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is plentiful, at 1/ to 2 per cent. premium. Doubloons
are not procurable.
Pimento—There is not any at market. Advices from
the parish of St. Ann's state that the long and severe
drought is likely to create injurious consequences to the
crop f ,r 1850.

Burn is worth 13 93 to 2s per gallon as in quality,.
goal to 33 33 to 3; 6.1 for home uee, under the old
duty, and 33 93 to 41 under the new duty, which
cane in operation on the 28th ult ; an addiuonal 63 per
gallon is Favable under it.
Sugar—Prices range from 12s to 16s per 10011)3.
Tobacc3—Cavendish (16's) has be,?ii sold at 13i 1 Ter
lb. We have not heard anything of'l,ac.
Exchanges—On London—Jamai,a and Colon•al
ihnk3, 90 pays, per cent. prem.; 60 days, 1 per cent.
prem.; 30 days, per cent. prom. Merch,:nts' hills on
New York are taken at 2 to 2/4 per cent. prem., 60 days
sight.

THE PURITANS versus THE POST.
(From the Examiner.)
Lord Ashley's merlon to put an end to the collection
and delivery of letters by post throughout the country
on Sunday has been carried, by a majority of twenty-
five, in a thinly-attended House. The victory is pro-
bably owing to the Derby week: but gentlemen who
have neglected for their pleasures their duties in the Le-
gislature, may have to rue their inattention; for the war
of the saints commencing with interference with the bu-
siness of life will not end without a crusade against the
recreations and diversions; and the race-course will be
one of their first points of attack after they have suc-
ceeded in embittering the observance of the Sabbath—
and we think they will succeed, for a time at least, he-
cause of the cowardly deference and homage to cant.
Throw the stone and the giant dies, but how few have
the courage to throw the stone. Colonel Thompson is
the only man who hay sturdily asserted the truths of the
question, and shown from Scripture that the ascetic ob-
servance demanded is not Christian, but Judaic. The
general cowardly fashion of the opponents of Puritan-
ism is to fall in with the cant, and to find special
pleas for the retention of the necessary service
whose interruption is demanded. Mr. Hill, for
example, has, we must observe, carried his conces-
sions, and what is worse, the principle of his concessions,
a great deal too far; and consistently with what he has
granted, the stoppage of the whole post-office duties on
the Sunday may be insisted on as equally called for, and
a strict logical sequence. He appears to have taken
fright at the mendacious and virulent clamour raised
against him.
Lard Ashley's proposal is to do away with an entire
sixth of the communication of the country, and to consi-
der the propriety and expediency of stopping the con-
veyance of the mails as well as the collection and deli-
very of letters, the effect of which would be to leave
only four days' post to many parts of the country.
As Shakspere says, " 'Tis too much proved, that
what we have we pries not to the worth," and as we have
always had a deny communication for six days in the
week, and have always had it in steady course of im-
provement, we are too familiar with the convenience for
the full appreciation of it, and can form no just idea of
the various effects of losing it. It is like the case of a
man well fed every day, who cannot fancy the pangs of
hunger and thirst, arid who looks forward to privation
only as whet to appetite. But whenever the fast of
communication i 5 established, the pains, the troublee the
derangements of it will be poignantly felt in a multitude
of unimagined forms. Then there will be outcry and
clamour the ether way, and a reaction as there now is in
parts of Scotland, to riot and jollity on Sunday.
According to the principles of the Pharisees, where is
their meddling for the bitter observance of the Sabbath
to stop? Are people to use their eyes on Sunday for,
any purpose but reading prayers and homilies? Are
they to use their hands except to turn the pages of reli-
gious books? Are they to use their legs except to take
them to church, chapel, or conventicle? In the Long
Parliament the predecessors of our Agnews and Ashleys
brought in a Bill for the observance of the Lord's Day,
in which there was a clause subjecting to heavy penal-
ties " persons walking abroad vainly and profanely."
And to conclusions of this sort the Pharisees aro in con-
sistency bound to come. And more, they must insist on
discharging the police, and soldiers, and sailors from their
duties on the Sabbath, for why are not their souls t ) be
cared for as much as those of postmasters and railway
servants? Towards these preposterous conclusions we
are advancing step by step. A crusade against railway
travelling and steamboat voyaging will follow the inter-
ruption of the post ; and next, the prohibition of riding
and driving, and of the means• et recreation in every
shape. The revolt will come with experience of these
ascetic changes—but the revolt will not come in any
good spirit ; and it is because we dislike the sort of re-
action that always follows such hypocritical meddling,
that we so anxiously and earnestly deprecate the provo-
cieicn to it. The sure follower of Puritanism is licen-
tiousness. It is, also, often its secret concomitant ; and
the most debauched places in England and Scotland are
at this moment some of those which make the greatest
show of sanctity. Every shop window is scrupulously
cl..spd, while men ure Rotting in bed, whisky or gin-
drinking, and drunk from Saturday night to Sunday
tnor,,ing. And this is not the only vice which marks
places in which the natural and wholesome pleasures are
under interdict. Where excursions to recruit the health
and spirits cannot be had, the haunts of profligacy are
observed to abound and to flourish. Every obstacle to
the innocent pleasures swells the tide of the guilty ones.
(From the Weekly Dispatch.)
Lord Ashley and his fellow-Pharisees in the Commons
have carried a resolution fir an address to the Queen
agalnst the apposition of the Ministry, praying that let-
ters may not be collected or delivered anywhere on Sun-
days. The saintly crew had intended to include the
transmission of the letters in their resolution; but that
was too bad, or too good, whichever they please, and
they gave it up. According to the statement of the
pious Ashley, there are a million petitioners for this
holy proceeding. To be sure, we believe that lull two-
thirds of whatever number have petitioned, or mean to
petition, for both are included in the saintly estimate,
were cheated into the act by the Jesuitical outcry against
the late alterations in the Post-office, by which 28
workers have been released in London, and 8,000 more
throughout the empire, while the perpetrators of the pious
fraud were persuading their gulled and mooner auditories
that Mr. Rowland Hill was doing all he could to increase
Sunday labour. Where the Tarts of the commonwt alth
are more than 24 hours' journey asunder, it must happen
that the observance of one man's Sunday will interfere with
another man's Saturday or Monday, who is more than a
day's journey distant. When, thsretore, pleading the
example of Sunday's rest in London, which, as the
largest community, has the natural preference, he asks
that all parts of the nation should be treated alike, and
calls that question " a very simple one," the spiritually-
minded Ashley is asking an impossibility, or expecting
a miracle. All that can be done in such a case, with-
out a touch of the supernatural, is to interfere as little
as possible with the Sunday's rest anywhere, for the pur-
pose of carrying on the wtek's work elsewhere and
everywhere; and Mr. Rowland Hill has done this with
such marvellous ability, that the clumsy saints, for the
sake of their own cause, should be glad to let him alone.
However they have carried their address, as the ballot
and triennial Parliaments were carried by an acciden, al
majority, and if we have the Plumptre code for the Post-
. office, we have an 'equal right to these measures
of Parliamentary reform. Our belief is, the Mieistry
will give one us soon as the others. It is curious
to watch the legislation of these righteous over-
much through all its uncharitable effects. They
would prevent the Sunday " collection" of letters—that
is, the letter-box must not be open I It is not enough
that they will not put in. or send, a letter to it them-
selves, on their Jewish Sabbath ; but the poor servant
girl who gets her half-holiday out, must not have the
opportunity, and so save herself trouble or embarrass-
ment on the Monday. We love the Sunday privilege, cid
the people, we would keep it a privilege; but r.ie.svt.o
not make it a bondage to suit these vicarious !ge?.
Let the people rest and enjoy themselves freely one day in
the week. Let it be penal to extort their labour. It
any footman orcoachmanhimself
beb isd soere nb
emfoarkei nag
bishopsan un-
car-
riage 'Chris-
tian slave of m
on that day, pelt his silklsftobckisibtiops gwitthhemmusee
mud till
his calves are one plaister.
order out their carriages, take the horses to the pound,
and hunt the Episcopal Sabbath-breakers to the station-
house. The process would add to the hilarity and
healthful exercise of the holy day. Punish all who extort
labour; let all give such attention as may really forward
the recreation or promote the health of the many. Let
the one who claims the service of ten be stigmatized and
corrected: let the one who saves labour to a hundred, or
gives them the enjoyment that prepares them for re-
newed toil, be rewarded. Let us have the object a fair,
a truly righteous one, and then, Ashley, Plumptre, and
Co, go it with your Sabbath Bills as hard as you please.
But no straining at gnats and swallowing camel,. No
piety at your neighbours' inconvenience, exactly to suit
your own pleasure. No humbug! Such is condition
will not agree with you, Sabbataan worthies, who ar-
gue against the personal n
annoyance of being expected to
receive and answer letters on a Sunday; so put a stopper
on your hypocritical breath. It has no sweet savour of
pure charity, it stinks of selfishness, of vain glory, and
pretence. It is mere cant; leave it to the Scotch, the
English will have none of it.
(From the Times )
Notwithstanding the tenacious vitality of popular de-
lusions, we had really not imagined it possible that the
absurd persuasions respecting the recent Post-office re-
forms could have maintained their ground for a single_
hour after the publication of the facts contained in r
Rowland Hill's return. As the reader may probably
remember, remember, we took occasion, not long
plain
ware
the languageposi t whatpositive
resultshad
visible actually
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duties
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lenity. Waving all question of motive
and looking simply at those moat erosu oe.
determinef f a
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questioich
ns
Englishmen are accustomed
dtthatthe
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ee
number
of before them, it
at be
desienne iweabbse nowhere sincreased, while the
been
individuals,retl uced by5.28:,339
loaf t es arrangementsm day collectionsish aabso
in the post towns al
number of Sunday deliveries
persons
have receives an average Sunday relief of
hours each. The additional metropolitan force by tin-
, agency of which this relief was to be effected, and

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against which suott7 ent denunciations were levelled,
originally amou to 25 men, v hose labours, even at
the outset, we so arranged that the hours of Divine
service were not infringed upon. This number was
called into action on the 28th of last Octoher, was re-
.; duccd on the 6th of January fallowing to 13, on the
13th of the same month to three, and on the
20th of the same month was dispensed vish entirely.
Altogether, though the convenienee as well as the epl-
nion of the country has been consultPd in the change,tho
Sunday duties of the Post-office have been reduced brat
least one-half throughout England and Wales, while the
cost of the advantage was• simply the employment, on
certain hours of a Sunday morning, of less then 25 men
for less than three months. One would think there
was no making head against these facts, and yet we
have before us the reports of certain " committees," in
which the aforesaid exposition is described simply as " a
striking proof of the great extent to which encroach-
ments had been made en the Sundae," and in which it
is deliberately concluded that, " 110.J:ever much the opi-
nions of the autherities may have 13, ti modified t:r
changed since the deeirteleppitsiiiere to their scheme wets
aaanif„cted by persons of every shade t f epinien, the
original design was intended rather to enimulste tee
revenue be increased facilities, than to diminise Sunday
labour." We will not comment upon tee oteliquiiy of
vision displayed in these conclu-i na but it is e-viirent
from the debate of Thursday eve-nit g that the spirit of
organized fanaticism is so resolute in its unreason, the t
neither common sense nor c imnron consent will be strong
enough to thwart it, without greet vigilance and timely
action on the part of the country and the Govern/a ent.
The immediate object al h Loid Ashley's majaajey
wes the total abolition of all cal;eatiens and dAivelies of
letters on Sundays throughout the United Kiroma, bat
an objection was also ieJorded against the actual trans•
mission of the mails on a Sunday from one stostion to
another. These two points have been for some time
carefully discussed by the aathorities roost competent to
predict the effects ot the change, and their opinion, in
more senses than one, has been adverse to the promoters
of the measure. It is wonderful how people can persuade
themselves that there is a predisposition on the part ot
Post-office functionaries to augment their own duties; to
perpetuate their own burdens, and to impede by all
possible means any measures ter giving them once
a-week a more complete day cf rest. An indif-
ferent spectator, observing Mr. Bill's arguments on
one side, and the addresses of certain societies
on the other, would be ettai.ngely perplexed to com-
prehend the position of the two parties. It is not usual
to see persons anxious for the extension of their own

tail; but Mr. 11111 quietly endeavours to show that the
relief urged upon himself and his department could
r 'ally not be effected without an inconvenience to the
public fsr greater and m )re general than is anticipate'
by the promoters of the change.
We forbear entering at present upon the official de-
tails affecting the practicability of the question. What
we now wish t point out i 3 the spirit in which the de-
sired reforms are promoted, and by which the general
interests of the public are sabordivated to the fenetical
persuasions of a minority. Whatever may be the un-
propriety of such Sunday work as is here implied, this
much may at least be said, that no person need have
part in it against his will. It is one cf those rare casts*
in which every man may measure his conduct by hi*
convictions. No person need travel on a Sunday,
or eat a dinner cooked on a Eunday, if averse to such
doings. Every householder may keep the particular
Sabbath cf his own conception. Even in regard to the
especial point now at issue, it is competent, as Mr. Hill
observes, to any individual "to be protected against
the Sunday delivery of letters upon notifying
in writing to the postmaster his wish to
hat eff.-ct," and, as the posting of letters Lie
clearly optional, it is thus within ttre reach of siTy
person or firmly to keep themselves absolutely free
farm the scandal or offence complained or. An) man,
as far as his share in the m itter is concerned, may put
a peremptory stop to the Sunday duties of the Post-office;
and it the unanimity of public opinion on this point is
anything like what has been described, the desired re-
sult would be very speedily brought about by agency
wholly unexceptionable. Nay, trio operation of the
principle has been successfully extended, for in certain
districts, where a representation of bond fide sentiments
to such effect has be, wade by a majority of the popu-
lation, the Sunday post has been stopped in that parti-
cular locality.
These views, however, do not in any way suit our
organised reformers. They say "it would be imprac-
ticable, and impolitic if practicable, to leave the question
to be determined in the mariner proposed." Impolitic,
in their view, it would certainly be, for it would take
the matter out of their hands and transfer it to a more
open tribunal. They object even to town meetings, and
rely upon petitions alone as expressive of the true wishes
of the country. But any persons who have witnessed
the manufacture and composition of these documents on
any subject whatever, must be very well aware that not
one in ten of the subscribers is probably a party inte-
rested in the decision of the question before us.
.The
parties really concerned are those who dispatch letters
and those who receive them, and though it is obviously
not very easy to ascertain the true collective opinion of
this body, yet upon such opinion the ultimate decision
should rest. In the case of Birmingham the town meet-
ing came to one conclusion, and the town council to
another.

These remarks apply with still greater force to the
second part cf Lord Ashley's proposition. As the col-
lection and delivery of letters in any particular town is
wholly independent of the practice in other dittrict3. it
can be suspended or renewed at any moment when the
genuine opinion of the parties coratvrnt d so deter-
mine, but the stoppage or transuaiision of the general
mail would :..ffect thu convenience of every place served
by the line; and should be enforced, therefore, up .n the
manifest concurrence of all these places in the scheme.
If such concurrence can be fairly obtained, it is prepos-
terous to imagine that there can be any disinclination on
the part of the Post-office authorities to such a mitigation
of their duties; but it greatly concerns the pub.ic, not
only as a question of convenience', but as a matter of
principle, to see that changes like these are not forced
upon the Administration, against or apart from the true
opinion of the country, by the operation of that pressure
which can be always exerted by an organ:zA and reso-
lute party, however relatively insignificant in numbers
or position.

COURT CIRCULAR.
OSBURNE, JUNE 1.

The Queen and Prince walked this morning in
Osborne park and grounds, and the younger members
of the Royal Family walked and rude as usual.
There was no addition yesterday to the royal dinner
party.

The Hon. Elizabeth Lennox has relieved the Hon.
Miss Cavendish as Maid of thnour in Waiting.
The Hon. Colonel Grey has relieved Major• General
We'ups as Equerry in Waiting.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge and the Princess Mary honoured the
Royal Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday
evening.
His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen left
town yesterday for the residence of her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent, Frogmore House.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge at-
tended Divine service yesterday morning in St.
Katherine's Chapel.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary attended Divine service yes-
terday morning in Grosvenor Chwel.
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
Foreign-office. The Ministers present were Lord .
John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the
Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmer.
ston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Sir Francis Baring, the Earl of Carlisle, and the
Right Mon. Fox Millie.
The Council sat three hours.
A deputation on the subject of Battersea Park,
consisting of the Rev. C. B. Dalton (rector of Lam-
beth), Rev. J. S. Jenkinson (vicar of Battersea), Mr.
R. Taylor (churchwarden of Lambeth), Mr. Walker
J. 13 r Williamson
Acliaerokek((vslut.rrpye
.h warden of Clap-
ham), of Kennington), Mr. R. Forest
(Lambeth), Mr. J. Phillips (churchwarden of Bat-
tersea),(Tme.npny ),
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clerk,for
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yneou andat Mt.bre.
had an In-
's Commissioners of Woods and
Forests, and had also an interview with Sir George
Grey on Saturday at the Home. office.
Mr. Sergeant Murphy had an interview on Satur •
day with Sir George Grey.
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deputation from Derby, accompanied by Mr.
Bass,
w liltehyswior Georgerth,ao
Grey Mr. Bartoctkhlee josnat,
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interview Mr.
on Saturday.
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A deputation on the subject of criminal aetechfreosmwetrhee received
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Dispatches for the Governors of the West India
Saturdaypia Gevening, terview with Sir George Grey on Saturday.
fartotniendthede
Colonial-office.
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sus
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se°rYvice yesterday, in the Chapel Royal, St.
Divine
James's. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr.
Wesley. The prayers were read by the Rev. T.
Helraore, and the lessons by the Rev. G. Reptoss. Tire
anthem, " Awake, awake, put on thy strength,"
(Wyse) was sung by 11-ssrs, M whin, G.ay, and
Locke)'. Sir George &nut pro id-3 at the organ.
The Duke of Wellington attended the early service
yesterday. The Rev. Dr. Wesley officiated and
preached the sermon, and also administered the
sacrament.

The Rev. Dr. Hook will preach the sermon next
Sunday, in the Chapel Royal, Sc. James's.

GLANDERS.—Mr. G:irtir, landlord of the Sack
Tavern, Waterside, Lirvoln, died last week of the above
dreadful complaint. He lingered in gre,.t pain for a period of
about eight weeks, having taken the disease from a horse
which was lodged ia his stables by some boatmen.—
Nottingham Journal.
THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS' CUAPEL.—Yes:er-
day the Archbishop of Canterbury delivered a sermon in
St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, in aid of the fund for build-
ing and enduwing a chapel in connexion with the Licensed
Vi(tuallers' Asylum at Kennington. Her Majesty and Prince
Albert have contributed 50/. ton ards the proposed erection.
There was A very liberal collection made at tite aloes el ik•
14ELU9P•

Under the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty, his Royal
Eghness Prince Albert, &c. &c.
Second week of Mons. JULLIEN.
ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
OPEN every MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, and
TIIURSDAY.

Prodigious Success of the entirely new-modelled Dioramle Pic-
ture representing the PASSAGE of the ALPS by Napoleon and his
Army ! the largest Picture in the World ! with innumerable moving
Figures the size of life. Modelled, painted, and produced by Mr.
Denson and Son, assisted by Messrs. Adams, Wilson, &c. &c. The
Picture has occupied the Messrs. Danson for many months, and it is
Confidently submitted to the Public as a chef-d'rauvre of art, and not
inferior to any production of the day.
The Splendid MENAGERIE has lately been enriched by Several
valuable Presents from the Queen.
The Musical Department will be conducted by Mons. Jullien and
Mr. Godfrey. It will be the Met of the Establishment to offer
for the gratification of the Subscribers and the Public, the
most Splendid Military Band in the Kingdom ! ! Selected
from the Bands of her Majesty's Horse and Foot Guards, and the
most eminent Artistes in the profession.
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Estableishment will be fully maintained ! The Repertoire of Music
_ b
I most extensive and varied, arranged from the most Popular
Operas in this and other countries. Solo-Players—Messrs. Krenht,
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and Winterbotham.
During the evening a grand Colossal, Scenic, and Pyrotechnic
Tableau illustratin,g the, celebrated Picture by David, of Buonaparte
Crossing the Alps
Alps, stretching from the a general view of the Region of the
the distant snow-clad m small mountain lake in the foreground to
.cf,ann.ntAlus, crowned by the stupendous Mount
Arm ernard and its far-famed A portion of the French
y is first s, ,en
,B' presently the drums beat to arms,
and amid the clash of military
The ands
and
Martial Music, the Troops
If ommence the Ascent. Soldiers are aeon dragging the Artillery in
Trunks of Trees, now ascendingalmost Perpendicular Heights, and
traversing the most Terrific Ravines, bet all difficulties are overcome,
is seen pursuing its course to the Fertile
and the Gallant Army
I'lains of Italy.
The whole to conclude withaa,
aGmorognegosuts7aiisplay of Fireworks, by
D
seasons,
jert:ll4%novelties, the most
3fessr.F. Southby, inttssduein
feet in height
admired fay( d'artifice of former
,
revolving pieces, a magnificent Transparency flaY; ter rockets,
y eet
panted by KeSar.l. Denson, representing Buonaparte on Horseback
cheering on his Troops, surrounded by warlike emblems, insignia
of
honour, flags, trophies, dcc., amidst a corruseation of various coloured
fires.
The complicated and difelocfnfl3t
irm.alclhoinserio,wand the erection of the
p'cture under the direction extensive gas
, , Bing-street, Covent-
fittings by Messrs. Botcherby and Dixon 23e.
garden.