The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-15 00:00:00

PARLIAMEN TARY DIVISIONS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, JULY 12.
MAJORITY ON THE THIRD READING OF THE
METROPOLITAN INTERMENTS BILL.
Aucninsnor. Leitrim Colborne
Canterbury Minto Cremorne
DUKE. Morley De Frelyne
Grafton St. Germans Dormer

Shaftesbury
Strafford
Waldegrave
Zetland
BISHOP.
Manchester
BARONS.

MARQUISES.
Lansdowne
Westminster
EARLS.
Besborough
Carl'sle
Durham
Granville Bateman
Grey Byron
Ellenborough Camoys
Fingall Carrington
Harrowby Crewe

Dufferin
Edellsbury
Elphinstone
Foley
liatherton
Kinnaird
Langdale
Lilford
Portman
Wharncliffe
Wodehouse
Wrottesley

MINORITY OF 34 ON THE RAILWAYS ABANDON-

MENT BILL.
EARLS,

♦scaslSliOP.
Canterbury

BAEON3.

DUKE.

Granville Crewe
Grey Cremorne
Minto Colborne
Morley Dormer
Shaftesbury Eddisbury
Strafford Elphinstong
Waldegravo Foley
BISHOPS. Ilatherton
Kinnaird
Langdale
Portman
Monteagle
Wrottesley

Norfolk

MARQUISES.
Donegal
Lansdowne
Westminster

EARLS.
Besborough
Bruce
Carlisle
Cowper
F. ingall

Down
Manchester

BARONS.
Byron
Camoys

THE POST-OFFICE.
(From the Liverpool Mercury.)
The following letter, addressed to the Borough
and County Members, was placed in the news-rooms
for a few hours only on Monday, and received a large
number of signatures. We also give the replies
thereto received from Mr. Brown, Mt. Henry, and
Mr. Cardwell:—

"To William Brown, Esq., M.P., Alexander Henry,
Esq., M.P., Sir Thos. Birch, Bart., M.P., Edward

. -
Cardwell, Esq., M P.
" Gentlemeu,—We, the undersigned, beg to express
to you our urgent hope that you will be able to attend
the Hcuse of Commons, on Monday evening next, to sup-
port Mr. Locke in his motion for an address to the
Queen, praying her Majesty to rescind the order for
closing the Post-office on Sundays.
We are, gentlemen, your obedient servants,
_ .

" Liverpool, Bth July, 1850."
" Fenton's Hotel, 9th July, 1850._

" My dear Sir,—As yours is the first name on the do-
cument so numerously and respectably signed, addressed
to Sir Thomas Birch, Mr. Henry, Mr. Cardwell, and
myself, and hoping we may be able to support Mr.
Locke's motion, I address myself to you, to say I shall
certainly do so. I voted in the minority before. I shall
tike care that those gentlemen shall have your commu-
nication. To letters I have received on the subject from
parties who are against the motion, I have replied as an-
nexed. " Very truly yours, " WM. BROWN.
" H. Littledale, Esq."
(Copy.)
"Knowing as I do that every means will be resorted to
for the conveyance (. f letters on Sunday, and that ar-
rangements will be made and are making for this pur-
pose independent of the Post-office, my conviction is chat
the Sabb.►th will be more desecrated now than if we re-
turn to the old arrangement, and that more labour will
be employed and more evasions practised than under
the improved arrangements made by Mr. Hill before the
change took place. I have much respect for the con-
scientious opinions of those on whose behalf you write,
but it is my duty from the information that comes to my
knowledge to act in this matter as seems most likely to
prevent the evil you wish to avoid."
" 19, Edward-street, Portman-square,
London, July 9, 1850.

" Dear Sir,-1 beg to acknowledge your favour of yes-
terday, and have also seen the documents which you
have forwarded to my colleague, Mr. Brown, in favour
of rescinding the recent order for closing the post•ofl'ices
on Sundays. I voted against the resolution when brought
forward by Lord Ashley, and I am glad to learn that
my intention to vote for Mr. Locke's motion to-night
will have the approbation of the highly respectable and
influential gentlemen in Liverpool whose names are ap•
pended to the document which you have forwarded.
" Believe me to remain, dear Sir, yours very truly,
" A. HENRY.

" Chas. E. Rawlins, jun., Esq."
" Whitehall-gardens, 9th July, 1850.
"Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the copy you
hare been so good as to send me of the memorial ad-
dressed in original to my friend Mr. Brown. He has
also given me an opportunity of referring to ten very
respectable signatures attached.
" I have the honour to remain,
" Your very faithful servant,
" EDWD. CARDWELL.
"C. E. Rawlins, jun., Esq."

HOW LETTERS MAY NOW BE SENT ON
SUNDAYS.

A correspondent says :—Some portion of the incon-
venience felt by the stoppage of Sunday postal labour
is likely to be remedied. A great number of the letters
posted at every office in the kingdom pass through the
London General Post-office, and the obstacle to the
speedy transmission of correspondence now posted in
the country on Sunday is its not reaching London
on Monday morning, so as to be delivered in the metro-
polis, or sent on by the day mails. To remedy this, the
following practice is already in operation in some
provincial towns, and will be in operation, no doubt,
shortly in every town in the kingdom connected with a
railway, namely, parties write their letters for
London and places beyond en Sunday, and stamp
them. They then enclose each, together with a penny
or loose postage stamp, in a half-sheet of paper, directed
to some one in their town who has a private letter-box
attached to his street-door, into which the letters are de-
posited. The owner of the box empties it before the
last train leaves for London on Sundays, opens the out-
side covers of the letters addressed to him, secures the
pence and postage stamps, and puts all the letters ad-
dressed to London or elsewhere in a parcel directed to
the London terminus. An agent in London is
waiting to receive it, and to post its contents
at St. Martin's-le-Grand. Thus, for an ad-
ditional penny, a person can send his letter
to London on Sunday, where it arrives in time to be
taken charge of, and sent on to its destination by the
Post-office authorities on Monday morning. A very
handsome income must be realised by those who make
a letter parcel up on Sundays. In such a town as
Exeter, for instance, not less than 2,000 or 3,000
letters are posted on Sunday, which pass through
the London Post-office. Now, a thousand pence is
above 41., and the expense of sending a thousand letters,
each weighing halt-an-ounce, in one parcel from
Exeter to London by rail, is about half a-crown. Thus
a very handsome remuneration is netted for an hour
or two's work on Sunday night and Monday morning,
by two individuals, one in the country, and the other in
London."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
had been in the belief (till yesterday) that
all Sunday labour had ceased at the Post office. En
passant yesterday I Faw about a dozen men white-
washing, plastering, &c. This is, I suppose, with the
Post-office " powers that be," a sort of " ox in the
pit" business, which could not be delayed till Mon-
day. Possibly some of the Agnewite oppositionists
to rational progress may be able to explain this seem-
ing anomaly—six days, &c., but the seventh thou
shalt not deliver the letters (however important), but
shall whitewash, &c.—l am, Sir, yours, much shocked,
S. W. VERAX.

SUNDAY LETTERS.—Th 9 petition praying for the
rescinding of the late obnoxious regulation, and which lay
for signature only two days, was signed by nearly fifteen
hundred of our principal merchants, bankers, professional
men,tradesmen, and others. Petitions against rescinding the
rule were laid in the vestries and at the doors of our several
churches and chapels on Sunday, and all the tt unders of the
pulpit were put into requisition to compel signatures; sheets
were also carried about by some of the subordinates at the
post-office, and parties were everywhere entreated for
their names, with what success we have not learnt.— Bristol
Gazette.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday after-
noon at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Lord John
Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir
George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, the Earl of Car-
lisle, Sir John Ilobhouse, the Right Hon. Henry Labou-
chore, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and the Right Lim FQx
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