The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-26 00:00:00

1866 1865

1866. 180.

z
Belfast and N. Counties 9Ol 994 1,8 X 74 1.85 6
Belfast and County Down 49 49 693 657
Blyth and Tyne . 36 36 2,426 2,489
Brecon and Merthyr ........ 61 61 3,201 3,018
Bristol and Exeter l2li 1211 7,676 7,0, 3
Caledonian, Scottish Central 4l7f 408 28,012 20,223
Cambrian
Cock ermouth K & Penrlth .. 311 314 518 2 4
Cockermouth and Workin .. 9 9 414 311
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 432 380
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6 ei 198 191
oOrk and Youghal
Cornwall 6s} 654 2,103 2.(31
Deeside „ 17 17 376 408
Do Extension
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1,448 1.400
Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 1,677 2.030
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wexid lO6 914 3,207 3,159
Forth and Clyde Junction
Furnes4, &c 5O Si 4,074 3.104
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union
Great Northern 422 401 41,061 35,836
Great North of Scotland 5B 58 1,814 2.003
Do Branches 42 42 1,411 3,513
681 426
Great Western
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12380%71
128387071
Hull & Hornsea
808:76816 683,865542
Highland
trash North-Western 145 145 1,883 3,751
Lancashire& Yorkshire 403 403 17,9 8 40.137
Limerick and Ennis.. 244 24f 206 135
Limerick and Foynes 264 264 131 22
Llanelly 461 451 774 778
Llynvi Valley
London & North-Western
London & South-Western
Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast
London, Chatham, & Dover; i 1351 1215 1 11,194 9,156
all Metropolitan Extension 1 124 114 j 2,876 2.500
Do. Kent Coast
Lou., Tilbury, & Southend
Aan.,Sheineld.& Lineolnsh .. 246 246 21,527 18,242
Manch. S.Jun.& Altrincham.. 94. 95 1,582 1,542
liaryport and Carlisle 2B 28 1,625 1.423
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6774 6634 52,713 45.425
G.
Midland t. Westn. of Irind 2604 2604 4.974 4.515
aionmouthsh. Hail. & Canal l4 44 3.187 3.459
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee . 7114 7071 27,026 25,140
N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 12074 11604 74,201 69,807
North London ll 9 4,884 3 432
North Staffordshire 258 258 8,933 7,879
Pembroke and Tenby ll5 111 105 67
Ehymney 194 191 1.126 925
Scottish North-Eastern ll3 138 6,480 5,557
Somerset and Dorset 66 66 1.809 1,012
South ,Devon
South-Eastern 315 308 25,162 22,058
Taff Vale 6l 61 6,371 5,126
Ulster lO5l 1054 2,898 2,427
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Vale of Clwyd
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Austrian B2B 828 37.361 33,189
Bahia and Sax Francisco
Belgian Eastern Junction 266 266 330 363
Bombay, Baroda, az Cen. India 306 306 10,132 4,76.5
Detroit and Milwaukic lB9 189 4,821 6,671
Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1081 4,816 5,9 5
Eastern of France...—. 1665 1551 75,185 68,971
Eastern Bengal
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada 1377 1377 25,845 26,398
Great Central of Belgium 285 255 6,123 6.384
Great Indian Peninsula 6961 592 34,775 24,542
Great Luxembourg 134 134 6,151 5.259
Great Southefn of India
iireat Western of Canada 343 315 14,431 13,513
Madras
Madrid, Saragossa SfAiicant 778 713 19,036 15,3 2
Northern of Canada
Northern of France 764 724 62,311 57.706
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman ... 486 44 7nB 729
Paris, Lyons. & Mediterrn 2006 20 6 149,921 149,331
Paris and Orleans lB2l 1818 81.784 71,924
Recife and San Francisco. &c. 776 776 1,731 1,467
Sc,nde

10
31
77
10

156 194
331 386
1,205 1,213
E 57 695

Do. Punjab, dtc 253 45 2,070 342
South Austrian, etc .. . 1798 1646 87.6i7 56,5u9
Southern of France 9(O 823 33,715 31,276
Victoria
Welland_ 25
__ 25 149 146
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West it N-Wn. of France .. 1155 1046 5E,708 59,231

The Letter-Carriers and the Sabbath.

The following memorial has been addressed to the
Right Hon. Lord Stanley of Alderley, her Majesty's
Postmaster- General :

" The memorial of the members and friends of
the Working Men's Lord's-day Rest Association,
adopted at a large meeting held in Exeter Hall, on
Thursday, the 17th of May, 1866, the Right Hon.
the Earl of Shaftesbury in the chair,

" Sheweth,—That many of the provincial letter-
carriers and rural messengers are compelled to
labour many hours on Sundays, walking long jour-
neys in all weathers with considerable burdens.
" That such continuous labour is highly injurious
to their physical and moral welfare, it being gene-
rally admitted that one day's rest in seven is neces-
sary to recruit the energies of the body and mind.
" That the letter-carriers feel the Sunday work
to be a great and grievous hardship.
" That there is no real necessity for the Sunday
delivery of letters, seeing that London, with all its
momentous interests, and other places, dispense
with the Sunday delivery.
" That the rule which provides that a rural post
shall be discontinued on Sundays at the request
of the receivers of six-sevenths of the Sunday cor-
respondence is unfair, seeing that questions of mo-
mentoust importance in the Houses of Parliament
a-
mmen
and other public bodies are decided by a sirupl
jority.
" That the notice to postmasters in
whichequest for the
directs that
no attention shall be paid to
any
discontinuance of a Sunday deliver
which the post-
master may have reason to believethe Postal
Official Circular of April, 1866,
has resulted
from the solicitation
the letter-carriers,' is a direct
violation of the publishedof rules in the Postal Guide,
wch.i,eh cloffice on Sundays, and in-
flicts on person can have his letters,
&
e the letter-carriers by requiring
them to deliver on
filets needless toil
Sundays
the letters of persons
retainedde
ares
inthat
tii anyst.
who do not wish them to be delivered on that day.
" That the example to the nation of the Post-
office employing its servants on Sundays is decid-
edly bad, and the tendency of Sunday letter de-
livery is to tempt men to work themselves and to
require their servants to work also.
Your memorialists therefore humbly pray that
your lordship will establish a rule by which a Sun-
day post in any city, town, or district shall be
abolished on the receipt by your lordship of a re-
quisition signed by two-thirds of the householders
of that city, town, or district ; and that all requests
for the non-delivery of letters, &c., on Sundays
may be granted according to the published rule in
the British Postal Guide."