The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-07 00:00:00

POSTAL COMMUNICATION WITH

FRANCE.
The following is a copy of a document which has
been extensively signed in many of our chief com-
mercial and manufacturing towns within the last few
days
To the Right Honourable Lord John Russell,
M.P., First Lord of the Treasury, &c.
"The memorial of the undersigned merchants,
bankers, and others, of
" Humbly showeth, That the present postal com-
munication between England and France does not
offer those facilities which the great interests of the
two countries require.
" That the mail service via Dover and Calais is
performed with much unnecessary delay, and con-
veyed by a circuitous and expensive route, to the
great detriment of commerce and international com-
munication.

That by t hreosuut be t ivtluat i
Folkestone
stthoen
emoreand direct
Boulogne,and
less
letters
posted in Paris in the evening would reach
London
expensive
' in time for the first morning delivery, and in
time, also, for the early morning mails to the north
and west of England.
"That the delay caused by the present postal
service between the two countries affects not only
the correspondence between London and Paris, but
the mails from India and China, and thereby occasions
muchinconvenience to the general trade and com-
merce of the country.
" That the service between Folkestone and Bou-
logne could be performed with certainty and regularity,
except during the prevalence of south-west gales of
wind, which render the port of Boulogne inaccessible
for not more than twenty times in the year, when the
mails might be landed at Calais, and carried by special
conveyance to Boulogne.
" That even under such circumstances the mail
would be conveyed in the same time, and delivered at
the same hour as at present via Dover and Calais,
where there is an insurmountable, fixed, and regular
delay, occasioned by the additional length of 66
miles of road ; and that the present failures in the
service, which not unfrequently occur during north-
east gales of wind, when Calais is inaccessible, would
entirely cease.
"That your memorialists therefore pray, that for
the interests of commerce, and the promotion of
amity and intercourse between the two countries, the
mail service may be transferred to the direct and
natural highway between London and Paris via
Folkestone and Boulogne.
" And your memorialists will ever pray, Sze."
A copy of the above memorial lies for signature
at the office of the Amiens and Boulogne Railway
Company, Royal Exchange-buildings.

AN ELIGIBLE OPPORTUNITY.--" For sale, a Co-
lour( d girl, of very superior qualifications, who is now
in Mr. Hall's gaol in Norfolk. She is what speculators
call a fancy girl—a bright mulatto, fine figure, straight
black hair, and very black eyes; remarkably neat and
cleanly in her parson. I venture to say that there is not
a better seamstress, cuter and fitter of ladies' and chil
dren's dresses, in Norfolk or elsewhere, or a more tan-
cilul knitter of bead bags, money purses, &c. Any lady
take (whom
her and I consider
her
or gentleman in Norfolk or Portsmouth who may wish
try
to purchase a girl of this. description
the most
monthmaon sst v
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the
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tne
isnVeyriirprgitinokin, and if she does not suit
Virginia)
hero given,) may
may return her
to Mr. Hall. The cause of offence for which I intend
(though reluctantly) to sell her is, that she has been
recently induced, by some coloured persons, to make her
escape with than to the north, in which she failed, and
is now for sale. Apply to the subscriber in Suffolk, or
to Mr. James Murd.iugh, or C. C. Robinson, of Ports
mouth, for further information.—Josurn HOLLADAY."
—Anti-Slavery Reporter.