The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-05 00:00:00

YORK, JULY 3.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as
follow : Midland, 34—York. Newcastle, and Berwick ( New-
castle Extension ), 9 --York and North Midland, li.

IRELAND.

THE DEATH OF SIR ROBERT PEEL—The di,ias-
trous intelligence of the death of Sir Robert Peel
reached Kingstown at ten o'clock on Wednesday
night. Every evening since the accident that has had
so lamentable a termination crowds of citizens have
gssemb!ed at the harbour, waiting the accounts by the
Chester and Holyhead steamer. List night, when
the fatal news was announced, grief was depicted on
every countenance. Half an hour after the intelli-
gence was known in Dublin, and, even at that late
hour, many of the citizens were to be seen deploring
the death of a great statesman, whose policy had been
characterised by single-hearted devotion to Ireland
during the time of her sorest calamity. Never has
there been witnessed anything like the unanimity of
all parties in the sorrow sincerely expressed for the
death of a public man. It is the involuntary tribute
of a people to the virtues, services, and incomparable
talents of an illustrious British statesman, who had
sacrificed political ties, personal attachments, and am-
bition, to the stern conviction of duty to his country
and devotion to her welfare.

A large tenant-right meeting was held on Satur-
day at Broadfurd, in the county of Limerick. John
Westropp, Esq , of Fort Anne, presided, and several
energetic speeches were delivered.
Five convicts made their escape from Cashel Bride-
well on Sunday night. Three of the fellows were
under sentence of transportation for ten years, and
none of them have since been discovered by the police.
A boy was accidentally shot by a soldier of the
9th regiment of infantry while out on ball practice
Lear the Pigeon-house on Tuesday. No blame is
attached to the arrangements of the military on the
occasion.

SUNDAY CLOSING.
TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY.

Gentlemen,—lt may appear very right and natu-
ral in my old friend, the postmaster of Barnsley, and
the clerks in the Leeds post-office, to rejoice in
the apparent closing of post-offices on Sundays ;
but in common honesty they should have told
the whole truth; they should have let the public
know that although there is no sorting of letters on
that day, yet the bags are received, opened, and dis-
patched as usual, whether empty or not, while hun-
dreds, and in some offices thousands of letters remain
in the receiving-box from Saturday night until
Monday morning. Thus a mass of incalculable riches
remains in every post-office untouched for two nights
and a day, at the very time a clerk or clerks
are necessarily engaged in their secret duty of dis-
patching or receiving bags on the Sabbath-day ! As
for postmasters, their responsibilities and anxieties
are necessarily increased by having so long under
their care loads of communications so important to
society ; for it ought not to be forgotten that post-
offices are not free from casualties,..

Individually, no one would rejoice more sincerely
than myself in lessening labour on the Sabbath-
day ; but as we all know, or ought to know, there
are works of necessity, and as intercourse with
the human family is an obvious every day duty,
I look upon the system which has exposed the
nation to the ridicule- of the rest of the world as
positively presumptuous, insulting, and sinful, and
will be productive of more immorality by its hollow •
ness and hypocrisy than any measure that ever was
precipitated by well-meant ignorant zeal.
My old friend, and your other admirers, evidently
have not taken a very enlarged view of this vital ques-
tion, but are actuated by mere personal feelings. And
even in this respect I fear they are short-sighted, and
will only have their eyes opened when an intimation is
given (which is pretty certain) that their salaries
will be reduced one-seventh part ! Then the folly,
the hypocrisy, and absurdity will flare upon
them. Then will they be glad to return to the Post-
master• General's judicious arrangements, which,
while they kept alive the social and commercial ele-
ments, were not a whit more unscriptural than the
mischievous new system, which, if continued, will in-
flict many great social evils,* disarrange the commer-
cial intercourse, neutralise our boasted celerity of
transit, and ultimately cause the nation to retrogade
a whole century !
I am, Gentlemen, yours respectfully,
Wm. MooRE.
Post• offic?, Huddersfield, Sunday evening,
June 30th.