The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1838.

ciples. The bankers object to opening the Post-offi( e
on Sunday because they know th&r virtue would not
resist the temptation a single day.
We had intended to add a few observations. on
the desecration of the Sabbath, as it is called, Is Inch
takes place on all the roads, and in all the
provincial towns of the empire, while it is kept
so sacred by the gentlemen who, from the vi-
cinity of the Bank, overflow on Hampstead, Black-
heath, and all the neighbourhood of the metro-
polis, on Sunday ; but we find the matter so wel:
done to our hand by a Correspondent of the 7inies,
that we shall insert a portion of his communication :
Wherein, allow me to ask, consists the desecration in a
mother's obtaininff a letter concerning the illness of a beloved
child? It cannot seriously be said to be in the fact of the
Post-office man giving the letter, instead of sl• eping over
the office fire, or reading the Sunday newspapers ! But, sae
the obj, ctors, " every one would scud fur their letters." It
such be the case, is it not proved that nobody would feel the
irreligion of doing so ? And "merchants' clerks, &e., would
have no rest on Sundays." This is the assumption of a Cock-
ney, who knows nothing of the rest of the kingdom. Do mer-
chants' clerks, &c., have no Sunday rest at Liverpool, Bristol,
Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, where the public receive their
letters every Sunday ? What, Sir, are the real facts of this
question ? Fifteen n Wiens of people in England, not to men
tion Scotland (strict, religious Scotland) and Ireland, receive
their letters on Sundays, whilst the 1.500,000 in London are
debarred from having them—that is, such a portion of the
1,500,000 as is within the twopenny post of London, because
there is an early delivery at half past eight o'clock on the
Sunday mornings, which horrifies all the metropolitan inhabi-
tants within the threepenny post district. Is the Sabbath
desecrated at Brixton, Kensington, and Tottenham, because
the postman goes his round whilst most people are enjoying a
Sunday morning's slumber?
Are the Scotch less religious than the Cockneys, who allow
the mails, mail-horses, coachmen, guards, and Post-offiee
servants to be employed on Sundays, and object to taking the
benefit of this employment? And yet it is the universal prac-
tice in Scotland to give the letters to all who call for them.
" The inhabitants of Edinburgh," says Sir Edward Le. s,
Secretary of the Edinburgh Post office ( Ev. 9,923), " are
quite an example fur their decorous observance of the SA-
b ith, either ler this country or Ireland." Letters are given
out at Edinburgh in the morning before breakfast, for a ct r-
tain time alter the arrival of the English mall, before divine
service, immediately after divine strviee, and again on
die termination of the second service.—(Ev. 9 926.)
It is reeorded that some 35 or 40 years ago there was a preju-
dice in Ireland against the delivery of letters by the letter-
carriers, or otherwise, on a Sunday. The Government of
Ireland li-ten'd to the ebjectioos, and it rem: d a subject of
oiscu,sion in the Irish Parliament, and the probability was
hat it would have h.. en carried, but for the inflto-nee and
Weis of the then Bishop of Cloy ne, who was lately
bishop of Dublin. He interfered on lo half of the delivery f
le to son Sueda,s.—(Ev, 9.925.) There can be little doubt,
too, that the At'clibishop of Canternury, who, as well as all
the great officers of state, receives his letters on a Sunday at
pre cot, wI! take up the came for L•- don as the la .e cb-
oishop of Dublin dot for Dublin. Si E,iv:ard Lees goes 611
!o say, " that letters are now. d liver-d in Duldln by the let-
, ter carriets on Sunday, who wear a unif,,rm, and that he never
he• rd any objecti in to th2m."—(9.939.
Mr. Godley, Secretary at Dublin, never heard arty objec-
tion made to letters being seta out on a Sunday in cone-
ouence of religious feeling. Carriers are not sent out in
' Edinburgh, but the most respectable people call for their let-
ters. It is the general habit throughout Scotland to send for
letters. 11, never saw the Sunray observed so strictly as in
Scotland. Never saw shops open in Scotland. No stage-
coeches or steam-packets go on Sundays.—(Ev. 8,749, &c.)
The merchants, bankers, and traders of Scotland
we believe, in general read their letters between the
morning and evening services, both of which most of
them decorously attend ; and while the religious Pres-
terians do that, to find the Cockneys, who trouble
themselves comparatively little about church-going,
and a great deal about riding or walking out, and visit-
ing their friends on Sundays, talking and writing
about the Sabbath being desecrated by the delivery of
letters, and by commercial letters being sent by the
mail coaches on Sunday, which now carry passengers
and official letters, is about as great a burlesque of
religion as we have for a long time encountered. If
these well-fed, large-bellied men were only to memo-
rialize the Treasury, and write in the public Journals,
against the sinful indulgences of the poor in eating
and drinking, and were to predict the ruin of the
country from the labourers—those of Wiltshire, for
example—being overfed, the hypocritical farce would
be complete.

The Paris Journals of Thursday anticipate the
struggles of parties at the opening of the Chambers
by calculations of their relative strength and popu-
larity. If we may believe one of them, of moderate
politics and high character, the Ministry is busy in
making use of the patronage at its disposal to
weaken the Opposition. The Commerce has
a letter from a respectable correspondent at
Vienna, which states that M. DE GER VE,

the First Secretary of the Russian Embassy in that
city, has publicly averred, in the highest political
circles, that the Emperor of RUSSIA intends to
bestow the hand of his second daughter, the Grand
Duchess OLGA, upon Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON
BONA PA RTE, and to appoint him Viceroy of Poland,
vesting the right of inheriting the Polish crown, inde-
pendent of Russia, in the Prince's descendants, male and
female. The Commerce discredits this statement, and
so do we ; though we think the CZAR could not take
a better step, the present state of Europe properly
considered. The Russian Empire, if not dismembered
by the CZAR for the benefit of his own family, will
soon fall to pieces from its own weight, and the ab-
sence of all cohesion in its most vital elements.

Madrid Journals of the 29th ult. have been re-
ceived this morning. The Cabinet continued incom-
plete, there being no person found to take charge of
the Finance Department. An empty Treasury, be-
sieged by an army clamorous for supplies, is rarely an
object to sate the cravings of patriotic ambition in any
country, and still less in one plunged in revolutionary
anarchy. General ALAIX was hourly expected in
the capital. There was no further news from the
theatre of war.

CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS

IN TIIE MATTr R OF TAYL R, A SI PPOSF.II LUNATIC

This lecrtierraole ty‘flo-e the C:rurt this morniwy, r;;:ti ,"eti-
tint), for the uurposo of prevontit.t. by tul ord:x I,rml the Lord
Chancellor. Ta:,lor from recciNing the div;fl,ll:,
certain Government S•curities, whiel, Ise posscss,:d. Our
readers will recollect that the Lord Chancellor yesterday di-
rected a Commssion to issue, to enquire into the sound or
unsoundness of the mind of Mr. Taylor, and upon the di-
rection of that Commission the present petition was t.unded.
The Loon CHA NCELLOR declined interfering until the re-
s It of the Counnission slim &d 11- known.

DA y.) l the rose."—( Laughter ) It was Unrortunate that Mr: Rote
1,,d !we'd eis • r.:•)', ~,,.ht he
c.. ; • e,-1 Jury a ut;tl,ss,
think that e,.artii! d.kne-e,s icl l,t.i •uflice.
Toe Lour. CHIEF JUSTICE le charging the Jut y said it would
be their province to say, what amount of r3atmges would be a
fair and reasonable compensation for an Sr, est, which, however
shot in duration, waa altogether to justifiable.
The Jury found fur the plaii,tiff—Damages 201.
DOUGLAS V. CHALK AND FITTMAN.
On this cause.being called, it being a special jury case, only
the o musk-yet...it to their names
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE sail that an attend,nce of ,:nly
three on a speoiAl jury case was b.• tolerated. -Fl-s
Lordship ordered the summoretez •dlif.e.rs to he ,worn, and in
the case of ev.'ry jorem wllO keel been hilt tlrri-
moned, aori for wit HO valid excuse was g' von, los Lod.
ship iiffcted a fine of ton pounds. Among those who
were fined vas Col. Fitzgibbon, M. P., his Lordship olre7viog
that Parliament. not b iog assembled, there was no excuse for
OE'er. Mr. Neale, M. P., was not fined, he
b-in Jut ,-• tome Sir Ed,ard Barn;..s. M. P., e-as one of
the u m -s on the list, the Hon. and ‘-iallant Officer having
died some time ago.
Sergeant BOMFAS, for the plaintiff, prayed a tales, which
was granted.
The Learned Sergeant then stated that the plaintiff was
clerk to the Paving and Lighting Commissioners of St.
Pancras, who by law might sue through their clerk. The
defendants were Churchwardens of the parish. The action
was brought to iecover the sum of 711., which the Commis-
sioners claimed in r.e.pect of a rate they had made on the
parish Church, for which the defendants contended the parish
was not liable.
Mr. KELLY appeared for the defendants, and raised several
objoctious in point of legal irregularity ; ciutending that the
church was not rateable, that the rate was not regular, and
therLfore that the demand could not be supported.
'I he LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said, as the objections rested on
numerous points of law, it would be hest to put the whole into
a special case, to be argued before a full Court.
To this both parties agreed. Most of the facts were ad-
mitted. As to those which were not, evidence was adduced.
One of the facts which the defendants disputed was, that Mr.
Douglas had been appointed Clerk to the Commissioners
when the rate was matte.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Arrivals this morning—French mail. No ship letters.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY, Nov. 13.

Speculators continue to rule the market. The more legiti-
mate operations of the t. ade appear to have a minor influence ;
the former have again been very large buyers, and the conse-
queneeis a further advance of id. per lb. on Surats, American,
Pernams. and I3ahias, and on Maranham, id. per lb. The
stock of Egyptian and Sea Island being very limited, and in
few hands. hate teen still more influenced, and are now dear,
compared with other sort... —3 500 bales of American, 3,800
Surats, 800 Pern3m;, 200 134hia, and 200 Egyptians, hale
been talt non speculaii,,n. Nothing for export. The sales
to-day were 8 to 10,000 of all kinds, the market closing with
great firmness.