The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-15 00:00:00

Now that the period of probation has actually
elapsed, we can afford to exult in some measure
over the circumstances which induced the
Sabbatarians to force their intolerable and pre-
posterous scheme upon the acceptance of the
Government. For the experience recently derived
from this experiment is altogether so condemnatory
of their principles that it must for ever remain the
strongest and most unanswerable argument against
any future concessions to the Puritanical panegyrists
of Sabbatarianism. Henceforth the dreams of that
miserable minority must continue to be precluded
from even the faintest hope of their realisation.
Whenever the do-nothing project of the Saints may
happen to be forced again before the scrutiny of
journalism, before the notice of Parliament, or before
the observation of our Administrators, all the opposi-
tion that will be required will be a reference to the
evils produced throughout the country by the recent
stoppage of Sunday deliveries.

Nothing could have afforded a more emphatic illus••
tration of the mingled absurdity and cruelty of the
plan propounded by the Sabbatarians than the re-
marks uttered last evening in allusion to the subject
by the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench.
According to the express declaration then made by
that Noble and Learned Lord in the Upper House of
Parliament, the interruption of all correspondence at
periodical intervals of weekly recurrence, besides in-
juring the population in a thousand other in stances, pro-
duced the most disastrous results by directly impeding
the proper administration of justice. In testimony of
this fact, Lord CAMPBELL referred to the recent ex-
perience of himself and his
,brother Judge, Mr. Jus-
tice WILLIAMS, He insisted, for example, upon the
absolute necessity of postal communication continu-
ing uninterruptedly during the period of the assizes,
when it was frequently of the utmost conceivable
importance that the law officers adjudicating upon
cases should receive information respecting them
prior to their coming on for trial. He main-
tained, moreover, that this compulsory stop-
page for a period of twenty-four hours of
epistolary intercourse repeatedly deprived persons
of evidence such as if received in proper time
might secure their exculpation, turning the scales in
their favour from guilt to innocence. In order to
prevent this most deplorable consequence from arising
during the last assizes, it would appear that Lord
CAMPBELL and Mr. Justice WILLIAMS requested from
the local post-office authorites a dispensation in regard
to all such communications, so deep was their sense
of the evils accruing to parties about to appear before
them, from this most deplorable interruption. Those evils
moreover, be it remembered, are not. merely supposi-
titious. They have been felt, and that too very severely.
Death, in fact, in one instance has been caused by
them, and in numberless others misery of the most
poignant description. Commercial men have been
involved in all kinds of distressing dilemmas, and
sometimes of ruinous predicaments ; physicians have
been prevented from alleviating the pangs of suffer-
ing, and sometimes of retarding the approach of dis-
solution ; lawyers have been deprived of the opportu-
nity of making good their clients' claims, and
sometimes of demonstrating their clients' innocence ;
relatives have been withheld from the chance of as-
suaging the deathbed sorrows of the beloved—and all
this togratify the religious vanityand the sanctimonious
punctilios of a few fanatical upholders of Sabbata-
rianism ! Assuredly, when this had continued to be
the case during a series of disastrous weeks, it was
time enough, in all conscience, to put a stop to a sys-
tem destructive to the cause of morality, and detri•
mental to the interests of religion. Happily, this has
at length been accomplished. The reign of the
Saints is at an end. Lord ASHLEY has met with
a sudden discomfiture at the moment when he was
felicitating himself and his associates on their victory.
1111% ROWLAND HILL has passed as abruptly from the
depths of despondency to the height of exultation,
supposing him ever to have been deluded by an idea
that the late interference with his arrangements was

permanent. Such, however, can never have been the
case, even at the time when the organs of Sabbata-
rianism were loudest in proclaiming the triumph of
superstition, even when Honourable Gentlemen were
making such to-do in the House of Commons
about the unanimity of 400,000 petitioners.
Mr. Hui. is too sagacioua a man ever to have been,
even for an instant, doubtful of the ultimate success
of his opinions. Those opinions have now, we re-
joice to think, regained their old predominance; and
the people will no longer have to lament that the
establishment at St. llartin's•le-Grand is influenced
even in the smallest particular by the scruples of
the Puritans. Henceforth there will be on all
Sundays a single delivery and receipt of letters
and newspapers. By this regulation a multi-
tude of grievous ill-consequences will be ob-
viated, while at the same time the Sunday
labour of the Post-office officials, both metropolitan
and provincial, will be restricted as much as is pos-
sible, consistent with the social requirements of the
population. Guided by the light derived from recent
occurrences, we are sanguine that the Post-office
department will be more than ever distinguished by
its general promptitude and efficiency.