The Sun. — 1852-02-24 (London, England)

POST-OFFICE NOTICE. On and after the Ist March next, the following regulations will come into operation:— convicts to transportation against their will, which would have been adding to the severity ofthe law, Printed British Prices Current, Commercial Lists, he caused registers to be opened in the bagnes of Brest, Toulon, and Rochefort, for receiving the nams and Courses of Exchange, packet, o addressed to Denmark, may of those willing to go, and that already about three payment of one penny each,r by p similarand drivat ships direct, on publications, thousand have volunteered. All, however, are not to originating in Denmark, and addressedtotheUnted be sent off at once, but are to go in detachments ; Kingdom, will be delivered for one penny each, when and to prevent their escape, or inconvenience to the transmitted by packet or by private ships direct. colony, they are to be deposited in islands near • Periodical works, not of daily publication, and not the coast until the establishments on the allowed to pass as newspapers, addressed to Denmark, mainland shall be prepared. The convicts may Le forwarded by packet, or by private ships direct, at reduced rates of postage, under the following conmay, he says, be employed in cultivating the land, and to those who conduct themselves well ditios las 'T—h t age must be paid in advance. concessions of land may be made. He has resolved el. t. © post .1. They must be sent without covers or in covers that the convicts shall be fed like prisoners of war, be open at the aides. lodged like the troops in the colonial garrisons, and 3d. They must be printed in the English language. be clothed as the climate may require. They will The rates of postage on such works will bees folios'? not be required to wear chains, except as a means of Not exceeding two ounces in weight, Id. punishment. They are to be kept in order by a Above two ounces and not exceeding three ounces, 6d. military force, gendarmes, police, &c. They are to Above three ounces and not exceeding four ounces, Bd. be accompanied by a chaplain, and an hospital is to be and twopence for every additional ounce up to the established. The expense of the removal, es- weight of 16 ounces, beyond which weight these publitablishment, sec., is estimated at 4,245,000 f , cations cannot be transmitted. Periodical works of a similar description, published in for which credits were opened by the decrees of the December and 9th January. The Minister Denmark, andthis country, d th language of that kingdom, ad20thressed to will be delivered for the same rates concludes by stating that a commission, nominated of postage as those charged oa periodical works by the departments of Justice and Marine, is engaged sent to Denmark. in collecting the elements of a decree for regulating -- -- _ for the future the transportation of convicts to Guyana, ALARMING OCCURRENCE, AT SEA'. and that after such a decree shall be passed the bagnes SUICIDE OF A MASTER OF A SHIP,—On Saturday will cease to exist. The President of the Republic the subjoined details were receivediliP.— communicating has expressed approbation of all the details of this extraordinary attempt on the part of Mr. James Gilmoura an report. M'Bride, the commander of the British ship Troy, be" We learn," says the Pays, "that the governors longing to Mr. Duncan Gibb, of Liverpool, to destroy of various provinces in Spain have for warded to the his vessel and then his own life. It appears that the Ministry proclamations which had been seized, and vessel had been to California and Manilla, and her which were all worded in the view of a change in the last port was Singapore. She was bound for h Bombay, when on the evening of the Bth of December Spanish Government. These proclamations arrived while the vessel was about forty miles off 2,the day of Pe in the various provinces on February last, , nang, Captain M'Bride, who, it should be observed, Merino'e attempt on the Queen's life." had been in a state of intoxication for several days previously, set fire to a large quantity of gunpowder that