The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-05 00:00:00

POST-OFFICE CLERKS.

The same HON. MEMBER, presented a petition from
Benjamin Wheeler, a newsvender, at Manchester, com-
plaining that, after having been for a number of years em-
ployed as a newsvender, he now found great opposition
in his business by the clerks of the Post-office.
He stated that those clerks were enabled to supply the
news-rooms and the inhabitants with newspapers an hour
and a half earlier than he could do himself ; that he was
obliged to pay a heavy rent and other expenses, while
the clerks of the Post office had neither rent nor taxes
to pay. The petitioner prayed that those persons might
no longer be allowed to act as newsvenders. On a
former occasion the Noble Chancellor of the Exchequer
said, if that privilege were taken from the Post office
clerks the public would have to allow them larger salaries.
Now he (Mr. Phillips) would prefer that, to allowing
them while employed by the public to make a traffic in
newspapers. The Hon. Member also presented a petition
from Llandissen, in Glamorganshire, for an alteration in
the new Beer Act.
now required praying
might
tiia
Mr. D. BROWNE presented a petition from the gentry,
clergy,
be diminished—that in many cases the mere affirmation
of parties might be deemed sufficient, and that in all serious
themagistracy,
numerous
oaths &
~w
of
o the wnty o
of l i a
cases the oaths in Courts of Justice he administered by the
Judge, and not by the Law-officer of the Court. The
Hon. Member also presented a petition from the society of
writers at Edinburgh for the abolition of the tax upon
writers and attorneys.

Mr. CAYLEY presented a petition from Kirby, York-
shire, praying for some law to make clergymen resident
in their parishes and against tithes ; also one tiom the
dissenters of Northtown, against the present marriage
hisva, Hs bad also I number of ',elfin, genet pars of

the Bank Charter plan, but as it was withdrawn for the
present he would not present them.
Mr. SHAW presented a petition from the Corporation of
Tailors in Dublin in favour of the Kingston Railway Bill.
Mr. KENNEDY presented a peti ion from a Mr. Sire.
ma), of Piymouth, complaining of an order of affiliation
made upon him by the district magistrates, and praying
that the great power lodged in their hands should be
limited, and such case sent before a Jury.
Mr. LENNARD presented a petition from Norwich,
signed by 3,000 respectable inhabitants, complaining of
gross abuses of the Corporation of that city.
On the motio❑ that it do lie on the table being put,
Sir J SCARLETT said, there was one thing to be
said of Warwick, its corporation was in that state to
which it was wished to bring all corporations, viz. the
Mayor and all other officers were popularly elected, viz.
by al belonging to the corporation. One charge was a
most singular one, viz, that the corporation had used their
corporation patronage in order to strengthen their own
party. Now, whoever heard that charge seriously brought
against a Minister for giving a place to one of his
partisans?

After a few words from Mr. S. LEFEVRE and Sir J.
SCARLETT, the petition was laid on the table.
Mr. GEORGE F. YOUNG presented a petition from
Wapping and Shadwell, against the Iwpre•sment Act.
Also, a petition from the ship joiners of the port
of London, stating the great injury they bad sustained
from the practice of repairing ships in foreign ports,
which was adopted to a certain extent under the Re-
gistry Act. The Honourable Member also presented
petitions from the blacksmiths of the port of London,
and several tradesmen connected with the equipment of
ships, against the mortgage clause in the Registry Act.
The Honourable Member next presented a petition,
signed by the shipowners of the port of London,
declaring that that clause in the Registry Act had been
productive of the greatest possible disadvantage to them.
It related principally to the charge on ships entering
the port of London, known by the name of the Port of
London duty. The object of the petitioners was, that that
clause in the Act should be repealed, and in lieu thereof
that an annual sum should be charged on shipping en-
tering the port of London for the payment of the harbour
masters.—( Hear, hear, hear.) He had consulted his
Majesty's Government and the merchants of the city
of London, and there was no objection on their
part to it. He regretted his attentio❑ had not been
called to the circumstance in sufficient time to al-
low him to move for leave to bring in a Bill
to that effect, but he should consider it to be one of the
first duties amongst those he had to perform during the
next session, to submit this question to the consideration
of the House, when he was sure it would meet with a
favourable reception.

The Hort. MEMBER then presented a petition from the
overseers of the poor and the select vestry of the town-
ship of North Shields, complaining of the hardship they
felt from the manner in which they were assessed for the
poors' rates. Also a p.-tition from the freeholders of
Tynemouth, against the Registry of Deeds Act, • -•-;
Mr. 'WARBURTON presented a petition from Sir
Gilbert Blane and other physicians practising in the me-
tropolis, complaining of the by laws of the College
of Physicians, and a petition front the physicians of
Norwich, praying for a general inquiry into the present
medical practice. He also presented a petition from Dr.
John B. Gilchrist, praying for the appointment of a Com-
mittee of physicians, to inquire into his new system of
medicine.

Mr. W. BROUGHAM presented petitions from the
inhabitants of the Strand, Ludgate-bill, Southwark, &c.,
against the renewal of the Bank Charter.

Mr. POULETT SCROPE and Mr. STEWART supported
the prayer of the petition.
Mr. C. BULLER presented a petition from certain
electors of Dover, praying for the more effective enforce-
ment of the law respecting the qualification of Members.
An HON. MEMBER stated that the decision of the
Committee was given on the ground that the onus pro-
bandi lay with the petitioners.

Alr. H. L. BUL:WER presented a petition from the
ribbon-weavers of Coventry, complaining of distress;
al,o one from the representatives of Naroba Govind Outia,
that the Deccan prize money should not be divided until
that claim sh(lald be heard.

Mr. BROCKLEHURST presented a petition from
Throwsters and manufacturers of M icelesfield, complain..
ing of the introduction of foreign thrown silk.
Mr. RYLE supported the petition.
Mr. LEE LEE presented a petition from Cheffton
Beauchamp ag,inst the tithe system.
Lord AIORPETH presented a petition from Brecon in
favour of the Factories Bill.

Mr. CURTEIS presented a petition from Brighton for
an alteration in the Irish and Scotch Vagrant B►II.
Sir OSWALD MOSLEY give notice for, next aession
of hip intention to bring in a Bill for an alteration of the
laws respecting parish apprentices.
The Speaker then left the chair.

MR. WILBERFORCE.—The following sketch
of the Christian philanthropist, evidently drawn from the
character of the late Mr. WILBERFORCE, is extracted from
a work of great talent and popularity, entitled " The N au-
ral History of Enthusiasm." Let it, for example, have
been given to a man to receive superior mental endow-
ments, force of understanding, solidity of judgment, and
richness of imagination,—command of language, and
graces of utterance,—a soul fraught with expansive kind.
ness, and not more kind than courageous; and let him, thus
furnished by nature, have enjoyed the advantages of rank
and wealth and secular influence ; and let it have been his
lot in the prime of life to be stationed just on the fortu-
nate centre of peculiar opportunities; and then let it have
happened that a fourth part of the human family, cruelly
maltreated, stood as clients at his door, imploring help;
and let him, in the very teeth of ferocious selfishness, have
achieved deliverance for these suffering millions, and have
given a deadly blow to the Moloch of blood and rapacity;
and 1,4 him have been lifted to the heavens on the loud
acclamations of all civilised nations, and blessed amid the
sighs and joys of the ransomed poor, and his name dif-
fused like a charm through every barbarous dialect of a
continent ;—let all this signal felicity have belonged to the
lot of a Christian, a Christian well taught in the prin-
ciples of his religion ; nevertheless, in the midst of his
honest joy, he will find place rather for humiliation than
for that vain excitement and exultation wherewith a man
of merely natural benevolence would not fail, in like cir-
cumstances, to be intoxicated. Without st all allowing
the exaggerations of an affected humility, the triumphant
philanthropist confesses that he is nothing; and far from
deeming himself to have surpassed the requirements of the
law of CHRIST, feels that he has done less than his duty.
Christ an philanthropy, thus boldly and solidly based on
a sense of unlimited obligation, acquires a character essen-
tially differing from that of spontaneous kindness; and
while, as a source of relief to the wretched, it is rendered
esroi else
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FEMALE SLAVE COSTUME.—As for the
women, I hardly know how to describe their gala-dresses'
they are so various. The wives or daughters of estates,
head people, have the best, of course—if I except domes-
tics, who .dress still giyer. They have fine worked muslin
gown., with handsome flounces scion and sareenet bo-
dices are very common ; their under garments are of the
best materials, and they have either good cotton or silk
stockings ; their kid dancing shoes are often of the gayest
colours, while their expensive turbans are adjusted with a
grace, that makes the dress really appear elegant. It is
common for them to have not a hair-dresser, but a head
dresser, or rather a turban putter-on, upon such occa-
sions; and for the mere putting on of the turban, they
pay a quarter-dollar,—not less than Is. Id. sterling ! This
is a custom not confined to domestics, but predominates
throughout all ranks of the female-slave population. They
have all beautiful handkerchiefs upon their necks; some
are of IL itish manufacture, but many are costly silk ones
from M irtinique—while others wear them of India mus-
lin. The real value of their jewellery is considerable ; it
consists of massy gold earrings, and rings upon their fin.
gers. Coral necklaces, and handsome gold chains, lockets,
and other ornaments of this description. The more com-
mon field female negro, very often, if elderly, is decked out
in a very large patterned chintz, or perhaps the bodice is
madeof this, while the skirt is of muslin ; or. vice versa,
the skirt chintz, and bodice and sleeves muslin. They
all have one really good necklace ; but they often also
wear along with it, half-a•dezen other necklaces, of co-
loured glass beads, such as light blue, yellow, white, and
purple. Every negro has a garnet necklace; all have ear-
rings, and rings on their fingers; and at Christmas time
•
a handsome new turban, too, is worn. The very youngest
baby is well-dressed at such a time, and even for a child
they scorn old clothes ; indeed, it rarely happens that the
same dresses are worn twice at Christmas. I have heard
them say to each other, "Look at so and so; see bow mean
she be; she wore that very same dress last Christmas."
White muslin frocks, and a n'ce new handkerchief for the
children as a turban, are universally worn ; abundance of
cohl oous
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generally coloured ones, upon their children ; but the
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country children never wear them.--
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DOitleitile Manners and &clay in Mc West

FINE ARTS.

FISHER'S PICTURESQUE ILL USTRA-

TIONS. PART XVL

Several fine sketches of the most picturesque and
imposing parts of the lake-scenery of Cumberland
and Westmoreland are comprised in this Number
which also contains a series of pertinent literary ex-
planations, interspersed here and there with descrip-
tive extracts from the poems of the Lake Poets—
especially Wordsworth.