The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-29 00:00:00

OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH.
(From a respected Correspondent, a Clergyman of the

Church of England.) -
I was delighted to find myself, by a well written paper
in your Sun, of the 24th inst., anticipated in my in-
tention of addressing you on the same most important
subject of a Sabbath. I have now merely to give my
thoughts a somewhat different shape. I have been a
clergyman upwards of forty years. When a child I
was constantly impressed with deep reverence for the
Sabbath. The first or second sermon (of two well re-
collected by me, though I cannot now say which was
the first), but the first or second sermon I ever corn.
posed was on the due observance of the Sabbath. In
subsequent years I composed many other sermons on
that subject. Ten or twelve years ago, my eye-sight
failing, I began to preach extempore, as, after having
written many hundreds of sermons, I thought I might.
But now I found as alteration needed in more respects
than one. Instead of six or seven hours' hard thinking
and writing on the Saturday night, to clear up and se-
cure my thoughts for a sermon on the next morning, I
found it necessary to look more closely into the particu-
lar subjects than heretofore, and to employ my mind
more entirely upon substance than in any degree upon
ornament ; for otherwise I knew that I should have no
chance as an extempore preacher. Under such altered
circumstances, some eight or ten years back, I said to
myself," I will preach again on the observance of the
Sabbath ; and, with the Bible in hand, I will investi-
gate the whole subject, and fill my mind well with al
the Word of God says of it, so that I shall have only
to open my mouth and pour forth with due application
all the precious truths I have gleaned concerning it.
But what was my amazement, almost amounting to
terror ? I found I was utterly unprepared to take up
again at the moment a subject so familiar to me ! I
considered it again and again for days, and weeks,
and months, with astonishment ! Was it possible that
I could have been for so many years mistaken ?
or, if I could thus have been, could my beloved
friends, some or the first in the world for piety
and talent, to say nothing of Commentators, aye, and of
the whole Christian world, have thus been under delu-
sion? I bad at last discovered that in the word of God
at least there was no such observance as a Christian
Sabbath ! For the correctness or otherwise of this
supposed discovery of the truth, of which I have long
had not the shadow of a doubt myself, I had rather
refer your readers to my only source of information than
try their patience by my -prosings upon it. I would
only just strengthen one particular which your former
Correspondent has already handled, and adduce another
with which he was not likely to be acquainted. The
particular I would strengthen is your Correspondent's
most proper and most powerful quotation from 2d Co-
lossians, IGth verse " Let no man therefore judge you
in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an boly-day, or of
the new moon, or of the sabbath•days." And the
strength I would add to it is merely by quoting the
very next verse, the 17th, " which are a shadow of
things to come ; but the body is of Christ ;" and by
the commonest of all observations, that when the body
and substance is come, all the shadows or types thereof
are done away. The other particular is as follows :—I
was visiting a very zealous Roman Catholic Priest, and
I asked him how it was that his Church, which he be-
lieved infallible, could make such a mistake (I did not
wonder at my own, the Protestant Church, for that was
by its own avowal fallible enough) as to change the day
of the Sabbath without adequate authority ? He very
mildly and quietly answered, that "it was not without
adequate authority, for that it was so agreed upon by
St. Peter and St. Paul, in one of their conferences at
Rome." Well done, Catholic Priest I thought I, who-
ever thinks that those of your order are not " ready
always to give a reason of the hope that is in them with
meekness" will probably form a wrong estimate of
them. I need not say that such a conference of the
holy Apostles, Peter and Paul, not being in my record,
the Holy Scriptures, I still remained firm in my own
belief, that there is not in the whole of the New Testa-
ment even the shadow of what is called the
Christian Sabbath. I do not wonder at, I
rather admire and respect greatly, the seal of many,
very, many of the present day for the Sabbath.
No one could well be more zealous than myself in
former days. I once narrowly escaped (and how I
escaped I know not) being prosecuted by the authori-
ties of a large town for my earnest efforts and writings
against Sunday drilling. But it is possible to be very
zealous on very inadequate grounds of knowledge ; and
such I consider all such men as Sir Andrew Agnew to
be. At least I am confident that they must obtain
their knowledge from some such sources as my worthy
neighbour the Catholic priest, and not from the Word
of God contained in the Holy Scriptures of the New
Testament. There is no Sabbath (rest) for the soles
of their feet to stand upon there.

DONATION of QUEEN DOWAGER.

DONATION OF THE QUEEN DOWAGER TO THE DIS-
TRESSED SPITALFIELDS WEAVERS.—On Saturday the
Lord Mayor received the following note from the Hon.
William Ashley, enclosing a check from the Queen
Dowager for 100/.
Marlborough House, Nov. 27, 1841.
" My Lord—The Queen Dowager, deeply sympathis-
ing in the present distressed state of the Spitalfields
weavers, and underst:inding that your Lordship has
kindly undertaken to receive subscriptions in their be-
half, has commanded me to send the enclosed check for
100/ , with the expression of her Majesty's best wishes for
the success of the undertaking.
" I have the honour to be, my Lord,

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" Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant,
" WILLIAM ASHLEY."
His Lordship, upon receiving the communication, said
he had no doubt that the example and the wishes of so
noble-minded and exalted a personage would produce a
great effect upon the higher classes of society, who could
know but little of the miseries which such bounty WAS
sure to alleviate.

FORGERY OF POSTAGE STAMPS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—Observing that you have transferred
from the columns of the Morning Post, into your
paper of yesterday, an article on the subject of
forgery, I beg to hand you the copy of a letter
addressed by me to the Editor of that Journal,
with reference to so much of his observations as
relates to the forgery of stamps, and I shall
feel obliged if you will insert such letter in your
next publication.—l am, Sir, your most obedient
servant,
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laida forj. StampsTilNil‘ i ' and Taxes.
Stamps and Taxes, Nov. 27.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE " MORNING POST."
SIR,—In the City article in your paper of this
day I find it stated that the law does not com-
prehend the imitation by means of the electrotype
of embossed
.stamps, such as the Post-office
labels, as an offence coming within the Acts
passed for the prevention of forgery.
Feeling asssured that you would deeply regret
that any of your readers should be misled by
your remark, and be induced to attempt the ex-
periment suggested, under the erroneous notion
that it may be practised with impunity, I beg to
refer you to the 22d section of the New Postage
Act, 3d and 4th Viet., cap. 00, where you will
find that any person who shall by any means
whatever iilnuiliyilst‘to.aeartkei
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this department.--I am, Sir, your most obedient
servant, J. TIMM,
Stamps
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Tax Solicitor for Stamps and Taxes.
es, Somerset-house, Nov. 26.

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ing, the was compelled to take leave of her faithful
attendant, Clementine Servat, by which they were both
on
deeply elreeted. After being received by the Director,
she was delivered over to the Sisters of Saint
• Joseph, who superintend the house. She has hitherto
been treated as an invalid, being constantly subject
to a cough, and is put into a small cell by herself, con-
taining only an iron bedstead, a small table, and two
chairs. She has not left her bed since. She wears u,
black velvet toque or beret, and her black hair is
dressed with taste on her forehead. Her cloak is spread
over her bed. One of the Sisters has remained
constantly with her, but all other visitors are
strictly excluded, except that a relation resident
in the town has once been admitted. It is not
yet known whether, when her health will allow it,
she will be clothed in the prison-dress, and made to join
in the ordinary employ►nents of the prisoners; but it is
supposed that she will. The costume consists of a coarse
blue gown, and a cap fitting close to the head. Th
works are all carried on in silence, and consist in makinge
of handkerchiefs, stockings, and gloves, and in spinning
cotton and silk. On her journey to the prison, she asfollowed in a second post-chaise by two persons ri,„.
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Nov. 13.

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MIDDLE TEMPLE,—The Benchers of the
Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, hare conferred
the degree of Barrister-at-Law upon the following gen-
tlemen :—William Hussey, Esq., Alfred Domett, Esq.,
Joseph Arnould, Esq., John Bridge Aspinall, Esq., Row-
land William Davies Collett, Esq., William Liddell,
Esq., John William Williamson, Esq., George Knight
Huxley, Esq., 'Thomas Solly, Esq., John Leveson Gower
Ward, Esq., Roger Natters, Esq., William Greene At-
kinson, Esq.,
Francis Scully, Esq.. Peter Benson Max-
well, Eiq., David Edmund Babbington Ring, Esq.,
Francis Lucas, Esq., Peter Cotter, Esq.

EVENING SUN. 4