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/MESTER and HOLYHEAD RAILWAY
COMPANY.
At the THIRTEENTH HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING
of the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company, held at the Euston
Station. London, on Friday, the 30th August, 1850,

In the Chair,
Captain C. R. MOORSOM, R.N., Chairman of the Directors.
It was resolved-
1. That the Report of the Directors be received and adopted.
2. That the declaration which has boen made by the Directors ofthe
forfeiture of 65 original 50/. shares be confirmed, and the same is hereby
confirmed by this Meeting--the Numbers of the said Shares being as
follows:-5,437 to 5,446-5,807 to 5,816-5,887 to 5,891-6,205 to
6,209--6,245 to 6,249-12,842 to 12,856-14,966 to 14,970-16,977 to
16,986—and that the Directors be authorised to dispose of the Shares
so tbrfeited in such manner as they shall deem fit.
3. That the Directors be, and they are 113reby authorised to con-
tract with any parties willing to construct any Siding or Branch from
any part of the Railway, and to allow them the benefit of Traffic
brought to or from such Siding over the Railway.
4. That the Directors be authorised to become insurers of their
own VeFsels, instead of insuring as heretofore.
5. That Sir. William Jackson, M.P., lion. Arthur Kinnaird, Mr.
J. Lambert, Mr. Samuel Morton Peto, M.P., Hon. W. 0. Stanley,
M.P., and Alderman William Thompson, ALP, be, and they are
hereby elected Directors of this Company.
6, That Sir. Philip Hanbury and Sir. J. L. Provost be, and they
are hereby elected Auditors of this Company.
7. That the remuneration of the Directors and Auditors be con-
tinued on the present scale.
8. That the thanks of the Meeting be given to the Chairman and
the Directors for their services, and also to Mr. Robert Stephenson.
EDWARD BROOKS, Secretary.
Euston Station, August 31, 1850.

DISPUTED LIFE POLICIES.
" A trial of considerable interest to Life Assurance Offices and the
public was concluded yesterday in the Court of Exchequer. The
Eagle Company held a policy for an assurance of 5391. In the Albion
Company as security for an advance, the payment of which policy
was now disputed by the Albion, on the ground that at the time it
was effect,d the fact of the assured party having been a man of in-
temperate habits was concealed from the office. The chief evidence
turne I (mon the question as to the degree of intemperance that had
been exhibited, and the resu't was, that a verdict was giv,n against
the resisting office, not only for the amount of the policy, but also for
401. interest faun the date when it became due. The circumstance

of the action being hrought by one office against another presents a
r- striking illustration of the uncertainty which may attach to all po-
d lieles tin !er the present system, and shows that the only mole by
ch absolute security can he obtained by the public must lie in the
general adoption by Assurance Offices of the plan of prote,ting them-
selves in every case by due inquiries before the granting f each po-
licy, and of afterwards assuming the full responsibility of the com-
pleteness of such inquiries by bolding themselves precluded from
raising any future question. In the present ca:c two offices are
found to he diametrically opposed in their opinions as tc what can
properly invalidate a claim, and yet the public are expected to be
able to <mare themselves against such contingences. Similar cases
have occurred before, and even if they were more rare, they would
seriously injure the progress of life assurance. The very principle
upon which the business is founded is the removal of uncertainty,
and whenever that principle is counteracted in the slightest degree,
the people who would be the first to resort to its advantages are the
first to be deterred."—Times, July I I, 1850.
THE LONDON INDISPUTABLE LIFE
POLICY COMPANY
No. 72, LOMBARD-STREET, LONDON.
TRUSTEES.
f. Campbell Renton, Esq., M.P. I Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P.
Richard Malins, Esq., Q.C. James Fuller Madox, Esq.
William Wilberforce, Esq.
DIRECTORS.
Robert Henry Forman, Esq.
John Hamilton, Esq.
James Fuller Madox, Esq.
John Matthews, Esq.
C. Octavius Parnell, Esq.
AUDITORS.
Jal.nes Turner, Esq.
David Henry Stone, Esq.

William Adams, Esq.
John Atkins, Esq.
Henry Augustus Bevan, Esq.
J. Thompson Bramwell, Esq.
Jshn Danger&ld, Esq.

George Cumming, Esq.
William D. Starling, Esq.

SECIIETARY—David Alison, Esq.
BANzEits—Messrs. Spooner, Attwoods, and Co.
PADDINGTON LOCAL BOARD.
24, Connaught-terrace, Edgeware -road.
Rev. James Sherboldßoone, A.M., Stanhope-street, Hyde-park.

Captain Creed, Norfolk-crescent, Oxford-square.
Charles Pemberton, Esq., Eastbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, and Lin•
coin's Inn-fields.
Thomas Jervis Araos, Esq., York-street, Portman-square.
George Y. Robson, Eel., Eastbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, aid New.
square, Lincoln's Inn.

Secretary, Chas. Hogitton, Esq

The POLICIES of this Company, being-INDISPUTABLE, form
Family Provisions and Negotiable Securities, for their validity is not
dependent, as in the case of ordinary Policies, upon the import of
previous reports and other documents. _ _ .

Owing to this important improvement in the practice of Life As-
surance, the progress of this Company has been rapid from the com-
mencement of its business, and is steadily advancing.
Copies of the Report of the last Annual Meeting will tse forwarded,
on application, to Solicitors, to whom Commission is allowed.

ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, Manager.

ENGLISH AND CAMBRIAN ASSUR
A NCE SOCIETY.
Offices, 9, NEW BRIDGE-STREET, Blackfriars, London.
Capital, 150,0001., in 12,000 Shares, of 121. 10s. each with power of
increase to One Million.
Life Policies Indisputable.
TRUSTEES.
Sterhen Olding, jun., Esq. I Francis Lloyd, Esq.
G. M. Murray, Esq. I W. Whitelock. Esq.

BANKERS.

Messrs. Rogers, Olding, Sharpe, and Company, 29, Clements-lane,

ADVANTAGES OF THE SOCIETY.
Life Policies indisputable.
Lives " declined " by other Offices accepted.
Fees to Private Medical Referees of Insurers.
Fire Policies granted for sums adapted to the circumstances of all
classes (with a division of profits.)
Loans advanced upon Freehold arid Leasehold Property, and to
Share and Policy-holders, upon undmbted personal security.
Agencies and Medical Referees wanted in town end country.
GEORGE ANGUS, Secretary.

CONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
A_ •A The Eight Hon. Sir T. FRANKLAND LEWIS, Bart., M.P.
Chairman.

HENRY FREDERIC STEPHENSON, Esq., Deputy-Chairman,

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THE WEST INDIA MAIL.

SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. I.—The Royal Mail Company's
steam-ship_Avon, Capt. Lieutenant Hast, RN., arrived
this evening at seven o'clock, from the West Indies,
with the usual mails, in charge of Lieut. O'Reilly, R.N.
The latest dates brought by the Avon are:—Chagres,
July 30; Carthagena, Aug. 2; Jamaica, 7; Demerara,
5; Trinidad, 7; Barbadoes,Grenada, 9; 10; Porto
Rico, 11; St. Thomas, 14; La Guayra, 6; Antigua, 11;
Jacrnel, 9; Santa Martha, July 21; Grey Town, 26.
The Avon brings on freight 1,420.171 dolls. on mer-
chants' account; 950 dolls. platina; 7,775 dolls. pearls;
2 cases of cigars; 10 turtles; 200 bales of sarsaparilla;
9 boxes of indigo; 2 cases of tortoiseshell: 5 cases
of succades. From California-3 grizzly bears of
very rare species, from the Sierra Novada mountains.
STATIONS of HER MAJESTY'S SHIPS.—ArrivA at
Grey Town, July 25, her Majesty's brig Persian, Capt.
Bullman; Jamaica, August 7, her Majesty's ship
Imaum ; Antigua, August 11, her Majesty's ship Alarm,
during hurricane months.
STATIONS OF THE COMPANY'S STEAM SHIPS.—The
Great Western, Captain Wolff, Gulf of Mexico; the
Tay, Captain Chapman, left St. Thomas for Jamaica on
the 13. h August; the Avon, Captain Vincent, met the
Severn, of Porto Rico, en route to Jamaica, on the 11th
August; the Clyde, Captain Moss, at St. Thomas, on
the 14th August; the Conway, Captain Woolley, on the
Demerara route; the Eagle, Captain Restarrick, at St.
Thomas, on patent slip; the Dement, Captain Onslow,
at St. Thomas.

wharf for safe keeping. The jury returned a verdict of
not guilty.
Public feeling was aroused to the injurious tendency
the new route by the Royal Mail Company's steamers
will have on the commercial interest of the colony, by
the loss of trade between the Spanish Main and Jamaica.
Addresses have been got up to the American and Spanish
Consuls, the former for securing the communication
b,rween Santa Martha, Bcc. (hitherto carried on by the
Royal Mail Company's steamers), by means of Ameri-
can steamer ; the latter to malos up the loss of comma
nication b7tween Jsmaice, and St. Jags de Cuba, by
moans of a Spanish vessel. A memorial has als.) been
seat to the owners of the American .vesseli, urging their
compliance, and promising to reciprocate the advantages
by every means possible. Should the Americans con-
sent to supply vessels in the place of the Brirish vessels,
nearly every pa3senger from Jamaica, it is expected, will
take iris passage for Europe by way of New York.
Emigration from Jamaica to Chagres still continued,
but sc4reely a Vessel arrived from there without some of
the adventurers returning, as p,)or in pocket and worse
off in health than vilen they left.

inize and observe their religious institutions? All they
asked was toleration; all they complained of was perse-
cution. What did the Protestants of Germany, or the
augenots of France, ask of their Catholic superiors?
roleration. What do the persecuted Catholics of Ire•
land ask of their oppressors? Toleration.
" Do not all men in this country enjoy every religious
right which martyrs and saints ever asked? Whence
then the voice of complaint? Who is it that, in the
full enjoyment of every principle which human laws
can secure, wishes to arrest a poi ti ei of these principles
from his neighbour? D the petitioners allege that they
cannot conscientiously partcipre is pro:i s of the
twill contracts and post-offi es brceuso the mail is
carried on Sunday? If this be their motive, then it is
worldly gain which stimulates to action, and not virtue
or religion. Du they cemplein that men, less con•cien-
tious in relation to the Se both, obtain advantages over
them by receiving their letters and attending to their
contents? still their motive it worldly and selfish.- But
if their motive be to induce Congress to sanction by law
their religious opinions and observances, then their
efforts ought to be resisted, as in their tendency fate'
both to religious and political freedom. Why have the
petitioners confined their prayer to the mails ?
Why have they not requested that the Government
be required to suspend all its executive functions on
that day? Why 'do they not require us to enact that
our ships shall not sail ; that our armies shall not
march; that officers of justice shall not seize the sus-
pected, or guard the convicted? They seem to forget
that government is as necessary on Sunday as on any
other day of the week. The spirit of evil does not rest
on that day. It is the Government, ever active in its
functions, which enables us all—even the petitioners—to
worship in our churches in peace. - Our Government
furnishes very few blessings like our mails. They bear
from the centre of our Republic to its distant extremes
the Acts of our legislative bodies, the decisions of
the judiciary, and the orders of the Executive.
Their speed is often essential to the defence of the
country, the suppression of crime, and the dearest
interests of the people. Were they suppressed
one day of the week, their absence must be often sup-
plied by public expresses; and, besides, while the mail
bags might rest, the mail coaches would pursue their
journey with the passengers. The mail bears, from one
extreme of the Union to the other, letters of relatives
and friends, preserving a communion of heart between
those far separated, and increasing the most pure and
refined pleasures of our existence; also the letters of
commercial men convey the state of the markets, prevent
ruinous speculations, and promote general as well as in-
dividual interest; they bear innumerable religious letters,
newspapers, magazines, and tracts, which reach almost
every house throughout this wide Republic. Is the convey-
ance of these a violation of the Sabbath? The advance of the
human race in intelligence, in virtue, and religion itself,
depends in part upon the speed with which a knowledge
of the past is disseminated. Without an interchange
between one country and another, and between different
sections of the same country, every improvement in
moral or political science and the arts of life, would be
confined to the neighbourhood where it originated. The
more rapid and the more frequent this interchange, the
more rapid will be the march of intellect, and the pro-
gress of improvement, The mail is the chief means by
which intellectual light irradiates to the extremes of the
Republic. Stop it one day in seven, and you retard one-
seventh the advancement of our county. So far from
stopping the mail on Sunday, the Committee would re-
commend the use of all reasonable means to give it a
greater expedition and a greater ext-nsion. What
would be the elevation of our country, if every new con-
ception could be made to strike every mind in the Union
at the same time? It is not the distance of a province
or state from the seat of Government which endangers its
separation, but it is the difficulty and unfrequency of
intercourse between them. Our mails reach Missouri and
Arkansas, in less time than they reached Kentucky and
Ohio in the infancy of their settlements; and now, when
there are three millions of people extending a thousand
miles west of the Allegany, we hear less of discontent
than when there were a few thousands scattered along
their western base.
" To stop the mails one day in seven would be to
thrust the whole western country, and other distant
parts of this Republic, one day's journey from the seat
of Government. But were it expedient to put an end
to the transmission of letters and newspapers on Sun-
day, because it violates the law of God, have not the
petitioners begun wrong in their efforts? If the arm of
Government be necessary to compel men to respect and
obey the laws of God, do not the State Governments
possess infinitely more power in this respect? Let the
petitioners turn to them, and see if they can induce the
passage of laws to respect the observance of the Sab-
bath within the respective States, for, if it be sinful for
the mail to carry letters on Sunday, it must be equally
sinful for individuals to write, carry, receive, or read
them. It would seem to require that these Acts
should be made penal to complete the sys
tem. Travelling on business or recreation, except
to and from church, all printirg, carrying, receiving,
and reading of newspapers,—all conversations and social

intercourse, except upon religious subjects, must neces
sarily be punished to suppress the evil. Would it not
also follow, as an inevitable consequence, that every
man, woman, and child should be compelled to attend
church or meeting-house? And, as only one sect, in
the opinion of some, can be deemed orthodox, must it
not be determined by law which that sect is; and com-
pel all other sects and persons ti hear those teechers and
contribute to their support? If minor punishments
would not restrain the Jew, or the Sabbatarian, or the
Infidel, who believes Saturday to be the Sabbath, or
disbelieves the whole, would not the same system
require that we should resort to imprisonment,
bauishmunt, the rack, and the faggot, to force men to
violate their own conscience, or compel them to listen
to doctrines which they abhor? When the State Go-
vernments shall have yielded to these measures, it will
be time enough for Congress to declare that the rattling
of the mail coaches shall no longer break the silence of
this despotism. It is the duty of this Government to
afford to all—to Jew or Gentile, Pagan or Christian--
the protection and the advantages of our benignant in-
stitutions on Sunday, as well as on every day of the
week. Although this Government will not convert
itself into an ecclesiastical tribunal, it will practis:
upon the maxim laid down by the founder of Christianity
—that it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day.
If the Almighty has set apart the first day of
the week as a time which man is bound to keep holy, and
devote exclusively to his worship, would it not be more
congenial to the precepts of Christians to appeal exclu-
sively to the great Lawgiver of the Universe to aid them
in making men better—in correcting their practices by
purifying their hearts? Government will protect them
in their efforts. When they shall have so instructed the
public mind, and awakened the consciences of individuals
as to make them believe that it is a violation of God's
law to carry the mail, open post-offices, or receive letters,
on Sunday, the evil of which they complain will cease of
itself, without any exertion of the strong arm of civil
power. When man undertakes to be God's avenger, he
becomes a demon. Driven by the frenzy of a religious
zeal, he loses every gentle feeling, forgets the most
sacred precepts of his creed, and becomes ferocious and
unrelenting.
" The petitioners have not requested Congress to sup-
press Sunday mails upon the ground of political expe-
diency, but because they violate the sanctity of the first
day of the week.

" This being the fact, and the petitioners having in-
dignantly disclaimed even the wish to unite politics and
religion, may not the Committee reasonably cherish the
hope that they will feel reconciled to its decision in the
case; especially as it is also a fact that the counter-
memorials, equally respectable, oppose the interference
of Congress, upon the ground that it would be legis-
lating upon a religious subject, and therefore unconstitu-
tional!"

" Resolved,—That the Committee be discharged
from the further consideration of the subject."

" To the Honourable the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives, in Congress assembled. The Subscribers,
inhabitants of the County of Salem, in the State of
New Jersey, respectfully represent--
" That your memorialists belong to various religions
denominations of Christians, and some of them are con-
scientious in the belief that the seventh day of the
week, commonly called Saturday, is the true Sabbath;
that they have learned with regret that attempts are
simultaneously making, in different sections of the
country, to get up petitions and memorials to Congress
to pass a law fur stopping the United States Mail on
Sunday. While your memorialists acknowledge, with
the most devout reverence, that the earth is the Lord's,
and the fulness thereof,' and do most solemnly disclaim all
idea of robbing Jehovah of the worship which is his due,'
as Christians and Republicans they are constrained to
remonstrate against the passage of such a law, which they
believe would be pregnant with serious evils to our
country. We are of opinion that the report of the
Committee of the United States Senate of the last year
on this subject is conclusive, and that the first Article
of Amendments to the Constitution, which declares that
Congress shall make no law respecting an establish-
ment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,
or of abridging the freedom of speech or of the press,'
has virtually prohibited Congress from legislating on
this subject. In the opinion of your memorialists, errors
of opinion, whether of religion or politics, may be safely
tolerated in our country, and no surveillance is required
to control them other than that of reason, a free press'
and the free course of the Gospel.' From the judi•
cious arrangement of the Post-office department, there is
no reason to dread any disturbance of religious societies
in their devout worship on that day; and the passage of
such a law would, in the opinion of your memorialists,
by occasioning numerous expresses and other modes of
conveyance, defeat the ostensible object of the law itself.
Such a measure would ha the result of a zeal not
according to knowledge,' and is not warranted by the
benevolent spirit of our holy religion, which is gentle,'
and not coercive which is without partiality,
and without hypocrisy'—which inculcates an active
benevolence which discovers to us a Deity who
delights cot in sacrifices end vain oblations,' but in the
offering of a humble and contrite heart, and whose good-
ness is over all his works. The proposed measure
would tend to circumscribe and restrict the benefits of a
free press, which is the palladium of our liberties, and
to check or retard the diffusion of knowledge, which in
the order of Providence is the surest means of spreading

' the Gospel, and would obscure or render less refulgent
the light of Bethlehem Star.' Works of mercy, and of
private and public necessity, are always excluded from
the general prohibition, The Divine Author of our re
ligion has shown us, by his own example, that it is lawful
to do good on the Sabbath day. The proposed measure
would less-2n the good man's opportunities of doing good.
Many religious tracts, tp“t,,hlcts, and newspapers, • de-
voted to the interest of Zion, and the pro::.perity of the
it?:leemer's king low,' are transmitted by mail; and
.vhy may not carriers,' cTuily illiterate
become the heralds of ~,:v;:tiou? Why at
tttnpt to rearriet or limit the Almaighty in the math uis
his grace? 'Po stop the mail w,uld, in 0.13 opinion
~fyourrnemorialists, he repugnant to a wise maxire,.ah:ch
applies to morals ',Ed religion, as well a,: to ec!momies,—
' not to put of till to-na-rrow that which can be doe°
to-day,' and would resemble the c ,nduct of the slothful
servant, who hid his talent in a napkin.
'• It is apt invaluable privilege, fur which as Christian's
Ind Republicans we cannot be too thankful, that the
Constitution of the United States guar.ue.es to ev.ry
one-the rights of conscience and religion; and, iu the
opinion of your memorialists, the prep ised measure
would operate as a violation of these rights—would be
made a precedent for others of the same kind, and more
alarming—would pare the way to a union of Church
and State,' against which our horrors are cxe:ted by the
awful admonitions of history—which would be the death-
blow to our civil and religious liberties, purchased with
the virtue and valour, and sealed with the blood of our
fathers, and end in the worst of all tyranny—' an ec
clesiastical hierarchy.'"

OST OFFICESUNDA Y DELIVERY
(From the Weeny Dispatch.)
Now that the post is restored to its former activity
and use, our friends the Sabbatarians are kind enough
to tell us what they will do, if they can, to mar the public
convenience. Like the Protectionists, they ere tar to
proud and far too angry at being proved to be- in the
wrong, as well as at being defeated, to give up the show
of a struggle. Therefore one Sir W. Farquhar' and the
Hon. A. Kinnaird, Mr. Masterman, the useless M.P. for
London, and a certain J. D. Fowles, put forth an adver-
tisement, to tell their friends and admirers that they do
not mean to be beaten. We have not room enough in
our columns to allow a detailed answer, fitted to the
space they pay for in the imes; we shall therefore
only touch their arguments. They profess to think the
ca,e of the postmen who work on Sunday a hard one,
because they are compelled by the " fear of losing their
employment," Why, the men accepted, sought, coveted
the employment, well knowing that condition. Yes,
as much so as the servants of Farquhar, Kinnaird,
Masterman, Powles, and Co., know that they must
wait upon their masters on the Sunday for their
wages, or be desired to take themselves off. As to
" violating a Divine command," and the disregard of the
"Lord's-day" (they dare not now say "Sabbath") in a
Christian country," it has been shown clearly enough
that the " Lord's-day," as a Sabbatical rest, does not ex-
ist in Christian ordinance?, and that the " Divine com-
mand," taking it at their own value, is no more in
effective operation than the obligation of circumcision.
The Sabbatarian Chairman and Vices Chairman then
quote Mr. Loyd Jones, now Lord Orerstone, to say that
" they regard the importance to the community of a
total cessation from ordinary pursuits on each Sunday as
so inestimable, that they would make considerable sa-
crifices," &c.,, &c., to gain it. Well, let them! Who
hinders them? ut what right have they to exact sa-
crifices from others, who do not think as they do? If
the consciences of the postmen are in danger, let them
make sacrifices. It they think it wrong to work, they are
wrong in working. There are plenty who do not. As it has
been put before, the Jews do not work on their Sabbath,
the Saturday, or on their high fasts and festivals, though all
the competing community is working around them. And
they do not let their servants work either. Then the Sala-
' batarians urge the example of London, neither sending
nor receiving letters on the Sunday. Yes, that conces-
sion has been made; but if the chain is drawn an atom
tighter, that concession may be revoked. There have
not been wanting msny, during the late agitation, who
have argued for a London post on Sundays. The ques-
tion was declined, but it may be resumed. Besides,
London stands on one side and the provinces stand on
the other. One day is now lost to all who communicate
between the two—the Saturday for sending, and the
Monday for receiving in the country, and the whole of
Sunday in London. Strike out the Sunday from the
country collection and delivery, and two days are
taken from the weds. London cannot receive on Mon-
day, and cannot send on Saturday. London will lose
another day. Why did not the Sabbatarian Commit-
tee meet their antagonists before a London audienck ?
When their official, or officious deputies did so, what
chance had they ? Fcr a day of rest, the largest com-
munity, the metrop ,lis, has the choice ; ft takes the
Sunday. And it has other means of communication
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No doubt, a Sunday post would be a gre-at convenience
in London; it is a matter well worthy of reflection.
Then comes the trash about the 700,000 signatures to
the Sabbatarian petitions. Hew many of those were
bullied from the signers, by the parsoury and old woman-
hood? How many were wholly deceived as to the effect
of the petitions? How many of the petitioners imme-
diately regretted their own aet? We then are intro-
duced to the future plan of campaign. It has been
promised, that where " the prevalent feeling of the
district" is against a Sunday delivery, it shall be aban-
doned. The circumcised Sabbatarians reckon upon this.
It is a fine engine of oppression. If they can only, by
their " parson power" coerce the inhabitants of dis-
tricts into giving up their post, they will do some-
thing in detail, and something, they say, to-
wards the general cause ; there will bs less
to remove by a general effort. Now we call especially
on our friends in remote places to watch this tyranny,
and give us note of the tyrants and their doings. We
cannot see what right any local majority has to deprive
a single individual of a convenience, for the use of which
he is taxed, which the Government is, in fast, bound to
afford him. But we pray of our correspondents to keep
us well informed. The Pharisees think they can do all
this mischief at other people's expense. We must teach
them that it shall cost them something. They shall
fight on fair ground. There is not one old bigotted un-
repealed enactment that they shall not taste the plea-
sures of to let them feel what Sabbaterianism is. There
is not a deed of their own but shall be subjected to the
teat they dare to set up in oppression against others.
We will give all publicity to them and their Sunday
doings. And then, of course, they will try once more to
surprise the House of Commons. We intreat of our
Liberal friends in the House to prevent that. The
orders must so be reformed as to give room for a
second division at least, on bringing up the specific
address to be agreed to. And lastly, throughout the
country, let the people remember that the attack is, in
Lord Overstone's words (who, by the way, would never
have been a lord if his gains had been at the mercy t f
every meddler who might feel it conscientious to interfere
with them), that it is " a total cessation from ordinary
pursuits" that is aimed at. We are to be chained like
galley slaves to the exercises of a Scotch Sunday. It
will not.do to be hypocritical or compliant. We must stand
up manfully against superstition, ignorance, and pre-
tence. We must treat Farquhar, Masterman, and Co.,
as the inquisitors they long to be. The Sunday is
surely ours as much as theirs. Let them put themselves
out of the world for the day, so much the pleasanter
for those who are left in it. But there are many who
cannot; who need enjoyment as well as rest, because the
week gives them neither. It is cne thing to worship
the Divinity that speaks in every man's heart, and
another to " fall down and worship the golden image
which Nebuchadnezzar the King,' or Masterman the I
banker, " has set up."

THE POST-OFFICE PET.
(From Punch.)
The Marquis of Clanricarde is one of the beat-natured
of men. To be sure, it is difficult to withstand the in-
strumentality of a bishop; and the more especially, so
oleaginous a pastor as the Bishop of Oxford. Great, in-
deed, is his secretion of the oil of gladness; an oil with
which he has softened the already soft heart of the
Postmaster-General. One Z. W. Davis, illuminating 25,
Princes-street, Mile End, writes thus joyfully to the re-
joicing Morning Herald:—
. Sir,—You will be glad to hear, that through the
kind instrumentality of the Lord Bishop of Oxford, R.
G. Howlett, the letter-carrier who was dismissed from
the General Post-office in November last, for distributing
hand-bills against Sunday labour therein, has been re-
appointed to a situation in that branch of the public ser•
vice ky the Postmaster-General, the Marquis of Clan-
ricarde."
Very kind, very forgiving, this, of the Marquis; the
more so, inasmuch as the discontent and conspiracy of
the tribe of Howletts were mainly instrumental to the
manufacture of the petitions with which Lord Ashley,
armed in the innocence of sheep parchment, attacked the
Sabbath-breakers in the House of Commons. It is no-
torious, that the treasonous practices of the country
Post-office servants were of fatal influence against the
idleness and indifference of the mass of the people; idle
and indifferent, because the Sunday closing of the
country post was considered no other than an unmean-
ing rant of a party, who " think they're pious when
they're only bilious." Every ten years, at most, some
phosphoric prophet foretells the end of the world, giving
the day and the hour; nevertheless, folks do not go into
sackcloth, and power their heads with ashes: and
tradesmen are no whit less indifferent to the tender of a
bad shilling. And thus it was with the bray of the
Sabbatarians. The world received it as only an evi-
dence of length of ears, taking no heed of its menaced
heels. And the Derby-day came, and—in the House of
Commons—the bray became a note of triumph.
But all is to be forgiven and forgotten. The hundreds
of people who have suffered the piety of Lord Ashley;
the sick, with the survivors of the dead; the anxious and
the harassed, all pardon his Lordship the tyranny of his
saintly goodness; for which no doubt his Lordship, in
the bigness of his heart, is very properly penitent, and
abundantly grateful Ashley shall be forgiven, and
Howlett restored.
Nevertheless, the Marquis of Clanricarde, by his ,re-
appointment of the treasonous Howlett, has taken a
large trump card from the hands of the Sabbatarians. It
was the misfortune of Punch to censure Howlett into the
receipt of 501., indignantly laid down for him by some