The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-21 00:00:00

TIVO-PENNY POST-OFFICE.

The following new regulations, which have been for some
time in progress, have just been issued by command of his
Majesty's Postmaster-General, the Right Honourable Lord
Maryborough)—

" The principal office is at the General Post-office, St.
Martin's-le-Grand, where -letters may be put in one hour later
than at the receiving-houses ; but for the accommodation of
the public at the West-end ofthe town, letters will be received
at' the office at Charing-cross, corner of Craig's-court, and at
the office in Regent-street, near Langham-place, half-an-hour
later,at each dispatch than at any of the other receiving-houses.
There are now six deliveries and six collections of letters in
London daily, and by this new regulation the seven o'clock
delivery has been extended to all places in the environs of town
within the circle of three miles from the General Post-office,
most of which at present will have five deliveries and !lye
dispatches daily. The country delivery of the Two-penny
Post has been extended from nine miles to a circle of twelve
miles from the General Pest-office.'

" The following is the time letters should be put into the
receiving house for each delivery of the day, in town, and that
by which they are dispatched. If put in at eight, ten, and
twelve in the mornin, two, five, and eight in the afternoon,
they are sent for delivery at ten and twelve in the morning,
two, four, and seven in the afternoon, and eight o'clock next
,
morning. Letters can De put in onc hour later than the above
at the General Post-office, and each delivery should be com-
pleted generally one hour or one hour and a half after they
are dispatched. From' London, to the country, if put in by
eight o'clock in the morning. two, or five in the afternoon,
they are dispatched at ten o'clock in the morning, four and
seven in the afternoon. To places having but two deliveries
a day, letters arc sent off at the above hours, of ten in the
morning and four or seven in the afternoon. Those that go
off at ten o'clock are delivered at noon, those at four are deli,
vered the same evening, and those at seven o'clock are deli-
vered early next morning. To places haVing only one post a
day they go off at ten o'clock, and are delivered the same day
at noon. Letters from the country to London, if put into the
post in time for the morning dispatch, they arrive in town be-
tween ten and eleven o'clock, and are sent out for delivery at
twelve o'clock ; 'if the afternoon dispatch at seven o'clock.
The postage of each letter or packet passing from one part of
the three miles circle to another is only twopence. To all
places beyond this circle (being within the limits of this office)
it is threepence.
" The postage of this office on each general or foreign post-
letter or packet to or from places beyond the three-miles
circle, is twopence in addition to the general or foreign post-
rate. Newspapers, if put into any Twopenny Post-office
within the mole of three miles from the General Post-office,
will pass to the country districts of this office, if in covers open
at the ends,- for one penny each ; but from one part of the
circle to another, or from the country to any part of the circle,
or one part of the country to another, the postage is the same
as for letters. No letters or packets exceeding the weight of
four ounces can be sent by the post, except such as have first
passed by, or are intended to pass by, the general or foreign
mails. To prevent delay, the public should be very particular
with letters intended to pass through the Twopenny Post,' that
they are put into the proper receiving-houses, as it too fre-
quently happens that letters are put into a general post-receiv-
ing-house` by mistake, whereby they are unavoidably delayed
in their delivery."

BREAKWATER FOR PORTLAND

ROADS.

" The land which warlike Britons nova possess,
And therein have their mighty empire raised,
In antique times was savage wilderness,
I:ripe%led, unmanured, unproved, unpraised.'.---,wpeaser.
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-This subject still
_gains upon the -public mind ; its full
beatings, 'and carrying itself out into all it 4 connexions, de-
pendencies,and issues, are progressing in the most satisfactory
manner.

Mr. Buxton gave dinners on his seventh return to Par
most -
liament, on the 12th inst.; when that gentlemen elo-
quently addressed himself to the company assembled, in an
animated and satisfactory manner.
His son, Mr. Edward Buxton, who presided at the
Crown Hotel, gratified the company by his pleasing and
gentlemanly conduct ; the whole entertainment passed off
with much spirit.

Mr. William Wharton Burdon, the new representative,
whom we are confident will prove a reformer of the first
order, gave his dinners on the 14th inst. The Hon. Mem-
ber presided at the Royal Hotel Assembly, the vice-chair
being ably filled by Mr. J. F. Hodges ; the Weymouth
glee-singers were in • attendance. The company consisted
of the voters, and those of the inhabitants usually in-
vited upon such occasions. Here, although an anomaly
arises in the return of a Brirdon to Parliament, a Burden
becomes laid, as it were upon the commercial and other
interests of this country, still we are confident, from what
follows, that the ability and zeal of the Hon. Member will
turn this Burden to good account by converting the said
anomaly to the advantage of the great national interests at
large, as well as the local interests of Weymouth.
In the early part of the evening, when loyalty was parti-
cularly observable, and which in Weymouth, it might be
justly observed, has always proverbially been acknowledged,
the worthy Member, in an animated and pleasing urbanity
of manner, delivered a masterly and energetic speech upon
the subject of the local improvements of Weymouth, par-
ticularly as regards the Harbour, in connexion with the
commerce of the town ; thereby identifying himself with all
the influence and exertion in his power, to afford towards
its accomplishment. The Hon. Gentleman at once per-
ceived, and acknowledged, that he considered the proposed
Breakwater for Portland Roads was intimately connected
with Weymouth Harbour, and assured the company he
would also afford to that important national object his
firmest consideration and support—an object, lie observed,
so ably advocated by Mr. Harvey (then present,) and great
merit was clue to him.—( Vide " Mechanics' Magazine.")
After Mr. Burdon had concluded his interesting speech,
and Rule Britannia" had been sung in full chorus, Mr.
Harvey rose, evidently impressed with the Sentiments of so
talented a gentleman, to assure the President, Vice-Presi-
dent, and the company, he felt the highest sense of grati-
tude and respect for the able, voluntary, and thus early
support of their new Representative, who had literally pro-
mised, in the most praiseworthy and public manner, his re-
lative advocacy of a subject, so intimately connected with
the naval and commercial interests of this country. Mr.
Harvey further observed, the Portland Breakwater was a
subject to which great responsibility was attached, which
led him to forward last year, through the influential medium
of the Right Hon. Admiral Lord De Saumarez, to his
Most Gracious Majesty, a memorial, explanatory of their
views of the matter, and signed by 687 Portlanders. Mr.
Harvey, in conclusion, observed that Mr. Buxton was also
an advocate for the Portland Breakwater, at which the
-company appeared much gratified.
A new era has evidently commenced in Weymouth, com-
mensurate with the present improving age, arising from its
central position in the British Channel ; and, in the event of
a rail-road, ready access would be attained. with the heart
of Somersetshire and Bristol. We feel assured we shall
ultimately see verified—
" Now Commerce, wealthy goddess, rears her head,
And bids Britannia's fleets their canvass spread."— Gay.