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SUNDAY PERSECUTION.-!
EDINBURGH.
TO -THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR—I hate and abominate oppression in all
shapes, but above all .that which assumes the
part of religion. The. industrious and poor are
suffering quite sufficiently from the cruel and
life-destroying provision laws, without the addi-
tion of religions persecution. The Scotch .have
been always,-Tam proud to say, remarkable for
their observance- of the Sabbath; but such don-
duct as that which you describe on the part ceif
those in authority, in the case of the person who
was sent to prison, and his family reduced to the
greatest distress, for selling sweattneats on a
Sunday, must tend, instead of keeping up that
proper respect, not only to destroy it, but also
to engender a feeling of hostility to religion.
Should the case be as you describe, • I beg you
will send the enclosed to Mr. Robertson, in
order that the man may be liberated forthwith.
Your obedient servant,
23, Brook-street, Nov. 13, 1841. KINNAIRD.
[We have had much.pleasure in forwarding the
Noble Lord's bounty (three guineas) to Edin-
burgh.—ED.
The following is the report of the proceedings
in the Town Council, respectino•' the victim .of
the Church, to which his Lordship's letter re-
fers. We had not- room for it at the time, and
on that account, in noticing, the prosecution, we
adverted to the conduct of the guilty parties in
more moderate terms than the actual state of filets
warranted. The- case, as will be -seen by the
report, is still worse than we represented it;
and we trust that subscriptions will pour in, not
only to compensate the sufferers, but to mark
the indignation of the public against these inhu-
man religionists.
. TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

shut up the New Club, and the United Service
Club.? The fact was, that those self-righteous in-
dividuals were fast bringing Christianity and the
Gospel of peace into contempt and hatred. For
his own part, he would rather be an infidel than
the prosecutors of this poor man on such a
miserable charge, and under such circumstances,
that his poor child would, in all human proba-
bility, be dead before he came out. It might be
a short road to the eldership to give information
upon this poor man ; but he doubted very much
if it was the quickest way to Heaven.—(Hear.)
tip Mr. BANKs also expressed himself strongly
against the oppression which had been practised

in this case.
Mr. MAPVILAY said, that when he first saw
this case me4ioned in the newspaper's, he
doubted if it rally could be true ; but he had
since made some in4ssify -into the case, and lie
must say, that never in thenTrlacile•_eourse of his
life had he heard of one more iniquiptgalian
this. He agreed with Mr. Robertson that the
persons who countenanced such prosecutions
were doing great injury to the cause of religion.
Why, where was the great heinousness of the
case ? Was purchasing sweeties on Sunday any-
thing so very rare? He was satisfied that even
the Lord Provost ate sweeties on the Sunday ;
but whether they directed his attention away
from the sermon or not he could not say.—
(Laughter.) Was it not a fact that many gentle-
men were in the habit of buying lozenges as they
went along to church? For his part, he must
confess to having done so. He supported the
motion of Mr. Renton.
Mr. GRIERSON wished the case had been of a
different description before such exorbitant
charges had been incurred. He was perfectly
astonished to find that a minister of the Church
of Scotland had gloried in his place in the Pres-
bytery that he had prosecuted a poor man under
such circumstances, and had boasted that it
would be a long time before the man would be
able to pay the fine by selling sweeties. Shame
be to the man whose lips could utter such a sen-
tence !—(Hear, hear.) Could they not have got
some other case than this, if they must prose-
cute? Were there not hundreds of puLlic-
houses open in the district, out of which they
could have got a strong case, the prosecution of
which would have been sanctioned by public
opinion ?
The LORD PROVOST could not allow the ques-
tion to be any longer discussed, without entering
his protest against the charge of tyranny and
oppression having been exercised against this
man for keeping his shop open during Divine
Service. He could not shut his eyes to the fact,
that it was a crime both by the law of God and
man to buy and sell during Divine Service on
Sunday. It was reported to the Magistrates,
that the keeping open of such shops was a grow-
ing evil, and one which ought to be remedied.
It was not wished that snore rigour than neces-
sary should be used; but it was thought that as
this man kept his shop open exactly in front of
Mr. Guthrie's church, setting at defiance, as
it were, all moral feeling, he should be made
an example of. Mr. Macaulay -had asked him
whether he did not occasionally eat sweetmeats
himself on Sunday.—(Laughter.) Perhaps lie
did but certainly he did not purchase them on
the Sunday. Some gentlemen had talked of
apothecaries' shops, as if they were on the same
footing as the shop of this man. There was
a great distinction. Human life might often
depend upon a druggist's shop being open
on Sunday. If such a daring and wilful
violation of the law of God, however, were not
put down as the one in question, all reverence
for the Sabbath would soon be lost. He could
not go along with the feeling of Mr. Robertson,
who certainly spoke as he always spoke—strongly.
He hoped, however, that in this case he had
spoken snore strongly than sincerely, when he
said that he would rather be an infidel than en-
gage in punishing the violation of the Sabbath.
Ir. ROBERTSON-4 said rather than have been
guilty of persecuting this man.
After some further discussion, the Council
unanimously agreed to the following motion,
suggested by Mr. Logan :—" That the proceed-
ings in the case of the Procurator Fiscal against
Butters, fur the profanation of the Sabbath, to,
gether with the Fiscal's account of expenses;
should be laid before the Lord Provost's Com•
mittee, with a view to determine whether or no
it was a case in which the Fiscal was entitled to
make any charge in the shape of fees."

ABRAHAM HORNE, alias ALFRED
HALLEN.—REWARD, —Whereas Abraham Horne,
lately residing in the Foxley-road, North Brixton, AB-
SCONDED in the month of April last, from his securities
and other creditors, taking with him a considerable sum of
money, and leaving his wife and family, consisting of four
infant children, totally unprovided for. The above person was
last seen in the neighbourhood of Paris. The said Abraham
Home travels under the assumed name of Hallen, accompLnied
by a woman named Deborah Hallen. Any one giving such
information as will lead to. the apprehension of the said
Abraham Home will be liberally REWARDED.
Address (pre-paid) A. C., care of Mr. Todd, Harleyford-
place, Kennington ; or to Monsieur De Belcour, Avocet,
Montreuil, Pas de Calais, France.

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having a balance of that fund remaining in their hands, deem
this a period for rendering such assistance as their means will
permit to those districts where cotton, flax, wool, and silk are
manufactured, and where distress now prevails.
The Committee think it right to express their wish and
hope that in all places from whence applications are sent Local
Committees will be foimed to co-operate with this Board, and
it might be right to state that these grants will be regulated by,
and in proportion to, the means and amount raised in the neigh-
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Magistracy, and 11sster Manufacturers, conjointly of the
several towns and villages in England and Scotland where
distress prevails, to apply by letter, enclosing an account of the
manufacturing population, the numbers employed and partly
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unemployed and destitute, together with a statement of the
exertions that have been made locally to meet the pressing ne-
cessities of the distressed.
All letters to be pre-paid, and addressed to W. H. Hyett,
Esq., Secretary to the Manufacturers' Relief Committee, No.
74, King William-street, City, on or before Thursday, 25th of
November, 1841.

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The Council met on Tuesday, the Lord Pro-
vost in the Chair.

SABBATH OBSERVANCE.

Mr. RENTON called the attention of the Coun-
cil to the case of Butters, inserted in the Scots-
man of Saturday-, a case which he considered
most oppressive, and of which the Council ought
to express their entire disapproval. Re (Mr.
R.) approved as highly of a proper observance
of the Sabbath as any man, but he did not think
that the best way to attain that object was to
prosecute persons on such paltry charges as
that of selling a pennyworth of sweeties, while
they left coaches of all sorts at liberty
to ply on Sunday as they pleased. Not
only were hackney-coaches allowed to ply on
Sunday, but if a coach proprietor should refuse
to do so, he would be liable to a fine next day, in
the Police Court. He appealed to the members
of Council, if they themselves were not in the
habit of occasionally employing these to convey
them to Church and elsewhere, and when such
was the case—when they actually compelled
coach proprietors to break the Sabbath for their
own and the public convenience—how could
they approve of prosecuting a man for selling a
pennyworth of sweeties ?—(Hear, hear.) But
the prosecution was not only bad in itself, it was
of the most oppressive kind. The man was, it
seems, fined Bs.; added to which there were ex-
penses of Court, amounting to I ls., and Mr. Dy-
mock's fee, which amounted to no less than.
21. 25.. Now this last item required, he thought,
a little explanation. Mr. Dymock had a salary
of 2001:as Procurator Fiscal ; and why he should
charge such heavy fees in addition he (Mr. R.)
could not well understand. In these circum-
stances, he begged to move that it be remitted
to a Committee to inquire into the reasonable-
ness of the fee, and to report.
Bai.ie JOHNSTON said, that as he was one of
the _ Magistrates before whom the case came for
consultation, and as he had taken no small
share of the responsibility of the prosecution,
he thought he was entitled to take up their time
ror a few moments. And, first, they had been
told that the man was fined for selling a single
pennyworth of confectionaries. Now, how stood
the fact ? The same individual had been brought
before Bailie Grieve on a previous occasion, for
numerous offences of the same kind; but the
case had been dismissed merely with a caution.
The man then, in order to evade the law, while
he still sold the confectionaries, put up the word
" druggist " over .his door ; but he had again
been brought up notwithstanding, and fined, as
they had heard. Then, in the second place,
they should bear in mind, that the Magistrates
were, from the very nature of their office, im-
peratively called upon to prosecute those persons
who sold sweetmeats, or trafficked in any way on
the Lord's-day. The Magistrates had nothing to
do with the circumstances of the man whose case
was now before them; they had nothing to do
with hii family distress ; they were bound to give
protection to the public, and when this man
opened his shop on the Sabbath-day directly in
front of St. John's Church, they were imperatively
called upon to put it down as a nuisance. The chil-
dren attendir.g Mr. Guthrie's church or his Sab-
bath school were getting into the habit of going
to the shop and purchasing sweetmeats, which, in-
dependently of the impropriety of the conduct alto-
gether, rendered it impossible for them to attend
to their instructions as they might otherwise do.
As to what Mr. Renton had said about hackney
coaches, he (Bailie J.) would be glad to assist
him in amending the regulations regarding them,
but the fact of hackney coaches running on the
Sabbath could never excuse or justify the gross-
ness of this case; two blacks would never make
a white.—(Hear.) He would just say a word as
to the unwarrantable attack which Mr. Renton
had made on the Procurator. By the old law,
the Magistrates were allowed to fine the guilty
person five pounds Scots, amounting to eight
shillings and fourpence of the present currency.
Beyond that they unfortunately could not go,
and, therefore, that was the fine in the present
case. But, besides, there were two guineas
charged as a fee for Mr. Dymock, and lls. of other
expenses. The two guineas, in this instance, did
not go into Mr. Dymock's pocket—for, in order
to guide him in the case, it being among the
first of the kind for a length of time, he had,
for his own guidance, paid the, two guineas to
counsel for advice. So far, then, from gaining
anything for himself, Mr. Dymock was at this
moment out of pocket by the case.
Mr. ROBERTSON said he was by no means
satisfied with the explanation. He was, in fact
quite the reverse of satisfied; for he thought
Baillie Johnston, so far from improving the
case, had made it worse. It was now admitted
that the case was considered so doubtful that the
Procurator Fiscal did not feel warranted to proceed
without the opinion of counsel. This was an import-
ant fact, and showed how determined the party were
to carry out their tyranny and oppression. He
(Mr R.) had seen the man and his family. He
had, in fact, just come from seeing the latter, and
he must say that the description given of the wife-
was not at all overcharged. She was indeed an
interesting, heartbroken-looking vannan ; and the
child, from the cold to which it. Mad unavoidably
been exposed in the shop, was fast dying, if it
was not already dead.—(Hear, hear.) He had
and that his term of impri-
sonment seen the man himself in gaol.. When he
days, and
so that he (Mr.
waited upon him on Monday he found he had
beensdoind inn
eoi nntteg
choose
expiredoo
ol
s e s
tdo the
abomination
tmeasuresio a
of
liberation, seeing that he
had some doubts of the
he not
R.) felt
the
Procurator Fiscal—a man with a public sa-
fienitteitltauerdmic.ocre
islsiasreytiteot taketiie
lary-Laccumulating expenses in such a case
doubt the person supposed
why, then, give it up . Was it
not the law and spirit of our constitution, that
Thecas e
and they could not afford
to be guilty should have the benefit of that
wherever
dbubt ?—(Cries of Hear
" , hear.'' But But no ; the
enough to do that.
generosity
portion of the community who had the interests
sca
Fiscal, it
adn'sds:
of the poor constantly on their lips, but whose
man was a poor man,
whole lives were devoted to persecuting the poor.
--(Hear, hear.) With respect to Bailie Grieve
lie would say that
there
never was a more ho-
nest or more conscientious magistrate than him,
and he was sure he would not have convicted
the man but from the best of motives; but
even if he had been bound by the statute to im-
Ipose a fine, was that any excuse for heaping such
exorbitant expenses on the case? If the Pro-
curator Fiscal was ignorant, he had no right to
be where he was; and certainly he did not see
why the poor man should be taxed for Mr. Dy-
mock's ignorancd. He might mention that the
Governor of the gaol gave the man an excellent'
character for good behaviour during the time he
had been there. When he (Mr. 117) saw him on
Monday, he was busy Picking oakum. Was
that a punishment to inflict upon a shop-
keeper of Edinburgh for such a paltry of--
fence I Was it not a well-known fact that hun-
dreds of respectable people went into druggists'
shops on their way to church to putrchase
lozenges? Why, then, did these gentlemen not
prsecnte Mr. Duncan and_ .Flockhart, 'and Mr.
lickildon, and Mr. Butler? • Why did they not

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ARMY AND NAVY PROMOTIONS.
The anxious hope of the nation having been crowned
with success, the Navy and Army now look forward
with confident expectation for a liberal Army Brevet
and Naval Promotion. Various are the reports in
circulation on this subject.
As regards the Army, we must refer our readers to
the Naval and Military Gazelle of the 30th ult. on
this subject, in which are the following remarks :
That there will be a Brevet on the happy occasion
of her Majesty's approaching accouchement, we enter-
tain not the least doubt, because, as we lately stated,
the services consider Sir Henry Hardinge pledged to
this very necessary measure. This Brevet will, we be-
lieve, include the Lieutenant-Generals of 1825 and
1830, the Major-Generals of 1830, the remaining
Colonels of 1830, together with the very few who
received that rank in the following years (1831
to 1836), terminating with that gallant soldier and
truly excellent man, Colonel Aitchison, of the Scots
Fusilier Guards. Also the Lieutenant-Colonels,
Majors, and Captains, down to 1830 inclusive.
We should only deceive our friends of the Army, did
we hold out any hope that the next Brevet would ex
tend beyond the year 1830 ; but we have every reason
to feel assured that it will not stop short of that year,
for the very sufficient reason that the Lieutenant-
Colonels and Majors of 1826, 27, 28, and 29, are all,
with very few exceptions, purchase men ; whereas the
Lieutenant-Colonels and Majors'of 1830 are all veteran
officers, and have obtained their present rank by sheer
length of service. We should be truly happy to find
that, in addition to the above, some few officers of long
and distinguished service, but whose commissions are
dated subsequently t'o 1830, are selected for a step of
promotion by Brevet.
We cannot conclude without acquainting the autho-
rities that the Officers of the Army and Navy confi-
dently look forward to a very extensive promotion in and
appointment to the Order of the Bath. This will cost
the country nothing ! At the same time it is hoped
that some better claim for that honour will be substan-
tiated than the fact of having happened to marry a
Duchess !—and that the claims of Officers of long and
gallant services will not be again passed by. There is
one class of Officers, however, who should not be over-
looked, happen what will : we allude to those very few
Officers now in command of regiments whose fortunes
they have followed from their first entering the Service.
In respect to the Navy it is stated by many persons
who assume to bo well informed, that the promotion of
Flags will take in Sir Charles Napier ; whilst others
say that it will not go below the end of 1807, thus in
eluding Sir Thomas Troubridge, and ending with Capt.
Charles Gordon.
With regard to the junior classes, of course there will
be a proportionate advancement in each rank ; and
being most desi.ous for the welfare of the Navy, we sin-
cerely hope that it will include all the mates that are
serving, down to the year 1836 at least, which will be
about one hundred and fifty only, and all of whom must
have been in the Navy full twelve years.
W e should be glad, indeed, could we learn that it
was intended to include another year, which would ex-
tend the number to about 230 altogether ; and whilst
we hear of the great difficulty that now exists in getting
active and efficient Lieutenants to serve in our ships, we
do trust that the First Lord of the Admiralty may see
fit to carry the expected promotion out to this satisfac-
tory extent.
Possibly on the present joyous occasion the promotion
may be extended to some of the old Commanders,
Lieutenants, and Mates, whose claims appear to merit
such favour. This was the ancient practice on a gene-
ral promotion, and, if revived, would give much satis-
faction.
Of this we aro fully assured, that ALL and EVERY-
THING that can be done for the service will be recom-
mended by the distinguished officer who now holds the
senior seat at the Board under the First Lord.
We have ascertained that up to the present moment
nothing has been definitively settled. Several commu-
nications, however, from the Naval and Military De-
partments, with regard to the expenses of the Brevet,
have been made, to the Chancellor of the Exchequer
during the week.—Naval and Military Gazette.