The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-17 00:00:00

111011 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

Tsui D —Morning 21 min. after 7 I Evening 53 min. after 7
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ful misrepresentation of their late proceedings in the
Post-offie department, have at length resigned the
matter to the discretion (llerven save th 3 mark !) of
these religious firebrands—satisfied that a.fortnight's
experiment of their project must, by an inevitab!e
necessity, bring about its final and peremptory re-

jection.
A forcible remonstrance has already been-addressed
to one of our morning contemporaries by one of the
prospective sufferers from the concession made by the
Government to the Sabbatarians The writer cf this
communication, signing himself "A Liverpool M-r-
-chant," protests in the strongest terms against a
change that must prove inevitably disastrous to tte
community, while it' will only rear yet more loftily
the arrogant head of hypocritical intolerance. After
insisting upon the necessity of the conformity of all
the personal practices of these Sabbatariana with their
vaunted theories of Sunday observances, the writer
observes-L" When I was last in London (not many-
weeks back) it was my fortune to pass by the porches
of more than one of your west-end chapels and
churches-.-one of them in South Audley-street—
about half-past one p.m. The number of gay equi-
pages collected round them was great that one
might have supposed oneself to be assisting at the
termination of a theatrical performance. Who
groomed those horses so sprucely, who turned out
those carriages so neatly ? It was done of course by
hands; and who set the hands a-going ? It may be
Lord ASHLEY may go on foot to his own place of
worship of a Sunday; but will he tell us that every
seventh day he satisfies his hunger with a sandwich cut
over night, and quenches his thirst at the water-de-
canter upon his dressing-table ? If," he continues,
" the practise of the neo-Postals fall one jot or tittle
short of perfection, let them set their own houses in
order before meddling with the necessary business of
the country, even although an infinitesimally small
proportion of that business must be trans-
acted •on the Sunday." In this require-
ment of consistency between the preaching
and the practice of the Sabbatariani there is only the
demand of common sense and rational forethought-
These unconscionable pretenders to sanctity, more-
over, who are always recognising the mote in the eye
of their neighbour,' while remaining totally innocent
of the beam blurring their own vision, are perpetually
assailing their opponents with little paper pellets of
scriptural quotation, quite forgetful, it would seem,
of that famous declaration of the Apostle,—" Let
no man, therefore, judge you in meat, or in
drink, or in respect of a holy day, or of the new
moon, or of the Sabbath days; which are a shadow of
things to come, but the body of CHRIST." In de-
fiance or forgetfulness of this most solemn and ex-
plicit injunction, some miserable bigot has had the
indecency to
.discuss our title to a participation in
what he calls the great Sabbath of the future, besUee
commenting upon our possible non-admission
to " the marriage supper of the Lamb,'
and upon the probability of our resembling
the man who "had not on the wedding garment."
All this miserable indecorum of abuse is only in per-
feet keeping with that spirit of fanaticism and intoler-
ance, and hypocrisy, and superstition, which has
recently fanned into a fiercer flame than ever the
religious frenzy of the Sabbatarians. It is becauie
we loathe more than words can at all express the very
shadow of the semblance of cant, in regard to the
forms or practices of Christianity, that we reso-
lutely adhere to our course of antagonism to these
petulant purveyors of personality, ss ho would run
any risk of plunging the affairs of the community
into difficulty for the sake of wearing the most trans-
parent of all disguises, the mask of pretended Godli-
ness. Our sympathies must ever continue to be with
that enormous majority of the population, who, since
the days of lIUDIBRAS downwards, have cherished a
mortal antipathy to all humbug, and especially to
that most disgusting humbug which shelters itself
under the awful and beautiful shadow of religion.

Curiosity will not tail to direct the attention of the
public to the report, given elsewhere in this evening's
impression, of the magnificent banquet given on
Saturday evening at the London Tavern by the Di-
rectors of the Honourable Fist India Company. On
that occasion, it will be observed that the fostivitie
were in honour of his Excellency General JUNG BA..
lIADOOR KOONWUR RANAJEE, tha Prime Minister of
the Rsja of NEPAUL) and now sojourning
in this country in the character of Nepaulese Ambas-
sador. Throughout the whole proceedings the reader
cannot fail to be interested in the expression of those
sentiments cf amity which marked each and all of the
speecheS delivered by the different illustrious per-
sonages in at tendance. Not the least significant of
the various sentiments uttered throughout the night
was that which Lord BROUGUAM articulated in his
genial and emphatic peroration, where that Noble and
Learned Lord exclaimed—" I venture to hope and
trust for their sake (for the sake of the members
of the Nepaulese mission), for the sake of their coun-
try, and for the sake of this country—permit me
respectfully to add, for the sake of the Hon. Company
themselves—that they may be enabled to carry back
an ample assurance that there exists no disposition in
any quarter of this country, whether in the Company
or in the " India Board," as it is called in the east,
the " Board of Control," as we call it in the west—
(A laugh)—no disposition whatever on the part either
of the Crown, or the Parliament, or the people, or the
Company, to encroach in the very least degree
upon any peaceable neighbour—(Loud cheers).—
or to spare in the very least degree any hostile neigh-
bour—(ltenewed cheers)—for that is the true rule of
peace—never to break it, but never to suffer it with
impurity to be broken—(Flear, hear)—and that,
above all, they will carry back to their master the
most positive assurance from all quarters, that no in•
teution whatever exists to diminish by one acre the
distance which separates our eastern frontier from the
western frontier of Chintr.—(Loud cheering.)"