The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-07 00:00:00

theli would have to remain in tLe respective Post-
offices uhtil Mooday morning-35 hours ; aNd many
ether places would be similarly situated. Therefore,
d such would be the result on one line of road,
how ext,m.ivo and serious would its consequences
prove if the whole m.il-coach arrangements in the
kingdom were subjected .to the proposed change!—a
change, I admit, not at all likely to take place, or even
to be listened to.

We may, however, be inclined to give the peti-
tioners etelit for their inot,vt—namly, to avert the
(tin.e,•ration of the S.ilaaath—th:. p-esent system pre-
velting coach-guards, drivers, &c., were they so dis-
posed, w tending churches. In answer to this, I say
that, to respect to guards and drivers, they woull be
left on the Saturday [lights at such distances from
their hottiez that they might riot be prepared to go to
places of worship ; and if mails were compelled to -.;,ops
perhaps at a coutitr2 inn, or some obscure vill:47e, where
no place of security could be found to deposit the bags
—however attentive guards miat..c be in looking after
',heir charges—many cbane of robbery by stratagem
or confederacy might t;;ixe place. In fact, guards would
be prisoners by (4.sv, and require assistants to watch
along with ther, by-night.
Byte eat expected remittances, of.forei„zii
IDTk relative to shipping, orders for
g 000.6, amount sales, states of markets, &c., such de-
1-.sys might prove disastrous to the commercial world ;
awl, in a social point of view, equally serious to ti.ose
who have friends at a distance, perhaps in sickness,
from whom they may be anxiously waiting intilligence,
while such communications may be lying in the pest-
offices of the to mos in which those to whom they are
addressed reside, or within a few miles of their desti-
nation.

Under these circumstanceF, it is not in human nature
to suppose that individuals or families could composedly
reconcile themselves to go to church, divested of feelings
which must be uppermost, and there attend to their devo-
tional exereiseswith that Christian spirit which they mig.ht
otherwise do, were their anxieties raeved by be'ng in pos-
session of expected communications; when at present there
is no unnecessary detcation, neither is there any com-
pulsion to take letters from post-offices on Sundays by
ithose who deem it wrong to do so. I admit that lam
ere entering into unnecessary details, and therefore
conclude for the precat. Should these remarks meet
;he eyes of those who have not considered the subject
fully, they may be the means of making them pause be.
fore committing themselves in promoting petitions for
what cannot be granted. And with these views, I re-
spectfully zubseribe,
JAMES CHALMERS, Bookseller.
Dundee, March 26,1841.

RATES FOR HIGH.WAYS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Surveyors of highways produce their accounts
to the various vestries of their parishes next week, who
have uneoetr. power to levy rates. In tie dis-
bursement there is usually much jobbing and pecula-
tion. The parishioners have the power to remedy this
evil by insisting upon a legal account, which the statute
(the Act 5 and 6 Win. IV., cap. 50, sec. 40) requited
to be kelt week by wc...k, under a per.a,lt,y tl five
pounds for each weekly default. The 4tnedule of
the Act, No. 5, gives the form. The 113th section di-
rects that it shag be used, and the 44th sect.on that it
shall be presented to the vP'stry balanced, and from
thence to the Sessions for t'ae allowance.
No other form of book or account should be ac-
knowledged by the Vestry, but the ore made weekly
and open to the 'inspection of the rate-payers, as
" required from time to time to be kept ; a book in
which shall 'de entered a just and true and particular
accouo..., of all money which shall have come to his,
ha:ads as surveyor, tor the purposes of this Act, and
to whom, and on what occasion, and for what work,
and in what, place, and on what day he shah have paid
or applied the same." They will then hate an oppor-
tunity of detecting any imposition ; but if they Mlow
a new, made-up. book expressly for the Vestry, or
merely OTC productions of tradesmen's biDs and receipt?,
and a balance-shet;t, ' as..; the account, the parishioners
may expect' a.coat,nuanee of heavy rates and bad roads.
17:Ours, &c.,
A REFORMER.

April 2 iB4 I.

TO COMMERCIAL TRAVELLEP.S

TO THE EDITOiI OF THE SUN.

SlR—Believing that many of my brother-travellers are not
aware of the following facts (arising from recent circum-
stances), I beg to acquaint them that " things of guests in a
public inn" cannot be distrained for rent; but " livery stables
are not exempt." Therefore their horses and gigs standing at
livery may be distrained for the rents of the livery stables.
insertion of the above in your Journal,
Will much oblige, Sir, vour's truly,
A CO.IIMERCIAL TRAVELLER.
London, April 5, 1841.