The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-11 00:00:00

N°. 18,033.] LONDON, THURSDAY EVENIN---;, SU JULY 11, 1850.

THE EDINBURGH REVIEW.
No. CLXXXV.,
Is just published.
CONTENTS:-
1. Quetelet on Probab!lities.
2. 31erivale's History of Rome under the Empire.
3. Church and State Education.
4. Merirnec's History of Pedro the Cruel.
5. Blackie's ~Eszhylus.
6. Gcthe's Festival.
7. Guizot on the English Revolution.
8. The African Squadron.
9. The Gorham Controversy.
London : Longman, ang Co. Edinburgh : A and C. Black.

This day, Second Edition enlarged, 25.
FR" TRADE and its SO-CALLED
SOPHISMS.
Being a Reply to " Sophisms of Free Trade, &c., Examined, by a
Barrister."
London : John W. Parker, West Strand.

STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA.
Just published, price Is., by post free, 4d. in addition,
AFEW WORDS on PERLN2EAL SECTION,
as recommended by Professor Syme, for the Cure of Stricture
of the Urethra, and on Mr. Wade's recent Remarks thereon, and on
his Treatment with the Potassa Fusa.
By F. B. COLIRTENAY, M.R.C.S.E.
Published by H. Bailliere, 219, Resent-street.
Also lately, by the same Author, price Is.,
The PATHOLOGY and RATIONAL TREATMENT of STRIC
TITRE of the URETHRA. With important observations on the Use
and Abuse of Instrnments.

MANY have assumed the use of the word
PALETOT, but the ONLY PATENTEES of the design and
material used in this inexpensive and gentlemanly article of dress
are, H. J. and D. NICOLL, Merchant Clothiers, Paletot Patentees,
and Man*facturers of Cloth, who have agents in every principal
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No. 116 (the next house), is devoted for MILITARY and DIPLO-
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usual excellence ; and at 22, CORNHILt. Specimens of all may be
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evening, is.
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at Half-past Eight, Dancing to comnenco at Nine o'clock, and the
Band will net leave the Orchestra till Half-past Eleven.

DR. LA'MERT ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OE YOUTH
AND MATURITY.-WITH 40 COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON

STEEL.
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QELF-PRESERVATION; a
Medical Treatise on the Physiology of Marriage, and on
the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity,
usually acquired at an early period of life, which debilitate
the physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural
Feelings, and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical
Observations on the Treatment of Nervous Debility and Indigestion,
whether arising from these causes, close study, er the influence of
Topical climates: Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis,
Stricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Indis-
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tnatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs,
explaining their stracim es, uses, and functions, and the various
injuries that are produced in them by solitary habits, excesses, and
Infection. BY SAMUEL LA'MERT,

37, BEDFORD-SQUARE. LONDON.
Doctor of Medicine. 'Matriculated Member of the University of Edin-
burgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Member
of the London Hospital Medical Society, &c.
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THIRTY-FIRST EDITION.
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ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCA-
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PART 1. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive
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I'ART 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive in-
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mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative
Incapacity. Illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings.

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PART IT. contains a Remedy for the Prevention of Disease by a
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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
OF TUESDAY.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall•atreet.
S. Mobbs, Brompton, coal merchant, July 30, at
twelve.

In the Country.
E. Brien, Bristol, cabinet maker, Aug. 1, at eleven, at
the Court, Bristol—J. Fletcher, Manchester, auctioneer,
Aug. 1, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—G. Lister,
jun., Kingston-upon-Hull, wholesale ale and porter mer-
chant, July 31, at half-past twelve, at the Town-hall,
Kingston-upon-Hull.

PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.
W. J. Lladdan, Tottenham, common brewer, 100., on
Thursday, July 11, and three following Thursdays, be-
tween the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr.
Stansfeld, Basinghall-street.
T. and
br.
~,,,s___ _
.9. ~, on Thursday, ' -W. A Peirce, Ch
apmanslade, Wiltshire, clo-
thiers 15s. 6d A.
J. G. Fuller, St. July 11, and three follow-
ansfeld, Basinghall-street.
ape
o'f4''cuersoaf 3sitr btween the hours of eleven and two, at
on new proofs, on
Thursday,Jlimes-street, wine-merchant, 2s. Gd.,
hJeunl
rya 101 f,
elevenan d
and fol
two,lo wa-t
in Thursdays
the office of i 1 i
r, . betweenStansfeld
Basinaball-street.
W. Shackel, Cunuin,
tiplr‘ice, Old•street, St. Luke's,
bacon merchant, 10d.,
tweehursday, July following Thursdays, be lie hours of eleven and
two, at the office of Mr. Stailalsf 11, and three
Basingball-street.
:rd'Thames-street, whole-
August Sophia Tipper, Upp
11, and three
of eleven and
Bale stationer, 3s. 8d , on Thurad
following Thursdays, between th7al3Yhaojirlsy
two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld
t and two, at tZe-
nhall -street.
E. Wolsey, Wereham, Norfolk, corn merchant, miller,
ianngd
dbasykse,r,bestsw.,noennTthheurh.nduarys,
elevenJnuflyl . and three follow-
ing
office of Mr. Stansfeld, Basingball-street.
Theobald and Church, Colchester, coal merchants
and coke manufacturers, 21d., on Thursday, July li,
and three following Thursdays, between the hours of
eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Basing.
hall-street.

J. H. Theobald, Colchester, coal merchant, and coke
manufacturer, Is. 2d., on Thursday, July 11, and three
following Thursdays, between the hours of eleven and
two, at tke office of Mr. Stansfeld, Basinghall-street.
C. Haylock, March, Isle of Ely, cabinetmaker and
joiner, Is. 4d., on Thursday, July 11, and three follow-
ing Thursdays, between the hours of eleven and two, at
the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Balkinghall•stre.t.
J. Metcalfe, New Malton, Yorkshire, corn and coal
merchant, 6d., any Monday or Tuesday, between the
hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Hope,
Leeds.

J. Hague, Rotherhithe, engineer and millwright,
81d., on Monday, kith instant, or two subsequent Mon.
days, between -the hours of eleven and three, at the
03109 Qt. tir, QUM, Dix chin-lime.

A. Wise, N. Baker, and W. S. Dental!, Newton
Abbott, Devonshire, bankers, lid. and half a farthing.
on any Tuesday after the 15th instant, between eleven
and three, at the office of Mr. Hirtzel, Exeter.
J. Bannehr, Exeter, law stationer and printer, 75. 6,3.,
on any Tuesday after the 23d instant, between the hours
of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Hirtzel, Exeter.
T. G. Pocock, Kingsbury Episcop;, Somersetshire,
miller, 4d., on any Tuesday after the 23d instant, be-
tween the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr.
Hirtzel, Exeter.
F. Paynter, Penzance, attorney, le. le., on any Tues-
day after the 15th instant, between the hours of eleven
and three, at the office of Mr. Hirzel. Exeter.
F. Peak,' Honiton, Devonshire, linen and woollen
draper, 4e. 3d., on any Tuesday after 23d instant, be-
twe. n the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr.
Hirtzel. Exeter.

W. Weeks, Inwardleigh, Devonshire, eige tool maker
and farmer, 3i., on any Tuesday after the 23d instant,
between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of
Mr. Hirtzt,l, Exeter. _ _ _

C. Besley, St. Andrew, Plymouth, clerk in Dock-yard,
25., on any Tuesday, between the hours of eleven and
three, at the office of Mr. Hirtzel, Exeter.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATE.
In the Country.
W. Rawson, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, cake and
seed merchant, July 31, at half-past twelve, at the Court,
Kingston-upon-Hull.

PARLIAMEN TARY DIV ISION S.

From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.

MONDAY, JULY 8.
HOME-MADE PIIIITS IN BOND BILL.
Order for Committee read ; Motion made, and Question
proposed, " That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair :" -
Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word " That" to
the end of the Question, in order to add the words " this
House will, upon this day three months resolve itself into the
said Committee," instead thereof: - Question put, " That the
words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question."
The House divided:

MINORITY—AYES, 120.
Adderley, C. B. Floyer, John Neeld, Joseph
Arbuthnott, H. Forbes, William Newry, Viscount
Archdali, Captain Fox, S. L. Norreys, Sir D.
Arkwright, George Frewen, C. H. Nugent, hi r Percy
Begot, lion. W. Galway, Viscount O'Brien, J.
Bateson, T. Gaskell, J. M. O'Brien, Sir Lucius
Bennet, P. Goddard, A. L. O'Brien,•Sir Timothy
Beresford, William Gordon, Admiral O'Connell, Maurice
Blackall, S. W. Gore, W. R. 0. Palmer, Robert
Blake, M. J. Granby, Marquis of Pilkington, James
Boldero, H. George Grattan, Henry Plumptre, J. I'.
Booth, Sir R. G. Greene, John Portal, Melville
Boyd, John Grogan, Edward Rawdon, Colonel
Bremridge. Richard Guernsey, Lord Sadleir, John
Buck; L. W. Halsey, T. P. Salwey,:Colonel
Buller, Sir J. Y. Hamilton, G. A. Sanders, George
Burghley-, Lord Hamilton, J. H. Scholefleld4W.
Barroughes, H. N. Basile, Alexander Scully, Francis
Chatterton, Colonel Hildyard, R. C. Seynier, H. K.
Chichester, Lord J. Hildyard, T. B. T. Sibthorp, Colonel
Christopher. R. Hill, Lord E. Smith, J. Benjamin
Clive, 11. B. Hood, Sir A lexander Smyth, J. G.
Cole, Hon. H. A. Hornby, John Spooner, Richard
Colvile, C. R. Hudson, G. Stafford, A.
Conolly, Thomas Jolliffe, Sir W. G. Stanford, J. F.
Corry, H. Jones, Captain Stanley, Edward
Cowan, Charles Ker, Richard Stuart, Lord J.
Devereux, John T. Kershaw, James Stuart, H.
Dickson, Samuel Knox, Colonel Stuart, J.
Disraeli, B. Lockhart, W. Sullivan, Michael
Dod, J. W. Lowther, Colonel Talbot, J. H.
Dodd, G. M'Cullagh, W. T. Thornhill, G.
Duckworth, Sir J. M`Gregor, John Vesey, Thomas
Duncan, George M.Neill, Duncan Vyse, H. B. H.
Dundas, George ; Meagher, Thomas Wawn, J. T. ,
Dunne, Colonel . Manners. Lord J. ...-Welby, G. E.
Edwards, Henry Maxwell, J. P. Wodebouse, Edmund
Fagan, William Meux, Sir Henry Worcester, Marquis
Ferrer, James . Miles, W. mucus. •
Ferguson, Sir RI Moffatt, George Naas, Lord
Fitzpatrick; J. W. Neeld, John Mackenzie, W.:F.

MAJORITY-NOES, 121.
Abdy, Sir T. N. Headlam. T. E. Parker, John
Adair, Hugh B. . Heneage, Edward Patten, W.
Adair, R. A. , Henry, Alexander Pelham, Hon. D. A.
Anson, Colonel Hervey, Lord:A. Pigott, Francis
Bagehaw, John Heywood, James Plowden, W. IL
Baines, M. T. Heyworth, Lawrence Pusey, Philip
Baring, Sir F. Hobhouse, Sir John Ricardo, Osman
Bass, M. T. Hobhouse, T. B. Rice, E. R.
Berkeley, Admiral Hodges,:T. L. Rich, Henry
Berkeley, C. L. Ylolland, Robert Robartes, T. J. A.
Bernal, Ralph Howard, Lord E. Romilly, Colonel
Birch, Sir Thomas Howard, C. W. G. Romilly, Sir John
Bouverie, E. P. Howard, E. G. Seymour, Lord
Boyle, Colonel Hughes, W. B. Shell, R. L.
Brotherton, J. Hutt, William Simeon, John
Buxton, Sir E. . Jervis, Sir John Smith, Vernon
Carter, J. B. King, P. J. Somerville, Sir W.
Childers, J. W. ' Labouchere, Henry Sotheron, T.
Clay, James Lascelles, W. S. Spearman, Henry
Coke, Hon. E. K. Lemon, Sir C. Strickland, Sir G.
Cockburn, A. J. Lennard, T. B. Tancred, H. W.
Collins, W. Lewis,-G. C. Thompson, Colonel
Cowper, W. F. Lindsay, Colonel Thornely, T.
Craig, Sir W. G. Littleton, E. R. Tollemache, F. J.
Denison, J. E. Locke, Joseph Townley, It. G.
Dundas, Admiral Mangles, R. D. Tufnell, Henry
Dundas, Sir David Marshall, J. G. Turner, George
Ebrington, Viscount Marshall, William Vane, Lord H.
Estcourt, J. B. Martin, John Vivian, J. H
Evans, William Martin, C. W. Wakley, T.
Fitzwlillam, G. W. Matheson, Colonel Westhead, J. B.
Forster, M. Manic, Fox . _...: Wilson, .James
Fortescue, J. W. Melgund, Viscount Wilson, Matthew
Fox, W. J. Milner, W. M. Wood, Sir Charles
Freectun, Colonel Mostyn, E. Wood, W. P.
Greene, Thomas Mowatt, Francis Wrightson, W.B.
Grenfell, Charles W. Mu'grave, Earl WYvill, Marmaduke
Grey, Sir George Ogle, S. C.
Grey, Ralph Wm. Paget, Lord A. TELLEIB.
llatchell, John Paget, Lord G. Hill, Lord M.
Elawes, Benjamin Pakington, Sir John Bellew, R. M.
Hayter, W. G. Palmerston, Viscount

TUESDAY, JULY 9.
ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.
Motion made, and Question put, " That leave be given to
bring in a Bill to make the Franchise in Counties in England
and Wales the same as that in Boroughs, by giving the right
of voting to all occupiers of tenements of the annual value of
ten pounds." The House divided:—
MINORITY—AYES, 100.
Adair, Hugh E. Gibson, Thomas M. Nugent, Lord
Adair, It. A. Shafto Grattan, Henry O'Brien, Joh*
Aglionby, H. Greene, Jolts O'Connor. Feargus
Alcock, Thomas Hall, Sir B. Pearson, Charles
Amity, Thomas Harris, Richard Pechell, Sir G.
Bass, Thomas Matte, Alexander Perfect, Robert
Berkeley, C. L. G. Hastie, Archibald Pigott, Francis
Blake, M. J. Headiam, Thomas Pilkingtin, James
Blewitt, R. J. Henry, Alexander Ricardo, J. L.
Bright, John Heywood, James Rice, E. R.
Brocklehurst, J. Heyworth, L. Rocailly, Colonel
Brotherton, Joseph Hobhouse, T. B. Salwey, Colonel
Brown, Humphrey Hodges, T. L. Scholefleld, William
Brown, W. llodges, T. T. Smith, John B.
Carter, John B. Howard, C. W. Somers, J. P. -
Clay, Sir W. llutnphery, Aid. Stuart, Lord Dudley
Clay, James Hutt, William Talbot, J. 11.
Cobden, Richard Jackson, William Tancred, 11. W.
Collins, William Kershaw, James Thompson, Colonel
Colebrooke, Sir T. Locke. Joseph Thompson, George
Cowan, Charles Lushing ton, C. Thornely, T.
Crawford, W. S. M'Cullagh, W. Tollemache, F. J.
D'Eyncourt, C. T. M'Grecor, John Wakley, Thomas
Divett, Edward leTaggart, Sir J. Wahnsley, Sir I.
Drummond, Henry Meagher, Thomas Walter, John
Duncan, Viscount Mangles, It. D. Westhead, J. P.
Duncan, George Marshall, William Willcox, Brodie
Ellis, John Matheson, Colonel Williams, John
Evans, Sir De Lacy Melgund, Viscount Wood, W. P.
Evans, William Milnes, It. M. Wyld, James
Evelyn, W. J. Mitchell, T. A.
Ewart, William Morris, David TELLER'.
Fagan, William Mowatt, Francis Hume, Joseph
Forster, Mathew Muntz, G. F. King, P. J.
Fox, W. J. Norreys, Sir D.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM TILE MORN LNG PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.--The anti-Sunday post cause appears to
have a rule of its own. It has made its way thus far
by a succession of assau Its and surprises which its
maintainers must think ,nothing less than miraculous.
The process began with the petitions. Respectable
men, in their shops and their parlours, were suddenly
invaded by a sanctimonious banditti in black coats
and white ties, and asken if they feared God and re-
verenced the Sabbath. There was no resisting so
solemn an appeal ; and, with a sort of mesmeric
piety, they signed their nate. es to they hardly knew
what,—something about the better observance of the
Sabbath. When the first r.ssault of the S tbbatarian
pressgang proved insufficient, it was generally inti-
mated that the impious rem:sant would find himself
in a position of unpleasant singularity; in fact, that
his name would be posted in a black list of the un-
godly. There was no help for it. What is called
" the argument" was all on one side. As every-
body knows, by painful experience, there is no-
thing so readily got up as a trumpery,
budget of nonsensical reasons for some fool-
ish little opinion, and men who had written
and received letters on Sundays all their lives without
a misgiving were soon pushed into a corner. Hence
the enormous list of signatures to the anti-Sunday,
post petitions—almost equal to Mr. Feargus O'Con-
nor's fabulous muster-roll. After this, the next step
was to surprise the House of Commons, which for
one reason or another surrendered to the saints at the
first summons. Government then either shated the
general panic, or sought to counteract it by an unex-
pected ruse ; and one fine morning the world was
surprised to hear that next Sunday there would be
no post. Nothing could exceed the delight of the
Judaiz!rs at this portentous announcement. Their
less willing or less initiated followers, however, were
some of them dismayed to find that the change was
inconvenient, and that they had to pay for their
piety. Hence a sort of reaction on the part of some
who had asked for the alteration, and many more
who had never had the courage to resist it. To stop
the growing nuisance, Mr. Locke gave notice of a
resolution with a view to a counter-address to her
Majesty. He proposed rather late what should, of
course, have been the first step in the affair,—an in-
quiry into the best means of reducing Sunday la-
bour, without quite stopping the post; asking, mean-
while, that the post should be restored to its former
position, and the Sunday service resumed. So the
resolution stood in the list, and a large muster of
Members assembled to carry it. But, behold, ano-
ther surprise ! Lord John, having dreamt a dream,
or seen the ghost of Sir Andrew Agnew, acquiesces
in an impromptu amendment moved by Mr. Beresford
Hope, striking out the proviso that for the present
letters should be collected and delivered on Sunday
as before. The amendment has been adopted on the
principle of a well known Court, castigat que audit que.
The Sunday post is suppressed, and we are then
permitted to inquire why it should be retained.
Mr. Locke, however, though partially defeated,
made a very good speech, and elicited another very,
good one from Mr. Roebuck. The debate that fol-
lowed, we presume, represents the present state of the
controversy, facts on one side and signatures on the
other. Neither Lord Ashley nor his coadjutors ad-
vanced a single fact in reply to Mr. Locke's
very weighty statements. It appears that at Man-
chester and Liverpool the news agents have found it
necessary to organize large staffs of " boys," "news-
men," " footrunners," and even " mounted messen-
gers," to supply the place of the handful of postmen,
who would otherwise have distributed the London
Sunday papers' n the ordinary course of their duty.
Thus Sunday labour has been enormously multiplied
by the late change. If it is so in these two towns, it
must be so at every considerable town in these islands
equally distant from the metropolis. With the utmost
contrivance the Sunday papers will not arrive
till Saturday evening, when it is too late to
forward them the same day through numerous vil-
lages lying five or six miles off ' • for, if a newsman's
round will take him three or four hours, his master
will not send him out at 8 o'clock P.m. on Saturday,
but at 5 the next morning. In reply to these facts,
and some others of equal but more domestic interest,
Lord Ashley and his friends could do nothing but
refer to their 700,000 signatures, to the 41 menbers
of the Town-council of Glasgow, to the 9 bankers,
the 22 physicians and surgeons, the 68 procurators
and brokers, and the 500 commercial men and capi-
talists ; nine-tenths of whom hid probably settled the
question by a reference to the 221 chapter of Exodus,
without considering for a moment to what extent the
commandment was obligatory upon Christians, how
far they really and truly observed it themselves, or
how far the closing of the Post-office would actually
diminish Sunday labour on that day, and so answer
its own purpose. Everybody knows the story of
the boroughnionger who had to get whatever he
wanted from the Minister by the argument, " We are
seven, my Lord ;" and all that Lord Ashley has to
say in reply to the gravest and most undeniable ob-
jections is, "My Lord, we are 700,000." It will be
rejoined, perhaps, that Messrs. \Vintner and Smith,
and a hundred or two other firms in their position
throughout the country, ought to follow the example
of the Post-office, and ought not to send out their
footrunners and mounted messengers. But they will
send them out, and if they don't send them out ohers
will; so the thing will be done, and will be the direct
result of Lord Ashley's measure. Nor do we see
how it can possibly be obviated by any arrangements
of the Post-office. We observe that some of the
weekly newspapers suggest that, with a Friday
evening edition, and a postal delivery very late
on Saturday night, the thing may be managed.
But while the people of Lancashire, the West
Riding, and the Potteries can get news on
Sunday up to 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, is it
likely that they will be content with news only up to
the same hour on Friday afternoon ? and, as fir a
special delivery of newspapers all over the country up
to midnight on Saturday, so absurd au idea would
never have entered into any other brain than that of
a raging Sabbatarian. It was evident from the
ginning that the anti-Sunday-postists would be
pushed to this extremity, for there is absolutely
nothing which they do not expect the nation to sa- '
crifice to their hobby. The only argument or fact
that rose above the level of " the 700,000 signatures"
was Mr. Muntz's testimony. "He never could enjoy
a comfortable quiet Sunday, from the number of let-
ters he used to receive. For 30 years he had never
had three quiet Sundays but the last three, and, as
one largely engaged in business, he could assure the
House he had not felt the least inconvenience from the
stoppage of letters." Now, bold as it may be to
correct Mr. Muntz in a matter of his
own personal experience, we will undertake
to do so. The disquiet which seems to have
alloyed his Sabbath rest for the- thirty years
arose, not from the receipt of his letters, but from
his craving to answer them. We know, to our cost,
his insatiable appetite for letter writing. So far as
regards the receipt of letters, what can it signify to
the peace of one's mind whether a letter is received
on Saturday or on Sunday, excepting that ten o'clock
on Saturday night is the worst hour of the week ?
A man with ordinary command over his actions and
temper can look over a batch of letters on Sunday
afternoon, break a seal or two, put the business letters
in his desk or his pocket, peruse the private ones if
they seem more important than usual, dismiss the
whole batch from his thoughts, and take a walk with
his wife and children, or, if he pleases, hear the latter
their catechism. Toe sting of a letter is generally
the necessity for answering it, and nobody is ex-
pected to answer a letter on Sunday. People may,
if they like, but they are not expected, and the day
is always a valid excuse. Mr. Muntz, then, has
mistaken the working of his peculiar temperament
for the necessity of the case. If he will put every
inkstand in his house under lock and key on Satur-
day night, and give the key to his minister or any
other keeper of his conscience, he will be able to re-
ceive a hundred letters on Sunday without any dis-
quiet. Nay, we should not wonder if in course of
time he acquired so sublime a state of Sabbatical
apathy as to look on the hundred letters without the
least inclination to open them. -
CHRONICLE.—We cannot congratulate either
the House of Commons or the Government on having
adopted a very happy mode of self-extrication from
the entanglements of the Post-office question. The
sort of compromise which terminated the noisy and
disorderly debate of Tuesday night is as far as pos-
sible from saving the dignity of the former; and the
best comment on the conduct of the latter is that all
parties concur, with edifying unanimity, in charging
them either with precipitancy, or with want of good
faith. As regards the House, nothing can be more
absurd than the position in which it has placed itself
by the vote of Tuesday, taken in conjunction with
that of the 30th of May. To act first and deliberate
afterwards is, proverbially, the acme a reckless
folly ; yet this is precisely what our representatives
have done, in following up their original address to
the Crown, for a total cessation of the Sunday col-
lection and delivery of letters, with a subsequent
prayer "that her Majesty will be graciously pleased
to cause an inquiry to be made whether the amount
of Sunday labour in the Post-office may not be re-
duced, without completely putting an enclto the col-
lection and delivery of letters on Sunday. We re-
frain from conjecturing what opinion her tlajesty is

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likely to form of the wisdom of an Assembly which
troubles her with these contradictory solicitations,
and which, on the very face of its proceedings, inverts
the natural order of inquiry and decision. A frank
confession of error would have been infinitely more
respectable than this lame and awkward evasion. It
is a confession of error, however, though not a frank
one. The experiment is allowed, fur form's sake, to
go on for the present—but it is already condemned,
by implication, as hasty and ill-considered. The
House distinctly acknowledges that the re-
linquishment of the Sunday delivery and col-
lection of letters is a public inconvenience which
ought not to be lightly incurred, and that it is at
least questionable whether it ought to be persisted
in. Moreover, the entire responsibility of de-
ciding on the continuance or abandonment of the
existing restriction is left to those who have never
missed an opportunity of avowing themselves hostile
to it. Fur Lord John Russell plainly intimated that,
whether Parliament shall be sitting or not, at the
time of the completion of the proposed inquiry, the
Government wilt take its own course without waiting
for further instructions from the House. As this was
interpreted by Lord Ashley (quite correctly, we
imagine) as utterly dieentitling the Premier to the
confidence of the Sabbatarians, the division which
ensued may be fairly taken, despite all apparent am-
biguities, as affording a true measure of the relative
strength of the two parties ; and, under such circum-
stances, a Ministerial majority of 83 was a tolerably
intelligible reversal of the previous vote of the House.
The debate has added little or nothing to our
previous information on .the subject, and it is in-
teresting only as showing the effect which even the
brief experience of three weeks has had in modifying
the zeal and abating the confidence of the Sabbatarian
enthusiasts. The great " principle," of which we
once heard so much, was quite forgotten—the re-
strictions preferring to entrench themselves behind
the formalities and decorums to which their previous
casual victory had given them a sort of right to ap-
peal. They stood out for the letter of their bond, de-
manded a " fair trial" for their " experiment," and
were eloquent on the " honour and dignity of the
Crown." All this was no doubt perfectly fair as
against the Government, who certainly have evinced
an unseemly and culpable haste in committing the
Royal name to an innovation which they dislike and
disapprove; but to lay any stress on this kind of
argument only indicates the conscious want of a real
case. For the practical merits of the question we
must look to the speeches of the mover and sup-
porters of the resolution, who, though they
somewhat overdid the theological and " religious-
liberty" party of the subject, clearly showed
that grievous social mischiefs have ensued, and
must ensue, from the Sabbatical interdict
on postal communication. Of the hardships
inflicted on individuals, by depriving them of the or-
dinary facilities of intercourse with relatives at a dis-
tance—hardships which, in cases of illness or other
domestic emergencies, are cruelly severe—we say
little, as we have never observed any signs that the
Sabhatarian zealots are open to this sort of appeal to
their human sympathies. But the point was well
urged by Lord John Russell, who, with a generous
consideration for the rights and feelings of the hum-
bler classes which we wish he had manifested at an
earlier stage of the business, refused to accept the au-
thority of "great bankers in easy circumstances," on
a question which is of extremely little interest to
them so long as railway companies run Sunday trains
and telegraph wires carry Sunday messages, but
which is of vital importance to those who cannot
afford themselves such costly luxuries. The advo-
cates of the prohibitory regime will, however, be far
more likely to feel the force of the argument, that
their system has actually led to a great increase in
the amount of Sunday labour performed throughout
the country. Of this fact there can be no doubt
whatever. The transmission and delivery of the
London weekly newspapers alone employ, there
is every reason to believe, many more hands than
have been liberated from Post-office duty ; and when
the capabilities of the " parcel " system shall have
been somewhat further developed by necessity and
experience, we shall have a pretty well organized
Sunday post for every important town in the
kingdom, which will only differ from her
Majesty's Post- office establishment in the higher
scale of its charges, its more lavish employment of
manual labour, and its total unprofleableness to the
public revenue. For those newspaper readers who
cannot afford to pay an enhanced price for their
accustomed luxury there are the public-houses
and the beer-shops, where the fagged artisan will
always be sure of getting a good deal for his money
over and above the innocent recreation of perusing
the " latest intelligence." On the whole, it seems
impossible for any considerate person to resist the
conclusion, that what is called a " fair trial " of
the present experiment would produce an enormous
amount of " Sabbath-breaking" and demoralisation.
However, it is not to be. The II )use of Commons,
while respecting the Sabbatarians' temporary right of
possession, questions their title, end hands over their
case to the scrutiny of their official opponents. Lord
John is to inquire, report, and act at his own discre-
tion, and on his own responsibility ; and unless his
opinion should undergo seine extraordinary change in
the process, the result may be set down as already
known. We fear we must add that a confirmed con-
viction of the worse than inexpediency of stopping the
communications of the country on the Sundry will
be only one of the lessons which the approaching in-
quiry will teach him. Long before he has done with
this business, he will probably be made painfully
aware of his error in having allowed pique, pettish-
ness, or indolence, to get the better of his statesman-
ship, and in having visited the sins of a refractory
House of Commons on the letter-writing and news-
paper-reading public. We shall be most agreeably
surprised if his sarcastic "deference to the sense of

the 'louse" does not involve him eventually in ten
times more worry, fuss, and annoyance, than he
would have incurred by earnestly attempting, in the
first instance, to stem a senseless agitation, and to
procure the reversal of a random vote. We wish
him well through the task which he has undertaken,
of dealing with a movement that owes no small part
of its importance to his own faults of judgment or
temper; and we trust that he will in future deal
seriously with serious questions, and frankly assume
at first the responsibilities which he cannot evade at
last.