The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-18 00:00:00

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WITH WHICH
THE ,c TRUE SUN " IS NOW

INCORPORATED.

LONDON:
TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1838.

The opening of the Post-office on Sundays is for
the present set quite at rest. The Lords of the Trea-
sury have as great a horror of desecrating the Sabbath,
unless it be by Cabinet dinners, as the mercers and
grocers, when a strawberry feast at Richmond, or
tl turtle blow-out at Blackwell, is not in question. Mr.
BARING, the Secretary to the Treasury, as our readers
Ire aware, has made an official communication to the
gentlemen of the Stock Exchange, of which, to illustrate
Ile great regard which their Lordships have of the
due observance of Sunday, we beg leave to repeat one
Paragraph ;
" I have it in command from their Lordships to acquain
You, that they have not and never had in contemplation any
London delivery of letters on Sunday. On the contrary, their
Lordships have always felt strong objection to such a measure,
and they are happy to find from your memorial, as well as other
communications, that their opinion is entirely in concurrence
With the great body of the mercantile community."
At the same time, their Lordships state, that the
transnsrssion of letters which arrive from the country by
the Sunday mails, was recommended by the Commis-
sioners of Post-office Inquiry in 1837, and their
Lordships always considered this recommendation en-
tirely distinct from a London delivery. Their Lord-
ships, then, do consider that the Sabbath may be dese-
crated by sending forward one kind of letters, but not
by another. They will give the merchants and dealers
who may have country houses at Barnet or Hounslow, an
advantage which they refuse to their poorer rivals who
cannot migrate beyond St. John's Wood or Finsbury-
square. If we are correctly informed, however, all the
dreaded evils of one tradesman and one merchant ob-
taining an advantage over another, new actually exist
without it being known ; and such bankers and mer-
chants as are Members of Parliament, or are on good
terms
with the Treasury, possibly understand how
t° Profit by the information. They can obtain or
transmit letters on the Sabbath. It is well known that
the Ministers and heads of departments both receive
and send letters on Sunday. What prevents them
Berying their friends with a Sabbath frank ? or allow.
them
letters on business to reach their friends through
on Sunday ? A Correspondent informs us, and
We Are sure it will duly horrify all those who would
("e tea 4
l —to borrow their ideas—to sacrifice their
earest happiness, rather than suffer a neighbour to
sacrifice
t his alone by a monopoly of opening his let-
onc
the Sunday—a Correspondent informs us
:at Mere is a regular Sunday delivery of letters to
Al4e .Government offices, AND ALSO To A FEw
"tIRED SPECULATIVE INDIVIDUALS." The
very
thing that is dreaded, the advantage con-
ferred on a few, now actually exists, but in secrecy, so
thatlk it cannot be countervailed. Hence no doubt the
t
011'41 success of some few men, which makes them
hte_eavy of all the bankers, merchants, stock and bill-
u Kets of the metropolis.
d"sall , the Government is already in the possession of
the 4to advantages of a Sunday delivery for themselves
va friends—and the long possession of this great ad-
ntage of the Tories is perhaps the secret source of
the success of the city Tories, and of part of the
sse Wealth
of which some of their ex-Ministers boast—
need not be surprised at my Lords being strictly in
e°rdance with the memorialists as to keeping the
toe; "us', little, convenient advantage exclusively
t themselves and friends. Colonel MABERLY,
Ish ,e,ref°re, only used the proper and dignified
‘Shnage of his office, and of office generally,
n he assured the LORD MAYOR that " no mea-
4nre
kot8" infringing on this very useful and valuable
tur4Poly " should be adopted without the most me-
wl: deliberation." We certainly know nothing of
sat that
use is made of the exclusive Sabbath delivery,
aornthat it exists and may be used to the enrichment of
meal favoured individuals is enough to strike aghast
ehatile envious wealth-seeking brokers, bankers, and
Wen who do not participate in the advantages.
e do not affirm that `there is in this Post-office
ughness any of the usual humbug and dupery which
seeda.,PPily prevail so extensively amongst us, but we can
conceive that the " favoured speculative" few
Uld be at the head of those who cry out against a
jiyinlaY delivery. To us, who have steadily opposed the
serPneritical cant of the would-be Saints, touching the ()b-
-ah vanee of the Sabbath, and who have been zealously
toPPYrted by sundry good citizens in our opposition
tx t6ir ANDREW'S Sabbath-souring Bills, it seems
Ow ludicrous to find our former friends and foes
w
tei joining in one common howl against the Sabbath
rig
desecrated by a very useful, and even necessary
Ordl%l' Sunday hallowers and Sunday rovers—those
li° expound texts, and those who take country
d
lies-s-the canting hypocrite S—, and the avowed
jobv,ertine and infidel D , who happens also to love
tat Parties, and is tied to business every day but
*4l'l43'lthe careful F—, who would not for the
th d that either his wife, or one of his children,
hola
stay from Church, and the pleasure-loving G—,
hates his wife's piety and insists on taking her
sbo all her children into the country every fine Sunday—
se who unless they hear a sermon, and those who
sli less they swallow a bottle of port, cannot sleep, have
rtge°'llbined to cry down the opening of the Post-office,
t a desecration he of the Sabbath. The hypocrites and
In4teanters are right, and they have turned the fleshly
gai °f the citizens to good account. They have
Alinedi an advantage by the help of their new allies,
eitizes.
es- Mr. PLUMpTRE will profit by. The liberal
41.111 have kept the Post-office shut, but they have
in deu e d hypocrites with a spear, with which they will
0 time pierce the side of their Sabbath enjoyment.
dote n this subject led us remind our readers of an anec-
,S4l3bwhich appeared in our Paper a few weeks ago.
to bath is not strictly observed in Germany as it is in
en 4 m• Letters are delivered and received. Now,
Sunday, a steam-boat arrived in Hamburg, and all
Passie"Ple in small boats, and on the shore, greeted the
ill tigers with the waving of hats and handkerchiefs,
the
Ite,s, most friendly manner. On a week-day the
th Cr- came up the Thames, and she was saluted with
wele.
Nen n'ne, " Damn you—go to hell !" Are the
Ikt4riar_s and the morality of the rigid or of the lax Sab-
ns most beautiful ?
That

Ita:t Part of Mr. J. B. SMITH'S speech, in the
li'llic"henester Chamber of Commerce, on Thursday,
Pela "fortunately (lid not reach us on Saturday. was
othe:Ps the more important. It contains atnongst
of thouseful information, this account of the destruction
Ato:t°cking manufactory at Nottingham
t
44er article which we were losing th© supply of was