The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-26 00:00:00

THE SUN,

lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
TRIG DAY —Morning 56 min. after 2 I Evening 15 min. after 3
To-Moaaow— Morning 33 min. after 3 I Evening 50 min. after 3

TUE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JUNE 26.
THERMOMETER, IN TEE SHADE.
75—highest since noon yesterday.
55—lowest this morning and during the night.
74 this day, at noon.
BAucatzTEE, 30.02.
WIND E.S.E.—fine breeze and sunshiny weather.

save a couple of clerks in each large town a few hours'
labour, and a single post-master a few minutes'labour
in the morning of Sunday, they have compelled the
employment of hundreds of persons during the course
of last Sunday, for the whole day long. The subject
was again brought under the notice of the House of
Lords last night, by Lord BROUGHAM, and the
following narrative, which we give in the words
of the Noble and Learned Lord, exemplifies
what must henceforward be the state of affairs if the
Sabbatarians are to be indulged in their fanatical
extravagances ; Lord BROUGHAM, in the course of
his speech, read a letter from a manufacturer in
Castleton, " whose waggoner had been killed on the
road last Saturday, to show the inconvenience which
had been sustained in consequence of the inability of
that manufacturer to forward his letters immediately
to inquire into the circumstances under which his
waggoner had been killed, and to ascertain whether
the goods which he had expected to receive from
various parts of the kingdom had or had not
been stolen from his waggon after his wag-
goner had :been killed. Under the old system,
he might have received information on all these
points by the Monday morning ; but under the
system enforced for the first time on Saturday and
Sunday last, his correspondents could not even re-
ceive his letters, asking for information, until Wed-
nesday morning. His correspondent bad been com-
pelled to send men on the Sunday to the different
places where his correspondents lived, to procure in
person the information which be required. It was
quite clear that those persons could not go tocburch that
day, and were therefore damnified, so far as regarded
the due observance of the Sabbath." " Let their
Lordships consider for a moment," continued
Lord BROUGHAM, " what would be the case when
similar accidents in every part of the kingdom
should simultaneously lead to a similar compulsory
violation of the Sabbath. Hundreds of clerks would
be flying about the country on Sunday in order that
three or four Post-office officials might enjoy a
holiday for which they individually were not
anxious. He argued that for such an object it was
not expedient that our great merchants at
Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, and
other large towns, should be compelled to risk their
credit, and to run the danger of having their bills
protested, from their inability to give means and in-
formation on Sunday to their agents to provide for
them. Such danger would be incurred all over
Great Britain ; and, as it must be prevented in one
way or another, it would lead to the employment of
hundreds of clerks on the Sunday, and would thus,
instead of improving the observance of the Sabbath,
lead to its increased desecration, to the benefit of a
few employes in the Post-office, and to the injury of
thousands of other persons."
We trust that all persons who have been compelled
by Lord ASHLEY to desecrate the Sabbath, like this
unfortunate manufacturer at Castleton, will, like him,
make their respective cases known, in order to show
as speedily as possible the absurdity, the iniquity,
and the impractibility of carrying out the ASHLEY

scheme.
The legal part of the question was brought under
the consideration of the House of Commons by
Mr. HUMF, who asked whether there was any ac-
curacy in' the statement,,n4acte elsewhere, that her
MAJESTY had no power by order in Council to
do away with the Post-office regulations which
were established by Act of Parliament ?
Whereupon the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
with more than his usual pomposity, declared that
" the Hon. Gentleman appeared to assume that the de-
livery on Sundays was imperative, but that was not
the case; he (the CHANCELLOR of the ExcuEouEn),
therefore, apprehended that the Government had the
power to make the alteration referred to."
If this is the apprehension of the Right. Hon. Gen-
tleman, it is a mis-apprehension, and his law is as
bad as his finance. Indeed, from what followed, it
would appear that Sir Oracle, after hearing the ques-
tion of Mr. HILDYARD, began to have a faint glint.
mering of an idea that he had committed himself to
an absurdity, and that the less he said about the mat-
ter the better. We perceive that meetings are being
held all over the country on the subject, and we ad-
vise all who are aggrieved to lose no time in peti-
tioning Parliament.

AMERICAN NEWS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, 5 A.M.

The United States mail steam-ship Atlantic,
Captain West, arrived in the Mersey at half-past 4
o'clock this morning, with advices to the 15th inst.
The Atlantic has brought 50,0001. in specie on
freight, and has made the passage in 10 days 10i hours,
the quickest by three hours ever made.
There bad been an application for a new trial for
Professor Webster before a full bench of the Supreme
Court, and the decision would be given in a day or
two. _ _

_.. _
General Lopez arrived at New Orleans on the 7tb,
and was immediately arrested. His examination was
going on on the 12th, and would, probably, last for a
week.

The stock-market was heavy. Exchange on Lon-
don, 91 to 101; Paris, sf. 27ic. to sf. 25c.; Amster-
dam, 40 to 401; Hamburgb, 35i to 351 ; Bremen,
79 to 791.

NEW YORK, JUNE 15.,

The cotton market was active, at an advance for
the week from one-eighth to three eighth cent.,
market closing firm ; the sales for three days had
been 9,840 bales.
Flour was dull, and the demand limited ; wheat
firm; Indian corn dull, with fair sale.
_ _ _ _

Pork steady, with a fair demand.
Other provisions without any change worthy of
notice.

Ashes were in demand. Sales of 60 barrels at
5 dolls. 62Le.
Freights firmer. Cotton to Liverpool, 3.16 d. per
lb. ; 20,000 bushels corn at 2:ld. to 3d. per bushel.
NEW ORLEANS, JUNE 12.—The cotton market is
very active, with sales of 7,000 bales at 12c. to 12/e.
for good middling; sales of 2,000 bales at 11/d. per
lb. ; 20,000 bushels of corn sold at 75e. to 78c. per
bushel.

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