The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-04 00:00:00

corporal works of mercy, but pour passer le temps,
and (more memorable still !) to beter their fortunes,
to multiply the amount of c;:1 a their banker's, to
clothe themselves with stouter broad cloth, and to line
their system with the unholy beef and the
ungodly puddings of the British man of Baal!
Oh, not any of course. Scotchmen no more dream
of travelling southwards on any occasion on Sundays,
than they ever dream of thriving upon the abundance
of England. Never was heard such a thing.
Beseech you think not so slighting of the men of the
Highlands and of the Lowlands, even though they
happen to be directors of the Caledonian Railway.
Yet, yet—with all timidity and trepidation we
say it of course—we entertain so reverential a regard
for the wisdom of the saints of Sabbatarianism—
yet—we would scarcely see these saints of Edinburgh
or Perth, or any other part of Scotland predominate.
No. Such is our ungodliness. We cannot so easily
forget the treatment received at their hands by the
Duchess of SUTIIMILAND. Besides which, there are
some old nursery proverbs jangling in our memory
in a manner most importunate. "In for a penny, in
for a pound ;" " Give an inch, take an ell," and so
forth. We have had a taste of Sabbatarian humanity
already—so nauseous to our palate, that we want no
more of it. Besides, we have no guarantee that
these folks would not, if allowed the chance, run into
all sorts of extravagances. See what lengths they
have gone to across the Atlantic:—

" Captain Marryatt informs ns," says a little book
worthy a perusal,* " that in Connecticut the following
regulations were enjoined by what were termed the
'Blue Laws,' viz.:—

"No 17. - 'No ono shall run of a Sabbath-day, or
walk in his garden, or elsewhere, except reverently, to
and from his church.'

" No. 18. 'No one shall travel, cook victuals, make
herb, sweep houses, cut hair, or shave ou the Sabbath-
day:'

No. 19. No husband shall kiss his wife, and no
mother shall kiss her child on the Sabbath-day."'
Fancy that The dirtiness of the day ! No
cooking victuals ! No sweeping houses ! No cut,
ting hair, or combing or brushing of course ! No
shaving ! No running ! (Why according to this,
the possession of a pair of wooden legs must produce
a sort of everlasting sabbath 0 No walking in the
garden ! (Alas, for the days when " ADAM delved
and EVE span" in the garden of Paradise !) No con-
jugal kisses ! The curmudgeons ! No kisses for the
" tiddy-ixi-sing," that might wreath into a pout, even
the vestal lips of Lucretia Tex Why, what a farce is
this—rendering Sunday a time characterised only
by its filth and formality. " Cleanliness next to
godliness " is hence not to be thought of as in the
creed of the saints. And then their prohibition
against all innocent manifestations of affection—of the
holiest of affection—the affection of a husband for
his wife, of a mother for her child. They forget,
these Puritans, that HE said to his disciples in
Palestine—" I give you another commandment—
that ye love one another !" But we need not go all the
way to Connecticut to see the disgusting results of
this canting system of assumed sanctity : turn we to
a case of oppression at Loughborough, where one
Mr. BARNES, of Six Hills, summoned his servant,
FRED. PICK, for a wilful violation of the Sabbath, in
cleaning on Sunday a pair of lace-up boots! and
" the magistrates, to the extreme surprise
of all present, fined the lad in the sum
of forty shillings and costs, which their worships
humanely ordered to be paid out of the wages
due to him from his master !" What decorous
villany ! A poor fellow mulcted of forty shillings
and costs out of his wages for cleaning on Sunday a
pair of lace-up boots ! The brutality, the pigheaded-
ness, the dirtiness of the whole system is incompar-
able. We commend it to the attention of all sanitary
reformers, and to the hearts of all those who love the
benignity, the sweetness, and the divine beneficence
of the creed of the Christians.

* " The Lawfulness of Sunday Trains and Sunday
Letters. By a Christian but no Fanatic." Pp. 24.
Alard, London, 1850.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Ecclesiastical Budget came on for discussion
n the Assembly on Tuesday, and a motion of M.
JULES FAVRF, for rendering the inferior clergy in-
dependent in their cures, as the beneficed clergy are
already, was rejected by a majority of 433 to 142. At
present the inferior clergy are the mere slaves of the
bishop, who possesses the power of depriving them of
their cures without giving any reason for so doing.
The Committee of the Assembly on the Press met
on Tuesday. It was resolved that the deposit-money
of the journals should not be increased, but that fines
imposed for libels should be paid within three
days, so that the deposit-money Should be always
complete.
It is considered that unless this Bill on the Press
be greatly modified there is every probability that it
will be rejected by the Assembly ; the Bill prohibit-
ing electoral meetings also meets with great opposi-
tion, and the Ordre, the organ of MM. TRIERS and
ODILON BARROT, recommends the Ministry to with-
draw both Bills.
The divisions in the ranks of the reactionary party
are daily increasing, and the approaching election fur
Paris threatens to make them still more profound.
The Union Electorale have announced as their can-
didate M. FERDINAND FOX, the Orleanist, who was
the highest of the unsuccessful candidates at the last
election. The Legitimatists refuse to agree to this
ta
r arrangement,te and insist upon aLegitnilatistcaenvdidt o
ate
being s d instead of M. For, and in the event of
a refusal, they threaten to start a candidate of their
own. The Opinion Publique, the organ of the ultra-
Legitimatists, thus announces the intentions of that
party
M. Vidal has decked to sit for the Bas-Rhin, and
consequently the department of the Seine wilt have a
new election. We are informed that the Union
Electorate, which, according to its statutes, ought to
dissolve and reconstitute itsrlf afresh, intends remain-
ing in function, and that it is decided to maintain
M. Foy as candidate. We like clear and frank posi-
tions, and me therefore think it our duty at once to
state, that they who had accepted the definitive list
of the Union, notwithstanding their repugnance, as well
as they who had rejected it, are decided this time not to
admit any candidateship which in their eyes would have
the great wrong of being the expression of the selfish
policy which alone produced the present situation, and
the promoters of which are still the greatest obstacle to
the solution demanded by the general interest. As to
us, we made, in the first struggle, the concession of our
silence to conciliation; but this time we cannot consent
to accept the same position."
The Voix du Peuple thus alludes to its seizure on
Monday, for the publication of an article which the
Procureur-General considered an outrage on the
Roman Catholic religion :
"We ate prosecuted, rays the Moniteur, for outrage
or derision against the legally-recognised religion of the
country, and for an attack against the principle of pro
perry. Are we in the 19th century? Is it before a
jury or before inquisitors that we roust appeal? In
what are no guilty? If we hare criticised Catholicism,
the Protestants do the same, and the Jews absolutely
deny Christianity, and the parquet cannot prevent them
doing so. The Univers is not prosecuted for having in-
criminated the propagandism of Dr. Achilli; the Ami de
la Religion is permitted to rail against Luther, and the
Gazette de Lyon against Calvin. Where then is our
crime?"

The Committee on the Bill for the nomination of
the mayors has had several sittings; at its last the
Minister of the Interior was present. No definite
resolution has yet been adopted, but it is stated that
the majority of the Committee is opposed to the mea-
sure. Some members have proposed different modifi•
casions in order to render the Bill more palatable to
the Assembly, but they were warmly opposed by
others, who regard the measure as an attack on the
true principles of communial organisation.
The ltroniteur announces that a new monthly jour-
nal, called Yoix du Peuple et du Peuple Seul, was
seized on Tuesday for an article headed, " A has la
Republique." The journal is accused of attacking
Republican institutions and the Constitution.

ft is said that Marshal GERARD is seriously indis-
posed.
According to the Voix du Peuple, the departments
of France are ready to combat for the sake of
" avenging the Republic and the outraged revolution ;"
they accuse Paris of " having departed from the
love of liberty which for sixty years made her the
titled executioner of perjured powers and of arbitrary
governments," and threaten if she does not soon give
the signal to deprive her of her initiative and to com-
bat without her.

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SPAIN.
Madrid journals of the 29th ult. have arrived.
Their contents are unimportant.
The Bolsa was cloned.