The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-03 00:00:00

H. S. Ridley, architect, 31, Vincent-square, West.
minster.
J. B. Roberts, architect, Sleaford, Lincoln~hirq.
A. Rosengarten. architect, Hamburgh.
W. Russell, 3, Frederick-street, Hempstead-road.
H. Saver, 22, Beaumont-street, Marylebm.e.
J. P. Seddon, Esq., Gray's Inn-road.
A. Slater. architect, Elere de Mons. Cluysenaar.
F. Sinellman Smith, 18, Brunswick-strcet, Barnsbury-
road, Islington.
C. H. Smith, Clipstone-street, London.
Paul Sprenger, architect, Vienna,
H. Sumners, architect (and Wallis), 14, College-place,
Camden-town.
H. W. Todd (and Allingham), 91, Newman-street,
London.
Richard and Thomas Turner, Hammersmith Works,
Dublin.
F. Tyermam, jun., architect, 14, Parliament-street.
-- Vero°, 2, Quai des OrmeJ, Paris.
G. Wallis, artist (and Sumners), 14, College-place,
Camden-town.
J. Watson, 74, Grey-street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
W. H. Wontner, architect, St. Anne's-road, North
Brixton.
T. Worthington, architect, King-street, Manchester.
The committee beg further to recommend that the
following gentlemen be selected from this list for further
higher honorary distinctions, on account or their designs
of distinguished merit, showing very noble qualities of
construction, disposition,. and taste:—
LIST B.
ENTITLED TO FURTHER HIGHER HONORARY
DISTINCTION.
C. Badger, architect, Rue lilanche, Paris.
Thomas Bellamy, architect, Charlotte-street, Bedford-
square.
J. H.'Bertram, C.E., Reading.
A.. Botrel, architect, 121.• Rue Poiuorm'are„ Paris.
J. Callous, architect,2s, Marche St. Honore,.Paris.
Henri Van Cl‘sniputte, architect, Leon, France.
Mons. Creniont, architect, 10;•Place des Vosges, Paris.
A. Delaage, architect, 6, Place de l'Oratoire du Louvre,
Paris.
A. G. le Dreux, Clermont, Prance.
M. G. Mar Van Elsed, architect, Amsterdam.
J. Henard, architect, 98, Rue St. Lame, Paris.
H. Horeau,,7o, Rue, Richelieu, Paris.
C. Huchon, 28, Rue Meslay, Paris.
H. le Patre, architect, 47, Grande Rue de la Chapelle,
St. Denis, Paris.
Casiniir Petiaux, Paris.
Paul Sprenger, architect, Vienna.
Richard and Thomas Turner, Hammersmith Works,
Dublin.
Veron, 2, Quai des Ormes, Paris.
And they cannot conclude without calling attention
to the designs, accompanied by models, of Monsieur
Hector Horeau, architect, of Paris; and of Messrs. Tur-
ner, of Dublin, as evincing most daring and ingenious
disposition and construction.
W. CIIBITT, Chairman.

Lord Ashley's 'motion 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, be-
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. Colon►l Thompson is
the only man who has 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 fashio❑ 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 hare taken
fright at the mendacious and virulent clamour raised
against him.

—Lord 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, " too much proved, that
what we have we prize not to the worth," and as we have
always had a daily 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 is established, the pains, the troubles, 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 bands 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 Agnewa 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 are in con-
sistency bound to come. And more, they must insist o❑
discharging the police, and soldiers, and sailors from their
duties on the Sabbath, for why are not their souls to be
cared for as much us 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 of recreation in every
shape. The revolt will come with experience of these
ascetic charges—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-
cation to it. The sure follower of Puritanism is licen-
tiousness. It iF, also, often its secret c )ncornitant ; 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
closed, while men are sotting in bed, whisky or gin-
drinking, and drunk from Saturday night to Sunday
morning. 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 build!
and spirits cannot bo had, the haunts of profligacy are
observed to z bound and to flourish. Every obstacle to
the innocent pleasures see ells the tide of the guilty ones.
(From the 1V eelity Dispatch.)

Lord Ashle'y and his fellow-Pharisees in the Commons
have carried u resolution for an address to the Queen
against the opposition 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 had, 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 moones auditories
that Mr. Rowland Hill was doing all he could to increase
Sunday labour. Where the parts of the commonwealth
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, therefore, 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
us possible with the Sunday's rest anywhere, for the pur-
pose of carrying on the week'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 Ministry
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 't collection" of letters—that
is, the letter-box must not be open llt is not enough
that they will not put in, or send, a letter to it them-
selves, on their Jewish Sabbath ; bat 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 of
the people, we would keep it a privilege; but we would
not make it a bondage to suit these vicarious religionists.
Let the people rest and enjoy themselves freely one day in
the week. Let it be penal to extort their labour. It
any footman or coachman is seen making an un-Chris-
tian slave of himself behind or before a bishop's car-
riage on that day, pelt his silk stocking with mud till
his calves are one plaister. If bishops themselves
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 camels. No
piety at your neighbours' inconvenience, exactly to suit
your own pleasure. No humbug! Such a condition
will not agree with you, Sabbatarian worthies, who ar-
gue against the personal 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
illsious, we had really not imagined it po,siblo that the
absurd persuasions respecting the' rue, nt Post-office re-
forms could have maintained thtdr grourd for a single
hour atter the public atoll of the facts cut t.iiued in Mr.
Rowland Hill's re'urn. As the reader may probably
remember, we took occasion, not long ago, to s'" t`'
plaits language what had actually been done, and what
were the positive results visible in the Sunday duties f
the Post-office since the introduction of thoaa changes
denounced for their impious and uu-Christian pro-
fanity. Waving all questi,n of motive or intention,
and looking simply at those matters of fact by which
Englishmen are accustomed to determine questi6ns
before them, it is not denied that the effect of the
late arrangements has been as follows:—The number
of Sunday collections has nos here increased, while the
number of Sunday deliveries has 13,q1 reduct oy 233
in the post towns alone. As regards individuals, 5,829
persons have receive] an average Sunday relief of fit
hours each. The additional metropolitan force by th,
agency of which 04 relief was to be effected, and

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called into action on the 28th of last October, was re-
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) 13th of the same month to three, and on the
20th of the same month was dispensed with entirely.
e.es Altogether, though the convenience as well as the opi-
nion of the country has been consulted in the change, the
Sunday duties of the Post-office have been reduced by at
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 than 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 on the Sunday," and in which it
is deliberately concluded that, " however much the opi-
nions of the authorities may have been modified or
changed since iho decided opposition to their scheme was
manifected by persons of every shade of opinion, the
origical design was intended rather to stimulate the
revenue be increased facilities, than to diminish Sunday
labour." We will not comment upon tLe obliquity of
vision displayed in these coricheions, but it is evident
from the debate of Thursday evenieg that the spirit of
organized fanaticism is so resolute in its unreason, that
neither common sense nor common consent will be strong
enough to thwart it, without greet vigilsnce and timely
action on the part of the country and the eloverernent.
The immediate object with Lord Ashley's majority
was the total abolition of all collectiens and deliveries of
letters on Sundays throughout the United Kingdom, bat
an objection was also recorded against the actual trans-
mission of the mails on a Sunday from one station to
another. These two points have been for some time
carefully discussed by the authorities most competent to
predict the effects of 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 of
Post-office functionaries to augment their own duties, to
perpetuate their own burdens, and to impede .by all
possible means any measures for giving them. once
a-week a more complete day of rest. An indif-
ferent spectator, observing Mr. Hill's arguments on
one side, and the addresses of certain societies
on the other, would be strangely perplexed to com-
prehend the position of the two parties. It is not usual
to see persons anxious for the extension of their own
toil; but Mr. Hill quietly endeavours to show that the
relief urged upon himself and his department could
really not be effected without an inconvenience to the
public far greater and more general than is anticipated
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 to point out is the spirit. in which the de-
sired reforms are promoted, and by which the general
interests of the public are subordinated to the fanatical
persuasions of a minority. Whatever may be the 'im-
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 of those rare cases
in which every man may measure his conduct by his
convictions. No person need travel on a Sunday,
or eat a dinner cooked on a Sunday, if averse to such
doings. Every householder may keep the particular
Sabbath of 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
that effect," and, as the posting of letters iii a
clearly optional, it is thus within the reach of any
person or family to keep themselves absolutely he.
from the scandal or offence complained of. Any man,
as far as his share in the matter is concerned, may put
a peremptory stop to the Sunday duties of the Post-office;
and if 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, the operation of the
principle has been successfully extended, for in certain
districts, where a representation of bond fide sentiments
to such effect has been made 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 manner 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
tiny 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
secomilbpart of Lord Ashley's proposition. As the col-
lection and delivery of letters in any particular town is
wholly independent of the practice in other districts, it
can be suspended or renewed at any moment when the
genuine opinion of the parties concerned shall so deter-
mine, but the stoppage or transmission of the general
mail would mill-et the convenience of every place served
by the line; and should be enforced, therefore, up,,n the
mani'est concurrence of all these places in the scheme.
If such concurrence can be fairly obtained, it is prepos-
terous t) imagine that there can be any disinclinaii)n on
the part of the Post-office authorities to such a mitigation
of their duties; but it greatly concerns the pubic, not
oily an 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 organized and reso-
lute party, however relatively insignificant in numbers
or position.

COURT CIRCULAR.
OSBORNE, JUNE 1.
The Queen and Prince walked this morning in
Osborne park and grounds, and the younger members
of the Royal Family walked and rode 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 Honour in Waiting.
The Hon. Colonel Grey has relieved Major• General
Wernyss 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 Cambridgeand the Princess Mary attended Divine service yes-
terday morning in Grosvenor Chapel.
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
Foreign-office. The Ministers present were Lord
John Russell, tha 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 Hon. Fox Maule.
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.
J.
Phillipsken n i Kennington), gt,on
),
(churchwarden Mr. R.
of Bat-
Pores
R. Taylor (churchwarden of Lambeth), Mr. Valk;
(Lambeth),(churcliwadel‘nir. of
tersea), Mr. R. Williamson (churchwarden
Clap-
ham), and Mr. J. B. Clark (vestry clerk,
Lambeth),
accompanieed by Mr. Alcock (M.P, for Surrey),
Right Hon. C. Tennyson the
Charles Pearson (M.P.'s for Lambeth),
h adnd Mr.
in-
terview with Lord Seymour on Saturday,'a anoffice of her Majesty's Commissionersf at the
Woods and
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Sir George
Forests, and had also an intervioeffiwc:ith Sir
Grey on Saturday at the Home
Mr. Sergeant Murphy had an interview on Satur •
day with Sir George Grey.
A deputation from Derby, accompanied by Mr.
Bass, Mr. Heyworth, and Mr.f Brocklehurst, had an
interview with Sir George Grey at the Home-office
on Saturday.
Dispatches were received on Saturday at the Colo-
nial-office from the Governor of the Falkland Islands.
A deputation on the subject of criminal prosecu-
tions, consisting of the Lord Provost of Glasgow,
Baillie Orr, Dr. Strang, and
.Mr. Forbes, accom-
panied by Mr. Alexander Hustle, M.P., had an in-
terview with Sir George Grey on Saturday.
Dispatches for the Governors of the Nest India
Colonies were sent off on Saturday evening, from the
Co office.
His Royal Highness Prince Georg
i e attended
Divine service yesterday, n the Chapel Royal, St.
James's. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr.
Wesley. The prayers were read by the Rev. T.
Helmore, and the lessons by the Rev. G. Reptoa. The
anthem, "Awake, awake, put on thy strength,"
(Wyse) was sung by Messrs. Mitchin' Gcay, and
Sir George Smart pretithd atche organ
The Duke of Wellington attended the early service
ve,""illY• The Rev. Dr. Wesley officidted and
pres,,Led the sermon, and also administered the
sacrament..

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

GLANDERS.—Mr. G..irlit, landlord of the Sack
Tavern, Waterside, Lin3aln, died last week of the above
dreadful complaint. lie lingered in great pain for a period of
about eight weeks, baying taken the disease from a horse
which was lodged iu his stables by some boatmen.—
Nottingham Journal.
THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS' CHAPEL.—Yester-
day the Archbishop of Canterbury delivered a sermon in
St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, in aid 01 the fund for build-
ing and endowing a chapel in connexion with the Licensed
' Victuallers' Asvlinn at Kennington. Her Majesty and Prince
Albert have contributed 50/. towards the proposed erection.
There was >a very liberal collection made at the close of the
1141740.