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London, England, 1849-11-02 00:00:00

THE SUN. LON DONr_ FRIDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 2 1849

the days appointed `-.oiling the sesr:ions for th...• pre
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6th :y.
rf 10th JUL:.
59 Bth July.
19th August.
„ 16th September, and
„ 21st October.
'rho Court then wljourned to Mi,nday the 26:1! inst.

SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.

[Prom the sul-joined ci.mirnunication—addressed to
us be a rirty eminently qualified to form an opin. ion
up;,:) the sultj -!ct—it will b's seen that reflection o nly
io irrea•ic the conviction tirlt tire nee
brought to this eouiltry by the True!ove is less The
detail of facts than the eifu,i,n of fancy. And as hip "la-
nity, at the very least, requires that no effort shou' ,d be
overlooked which could possibly tend to diniinis h the
perils of the isolated expedition, the project of (
balloon ought, to our thinking, to be attempted as a
means of communicating assistraice. Every da3 r the
matter is becoming more and more serious, a ad it
behoves the Admiralty to direct every available energy
towards the succour of the heroic but otherwise
doomed navigators.—ED. San.]

TO THE MEMBERS OF THE BIR-
MINGHAM TOWN COUNCIL.
Gentlemen,—You have t...kc ri an ho:,ourable lead
in resisting the iinp.;sure, by which it wz:s a.tcniptcd
to limit your freedom of comrcereial intcrcoursr. tk,
four d.tys in the weds, on pr:Atuces based on the
1 falsineation of documents a7d the abuse of the trust
confided in the religi,ms servants of the public.
The case is not a new one; and it might by possi-
bility have been repeated under the old form. Sup-
pose then the statement made to you by bizhops and
presbyters had been, that the New Testament declares
the Pope to possess the power of deposing kings,
and measures must in consquence take place, deeply
affecting your interests in various ways.
I put the case thus, that there may be no semblance
of seeking quarrel with the followers of an ancient
church, some of whom are probably among the
esteemed members of your body.
Suppose then the question had been put to you as
thus,—.' Are you Christians, or infidels ? Do you
or do you nut believe, that. the Pope has the power
to &pose kings ?"
Would you have consented to shuffle about under
this charge of being infidels, by which the assailant
always moans dogs; or would you have answered by
saying, " Luckily two can play at that game. The
New Testament is not a rare hook chained in our
churches, but thtre is none among us but has it
:n his hand. It is as easy to know whether the fraud
is with us or you, as to settle a suspected account.
Bring us the bond, and let us see who is right. If
you have called U 3 names with a view to blink what
you knew to be a false account, a penal colony would
be the proper place to send you."
Pass over the ignorant, who bawl as they are told
to do; but fasten on some who are responsible for
their acts. And ask them whether they do not per-
fectly know, and whether they are in any manner
prepared to deny, that the Apostle from whom the
Christian church universal takes nearly the whole of
the details of its duties and its avoidances, includes
the sabbatical observances of the Jews in the most
sweeping terms among what he has directed to be
resisted. Put the question in its simplicity, or if you
go further, ask why they do not desire you to be cir-
cumcised, seeing that the liberation from that burthen
depends upon similar words, in the same places, from
the same authority. And then watch how your
antagonists will wriggle and glose, to try to twist a
set falsehood into truth, and what specimens you will
have of that faculty of perverting plain words, which
has made the name of theologian at a discount
from Milton's day to ours.
May I assume that every one of you is aware of
the following facts :
That the Great Apostle, the Apostle of the Gen-
tiles, as he is sometimes called, in laying down rules
for his Christian converts, prohibits in distinct words
the keeping of the Jewish sabbaths of all kinds (See
Coloss. ii. 16).
That to maintain that the Apostles substituted the
First day of the week for the Seventh, is as totally
and disgracefully false as it would be to say they sub-
stituted the cutting off a joint of the little finger for
circumcision. They authorised meetings for public
worship on the First day, and collections for chari-
table purposes, and they called it the Lord's, or
Christ's day, in commemoration of the resurrection.
But all the rest is forgery.
That the Protestant Reformers included the attempt
to transfer the restrictions of the Jewish Seventh day
to the First day of the week, among the grievances
they complained of (See the Confession of Augsburg).
That the Church of England in her Catechism and
Articles ignores the Fourth Commandment; thereby
declaring it to belong to the " Ceremonies, Rites, and
Civil precepts, which do not bind Christian men," and
not to the " Commandments which are called Moral."
Of which if any wants to be convinced, let him
revert to his youthful memories, and repeat the
various answers consequent upon the question," What
dost thou chiefly learn from these Commandments ?"
That the Dissenting sects without exception, ac-
knowledge the authority of the Apostles to direct
what shall and shall not be kept of the Jewish
law ; though they have not the virtue to speak the
trill], under the temptation of getting power over the
bodies and souls of men, by preserving what they
think too good to be parted with at the Apostles'
bidding.
The tyranny you have so manfully opposed, has its
branches everywhere. A principal object in view,
when it is convenient to acknowledge it, is to cut off
your working classes from those opportunities of
mental improvement, which the day of relaxation from
toil which custom gives and Christianity does not
oppose, would place within their reach. Does any
man believe that kindness was meant to the working
classes ? The next step would have been to shut
them up like slaves on the priests' Jewish prison-day.
And another evil of scarcely less importance, is the
mischief attendant on setting up a false scale of mo-
rality, and thus tempting men by the commission of
imaginary sins. The man executed in Scotland the
other day for a complication of crime it is not agree•
able to allude to, was of course made to say he began
with sabbath-breaking. In a Catholic country he
would have said he began with absence from con-
fession, and eating meat in Lent ; and in a Moham-
medan one, with not keeping the fast of Itainezan.
Set up any test and standard of morality, and you
are responsible for leading men to the gallows, if it
is a false one.
Lastly, you would have had other political and
commercial tyrannies in rapid course. If you had
given way without resistance on this point, you would
next have had a demand for a tax upon post letters,
and another upon the exchange of your Birmingham
goods for foreign produce. You see what you have
(seeped for the present. 'Whether the ignorant, and
those who are of small skill in the ways of fraud,
stand by you in future or not, the recollection of what
you have done will be cherished by your country, and
unless the country is to retrograde, will look better
daily in the eyes of a growing posterity.
ONE WHO BELIEVES SABBATICAL OBSERV-
ANCE PROHIBITED TO CHRISTIANS.
P.S. Since the above was in type, accounts have
been received of the Public Meeting at Birmingham.
Mr. Weston made a slight verbal error, as reported
in the Morning Herald. Instead of saying "As a
Christian people we .have no command to '
keep, the
seventh day of the week," he should have said As a
Christian people we are commanded not to keep a
seventh day of the week." There will be no good
done, till we have the courage to stand on the whole
truth like our fathers.
The first words uttered on the part of the requisi-
tionists, were to the effect that every person regarding
the law of God must concur in the object of the
requisition (Report of J. Taylor, Esq., in the Morn-
ing Post). And when Alderman Weston proceeds
to raise the . question whether it is according to the
law of God or not, he is stopped by a Reverend, who
tells him that entry on the theological part of the
question has been prohibited.
Bishop Bonner dared not have so committed him-
self. He would never have called a meeting to
determine whether the Pope was authorised in the
New Testament to burn heretics, and then have
declared the question prohibited whether there was
such an authority or not. You see where the shoe
pinches. The adversary knows the assertion that it
is according to the Christian law, to be a falsehood ;
and therefore he prohibits the question whether it is
according to the Christian law. Mark them that do
thus ; and never trust them with either soul or body.
If you do, you will be back to Church and King
mobs before you know of it.
What simpletons must be your working men, if
they allow themselves to be led by the nose through
the falsification of a printed document. Is there no
man who has got a New Testament and can read, and
can read it to his neighbours ? I wonder whether
they would resist if they were told they must be
circumcised. And yet almost the same passage which
releases us from circumcision, releases us from the
Jewish observation of sabbaths. But their teachers
have a different interest.

LITERATURE.

LAzIfiII?TINES NEW JO t71?.17.A.L. No. IX.

Li the currcut ntirabQr of the Cmlseiter du Potpie,
M. d.. Lainartine l.uris thlithblow at the Fon,hre uLd
hut; a!izli,g Colossus of Ath;:i,:n. The fohowing are
few of his mon: strihing !iel:tenee:3
" I loTe the p.ople because I he'ieve in a G d."

"I have been accused of Pantheism in my philosophy
and my poetry—l IN ho regard Pantheism as a blasphemy.",

" Gad is not a nation, He is a government. God is not
a sentience, He is a law—the living 19w, the supreme law,
the universal law, the eternal law."

" The laws of God are visible in three piincipll duties.
Divine duties, which imuke religion. Private duties,
which constitute family. Public duties, which signify
,ociety."

" The government of brute twee, the government of
the strongest, the dcsp)Litzm of the sabre, the divinity of
the CL:lllier: is the consummation of that anarchy which is
( nee the remedy and the death of the nations without a
God."

Some demagogues impel the masscs to Atheism by

the utterance of assphenices such as the world has never
heard before, aid which are now only cuiplwytd as a
Eteans of acquiring pcpularity,"

"Others drive the tea,so3 to Atheism by science—
hlindirg the eye of the spirit cultivating and de-
veloping the eye of the body—losing in their material
philosophy that sense which alone recognises divinity,
the supreme sense, the sense above all other senses, the
sense which is imponderable and impalpable, the scnso
which, itself invisible, nevertheless D'eholds all—intelli-
gence!"

" Others drive the masses to Atheism by means of a
false political economy—making traffic their civilization,
and money their God."

" The infidel philosophy of the eighteenth century,
drove the masses from b 1 utalisation into impiety, smo-
thered impiety in Atheism, and Atheism in blood."

" God revealed from age to age, another letter of his
divine Lame."

Speaking of the Fourierists, the Pantheists, the
Socialists, the Communists, the Industrialists, the
Economists, and the Terrorists, M. de Lamartine
says, that they wish man to barter his soul for a loaf
of bread, to resign his hopes of immortality for a mess
of pottage. "Their fanaticism," he says, "is the
fanaticism of hunger and thirst." " Their philosophy
and their daydreams, are the philosophy and the day-
dreams of the belly." " The people," he exclaims,
"will not allow themselves to be changed into swine by
these Circes of Atheism."
M. de. Lamartine commits the gross absurdity
of sneering at Napoleon as the restorer of religion
in France. The glory of the Concordat will survive
in the history of the Emperor, notwithstanding the
indecent gibes and rhetorical Billingsgate even of M.
de Lamartine.

. . . .
The address to the people against Atheism closes
with these noble words :—" Seek then God, for it is
your end and your prerogative, and seek him not in
materialisms ! for God is not below, he is on high!"

mutely raisng his arms horizontally upwards, or in like
muiner slow:y chprvssing the n, he should communicate
to them his d sire .hat the speil ruig;lit be icc:eased or
diminiAcd."

The ri-xt, quotation, relating two Lueedo'cs of the
spectators presfrnt un th of the fleatilg of
the tubular b:idgo will te perud with some amuse-
ment:—

" Dear me!' said an old gentleman, as the tube when
it first swung across the Straits was in perspective seen
approaching tha platform on which he sat, and which
was immediately in front of the awful chasm between
B►itannia and Anglesey Towers, they have surely
been and made it too short; they must put a bit on!'
As soon, however, as, veering round, it approached bins
broadside foremost, he v:hi,pered, I'm quite sure as
too long; they'll have to cut a piece off!'
" A lady said to her companion, ' Mr. Stephenson
appeared dreadfully excited during the passage! Daht:t
you observe how ho kept continuatly str..tching out la,
arms, raissrg them up a►.d then sinking them dow❑ in
this way?' (suitirg b, r wordg to the actions by which
the speed or the voyage► had calmly been regulated.)
But no words-r he Was so agitated!' "
Altogether, both in regard to the amount of
vJuable information condensed into the contribution,
and in reference to the agreeable sty le of its compo-
sition, the paper cn the last miracle of engineering
science may vie with the popular article by the same
writer, since republished under the title of "Stokers
and Pokers." We heartily congratulate Mr.
Fairbairn upon the castigation received in
him from this brilliant writer, a castigation which he
(Mr. Fait bairn) Las richly merited. The contents
will eminently repay perusal.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, THURSDAY.

The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual early
walk this morning in the Slopes and Windsor Park.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, and the younger members of the
Royal Family talk walking and pony exercise.
The royal dinner party this day included her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent and her Royal High-
ness's Ladies in Waiting.

Baron de Brunnow, the Russian Minister, bad an
interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at his
official residence in Downing-street.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had
a general meeting yesterday at their office in White-
hall•place.
. .

The Archbishop of Canterbury bad an interview
yesterday with Lord John Russell. Mr. Under-
Sheriff Wire had also an interview yesterday with
the Noble Lord.

Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from
the Colonial-office for the Governors of the West
India Colonies. Dispatches were also sent off last
evening for the Governor of New South Wales.

HEALTH of the QUEEN DOWAGER.
(From the Court Circular.)
The following bulletin of the Queen Dowager's
health was issued yesterday :
" The Priory, Thursday, Nov. 1, 1849.
"The Queen Dowager was occasionally disturbed
by her cough hut night, bnt her Majesty does not
feel herself less strong this morning.
" DAVID DAVIES, M.D.,"

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTE RS ALL'S —YESTERDAY.
The only bets laid yesterday were 2,200 to 200 agst
Ghillie Callum, 200 to 100 agst Deicoon, and 1,000 to 15
agat Nutshell. Offers to take 20 to 1 about The Italian,
and 30 to 1 about Voltigeur, who is stated to have won
his race at Richmond by two or three lengths. Deicoon
is sold to Lord Airlie.
The death of Lord. Albemarle does not disqualify
Bolingbroke either for the Derby or St. Leger.
RICHMOND RACES.—WEDNESDAY.
Her Majesty's Plate of 100 gs. Three miles.
Mr. Walter's Maid of Team Valiry, 3 yrs, 7st 21b 1
Captain Harcourt's Ellerdale, 5 yrs, 9st llb 2
Lord Z -stand's Castanette, 3 yrs, 7st 21b 3
Betting-2 to 1 one on Ellerdale. Won cleverley by
a length.
The Wright Stakes of 10 sore, each, h ft, for two yrs
olds. Grey Stone in. (II Subs.)
Mr. Williamson's Voltigeur, Bst 71b (Bumby) 1
Mr. T. Dawson's Mark Tapley, Bst 51b (Cartwright) 2
Mr. R. H. Jones's Stepping-Stone, Bst 71b (Holmes) 3
Mr. B. Green's Cadger, Bst 91b (Wintringham) 4
Betting-6 to 4on Voltigeur, sto 2 agat Stepping-
Stone. Won very cleverly.
The Gold Cup of 100 guineas value, by subscribers of
10 guineas each. Once round and a dis. (10 Subs.)
Mr. Meiklain's Raby, 3 yrs, 7st 51b (Arnold) 1
Mr. Wrather's Maid of Masham, 4 yrs, Bst Illb 2
Mr. Arrowsmith's Lady Ilylda, 5 yrs, Bst 2lb 3
The following also ran :—Mr. Jaques's Chantrey, 3
yrs, 7st 131 b (G. Simpson)— Lord Zetland's Ellen Mid-
dleton, 3 yrs, ist 101 b (Ilawksworth)—Mr. Cookson na
Maid of Team Valley, 3 yrs, fist 131 b (Charlton).
Even on Baby, 2 to 1 agat Maid of Masham, 3 to 1
agst Maid of Team Valley, and 4 to 1 agst Ellen Mid-
dleton. Won cleverly by half a length.
The Finishing Scramble Handicap of 3 toys. each, 1 ft,
and 20 added. Grey Stone in. (11 Subs.)
Mr. Weather's Maid of Masham, 9st ... (Cartwright) 1
Mr. Gill's lE:culapius, 2 yrs, fist 81b
Mr. IValter's Mary Turner, 3 yrs, ist 121 b (Abdah ) 3
The following also started but were not placed :
Mr. 11. Stebbiug's Imperatrix, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b (Simpson)
—Mr..l&ques's Semitranc, 3 yrs, 7st 31b (Charlton)—
Mr Bumby's Harlestine, 3 yrs, 7st (G. Oates)—Sir C.
Slingsby's hr f by Theon, d by Beagle, 2 yrs, sst 121 b
(Gillmkn).
6 to 4 apt Maid of Masham, 5 to 2 agst Imperatrix.
Won cleverly by a length.
The Rubbish Pluto of 25 sovs., added to a handicap of 5
soya, each, 3 It; the winner to be sold for 60 sovs. One
mile and a quarter. (6 Subs )
Lord Zatlard's Polonaise, 3 yrs, 7st 71b... (G. Oates) 1
Mr. Dawson's Billy Brown, 3 yrs, 7st
Mr. Dawson's Magnet, aged, Bst 3lb ... (Cartwright) 3
Mr. Bumby's Harlestone, 3 yrs, 6st 61b ... (Charlton) 4
Mr. Walter's Mary Noble, aged, Bst 71b (G. Abdale) 5
6to 4 agst Magnet. Won by a neck.
WORCESTER RACES.—TnuusDAY.
The Selling Stakes of 5 sovs, each, and 20 added. Heats,
one mile and a quarter.
Mr. Nicoll's Comet, 4 yrs, 7st 21b (Hiett) 0 0 1 1
Mr. Drinkald's Amazement, aged
Mr. Neviu's Diana, 3 yrs ... 1 2 3 dr
Mr. Green's Clara, 5 yrs ... 0 3 4 dr
Mr. Whitehouse's Reception, 3 yrs
Mr. Hurlstone's Baronet, 6 yes
Mr. Waller's Dimanche, 4 yrs ...
Mr. Clark's Brother to Fernhill, 3 yrs 3 0 dr
Mr. Griffiths' Apple Blossom, 5 yrs 0 0 dr
Mr. Lister's Hind of the Forest, 4 yrs 0 0 dr
The Worcestershire Hunt Stakes of 25 sovs. each; three
yrs old, 9st 51b; four yrs, 10st 121 b; five yrs, Ilst 71b
six yrs and aged, 12st. One mile and a quarter.
Mr. Featherstonhaugh's Knaresdale, 3 yrs (A. Day)
General Lygon na Spot, 3 yrs ••• ••• ••
Mr. Dixon's Chloroform, 6 yrs ...
Mr. Taylor's Volunteer, aged ••• ••• ••
Match-1001., h ft, list 71b each. Two milt-s.
Mr. Giles's Retire (owner) beat Mr. Oberton's Miller.
Sweeps of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added. Heats—One
mile and a quarter. (7 Subs.)
Mr. Merritt's Buscot, 3 yrs (Crickmere) 1 1
Mr. Smith's The Streamer, 4 yrs 1 2
Mr. Nicoll's Theodore Hook, 3 yrs 2 0
Mr. Wadlow's Gratis, 4 yrs 3 0
Morsel, Vetitas, and Ellen the Fair also ran.
The Handicap of 3 sovs each, and 20 added, 2 miles,
was won by a head, after a fine race, by 'Mr. Gulliver's
Fazeley, aged (Sabin), beating Mr. Isaac Day's Milliner,
6 yrs, Mr. Marratt's Egret, 4 yrs, and nine others.
NEWMARKET COURSING MEETING.
THURSDAY.
Four-mile Stables.
THE DERRY.
Second Ties.—Merchant beat Othello—Damion ran
a bye.

dis

THE CUP.
Second Ties.—Desperate beat Bessie Bell—Olicda
beat Forerunner.