The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-16 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1849.

THE QUEEN'S VISIT to the CITY

It is with peculiar gratification that we announce
the gracious intention of our SOVEREIGN to honour
the City of London with a state visit on the occasion
of the opening of the New Coal Exchange, that
ceremony being fixed for Tuesday, the 10th instant,
namely, this very day fortnight. An official communi-
cation from the Prime Minister, received this morn-
ing by the Right Honourable the LORD MAYOR,
intimated to him, in his capacity as chief
representative of the metropolitan Corporation,
the intention of her Most Gracious MA-
JESTY, accompanied by her Royal and Illustrious
CONSORT, to enhance by her presence the ceremo-
nials of the inauguration of a great national struc-
ture, second only in civic importance to the noble
edifice of the Royal Exchange. We cannot but
regard this gracious determination of the QUEEN as
a signal mark of her estimation for the commercial
greatness and the mercantile enterprise of the chief
city of her Empire, the mercantile capital of Eng-
land, and the commercial metropolis of the world.
The announcement, we are satisfied, will be a
matter of exultation to the loyal citizens of London,
and not less a source of interest and pleasure to all
classes of the community. It will be a fitting and
brilliant termination to a year in which the great
Queen of ENGLAND has made the tour of her insular
dominions. llaving, in 1849, crossed St. George's
Channel, to extend the generous influence of her
popularity to the enthusiastic millions of Ireland;
having retired for a period to Balmoral, one of the
most secluded, as it is also one of the most picturesque
localities of Scotland ; having subsequently traversed
several of the most beautiful shires of Old England
on her return to the home of her palaces, it is well
to witness the close of these movements in the state
visit of this august Lady to her ancient and loyal city
of London. The occasion is to the citizens of the
metropolis one deserving of our cordial felicitations.

After a reasonable postponement, the new arrange-
ments made by the Post-office authorities will come
into operation. It is unnecessary to remark that we
are heartily rejoiced at this circumstance, and it is,
doubtless, equally superfluous to observe that our
gratification originates in a conviction that the recent
regulations will tend very much to simplify and
even to diminish the labour on Sundays of the Post-
office officials throughout the United Kingdom.
Twenty-five more clerks will undoubtedly be added
to those already employed in St. Martin's-le-Grand,
but simu:taneously two thousand others will be
released from their provincial occupations. In defi-
ance of the trumpery opposition of the wretched
little minority known as Sabbatarians, the humane
and ingenuous project of Mr. 'ROWLAND HILL, sus-
tained as it is by the coincidence of the Marquis of
CLAN aICARDE Will be carried into immediate effect,
dissipating many very urgent and irksome grievances
in the commercial world, and enabling 1,975
employees to abstain henceforth from those Sunday
Labours which have hitherto been regarded as essen-
tial. We speak advisedly when we term thes
Sabbatarians a wretched minority, for thanks to the
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