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London, England, 1850-07-11 00:00:00

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HE EDINBURGH REVIEW.
No. CLX.XXV.,
Is just published.
corrrEprrs
1. Quetelet on Probabilities.
2. Iferivale's History of Rome under the Empire.
3. Church and State Education.
4. 51erimee's History of Pedro the Cruel.
5. Blackie's eßsehylus.
6. Gcthe's Festival.
7. GuizA on the English Revolution.
EL The African Squadron.
9. The Gorham Controversy.
London : Longman, and Ce. Edinburgh : A and C. Black.

This day, Second Edition enlarged, 2s.
FREE TRADE and its SO-CALLED
SOPHISMS.
Beigq a Reply to " Sophisms of Free Trade, &c., Examined, by a
Barristef."
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STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA.
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AFEW WORDS on PERLNZEAL SECTION,
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his Treatment with the Potassa Fuss..
By F. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.E.
Published by 11. HaiMere, 219, Regent-street.
Also lately, by the same Author, price 55.,
The PATHOLOGY and RATIONAL TREATMENT of STRIC
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DR. LAISERT ON THB SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH
AND MATURITY.-WITH 40 COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON

STEEL.
lust published, and may be had in French or English, in a Sealed
Envelope, 2s. 6d., or post-free, from the Author, for forty-two

Stamps,
E L F—PRE SER V A TION; a
kJ Medical Treatise on the Physiology of Marriage, and on
the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity,
usually acquired at an early period of life, which debilitate
the physical and wental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural
feelings, and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical
Observation on the Treatment of Nervous Debility and Indigestion,
shether arising from these causes, close study, or the influence of
tropical climates: Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis,
Stricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from India-
eretion. With Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating the
anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs,
explaining their strictures, uses, and functions, and the various
Injuries that are produced in them by solitary habits, excesses, and
infection. BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D..
37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON.
Doctor of Medicine. Matriculated Member of the University of Edin-
burgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Member
of the London Hospital Medical Society, Sec.
This work contains an accurate and eomplete account of the
Anatomy and Physiology of the Reproductive Organs. It un-
fortunately happens that the unhappy rictim of excessive indul-
gence and vicious habits, while suffering from their invariable con-
sequences, unwisely entertains a fear of applying to a qualified physi-
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THIRTY-FIRST EDITION.
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ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCA-
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mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative
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the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for
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This important part of the Work should not escape the reader's
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PARLIAIVIEIS TAR Y DIVISION

(From the Petes and ProcaTiit; s of the Howse of Commons.

• ;
MONDAY, JULY 8.
HOME-MADE •,,PIIIITS IN BOND BILL.
Order for Committee read Motion made,
and Question
proposed, ." That Mr. Speaker do now leve the Chair :" -
Amendment proposed, to-leave out from the word " That" to
the end of the• Question, in order to add the words " this
House will, upon this day three months resolve itself into the
said Committee,"-instead thereof: - Question put, " That the
words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question."
The House divided;
MINORITY—AYES, 120.
Adderley, C. l?. Floyer, John Neald, Joseph
Arbuthnott, H. Forbes, William Newry, Viscount
Archdall, Captain Fox, S. L. Norreys, Sir D.
Arkwright, George Frewen, C. H. Nugent, Sir Percy
'Baget,,Hon. W. Galway, Viscount O'Brien, J.
Bateson, T. •Gaskell, J. M. O'Brien, Sir Lucius
Bennet, P. Goddard, A. L. O'Brien, Sir Timothy
Beresford, William . Gordon, Admiral O'Connell, Maurice
1 Blackall, S. W. Gore, W. R. 0. • Palmer, Robert
Blake, M. J. Granby, Marquis 6f Pilkington, James
Boldero, H. George Grattan, Henry Plumptre, J. P.
yd, '
Booth, Sir R. G.
Greene, John Portal, Melville
Bo John Grogan, Edward
Rawdon, Colonel
Bremridge, Richard Guernsey, Lord Sadliir, John
Buck, L. W. Halsey, T. P. Salwey,.Colonel
Buller, Sir J. Y. Hamilton, G. A. Sandars, George
Burghley, Lord Hamilton, J. H. Scholefleld,' W.
Burroughes, IL N. Hustle, Alexander Scully, Francis
Chatterton, Colonel Hildyard, R. C. Seynker, H. K.
Chithester, Lord J. Hildyard, T. B. T. Sibthorp, Colonel
Christopher. It. Hill, Lord E. Smith, J. Benjamin
Clive, H. B. . Hood, Sir Alexander *myth, J. G.
Cole, Hon. H. A. Hornby, John Spooner, Richard
Colvile, C. R. Hudson, G. Stafford, A.
Conolly, Thomas Jolliffe, Sir W. G. Stanford, J. F.
Corry, H. • Jones, Captain Stanley, Edward
Cowan, Charles Ker, Richard Stuart, Lord J.
Devereux, John T. Kershaw, Ja.thes Stuart, H.
Dickson, Samuel Knox, Colonel . Stuart, J.
Disraeli, B. Lockhart, W: Sullivan, Michael
Dod, J. W. Lowther, Colonel Talbot, J. H.
Dodd, G. M'Cullagh, W. T. Thornhill, G.
Duckworth, Sir J. IPGregor, John Vescy, Thomas
Duncan, George 111'Nei11, Duncan - Vyce, H. R. H.
Dundas, George , Meagher, Thomat . Wawn, J. T.
Dunne, Colonel Manners, Lord J. , Welby, G. E.
Edwards', Henry Maxwell, J. P. Wodebouse,tdmund
Fagan, William Mena', Sir Henry Worcester, Marqc.ii
.-. .
F- --, -

2arrer, James— - • Miles, W. -
Ferguson, Sir It.l Montt, George Naas, Lord ~ -
Fitzpatrick, J. W. bleed, Jehn Mackenzie, W.:F.

MAJORITY —NOES, 121.
Abdy, Sir T. N. Headiam, T. E. Parker, John
Adair, Hugh E. Heneage, Edward Patten, W.
Adair, R. A. Henry, Alexander Pelham, lion. D. A.
Anson, Colonel Hervey, Lord A. Pigott, Francis
Bagshaw, John Heyweod,' James Plowden, 'W. H.
Baines, M. T. Heyworth, Lawrence Pusey, Philip
Baring, Sir F. ' Hobhouse, Sir John Ricardo, Osman
Bass, M. T. Hobhouse, T. B. . Rice, E. R.
Berkeley, Admiral Hodges, T. L. Rich, Henry
Berkeley, C. L. Holland, Robert Robartes, T. J. A.
Bernal, Ralph Howard, Lord E. Romilly, Colonel ' .
Birch, Sir Thomas Howard, C. W. G. Romilly, Sir John
Bouverie, E. P. Howard, E. G. Seymour, Lord
Boyle, Colonel Hughes, W. B. Shell, R. L.
Brotherton, J. Hutt, William - Simeon, John
Buxton, Sir E. Jervis, Sir John Smith, Vernon -
Carter, J. B. King, P. J. Somerville, Sir W.
Childers, J. W. Labouchcre, Henry Sotheron, T.
Clay, James _ Lascelles, W. S. Spearman, Henry
Coke, Hon. E. K. - Lemon, Sir C. Strickland, Sir G.
Cockburn, A. J; . Lennard, T. B. Tancred, H. W.
Collins, W. - Lewis, G. C. Thompson, Colonel
Cowper, W. F. Lindsay, Colonel ThOrnely, T.
Craig, Sir W: G. Littleton, E. R. Tollemache, F. J.
Denison, J. E. Locke, Joseph Townley, R. G.
Hondas, Admiral Mangles, R. D. Tufnell, Henry
Dundas, Sir David Marshall, J. G. Turner, George
Ebriugton, Viscount Marshall, William Vane, Lord H.
Estcourt, J. B. Martin, John Vivian, J. H
Evans, William Martin, C. W. Wakley, T.
Fitzwilliam, G. W. Matheson, Colonel Westhead, J. B.
Forster, M. Maule, Fox ..__= Wilson, James
Fortescue, J. W. Melgund, Viscount Wilson, Matthew
Fox, W. J. Milner, W. M. Wood, Sir Charles
Freestan, Colonel Mostyn, E. Wood, W. P.
Greene, Thomas Mowatt, Francis 'Wrightson, W.B.
Grenfell, Charles W. Malgrave, Earl Wyvill, Marmaduke
Grey, Sir George Ogle, S. C.
Grey, Ralph \Vin. Paget,' Lord A. TELLM.
Hatchell, John Paget, Lord G. Hill, Lord M.
Hawes, Benjamin Pakington, Sir John Bellew, R. M.
Ilayter, W. G. Palmerston, Viscount

TUESDAY, JULY 9.
ELECTIVE FRANCHISE,

---- -- -
Motion made, and Question put, " That leave be given to
bring in a Bill to make the Franchise in Counties in England
and \Vales the same as that in Boroughs, by giving the right
of voting to all occupiers of tenements of the annual value of
ten pounds." The House divided:
Adair, Hugh E. 111INORiTY—AYES, 100.
Gibson, Thomas M. Nugent, Lord
Adair, R. A. Shafto Grattan, Henry O'Brien, Jobs
Aglionby, H. Greene, Joha O'Connor. Feargus
Alcock, Thomas Hall, sir B. Pearson, Charles
Anstey, Thomas -- Harris, Richard Pe:11311, Sir -G.
Bass, Thomas - Mastic, Alexander Perfect, Robert
Berkeley, C. L. G. Hastie, Archibald Pigott, Francis
Blake, M. J. Headlam, Thomas Pilkingten, James
Blewitt, R. J. Henry, Alexander Ricardo, J. L.
Bright, John Heywood, James Rice, E. R.
Brocklehurst, J. . lleyworth, L. Romilly, Colonel
Brotherton, Joseph Hobhouse, T. B. Salwey, Colonel
Brown, Humphrey Hodges, T. L. Scholeficld, William
Brown, W. . Hodges, T. T. Smith, John B.
Carter, John B. Howard, C. W. Somers, J. P.
Clay, Sir W. Ilumphery, Ald. Stuart, Lord Dudley
Clay, James . Hutt, William Talbot, J. H.
Cobden, Richard Jackson, William Tailored, H. W.
Collins, William Kershaw, James Thompson, Colonel
Colebrooke, Sir T. Locke. Joseph Thompson, George
Cowan, Charles Lushington, C. Thornely, T.
CrawlOrd, W. S. M`Callagh, W. Tollemache, F. J.
D'Eyncourt, C. T. M`Gregor, John Waklzy, Thomas
Divett, Edward M`Taggart, Sir J. Walmsley, Sir J.
Drummond, Henry Meagher, Thomas Walter, John ~
Duncan, Viscount Mangles, R. D. Westhead, J. P.
Duncan, Ciewge Marshall, William Willcox, Brodie
Ellis, John Mathesou, Colonel Williams, John
Evans, Sir De Lacy Mclgund, Viscount Wood, W. P.
Evans, William Mtlnes It. AI Wyld, James

.....,
Evelyn, W. J. Mitchell, T. A.
E wart, William Morris, David TELLEB.9.
Fagan, William Mowatt, Franck Hume, Joseph
Forster, Mathew Muntz, G. F. King, P. J.
Fox, W. J. Norreys, Sir D.

MAJORITY—NOES, 159.
Abdy, Sir Thomas Frewen, C. H. Morison, Sir W.
Acland, Sir T. D. Galway, Viscount Mostyn, E. M. L.
Arbuthnott, Hon. H. Gooch, E. S. Mundy, William
Arkwright, George Granby, Marquis of Newelegate, C. N.
Armstrong, Sir A. 'A Greene Thomas Ogle, S. C.
Ashley, Lord Grey, Sir G. Ord, William
Bagehaw, John Giosvenor, Lord R. Parke, C. W.
Baines, M. T.
Baldock, E. H.Clarence
Baring, H. B. •pakington, Sir J.
Baring, Sir F. T. Halsey, T. P. .
ngtoTnh,Vomisacsount
rEllaaiminillttin:
LGo.rAd.c. Palmer, Robert
Guest,Gu er n s
Gwyn,
Sire
H 3 ,
ojLwooehr dln
Paget, Paget,
LordL or d A .
Hanmer, Sir J. JRoohunnd ell
Patten, J. W.
Berkeley, H. F. Hatchell, John Plumptre, J. P.
Blackall, S. W. Hawes, Benj. Price, Sir R.
Blair, Stephen Heald, James Prime, Richard
Booth, Sir R. G. Ilenea,ge, GAL W. Pusey, Philip
Bouverie, E. P. Henley, J. W. Richards. Richard
BBBaellarsew°n, 'R. M.
Boyd, John Parker, John
llervey, Lord A. Romilly, Sir John
Bramston, T. W. Hildyard, R. C. Rumbold, C. E.
Bremridge, Richard Hobhouse, Sir John Russell, Lord John
Brisco, M. Hood, Sir A. Scott, Francis
Broadley, H. Hope,:ll. T. Seymour, Lord
Buck, Lewis W. Hotham, Lord Shell, R. L.
Buller, Sir J. Y. Howard, Lord E. Shelburne, Earl of
Burghley, Lord Howard, P. 11. Sibthorp, Colonel
- Cardwell, E. Hughes, W. B. Simeon, John
Chatterton, Colonel Inglis, Sir R. Smith, M. Tucker
Chichester, Lord J. Jennyn, Earl Smyth, Jahn George
Coles, 11. B. Jervis, Sir John Somerville, Sir W.
Corry, H. L. Knight, P. W. Sotheron, T. H.
Cowper, W. F. Labouchere, Henry Spooner, R.
Craig, Sir W. G. Lacy, H. C. . Stanford, J. F.
Cr,,wder, It. B. Lascelles, E. Stanley, Edward
Cubitt, William Lemon, Slr C. Stanley, E. H.
Dickson, Samuel Lewis, Sir T. Stephenson, Robert
Disraeli, B. Lewis, G. C. Stuart, Henry
Duckworth, Sir J. Littleton, E. R. Sutton, II M
Dundas, Admiral Lockhart, W. . Tenison, E. K.
Dundas, G. Long, Walter Thompson, Ald.
Dundas, Sir D. ' Lygon, General Townley, R. G.
Dunne, Celon.d Mackenzie, W. F. Trollope, Sir J.
Du Pre, C. George Mackie, John Tufnell, H.
East, Sir J. Mackinnon, W. A. Tyrell, Sir J.
Ebrin4ton, Viscount M`Neill, Duncan Vivian, J. E.
Elliot, John Mahon, Viscount Vyse, R. 11. R. H.
Farnham, E. B. Martin, C. W. Wall, C. B.
Farrer. James Masterman J. Watkins, Colonel
Fitzwilliam, G. W Mathes m, Alex. Wilson, James
Floyer, John Matheson, J. Wood, Sir Charles
Forbes, W. Mettle, Fox TELLERS.
Forester, G. C. Meux, Sir H. Hill, Lord mucus
Freestun, Colonel Moody, C. A. Hayter, W. G.

WHAT A PERSON MAY DO ON A SUNDAY IN
THE COUNTRY, AND WHAT HE MAY NO DO.
(From Punch )
He may post himself and have as many post-horses
as he pleases, but he must not send a single letter by
the Post.

He may, however, send lett‘rs by tying a piece of
string round them and so making parcels of them ;
but then ha must send them by the railway and not
through the medium of the Post.
He may receive raesaages by the Electric Tele-
graph ; but he may not receive those same messages,
if folded up in a penny letter and sent through the
Puritanical channel of St. Martin's-le-Grand.
He may travel on the railway with the Mail Post ;
but he is a fool, or worse—an infidel, if ha expects to
receive at the destination of his journey any one of
stamps
ot a
that is stamped with
at
Sunday ; but he
the letters that have been travelling with him every
inch of the way in the same train.
is fiTurebmidadyen buyto postagerneive a l
one, though it is there before him lying on the counter
of the same shop.
He may go to the club or to the public-house to
read the newspaper; but he cannot read it at home
unless he chooses to wait until his Sunday newspaper
is delivered on the Monday or Tuesday morning.
He may go to hear a political lecture, or attend a
Socialist meeting, or join a van party, or rise at five
o'clock in the morning for a cheap excursion, or hire
a horse or a donkey, or travel in a cart, carriage, cab,
omnibus, steam-boat, velocipede, or balloon ;he may
do all these things, and a quantity mora, on a Sun-
day ; but he must be debarred from all letters or
newspapers, for none are delivered on that day.
He may send to the hotel for his dinner, to the wine-
stores for his wine, to the pastry-cook's for his pastry,
to the greengrocer's for his dessert, to the cigar
seller's for his tobacco, and they will ha sent home to
him; but he may in vain send to the Post-office for his
letters and his newspapers, for they will not be given
to him; because it happens to be a Sanday.

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vicinity
has
made interest with the Bridge llmse Committee to endea-
vour to effect .he removal of the accommodation, which will
rbernicze. steam-boats.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURINALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

TIMES.—The anti-Sunday post cause appears to
have a rule of its ()en. It has made its way thus fir
by a succession of assaults and surprises which its
maintainers must think nothing less than miraculous..
The process began with the petitions. Respectable
men, in their shops and their parlours, were suddenly
invaded by a sanctimonious banditti in black coats
and white ties, and asked if they feared God and re-
verenced the Sabbath. There was no resisting so
solemn an appeal ; and, with a sort of mesmeric
piety, they signed their times to they hardly knew
what,—something about the better observance of the
Sabbath. When the first assault of the Sabbatarian
pressgang proved insufficient, it was generally inti-
mated that the impious recusant would find hanself
in a position of unpleasant singularity; in fact, that
his name would be posted in a black list of the un-
godly. There was no help for it. What is called
" the argument" was all on one side. As every-
body knows, by painful experience, there is no-
thing so readily got up as a trumpery
budget of nonsensical reasons for some fool-
ish little opinion, and men who had written
and received letters on Sundays all their lives without
a misgiving were soon pushed into a corner. Hance
the enormous list of signatures to the anti-Sunday
post petitions—almost equal to Mr. Feargus O'Con-
nor's fabulous muster-roll. After this, the next step
was to surprise the House of Commons; which fur
one reason or another surrendered to the saints at the
first summons. Government then either shared the
general panic, or sought to counteract it by an unex-
pected ruse ; and one fine morning the world was
surprised to hear that next Sunday there would be
no post. Nothing could exceed the delight of the
Judaizsrs at this portentous announcement. Their
less willing or less initiated followers, however,„re-re
some of them dismayed to, find that the change was
inconvenient, and that they had to pay for their
piety. Hence a sort of reaction on the part of some
who had asked for the • alteration, and many more
Who had never had. the courage to resist it. To stop
the growing nuisance, Mr. Locke gave notice of a
resolution with a view to a counter-address to her
MajZsty. He proposed rather late what should, of
course, have been the first step in the affair,—an in-
quiry into the best means of reducing Sunday la-
bour, without quite stopping the post; asking, mean-
while, that the post should be restored to its former
position, and the Sunday service resumed. So the
resolution stood in the list, and a large muster of
Members assembled to carry it. But, behold, ano-
ther surprise I Lord John, having dreamt a dream,
or seen the ghost of Sir Andrew Agnew, acquiesces
in an impromptu amendment moved by Mr. Beresford
Hope, striking out the proviso that fur the present
letters should be collected and delivered on Sanday
as before. The amendment has been adopted on the
principle of a well known Court, castigat que audit que.
The Sunday post is suppressed, and we are then
permitted to inquire why it should be retained.
Mr. Locke, however, though partially deeated,
made a very good speech, and elicited another very
good one from Mr. Roebuck. The debate that fol-
lowed, we presume, represents the present state of the
controversy, facts on one side and signatures on the
other. Neither Lord Ashley nor his coadjutors ad-
vanced a siingle fact in reply to Mr. Locke's
very weighty statements. It appears that at Man-
chester and Liverpool the news agents have found it
necessary to organize large staffs of "bays," "news-
men," " footrunners," and even " mounted messen
gers," to supply the place of the handful of postmen,
who would otherwise have distributed the London
Sunday papers in the ordinary course of their duty.
Thus Sunday labour has been enormously multiplied
by the late change. If it is so in these two towns, it
must be so at every considerable town in these islands
equally distant from the metropolis. With the utmost
contrivance the Sunday papers will not arrive
till Saturday evening, when it is too late to
for ward them the same day through numerous vil-
lages lying five or six miles off; for, if a newsman's
round will take him three or four hours, his master
will not send him out at 8 o'clock P.M. on Saturday,
but at 5 the next morning. •In reply, to these facts,
and some others of equal but more domestic interest,
Lord Ashley and his friends could do nothing but
refer to their 700,000 signatures, to the 41 menbers
of the Town-council of Glasgow; to the 9 bankers,
the 22 physicians and surgeons, the 68 procurators
and brokers, and the 500 commercial men, and capi-
talists ; nine-tenths of whom had probably settled the
question by a reference to the 22d chapter of Exodus,
without considering for a moment to what extent the
commandment was obligatory upon Christians, how
far they really and truly observed it themselves, or
how far the closing of the Post-office would actually
diminish Sunday labour on that day, and so answer
its own purpose. Everybody knows the story of
the bonughinonger who had to get whatever he
wanted from the Minister by the argument, " We are
seven, my Lord ;.' and all that Lord Ashley has to
say in reply to the gravest and most undeniable ob-
jections is, My Lard, we are 700,000." It will be
rejoined, perhaps, that Messrs. Willmer and Smith,
and a hundred or two other firms in their position
throughout the country, ought to follow the example
of the Post-office, and ought not to send out their
footrunners and mounted messengers. But they will
send them out, and if they don't send them out o hers
will; so the thing will be done, and will be the direct
result of Lord Ashley's measure. Nor do we see
how it can possibly be obviated by any arrangements
of the Post-office. We observe that some of the
weekly newspapers suggest that, with a Friday
evening edition, and a postal delivery very late
on Saturday night, the 'thing may be managed.
But while the people of Lancashire, the West
Riding, and the Potteries can get news on
Sunday up to 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, is it
likely that they will be content with news only up to
the same hour on Friday afternoon ? and, as for a
special delivery of newspapers all over the country up
to midnight on Saturday, so absurd an idea would
never have entered into any other brain than that of
a raging Sabbatarian. It was evident from the be-
ginning that the anti-Sunday-postists would be
pushed to this extremity, for there is absolutely
nothing which they do not expect the nation to sa-
crifice to their hobby. The only argument or feet
that rose above the level of " the 700,000 signatures"
was Mr. Muntz's testimony. "He never could enjoy
a comfortable quiet Sanday, from the number of let-
ters he used to receive. For 30 years he had never
had three quiet Sundays but the last three, and, as
one largely engagedin business, he could assure the
House he had not felt the least inconvenience from the
stoppage of 'letters." Now, bold as it may be to
correct Mr. Muntz in a matter of his
own personal experience, we will undertake
to do so. The disquiet which seems to have
alloyed his Sabbath rest for the thir'y sears
arose, not from the receipt of his letters, but from
his craving to answer them. We know, to our cost,
his insatiable appetite for letter writing. Se far as
regards the receipt of letters, what can it signify to
the peace of one's mind whether a letter is received
on Saturday or on Sunday, excepting that ten o'clock
on Saturday night is the worst hour of the week ?
A man with ordinary command over his actions and
temper can look over a batch' of letters on Sunday
afternoon, break a seal or two, put the business letters
in his desk or his pocket, peruse the private ones if
they seem more important than usual, dismiss the
whole batch from his thoughts, and take a walk with
his wife and children, or, if he pleases, hear the latter
their catechism. Toe sting of a letter is generally
the necessity for answering it, and nobody is ex-
pected to answer a letter on Sunday. People may,
if they like, but they are not expected, and the day
is always a valid excuse. Mr. Muntz, then, has
mistaken the working of his peculiar temperament
for the necessity of the case. If he will put every
I inkstand in his house under lock and key on Satur-
day night, and give the key to his minister or any
other keeper of his conscience, he will he able to re-
ceive a hundred letters on Sunday without any dis-
quiet. Nay, we should not wonder if in course of
time he acquired so sublime a state of Sabbatical
apathy as to look on the hundred letters without the
least inclination to open them.
CHRONICLE —We cannot congratulate either
the House cf Commons or the Government on having
adopted a very happy mode of self-extrication from
the entanglements of the Post-office question. The
sort of compromise which terminated the noisy and
disorderly debate of Tuesday night is as far as pos-
sible from saving the dignity of the former; and the
best comment on the conduct of the latter is that all
parties concur, with edifying unanimity, in charging
them either with precipitancv, or with want of good
faith. As regards the 11.)use, nothing can be more
absurd than the position in which it has placed itself
by the vote of Tuesday, taken in conjunction with
that of the 30th of May. To act first and deliberate
afterwards is, proverbially, the acme a reckless
folly ; yet this is precisely what our representatives
have done, in following up their original address to
the Crown, for a total cessation of the Sunday col-
lection and delivery of letters, with a subsequent
prayer "that her Majesty will be graciously pleased
to cause an inquiry to he made whether the amount
of Sunday labour in the Post-office may not be re-
duced, without completely putting, an end to the col-
lection and delivery of letters on Sunday." We re-
frain frOm conjecturing what opinion her Majesty is

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likely to form of the wisdom of an Assembly whit's
troubles her with these c nitradictory solicitations,
and which, oa the very face of its proceedings, inverts
the natural order of inquiry and decision. A frank
confession of error would have been infinitely more
respectable than this lame and awkward evasion. It
is a confession of error, however, tho Ugh not a frank
one. The experiment is allowed, for form's sake, to
go on for the present—but it is already condemned,
by implication, as hasty and ill-considered. The
House distinctly acknowledg►es that the re-
linquishment of the Sunday delivery an col-
lection of letters is a public inconvenience which
ought not to be lightly incurred, and that it is at
least questionable whether it ought to be persisted
in. Moreover, the entire responsibility of de-
ciding on • the continuance or abandonment of the
existing restriction is left to those who have never
missed an opportunity of avowing themselves hostile
to it. For Lord John Russell plainly intimated that,
whether Parliament shall be sitting or not, at the
time of the completion of the proposed inquiry, the
Government will take its own course without waiting
for further instructions from the House. As this was
interpreted by Lord Ashley (quite correctly, we
imagine) as utterly disentitting the Premier to the
confidence of the Sabbatarians, the division which
ensued may be fairly taken, despite all apparent am-
biguities, as affording a true measure of the relative
strength of the two parties ; and, under such circum-
stances, a Ministerial majority of 83 was a tolerably
intelligible reversal of the previous vote of the House.
The debate has added little or nothing to our
previous information on the subject, and it is in-
teresting only as showing the effect which even the
brief experience of three weeks has had in modifying
the zeal and abating the confidence of the Sabbatarian
enthusiasts. The great " principle," of which ,we
once heard so much, was quite forgotten—the re-
strictions preferring to entrench themselves behind
the formalities and decorum to which their previous
casual victory had given them a sort of right to ap-
peal. They stood•out for the letter of their bond, de-
manded a " fair trial" for their " experiment," and
were eloquent on the " honour and dignity, of the
Crown." All this was no doubt perfectly fair as
against the Government, who certainly have evinced
an unseemly and culpable haste in committing the
Royal name to an innovation which they dislike and
disapprove; but to lay any stress on this kind of
argument only indicates the conscious want of a real
case. For the practical merits of the question we
must look to the speeches of the mover and sup-
porters of the resolution, who, though they
somewhat - overdid the theological and " religious-
liberty" party of the subject, clearly shoWed
that grievous social mischiefs have ensued, and
must ensue, from the Sabbatical interdict
on postal corannulication. Of the hardships
inflicted on individuals, by depriving them of the or-
dinary facilities of intercourse with relatives at a dis-
tance—hardships which, in cases of illness or other
domestic emergencies, are cruelly severe—we say
little, as we have never observed any signs that the
Sabbatarian zealots are open to this sort of appeal to
their human sympathies. But the point was well
urged by Lord John Russell, who, with a generous
consideration for the rights and feelings of . the hum-
bler classes which we wish he had manifested at an
earlier stage of the business, refused to accept the au-
thority of "great bankers in easy circumstances," on
a question which is of extremely little interest to
them so long as railway companies run Sunday trains
and telegraph wires carry Sunday messages, but
which is of vital importance to those who cannot
afford themselves such costly luxuries. The advo-
cates of the prohibitory regime will, however, be far
more likely to feel the fence "of the argument, that
their system has actually led to a great increase in
the amount of Sunday labour performed throughout
the country. Of this fact there can be no doubt
whatever. The transmission and delivery of the
London weekly newspapers alone employ, there
is every reason ;to believe, many more hands than
have been liberated from Post-office duty ; and when
the capabilities of the " parcel " system shall have
been somewhat further developed by necessity and
experience, we shall have a pretty well organized
Sunday post for every important town in the
kingdom, which will only differ from her
Majesty's Post• office establishment in the higher
scale of its charges, its more lavish employment of
manual labour, and its total unprofitableness to the
public revenue. For those newspaper readers who
cannot afford to pay an enhanced price for their
accustomed luxury there are the public-houses
and the beer-shops, where the fagged artisan will
always be sure of getting a good deal for his money
over and above the Innocent recreation of perusing
the " latest intelligence." On the whole, it seems
impossible for any considerate person to resist the
conclusion, that what is called a " fair trial " of
the present experiment would produce an enormous
amount of " Sabbath-breaking" and demoralisation.
However, it is not to be. The House of Commons,
while respecting the Sabbatarians' temporary right of
possession, questions their title, and hands over their
case to the scrutiny of their official opponents. Lord
John is to inquire, report, and act at his own discre-
tion, and on his own responsibility ; and unless his
opinion should undergo some extraordinary change in
the process, the result may be set down as already,
known. We fear we must add that a confirmed con-
viction of the worse than inexpediency of stopping the
communications of the country on the Sunday will
be only one of the lessons which the approaching in-
quiry will teach him. Long before he has done with
this business, he will probably be made painfully
aware of his error in having allowed pique, pettish-
ness, or indolence, to get the better of his statesman-
ship, and in having visited the sins of a refractory
I-Luse of Commons on the letter-writing and news-
paper-reading public. We shall be most agreeably
surprised if his sarcastic " deference to the sense of

the House" does not involve him eventually in ten
times more worry, Pass, and annoyance, than he
would have incurred by earnestly attempting, in the
first instance, to stem a senseless agitation, and to
procure the reversal of a random vote. Wa ish
him well through the task which he has undertaken,
of dealing with a movement that owes no small part
of its importance to his own faults of judgment or
temper ;.and we trust that he will in future deal
seriously with serious questions, and frankly assume
at first the responsibilities which he cannot evade at
last.