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London, England, 1858-03-29 00:00:00

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LONDON. MONDAY. MANCH 29.

" The English lathes, prisoner.: with the Queen
"[at Luchnose], are reported to be alive and well
" treated." These words—in the telegraphic anti-
cipation of the news brought from Bombay by the
Ottawa—will fan into a flame an all but extin-
guished spark of hope. With the feelings of the
friends and relations of the captives everybody will
sympathise. Bat, in addition to that, it is of un-
speakable consequence that intelligence should prove
true which may tend to alleviate in any degree the
exasperation which recent events have excited in
the breasts of the English people towards the
natives of India. For a long tract of time the English
and the Indiana must dwell together in the same land.
Everything that tends to convince the former race
that the latter are more or lees animated by the same
feelings of humanity, more or leas cognisant of the
tame moral principles, is, as tending to beget mutual
confidence, of the utmost consequence. Deeds have,

no doubt, been done during the mutiny which justify
a large amount of anger and distrust; bat every day
makes it more apparent that there has been great
exaggeration in many of the reports that have been
circulated. Now that the English arms are on the
eve of triumphing, every kind act performed by a
native during the revolt, every testimony of native
gratitude to former benefactors in the hour of adver-
sity, ought to be treasured up to remind us of our
common nature with those whom we are and have
been combatting.

The public news announced in the Telegram is
full of promise. Onr army before Lucknow consisted
in the beginning of March of 50,000 bayonets and
10,000 sabres, with 120 guns. Sir Cowie CAMPBELL
reached Alumbagh on the lit March, and pushed on
a strong detachment to a position in the Dilkoosha
Garden, only a mile from the city. On the 6th Sir
JAMES OrTRAM crossed the Ooomtee, with 6,000
men and 30 guns, and took up a position within range
on the eastern aide of the city. Brigadier FRANTZ
had previously joined the main force, from the south,
with4,ooo men. The 10th of March had been fixed
for the assault on the city. Before the arrival of the
COMILANDER-IN-CITIFY,SirJAMEB OUTRAM had twice
defeated the enemy—on the 21st, and again ea the
25th of February—with great slaughter on their part,
and scarcely any lees on ours. This would no doubt
have the effect of discouraging them. Our own private '
accounts—by the previous mail--of the spirit of the
troops under Sir COLIN CAMPBELL are most satiafac•
tory. The coldness between the QuEr.rea and the Com-
pany's officers had been entirely effaced by a closer
acquaintance. Among the Artillery, in particular,
the Company's officers were warm in their praise of
the high scientific acquirements of the Royals, who,
on their side, did ample justice to the practical
ability and valuable experience of the Bengal corps;
and all branches of the service were inspired by a
thorough confidence in, and devoted attachment to
him whom they call, with justice, their " glorious
" chief."

Iftxriacett the Clergy of the Metropolis com-
plied with a desire expressed by their Diocesan
by simultaneously urging the subject of Sab-
bath
Observance upon their several congrega-
tions. The immediate occasion of this concerted
effort appears to have been a Report presented
to the Bishops of Lo'Doc and WisenzeTta by a
Committee of Inquiry on Sunday Trading, copies of
which weredistr ibuted yesterday in our churches, and
were frequently appealed to by the preachers. This
Committee, composed of a dozen London clergymen,
and including the names of Archdeacon SINCLAIR,
and Canons CHAMP:4EI'S and DALE, was appointed
early in last year at a meeting held in the precincts of
St. Paul's Cathedral, to consider, after due inquiry,
" whether any combined effort shall be made, and
" if so, on what plan, to 'mist the Trading Classes in
" securing the enjoyment of their day of rest." The
general results of the Committee's inquiries are
stated to be that nearly half the shops in London
are open for traffic after ten o'clock on Sunday
morning, that Sunday trading is on the increase,
that the shops most generally open during the day
are not those in which perishable articles are sold,
that the disposition of the trading classes is gene-
rally favourable to Sunday closing, provided, how-
ever, that all shops shall be closed, and that owing to
the tyranny of minorities, the tradesmen generally
consider a legislative enactment the only effectual
remedy for the evil. These were the topics enlarged
upon yesterday in our pulpits, and we gather from
the tenor of the language held by many of the lead-
ing clergy that it is intended to act upon the sug-
gestion of the Committee, and apply to the Legisla-
ture for an Act to compel the better observance of the
Sabbath.

It cannot be necessary for anyone living amidst
the London clergy, a spectator, whether he will or
no, of their untiring efforts to benefit and promote
the welfare of their people, of the constant battle they
maintain with disease, and poverty, and squalor, as
well us with ignorance and vice, to profess the
highest respect for the motives with which they
enter upon this new campaign. At the same time
we are compelled to say that we regret that the
at'empt to diminish Sunday Trading is not made by
those who would be likely to conduct it upon strictly
social grounds. The evil, as it is to b 3 seen any
Sunday morning in the New Cut, in Somers Town,
and many other parts of the metropolis, is either an
open and risible sign of improvidence and self-
abandonment, or it is an unhappy necessity
beyond the reach of law. As the outward manifesta-
tion of much deeper mischiefs, it is to be deplored,
studied, and, if possible, remedied. This is a work
in which all may co-operate, and assuredly it is not
because we overlook or undervalue the highest uses

of the LORD'S day, that we say it is the ground to
which we should be glad to sse those who regret
the prevalence of Sunday Trading confine themselves.
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The opinions of the clergy on the right manner of
keeping the LORD'S day may ordinarily be left to
the consciences of their hearers. But when they are
put forward as the motives of national legisla-
tion, they fall, like those of other public
speakers, within the category of topics which the
journalist is called to examine. It is the misfortune
of the Low Church Clergy, with whom these move-
ments generally originate, that they upon all occa-
sions base their demands and injunctions upon a
theory of the LORD'S day which the great body of re-
flecting people in this country cannot admit. The
rigorous observance of Sunday as if it were the old
Jewish Sabbath, is " a tradition of the elders," and
a very modern tradition. The primitive Christian
Church knew nothing of it, except as a tendency to
be condemned. Those Reformers who knew most
of the value of the LORD'S day as precious time
gained for spiritual aetivity, would have none of it.
" Keep it holy," says LIITRER, " for its use sake to
" body and sonL But If anywhere the day is made
" holy for the mere day's sake—if anywhere anyone
" seta up its observance on a Jewish foundation—
" then I order you to work on it, to ride on it, to
" dance on it, to feast on it, to do anything which
" shall reprove this encroachment on the Christian
" spirit and liberty." Teach men the me of the day,
and they will not fail to keep it holy; whereas a
petty surveillance will tempt them to rebel against a
galling yoke, and take the most sacred Name in
vain.

As an instance of the spirit in which estimable
men are prepared to enforce the observance of the
day of rest, we notice that the authors of
the Report under consideration designate the
sale of " periodicals" as a proper object of legis-
lative restraint. These good men would make it
wrong to sell a number of Household Words or
Chambers' Journal to a man who has no other day
than Sunday on which to place himself in intellec-
hal rapport with his fellow.. We often hear the
resort to the baker's shop for the cooking of the Sun-
day dinner denounced, though that practice ob-
viously diminishes the number of those engaged in
culinary labour on the Sabbath. An eminent and la-
borious clergyman, denounced to his congregation yes-
terday the " pleunres of social conversation and the
" country walk," together with " the bettcr dinner on
Sundays," as indulgences improper for the day. This
designation of things innocent and even holy, by the
name of " Sabbath desecration," can only defeat its
object and provoke the non-religious part of the com-
munity to a fanatical reaction. It is as unreasonable
as it is unscriptural. Men are no stronger on Sun-
day than on Saturday, and an entire day is a longer
space of time than the human mind can employ with
alacrity upon any one subject. Its positively
cruel to say, upon merely human authority, to
the workman and shopman, confined in a noxious
atmosphere during the week, and probably living in
a home little visited by the light of heaven, that
he may not employ the leisure of the day to
recruit his wasted strength and harassed spirit',
by the short excursion into a purer air, and the in-
nocent recreations of sober society, without commit.
Ling sin. The LORD'S day cannot be a Festival as
it was to the early Christians if it is made a day of
mortified restraint.

Against this Pharisaic propensity to bind heavy
burdens on men's shoulders, we take leave to adduce
the sentiments of a Christian minister, who has
thought deeply on the duty of the Church to the poor.
In a sermon on " The Sabbath and the People," the
Rev. J. BALDWIN BROWN, after a vivid and truthful
description of the blighting influences under which
so many of our fellow men and women are compelled
to pass their lives in great cities, says :

They live from hand to month—they snatch at each d►y's
existence—they have no rest, no sew of possession in the
present, no hope for the future. They me out of reach of
true rest on the Sabbath. It is mere mockery to talk about
it. Keep them at home and the Sabbath cannot be a delight,
except when an enthusiastic spirit oan wholly emancipate it-
self from circumstances. Giud's ordinance seems to them •

delusion and a snare. Picture the miserable houses, the
foul air, the dirty, damp, mouldy walls, the reeking smoke,
the pestilential exhalations from the open sewer, the cries of
drunkenness, and the curses of blasphemy, amidat which we
expect half a million of Merl in our metropolis to pass the
Sabbath. No wonder that they ffy from it, tly to the
alehouse, end drown there their disgust and despair. They are
hardly within reach of our Christian instructions—alas, for
the seed sown in such stony mend I The circumstances

of their life expose it to fearful peril; • broad change
must pass over the moral and mental condition of thew
people before, as • class, they can be expected to receive
gladly the Gospel and bring forth its fruits. Let than
get out to something they will are for—something that
will teach them—God's clear air and sunshine, the
violet odour, balmy to them am the breath of Pars-
din, the bird song, the breeze among the boughs, the fresh
clean meadows, the sparkling wreathing river, and they are
at once within reach of better and holier thoughts. Or if no
thoughts costs to theca, for i=pressions shape thin:melees
into thoughts bat slowly in minds inept, yet • genial refresh-
ing dew has passed over their spirits—they reel that the city
lite, with its sqvaka sad Wary, is men's work not God's
—and at bat, though the thought may be beg in ripen-
ing, they may seem to think that it nay be tree
after all, as the Bible soya, that in Clod the poor man
has • defender sad Leper, and • remedy for all the ills
which sin and Wham= have entailed upon the world
I confess it seine to se • terrible responsibility to keep
them away, at any day, hem anything which would do them
even a little good. It Is but little that we can hop', and they
little will be slowly realised. With sorrow we open the way
for them—sorrow, that they will not choose a more excellent
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way. We believe in God's high purpose in the institution
of the Sabbath-day, and ding wide the gates of our sanctu-
aries. But if men peas scornfully or scowlingly, let us at
least be thankful, tearfully thankful, if they are not passing
by our doors to dens of vice and crime. Let us not tell them,
If you do not come here, the Lord does not care where you
go. Let us tell theta that He follows them everywhere with
His care—that He has spread abroad the expanse of nature
for them—that lie has given art, science, commerce, and his-
tory to man , It may chance that many, hearing this, may
denies to know more of Him, end learn from Himself what H.
means by a Sabbath day.

Let the clergy be assured that no other spirit than
that which breathes in these words can prevail with
the thousands for whom the shop is opened on the
Sunday. It might be possible to obtain a prohibitory
Act which, unpopular in its origin and incidents
would be feebly enforced. But such a law would
be a constant source of irritation, and instead of
strengthening, would weaken the hands of the
ministers of religion. Let them rather adopt the
wise sentiment of the preacher we have just quoted :
" Attraction is our one great power. What we can
" attract and win we keep. What we constrain
" we cannot attach, and our chains are but ropes of
1" sand."

We (horning Post) hasten to contradict a state-
ment that has found its way into the columns of a weekly
oontensporary, that the Comte de Persisny hes been appointed
Minister of State by the Emperor Napoleon. There is no
foundation whatever for this statement.

A decision is the Vice-Cluu3cellor's Court has put
a atop to the plea of the Crystal Palace Compels, for admit-
nog shareholders on Sunday afternoons. The law of the
ease under the slitting charter of the company seems *an
and therefore no diesatiedictios can be felt at the jedinsest
It appears singular that the enemy should hold to this
charter, with all the disabilities it Involves, lasted 01
earal-
Dog themselves ander the Limited Liability Aot.—Theses.

On Saturday that Spanish government presented
to Congress a DOI on the preen, which decrease' the amount
of the caution money and improves the condition of the re-
sponsible editon.

gbe court.

Her hrefeety the Queen and the Prince Consort,
accompanied by the Princess Alice, honoured Biwa Mare-
chetti with a visit at his studio on Saturday rimming. In
attendance were Lad Colville and Captain the Hon. D.
de Roe.

The Duke of Cambridge visited her Majesty.
The Queen and the Prince Conaort left Buckingham
Palace for Windsor Castle at twenty minutes before four
o'clock on Saturday afternoon. Her Majesty and his Royal
Highnees were accompanied by the Prince of Wales, Prince
Arthur, Prince Leopold, and the Princesses Alice, Helena,
Louiaa, and Beatrice, and were attended by the Countess of
Caledon, Lady Caroline Barrington, Hon. Lucy Kerr, Hon.
Mary Bulks', Lord Raglan, Colonel the Hon. Charles B.
Phippe, Major-General Berkeley Drummond, Lord Colville,
Captain the Hon D. de Roe, the Mute. of the Household,
and Mr. Gibbe.

The Queen and the Prtato were conducted to their carriage
by the Marquis of Exeter, Earl De la Warr Lord Begot,
Viscount Newport, and Major-General Wylie.
The royal party occupied seven of her Majesty's carriages,
and was escorted by • party of Light Dragoons to the
terminus of the Great Western Railway, at Paddington,
where a special train was in readies's, which conveyed her
Majesty to Windsor.
WINDSOR, MARCH 27.

The Queen and the Prime Consort, with the Prince of
Wales, Prince Arthur' Prince Leopold, the Prince rues Aloe,
MACE, Louise, and Beatrice, attended by the ladles and
gentlemen in waiting, arrived at the Cootie at 26 minutes
before 6 o'clock.

The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard,
dined with her Majesty. The Dean of Windsor and the
Hon. blns. Wellesley had the honour of being invited.

The band of the Royal Hone Guards wsa in attendance,
and played during dinner. _ _

IdAßeit 28.

The Queen and Prhste Contort, the Prince of Wale.,
I'dNOM Allos, Prisons Helena, and the Duchess of Kent,
the Indies and Gentleman of the Court, and the Domestic
Household, attended Divine Service this morning in the pri-
vate chapel. The service was performed by the Hen. mad
Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor.

A Cabinet Council met on Saturday at the
official residence of the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, in Downing-street. The Ministers present
were :—The Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor,
Marquis of Balls' I=7, Earl of Hardwicke, Right
Hon. B. Disraeli, Mr. Secretary Walpole, Earl of
Malmeebury, Lord Stanley, General Peel, Sir John
Pakington, Earl of Ellenborough, Right Hon. J.
W. Henley, and Lord John Manners.

A deputation from the "General Association for the Aus-
tralian Colonies " had an interview with Lord Stanley,
Secretary of State for the Colonies, on Saturday, on the sub-
ject of the steam postal service to Australia. The deputation,
which was accompanied by Lord Alfred Churchill and Mr.
G. Macartney, M.P., cona,ated of Sir Charles Nicholson and
Mr. Edward Hamilton, representing New South Wales ;
Mesas. W. Archer, F. A. Du Cron, and James A. Yoni,
hon. secretary, Tasmania ; Messrs. G. W. Cole and G.
Leslie Foster, Victoria; Mesas. A. L. Elder and E.
Stephens, South Australia.
A deputation from Newcaatle-ces-Tyne upon the subject of
eertAin contemplated improvements in that town, had an in-
terview with Mr. G. A. Hamilton, M.P., at the Treasury, on
Friday. The deputation was introduced by the members for the
town, Mew: re. Headlani and Ridley, aniorapanied by the Hon.
G. H. Liddell, M.P. end conalatedof Mr. John Clayton, the
town clerk, Mr. Alderman Layoock, Mr. Thomas- Villem,
Mr. Thomas Medley, Mr. George Hanford, Mr. Robert Lay-
cock, Mr. G. Charlton, Mr. William Newton, and Mr.
Rutherford.
Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of Ceylon, Hong Yong, and
Gibraltar.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Primer Mary, attended by Baron Knees-
beck, will leave their residence in the Ambassador's Court,
St. Jamas'. Palace, to-day, for Cambridge Cottage, Bey.

His Royal Highness Prince George of Saxony,
attended by biz Excellency the Saxon Minister, Is expected
to arrive In town from Paris.

His Excellency the Ambassador of France and
the Countess de Psesigny adertained a select circle at
dinner, lest evening, at Albert-gate Hones.

The Marquis of Salisbury, after the Cabinet
Council oa Saturdays left town for Hatfield. The our
will leave to-day, to pass the holidays with the
Earl and Countess Delaware., at Buckling* Park.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter have
left town, for Burghley, for the Beater holidays.

The MarquisCais.cciolo has left the Brunswick
Hotel, St. James's, for Paris.

The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and family
will kayo town to-morrow for The Grove, Watford, for the
Easter holidays.

The Earl and Countess of Sandwich have left
town for Hinchinbroke Howe, Huntingdonshire.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston will leave
Cambridge House to-day for Brow:%tads, where they Intend
to yeas the Easter nom.

The Count and Countess Schott'sloff, after a stay
of nearly six months at Claridge's Hotel, have finally left
that establishment for Paris. The count is on his way to
Russia.

Lord Glenelg is confined to hie apartments in the
Albany, with slight indisposition.

The infant daughter of the Dote and Dachau of
Argyll was baptised on Saturday last by the Rev. Dr.
Cumming, of the Scotch National Church, Crown-000rt,
Covent-garden.

The Baron and Baroness Lionel de Rothschild
entertained a select circle at dinner, on Saturday evening,
at their mansion in Piccadilly.

Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood leave the
Admiralty to-day for Hickleton Hall, Yorkahire. The junior
recanhore of the family took their departure on Saturday foe
the north.

Sir Benjamin Hall hag left town for Llanover,
South Wales.

The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., has just
recovered from an attack of pledhey, which has prevented
him front attending in his place in the Rouse et Commons
daring dal past fortnight.
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A marriage has been arranged between Viscount
Castleman M.P., eon of the Earl of Kenmore, and KM
Thyme:, only daughter of Lord and Lady Charles Thyme.

Viscountess Palmerston had her last " reception "
before Easter, on Saturday night, at Cambridge House, Pic-
cadilly, which was most numerously attended by the majority
of the foreign diplomatic corps, the leading members of ths
aristocracy, and • large number of members of the lower
house of parliament. The noble viscount and viscountess, pre.
viously to the reception, entertained a distinguished party
at dinner, the circle including his Excellency the Ramie.
Minister, his Excelkncy the Prussian Minister and the Conn-
teas Bernstorff, the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury and
Lady Victoria Ashley, the Earl of Sefton, the Comatose of
Teakervills, the Earl and Countess of Shelburne, the Coun-
ter (Primo* Waldegrave and Mr. G. Harcourt, hf.P.,Vis.
count Sandoz, Lord and Lady Stanley of Ahlerley, the Right
Hon. Win. F. Cowper, M.P., Mr. W. Beaumont, M.P.,
Lady Margaret 13.4umont, and Yr. Graham Vivian.

The Giantess of Jersey had an evening party on
Saturday, st the family residence in Berkelersquare, which
was attended by a brilliant circle of the members of the bean
monde. Previously to hoe ladyabip's reception, the noble
earl and countess received at dinner his Excellency Count
Hialmansegge, the Earl of Westmoreland, the Earl of Mud-
wicks and the Ladies Yorke, the Counts., of Fife, Viscount
and Viscountess Hardinge, Viscount Canterbury, Viscount
Newport, Count Chetah, Viscount and Viscountess Somer-
ton, Hon. Gilbert Hesthcote, M.P., &o.

The Earl and Countess of Malmeebary entertained
at dinner on Saturday, at their mansion in Whitehall-gar-
dens, his Excellency the Portuguese Minister and the
Countess Lavradio, his Excellency the American Minister
and Mrs. Dallas and Miss Dallas, Viscount Chelsea, Viscount
and 'Viscountess Ingestre, Lord and Lady Manners and
Miss Dmhwood, Lady Colville, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton,
M P., Colonel Browelow Knox, M.P., Captain Napier Start,
M.P., Mr. Bidwell, kr.

The Earl and Countess of Camperdown enter-
tained at dinner, o Saturday evening, the Archbishop at
York and the Hon. Hrs. Ifsegrovr, the Marquis of Lear
down., the Earl and Countess of Airlie, the Neel sad
Culottes' of rife, Lord and Lady John Rums% Lady H.
Vhcount and Viscountess Duncan, and Sir H. Yea-
gee= Davie.

The Primates Royal of Saxony ha/ left for Dee•
seam to pay a farewell visit to the Princess Stephan& of
Hohenzollern, the future Queen of Portugal. This journey
is sold to be connected with a project of a marriage between
Prince George of Saxony and a princess of the royal family
of Portugal.