The Sun.
London, England, 1835-06-13 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, cc tnputed froir
the Returns made in the week ending the 9th day of June, 1835. is
30s. 7;d. per Hundred Weight, exclusive of the Duties of Customs
paid or payable thereon on the Importation thereof into Great Britain.

Nothing could be more just in sentiment and bene-
volent in spirit, than the observations in the House of
Lords upon the attempt to prohibit travelling on the
Newcastle railroad on Sundays: - Lord Roden, even
Lord Roden, admitted that there was great difficulty
in legislating for the observance of the Sabbath, and
gave his opinion that it would be better to promote
the object by the example of the rich than by any legal
enactment. The Duke of Richmond and Lord Wal-
lace objected to partial legislation operating on the
poor, the latter Nobleman observing, -with a touching
truth, that the distinction between rich and poor was
sufficiently great, God knows, and that to widen it
more he could not consent. Lord Wharneliffe took
the same just and benevolent view, and contended that
instead of throwing obstacles in the way of the labour-
ing man's little excursions for air and exercise on his
only day for recreation, every encouragement should
be given to pleasures so salutary to the health and
spirits. We should, without any other motive, gladly
have noticed this course of observation as creditable to
the enlightenment and benevolence of the Lords ; for
as we have often to censure them, we feel bound to
lose no opportunity of rendering 'praise when praise is
due ; but independently of that consideration, we are
called upon, in justice, to advert to the matter by the
very unfair reply of the Bishop of London upon Lord
Wharnclitre. It runs as follows :

" If the doctrine advanced by the Noble Baron who bad
just spoken were true, it would become the duty of the Legis-
lature to pass a measure for the increase of stage-coaches and
steam-carriages running on the Sunday, and for the closing of
all churches and chapels throughout the kingdom on that day.
The Noble Baron had declared that, in his opinion, travelling
amongst the working classes should be encouraged on the
Sunday. For what purpose ? Certainly not for the fulfilment
of the purpose for which the Divine Creator, in his bountiful
goodness, originally set apart that day from the other days of
the week. He (the Bishop of London) did not wish to pre-
vent the working classes from partaking in those innocent re-
creations on the Sunday which might tend to invigorate their
health, and to render them more able to discharge their duties
during the remainder of the week ; but if it were to be the
main object of the Legislature (as the Noble Baroa had inti-
mated) to increase the means and opportunities of travelling
upon railways during the hours of divine service, they (the
Clergy) might as well shut up their churches on the Sunday,
and lament the apathy which was creeping over those who
ought to be the guardians of the morals, as they were of the
civil rights of the people."

Was the Bishop of London, like Mr. Kelly, acting
the part of an advocate on this occasion, and allowing
himself a licence ? Certainly we cannot find a sylla-
ble in Lord Wharncliffe's speech which directly or in-
directly bears out the observation that he proposed to
increase the means of travelling upon railways " during
the hours of divine service." There is not a word to
any such effect. Lord Wharncliffe declared his anxiety
for a proper observance of the Sabbath, and quite con-
sistently with this desire, remarked that the excursions
of the people for air and exercise should be encouraged
rather than prohiliited. All the facilities for such
little jaunts may obviously exist without any interfe-
rence with the hours of divine service (especially the
conveyances on rail-roads, inasmuch, as making their
journeys far more rapidly, it is less necessary for them
to encroach upon the church hours of the travellers,)
and the conclusion strained against the Noble Lord, that
he desired the desertion of the churches, because he
wished to afford the people the means of getting air and
exercise and change of scene, argues little for the candour
and the charity of the Bishop. In the purposes for
which Lord Wharncliffe advocated the excursions of
the labouring classes on Sundays, we can trace nothing
inconsistent with the objects to which the seventh
day should be devoted in the opinion of Divines, in-
cluding the early Reformers, of far greater authority
than Bishop Blomfield. The Bishop will hardly corr-
tend that people should not eat and drink on the Sab-
bath-day, though eating and drinking are not the pur-
poses for which the seventh day was set apart. But.
this is the disingenuous kind of retort which he makes
to Lord Wharneliffe. Let us, for illustration, suppose
that Lord Wharncliffe had defended Sunday baking
instead of travelling, and that the Bishop had replied,
mutatis mutandis, to the same tenor precisely—" The
Noble Baron had declared that in his opinion baking
for the working classes should be allowed on the Stul-
l' day. For what purpose ? Certainly not for the ful-
-1 fitment of the purposes for which the Divine Creator,
in his bountiful goodness, originally set apart that day
from the other days of the week." What would be
thought of the good sense and candour of such an ar-
gument ? and we have quoted its prototype. The
Bishop conceded that justice requires equal law for the
rich and poor, and added, with respect to the offences
of the former—

" He (the Bishop of London) lived by the road-side near
one of the principal stages in the Newmarket-road, and from
what he was a the habit of witnessing there, he never
would cease to lift up his voice against the awful violatie'n
of the Sabbath, which was constantly committed by the rith,"
This is not the first personal evidence wh;:ch the
Bishop has given against Sabbath-breaking ; and we
would fain know what opportnnities he ras had of ob-
serving it ? How is it that he is at le!isure on the Sab-
bath, and in places to see the \iolations of the Sab-
bath of which he complain 's ? He could not see
them in church, nor in o.:e chamber of holy meditation.
From his palace at Pulliam he numbered the boats
going up the river on Sunday. From his house, near
the Newmarket-road, he states that he has been an
eye-witness of the violations of the Sabbath. But
how, we ask, has he had an opportunity for
these observations ? or how has the Bishop's observ-
ance of the Sabbath consisted with his watch upon
the Sabbath-breakers ? If he who is guiltless is to
throw the first stone, how is the Bishop, who
has confessedly passed some portion of the day
he would have wholly devoted to prayer and me-
ditation, in looking on at the profane doings on
the road arid the river—how is he, we ask,
who has been so employed, to lift up his voice against
others who have not spent the day in holiness ? We
cannot think that looking out for the sins of his
neighbours, is the most exemplary and suitable occu-
pation for a prelate on the Sabbath-day. The Bishop
is for the severe observance of the Sabbath—and in
one sense he appears to observe it with severity—that
is, with severity to others—and he sets up his opinion
as infallible and absolute, notwithstanding the know-
ledge he must have of the opposite doctrine of sonic
of our ablest divines ; but this is a matter which it is

not our province to discuss. We would merely, how-
ever, ask this question : why altered circumstances are
pleaded as wholly setting aside some precepts of the
Gospel most emphatically inculcated, while other laws
are maintained and applied in their full vigour beyond
their original range of application, notwithstanding
the greatest changes in the state of society ? For
example, the warnings against riches are said by
wealthy Bishops to be inapplicable to the present state
of society ; but they insist most pertinaciously on the
authority of the Mosaic law of the Sabbath, and hold
the plea of altered circumstances and different customs
no better than profane.—Morning Chronicle.
An address from the county of Wilts was presented
to his Majesty at the last levee, and was most gra-
ciously received. Such reception will perhaps excite
surprise, when we state that the gist of the address
was expressive of " sorrow and regret that at a late
momentous period, the various measures which were in
progress to render Reform effective had been re-
' tarded, not defeated, by the appointment to office of
men whose whole political lives have been spent in op-
position to the just wishes of the people—legislating
'for the few at the expense of the many,' and having
recourse to every species of artifice to induce his Ma-
jesty to believe that the voice of the nation was with
them." It also referred his Majesty to the opinion of
the people, as declared by their present representatives
in the House of Commons, in spite of the corrupt and
vile measures had recourse to at the late elections to
smother the public voice ; and expressed gratitude and.
thankfulness that his Majesty had recalled to Iris
councils men who, being animated by a determined,
yet careful disposition to remove the abuses,--the
tendency of which was to undermine and frodanger the
safety of the State, have naturally excited the opposi-
tion and alarm of all those who have for so long a
period benefited by such abuses, at the expense of the
hitherto patient and loyal, yet long-suffering people.
Why should we not believes or at least hope, that the
Sovereign who sanctioned and approved the groat
measure of Reform, will, notwithstanding the recta
strong symptoms of hesitation, at length come forward
in a spirit of natural zeal, to carry the principles of
that Reform into effect ?. We have also to con-