The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-23 00:00:00

POST-OFFICE NOTICE.

A new scheme for the West India Mail Packet ser-
vice having bean sanctioned by her Majesty's Govern-
ment, the mails from the United Kingdom for the West
ladies, Mexico, &c., will be dispatched, on and after the
2d August next, under the following arrangements:—
The mails will be made up in London, as et present,
on the mornings of the 24 and 17th of each month, ex-
cept when those days fall on Sunday, in which case the
mails will be dispatched, in the former instance on the
evening of the Ist, and in the latter instance on the
morning of the 18th.
Mails for Havannah, Honduras, Nassau, and Jacneel,
will be forwarded only by the packet leaving on the 17th,
and mails for Vera Cruz and Tampico only by the
packet of the 2d of each month.
For all the other places mentioned in the annexed
table, mails will be dispatched both by the packet of the
2d and by that of the 17th of each month.
Mails for the Western Coast of South America will
he made up, for conveyance, as far as Panama, by each
dispatch of the West India packet, but; from Panama,
the Pacific Mail packets will only be dispatched once a
month as at present. These packets wilt continue to be
fitted to the departure from London of the 17th of the
month.
Nu mails will be transmitted by the West India
packets, after the termination of the present month, to
Madeira, Bermuda, or to Mobile. The correspondence
for Madeira will, unless otherwise addressed, be sent by
the Braz:l packet leaving Falmouth on the 6th of each
month; that for Bermuda will ha forwarded by the route
of Halifax, by means of the North American contract
packets; and the correspondence for Mobile will be
transmitted in the ordinary mails to New York or
to B)ston.
The West India packets will cease also, under the
new scheme, to call at St. Jego de Cubs, La Guayra,
and Puerto Cabello.. All letters for Cuba will be dis-
patched in the mails for Havannah, and the correspon-
dence for Venezuela will be forwarded to St. Thomas,
and conveyed thence to its destination by the vessels
provided for that purpom by the Government of
Venezuela.

Thy, following is a list of the ports comprised in the
new scheme of Vle Royal Mail Steam Packet Company,
with the rate of packet postage chargeable on a letter
not exceeding half an ounce in. weight.
(Note.—On letters to thew) places marked thus, * the
postage must be paid in advance, or the letters cannot
be forwarded.)

s. d.
Antigua ... 1 0
Barbadoes 1 0
Belize (Honduras) ... 1 0
Berbice 1 2
Carriacou ... 1 0
* Carthag,ena (N.

*Jacmel (St. s. d.
mitzo) 1 5
*Martinique ... 1 5
Montserrat 1 0
Naisau (Bah,smas)... 1 0
Nevis 1 0
*Santz Martha ... 1 0
*San Juan (Porto
1 5
St. Kitts ... 1 0
St. Lucia ... 1 0
*St. Thomas ... 1 5
•it. Vincent ... 1 0
*Tampico (Mexico) 2 3
Tobago ... 1 0
Tortola 1 3
-fririckd 1 0
*Vcra Cruz (Mexico) 2 3
*Wesitern Coast of
South America ... 2 0

Grenada ••• 1 0
*Cnagres and Pa- _

na—a 1 CI
Demerara ... 1 0
Dominica ..• 1 0
*Grey Town ... 2 3
Greugda, ... 1 0
*Guudaloupo ... 1
*llavAnnali ... 2 3
Jamaica, (the port of
Kingston excepted

to vihich the rato

is Is. only)

. . 1 2

lOW TO SEND YOUR LETTERS

ON SUNDAY.
(From The Leader.)
Various expedients are offered to the public as sub-
stitutes for the Post-office ol Sundays. Companies
undertake the conveyance of letters ; news-agents in
some towns have adopted a very simple device, which
brings them in a revenue. They keep a box in their
chops open ; any customer who pleases may take the
liberty of depositing in this box letters properly
stamped, and accompanied by loose pence, one penny
to each letter ; the letters so found there are packed
up in a parcel and sent by railway to a correspondent
in the town to which they are directed; he opens the
parcel, and takes the liberty of posting all of those
stamped, even on the Sunday ; they are found be-
times on Monday morning by the official people, and
sorted and delivered in due course.
No doubt this occasions a vast amount of labour
on the Sabbath, which was saved when all the work
was done by the practised and well-considered orga-
nizition of the Post-office. But if private newsmen,
little blackguard boys from ragged schools, and other
abandoned characters in indefinite numbers, subject
themselves to the ulterior penalty of eternal torment
for the pence which •the Post-office foregoes, Lord
Ashley has the satisfaction of reflecting that he has
coerced the elect few of the Post-office into "ever-
lasting redemption."
An order from the General Post-office, however,
suggests an expedient for saving this increase of
Sunday labour which he and his accomplice, Lord
John Russell, have brought. It seems that the letters
directed to Cabinet Ministers, or the officers of
Government, are not to be detained, but are still "to
be forwarded on Sunday by the ordinary dispatch."
Now, as Lord John Russell has been a party to the
hindrance of letters on Sunday ; as he avows that he
is quite aware of the inconvenience; and as he is a
very honourable and well-disposed man, it is to be pre-
sumed that he will not evade any offer on this point
which might tend to mitigate the inconvenience. We
would suggest, therefore, that any persons who have
letters to be transmitted on the Sunday should direct
them to the care of Lord John Russell, and no doubt
he will see to their being properly posted early on
Monday morning.