The Sun.
London, England, 1830-05-10 00:00:00

upon evil days. He is a Priest worthy of the
palmy times of Popery; but, alas! the Reforma-
tion has established the great right of men to
look after the salvation of their own souls, restrict-
ing the members of Dr. Biomfield's order to the
simple supply of the requisite facilities for private
and public devotion, but not leaving them one atom
of authority to coerce us into beatitude, whether we
will or no, nor to pursue us into our dwellings, and
accompany us in our outgoings, prescribing, accord-
ing to their narrow conceptions, limits to our recrea-
tions, and measures to our festivities.—The glaring
partiality of the laws on the subject of the ob.
servance of the Sunday, has rendered them nearly a
dead letter. A little while ago, an attempt was
made to interfere with the Greenwich coaches that
enter the City on a Sunday : but the good sense
of the Lord Mayor led him to discourage it.—
This pragmatical Prelate is not perhaps aware,
that five hundred human beings, young and old, de-
pend on one single coach-owner in Greenwich, and
that without the fares of Sunday, which enable a
coach-owner to make up for the deficiencies of the
week, the most of the individiduals dependent on
coaches would be thrown on the parish. A law, to
be just, ought to prevent all travelling in coaches on
Sunday, except in cases of " necessity and mercy."
But with a proud Prelate, Cabinet dinners are no
sin : it it is only sin when the pale-faced mechanic
escapes on a Sunday from the polluted .atmosphere
of the manufactory to breath the balmy air of the
fields, and exchange the din of the anvil for the
carol of birds.—We have been told again and again,
that the Church of England never appeared to so
much advantage as in the days of Queen Elizabeth.
The Bishops of the present day are said to be pig-
mies, compared with the Prelates of the age when
the Thirty-nine Articles were framed. Now the
predecessor of the Bishop of London in the reign of
Queen Elizabeth, Bishop Aylmer, one of the Fathe s
of the Reformation, used, according to Strype, to
play at bowls on Sunday. When the Puritans ob-
jected to this, he said, " That he never withdrew
himself from service or sermon on the Lord's days ;

that Christ, the best expositor of the SAbath, said,
that the Sabbath was made for man, and not man
far the Sabbath ; that man might have his meat
dressed for his health upon the Sabbath ; and why
might he not have some convenient exercise• of his
body for the health thereof on that day?" Could is
Protestant Bishop of any age possibly be in the
wrong ?—Morning Chronicle.
The following communication appeared in the
Scotsman of Wednesday last :
" MANCHESTER, MAY 3.—The precarious state of his
Majesty!s health has put an end to our home spring trade,
and preparations for summer are also suspended. This
is a eery serious matter for mercantile men, and the con-
sequences must be severely felt. There is not less than
from one and a half to two millions of money in goods
calculated for the spring and summer markets, the greater
part of which cannot, and will not find a purchaser, and
bankruptcies will and must follow, unless an end be put
to the old and mischievous practice (to a mercantile coun-
try) of national mourning. For the foreign market a
great deal of goods is shipping, and the demand for cot-
ton twist of low numbers is increasing weekly. We have
had within these ten days an inundation of the most
wretched looking Irish weavers I ever saw, in search of
work, and as our overseers of the poor will not assist
people who come here in search of employment, the poor
creatures are in great distress-"

There are calamities which foresight cannot guard
against, such as unfavourable seasons, leading to
failure in crops, epidemics, &c., and men resign
themselves to them without murmuring. It is other-
wise with calamities which orginate in human cru-
elty, human indifference, or human caprice. The
most patient are unable to subdue their indignant
feelings when they think of the heartless indiffer-
ence with which the sufferings of a large portion of
the people, in consequence of the absurd custom of
national or Court mountings, are viewed by the
higher classes: Can it possibly gratify a Monarch

to know that his death will be attended with ruin to
numbers; that hundreds of thousands, unable to
earn by their daily toil their daily bread, will never
hear the word King pronounced without.associating
'with it the' cries •of famished children; and that
while he is suffering under any of the,diseases to
which flesh is heir, the sympathy of his subjects is
disturbed by speculations on the probability of life
or death, and anxious calculations whether mournings
or fancy goods would be the most advisable
purchase under existing circumstances ? Of the
present King we may, without flattery, say, that
he is by much the best we have had of the Bruns-
wick family; •and were it only through grad-
tilde for the benefits we have enjoyed under
his mild reign, the distress under which he now
labours would call for the warm sympathy of the
people. But how much more gratifying would it
be to know that the anxiety manifested respect-
ing the condition of his Majesty was the spontaneous
effusion of real sympathy, and not the effect of a
keen solicitude for self—of a wish to gain as much,
or to suffer as little, from the death of the Monarch
as possible ? We cannot for a moment conceive
that any Monarch, or the family of any Monarch,
can receive gratification from the inhuman considera-
tion, that the departure of Royalty is felt through
the laud like the pestilence. To the Members of a
Royal Family it must be above all things desirable,
that the joy on the recovery of a Sovereign, and the
grief on his demise, should be unmixed by other
considerations. Those who have the best oppor-
tunities of knowing the real condition of the King,
now express a more sanguine hope than ever of his
recovery. If it should please Providence to spare
his Majesty to us for some tune, we are almost cer-
tain that he will express a wish to put an end to a
system which is so much felt by his industrious
people; but if it should be otherwise decreed, it
ought to be the endeavour of those in power to
adopt such measures as would be gratifying to him
were he conscious of them. Complaints on this
subject are unfortunately not new, but of ancient
date. The race of Courtiers and Ministers is, we
fear, far above sympathy with the sufferings of the
people. These sufferings have occasionally been
described in language which one sho►ld think would
have moved all but breasts callous to every kind

feeling. On looking over the Newspaper published
by Daniel Defoe, 1706, vol. 3. p. 43, we find an
article on the subject of public mournings, written
with his usual good sense, which, after the lap‘se of
a century and a quarter, is as applicable as ever.--,_
" The excess of that unhappy hunsour, for I can call it
by no other (he says), was grown up to such a degree,
that it was in a fair way to blow us all up in trade, and
for some years together we had such frequent and long
continued public mournings, that black seemed the uni-
versal mode, and all the trades which depended upon fancy,
fashion, and gaiety of habit, beg- n to be threatened with a
kind of banishment, as being voted useless in the nation.
I cannot but therefore acquiesce with the

ease of the tradesmen, and own the grievance to trade is
intok.rab!e, and merits the consideration of the Govern-
ment; and though some of the following nasons are included
in the Petitioners' ease delivered to the House of Common.,
yet I cannot think it improper to repeat them, to preserve
the real heads of the grievance, as the true grounds of its
being redressed.

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• • •
" 1. These mournings have of late been more frequent
and of longer continuance than ever was known or prac-
tised ; and the humour daily increasing, and the prospect
of its continuance too great, the grievance, wli;ch when
seldom happening was but small, is become disastrous to
families, destructive to trade, ruinous and intolerable to
the poor.
" 2. These mournings are particularly destructive to
some trades more than others, and no equivalent ad-
vantage to any ; whereby they become the more a griev-
ance. A general blow to trade is felt by all the parts,
;..nd every one hears their share with the more ease; but
fristre,T;es some particular manufactures, and
is this
not the same time advantageous to others, being
ts entirety ti
a rtely
in itself a lessening of the general expence, which is the life
pf trade.
ca 3. The woollen manufactures worn in these mourn,
ings are so „n.,;11, rompared to the detriment it is to other
branches of trade, that it is not worth naming ; on the
other hand, the lessening the consumption of silk, silver,
thread, hair, and other foreign goods for which our woollen
manufactures are exported, makes it plain that these
mournings are in their consequences fatal to the woollen
inarn;factures in general.
" t. The respective trades depending upon the coma=