The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-21 00:00:00

THE MAILS FROM LONDON
(From the Times of yesterday.)

We have received several communications, complaining
of the proposed alteration in the time of the departure of the
day mails from London by railway to Birmingham, Manches-
ter, Liverpool, Dublin, and all th, intermediate towns on the
toad. It is stated, that on and after the Ist of October next,
the mails to the above-mentioned places, which now leave
London at 8 o'clock iu the morning, are to be detained till
11 o'clock. We were at first inclined to believe that our cor-
respondents had been led into some mistake, but on inquiry
we find that their information is brit too true, and that the
post-office, instead of accelerating the mails, are about to
retard theta, and dtprive them of the advantage which every
other mode of conveyance has gained by the opening of the
railway throughout from London to Birmingham. To un-
del-Stan:l the matter fully, it is necessary to state, that on the
partial opening.of the London and Birmingham railway, the
mails were conveyed by railway to, Denbigh-ball, and thence
to Rugby by coaches and horses. At Rugby they were
again Placed on the railway, and conveyed to Birmingham.
whence they were forwarded to their respective destina•
lions by the Grand Junction railway. At Liveipool and
Manchester they arrived the same night, about half-past
11 o'clock, an they
too late for the delivery of letters or
newspapers. The delay created by the conveyance of the
mails from Denbigh-hall to Rugby by coaches might now
be avoided by the opening of the London and Birming-
ham railway throughout. The morning 8 o'clock train from
London is to arrive in Birmingham about 2 o'clock. The
mails, if sent by that train, could he forwarded, according to
the present arrangements, at half-past 2 o'clock, and would
reach Liverpool and Manchester the same evening at seven
o'clock—an hour which would admit of the letters and news
papers being delivered without the delay of a night interven-
ing. If this proposal of the Post-office to delay the depar-
ture of the mails till 11 o'clock in the forenoon is peisisted•
in, all the advantage that might be obtained by the railway
is completely thrown away. The three hours' delay will pre-
vent the mails arriving at Liverpool and 'Manchester till 11
o'clock at night; the letters and newspapers will be then
detained in the Post-office, as at present, till the next morn-
ing; and, in fact, after all the benefits expected from the.
railway, the public will only obtain their letters and news
papers at the same hour that they did when they were for-
warded by the morningcoaehesto Birmingham, and thence by
the cross-mail to Liverpooland Manchester. It has been urged
that the delay of the mails till 11 o'clock has been to enable
inerchants in London to answer their correspondents' letters
the same morning they are received; but even that argument
is without the slightest foundation. The delay of mails till
eleven o'clock will prevent the letters being delivered at
Liverpool or Manchester the same evening, and letters sent
by the night mail from London will reach both those towns
within an hour or two of the delivery of the letters which ar-
rived the preceding night by the day mail. It is scarcely
possible to believe that a plan more injudicious, more mis-
chievous, or more calculated to thwart 'and prevent all that
might be accomplished by railway communication could be
he conceived. We earnestly hope that the merchants and
manufacturers in every town and district affected by this un-
warrantable sacrifice of time will meet and express their opi-
nions in
_a manner not to be misunderstood even at the

General Post-office.
We subjoin an extract from a Dublin paper, which w
show how the subject is estimated there:—
Cl:nun the DuNin Evening Mail )

" RAILSVAYCOMSIUNICATION BETWEEN LONDON AND DUB!. tN
Her Majesty's Ministers have shown nu neglect of Ire-
land whenever the question was a political one, the agitation
of which might be turned to their own advantage; but in any
natter wherein the real interests, prosperity, or commercial
accommodation of this country were concerned, we tax them
not only with indifference and neglect, but contempt and
discountenance. • A tla•grant instance of this is now laid be-
fore us in the following letter from the office of Messrs. John-
stole and Co., of Eden-quay. It appeals front this that Ire-
land is not to share the benefit of the communication by tail-
way between London and Liverpool as tar as the Post-office
arrangements are concerned. For though is was reasonably
expected, and could have been readily arranged, ttrkt the Lon-
don morning mail should have continued to be despatched at
8 o'clock a.m., and have thus reached Liverpool in sufficient
time to have brought the communication between the two capi-
itals within the space of four-and-twenty hours, it is not
to be despatched until eleven o'clock: nor will the Lon-
don Post-office condescend to grant to the Irish the ad-
vantage of two additional hours for the posting of letters,
which 'must still be delivered in the Post-office receivers
at not one minute later than the now-appointed time.
"Brother Bull, we tell you candidly, and as a friend, this
will not do. You must make your Ministers do their busi-
ness, or turn them nut. United with you, for better for worse,
we must have our fair share of accommodation and advan-
tage. •Justice for Ireland,' or t lee—

"TO THE EDITOR OF THE DUBLIN EVENING MAIL.

"Express Newspaper-office, Eden•quay,
Monday Morning, Sept. 17, 1838.
"Sit;,—Doubtless you are aware that .the London and
Birmingham Railway opens the whole way this day; accord-
ingly we were desirous, to our capacity a, newspaper agents,
of learning what the advantages to the Irish pnblie wood be
in consequence. Judge, then, of our surprise, at being in-
formed (which we hasten to• communicate to you) by our
London correspondent, that no alteration, as regards Ire-
land, will at present take place—that the morning mail from
London, despatched hitherto at nine o'clock a.m., will not
now leave till 11 o'clock a.m., as the following official states:
" ' General Post-office, Sept. 15, 1838.
" Sgt:,—Since I saw you this day-I have ascertained that
the directors of the Birmingham Railway have not provided
for the nine o'clock despatch, according to their contract
with the Post-office, and that consequently the day mail must
he despatched from the Boston station on Monday next at
11 o'clock a.m.
" I am, Sir, your obedient humble servant,
" W. L. MABEKLEY, Secretary.
"Our correspondent further adds—' it' is not intended by
he Post-office to have a morning packet from Liverpool, nor
to take one off the Holyhead station. I had an interview
with Colonel Maberley himself of full a quarter of an hour;
another thing is, altogether the departure of the mail is post-
poned two hours later, they (the Post-office) will not receive
letters one minute later than they do at present.'
"'These facts we beg to draw your attention to. and remain,
with much respect, Sir, your obedient servants,
" JOHNSTON and Co."

A HUSBAND AT SIGHT.—Lord G- wasstrowily advised
by his physicians to marry, and lead a sober, domestic, an l
steady life, as the only chance of improving his sha tered
c?iisLuillion. Accordingly he formed a resolution to offer
his hand to the first woman who caused prepossessions i ner
favour. Being one day in K.ensington Gardens he vent to
shelter himself from a very heavy shower of rain in a covei.e.i
seat, to which two ladies had also repaired; one of tnein was
Mis V-. A conversation ensued, during which his lord.
ship asked them if they had a carriage in waiting; they re-
plied in the negative; he then entreated them to take a seat
in his, and allow him to convey them home; the offer was
accepted. On their way to town Miss V- said she thought i
it was the easiest carriage she had ever been n. His lord-
ship politely 'replied, " Yop may, be mistress of it, madam,
whenever you please." Mies blushed her thanks, and they
were man and wife berate the expiration of the ninth'