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

POST-OFFICE SUNDAY LABOUR.

MEETING IN SOUTHWARK.

A meeting was held yesterday at the Town-hall,
Southwark, to take into consideration the present intention
of the Poet-office authorities to introduce Sunday labour in
the Pest-office, and to elicit the public opinion of the beneath
of &athwart thereon. The chair was taken by W.
PRITCHARD, BK., High Bailiff, at one aciaely. Very
many of the most respectable tradesmen of the borough were
provntois also a large number of the local clergy. The body
of the hall was tolerably full.
The HIGH BAILIFF email the badmen OM* day by
some appropriate observations's the pereasoest washy of
preserving se much as pomade the eseethy of the Sabbath.
Mr. J. PRITCHARD mewed she Ant resolution, to the
effect that the meeting had einerved with great regret and
alarm the peepeesd new regelations In the General Poet
ether, milli weld comes a Lige amount of Sunday labour
to be -_.g ia that estabildmest, while It would not di-
mktithnent et limas, We
la the matey. The
smile fia atmeggies Me smelaireg. anima liardt to
be mmesed to my him, el lettere la Innis es
Sundays. (Hear hear.) Mike was he gadded te led
that there were 40 poet-dim employed thresahest the
massy oa Met day. (Heran,ear.) It lambed- the 911111-
day labour of WM poems, sad ia.his ephden tbet
mormeassmeest of Whelk deeseratiss mlghthe avaidel
(Hear, bear.) The hisses might be deviant es Seseeday
everting, sae delivered the lift thing en Maim
(Hear, bear.) He NOMA Met this quedea hal hem
tated, as he thought thst the Alois resell wield be le pm
a cheek ea liaday Ishtar thmeghest the reentry. (Hear.)
Suppose a letter to arrive freer Castertimi cs Suaday mem-
tag, it might Ile in tie General Pes4alles on Sunday, and
be ispeteltal cm Beads; night, when it would arrive
in Narita* early ea Monday morals'. That arrange.
meat weal, is hie elides, esswer 'all purposes, and would
divpsee sf ono el the sees died by Ns authorities as proof of
she sessesim of sum drags. They were told by the audio-
' Ales that JO swim wive all that wield be arossary to carry
i eat that new ensommert The peat evil et the preset
Seim* lab= la Ore estratry pesbellie was that it set men
of beim renywhem to writhe Mar Mhos ea Sunday—a
' peas*, whisk OW sot be tee awash depesesid._ He hoped
and thought Mat the phut stmt be abilsemsd as le the
' intestine of the timed Peit-efies, as he mall sat Mink
they intended to have a Imam delivery of Meet in Lemke.
Mr. POTTER encoded the resolution, white wee aseried

ae-e-sda;ott-sii.
Mr. COMDBROY wed the eseoad ramktlea, ebb*
adopted • ssemeriel to be pointed to th. Leeds et**
Tramp, preying that th. Post-erase authorities night be
prevented coryiag the proposed plaa of Sabbath labour tato
eiseatioa.

BIHPSON sseeadal the resslalkm, sad hoped that
the remit Cl the present movement would be to abolish
laady Pala-allaa ham all owe the matey. He re-
gally nob list Mr. H. Hill, who had done so
alma geed tir the pall* should ham had w to do
with the premed mom impepalar prepeeitioa. •
Oa the Chairwea slaniodag to pet the resolution, the
well-limess Omit Atesady attempted to obtain a hearing,
and moats& esneklesahle madwisa. The sawassial, which
was is maim* with the meolatiee, wet this seed, and
A
adopted rnead.
A mie of thanks to t yhe shams* haying been carried
wianlopeady, the High Bailiff :starred thanks, and the
swain separated.