The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-08 00:00:00

THE SIIN,

about their beginning at eight o'clock in the morn-
ing was an exaggeration ; he did not believe that
the men worked on the average more than twelve
hours. The proprietors had been very anxious to
assist the provident society, and had subscribed about
1001. towards it ; but they were much dissatisfied with
the way in which it was conducted. As regarded the
Sabbath, there was no doubt some arrangement might
be made; but he doubted whether it was possible to
get the men to rest on the Sunday. The wages
were paid out of the driving money, and varied from
2s. 3d. to 2s. 6d. per day.
Mr. GRAY, another proprietor, denied that the men
were ill-paid or ill-used, though they might be hard
worked. No class of men had less to do with their
masters than the omnibus drivers. Their wages
were high in comparison with those of the servants
of other tradesmen ; and they could afford to
take a
.day's rest at the cost of a day's wages.
H. himself had never had an entire day's rest since he
was fifteen years of age; but he knew how essential
it was, and let the men take it.—(A voice, " They
must pay for it.") Yes, they could afford it well
enough ; he knew that on one road they had been
making three guineas a week in the summer.
The Rev. G. FISK, in seconding the resolution,
said he had met with several cases in his pastoral
charge of omnibus servants who suffdred extremely
from their necessarily irregular hours and habits,
which destroyed digestion and impaired the whole
system. He deprecated any angry feelings, and
trusted they would have the co-operation of the
proprietors generally.
The Rev. Dr. BURNS thought it would have been
better if the clergy of the district had first had an in-
terview with the omnibus proprietors. He believed
no one could deny that the drivers and stablemen
worked on the average fifteen hours a day. He knew
that some of them had not more than six or seven
minutes for dinner, and not above half an hour in the
whole day. But the most serious part of the case
was that their duties were quite as heavy on the Sun-
day as on any other day, and with the stablemen
more so.—(Hear.) Altogether there were 11,000 of
these persons.

Mr. EDMUNDS—No, no. Four thousand is the
outside. That is one of the misrepresentations we
complain of.
Dr. BURNS contended that the principle was the
same, whatever the numbers might be. The men
ought at least to be treated as well as the horses they
drove.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. J. SCULLY, the secretaay of the association,
said he could positively state that since the last
meeting at Islington, at least twenty of Mrs. Wilson's
omnibuses, the " Favorites," rested on the Sunday,
thus setting at liberty more than sixty men.
Mr. EDMUNDS persisted that there had been no re-
cent alteration. Wilson's omnibuses had never run
the whole of the Sunday ; and some of the Paddington
omnibuses did the same.

Mr. SCULLY said that did not alter the fact as to
the others. Notwithstanding Mr. Edmunds' state-
ment about the number of men being only 4,000, he
knew that there were between 9,000 and 10,000
licensed men on the books at Scotland-yard.—(Hear.)
The resolutio❑ was then put and agreed to.
Sir HARRY GORING, Bart., expressed a hope that
not only all the omnibuses, but gentlemen's carriages,
would be stopped from running on the Sunday.
The Rev. Mr. Molineux and other speakers fol-
lowed, and the proceedings closed with a vote of
thanks to the Reverend Chairman.

REPUBLICANISM IN EUROPE.
(From the New York Herald.)
The movement of Louis Napoleon is merely a
continuation of the spirit of reaction on a larger scale
—a reaction produced in France and generated in
Europe by the ignorance, folly, violence, and want of
skill in the originators and promoters of the various
revolutions of 1848. Throughout the Continent So-
cialism, irreligion, violence, and folly, which marked
the revolutions of 1848 and 1849, have ruined the
cause of well-regulated liberty all over Europe, for
at least some years to come. Louis Napoleon has, no
doubt, violated the constitution and the laws of
France in his coup d'etat; but all revolutions are vio-
lations of existing laws and constitutions, and he may
assume the same ground of necessity and expediency
for the course he has pursued, as Ledru Rollin and
Lamartine did when they assumed, without authority
or warrant, the supreme government of France, which
they held but a few short months, in consequence of
their want of talent and fitness for their purposes.
Republicanism in France and Europe, for some
years to come, has been ruined by the ignorance and
inefficiency of such men as Lamartine and Ledru
Rollin, who did not know how to conduct the great
movement when they had it entirely under their con-
troul, and in their own hands. Yet we do not alto-
gether despair of France or Europe for all time to
come. They must run another cycle of ten or fifteen
years under imperial rule, or what will be the next
thing to it, before another generation can be taught
talent, religion, intelligence, and morality, capable of
carrying true Republican government into operation.
With all the intelligence and philosophy possessed by
France, the people of that country seem to be, from
their previous habits and religious notions of a
thousand years, unfit for Republican government
conducted on the plan of checks and balances, as we
understand it in the United States, or as it is under-
stood even in England and other Protestant countries.
None of the southern countries of Europe—Spain,
France, Italy, Austria, nor even Hungary, can be
capable, for a long time to come, of establishing Re-
publican self-government on the principle of checks
and balances—freedom of the press and of thought—
as we enjoy it in this country, or even as it exists in
England. If a republic were established in England
and in the countries of the north of Europe to-
morrow—in Holland, Prussia, Denmark, and Sweden
—the people of these countries, from the habits of
thought and self-reflection which the Protestant re-
ligion gives them, would be at once capable of self-
government, as they have shown themselves to be
capable of self-intelligence and self-dependence in the
concerns of religion.

A HAT STEALER.
A man, named Belloie, was on Saturday, taken before
the Tribunal of Correctional Police for stealing a bat.
" Really," he whined, the moment he was placed at
the bar, " it is enough to make me shed every tear
I have, to ®ea myself between two gendarmes
for having made a mistake about a hat!" " A
mistake !" said the President, " that remains to
be seen." "It was an error, impartial President, a
simple error, and I submit it to your equitable justice and
your lofty wisdom." A stout gentleman deposed that,
when he was playing at dominoes at a café on the 29th
Nov., the prisoner walked off with his hat; and he said
that he could not have mistaken it for his own as he car-
ried it in his hand. " That was because I was too hot!"
" Too hot on the 29th Nov.! No—but the real reason was
that it was too big for you."—" I was tormented with
domestic anxiety," said the prisoner, " and took the hat
without knowing what I did."—" Bat it seems that you
are a regular hat stealer, as not fswer than forty-seven
bats were found at your lodgings!"—"That proves,
President, that I had no need to take the hat of this
gentleman. And the fact is that those hats were not
stolen, but were purchased by me. I have a passion for
hats, as other people have for horses, or other things.
But a friend of mine, who formerly lent me money, is
now ready to lend me his oath, to prove to you that he
has confidence in me, and that will satisfy you that I
couldn't have stolen the hat." The witness swore
character of the accused, but the
condemned him to thirteen months'
imprisonment.—Galignani.
stroilbeumnnall, y
nevertheless, to
the
good

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BILLETTING OF SOLDIERS.—LIABILITY OP BEER-
SHOP KEKPYIRS.—On Tuesday, Mr. Arnold, the magistrate of
the Westminster Police-court, decided that beer-shop
keepers
were liable to have soldiers quartered _upon them, as also
were all persons licensed to retail cyder and perry.
1 REPRESENTATION OF EXETER.—The Conservative
party intend bringing forward Sir Fitzroy Kelly. The an-
nouncement has brought out the friends of Mr. Divett, who
have issued an address to the electors. The electors are
promising
their support to any other
party.
againstnnsptuckworth, Bart., has also issued an ad-
dress in which he states his intention of again coming for-
cautionedir
ward as a cautlitlate Al the rePreletztAti94 when the time
c7paeo.