The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-27 00:00:00

within a few minutes and at a trifling cost—and an equally
numerous population, the metnterth or which are se'dratcd
by scores and hundreds of miles, and perhaps by shut
railroads and horse!ess highways. Thus, we see
that, while the new papers belonging to ell the
rest of the population were, lest Sunc'ly, lying
locked up in boxes, the Londoners not only
had theirs carried and received, but employed
themselves in reading them. The sum of the matter is,
that, in a multitude of matters London is, so to speak,
self-contained and self-supplying, while all other places
are dependent on such arrangements as that of which
they have been this week deprived. Oddly enough—eu
oddly as to be worth mentioning—just when those who
were silent or timid before are Leginning to speak out,
our respected contemporary, the Mercury, who has
hitherto borne well his share in the battle, seems rather
inclined to " ring in." He " would wish the experiment
fairly tried," and always " thought it well worthy of con-
sideration." In the case of such conversions or waverings,
experience has led us to the suspicion, never yet wrong
in any instance where inquiry has been made, that the
convert's practice had become lax just when his profes-
sions had become strict. Fur instance, a reverend
doctor in this city, who used to write very strongly
against the stopping of Sunday trains, lately came out
very furious on the other side—just at the time that he
had shifted his residenee several miles out of town, and
teken to driving its and out every Sabbath-day. Similar
is the case of the Morning Herald, which he.s of late *be-
come quite enthusiastic against every species of " Sab-
bath labour "—and whose printers and all connected
with it labour every Sunday as long and as hard as they
do every Monday. It is nothing of this
kind we intend to allege against cur friend's con-
sistency (though he may feel a little frightened)
—we mean to confine ourselves strictly to the question
in hand; and, doing so, we point out his announcement
to his readers that, in consequence of that changw in the
Post-office of which he declares in favour, he will
hereafter get them news by means of Sunday parcels!
In profession he says, "We wish the experiec,ent tried;"
in practice, he says (like many others of the few who
approve of this experiment), "but we shall take pre-
cious good care you shall not try it on us." It would
relieve much perplexity were our contemporary (to
whom we speak in rcsrect and amity) to explain by
what process of moral reasoning he arrives at the con-
clusions that it is right that the Government should pro-
hibit the carrying, sending, and receiving of letters of
affection and leanly, necessity and mercy, mayhap lite
and death, and that it is right also that he should cause
parcels to be cent, carried, and received, to facilitate the
dispatch of his secular business.

To THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED
KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN PAR-
LIAMENT ASSEMBLED.

The petition of the undersigned Proprietors and
Editors of London Newspaper, and Contributors
thereto, and other persons employed thereon,
Humbly bhoweih,
That, on an Address, supported by ninety-five mem-
bers of your Honourable House, and which, by the rules
of that House, could not be again considered before it
was presented, her biology, by the advice cf her Mi-
nirterr, has prohibited the delivery of newspapers on
Sundays by post throughout the kingdom.
That your petitioners thereby hare been suddenly and
without notice grievously injured in their property and
cc2upation.
That the liberty of the press has hitherto been con-
sidered the first bulwark of British freedom, end that
its uses have hitherto been considered of paramount
value and importance, and that, therefore, any unneces-
sary interference with its operations is the most unbear-
able of oppressions, and the most galling of insults, that
can be offered to the people, or their habitual informants,
instructors, and defenders.

That her Majesty's Government, in suddenly acting
upon the resolve of an accidental majority, by stopping
the delivery cf the post on Sundays without taking
means to consult the real sense cf your Honourable
House, has abandoned its duty and despctically trifled
with tLo proerty and interests of your petitioners.
That the amount of Sunday labour which will he oc-
casioned by the efforts of the newspaper proprietors to
protect their property will be threefold that sued by the
new regulaions.

Ti at the stamp-tax on newspapers has been vindi-
cated us giving the privilege of transmission by post,
and that to make this privilege available to one class and
to deny it to another is an act of tte grossest fiscal in-
to tee.

That the circulation of newspapers on a Sunday is a
civilizing uct, meritorious to the highest degree in a free
nation, where every individual is supposed to take the
part of a lrteman in public affairs, and where this day
is the only one that affords to many of the industrious
classes the opportunity, by perusal of the public prints,
to inform themselves of their duty as citizens.
That the business to be transacted by a great number
of ind►viduals in the course of the ensuing week is ne
cessarify regulated by the information as to markets cud
otherwise communicated by the weekly papers on the
Sunday.
. _

That the Post•effico is a close monopoly of the most
essential means of communication, which monopoly can
only be justified by its rendering the most complete and
equal service at all times to all parties who rcquiro iti
agency. _ _

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to make this great public institution subservient
to the stctarian opinions of any body of individuals is
an usurpation of the rights of Government and a per-
version of its duties.

That your petitioners, who are as anxious as any
other pt.rsons, whatever may be their religious preten-
sions, to give the full enjoyment and repose of one day
in the week to the entire people, feel that this can only
be done by a moderate sacrifice of the convenience fur
some hours cf the few to the many, and that if this truth
be not admitted, no one has a right to claim any ser-
vice of any kind upon the seventh day; and that this
principle should be strictly applied to all ranks of men
by stringent legislation.
That your petitioners believe the new regulations of
the Post-office to be a violent inroad on the liberty of
conscience, a mere pretence as to the effect it professes
to produce, the precursor of a series of absurd and cp•
pressive measures against the civil and religious liberty
of the people; an act unwarranted by the practice and
faith of civilised Europe—a deprivation inflicted by a
higher class upon an humbler one, end a measure so
totally unworthy of the Government and Legislature of
this country, that it could only have been carried by the
surprise of a single vote.
Your petitioners thi refore humbly pray of your
Honourable House to rescind the resolution which led to
the late Address, and to enable the Government to resort
to the former usage in this behalf,
And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will every
pray, &c.

THE CLERGY AND THE SABBATARIAN
FRENZY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SETA.

FIR,--1E is well known that great numbers of the
clergy are, on principle, opposed to the recent change in
tne bundey postal. arrangements. The rational and
Scriptural views of Archbishop Whately and the late
1)r. Arnold, with reference to the Lord's dey, are ac-
cepted by hundreds even of those who would feel some
difficulty in subscribing to the opinions of Owe great
and learned men on some other subjects. Why, then,
do not those who believe this recent change in the
Post-office to be repugnant alike to common sense and
to Christianity, step forward boldly and aid tho efforts
now making to procure a repeal of this most offensive
regulation? For my own part, I have done and shall
do all that is in my power to point out to the people the
cruelty, injustice, and, above all, the utterly un- aristian
nature of this proceeding, convinced that in ro doing I
am but acting in perfect consistency kith nay duty as a
clergyman and as a Christian, in resisting the attempt
to impose upon the English people a Judaical observance,
of the Sunday, and so to deprive them of "that liberty
wherewith Christ has made us free." Nothing, as it
seems to me, can be more self-evident to any unprejudiced
student of the New Testament, than that the attempt to
stop all postal communication un Sunday is an act of
tyranny and oppression, for which no warrant whatever
can be found in that Holy Book. Is it conccivable, that
He, who so severely rebuked the hypocrisy cf those
who would have prevented Him from healing the sick on
the Jewish Sabbath, would sanction a measure which
will prevent the son from hastening to the bedside of the
dying parent, and keep thousands racked with the agony
of hope, deferred through the long hours of a day which
onght to be so far as may be, for contemplation on
sacred things, and for holy Christian enjoyment?
I perceive that the same party, whose efforts have
procured from a weak and reluctant;Ministry the perpe-
tration of this outrage on religion tied common sense,
are now actively employed in circulating petitions
against the admission of Jews into Parliament. I can
imagine nothing more absurd than this. Why, Sir, if
they are so fond of Jewish ordinances, should they so
strongly object to Jewish Legislators ?

I enclose my address, that you may know that my
signature is not a reigned one, and rvith my sincere
nii,,hps that your exertions in the cause of religious
liberty may be soon crowned with success,
I am, sir, your very obedient servant,
A PRESBYTER OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

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[ADVERTISEMENT.]—WheeIer's General London
and Provincial Newspaper-office, Manchester.—B. Wheeler
begs to inform his friends and the public, that in consequence
of the alteration in the Post-office regulations, he has made
arrangements to receive Bea's .Lift in London, and other Lon-
don Saturday and Sunday newspapers at the earliest hour
possible on the Saturday, so as to be delivered in Manches-
ter the same day, and also to forward them to the neigh-
bouring towns on the Saturday.—Exchange Arcade, /dun-
cheater.
[ArivEitTisEmENT.] —Bell' s Life in London.—ln
consequence of the new postal arrangements, a portion of the
publication Gf this journal will take place before a o'clock on
Saturday mornings in time for the morning mails and early
railways. To insure the insertion of advertisements in
Bell's Life, they Ehould be sent to 170, Strand, early on
Friday afternoon. The average sale of Be'i's Life exceeds
28,006.
THE BRIGHTON PAVILION.—The Surveyor to the
Woods and Forests gave the Commissioners of Brighton
possession of the Pavilion estate on Wednesday last.
BrightOn Guardian.