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

MINORITY OF 34 ON THE RAILWAYS ABANDON-

MENT BILL.
AIICIIIIISIIOP. EARLS. BARONS.
Canterbury Granville Crewe
BUICE. Grey Crern 1: ne
Norfolk Min to Colborne
.11IARQVISES. Morley Donner
Donegal Shaftesbury Eddisbury
Lansdowne Strafford Elpli instone
Westminster Waldegrave Foley
EARLS. BISHOPS. Ilatherton
Besboroug 11 Down Kinnaird
Bruce Manchester Langdale

Carlisle
Cowper
Fingall

BARONS. PoriMan
Byron lionteagle
Camoys Wrotteiley

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

"To William Brown, Esq., M.P., Alexander Henry,
M.P., Sir Thos. throb, Batt., M.P., Elward
Cardwell, Esq., M P.
" Gentltmen,—Vie, the undersigned, beg to express
to you our urgent hope that you will be able to attend
the House t f Commons, on Monday evi.ning next, to sup-
port Mr. Locke in his motion for an adtire s to the
Queen, praying her Majesty to rescind the order for
closing the Post-office on Sundays.
Wo are, gentlemen. your obedient servants,
" Liverpool, Bth July, 1850."
" enton's Hotel, 9.h July, 1850.
"My dear Sir,—As yours is the first tame on the do-
cument so numerously and resiectably 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
tAke 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, 66 'Wm. BROWN.
" 11. Littledale, Esq."
_
(Copy.)
_ _ _

" Knowing as I do thai eveiy- means will be resorted to
for the conveyance cf letters on Sunday, and that ar-
rangements will be made and are mating for this pur-
pose independent of the Post-office, my conviction is that
the Sabbath will be more desecrated now than if we re-
turn to the old arrangement, and that more labour will
be employed and more evasioas practised than under
the improved arrangements made by Mr. Hill before the
change tack 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-offices
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.
"Btlieve me to remain, dear Sir, yours very truly,
" A. HENRY.

" Chas.. E. Rawlinc, Jun., Eeq."
" Whitehall-gardens, 9th July, 1850.
"Sir,—l have the honour tJ ar.knowledge the copy you
hale been so good as to surd rce 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.
s. I hare the honour to remain,
"Your very faithful i.erv:nt,
EDWD. CARDWELL.

" C. E. Eawlin-, jar—, Eeq."

fIOW LETTERS MAY NOW BE SENT ON
SUNDAYS.
A correspondent says ;--Some portion of the incon-
venience felt by the stoppage of Sunday postil 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, to as to be delivered in the metro-
polis,the day mails. To remedy this, the
roil,m iourg.sepnrtaocnce by
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 fn.
London and places beyond e n Sunday, and stamp
them. They then enclose each, together with a penny
or loose postage stator,
in a half-sheet of paper, directed
to some one in their town who has a private letter-box
attached to his stren-door, into which the letters are de-
posited. The owi. er e f 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 starers, and puts all the letters ad-
dressed to London or elsewhere is a parcel directed to
the London ternaiou3. Au agent in London is
,waiting. t-) receive it, and to post its contents
at St. llmin's-le-G rand. Thus, Inr an ad-
ditional puiny, a person can send his letter
to London on Sunday, wl ere it arrives in time to be
A
taken charge o'', and sent on to its destination by the
Yost-oilleo authorities on Monday morning. very
handsome income must be, realised by thoilse who make
• a letter parcel up cn Euod,:yo.
which- pass through
less. thIt.110an001: optr:::11;(33:01it:
fete r, for in,tAnce, riot
letters
e Ism nadroen prated
at - o fLne. Sunday,
and
Now,uy ' a
, in one parcel from
each weighing her-an-
n"tiebe-out half- a- crown. Thus
Exeter to London by rail,
above 4/., and the expense of sanding a thousand letters,
ht and Monday
or two's work on Sunday night
other ' morning,
the
country, and the in
by two individuals, one in
a very handsome remumeri:t.ion is netted for an hour
London."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,-I had been in the belief (till yesterday) that
all Sunday labour had ceased at the Post-office. En
passant yesterday I MTV about m
a dozen
is, en white-
washing, plastering, &c. This I suppose, with the
Poit-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
seventh thou
i
to rational progress may be able to explain this seem-
ing anomaly—six days, &c., but the
shalt not deliver the letters (however mportant), but
shall whitewash, &c.—l am, Sir, yours, much shocked,
S. W. VERAX.

tls,'be professional
adnkbe); s nearly fifteen
,
---
SUNDAY LETTERB.--The petition praying for the
fhournsdignredat
rescinding of the late obnoxious regulation, and which lay
oufreouor ipa
nlypritnwcodla
men, tradesmen. and others. Petitions against rescinding the
rule were laid in the vestries and at the doors of our several
churches and cbapels on Sunda'', and all the thunders 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
)na's'er was
elaap ig
their names, with what success we have not learnt.— Bristoi
Gazette.
A Cabinet Council was hell on Saturday after-
noon at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Lord John
Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Mint° Sir
George Grey, Vi,count Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancel
lor (Attie Exchequer, Sir Francisßaring, the Rail of Ca
lisle; Sir John Hobliouse, the Right lion. henry Lab;-
chere, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and the Right Hon. Fox
Mauls. The Council sat two hours.

THE HERALD° AND THE SUS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE suir:

SlB,—Will you permit one ho his made a long
srijourn in Spain, whether in a private czipacity, or as
correspondent of a morning journal in London, to
say a f,-;w words in reference to an article %hid) op
pear€4l some time since in The Sun, the veracity of
which is questioned by thut most slav:sh ant; vitopu-
mtive of all bureaucratic prints, the modest Remick,
of Madrid.

It is not a little droll that the journal which gives
the lie with a pomposity so tru!y characteristic of
the Spanish Home-office to the statement of The Sun
in reference to the brusquerie of the Dac de Vs.-
lenci3, and which vouches its stainless honour for the
"courtesy and urbanity" ("la cortesia y de urbani-
dad !") of the rough soldier of Ardoz is Xa.T'' EEOXY/7,
the most lying of all the journals pub-
lished at Madrid ; that, moreover, it is the
property of Senor SartoriouP, the Minister for
Home Affairs, the most pliant and obsequious
tool of the Spanish dictator ! It will be recollected
that the immaculate organ of General Narvaez was,
during the regime of M. Guizot, the paid Gazette of
the French Cabinet, and the Moniteur where the
voices of M. de Bresson and the Due de Glucksberg
spoke daily. Still more recently, it fanned the flsmes
of discontent between the Spanish and British Go-
vernments, and fed the French press with falsehoods,
in its mendacious persecution of Sir Henry Bulwer.
So much for the " honour and urbanity" of the
Herald° ! The statement that appeared in The Sun
is substantially correct ; and the brusque chieftain,
who has introduced into the bureau and the salon the
manners of the drill-room, may thank his stars that
he growled his rudeness in a speech which is un-
known to the Envoy of the United Sates. How
different from the insolent maniere and fierte of
the former exile and detrnu of Gibraltar, and
of his mean valet, M. de Sartorius, the
puissant champion of the Heraldo, are the bon-
hommie and the graceful courtesy of Don Francisco
Xaxier de Isturiz, the Ambassador of Spain in this
country, in his intercourse with diplomatists and
litterateurs, whether native or foreign.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
HENRI GERALD SPILLAN.
19, Cecil. street, Strand, July 13, 1850.

[We consider the article in the Herald() as an
official retractation and apology on the part of Nar-
vaez, made in consequence of the demand of the
American Minister. Fortunately for that Minister
there are not to be found in the United Stat s
any royal refugees who abuse the hospitality of the
country by intriguing against her Government ;
neither has she in her Senate, or her Congress, any
"dear and excellent person" willing to sacrifice
the honour of Lis country to obtain the smiles of a
despot, or to gratify a personal pique. Narvai:z
knew this, and, therefore, did nut attempt to
Bulwerise the American Minister, but made the
apology demanded. Had America possessed an
Aberdeen or a Stanley, the article in the Heraldo
would not have appeared.—ED. Sun.]

CRICKET.

I ZINGARI v. BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.

On r•aturday this return match was played at Lord's,
where there wa3 an immense assemblage of amateurs and
patrons of the game. It was the most brilliant cricket event
of the year. When'' time" was called the score stood thus:—