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and so on, adding 2 Postages for every oz. up
to 16 oas., beyond which no packets subject to
postage shall be received.
2. All single postage rates between places within
the United Kingdom, which now exceed 4d.,
shall be reduced to that sum. Inferior rates .to
remain undisturbed, but the letters to be charged
by weight. Additional charges to which Gene-
- ral Post letters are now liable, if posted, or de-
livered beyond the limits of the General Post
free delivery, as also the additional halfpenny
on Scotch Letters, and the additional penny for
passing the Menai and Conway Bridges to cease.
3. All Letters and Packets exceeding the weight
of one ounce to be pre-paid, and delivered in at
the windows ; if not so pre-paid and delivered,
to be charged with Postage.
Foreign Letters and Packet Letters will be
charged according to the preceding scale of weight.
Letters to and from the British West Indies, to
be charged one shilling per single rate, the same
charge to attach to letters from and to Gibraltar
Malta, and the lonian Isles, conveyed by packets
and not transmitted through France. My Lords
reserve for future consideration, the whole ques-
tion c {the rates on Foreign letters, as their Lord-
ships consider that it will be a proper subject for
communication with Foreign Powers, in the hope
that such Foreign Powers may be induced to make
a corresponding reduction in their charges on letters
to and from this country.
All ship letters between parts of the United
Kingdom, including the Channel Islands and the
Isle
or
Man,
to be charged by weight according to
the
rates. chargeable on inland letters.
Other ship letters to be charged by weight ac-
cordine to the foregoing scale, the single postage-
rate remaining
as Tpr6esent, and the inland rate,
being regulated as for inland letters.
LONDON DISTRICT
SECOND POST, INCLUDING
AND THIRD DELIVERY.
1, All letters not exceeding half an ounce, pro-
vided the postage be pre-paid to be charged one
penny.
2. Tke twopenny charge on General Post letters
delivered in the London district to cease.
3. No further alteration to he
charges levyable iii the London District made in the
Post.
My Lords have no intention by the present ar-
rangement to make any alteration with respect to
newspapers, franked letters, or Parliamentary pa-
pers, which will still continue to enjoy the same
privileges, and be subject to the same charges as
at present.
Transmit copy of this minute officially. to the
Postmaster. General, and desire his Lordship will
give the necessary instructions to his officers to
carry the directions of my Lords into effect.
Desire also that he will direct the Solicitor of
the Post Office to prepare a draft of a warrant, in
conformity with the provisions of the Postage Acts,
to be *ivied by my
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LONDON :
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1839

One of the offices usually asigned by theory to
the Priests of the Anglican Church is to mediate
between the different classes, and soften the hard
and rugged asperities of the work-day world. "To
have," it is ssid, "a well-educated gentleman sta-
tioned in each parish, not engaged in secular bui-
ness, and to whom the labouring artizars and pea-
sants can appeal as a friend and protector, who is
not bound up with the coarse material interests of
life, who looks to Heaven for his reward, and to
religion for his motives, who is alike independent
of the lordly landowner and the rabble, must be an
infinite advantage to society." That is the theory
—how works the practice ?

There is a great contest going on in society be
tureen the harsh and selfish interests of capital and
labour, between industry and idleness, between those
who produce all and get very little, and those who,
producing nothing, revel in all the luxuries which
the hand of man can bring forth. This contest
grows out of the very constitution of society, and
seems to pervade more or less every civilized com-
munity. Were the priests to fulfil their assumed
mission they should mediate bete, but we find them
all arrayed on one side ; we find them not merely
ranged against industry, but actively engaged i
prosecuting and persecuting its wanderings and
errors. The Chartists at Kirkdale and the Chart •
ists in Wales are insurrectionists, in fact, against the
dominion of the capitalists ; and the Reverend
JOHN BROOKS is the Chairman of the Justices
who sentenced the former to imprisonment, and
the Reverend J. COLES is one of the most active
Magistrates who are investigating the case of the latter
at Newport. We say nothing of the merits of the social
conflict we have mentioned, we merely state the fact
of its existence, which no man can deny, and point
out these two priests as taking an active part on
one side—in common with many others who sit on
the Bench, and are active in similar matters, a
totally upsetting the beautiful theory that the priest-
hood of the Anglican Church have for their ho-
nourable office to mediate between the harsh and
material interests of the money-getting and money-
making classes.
Some few days ago the Times, in its zeal to
run down the Catholic priesthood and exalt the
Anglican clergy, after enumerating the various
means by which the former could influence the
minds of the population, asked very significantly
" What is the power,' of the landowners com-
pared to the power of the Catholic priesthood ?"
Perhaps a trifle; but the scribe forgot that the
landlords have also for auxiliaries a body of priests
who are only less powerful than the Catholic priests,
because they have deservedly forfeited, by arrogant
and unfounded claims and many charlatan preten-
sions the affections, of the people. The scribe forgot
too that the landowners, in addition to having the
Anglican priests as allies, have the judgment seat
and the laws at their command. They and their
confederates both make and administer the laws.
The question, rightly put, ought to have been, what
is the power of the Catholic priests compared to the
power of the Anglican priests, the landlords, and
the laws united ? and if the former be found to
equal, or in some cases, even to surpass the latter,
we may be sure it is because the Catholic priests
fulfil their appointed mission—do their duty to their
flocks—while the landlords and Anglican priests
grossly neglect theirs. We think this subject worthy
of public attention, because it is impossible to avoid
the conviction that the priests of the Anglican
Church are making a deadly struggle to obtain a
complete mastery over the education and mind of
the community, and establish for their Order a do-
minion more extensive and more permanent than
ever was possessed by the Popes and the Jesuits.

It gives us great pleasure to observe a growing
disposition in that portion of the Press, which
is, if not exclusively, yet too much devoted to the

interests of the middle classes only, to do some