The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-31 00:00:00

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EVENING
among the injured. - If free and speedy intercommuni-
cation by letter be a national good, the commercial and
public man, the anxious parent, the home-staying wife,
the physician who could heal and the patient who might
be relieved, are shut out by a priestly fraud from the
knowledge of what is in the world, for fourteen per
cent. of the days of their lives. The writer of this,
though none of these more remarkedly than his neigh-
bours, has suffered to the value of many thousand
pounds by the sacerdotal obstructions on the post alone,
and would readily submit to the most onerous of Jew-
ish rites, if it would place him in the status quo. But
it is on the working classes that the evil falls with
intolerable weight. They arc robbed of the day, which
bound as they are on other days to ceaseless toil, is
their all, the sole of time allowed them whereby to differ
from a steam-engine or a mill-horse.
There will be no good done till the working classes
set up the cry of " Huzza for St, Paul and the Con-
fession of Augsburg ; and ao Thomas of Canter.
bury !" Whenever they dare set themselves in oppe-
sitien to suderstitious and antichristian prejudice as
their fathers did, there will be no difficulty in making
a reasonable settlement with conflicting cia:ms fur
rest. Sailors like well to sleep in the middle watch ;
but they do not therefore insist on being all asleep at
once. Get rid of the antichristian prejudice, and there
would be little difficulty in legislative regulation
which should ensure to every man his day of rest.
Public men have certainly not taken up this question
by the right end. Sonic of them are understood to prc-
fess small reverence for the rule ; but that is no reason
why they should let go the long end of the lever, con-
sisting in the power of examining how far the demands of
an encroaching sect agree with its own rule, where the
case has become one of civil oppression and public suf-
fering. As an instance, there is no difficulty in enter-
ing into the question between the Wahabees (who are
a kind of Mohammedan Lutherans) and the dominant
sect ; it is within every man's compass to foem a pretty
good judgment, whether a command or a prohibition is
in the Kenna or not.
Finally, I must take the opportunity to defend my-
self from the charge of having entered on this question
needlessly, or conducted it with a disregard for public
prejudice whether right or wrong. It was forced on
me, first by accident, and afterwards by ill treatment
and consequent inquiry, as is the usual round. A few
years ago, and I verily thought I did God service, by
flying in the face of an Apostle to please an Arch-
bishop. While I sat for Hull, a deputation was sent
to urge me to oppose in Committee the closing of their
railroad. Perhaps you think they were my own pari ie
eulars, sent by some understanding with myself. They
were not ; they were the then or lately Conservative
town-:•lork, and the since Conservative Member for the
East Riding. And they stood over me while I did my
work. So fsaid, which was quite true, that when I was
going out Governor to Sierra Leone in 1808, Mr. Wil-
berforce told me he did not believe Sunday was of divine
ordinance, but he thought it was an excellent politi-
cal iesttution. Some of the bigots, thinking to frighten
me, brought it up afterwards in the House. But they
caught a Tartar ; for I only told it again. After this,
came abuse of various kinds ; and it is only the other
day you saw my Manchester libeller, if we may judge
from his printed hand, calling me infidel, by which he
means dog. But as has happened in other cases, it all
drove nie to looking into the matter more closely. Su
once more, " Huzza for St. Paul and the Confession
of Augsburg ;" and if the dominant sect will not hear
reason, we will make them when we are strong enough,
as our fathers the before us.
I remain, Sir, yours very sincerely,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON.
Louden, •13d August, 1840.

PRICE sd.

We will give the chapter referred to in a future number;

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

MANCHESTER.—FitinA V.

For the past three days the business has been of a lukewarm
character. The St. Leger field gets more and more insignifi-
cant ; amd the prevailing opinion is, that not more than eight
will be at the post. The following are the only horses we now
hear named :-7 to 4 agst Launcelot, 11 to :2 agst Gibraltar,
14 to 1 agst 13ro3dwath, 14 to 1 agst Maroon, 15 to I agst
Crucifix, IS to 1 agst Theon, 30 to 1 agst Dr. Caius, and 40
to I agst the Young-'un.
THE LEAMINGTON STAKES.-2 to 1 agst Hetman Platoff,
and 6 to 1 agst Clarion, both backed.
DONCASTER CUP.-4 to I agst llctman Platoff, 9to 2 asst
Lanercost, and 6 to 1 agst Charles XII.

HEREFORD RACES.-THFRSDAT.
(CONCLUDED.)

The City and County Cup of 50 soy., added to a Handicap
Sseepstakes of 15 sor. each, 10 ft., and 5 only if declared.
(6 Subs., I declared. )
Mr. Edge's ch c Hautboy, 3 yrs, 6st 61b.. ...... ...( Stag) 1
Mr. Page's Query, 5 yrs, 7st 101 b
Mr. Walter's Vertumnus, 5 yrs, Set 41b ..... .........
Mr. 1. Day's Science, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b

6to 4 agst Vertumnus. Won by a length.
The Handicap of 5 sov. each, with 25 added, once round, 4
Subs., was won in two heats by Sir. Griffith's Tupsiey, 3 yrs.
7st (Whitehouse) ; beating Mr. Pryse's Fairy, 4 yrs, 7st 101,
and Sir. Edge's Hautboy,3 yrs, 7st 51b, easy. Hautboy won
the first heat by a head, but was declared distanced for crossing.
The Selling Stakes of 3 soy each, with a Cup of 40 sov added
by the Ladies. Heats, once round the long length. (4 Subs.)
Mr. Hughes's f Nell, 4 yrs (Mr. Vivian) 3 1 1
Sir. Page's Romp, 6 yrs .. . ... . 1 2 3
Sir. I3yrne's b in by Inflexible, aged 4 3 2
:Mr. Bryan's Dewdrop, aged
\Von easy. - -
The Free handicap of 3 soya. each, with 25 added, once
round and a distance, was won in two heats by Sir. Dixon's
Zeno, beatinv, two others easily.
The Hurdle Race was won in three heats by Mr. Dallimore's
Y. Tamworth, aged, 12st 71b (Sir. Vivian), beating Sir.
Byrne's Juggler, and two others cleverly.