The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-26 00:00:00

vice has given prominence and position in society.
And I may also remark on the singular harmony
which has prevailed amongst them. My friend, who
has boen more or less with them now for five or six
years, told me, that during the whole of that period
he had never known anything approaching to a
serious difference of opinion, and from his account,
and from what I saw, they appear to have one heart,
and a truly great heart it is, and to permit nothing
to interfere with the object before them.
I have been induced to ask for the insertion of this
letter in your columns, in the hope that it may meet
the eyes of the free-traders throughout the kingdom.
If in half the towns of Great Britain a committee
could be formed whose members could work zealously
in unison with the Council in Manchester, what great
things might be done ! A few intelligent and active
men might meet and take tea together in an evening,
discuss their progress and prospects, organise a sys-
tem against which no wrong couldlong be maintained,
and gather round them an influence which would
speedily accomplish the deliverance of their country
from the evils which an ignorant and very selfish
policy is daily inflicting upon it. Why should not
Glasgow, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Leeds, Sheffield,
Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol, Plymouth, and the
metropolitan boroughs adopt this plan, which has
proved so successful in Manchester ? Are there not
some good, some real men in each of these populous
places who are ready for the work which the eountry
is looking for at their hands ? From what I have
seen in Manchester lam satisfied the foolish system
of the monopolists has nearly run its course. The
best of causes is in the hands of men who seem never
to be weary, to whom a feeling of hopelessness is un-
known, and whose disinterested labours are destined,
I feel assured, to work a great and peaceful revolution
in this country.
I hope this letter may not be too long for your
space, and be on that account rejected ; it contains
only a very meagre sketch of the impressions left on
my mind by my visit to Manchester, but I shall take
it as a great favour if it be placed before the readers
of your widely circulated journal.—l am, yours, &c.,
A TRAVELLER.

November 18, 1844.

POSTAL TREATY BET WEEN BEL-
GIUM AND ENGLAND.
BRUSSELS, Nov. 24.—The Post-office treaty be-
tween England and Belgium was signed in London
on the 19th of October. The ratifications were ex-
changed in London on the 19th of November.
The Moniteur publishes this day the treaty at
length. The following are the chief clauses :
" Art. 4. The exchange of the international corre-
spondence will take place at Dover and Ostend. The
British Post-office will continue to convey in its
packets the dispatches, four times a week, according
to the terms of the treaty of October, 1834. The
departures from Ostend to Dover will take place on
Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays;
the departures from Dover every Tuesday, Wednes-
day, riday, and Saturday.
"Art. 5. However, the Belgian Government will
be at liberty to establish a service of packets to convey
letters, dispatches, and travellers between both the
ports above-mentioned twice a week, or daily; and
the Belgian Government reserves expressly to itself
to enter into an agreement with the British Govern-
ment, in order to be freed from the obligation of
paying to that Government the annual sum of 1,0001.
sterling, which was stipulated in the treaty of
October, 1834.
" Art. 7. The packets employed by both Govern-
ments to convey dispatches between Dover and Ostend
to be received and considered ,in both ports as men-
of-war, and to be free from all tonnage, harbour, and
shipping duties.
" Art. 9. The above packets to be allowed to carry
passengers, with their luggage, horses, and carriages,
but they will not be permitted to take goods on
freight.
" Art. 15. Persons sending letters either from Bel-
gium to Great Britain and British possessions, or
from Great Britain and British possessions to Bel-
gium, to be at liberty to send the same without pay-
ing the postage, or to pay it in advance if they think
proper, however the postage be paid for the whole
distance.
" Art. 16. Letters charged may be sent between
the two countries, and as far as possible in transit to
every country of which both offices are intermediaries.
"Art. 19. Letters paid or unpaid to be charged
with a postage duty of a shilling for every simple
letter, this postage to be increased according to the
weight of letters on the scale established in both
countries.
" Art. 29. Newspapers sent from Great Britain to
persons living in Belgium to be delivered free of
postage to the Belgian office, and to be charged in
Belgium with a postage of fire centimes (id.).
" Belgian newspapers, directed to persons in Eng-
land, to be delivered free of postage to the British
Post-office, and to pay in England only fire centimes.
" Art. 30. The postage for periodicals, published in
Belgium or in Great Britain, to be paid in advance,
viz., in Belgium five centimes for every printed sheet
uner thirty square decimetres ; and in England one
penny for every work under two ounces, sixpence for
every work above two ounces and not exceeding
three; eightpence for every work above three ounces
and under four; and for every ounce above four and
under sixteen, twopence more.
" The present treaty to be put in execution on the
Ist of December, 1844."