The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-09 00:00:00

SIR R. PEEL.

Mr. Cobden presents his compliments to the Editor
of the Times, and will feel obliged by the publication
of the inclosed letter.

" Monday morning.
" 103, Westbourne•terrace, July 6.
" Sir,—l have received your letter, requesting me te
allow my name to be used as one of the patrons of ac
association for raising, by Id. subscription, ' a pod►
man's national monument to the memory of the late Sit,
Robert Peel.' It will be to me a melancholy satisfac
don to be associated in so appropriate a mode of express
tug the almost universal feeling of sorrow at the loss of
a great public benefactor.
" The illustrious statesman who has been taken from
us with such awful suddenness sacrificed every tithe)
abject of ambition to secure to the firesides and work-
,hops of the toiling multitudes of this country the bless-
ings of increased prosperity, health, and happiness. He
knew the immediate penalty he would have to psy for
.he service he was rendering the nation, but he relies'
with prophetic faith upon the future verdict of the
people. In the moment of his severest trial, when deli
vering the speech which closed his official career
After speaking of the ties of party which he had
ievered for ever, of the political friendships he had con-
verted into bitter enmities, of the floodgates of calurnn)
he had let loose upon himself—after recounting mourn
fully but without repining, the sacrifices he bad made, he
turned for sympathy and justice to the mass of al(
people and closed his last speech as Minister with the
yellowing words:—
"' It may be that I shall leave a name sometimes re-
membered with the expressions of goodwill in the abed(
of those whose lot it is to labour and to earn their daily
bread by the sweat of their brow, when they shall re-
iruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed
food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by s
iense of injustice.'

" Thus,- in the work you have undertaken, you are.l
perhaps, unconsciously realising the aspirations of th.
departed statesman. In piling up the pence of the work-,
ng classes into a pyramid to his memory, let me suggest'
,hat the above passage be inscribed upon its base. Ii
will prove that he did not over-estimate the justice of
gratitude of his country and it will also show t(
uture statesmen that there is security, with the people
t'or the fame of a Minister who braves the vengeance o
men,
particular interests whilst conferring benefits upon the
nation.

- - I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
4' RICHARD COBDEg.
" To Mr. John Downes."

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday a Court was held for the transaction of
public business.
THE DEATH OF SIR ROBERT PEEL.
Mr. WIRE, in pursuance of a notice which he had
given, proposed the following resolution, expressive
of the sense entertained by the CJurt of the deep
toss sustained by the lamented death of Sir Robert
Peel :

" Resolved,—That this Court has received with tlel
'deepest emotions of sorrow the painful intelligence ( f
the death of that eminent statesman, the Right lion. Sir
'Robert Peel, Bart., an event which may be justly IT-
garded as a great national loss. That, while submitting
with reverential awe to the wisdom of Divine Providence,
this Court desires to express its admiration of the great
talents, the manly eloquence, the administrative capa-
city, and the disinterested conduct of the deceased states-
man. This Court duly appreciates the laborious exer-
tions and the extraordinary sacrifices made by Sir
Robert Peel, and it is fully satisfied that all his efforts
were intended to lay wide and deep the foundations, the
lasting prosperity, honour, and glory of his native land.
Nor can this Court refrain from recording its sense of
the purity of his private character, and his eminent
domestic virtues; and it desires to convey to Lady Peel,
And to all the members of the family, its heartfelt and
unanimous sympathy with them in the irreparable loss
which they and the nation have sustsined."—(Hear.)
Sir P. LAURIE seconded the resolution, which was
carried unanimously.
Upon the motion of Mr. R. L. Joszs, seconded by
Mr. JOHN WOOD, the resolution was ordered to be
published in the newspapers, and upon the motion of
Alderman SALONIONS, seconded by Mr. R. TAYLOR,
theth e
rLe
er dl
ulvilehay°
requested
ieel. to transmit a copy of,
tor was Lady

THE TEA TRADE, JULY B.—The deliveries of tea
in London last week were 573,5151 b., being abut 40,0001 b.
increase over the previous year.

FREEZING, MAKING AERATED WATERS, &e,—THE
PRACTICAL VIEWS OF THE NEPAOLESE MISSION.—The
members of the Mission have lately been very active in their
investigations of the various manufactures of the metropolis.
One of the objects of the Mission is evidently to introduce
some of the most useful contrivances of British ingenuity to
their countrymen, as is instanced in the fact of their having
made frequent visits recently to the establishment of Mr.
Masters, adjoining the Royal Polytechnic Institution. The
Prince's object in thus honouring this establishment has been
to make himself thoroughly acquainted with the construction ,4
and mode of using Mr. Masters' inventions for producing ice
s e N
with a
by artificial means during the hot season, and in India. To
perfectly satisfy himself that these apparatuses can be relied'.':.
on for producing the ice under all circumstances, the Prince
has had a complete set of them at his own residence for
1 a 1 dys,thwehmereunhaeehrashcisauoswedn
pveirrsioolumslexdipreercitmioennst,sintothbee
made•
e r
..,
presence of the other members of the embassy, who were
much delighted with the cylinders of pure ice produced by !"
the machine, the modes operandi of which they seemed to.
4 rea,lily comprehend. The Prince also evinced much prac-
tical acumen in adjusting the large machine ready for action.
i
The SUCCeS3 which attended these experiments has caused f.
the embassy to purchase twenty-two apparatuses, each being
adapted for a speci...l purpose, such as producing solid blacksof ice, ice creams, icing wines, butter, &a.; producing soda
which water, and aerated beverages, &c.
rADVERTISEMENT.J—THE EARL OF ALDROROTTGE
&ND HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—An astounding cure by this miraculous
medicine, aster every other means had failed. See extract from him
• Lordship's letter, dated " Villa Messina, Leghorn, Feb. 21, 1845.
Profes
scaresorHolloofNavadyis—orSdirer:
ilnbemgytloivaecornaaniansttyoomuatchhatyGuT pills have ef-
fectedall the most
-eminent of the faculty, at home and all over the continent, had not
• been able to effect ; nay, not even the waters of Carlsbad or Ma-,
rienbad. (Signed) ..ALDBONOUGH." These wonderfia pm, will
cure any disease of the liver or stomach.—Sold (also Holloway's
Ointment) at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, atraa, e
by ill =lido voudors throughout the aivihoo4 woritl 1

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

RCHRONICLE.—The House of Commons will this
evening be called upon to reconsider its late hurried
eland random decision on the question of Sunday Ls-i
pileour in the Post-office. Mr. Locke will move for an!
gaddress to the Crown, praying that the whole subject,
inay be made the matter of official inquiry, and that,;
ay
such investigation, the Sunday collection and;
delivery of letters may be resumed. We own that'
-we do not exactly perceive the necessity for the first
'.:' part of the Member for Honiton's motion ; for it is
perfectly well known that the practicability of reduc-
ing the amount of Sunday labour throughout the Post-
. office establishment of the United Kingdom is a'
question which has for many months past engaged
the earnest attention of the Government—long before
my agitation arose respecting it—and that, in fact,
very considerable reductions have from time
•to time been effected. Nor do we altogether like
the air of compromise apparent in the wording
•of the latter part of the notice. If, as the author
of the motion is no doubt prepared to maintain, the
• internal communications of the country never ought
to have been closed on the Sunday, there seems no
:-eason why their re-opening should be put on a foot-
mg of a merely provisional and ad interim arrange-
ment ; and, on general grounds, we doubt the desir-
ableness of affecting to adjourn a vexatious and irri-
'sting controversy, instead of settling it. However,
the difference is, after all, not so material as it ap- .
Jeers, and if Mr. Locke is not deluding himself with
the notion that his excessive moderation will bring
him a few Sabbatarian votes, we dare say no great
harm will be done. The practical gist of his motion
is, that the decision of the House for stopping the Sun-
day collection and delivery of letters was hasty, un-,,,
. wise, and ought to be reversed ; and any form of wordsN,
which really raises this issue will answer every essen- :
ial purpose. On the merits of this controversy we have
,ittle or nothing to add to what we have repeatedly had
,ccasion to urge during the last few weeks. Look-'"
ing at the question merely as one of religious prin- •
ciple, we never could understand why the State
should make a conscience of refusing to perform on,
:he Sunday a social function which, in countless in-
stances, confessedly comes within the privileged -
category either of "necessity" or of " mercy." We
never yet met with a Sabbatarian who made any;;
lifficulty about admitting that cases are perpetually
arising in which the instant transmission of a written;
communication to a distant place, quite irrespectively
Jf canonical hours or days, is an actual duty ; and if
-his be once granted, it is totally inexplicable on
what grounds a Christian Government ought to hold I
itself interdicted from facilitating the perform- ‘:
ante of such, duties. Considering how large '`p=
an amount of Sunday letter-writing is, on;,
the very strictest and narrowest principles of •
Sabbatarianism, not only permissible, but even corn- -
pulsory in foro conscientice, we are really astonished
it the facility with which some people assume that it'
.s sinful for the state to collect and deliver letters on
that day. And this is the more extraordinary when
it is further remembered that the performance of this •
function by the same official machinery which collects
Ind delivers on other days is obviously an immense
saving of Sunday labour, since it employs a single
:orps of carriers and messengers in the transmission
of communications which would otherwise be con-
veyed by an indefinite number of private individuals.
Possibly, after the little foretaste which we have had
f the practical working of the prohibitory regime, s
the advocates of the better observance of the'
Sunday may be more accessible to reason on
his point than they have previously shown them-
selves. It can scarcely be doubted, that, as the t
Postmaster-General was informed the other day by a
deputation of newspaper proprietors, a far greater
amount of Sunday labour has been set in motion for •
the last two or three weeks, in connexion with the
transmission and delivery of the London weekly
journals alone, than has been saved by the opera • .
ion of the new system ;
,and if we further take
into account all the parcels, messages, and other
Jrpedients to which individuals have resorted in order
:o supply the void left by the enforced idleness of the
Post-office, it will be difficult to resist the conclusion
bat the Sunday has never been worse kept within
;he memory of this generation than during the:.
?resent period of Sabbatarian ascendancy. We .'
lave already more than once warned the agitators ;>,
.hat it would be prudent to let well alone—or, we ,
would rather say, to content themselves with that e
silent and gradual progress from good to better
which has been taking place for many years past e'-,
with reference to the decorous and religious observ-
ance of the Sunday. As it is, the sacred day is im-
neasurably .•
better kept in Great Britain than in any
ether European country ; and there is the utmost.;
reason to fear that violent and ill-considered at-
empts to strain the cords of Sabbatical obligation too':'
ight will produce consequences the very reverse of
hose which are intended and desired. We know not
low far there is reason for supposing that the gentle-
nen who constituted the majority of ninety-
hree have profited by the experience of the last three
A eck s—though it is at least certain that the tone of -:
heir organs surprisingly changed from the first mo- ,
nent that the matter assumed a serious and prac-
i:ical shape. But the real settlement of the question ,
will lie, so far as the present session is concerned, not,
with the majority of ninety-three who voted with
Lord Ashley on the 30th of May, but with the far
arger majority of 490 (including, by the way), Mr.
Locke himself) who were absent from the House on
hat occasion. We presume that a very consider-
able proportion of these Gentlemen have sub-
sequently been made aware—either by the corn-
Junctions visitings of conscience or by the remon-i.,
strances of their constituents—that they are boundo
both to have and to express an opinion, one way or e
the other, on a matter so deeply interesting to the
community as in the mutilation or the restoration
of the postal system of the country ; and if so, it'
is scarcely possible to doubt that the result,
of to-night's motion will be the abrogation of
a hasty vote which nobody expected, and which,
we believe, very few persons really desired. At ally`
events we may take the liberty of reminding any 4
,;entleman whose absenteeism on a former occasion
was not accidental, and who may feel inclined to
-esort to the same expedient a second time for they
sake of evading an embarrassing alternative, thatl
it is not always practicable to shuffle off public re-
sponsibilities thus lightly. In fact, whover shrinks
(without special cause shown) from giving a vote
saber for or against Mr. Locke's motion, says, as,
2lainly as actions can speak, that he is totally;
indifferent, on the one hand, to the supposed re-I
ligous obligation of shutting up post-offices on thel
Sunday, and on the other, to the comfort and conve-
nience of the public. One of these impeachments a
nan may very well afford to bear, after having ho-I
aestly striven to decide and act according to the best
if his judgment —but it would be decidedly disagree ,
able to incur both, without the re-assuring conscious-
ness of having done one's duty. As few gentlemen
will, we suppose, like to lay themselves fairly open to
this double imputation, we look forward to seeing Mr.!
Locke's motion thoroughly debated in a full House,l
and adopted by a majority which shall leave no!
doubt as to the real sense of the country. Lett
us add, that whatever may be said of the duties
and responsibilities of independent Members of
Parliament applies, with tenfold force, to the
Ministers of the Crown. Oa a matter so vitally
important to all classes of the community, and
especially to the poor and the unrepresented,,
the Government are bound not only to have a clear!
and decided opinion, but to do their best to obtain its'
adoption by the House of Commons. It will not do
for them to fold their arms in sulky apathy, and leave I
everything to " the House." There has been far too
much of this already, and we have never seen Lordl
John Russell to less advantage than in the attitude,
which he has assumed in reference to this question—
courting defeat, in the first instance, by sheer negli-.
gence and indifference, and ostentatiously exulting
afterwards in the thought that "people would find
out the inconvenience" of leaving a Liberal Cabinet
in a minority. We trust that we have witnessed the
last of those most, unseemly displays of little-
ness and pettishness, and that Ministers will now
set themselves in good earnest to repair the error
which has been committed through their own lathes.'
The rights and comforts of the great mass of the
community are not to be wantonly trifled with, and
if the Premier has any quarrel with a House of Com.
mons, which, to say the trutb, is rather fond of out-
voting him, he must find some other way of showing
his resentment than by zealously and eagerly inflict-
ingn inp:setaoenprlse do especially
, andnexceedinglyot
give
ha rds hi
poorerp
unreserved,
o n
classes.sal l cl as classes I
the hearty, o
af
zealous, and an official support to Mr. Locke's mo-
tion of to-night, the country will henceforth entirely
• forget who moved, supported, and carried the i
Sabba-
tarian vote of the 30th of May, and will rememberl
* only that Lord John Russell has taken particular!
• pleasure in carrying it out to all its mischievous and
exasperating consequences.

DAILY NEWS.—Mr. Locke has a very properl
[notion on the notice-hook of the House of Commons.
of the kingdom dom
inconveniences ; and after
this evening. It is on the vexed question of Sunday
labour in
w thebat
is
unquestionable,
,have arisen in carrying out the recent decision of the
House, it proposes to address the Crown in favour 011
stating,an inquiry whether the amount of Sunday labour'
Imight not be greatly diminished without a total ces-
sation of collection and delivery of letters on that
day, and praying her Majesty meanwhile to direct a
return to the former practice of the Post-office. This
motion, it is true, stands seventh on the notice book.,
but as it is quite possible that those before it may be
disposed of quickly or withdrawn, it is very desi-,
cable that there should be a full attendance in
case it come on. That the recent address to -the
Crown expresses -the real opinion of -the 'House
of Commons, will not, we suppose, be asserted,
even 1/ its mover, Lord Ashley. Oh the other

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chard, however, reciprocity of candour requiresA—(Hear, bear.) Those very senseless zu(Cls r
the admission that it was not carried by star-g'sand hisses)—had raised this question, not the publei):l24
,prise. The secret of its unexpected success was theWsing of the newspapers on the Sunday, but their'
mere delivery, at a time when every means had bassi
!timidity and cowardice of those who, out of fear of
taken to reduce the labour on that day in h
the " meeting-house," stayed away, but who nowss2 ,
r
spia rect that their absence was owing to the early hourU _I a
I.ost-officl to the smallest possible amount ; a guess-
sttron which would only be decided by the ens
lat which the division took place. Now, though thelss`s. ire triumph of civil and re]: ious liberty.—(o-reat
country has a right, we think, to complain of Mi-rasra`r, i ) the Levitical J 1 sisters at once, and without inquiry or lengthenedePwas not a licab'e
Christiant. au3t.
dispensation, but the sotricbtleanopdhpliteraAl had
=notice, adopting and acting on such an address, it is been changed to a humane and
certainly with a very ill grace that those Members the Sabbath. To carry out the Leviticalsla law in intsceio-f , whose absence led to' its affirmation censure Go- tegrity, they must stop all the carriages in the streetfts
vernment for not displaying a courage which they . pull the liveries off the footmen, stop the steamboats and,
'themselves did not choose to exercise on that, the railways—(Great confusion)—and he would tell the
~..working men that if they allowed themselves to be
occasion. Sir Charles 'Wood at the time man-
-cheated of their Sundays under the pretence of that so-
consequencesfully opposed the motion, warned the House of the
with his
ilemni:umbug, they would regret it long enough. R.
of its being carried, and,
ekvioitriiistecrontehlautdeonby sayingt as he had hinted to a Cabinet
colleagues, voted in the minority against it. Lord
John Russell, too, has subsequently spoken out right to ;et men oaf gl!slOn
feeling in
utility it was not
plainly and decisively on the question, and has ' other, or to tear off religiousthedecenc in opposition to each
owfh which had
ht ntver)satendnyrelat;
distinctly intimated that the Government will only
~.,gion in England, for the sakey
i
be too happy, on the invitation of the House, to- they were now smarting under. —(Loud cheers.)
retrace its steps. It is, therefore, entirely for those , The CHAIRMAN then put the amendment, which WU
those
h
who formerly absented themselves now to come for- illost, and the original resolution carried by a large ma-
ward, and by their support to Mr. Locke's motion to , PritY, not more than forty or fifty hands being held up
in
mfarvomuroof the former.
RE moveid thdat a petition embodying the re-
undo the mischief which they by their former
an. signed by the chairman on be-
cowardice caused. They have the power, and Mr.
...solutio'n be
I.alf of the meeting,PrePare which having been seconded by Mr,
LITTLE, unanimously, and the meet-
andLocke will affurd them the opportunity, of putting
the matter right. The absurdity of sending letters
LATTLE, Was carried almost
papers on Saturday evenings, to remain in post- ing adjourned.
offices, subject to the prying of their inmates, all the '
'Sunday, is so ridiculous, and the inconveniences of
'the total cessation of delivery and collection on that
'day are so obvious, as to require very little dis-
cussion. The real point for debate and inquiry is
!that so happily hit by Mr. Locke—how can Sun•
!day labour in post-offices be diminished, and the
delivery and collection of letters be at the same time
maintained ? No doubt, it is hard on individuals in,
any service to be kept at work on the first, as well as
throughout the other six days of the week; and it
well behoves the Government to set private people an
!example on such a point. But this was exactly what
the Post-office authorities were doing when the House
of Commons so improperly and injuriously interfered;
with the details of an executive department of the',
,state. They had given relief during five of the best,
hours of the Sunday to nearly five thousand persons
Ilengaged in their service in the provinces ; and had,
reduced the number of hands (at all times insignificant)
employed during that day at St. Martin's-le-Grand.
Nor would this have been all, had Parliament let
them alone; they were prepared, and making prepa-
rations to go further. The only obstruction to their
views was expense; for, to give complete relief to
those worked six days in our Post-office on the..
seventh day, one of two courses must be adopted.
Either there must be a cessation of delivery and col-':
lection on Sundays, as Lord Ashley has proposed,
and, unfortunately, carried; or Parliament must be
prepared to allow the Post-office to enlarge its esta-
blishment.
For years complaints have been almost'
universal of the inadequacy of the remuneration given
to post-masters and all other Post-office employis. Hard
work and bad pay was, and is, the tenure of Post-
office service. Now, unluckily for the heads of the .
department, these complaints were not sufficiently
attended to. In their anxiety to make the Post-
office the source of a handsome revenue to the coun-
try, the treasury of the Postmaster-General, and their
advisers, screwed down salaries, remuneration, and
wages, to point intolerably low, and the consequence
is, that on the part of their officers and servants,:
there is now an organisation against them as naives-
sal as their former disregarded complaints were. This
organisation has lent all its influence, and supplied all
its information to Lord Ashley and his friends ; and
has of late been celebrating its triumph by osten-
tatious attendance at church. And that triumph is.
in point of fact, a retribution for Post-office niggard-
liness and Treasury economy. To restore Sunday
delivery and collection, the Post-office and the
Treasury must, then, be prepared to deal liberally
with those in their service, and to give to every
one engaged in that department the pecuniary ,
means and the opportunity of enjoying one
day's complete rest during the week. Unless, indeed,
they are ready to do this, it may be doubted whether
a restoration to the old practice ought in justice to
the Post-office employs to be made. For it is quite:
intolerable that a public department alone in this
country should, on the paltry ground of economy.
deny its servants one day's relaxation, rest, or amuse-
ment during each week. And how, and at what cost
that can be done, will be one of the points for inquiry,
should Mr. Locke's motion be carried. So far as the
question has been made what it really is not, a reli-
gious one, that is almost entirely owing to Scotland
and its sectarian squabbles and animosities. Since
the disruption of the kirk of that ancient kingdom,
there has been in Scotland a struggle and a competi-
don
between the rival sects and churches for
power and supremacy. One has been outbidding
' the other in what we, on the south of the Tweed.
:call Puritanism, until at last their race ended
in an organization against Sunday travelling and
Post-office work, which hes gradually, but not very
successfully, been extended into England; whilst to
Ireland it has hardly gained admittance. It is, there-
rfore, a question whether the prejudices entertained on
this question by a large proportion of the 1 population,
of Scotland shall be force,!, against their inclination
and reason, on the inhabitants of England and Ire-
land ? And this, too, Mr. Locke, will, if he have the-
opportunity, put to he test to-night in the House of
Commons. We conclude, however, as we commence,
in entreating attendance. Members owe it to their
'own characters, as well as to their constituents, to be,
present. For, if on such a subject the representa-
tives of the people are afraid of expressing in the'
Housa of Commons the opinions they are loud in
giving vent to out, they are most unworthy member:
lof the popular branch of the British Parliament,

NEW POSTAL REGULATIONS.

MAGAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED.)

COLBURIV'S VIVI lED SERVICE.
The opening paper is entitled the " Nepaulese
`Mission," and furnishes us with some valuable par-
iticulars, as to the country and manners of the Ne-
!paulese, and as to the personal qualities of the mem-
Ibers of the present embassy to England. The fol-
lowing suggestions are worth attention, though, no
'doubt, Aberdeen and his Cossacks, in the House
of Lords, would pass a resolution deprecating any
extension of our fur trade with Nepaul, without
leave, from the Autocrat first had and obtained.
Speaking of the manufactures of Nepaul, this writer,
who was late Assistant Rt sident at Khatmatadoo,
says

' They perfectly understand melting copper, tin,
and zinc together, also the proportions for making
brass. They are moreover celebrated for their
bell metal: some of their gongs, for instance, would in-
deed be highly prized in many a nobleman's domain;
and a few of these at the grand exhibition next yera.,
would be much admired, and doubtless ensure many
• orders for the gong manufacturers in Kbatmandoo. For
the same great occasion, specimens of some of the beau-
tiful furs, monthly obtainable in Kbatinandoo, from
Lassa and Digurchee, in Thibet, might be imported.
these two large cities are great fur depots: they are
only forty marches from Khatmandoo. It is, however,
deserving of consideration, whether by encouraging a
airect far trade, we should not be unii.tentionally giving
offence to Russia, for a very large portion of the Russian
fur trade is derived from this part of Thibet, acd cer-
usinly by far the most valuable furs are obtained there.
I have seen some of the most beautiful dresses made of
turs brought by the native merchants from these cities;
and I once purchased from ore of them a fur cicak with
thick silk lining for 150 Moree rupees, in English money
little more than 101. A few enterprising English mer-
chants (the Nepaul restrictions on commerce being re-
moved, and protection from plunder and extortion gua-
ranteed) would very soon ensure the whole of the
rhibetan trade being drawn to Calcutta, which I have
before mentioned, is only 200 miles from the Nepaul
frontier, with water carriage from the foot of the hills.
the transaction might also lead to a most desirable object,
viz., the diverting the attended of the Nepaulese from
their ruling idea, that they are strictly a military nation.
they have, singularly enough, retained this notion during
upwards of thirty years' peace."
The next article is an able vindication of
Lord Palmerston's conduct during the whole of
his negotiations with France on the Greek
question. The failure of those negotiations is en-
tirely due to Baron Gros, acting, with the con-
nivance and support of General de Lahitte, under
Russian influence; the whole intrigue was concocted in
'he salons of the Princess Lieven. In an article on
the military resources of Russia, we find that the
disposable strength of the Russian army consists of
about 365,000 iorantry, 95,000 cavalry, and 1,080
field pieces, besides the stationary or local corps of
280,000 men, 45,000 horse, and 100 or 120 Seld pieces,
this too being exclusive of the Cossack militia. The
writer is of opinion that, after providing for all the
wants of the empire, Russia could throw
into Europe 310,000 rank and file of well drilled,
highly disciplined, and admirably provided troops,
backed by a powerful reserve. Lieutenant-Colonel
Wilkie, in a paper on the " Yeomany Cavalry," consi-
ders that, under their present organization, they are
merely an expensive pla) thing. We consider that
they are not only an expensive but a dangerous play-
thing, and should rejoice to see them disbanded alto-
cgether, as proposed by the Hon. Member for Bristol,
Mr. Henry Berkeley. In his comments on the court-
martial on Commander Michell, the writer urges the
absolute necessity of an immediate and extensive re-
,lirmation in the organization of those courts of in-
• justice, and we cordi3lly join him in his agitation of
Alia subject. The narrative of the "Antarctic Voyage
,f the Pagoda " is continued, and we have in addition
several papers of great professional interest.

Yesterday evening a very numerous public meeting
was held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, for
the purpose of considering the motion to be made in
'the House of Commons this day by Mr. Locke,
M.P., for immediately rescinding the recent postal .
derangement.
Mr. W. WILLIAMS, late M.P., for Coventry, having'
taken the chair amidst loud aeclamations, said that tillN
within the last two hours he had not been aware that
'such a meeting was to be held, but us he never refused
to do what lay in his power for the benefit of the people,
ho was willing to take the char in the absence of Mr.
Douglas Jerrold.—(Cheers.) He was an advocate for
the ;suspension of labour on toe Sunday, because be
thought a day of rest was of the greatest po.sible
benefit to the working classes.—(Bear, hear.) But there
were circumstances which justified a departure from this .
rule to a certain extent, and these circumstances existed '
with regard to the delivery through the Post-office ofi
letters and newspapers on Sunday. The recent resolu ,
tion of the House of Commons had been directed
rather against the working class than against the dese- '
oration of the Sabbath.—(Cheers and cries of " No, no.")!.
If it was determined to make Sunday a day of entire sus•
pension from all labour, let the rule be applied equally
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to the rich as well as the poor. In the households of the
uobility, far more work was done on that day than was,
required to carry on the Post-office operations.—(Elear, '-
Ow.) The chairman concluded by reading a letter
:from Mr. Hume, M.P., expressing his regret at being
unable to attend the meeting, and promising to forward
its object by every means in his power.—( Rear, hear.)
' Mr. HoookrNs moved the first resolution:—" That
the closing of the Post-office on Sundays for the deliver)
of letters and newspapers is arbitrary and unjust, and;
that this meeting considers such a proceeding opposed '.
ito the wishes and feelings of a large majority of Or •
people, and pledges itself to make every lawful;
exertion to get the recent order, closing the Post-
• office on Sundays, immediately rescinded. " H.e
said .
that the recent alterations would crew° more labour ,
than would be abolished in the Post-office, for
principal railway companies had made, or were,
'making arrangements for the carriage and delivery of
4newspapers in almost every town in England. If letters
and newspapers were not delivered by the Post office on
/Sunday they would be distributed by private hands, and
a great increase of labour on that day would be the ine- '
vitable consequence of Lord Ashley's address.—(LLar.)',
Mr. ELT seconded the resolution. He thought it ne-
cessary to say that he was a firm believer its the vital
truths of Christianity, because the term " infidel " had
been unscrupulously applied to those who advocated the
rational enjoyment of the Sabbath.—(Hear, hear.) He
believed that institution to be rather a social expedient
than a divine command, and as such, it was inevitable
that a few should suffer for the benefit of the mass. But
the Sabbatarians had put the question on a religious
footing.—(Hear, hear,) They had propounded a theolo- .
gioal dogma to which they required every one else to
bow.—(Cheers.)
During his address Mr. Elt was frequently interrupted
by a person in the body of the meeting, who proved to ,
be Duncan, the Chartist poet. Having succeeded in '
forcing his way on the table, he stood there for some
minutes, 'gesticulating furiously, and resisting every
effort to get him down. At last the police were sent for,
and he was forced out of the room by a constable amidst
• a general uproar.
• Mr. LEE moved the following amendment:—'' That
this meeting is of opinion that the new Post- office regu-
lations being the result of the constitutionally expressed!
wishes of a large and influential portion of the commu-k
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ity—(No, no, and hisses)—ought not to be rescinded;
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'until they have had a fair trial." He said, that all bet
wished was the measure should be fairly discussed and;
' fairly tried. He could see no injustice in a meaure the
object of which was to relieve a large prtion of the
;, community from compulsory labour on the Sabbath day.t.
il Mr. WHEY seconded the amendment, amidst general)
r interruption.
Mr. lilooan said, let the friends of restrictions get
petitions signed throughout the country, and regular]) .
presented, and let a Bill be brought in, solemnly debated
and passed, and he would then willingly admit that tht
public approved of the measure ; but so far as at,
opinion could be formed at present it was decidedly un-
popular.—(Cheers.)
Mr. SERLE, who was received with loud and long-
contilled applause, said that the parties who promoted
i the meeting were accused of being interested persons.
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They were so, and so were their opponents. The latter
were men who-desired to monopolise the whole Sabbath
for themselves—(Hear, hear) —but they had commenced
moyemeut of the end of Which they did act anticipate,