The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-27 00:00:00

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THE SUN,

by this unexpected blow. Without means of liveli- I
hood, with a price set upon his head, and the entire 1
community converted into an eager police to effect his
capture, there could be no hope of unanimity ; all he
could do was to continue his sottish course, to drain the
brawl!, bottle to the dregs. He fled whither he could
obtain the means of temporary oblivion at the
cheapest rate, and by his flight converted the sus-
picions that had been previously entertained into
absolute certainties.
We need not dwell on the subsequent discovery of
the body, or the tracing out and apprehension of the
murderers; they are familiar to almost every indi-
vidual throughout the length and breadth of the land.
G on's retributive justice will not be defeated. His
all-seeing eye will penetrate the dark den of the
secret murderer, and bring into the brightest and
most glaring light acts that had apparently been
I ccmmitted in the deepest gloom and obscurity.
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LONDON.

We have received the Paris journals of yeAerday.
After the motion of N. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE for
the amnesty of the insurgents of June had been re-
nted, the Assembly proceeded on Thursday to dis-

TO'ITAOTTOW the new regulations at the Genera.
Post-osce come into actual operation. So that the
Sabbatarans must, perforce, swallow the pill, bitter
only to their own palates of wormwood. After all
their noisy remonstrances, they must content them-
selves, like AUSTIN CAXTON, ith ejeculating a
querulous Pape! or, like TOBw
lAS SHANDY, With
Whistling the " refrain " of Lillibullero ! We heartily
congratulate the authorities upon the resolution
evinced under their late trying circumstances. And
our especial thanks are due to the principal members
ef. the Government, to the Noble Premier, and to
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for the deter-
mined manner in which they have supported the
conduct of the Marquis of CLANRICARDE and that
distinguished public benefactor, Mr. Row LAND HILL,
an who has done more perhap s than any other
aindividual in the United Kingdom to diffuse a great
blessing throughout the community, and practically
to advance the interests of civilization. At the same
time we cannot possibly refrain from expressing the
profound indignation with which we have listened to
the cant of those political Tartuffes who appear to
arrogate to themselves a sanctity of a supreme and
exclusive character. Nothing to us is so utterly
contemptible, abominable, and unendurable as
that " pride which apes humility," that miserable
affectation of morality which is as pitiable
las it is spurious. Of all the different phases
assuened by that Protean bugbear of the community
Vice, the phase of hypocrisy is indisputably the most
distressing to witness, and the last to which any
rational man would become subservient.
We, by no means, Wish to intimate that all the
parties who have recently been vociferous in opposing
the new changes at St. Martin'- le-Grand are actuated
only by base motives, or that they possess none but
shallow pretensions to our respect. On the
contrary, we are free to acknowledge that
several of the most earnest antagonists of
the measure are persons acting truthfully and
conscientiously. With the very highest regard,
nevertheless, for the purity of their intentions!, we are
satisfied that even in their instance religion has been
allowed to degenerate into fanaticism. We would re-
mind them that there is nothing more monstrous than
an assumption of what we may term a monopoly of
excellence. We would hint to them, that among
their antagonists there may be men quite as
solicitous to witness the rational observance of
what they absurdly designate the Sabbath men
quite as devoted in their reverence for ab-
stract merit—men as obedient to the commandments
of GOD, to the dictates of conscience, and to the
ordonnations of Christianity, as themselves. To
maintain that on the side of the Post-office authorities
are leagued together the powers of darkness, and
on the side of their sworn enemies, the so called'
Sabbatarians, all the light and the might of Godli-
ness, is as absurd, as indecent, we had almost said as
impious as any assertion ever uttered by the lips of
the hypocritical or the contumelious. Pamphlets
and prize essays of divers descriptions have
been transmitted to us since the appear-
ance of our more recent arguments upon this
sexata questio, doubtless in the laudable hope of effect-
ing an editorial conversion, such as should act as a
guiding light to other journalists. While expressing
our cordial acknowledgments to those who so far
evince their solicitude in our spiritual welfare, we
would, nevertheless, very respectfully assure them
that we need none of the ingenuities of logic or of the
adjurations of rhetoric, to impress our minds with an
admiration for that noble and beneficent institution—
not of the Sabbath but of the Sunday, not of the
seventh but of the first day of the week, the day of
rest, of solace, and of adoration. It is precisely
because we do most earnestly venerate this
divinely social and religious institution, that we recoil
from anything which would tend to render it irksome
instead of consoling, repulsive instead of worthy of
all love, distasteful instead of agreeable, and austerely
sanctimonious instead of fascinating from the unos-
tentatious sanctity of its solemnization. It is exactly
because we feel that the Sunday, or as it was formerly,
the Sabbath, has been ordained as a day of repose for
the Creature, to enable him periodically to adore the
ALMIGIITY CREATOR with a self abstraction that would
be nearly impossible if attempted in the midst of the
ordinary avocations of life—it is precisely because we
look upon tlite Sunday as the day of the poor, as the
the Holiday of the poor, as the Holy-day of the poor,
' that we are anxious to see the Sunday rendered a
day of solemn and pleasant recurrence, not one of
spurious sanctity or of merely puritanical ceremonials.
Is there any inconsistency in our avowal that we
would witness the diminution of all unnecessary
labour on Sunday, and our ardent support of the new
Post-office regulations? We protest there is not;
and we base our protestation upon the fact, that
those new regulations, while adding twentyvive
clerks to those at present employed in the metropolis,
will release from Sunday occupation no less than
two thousand clerks hitherto engaged in the provincial
offices! So much for our consistency, and for the
inconsistency of our antagonists, the Sabbatarians !
Thanks to the determination evinced by the Post-
office authorities, and to the resolute demeanour of
the Government, these new regulations will come into
operation no later than to-morrow. Thanks, more-
over, to the common sense of the English people,
a rational reactionary movement is now taking
place throughout the country, to counteract the idle
fanfaronades of those noisy fanatics who have recently
been stunning the ear of the public with their verbose
and bellicose orthodoxy. Meetings very numerously
attended are protesting against these very modest pre-
tenders to a monopoly of morality. Happily the
days of their domination have passed away, and we
have now no more chance of beholding naughty little
boys pilloried at Charing-cross for playing marbles
on the Sunday, than we have of witnessing noyades
' i on the Thames, or auto-da-fes in Smithfield.
at

El' 1114 IF Bessarabia. The Russian and Turkish troops win-
tering at Bucharest amount to 20,000. Sir STRAT-
R N 1' BLIC.,
rout, CANNING has pro ested became the Russians
have not reduced the number of their troops in the
principalities.

EGYPT.

cuss the Navy estimates.
In consequence of a dementi given by M. NAPO-
LEON BONAPARTE in the course of the discussion on
the amnesty to an assertion made by M. DAHIREL to
the effect that he (M. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE) had
voted for the decree banishing the insurgents, it was
supposed that a duel would have taken place. The
affair has, however, been arranged by the retracta-
tion of M. DAHIREL. The Moniteur announces that
M. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE having, in the presence
of MM. DE PLANCY, EMANUEL ARAGO, DE ST.
GEORGES, and General LE no, the four seconds
chosen on both sides, formally declared that he did
not vote for the decree banishing the insurgents, as
asserted by M. DAHIREL, the latter acknowledged
that in the uncertainty of a vote par assis et leve he
might have considered as intended for a vote a move-
ment which had not that meaning. This declaration
being" considered satisfactory by the seconds, the
affair is considered at an end.
The Assemblee Nationale, the organ of the parti-
pretre, is pursuing the murderous tactics by which
that party displaced itself during the reign of the
Bounnom. It has the following paragraph addressed
to M. NWAPOLEON
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erun. It' M. Bonaparte could have contradicted the
facts implied in this interruption, he ought to have done
so at the tribune, and we would 11-...ve cheerfully recorded
his rectification. M. Bonaparte prefers studin.; us a
dementi by a hnissier, with a menace of prosecution in
case of refusal. We tell the Montagnard Prince that
we do not accept a dementi from any person, or in any
shape or form, and we are ready to incur the conse-
quences of this r ecn
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as the author. Every parti-pretre journal in those
days kept its bravo.
The same journal propounds a plan for destroying
Protestantism in England and Ireland. This, the
organ of M. DE FALLOUX and the priests, says :-
" The POPE bas only to send a bull and a legate
a lalere into Ireland to prepare a popular, terrible
insurrection against English despotism." And
again it says :-" The English agents labour
in vain at Rome, and in the Pontifical states, to pro-
duce a re-action : they will deceive nobody. 'The
Sacred College will answer them by a little bull,
addressed to the bishops of Ireland, bidding them not
to allow the philanthropic English to leave two
millions of men to die of starvation."
The streets of London have of late swarmed with
ill-looking foreigners dressed in soutanes, and osten-
tatiously parading themselves upon the public no-
tice as priests. It would be as well that the English
Government should ascertain 'whether these
gentry are the forerunners of the " little
ball' and if it should prove so we hope
the Government will not hesitate to put the Alien
Act in force, and deport these friends of the apolo-
gists of the massacre of St. Barthulemew.
In the meantime the parti pretre are exploiting the
crass ignorance of the peasantry of the priest-ridden
provinces of France in the most disgusting and bare-
faced manner.
We learn from the Glancur of the department of
the lure and Loire, that for the last few days
hawkers have been carrying all over the Communes of
Nogent le Roran " a prayer to our Lord fur the pre-
servation of cattle." This prayer is said to have been
blessed by the Archbishop of PARIS on the day of the
Assumption of the present year, for distribution
throughout France. It is to be sold for two sous,
and it is announced to the faithful, whether
sailors or fishermen, and to all who shall
devoutly carry a copy of the words about
then), that they shall infallibly be preserved from
storm and wreck, on any sea, or in any vessel.
'The same hawkers likewise have for sale another
paper entitled Avertissement salutaire. This is said
to have been found on the day of the Assumption by
a boy of twelve years old, who was serving mass in the
church of Notre Dame at Arras. This avertissementpur-
ports to be a letter from the ALMIGHTY written in letters
of blood. The blasphemous document calls on the
faithful to be converted, and denounces the Divine
vengeance if they do not turn from their wickedness.
All persons, however, who carry about with them a
copy of this avertissement, which may be purchased
for two sous, shall have pardon of their sins-aye,
even though such sins were as innumerable as the stars
of the firmament ("Ceux qui la porteront auraient
commis autant de peches qu'il-y a detoiles dans le
firmament qu'ils leur seront pardonnes"); and shall,
moreover, be preserved themselves, and their house-
hold, their man servant and maid servant, their horse
and their ass, from all sickness, and all maladies, at
the small cost of two sous.
AL DE FALLOUX has definitively retired from the
Cabinet, and a Council was held yesterday to consider
who should be appointed as his successor. It is said
that M. LACROSSE and General RuLutsgE will also
retire, as Louis NAPOLEON has at length bad his eyes
opened to the intrigues of the parti-pretre, every
member of which he is now desirous of ejecting from
his Cabinet.
General sillauTrour, will discharge at Rome the
functions now discharged by General RosToLats and
M. DE CORCELLES.
M. LUPIN, the President of the Assembly, has
been confined to his apartment for the last five
days with bronchitis, attended with a severe cough.
M. MANIN, the late Dictator of Venice, waited on
M. VICTOR fluco on Thursday to thank him for the
support he has afforded to the cause of Italian
liberty.
A letter from Avignon states that GARIIIALDI is at
present in that town, together with several Members
of the Roman Constituent Assembly.
PARIS BOURSE.--FRIDAY, OCT. 25.
There has been but very little business done to-day,
and at the close prices were quoted a shade lower;
Threes for the Account at 55f. 70c., and Fives at 88f.
The market closed as follows:-Threes, for cash, 55f.
70c.; for account, 55f. 70c. ; Fives, for cash, 88f. ;
for account, 87f. 90c.; Bank of France Shares, 2,330 f.;
Neapolitan 88f.; Spanish Threes, 34f. 25c.; ditto Fives
not quoted.
RAILWA.YS.-The Share Mat ket has been equally in-
animate, prices remaining about the same as yesterday.
Orleans closed at 722 f. 750.; Rouen, 522 f. 50c ; Havre,
235 f. ; Avignon, 2181. 75c. ; Strasburg and Bale, 102 f.
50c. ; Boulogne, 130 f. ; Bordeaux, 400 f. ,_- Northern,
426 f. 25e.; Paris and Strasburg, 300 f. ; Nantes, 281 f.
25c.; Dieppe, 1751.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Ocr. 26.
Central of Franca (Orleans and Vierzon), 11 •YR-Luxem-
bourg, 14-Ditto, 1%1-Northern of France, 3 dis.-Orleans
and Bordeaux, 2%-Paris and Rouen, 2014-Paris and
Strasbourg, 4%.

The ftars of a rupture between Turkey and
Russia have induced the PACIIA to decide on fitting
out a line-of-battle ship, two frigates, two corvettes,
and three steam-frigates, in case the SULTAN should
find a necessity for summoning Egyptian aid. AImIED
PACHA, late Minister of War, goes to Constantinople
in a few days in the steam-frigate Sharkiah, on some
special mission—the object of which has not as yet
been permitted to transpire.