The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-04 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4.

Tann can be CO penmen is the rnonmunifx, least
of all, we should think, an elisial, or a jwarnanst,whe
could uphold that labour we easployment upon a Sun-
day was either an allowable ler an indifferent thing.
Regarded in any light, religious, or moral, or scone-
mtcsl, rest oa the Sabbath is to be upheld, as far as
can be done caesistently with our deities and neces-
sities.
Difference there can be none en that poiat.
Bat a very great portion of the machinery of the
universe, and of man's life itself, is governed by
a kind of diuseal motion. The physical &nether;
for example, we cannot seeped. Our appetites must,
be satisfied and oar strength replenished on the
seventh day as mach as on any other day of the
week. And wherever the church has thought fit to
Imes this supply of food and strength, Sunday has
sue boa chosen as that day. Ascetic self dernal on a
Sanday, the forbidding of recreation or locomotion,
therefore, do not moose with our views of either
whet Sunday should be in a moral and wail
sense, or what religion and its habits have ruled and
intended for its duo observance.
That Sunday should be a day of rest foam labour
b, however, clear. And the exceptions to that rale,
the inevitable exceptions, may be supposed tit lave
been made and allowed at once by the necessities of
individual lit.. The medieiner vends his drugs, the
baker opens his oven and his door fa the oiekieg of
the Sunday meal of the poor. To sell or buy cakes
is not considered a crime. Fierce articles in jowls's,
denouncing the desecration of Sunday, are written,
nay are polite' on a Sunday, in order to edify, and
excite, and alarm the religious on a 'Monday.
Amongst the many offices or Weiss, which are
compelled not altogether to interrupt upon a finsday
their diurnal trainees end machinery, the Post-office
certainly reckon,.
There can be no doubt that a great deal of very'
onerous buskins is done in pasteoffices throughout
England of a Sunday, and not only in rat-offices, bat
at the desks of men of activity and business. Satur-
day is no pat-day to London from the greater part
of England. But Sunday is; and letters received on
Sunday in a provincial town may be answered on that
day, and that answer acted upon in London on Moaday.
Tho preterit sestern, thereitenre, sets the busy hands
and heads of the provinces at work on Sundays, to the
disadvantage of London in a commercial and a rival
sense, although to its advantage an &centre of religion
and morality.
Now, the mistake of Mr. ROWLAND HILL'S bruited
scheme seems to be, that it increases the convenience
and portal advantages which the provinces already
possess over London. And, therefore, he may
naturally find the Lord Mayer in opposition to him.
Indeed, Sir JANES DUKE confessed that this was the
nature of his objection. And he, as well as the other
merchants attending the meeting of yesterday, de-
clared that if letters could pats through London to
the provinces oo Sunday, Londoners would icfallib!y
desire a London delivery. They might have added,
not only a London delivery, but a London expedition
of letters on the same day.
Now, we moat my that we think this rival, y of
town and country never entered foto Mr. ROWLAND
HILL'S held. That gentleman evidently lives in the
Po.t-offica, and sees nothing beyond the Post-office.
He has but ome ebjeot in view—to expedite letters,
and as many letters as he cas, as cheaply, sorely, and
speedily as he car. Mr. HILL incl.ed knows that
the English publics will not have Sunday infringed
upon. And Mr. HILL is, we dare say, as devout as any
other Englishman oa this point And, therefore, when
Mr. HILL drew up kis scheme, he took care that, taking
one part of England with another, Sunday work
should be rather lessened than increased by his regu-
lations. And we believe that this is the case. Of a
London delivery on a Sudsy be never dreamed : so
far from it, that by his scheme letters foe London
were not to be forwarded at all on a Sudsy, but
merely those letters stamred and destined to pees
thr thgh. On these ride, as also on that of
creased labour on a Sunday in the London Posn-
office Mr. HILL, we have no doubt, is well able to
defend himself.
But against the deep objections of the London mere
chants to see all England treated to advanOiges of
which they cannot partake, or, at least, of which they
cannot partake without a large and patent &itera-
tion of the Sabbath—against them we do not is,
how Mr. HILL can stand. Nay, we should much
fear the present movement going further, and de-
pov iog the country of the uninterrupted communier ion
which it now possesses. If there be no use of writing
letters on a Saturday, and no possibility of receiving
any of a Monday. three clear data will be shriek out
of the seven,—a subject worthy of cansiderstion.
There ye many other, and very weighty reasons,
which might be urged against the expeliency of
freezing up postal despatches at the spot which
they may reach at 12 o'clock on Saturday night, and
not permitting them to unfreeze for four-and-twenty
hours. Yet to these extremes most of the
arguments employed at the public meeting
tend. The greatest objection would be, that
- whilst the post would thus stand sill, other
and more costly modes of trarsorission would
come into practice. And then would arise a contra-
band conveyance of intelligence which would set the ,
law at nought, and be infinitely more active and morel
criminal on a Sunday than royal mails, although in
mot ion upon that day.
The question is one that requires to be tweed with
good sense and temper, rather than with eloquence
or seal. For the latter may lead to strange blunders;
and to the greatest blunder of all—the total defeat of
its own object.

DIPLOMACY seems bent on quarrelling, era of
aron•ing rumours and chances of war, where real
elements of war are none. Turkey, it is well
known, looked on with the most compled.ent neu-
trality at the 'trunk taking rime on the Danube
between the Russians acd the Magyars. The Sultan
bad every cause to be anxious, nay to be offended at
thecavalier manner in which the Russians appropriate d
Wallachia aad Moldavia, and turned them to their
military uses. But t e kept his temper, as well as
his sword in sheath, and showed exemplary patience.
A Russian prises and envoy has nevertheless thought
fit to beard and provoke this pacific monarch, and
menace war to a nation that has lost the desire and
the traditions of combat.
We are still in the midst of the meat went caned
by this outrageous conduct, when we hear of another
diplomatist at the farther end of the world provoking
a still more silly squabble. The New Yerk papers
announce that M. POUSSIN, French envoy at Wash-
ington, has sent an impertinent note to the govern-
ment, and that General TAYLOR has repiel to it,
seeding Poussm his passports..
We must say that the fault an this affair seems to
lie with the French envoy, Major PoussiN, and with
M. DR TOCQUEVILLE, the first of whom uses m-et un-
diplomatic language, such as compels a sprit•.d go-
averment to resent it ; whilst the minister an Paris
without examining the matter, dismisses it in a light
and cursory way. assuming that there was haste and
wrong on bath sides, and taking it for granted that the
American President would accept such a compromise,
It seems that there were two cause, of difference and
sources of complaint. One was about some French
trader's tobacco, seized in Mexho, but restored to
him by the American commanding officer. The
trader in question made a demand of indemnity for
some difference of price in the tobacco, which he
I might have sold higher than he actually did. Such
claim was disallowed. Whereon Major POUSSIN, abet-
. ring the claim of the tobacco-merchant, stigmatised
the American colonel as having perjured

This was done in ea aloud oommunicatioa which,
hemmer, Major Foam afttrwards osaisenteil to
• The seat muse et quarrel arose from Major POOL
saes abet leg another French claimant, the pusher
of a vessel saved from wreck by $ captain of the
Amadeu %Wren. The latter had claimed savage,
and was not only refused it, but claims of indemnity
were pat tetritend foe the detention of the vessel, and
acme thset offend to his flog. The claim was dis-
allowed ; whereon Major Pousent ;donned, as usual,
and teed as unwarrantable language to the naval
commander as he had on the previous occasion done
to the inUltney sae.
The ent. ordered the whole cane to be for-
warded to Pula, and laid before M. DI ToccluEvlLLE,
as the result M. Poossite's immediate re-
ca M. DI Toocitinvime either did not see muse,
or lacked energy fee such a step, and replied that
both were in the wrong and should be reconciled.
A similar kind of reconciliation had, however, taken
place before with Major POURSIN, and President
I'ATLOII was determined not to permit such again.
Accordingly Its sent Major Poessize his kaseports,
AS the phrase fa, much after the fashion of NADVAEZ.
And thus are France and the United States at
variance, owing to the impertinence of an envoy of the
French reputitie. Fortunately, the French have no
;serious or valid claim for pecuniary indemnity. The
quarrel is but one of ;side and etiquette. But
M. DI TOCQUEVILLE ring seen nothing in
his envoy's conduct to disapprove, cannot
DOW abandon or condemn him. Unfortu-
nately, the French government under Louis
PHILIPPZ humbled itself to a threat of the American
President of that day. A repetition of such humilia-
tion must therefore be still more disagreeable end
even dangerous to LOUIS NAPOLEON. Both sides are
thus I.kely to prove obstinate ; and if the prem and
public join in on both sides to fan the flame, an inter-
national jealousy maybe got up, untowa'd and danger-
ous in its results. There are, however, in reality hew
points of antagonism and diversity of interest between
France and the United States; and war would be such
an aimless sad absurd policy for both countries, that
any such melt may be considered as impossible as it
would be 'agreeable. Here at least is a fair opportu-
nity for methadon, although those who quarrel about
points of honour are more difficult to appease and re-
concile, than parties whore antagonism involves a
question of serious interest.