The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-28 00:00:00

POST-OFFICE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sta,—At a meeting of the Teachers of the Sunday-
School Union, held last evening at Exeter Hall, the Rev.
Mr. Stovell strongly censured her Majesty for attracting
crowds to Windsor-terrace on Sunday evenings, and re-
buked the Bishops for their " want of fidelity," in not call-
ing the Queen to account for this breach of the Sabbath.
In the same spirit Sir Cullen Smith predicted that, when
the London Post•office was made a Paris Post-office, Lon'
don would also have a Paris Sunday. These gentlemen
may be very sincere in their opinions, but why do they, and
the audience that cheered them, do good things by halves,
and not carry out their principle to its full extent ?
In accordance with this the Queen ought not to ride out
on a Sunday, or go to Church, because she thereby attracts
idle crowds ; no letters should bo sent from London which
could reach the great manufacturing towns in the north,
and all the Post-offices throughout the kingdom should be
shut on that day. The bankers and merchants, who make
such a noise about the observation of the Sabbath here, care
not how much it is desecrated at Dublin, Glasgow, and
Aberdeen ; they write letters to be delivered on that
day, and receive letters posted on that day, without an
compunction. At none of these meetings has a word
been said about making the practice general ; a".
why ? Because it would interfere with their worldly
concerns, and they would lose two days in the week
in their transactions with all towns at a certain dis-
tance from London. There is no effectual cure for the
evil but the plan of Sir Andrew Agnew. Stop all the
mails and all steam boats ; shut the Queen up in her
palace ; close every reading room, club house, and hotel
throughout the kingdom ; let no man, woman, or child go
to church who cannot walk ; let there be no baking,
boiling, or carnal comforts ; and then we shall have
the Puritanical Sabbath and something more. De
these men not foresee the consequences of being re-
ligious over-much ? One extreme leads to another. The
most profligate period of English history soon followed
the fanatical acts of Barebone's Parliament, which was on
the point of making the Mosaical Law the sole system of
English jurisprudence.
Dec. 27. A CHRISTIAN.

TH E MARKETS.—(THIS DAY.)
CORN EXCHANGE.
The arrivals of English and Irish Grain this week are
small—of Flour moderate ; and there is a good quantity of
Foreign Wheat, chiefly of middling quality. The Country
Markets of this week being reported higher for Wheat, this
article is very firm, and some of the holders will not sell except
at advanced rates. Barley found a ready sale at Is. Per
quarter advance on Monday's terms. Beans and Pease sup-
port their value. Oats are again rather dearer. The Flour
trade continues firm at last quotations.
ARRIVALS.
Wheat. I Barley. Oats. I tines.
2,400 qrs. 4,800 qrs. 2,200 qrs. 5,...0J se I°
5,5,0
1,600

English
Irish
Foreign

---
brie.

_ 17,9d0 A
SMITHFIELD.
Beef was in small supply, but prices did not undergo any
variation. Mutton was plentiful, and prices declined 2d. per
stone. Veal being in but little demand, prices have declined
4d. per stone. Pork unaltered. Beasts, 580 ; Sheep, 2,930 .
Pigs, 360 ; Calves, 82. Beef, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d. ; Veal'
4s. 6d. to ss. 6d. ; Mutton, 3s 10d. to 4s. 10d. ; Pork, 4s. to6s•

BILLINGSGATE MARKET.
There Were fair supplies at Market to-day, but not so plen-
tiful as they were yesterday—prices rather higher. Turbots"
7s. to 205., 255., and 30s. each. Cod, 2s. 6d. to Bs.,
and 15s. Soles, 9d. to 3s. 6d. per pair. Lobsters, Is. to 45.
each. Whitings, 3d. to 6d. each. Haddocks, sd. to 10d. each.
HOP MARKET.
There is no business doing, and no quotations-given.
PROVISION MARKET.
There is little business doing, and prices generally remain
much as they weic last week.
SEED MARKET.
The arrivals of seeds are small, and, with the exception ef_
business in Linseed, there is very little passing in any other
descriptions. Prices of all kinds are firm and unaltered.
COTTON MARKET.
Owing to the private transactions in this commodity during
this week, prices may be quoted id. per lb. in advance
those of last week.

TALLOW MARKET.
P. Y. C. to-day is 595. but nothing doing.
COLONIAL MARKETS.
Nothing whatever doing to-day, and the first sale announ-
ced
is for next Tuesday, consisting of 4,600 bags Bengal Sugar.
The imports are rather heavy.
C

ORN LAWS AND GIFTS TO THE POOR.--Many
of the provincial papers, we see, bear testimony to the ge-
nerous charities of private life. With low wages, and
bread at a famine price, there, perhaps, never was a period
when acts of charity were more imperatively demanded ;
but the landlords, how laudable soever their benevolence
may appear, do, in strictness, little more than disgorge a
fraction of the enormous bread-tax enacted for their ex-
elusive elusive gain. Among the instances of the sort of 1n",,1. ghat
cence to which we refer we have pleasure in stating
Colonel Wyndham, the son of the late Earl of Egirem7th
has, in conjunction with his amiable lady, given 100-* " is
of shoes, with 4201. worth of clothes, consisting of flanne
gowns, fustians, stockings, blankets, calicoes, 80" among
430 poor families, residing in the several parishes in b
he has estates in Sussex, and his munificent
gift could no;
have been made at a better time, for it is, indeed, a time
of need.
Last night an inquest was held at St. Thomas:
Hospital, on the body of a child named David
Griffiths. The poor little fellow was playing with two
children in the house of its mother, No. 2, Moss-alley,
Tooley-street, Southwark, on the morning of Christmas
Day, with " Christmas candles," when his clothes caught
fire. He was instantly conveyed to the hospital, but the
burns were of such a nature as to cause his death in a few
hours. A second inquest was held at St. Bartholomews
Hospital, on the body of a little girl, named Emma Lyons,
aged six years. The child had been locked into a room of
her mother's house, No. 29, Clement's-lane, Strand, with
another child, on the afternoon of Alonday last. The mo-
ther had not left more than two minutes before a neighbour
who resided in the opposite house saw flames in the room.
An alarm was instantly given, when the child's clothes
were found to be in flues. She was conveyed to the
hospital. Verdict—Accidental Death.
CORPORATION REFORM.—Yesterday evening
there was a meeting of members of the City of London
Corporation Reform Society. James Hannen, Esq.,
in the
chair ; Mr. W. P. Rock acted as secretary. The princi-
pal business of the evening was the consideration of va-
rious resolutions which were to form the ground-work of
a plan of Corporation Reform for London.
OLIVE OlL.—The merchants, importers, and
dealers interested in the trade of olive oil, m Liverpool,
have addressed a memorial to the Right Hon. Charles_
Poulett Thomson, President of her Majesty's Board of
Trade, " respectfully representing the hardship and incon-
venience to which they have long been subjected by the con-
tinuan2e of the differential duty of four guineas per tun 00
the oil imported into the kingdom from the dominions of the
King of the Two Sicilies,