Bred and squibs thrown, and a few flags displayed from
the windows. A similar expression of feeling was made in
almost every town and village of the country.

(From the Kilmarnock Chronicle, Wednesday, April 18.)
The unparalleled and almost incredible exertions of the Edi-
tor of The Sun London paper having brought us on Monday
morning the result of the second reading of the Reform Bill in
the House of Lords, the good news rapidly spread, and af-
forded much gratification to all classes. Splendid flags were
immediately hoisted and seen flaunting in every direction from
every accessible and commanding eminence in town and
suburbs, and in the evening there was a plentiful display of all
the varieties of squibs and rockets, and other fire-works, with
a bonfire at the Cross—every thing unquestionably demon-
strated the total indifference of the community to the speedy
and proper settlement of this great national question.

(From the Maidstone Journal, Tuesday, April 17.)
We beg to tender our best thanks to Mr. Murdo Young,
Editor of The Sun Evening Paper, for his politeness in for-
warding us a copy of The Sun by express, on Saturday, contain-
ing the debate and division on the second reading of the Reform
Bill. The House of Lords adjourned at seven o'clock on Sa-
turday morning, and, by the most extraordinary exertion, The
Sun, containing twenty columns and a half of the proceedings,
was received in Maidstone (35 miles from London) in about five
hours afterwards, and six hours before the arrival of any other
paper. To ourselves, personally, this unparalleled expedition
proved extremely convenient, and to the public generally highly
gratifying.

(From the liveman's Journal, Monday, April 16.)
For this debate and division--the most important to the
British empire, that, perhaps, ever took place in the House of
Peers, we are indebted to The Sun, whose exertions on all im-
portant occasions have been very great, but are in the present
instance unparalleled. It is almost inconceivable how speeches
that were spoken, and a division that took place in 'Westminster
at half-past seven o'clock on Saturday morning, could reach
Dublin, in print, at two o'clock on Sunday. This most ex-
traordinary effort of The Sun deserves the highest praise from
every individual interested in the question—and who is not ?
in the British empire. The express was delivered at our office
at twenty minutes past two yesterday, by the Messrs. Johnston
and Co., Newspaper agents, Eden quay.

(From the Scottish Guardian, Tuesday, April 17.)
By a most astonishing effort on the part of Mr. Young, Editor
of The Sun newspaper, the result of the division of the House
of Lords, with the close of the debate, reached Glasgow on
Sabbath night at half-past seven, thirty-six hours after the deci-
sion took place. Mr. Young, personally, rode the express. Such
liberal exertions for the early satisfaction of the country, de_
mand an adequate meed of support and admiration. The news
was received in the Trongate by an immense concourse of people,
without any tumultuous demonstrations ofjoy ;. but when Mr.
Young drove up to the New Exchange with copies of his publi-
cation, and Mr. Atkinson announced the main point of the in-
telligence to the mob outside, they manifested their satisfaction
by three loud and continued cheers—an expression of feeling the
evening of the Sabbath could very well have dispensed with.

(From the Newry Telegraph, Tuesday, April 17.)
SECOND READING OF THE REFORM BILL CAR.
RIED BY A MAJORITY OF NlNE!—Through the ex.
traordinary and really unprecedented exertions of our agents
(Messrs. Johnston and Co.), we received yesterday morning by
express The Sun of Saturday, which paper; by an effort of in.
dustry and skill but seldom, very seldom, indeed, equalled, con.
tained the fourth and last night's debate on the Reform Bill,
extending over not less than one-and-twenty columns, toge-
ther with the result of the division, which occurred at seven
o'clock on Saturday morning By this means we have been
put in possession (at least twelve hours earlier than we ex-
pected) of the important and, under all the circumstances, we
will add, glorious fact, that the Bill has been carried through a
second reading by a majority of Nine.

(From the Hull Packet and HumberMercury, Tuesday,Aprill7.)
We have merely space, in the present number, to congra.
tulate our readers on the second reading of the Bill for Par-
liamentary Reform, in the House of Lords, which was carried
by a majority of nine, at seven o'clock on Saturday morning,
after a most interesting and animated debate of four nights'
duration. The news reached this town on Sunday morning,
by the York mail, through the medium of an express, trans-
mitted to Leeds by the Proprietors of The Sun evening paper,
who thus, as on many previous occasions, distinguished them-
selves by their exertions in forwarding the earliest intelli-
gence of this important event through the country. The
paper contained a full and complete report of the closing de.
bate, with the division.

(From the Wakefield and Halifax Journal, Thursday, Aprill9.)
THE SUN NE WSPA PER.—The proprietors of this
spirited journal, evei ready to give the earliest possible intelli-
gence on any momentous question, despatched a special Ines.
senger immediately after the division of the House of Lords on
the second reading of the Reform Bill, who reached Wakefield
in the unparalleled short space of time of fourteen hours ! The
division did not take place until after seven o'clock on Saturday
morning, and copies of The Sun newspaper, containing the divi.
sion and upwards of twenty columns of the debates, were
received at the Wakifield Journal Office at a quarter past ten
o'clock the same night. A distance of more than 184 miles'
Such exertion reflects the highest credit on the conductors of
that paper.

(jc.i-esier Herald, Wednesday, April IS.)
The Sun paper express arrived in this town on Saturday
last about a quarter past three, bringing the division in the
House of Lords on the Reform Bill. In about ten minutes
after, another express also arrived, and if we might judge
from the rate the former was going at it did not appear
likely that it would be overtaken this side of Manchester. We
feel much obliged to the Editor of The Sun for dropping us a
paper on the way. One of the horses in The Sun express, belong.
ins, to Mr Flint, of Harborough, fell at Glenn, and we under-
stand, died since. Another of the horses, with great difficulty
reached this town, but in so jaded a state, that on returning to
Harborough, it was obliged to be taken into the White Horse,
at Oadby, where it soon after expired.

(From the Edinburgh Advertiser, Tuesday, April 17.)
EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS.—By the unparalleled
exertions o. the Proprietors of The Sun newspaper, an extraor-
dinary express, bringing the division on the second reading
of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords, arrived at Messrs.
Jas. Taylor Smith and Co.'s General Newspaper and Adver-
tising Office, St. Andrew square, on the evening of the 15th
inst.:at seven o'clock. Thus, by the unparalleled exertions made
on the present occasion, the debates were perused at length in
Edinburgh in the short space of thirty-six hours after the divi-
sion took place, a circumstance altogether unprecedented.
Shortly after the express arrived in Edinburgh, it proceeded
withj.he same rapidity to the north, thus being foremost in
putting the country in possession of the result of one of the
most important questions that has ever come before Parliament.
We understand that these great exertions will he continued on
all important occasions.

(From the Shdfield Iris, Tuesday, April 17.)
SECOND READING OF THE REFORM BILL.—
ARRIVAL OF THE NEWS IN SHEFFIELD.—On
Saturday afternoon the most intense anxiety was manifested in
this town, pending the arrival of the decision of the House of
Lords upon the second reading of the Bill. As it was generally
understood that expresses
.were arranged to convey the Intel.
persons, probably some thousands, crowded the
ligence from London hither the shortest possible time, great
the town along Sheffield Moor, or were as_
sernbled in the old Hay-market, in front of the Tontine
entrancenunibers °o f f
Inn, all wound up in the same eager expectation of the
news. At twenty-five minutes past eight, The Stgn arrived

by Hr. Wiley, of the Sun Tavern, gay-Market.. 711,14-
press was immediately forwarded to Leeds. 'The inteo
ligence of the result rapidly spread through the town, and
in a short time the " shooting" of the bells at the parish
church confirmed the impretsion of those who were out of
reach Of the more detailed information, and of course excited,
at a still greater distance, in the minds of not a few non-political
personages, very simple inquiries as to what had happened that
the bells should be ringing at that time of night I Among the
wonders of the present day, certainly not the least wonderful
is the prompt transmission of intelligence from the metro_
polls to the provinces : in the present instance) the debate
did not terminate thitll Ed=en o eiock,ona6rday i*q-nitig in
the Molise of Loids', leas repOrted at length', i3et tip ih type,
and read at the distance of 160 miles from London, in the
incredibly short space of about ttVelt-e hours.

(From the New North Briton, Wednesday, April is

REFORM BILL—SECOND READING CARRIED.—
The renewed debate in the HOuse of Lords terminated .at an
early hour on Saturday Morning, On,a di•Ailohlin thiell ihe
second reading. w'rs Carried by a majority of Nine. This is a
result on which we congratulate the country—not in pas-
' sinnate exu'tation, but in calm and grave sincerity of heart,
which forbids us to indulge in any of the lighter manifestations
of joy. We congratulate the country on this step bring
gained ; for it is not only a favonrable stet; in 'adirance, bat
had the result been diffbi!ert, And the Bill been rejected, no
nfirr +;till foretell the heart-burning and heart sickening con-
tentions and movements which would inevitably have followed.
Now, however, the cause of Reform wears a very different
aspect; and this last discussion and its issue have given an
impulse to it of an effectual and more benignant character.
The necessity, the expediency of Reform, is conceded on all
hands, with greater or less frankness or reluctance. A majo-
rity of the Uppet House has resolved to take into Considera_
tioli the rheagirre and degree of that Reform which may prove
beneficial to the empire : and we have not a doubt, though
some modifications may take place on the Bill as sent up from
the Commons, that ere long a genuine and efficient law will be
enacted for correcting the evils of the present system of repre-
sentation, and establishing one that is infinitely better, and at
the same time free from ail those latent tendencies and vices
Which have been so gratuitously ascribed to it. The tidings
of this vantage vote reached Edinburgh on Sunday evening, by
means of the express despatched by The Suit, which arrived
with unexampled rapidity.

EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS.—By the unparalleled
exertions of the Proprietors of The Sun, an express editioit of
that paper was received by Messrs. Taylor Smith and Co., St.
Andrew-square, by seven o'clock on the evening of Sunday
last, bringing the full debate and grand division on the second
reading of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords, being only
thirtll-six hours after the division took place, and no less than
nineteen hours in advance of the mail, a circumstance quite un-
precedented. The country is thus indebted to the extraordi-
nary efforts of the Proprietors of The Sun in being put in pos-
session in so short a period, of the result of a measure so very
important ; and it would say little for the gratitude of the
country if such a display of liberality and accommodation
should be passed over without some peculiar mark of approba-
tion. The expense incurred in forwarding intelligence to all
parts of the country by such a mode must be great indeed;
but, regardless of expense, the Proprietors of this paper have
shown themselves, on the present occasion, to be actuated by
au anxiety for the public good, and which ought not to be met
with indifference.

„ (From the Lioerpool Albion, Monday, April.l6.)
DIVISION ON THE REFORM BILL—So intense was

the anxiety of the public to ascertain the result of the division
on the motion for the second reading of the Bill, that all the
newsrooms were, on Saturday night, crowded till the hours of
closing, in expectation of the arrival of an express from London
with the intelligence. Church.street, Parker-street, and their
vicinities were blocked up by a dense multitude, who remained
there from before eight o'clock till after ten, for the same pur-
pose. The first express which arrived was the one from the
Courier office. The result of the division was immediately
announeed, and was received by the multitude with visible
tokens of satisfaction. The second express, which was from
The Sun Office, arrived at eleven o'clock, at Mr. Arnold's
Newspaper Office, Post-office.place. Yesterday (Sunday, as
it was) the triumph of Ministers was the theme of general con-
versation. The prospect of the ultimate success of the Reform
Bill has already dissipated the gloomy forebodings which Appre-
hension for its safety had thrown over the public mind. Still
it is deserving of consideration whether public meetings ought
to be held to petition the House of Lords to pass the Bill with
the least possible delay. We are decidedly of opinion, that
such meetings should he held in Liverpool and other places. .

(From the Nottingham Review, Friday, April 30.)

On Saturday last the utmost anxiety prevailed throughout
the town for the result of the division in the House of Lords,
on the second reading of the Reform Bill, and there was the
more intense feeling as it was known that it had been agreed
by both sides that the debate should not be prolonged beyond
the sitting of Friday night. In the course of the day many
manufacturers declined to give out any material to the frame-
work-knitters to work up, for fear of the consequences which
might result from a second rejection. Through the afternoon
expectation rose to the highest pitch, and the ardent wishes of
the people were gratified by the arrival of a chaise and four,
from which a purple flag was displayed, and which passed our
office at three minutes past five; a Sun newspaper was received
from the courier inside, announcing the joyful intelligence,
and immediately the news was made known, one general smile
of joy seemed to pervade every countenance. Throughout the
evening nothing was to be seen but cheerful faces, and nothing
heard but mutual congratulations. Those who had on Satur-
day declined giving out work, sent on Monday morning to de.
sire their workmen to fetch out the material as usual. Is this
no indication of the intense desire of the people for Reform !
The gentleman who rode down in an open carriage and four,
express from London, with The Sun papers, on Saturday last,
containing the welcome intelligence of a majority for the se-
cond reading of the Reform Bill in the House of Peers, was
Mr. Lacy Townsend Gaskill, of The Sun Office, youngest son
but one of Mr. John Gaskill, formerly an eminent auctioneer
in this town. The express reached Nottingham from London,
a distance of 125 miles in less than nine hours and a quarter!
travelling at the extraordinary speed of a fraction less than four
minutes and a half per mile, stoppages included.

(From the Aberdeen Observer, Friday, April 9.0.)

When the coaches which run through Fife betwixt Edin-
burgh and Dundee arrived here yesterday, bringing copies of
The Sun, and the Caledonian Mercury, which contained the
debate and division on the second reading of the Reform Bill in
the House of Lords, the news flew through the town with the
rapidity of lightning, and we need not say was generally ac-
ceptable; for although there are many who do not approve of
the whole provisions of the Bill, all are anxious that the ques-
tion should no•w be finally determined, and none are insensible
to the honour and benefit which this commercial town is likely
to derive from having a representative in the House of Com-
mons. At three o'clock the bells in the different steeples
struck up a merry peal, which was continued until five. In the
evening some tar-barrels, an old boat, &c., were collected on
the High-street, and served as the commencement of a bonfire,
which was kept up until two o'clock in the morning. Similar
fires on a smaller scale were lighted tip in the Hilltown and
other places. No attempts were made to suppress this expres-
sion of feeling on the part of the mobility, and after wearing
themselves out they dispersed in good humour, without mani.
festing any disposition to riot. For several nights previous
groups of people, chiefly of the labouring classes, had awaited
the arrival of the mail, in order to learn the progress of the de.
bate.—Dundee Courier, Tuesday.

(From the Whilehaven Herald, Tuesday, April 17.)

RAPID COMMUNICATION.—The news of the second
reading of the Reform Bill arrived at our office on Sunday after-
noon, about twenty minutes Past three For the wonderful
celerity with which it travelled a distance of more than three
hundred and forty miles, we are indebted to the extraordinary
exertions of the Proprietors of The Sun newspaper. The divi.
sion was announced about seven o'clock on Saturday morning ;
by eight, a gentleman from the The Suit office was on his road
to the north, express with copies of the paper containing the
news. By nine o'clock on Sunday morning, he had arrived
at Carlisle, having travelled 301 miles in twenty-five hours:
From Carlisle he proceeded without loss of time to Glasgow, and
two gentlemen from Carlisle volunteered to take another ex-
press to Edinburgh. A third express was despatched about
twenty minutes before ten to Whitehaven, by way of Wigton
and Cockermouth, and reached this town with one copy of
The Sun, at twenty minutes after three. We immediately put
the glad tidings into print, and in a very short space of time the
partictilamof the division were generally circulated in White-
haven. A special messenger was despatched in the evening to
Egremont, and by the next morning the news would be spread
over all the south of Cumberland. About ten o'clock in the
evening, the Countess of Lonsdate arrived from Liverpool,
having left about ten the same morning, and her passengers
who had, many of them procured morning papers in Liverpool,
were inexpressibly astonished to find the event already known
in Whitehaven. We understand that the only express which
is remembered ever to have arrived here before, was one during
the war, which announced the landing of General Humbert at
and diffiised as much consternation as the present
auspicious event did joy.

(From the Kendal Chronicle, Saturday, April 21.)
THE REFORM QUESTION.—The second reading of the
Reform Bill was carried in the House of Lords on Saturday
morning last, by a majority of Nine : The glad tidings were
first made known in this town on Sunday morning, by an ex-
press from The Sun office, which reached this town about half_
Past five o'clock.
DESPATCH.—The Sun newspaper, containing the whole of
Friday's debate and the division in the House of Lords on the
Reform question, arrived here by express about half-past five
o'clock on Sunday morning, and proceeded to the north. The
division tlid not take place until nearly seven o'clock on Satur-
day morning, and allowing an hour for the preparation and
printing of the newspaper, it will be perceived, that the express
had travelled from London to this town at the extraordinary
rate of 260 miles in twenty-one hours! which, when the delays
of getting horses at the different stages during the night time
is taken into account, will be somewhat more than thirteen
miles per hour! By nine o'clock on Sunday morning, it had
arrived at Carlisle, having travelled 301 miles in twenty.five
hours' From Carlisle it proceeded without loss of time to
Glasgow, and two gentlemen from Carlisle volunteered to take
another express to Edinburgh. A third express was despatched
about twenty minutes before ten to Whitehaven, by way of
Wigton and Cockermouth. The public are much indebted to
the, Proprietors of The Sun, for the spirited exertions which

thap male en every occasion to afford. the earliest information
on alLsubjects of importance.

(From the Brighton Guardian, Wednesday, April 18.)
The Proprietors of The Sun newspaper are entitled to our ho.
nourable mention. By an express which they were at the ex-
pense of sending to this town on Saturday, they forwarded
several numbers of their Saturday morning's edition, and by
noon presented to all the public reading-rooms a report of the
debate in the Lords, together with its important result.

(From the Belfast Commercial Chrenideu Wednesday, April 18.)
In a ?;e'coild edition of our paper on Monday we were enabled
to announce the important fact that this Bill had been read a
second time by a majority of nine. This we were enabled to do
by an express from Messrs. Johnston and Co.'s with The
San newspaper of Saturday, which contained a full report of
the debate, though the division did not take place till seven
o'clock that morning, an instance of exertion of which we never
reedited a parhllel: .

'From the Constitution; or; Cork Advertiser, Saturday Morn,

ing, Atiril 14.)

On Thursday morning we were favoured with a third edition
of the London Sun of Monday by express, throUgh the Clerks
of the Roads, containing.the eiitiie.of Earl Grey's speech on the
second reading of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords ;
and lb the evening we received the London journals of Tues.
day, per the Albion steamer, which arrived in our harbour
after a quick and pleasant passage.

(From the Chester Courant, Tuesday, April 17.)
EARLY INTELLIGENCE.—Too much praise cannot be
given to the Proprietors of The Sun newspaper for the great
exertions used by them to convey the earliest intelligence of
the result of the second reading of the Reform Bill : the in-
formation was brought to this city by express in fourteen hours
after the decision of the House of Lords, which broke up at
seven o'clock on Saturday morning, and the news arrived in
Chester soon after nine the same evening. The same intelli-

gence was sent to Dublin by the Proprietors of the same Paper.

(From the Sussex Advertiser, Sunday, April 15.)
THE SUN NEWSPAPER.—By the extraordinary and
indefatigable exertions of the Proprietors of The Sun, we re-
ceived that Paper by express on Saturday afternoon, containing
the debates on the second reading of the Reform Bill in the
House of Lords, together with the division thereon. The ac-
count of the proceedings occupies upwards of nineteen columns,
and yet we received this mass of information, at a distance of
50 miles, in about six hours and a half after the division took
place.

(From the Hampshire Chronicle (Winchester), April 23.)
We were indebted to The Sun newspaper, last week, for the
division in the House of Peers, which did not take place until
seven o'clock on Saturday morning. By great exertions an ex
press edition of this Paper was despatched at an early hour, and
reached this office on Saturday evening, being the only London
Journal which arrived here until Sunday morning. On other
occasions the spirited Proprietors of this Paper have forwarded
expresses to distant parts of the kingdom at the rate of more
than 15 miles an hour.

(From the Liverpool Journal, Saturday, April 21.)
THE SUN NEWSPAPER.---It is with pleasure we have
again to draw the attention of the public to the extraordinary
and unprecedented exertions of The Sun newspaper, which gave
the debates on the Second Reading of the Reform Bill up to the
adjournment of the House of Lords at seven o'clock on Satur-
day morning last, and which was sent oft' by express to Mr.
Arnold, Post-office-place, who will, en all matters of public
interest, receive special expresses from the office of this spirited
journal.

(From the Cambrian, Friday, April 13.)
Several of the Evening Papers on Monday published, in
express editions," reports of the debate on the Reform Bill in

the House of Lords that evening. These efforts of the London
press to gratify their country readers deserve every praise. The
Sun, printed at nine o'clock, containing the admirable speech
of Earl Grey, at length, was forwarded to our office, and
reached our hands within twenty-three hours after it was
printed. It afibrded to an anxious throng of Reformers much
gratification, and our thanks are due to the conductors of that
paper for their considerate attention.

(From the Dublin Warder, Saturday, April 21.)

One would think that the expresses, which arrived from Lon-
don to those meritorious newspaper-agents, Messrs. Johnston
and Co., Eden-quay, posted not in the ordinary way, but " on
the wings of the wind." This conclusion will not be con.
sidered strained when we inform our readers, that a copy of the
"Express Edition" of The Sun newspaper, despatched from
London on Saturday morning last, at seven o'clock, was re-
ceived by us, through the agency of Messrs. Johnston, at three
o'clock on Sunday! .

(From the Glasgow Trades' Advocate, Monday Morning Seven
o'Clock.)
THE GRAND DlVlSlON!—Scarcely had the great di-
spenser of "vulgar light" sunk beneath the horizon than the
moral atmosphere of St.' Mungo's was illuminated with the
beams of the artificial Sun of broad sheets, with its Editor,
express, like another Phmton, bearing the intelligence of the
division in the House of Lords on the Reform Bill. The
express left The Sun Office on Saturday morning, and in
thirty-six hours arrived in Glasgow—an event unparalleled
in the history of newspaper despatch.

(From Jackson's Orford Journal, Saturday, April el.)
The intelligence of the second reading of the Reform Bill
having been carried in the House of Lords arrived in this city
about one o'clock on Saturday last. Two gentlemen, from the
Courier and Sun Offices, with a number of copies of their re-
spective papers, came express, and reached Oxford in five
hours after leaving London. The House did not break up
till seven in the morning. That a newspaper containing the de-
bate to the close should be printed and conveyed such distance
in so short a time is almost incredible.

(From the Dublin Evening Mail, Monday, April 16.)
By a most extraordinary and unprecedented exertion, The
Sun newspaper, with an excellent Report of the debate, was
despatched from London on Saturday morning by express, and
reached this city at three o'clock. Copies were received by us,
direct from The Sun Office, through the Clerks of the Roads,
and from Messrs. Johnston, newspaper Agents, Eden-quay.
This effort made by The Sun is one of the most surprising
within our recollection ; and although opposed to that Journal
in politics, we should be as ungenerous as unjust did we not
make this acknowledgment of its merits and exertions.

(From the Edinburgh Weekly Journal, Wednesday, April Is.)
EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS.—By the unparalleled
exertions of The Sun newspaper, an Extraordinary Express,
bringing the grand division on the second reading of the Reform
Bill, arrived at Messrs. James Taylor Smith and Co.'s General
Newspaper and Advertising Office, St. Andrew-square, on the
evening of the 15th inst., at seven o'clock, being only thirty-six
hours after the division took place in the House of Lords. Thus
by the judicious arrangement and unequalled efforts of the spi-
rited Proprietors of this paper, who were foremost in putting the
country in possession of the result of this all-engrossing and
important measure, the debates were read entire in Edinburgh
in the above short space of time after they closed, a circum-
stance altogether unprecedented.

(From the Brighton Herald, Saturday, April 21.)

We feel much pleasure in noticing the great exertions of

the Proprietors of The Sun newspaper, on the occasion of the
division on the second reading of the Reform Bill. At a
quarter past seven o'clock on Saturday morning the House ad-
journed ; and at ten minutes past twelve, a gentleman, in a post-
chaise, drove up to the door of our office, bringing copies of
The Sun, containing no less than nineteen columns of the
debate in closely printed matter, and giving the anxiously
looked-for result The same gentleman immediately pro-
ceeded to convey the news to Lewes, and we immediately cir-
culated the cheering information both in Brighton and the sur-
rounding villages.

' (From the S'tantlerd Ne ws. )
LINCOLN, APRIL 19.—The news of the Reform Bill
having passed the second reading in the Lords was known at
Lincoln by half-past nine o'clock on Saturday evening, the
proprietors of The Sun newspaper having sent off a second edi.
tion by express as soon as the numbers were known. The re.
suit has given the utmost satisfaction, and the intelligence was
received with the heartiest welcome, we may say, by all,—yes,
by all,---for be it known, that the Bishop of Lincoln, by a
single speech which he made in the House of Lords last week,
has converted the Dean, the Prebendaries, and the whole
rookery of parsons in his diocese they all affect to be Re-
formers, all Bill-men now !

:From the Dublin Morning Register, Monday, April 16.)

MAJORITY OF NINE FOR—THE REFORM BILL.—
This important news was announced yesterday in Dublin,
shortly after three o'clock, by an express which arrived at
Messrs. Johnston's. We have only room to refer to the speeches,
especially that of the Lord Chancellor. Many persons antici-
pated a majority of only five, when the house was about to
divide, and some Tories, Who were considered most sharp.
sighted, expected a triumph. Upon looking to the concluding
observations of Earl Grey, it will be seen that the Premier has
very unequivocally declared that he will avail himself, if neces-
sary, of the royal prerogative to fulfil the wishes of the people
for Reform. The paper brought by the express was The Sun,
which published the entire debate at seven o'clock on Saturday
morning !:

the Caledoaian Mercury, Monday, April IG.)
REFORM BILL; SECOND READING CARRIED IN
THE PEERS.—Thanks to "the immortal nine," the second
reading of the Reform Bill has been carried in the House of
Lords ! and the grand "conservative" measure is now secure,
or at least may easily be made so. •
EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS.— St. Andrew-square,
last night, presented an unusual spectacle, hundreds of all
classes being assembled around Messrs. Taylor Smith and
Co.'s General Newspaper and Advertising Office, waiting in
eager expectation the arrival of the Express, which was antici-
pated, bringing the grand division on the second reading of the
Reform Bill in the House of Lords. About seven o'clock a
general cry was heard to clear the way, when a chariot and -
four drove up to the door with an extraordinary expri„,
from the Proprietors of The Sun, bringing the debates 0,,
that all-engrossing question, which only terminated the prece.
ding morning at seven o'clock. Thus, by the unparalleled ex-
ertions made on the present occasion, the debates were read
length in Edinburgh in the short space ofthirty.six hours ate,
the division took place, a circumstance altogether unpreceden.
• ted. When the majority for the second reading of *the Bil.
was announced, an unanimous shout of approbation was give!.

by the multitude assembled, who afterwards dispersed in the
greatest order. Shortly after the express arrived in Edinburgh,
it proceeded with the same rapidity to the North, thus being
Co:: foremost in putting the country in possession of the result
of one of the most important questions that has ever come be.
fore Parliament.

(Frain the Preston Chronicle, Saturday, April 21.)
EXPRESSES.—Numerous expresses left London on Satur
day, with the news of the triumph of the Reform Bill. The
Editor of The Sun passed through this town about twellC
0761.0 ck oki Sunday morning, on his way to Glasgow, serving
copies of his paper at each of Gil! fargc foWhs.

(From the same Paper.)
THE REFORM BILL—The special expresses from The
Sun Office, bringing the news of the Reform Bill having been
read a second time in the House of Lords on Saturday morning
kst, arrived at Lancaster at a very early hour. No sooner was
the intelligence made known, than a visible change pervaded
the eotintenance of every real friend to his country, and •
g
lodni_hess on the visages of the opponents to the measure was,
equally as visible.

(From the Stamford News, Friday, April 20.)
RECEPTION OF THE NEWS OF THE SECOND
READING OF THE REFORM BILL IN STAMFORD.
—We owe our thanks, and the country owes its thanks, to the
spirited Conductors of The Sun, for the atonishink weed with
which the glad tidings of the second reading were cirCl.lSieff;
Near seven on Saturday morning the division took place, and
between three and four in the afternoon we had The Sun in
Stamford, with the debate and the result. Within a very brief
period the bells of the different churches rung an inspiring peal,
and every face, save those of the " suspension"-loving corpora-
tion, was radidnt with joy. Many an ardent prayer ascended
to the throne of Heaven that He in whose hands are the issues
of life and death might save that King
" Whose earthly power doth now show likest God's."

(From the Devizes Gazette, Thursday, April 19.)
In common with etery one between London and Bristol,
who takes an interest in the Reform Bill (and who does not ?),
we have to express our deep obligations to the Editors of
the Courier and The Sun for the first intelligence of the di;
vision in the House of Lords on the second reading of this
important measure. The exertions used on this occasion
are unprecedented, and appear almost incredible. The House
did not adjourn until nearly seven o'clock on Saturday morn-
ing, yet within four hours afterwards, expresses, bringing some
hundreds of the above Papers, and which contained a report of
the debate to the extent of 16 columns, were fifty miles from
London !!!

(From the Worcester Herald, Friday, April 13.)
The exertions made by the London Press, and more particU-
lerly theTvening Journals, to impart early intelligence to the
country of the proceedings in Parliament during the progress
of the Reform Bill, have been almost incredible, and form no
insignificant feature of the enterprising spirit of the age. On
Tuesday, Wednesday, and yesterday, copies of the Courier
and The Sun, containing the debates in the House of Lords
of the preceding evenings, up to the hour of rising, were
sent by expresses to Birmingham, and by a despatch fi om thence
were received at the public News Room, Sansome-walk, in this
city, by three o'clock in the afternoon ; thus anticipating their
arrival in the ordinary course upwards of eighteen hours ! Ex-
presses have also been received during the week at the Public
News Room, at the Cross ; at which establishment, we under-
stand, arrangements have been made to obtain, by express, the
expected division in the House of Lords to.night, at the ear-
liest possible hour to-morrow.

(From the Caledonian Mercury, Thursday, April 19.)
ACCELERATION OF THE MAlL.—Nothing can more
completely confirm the practicability of accelerating the com-
munication between London and Edinburgh, according to Mr.
Gallaway's plan, than the recent communication made of the
division at seven o'clock on Saturday morning, on the second
reading of the Reform Bill, which was carried in the House of
Lords by the imnzortal Nine ! Mr. Young only left London
with this glorious news at eight o'clock, and although he did not
take the nearest route, but travelled in a zigzag direction, in
order to embrace the principal towns, the carriage reached
Edinburgh at seven o'clock on Sunday evening, in the asto-
nishingly short time of 35 hours, after having been detained on
the road three hours by the difficulty in getting a change of
horses; an inconvenience to which the mail-coach never can
be exposed, because there is a relay of horses waiting at each
stage. Besides, the mail enjoys another advantage, by haring
all the stages divided into short distances, while Mr. Young
could only change at the regular posting-houses, which made
many of the stages extend to sixteen miles. After this proof
of what can be done, were those with whom the arrangement
rests willing to meet the anxious wish of the trading, manufac-
turing, and agricultural interests of the country, there can be
no doubt that the London mail ought to arrive here by eight
o'clock in the morning, instead of two o'clock in the afternoon.

(From the Scots Times, Glasgow, Tuesday,•April 17.)
REJOICINGS ON CLYDE Al' THE SUCCESS OF
THE SECOND READING OF THE REFORM BILL—
We have learnt that two copies of The Sun newspaper, con-
taining the division on Saturday morning, in the House of
Lords, were despatched to Greenock on Sunday evening, and
the consequence was, that during the whole of yesterday, there
was great rejoicing in that town. All the vessels in the har-
bour were decorated with flags, and even the steeple of the
church exhibited an ensign, waving triumphantly in the wind.
The Castle of Newark at Port-Glasgow, the ship building-yards
at Dumbarton, and every prominent place on our majestic
Clyde displayed similar symptoms of popular satisfaction ;
Glasgow and Paisley, as might be expected, also exhibited the
lively interest which they have felt in the important political
event which we have elsewhere recorded.

From the Ballyshannon Herald aiul Donegal 4dvertiser,

Friday, April 20.)
By an extraordinary exertion of The Sun newspaper, we
present our readers this day with the conclusion of the debate
on the second reading of the Reform Bill, received through
Messrs. Johnston, newspaper agents, Dublin. Talk of your
race-horses, your steam-carriages, or your balloons—which of
them all has wings equal to a newspaper ? The Sun—we mean
that luminary which rises in the Strand, and shines every
where—cloth glance like a beam of his glorious antitype, and
rides on the posting winds with a rapidity of communication
hardly to be surpassed by a line of telegraph. The division took
place at seven o'clock on Saturday, morning, and at two o'clock
in the afternoon of Monday, we held in our hand The Sun,
containing twenty closely printed columns of the debate, to.
gether with its lugubrious result. There was an annihilation
of time and space enough to make our grandmothers start from
their shrouds.

(From the Glasgow Herald, Monday, April 16.)
REFORM BILL READ A SECOND TIME IN THE
HOUSE OF PEERS BY A MAJORITY OF NINE.--
Having announced this result, we must stop a little to explain
how we have been able to procure this intelligence in such an
unprecedentedly short time. At half-past seven o'clock last
evening (Sunday), a post-chaise and four arrived in Glasgow
with copies of The Sun newspaper, (the Old Sun) to Mr. At-
kinson, the newspaper-agent, dated on Saturday morning seven
o'clock, containing no less than twenty-two and a half co-
lumns of the debate, commenced on Friday evening, and which
must have concluded a few minutes before the date of the ex-
pr es s. By this extraordinary and most liberal exertion we had
the news here in thirty-six hours, anticipating the news in the
regular course by nearly twenty hours. We understand it was
Mr. Young, the Editor of The Sun, wbo came down with such
despatch from London to Glasgow.

(From the Kent Herald, Thursday, April 9.)
On Saturday morning about one o'clock an express brought
the glad tidings of the success of the Reform Bill in the
House of Lords. A hand-bill announcing the particulars
being immediately issued, great satisfaction was perceptible
throughout the city, and some of the parish bells struck up a
merry peal. At half-past one an express from the Courier
nitlee brought the latest edition of that journal, containing a
copious abstract of the whole debate, and the numbers of the
division—which were distributed at the newspaper.offices, and
principal libraries in the city--an act of liberality highly credit-
able to the proprietors of the Courier, and an almost incredible
instance of the activity of the London Press. SnortlY
wards, we received a similar packet from The Sun office with, a
still more ample report of the proceedings of the tnorning. ,
public must appreciate such exertions to gratify its anxious
curiosity on such occasions. We did not observe " the par-
sons" congratulating each other, and shaking hands together as
on a former most memora6le Saturday in October last, when
news of an opposite character was in circulation. niter-

V

(From the Edinburgh Evening Courant, Monday, April 16.)
The great question of Reform, which has so long agitated
the country, has been at length so far brought to a settlement,
by the decision of the House of Lords in favour of the second
reading of the Bill now under their consideration. This ac-
count was brought by an express from The Sun Office, which
arrived here last night about seven o'clock. •
EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS. St. Andrew-square,
last night, presented 'an unusual spectacle, hundreds of all
classes being assembled around Messrs. Taylor Smith and Co.'s
General Newspaper and Advertising Office, waiting in eager
expectation the arrival of the express, which was anticipated.
bringing the division on the second reading of the Reform Bill
in the House of Lords ! About seven o'clock a general crf
was heard to clear the way, when a chariot and four drove up
to the door with an Extraordinary Express from the Proprie-
tors of The Sten, bringing the debate on that all-engrossing
question, which only terminated the preceding morning at se-
ven o'clock. When the majority for the second reading of the
Bill was announced an unanimous shout of approbation was
given by the vast multitude assembled. Thus, by the unpa-
ralleled exertions made on the present occasion, the debates
were read at length in Edinburgh in the short space of thirtJ-
s<•'a• hours after the division took place—a circumstance altoge-
ther unprecedented. Shortly after the express arrived in
Edinburgh it proceeded, with the same rapidity, to the va-
rious towns- in the north of Scotland—thus being foremost in
putting the country in possession of the result of one of, the
most important questions that has ever come before Parliament.
(From the Carlisle Journal, Saturday, April 21.)

THE REFORM BILL.—WONDERFUL EXERTION.
—On Sunday morning last, about half-past nine o'clock, great
excitement was created in this city by the arrival of an express
in a chaise and four, which drove to the Coffee-house Hotel,
at full gallop,bringing the intelligence of the second reading of the
Reform Bill by a majority of nine. The express was brought
by Mr. Young, the Proprietor of 'The Sun newspaper, who.had
left London on the preceding morning at twenty minutes before
eight o'clock—thus accomplishing a journey of 301 miles in

the almost incredible short period of twenty-five hours and fifty
Minutes. The intelligence of the important arrival soon spread
through the town, and in a few minutes a large crowd assembled
in front of the Coffee-house, and warmly congratulated each
Other on this great step towards final success. About half.
Past ten Mr. Young, accompanied by the Editor of this paper
and another gantleman, proceeded in a chaise and four for the
north--an outrider having been sent on before to Longtown to
provide chaises and horses to take the expresses forward to
Glasgow and Edinburgh--and were greeted with three cheers
on their departure. When we reached Longtown a large crowd
had assembled, and the news was welcomed with three cheers,
Mr. Young set cff imtheillately for Glasgow, and we proceeded
to Along the whole line of road as we passed,
Wherever the news became known, the most enthusiastic cheer.
ing followed. At llawick, where we did not remain more
than five minutes, a crowd of nearly :200 persons immediately
assembled, and testified their joy by loud acclamations—such
as might have taught the Duke of Buccleuch, had he been pre-
sent, that in the neighbourhood of his own vastdomains, at least
no re-action had taken place. The reception which was given
to the intelligence in every village thn:ugh which we passed
was most gratifying, and gave sufficient evidence of the strong
feeling which exists in Scotland in favour of Reform. At
Fuchie-bridge, the good old lady of the inn gave us a most
hearty welcome—insisted upon our partaking of the very
best her house afforded. " Cod bless you I" she added,
ahaking us Most cordially by the hand, "ye hae brought
t4itee to the country. I'm an auld reformer (the lady ap.
Pears to be between sixty and seventy years of age) and eh,
Sirs I this is a proud day for me." She then insisted upon
tying white favours to the hats of the postillions, " that the
fowk o' Embro' might ken at ance what glorious news they
brought.,, From Fuchie-bricige to Edinburgh is eleven miles,
Which was accomplished in three-quarters of an hour, and
exactly at seven o'clock we reached St. Andrew-square,
where is situated the shop of Mr. Smith, the newspaper-agent.
The arrival of the express spread like wildfire—people might
be Seen running in all directions towards the square, and by
the time the carriage stopped at least two thousand persons
had assembled in breathless haste, and when the glad tidings
were atihobnced from the chaise window, three hearty cheers
responded to the welcome sound. The news was soon dill.
ftised through the whole of the city, and was despatched in
various directions to the North with all possible celerity.
Thus in the short space of thirty.six hours, from the period
at which the Lords carne to a decision, the result was con.
veyed a distance of 490 miles—an instance of despatch
Which we believe is unequalled ; and for which the spi-
rited Proprietor of The Sun desrrves, as we are sure he
will receive, the best thanks and the warmest support
of the public. The expense of these expresses is enormous,
and when we consider that the whole has to be repaid out of the
sale of a sevenpenny newspaper, the government tax upon
Which is fourpence, the public may well feel astonishment at
seeing fu
eing such
things accomplished. We ought to have mentioned,
that Mr. Young, on his arrival here, despatched an express
l
0.. n horseback to Whitehaven, which it reached about half-past
_heree the same afternoon, and a similar express to Dumfries.
It had also sent an express from London to Dublin—and, in
short, to every part of the three Kingdoms ; thus diffusing the
news with a rapidity never before equalled, and exhibiting a
spirit of enterprise which no difficulty can subdue.

K
(From the Essez Herald, Tuesday, April 24.)
aWe feel much indebted to the Editor of The Sun Evening
_Pain per, for copies of that Paper of Saturday the 14th inst. con-
taing nineteen and a half columns of the Debate on the se-
cond reading of the Reform Bill. The debate terminated at
seven o'clock in the morning, and in about three hours and a
half the express arrived at Chelmsford with copies of The
Sun, enabling us to communicate to the public, by a placard,
that thesecond reading had been carried by a majority of Nine.

(From the Bury
Thand Norwich Post, Wednesday, April 18.)
own e glad tidings of the Reform Bill were received in this
!.
,„ onSaturday evening, about five o'cicck, with general
W Flags were hoisted on the steeples, and the bells quickly
a nd
Flags
merry peals, which were continued till midnight,
toWere renewed on Sunday in the intervals between the
Zurs of service. Some of our good friends of the Corpora_
a looked rather blank; but we can assure them that they
gain more real advantage by the increase of good will to-
*rda them, amongst their no-longer excluded townsmen,
than they
will lose by the deprivation of their exclusive privi-
(T• The members of the Pie Poudre Court, to the number
theM above eet at the Bull Inn, in the evening, to commemorate
vent.

IPSWICH, APRIL 14.
The news of the glorious division of NINE, on the second
reading, was received here this afternoon by The Sun Express,
and diffused great j The happy tidings were soon spread
'n all directions, andoy. by night would be known throughout
the
e°UntY of Norfolk.

CHESTER.
Extract of a letter dated Chester, April 15 :—I received your
Pacth,.ke.t f expressed papers last night soon after nine o'clock, and
v glorious nexvs was in a few minutes from one end of the city
!the other, all wondering how the intelligence could be conveyed
the distance of 182 miles in the short time of
.fourteen
.hours
,24. the date of your paper (seven o'clock). I immediately
''.`.irred to the newsrooms, hotels, &c , &c.. every one giving
all credit and praise to the Proprieters of The Sun for the great
exertions that the mornin were manifested on the occasion. It anticipated
1 ‘--Per, by fourteen hours ; they never arrive lill
e even o'cl e
'clock n.
in the morning, and anticipated the regular con-
Ve3:ance (per mail) to this city by twenty-four hours.
I\l3. We obtained the intelligence one hour and a half
earlier thane obtained

Extract of a Letter WAKEFIELD.,
dated W,
rati April 15 :—" I ke
the first opportunity of expressingakefield g mygratitude to you,t for
forwarding us copies of The Sun, containing the division
on the Reform Bill. The great length at which the debates
ire given, and the rapidity with which they have been corn-
roUnicated to the public, are most extraordinary, and re-
flect the highest credit on the Conductors of The Sun. The
texpress reached Wakefield at about a quarter past ten last (5a-
0...,
night. I immediately laid copies upon the News-room
'inies—had our shop extra lighted, with the papers laid on the
counter : I should rather say they were in the hands of hun-
(lres the same night. I also despatched a messenger to a
Ares
town—Dewsbury—which lies out of the ex-
press's route, with a copy of The Sun. Indeed I have taken
e_verY means possible for forwarding your endeavours. The
ant Paper was the only accessible paper, containing the impor-
this
news, at Wakefield, from ten o'clock last night till ten
morning."

GREENOCK.
Extract of a Letter from Greenock, dated April 16 :—" The
inhabitants of Greenock are under no small obligation to the
proprietors of The Sun newspaper for the most extraordinary
we may say
despatch given to the glorious majority of nine.
to the boroughmongers now, as the boys say when gaming,
! three and three is six and three is nine ; you are the fool, but
the prin's mine.' We have been supplied with your paper fully
fifteen hours sooner than the usual time, which to us was a
source not only of gratification, but of amazement.—While I
Write this, the town is all astir, flags flying in all directions; in
short, every body appears to be happy at the result. Were it not
for the cholera, which is very severe here, we would have a
coMplete gala day of it.
y appreciate the exertions We sons of Scotto will c
ertainly
dul
of the
and time will assuredly confirm itProprieors of The, Sun,

" A GREENOCKEAN."

NEWCASTLE.
, Extract of a letter, dated Exchange Subscription Rooms,
\ ewcastle, April liith, l 83? ;—« I beg to inform you that a
copy of The Sun paper of Saturday has been received at these
i'oonas, which, by the envelope, appears to have come from your
()Ince; and, it is presumed, must have been sent by express ;
but not receiving it until this morning, I made inquiry at the
Post-office as to the cause of the delay, and was informed
that the paper in question, together with a parcel addressed to
the post-inaster at Morpeth, and others for Aberdeen, &c.,
here
all vaster
at the same time from York where, it would
that
-PPear your express had terminated ; and, consequently,
!!'the papers remained there until the following da),i'sialem,,n,atedil
wto,ook,
.eHI SP. I have thought it right to make
this circumstance. The cover of. our
of
acpoeyrr7h aadc Len torn off,
and was tied to the paper with a piece f

" I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
" J. ORD, Sec."

COURT CIRCULAR.

Their MAJESTIES went from their Palace at Windsor
yesterday morning, to the Old Palace at 1(•,w. The KING
and QUEEN went over the Conservatories and Gardens,
and afterwards partook of a djjeunj at the Palace : a
select party had the honour of being invited. Their MA •
Jr:Bl'ms spent the day at Kew, and in the evening (lined
with the Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND, at their
residence at Kew.
Yesterday was the hirth.dav of the Duchess of GLOU-
!ESTER. her Royal Highness received congratulatory
risits from the Princess SOPHIA, and the Princess SorniA
lArri.nA. The Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND
visited the Royal Duchess on niuday•
The French Ambassador, the Prussian Minister, Mon-
Bsieur lionarcE, the Danish Charge d'Affaires, and the
elgian Charge d'Affaires, transacted business yesterday at
Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

CRIMINAL INFORMATIONS.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.

THE KING v. GRANT AND OTHERS.

The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, at four o'clock, yesterday
afternoon, stated that the Court intended to proceed with the
motions first this morning, and that it did not mean then to gc
any further.
Sir JAMES SCA RLETT hoped their Lordships would per-
mit him to move for a criminal information, which he had beer
pressed, from the first day of term, to move, but which hi
had put off' from day to day, in deference to the Court's wish,
,hat nothing but new trials should heretofore have been mover
for.

The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE inquired if it would take long?
Sir JAMES SCARLETT would pledge himself to be as
short in his statement as he possibly could. It was for leave
to file a criminal information against Mr. Patrick Grant, the
proprietor of the True Sun, and others, for a series of libels
against Mr. Alderman Winchester and Mr. Briggs, a solicitor,
which they had been pestered with almost every day since the
commencement of the present month.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE then gave permission to the
Learned Counsel to move.
Sir JAMES SCARLETT Elated that the libels in question
commenced with the pamphlet he held in his hand. The libels
charged those gentlemen with fraud, swindling, corruption, and
every sort of crime, and they were addressed with respect to
' Mr. Alderman Winchester, to his constituents and to his
brother Aldermen, to prevent his arriving at the dignity of
Lord Mayor. With respect to Mr. Briggs, he had been
threatened repeatedly with motions to strike him off the roll.
It was difficult to go through a series of facts to show a denial
of the truth of the charges, but they all arose out of one trans.
action, and Mr. Alderman Winchester and Mr. Briggs had
stated the whole of that transaction in their affidavit, from
which the Court would see what their conduct had been, and
the nature as well as the falsehood of the charges. It ap-
peared that a Mr. Patrick Grant had been the part proprietor of
The Sun evening newspaper. His interest in that paper was three-
fourths—the other fourth was invested in Mr. Murdo Young.
Mr. Grant had become indebted to Mr. Alderman Winchester
in the sum of 1g 2S/., and in the course of last year he was made
a bankrupt. His property consisted of his share in The Sun,
and some settlement he had with his wife. His debts, proved
under tile Commission, amounted to from 6,000/. to 7,000/.
Mr. Alderman Winchester was the principal creditor, and he
and a Mr. Thornton were appointed the assignees. One of
the charges in the libels related to the alledged mismanage-
ment of the assignees—at least of Mr. Alderman Winchester,
and Mr. Briggs, the solicitor under the Commission, with re-
spect to the sale of Mr Grant's shares in The Sun. It ap.
peared that soon after the bankruptcy means were taken to
bring the bankrupt's effects to a sale, and Mr. Young, the co-
proprietor, made an offer of 7,5001, on certain terms, to buy
the whole of the bankrupt's interest. The bankrupt was desi.
rous that some friend of his own should purchase it, and a per.
son of the name of Westley came forward, and proposed to give
9,0001. In consequence of that, Mr Westley was applied to
by the assignees : repeated appointments were made for Mr.
Westley to attend to complete his purchase, which Mr. Westley
requested might be postponed, and at last alleged that he was
only an agent for others, who he could not get to come for.
ward to enable him to make good his offer. Upon that, the
assignees were disposed to close with Mr. Young for the sum of
7,5001., and as soon as it was found that Mr. Young was likely
to become the purchaser, the bankrupt put forward two other
persons of the names of Lomax and Bell, who offered to give
a larger sum. The result was, that the assignees thought it
right to put the bidders on equal terms, and Mr. Young
raised his offer to 9,0001. In consequence of that offer, and no
one at that time offering a larger sum, a disposition was enter-
tained to treat with him ; but then came forward again Bell and
Lomax, and they offered 11,000/. The assignees thought it
their duty to accept that sum, and they were ready to do so,
but it seemed that Mr. Briggs was obliged to go into Yorkshire
on business. He had left directions to prepare the contract
with Bell and Lomax. Mr. Young, however, finding that
other persons were brought into competition with him, put for.
ward a claim which he had by his contract of partnership, to a
right of pre-emption, and having had originally an expectation
of a contract, which was but conditional, for the sale to him for
9,0001., he at first was disposed to bid up to 11,0001., but after-
wards stood upon his original right, and filed a bill in the Court
of Chancery against the assignees to restrain them from selling
the Paper to any one else than himself, insisting on his right
of pre-emption—praying that it might be referred to the Master
of that Court to ascertain the real value of the Paper,
and to take the accounts. That bill was still pending. When
Mr. Briggs returned from Yorkshire he found the con-
tract with Bell and Lomax for the 11,0001. had been prepared,
but he also found the bill in Chancery pending; and, under
these circumstances, he could not advise the assignees to com.
plete the contract with Bell and Lomax, and it was therefore
postponed. Then came another person of the name of Hick.
man, who proposed to be a purchaser for 13,0001., but he would
not purchase, except on an indemnity against all consequences,
one of which was the bill in Chancery; and another stipulation
was, that Mr. Young should he compelled to deliver up possession
of the premises, which the assignees had no authority to insist
upon, and therefore Mr. Hickman declined the purchase. The
assignees then, at the instance of Mr. Thornton, who was fa.

vourab'e to Mr. Grant, were prevailed upon to file a cross bill in
Chancery against Mr. Young, which was also still pending. The
consequence of those bills being filed was, that it was impos.
sible to effect any sale at all. Mr. Alderman Winchester not
being quite satisfied with Mr. Grant's conduct, had refused to
sign his certificate; but whilst these proceedings were depend-
ing, he was prevailed upon by Mr. Briggs to sign it, Mr. Grant
alleging, that until it was signed, he should not be able to get
his friends to advance money to purchase his shares in the news-
paper. The certificate was accordingly signed, and as soon as
he had obtained it, he set up an evening paper, called the True
Sun, in opposition to the one which he had before jointly
published, and in that paper these libels appeared. He
bad called a meeting of the creditors, not sanctioned
by the assignees, nor by the solicitor under the com-
mission, nor consisting of many of the creditors. The
whole amount of the debts of the creditors who attended
that meeting, did not exceed Mr. Alderman Winchester's debt
alone. They passed on that occasion certain resolutions which
the assignees were no parties to. This was a statement of the
affairs generally down to the 9th of April instant, and he would
now proceed to give the Court some specimens of the True
Sun, and of the manner in which the gentlemen who now
complained had been treated.

\Ve request the earliest attention of our readers to the re-
port of the meeting at Basinghall-street, on Saturday, at which
it was Mr. Alderman Winchester's fate to make so unenviable a
figure.
.4 The subjects discussed on the occasion are, of course, deeply
interesting to us, but they are also full of matter of reflection to
all who take an interest in reforming the abuses of our present
system of law—to all who would connect responsibility with trust,
whether the trust has reference to lawmaking or to the admi-
nistration of law.

" We have repeatedly stated to the public that Mr. Alderman
Winchester has, in the exercise of his functions as assignee of
The Sun Newspaper, been guilty of fraud and falsehood. At a
meeting of creditors, called by himself, Mr. Alderman Winches-
ter, it will be seen, stated, in rely to the indignant censures of
his constituents—censures which supplied strong confirmation of
our charges—that he felt himself under no obligation to supply
them with any explanation of his conduct—and that he looked
upon their censures • with utter contempt.' "
This, the learned Counsel stated, was explained in the affi-
davit ;it was a very small meeting of the creditors—a meeting
expressly called for the purpose of taking the part of Mr. Grant,
by a few of the creditors. •
" The body of creditors whose interests Mr. Winchester has
so grossly betrayed, refused, in consequence, to recognise him as
assignee—to sanction his acts—to permit him, in short, to take
any further steps under the Commission which he himself sued
out. In other words, the body whom Mr. Winchester has
hitherto represented have declared him unworthy of trust."
Now most of the creditors, according to the affidavits, who
had proved their debts to the amount of from 6,0001. to 7,0001.
had signed their sanction to the proceedings adopted by Mr.
Alderman Winchester, and the creditors who had taken Mr.
Grant's part and the opposite view to Mr. Alderman Winchester
were hardly more in amount than Mr. Alderman Winchester's
debt. The libel went on to state—
" In order to defraud his constituents, and to enable Murdo
Young to secure The Sun on his own terms, Mr. Winchester and
his solicitor some time ago alleged that Young had bought that
Paper. The allegation was a falsehood. Winchester and his
solicitor afterwards admitted it to be a falsehood."
This was distinctly denied by the affidavits. It was denied
that it ever was any thing but a conditional sale—it was flatly
denied that it was ever admitted to be a falsehood.
" As to Mr. Briggs, we decline saying anything more at pre.
sent. We understand that a motion will be made in a few days,
at the instance of some of the creditors, to have him struck off
the rolls.

" An application for Mr. Winchester's removal from the as.
6igneeship is also about to be made.
" When the result of that application shall be known, it will
remain for the Honourable Court of Aldermen to pronounce an
opinion on the conduct of this aspirant to the Mayor: lty. We
trust, however that they will, without waiting for further evi-
dence than was supplied at the meeting of Saturday, vindicate
the character of Civic dignitaries, and show their respect for
public decency, by expelling Mr. Winchester from their body."
Now Mr. Alderman Winchester, in his affidavit, utterly de.
nied the truth of these charges of fraud and falsehood, and Mr.
Briggs also utterly denied having sanctioned fraud or falsehood,
or being in any way concerned in fraud or falsehood, either in
this or any other transaction. Their Lordships would observe
that the charges were connected with a supposition on the part
of Mr. Grant that the object of Mr. Alderman Winchester was
to give an undue preference to Mr. Young in the purchase of
The Sim newspaper. Then a pamphlet was published by Mr.
Grant, in which the following statement appeared among many
other select passages of the same sort :
" Mr. Briggs was by no means prepared for the rencontre with
my friends. He angrily demanded of the solicitor who attended
fcr Messrs. Lomax and Bell, the intended purchasers, what he
wanted there ? On being told that gentleman's business, 'Mr.
Briggs declared that the property was sold to Young.
" This was a deliberate falsehood--a falsehood which the as-
signees have contradicted upon oath."

This was also distinctly denied.
As Mr. Briggs's statement did not satisfy my friends, Mr
Winchester, who entered a few minutes afterwards, delft e_
rately repeated the falsehood which Mr. Briggs had uttered. Mr.
Winchester has since contradicted, upon oath, his own state_
ment."

The pamphlet contained many other gross libels to the same
effect, the truth of which was utterly denied by Mr. Briggs and
Mr. Alderman Winchester. The True Sun of the 16th of this
month also contained libellous charges of a similar nature and

purport, of which the following was a specimen :
" The whole scheme of the commission which Mr. Winches-
ter sued out against Mr. Grant was a swindle—and the same spi.
sit which led to the suing out of the commission marred Mr.
Grant's attempts to repurchase his property. Mr. Grant twice
offered to his creditors double the amount of his proved dells ;
and, though his offers were rejected, still, by an incredible ex.
penditure of toil, and by enc. entering unheard-of humiliations,
he finally baffled all the fraudulent devices to which the Lord
Mayor that is to be had recourse."
" To the public, accordingly, he hai addressed himself, and,

by the aid of the public, he is rapidly recovering his property
.Who shall say that, by doing so, he gives to any one just MIS,
.ifcomplaint ? Re long ago p&nted out to his creditors a fun
*rom which his debts might be •• :!:'---, IC, if it was their pleasur
to permit a trio of swindlers to stand between them and their pro.
,ercy, the fault certainly was not his. If they chose to allow M
Winchester and Mr. Briggs to cheat them out of their interes
.n The Sun, Mr. Grant surely was not, in consequence, bound tt
!brego his interest in that property,,,
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE inquired if the present ap-
plication was a joint or separate one.
Sir J. SCARLETT replied, that at present the application
was a joint one; and that these libels had been repeated every
night; they were put into songs, and into a variety of shapes.
re excite the public attention. Under these circumstances,
Mr. Winchester and Mr. Briggs had no remedy but to apply to
the Court to put a stop to these publications. In the affidavit,
the whole truth of the case was made to rest on documents, witl:
a precise account of the transactions. They (Mr. Winchester
and Mr. Briggs) stated that they were unacquainted with Mr.
Young. Mr. Briggs never saw or heard of him until this trans.
action. They had no connexion with him whatever ; he was
no relation of either party, and the., had no interest to serve
him in particular, and there was no truth whatever in the im-
putation upon them, that for the purpose of favouring Mr. Young
they had quarrelled with his partner, and that they had sacri.
fired the property, and endeavoured to ruin Mr. Grant. They
felt they were exposed nightly to these vollies of attack, and
unless the Court afforded them its protection, there were no
other means of obtaining redress.
Lord TENTERDEN inquired whether the publications
were brought home to the parties.
Sir J. SCARLETT said they were, both by the affidavit at
the Stamp office and by admissions.
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE—Take a rule to show cause why
one or more informations should not be filed.

(THIS DAY.)
LIBELS ON THE DUCHESS OF RICHMOND.
THE MORNING POST.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the Court this morn.
ing, to confirm the rule Nisi against Mr. Byrne and others, of
the Morning Post newspaper, for a libel published in that paper
against her Grace the Duchess of Richmond.

Mr. POLLOCK appeared on behalf of the proprietors of the
Morning Post. Undoubtedly the libel complained of had ap-
peared in the pages tf that paper—a libel that was wholly un.
true; therefore the Court wou'd easily suppose, that on behalf
of his clients he had not the slikhtest comment to make in op-
position to the grounds on which th?, application had been made
by his Learned Friend for this ru'e ; at the same time it was right
that he should state on behalf of h ? defendants the situation in
which they stood. Mr. Byrne hid made a long affidavit, in
which he stated that the libel in question had been copied into
the Post from the Observer ; th. t it appeared in the Observer
on the preceding day in a most con •picuous part of that Paper,
with all the appearance of authe. tic !y, so that when it was put
into Mr. Byrne's hands he verily i e eyed it to be true.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE i squired whether that was to
be considered as an excuse in a Curt of Law.

Mr. POLLOCK had no idea of making this statement under
any such impression ; at the same time it certainly was due to
all parties that that fact should be known. The proprietors of
the Post, in copying this libel had not the slightest wish to libel
or injure the character of any individual whatever. There
were many offensive passages in the libel, as it appeared in the
Observer, which never did find their way into the Post—no
colouring appeared there—nothing but what seemed to be the
facts. Oa the day after the publication, a person called at the
office of the Post, under the authority of his Grace the Duke of
Richmond, to state that the whole was untrue. On the
next day the most decided contradiction was therefore
given to the atrocious calumny, as it was styled in
the Post. And in that statement the proprietors en-
de.avoured to make every reparation that an apology, a con-
tradiction of the falsehoods, and a condemnation of the original
publication were calculated to afford. When the present rule
was applied for they also took that opportunity of rendering
all the reparation in their power, by expressing their regret at
what they had done, and their perfect conviction of the false-
hood of the statements. If any thing else were required of
them they were perfectly ready to do every thing in their
power. One of the gentlemen was in a state of health
that rendered him exceedingly unfit to undergo the
anxiety of entering into a legal contest of this de-
scription, therefore it would be a great relief to him if
the Learned Counsel would now give an intimation of the
course he or his noble client intended to adopt ; and he
trusted that the state of health, as well as all that had been
done by the proprietors since the libel appeared, would operate
as an extenuation either with the Learned Attorney-General,
or the Noble Duke.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, he had not seen the
affidavit referred to, therefore he could make no observations
upon it; neither could he at this moment in Court think of
entering into any negotiation. Indeed one of the reasons stated
by the Learned Counsel for flregoing the prosecution, really
made it the more urgent that the proceedings should be gone on
with ; because if newspapers were to be excused in publishing
the most infamous slanders merely on the ground of having
copied it from another paper, that would establish one of the
most alarming precedents that had ever been laid down. The
Noble Duke's adviser had been obliged to select four of the
newspapers to which there appeared to be the greatest degree of
culpability attaching. Almost all the respectable newspapers
of the day—those operating the most on the public opinion,
had abstained from taking a part in that most scan.
dalous calumny, which had been so industriously cir-
culated by the papers selected on this occasion. He
did not deny the desire as sworn to of the proprie-
tors to make every reparation in their power, but the way
in which they had set about making the reparation, viz., by say-
ing that the Noble Family now lived in the same uninterrupted
degree of felicity in which they had lived previous to the circu-
lation of the libel—that of itself carried with it a sting, which
required to be extracted, and which showed that nothing but
this proceeding could possibly make the reparation complete.
The COURT ordered the rule to be made absolute.