The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-02 00:00:00

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A ROMANCE WITHOUT FICTION.
About three years ago, the Rev. R. S. M'Clay, of
Concord, Franklin county (late of Gettysburg), re-
ceived a call on the Board of Foreign Missions con-
nected with the Methodist Episcopal Church, to
visit China, and preach the Gospel to the benighted
Celestials of the central flowery land. M'Clay was
young, ardent, enthusiastic, and most willingly em-
braced the high and holy duty assigned him.
In due time he arrived in China, and was stationed
at Fan Chile, some 700 miles, in the interior, from
Hong-Kong. There he studied the native language,
and commenced his labour among the Celestials, with
the most flattering success. Still there was something
wanting—a void in the heart to be filled ;he sighed
for that best solace to man, either in weal or woe—
a wife. How to get one was an intricate question to
solve. There were no American ladies there from
whom he could make a choice; as for a Chinese wife,
the laws of the land forbade it, neither did his
inclination desire it. What, then, was to be done?
A fertile imagination can accomplish wonders—
a firm determination can surmount difficulties
that would " o'er-top old Pelion." He wrote to the
board of mission on the subject—he wrote in pathetic
—we might perhaps say poetic—strains of his lonely
condition for the want of one on whom he could be-
stow his affections, and who would be the partner of
his joys and sorrows through life, and ended by ask-
ing the board to send him a young lady who would
be willing to become his wife, agreeably to his di-
rections, which he sent in the form of a blank decla-
ratiOn, to be filled up by the lady accepting the
proposition.
This was a novel proposition, but the board was of
opinion that it was a just one, and proceeded with
due diligence to search for the object desired, and,
strange to say, success crowned their efforts.
Some time previous to receiving Mr. M'Clay's
letter, a young lady, Miss Henrietta Sperry, of
Brooklyn, New York, made application to the board to
be sent as a missionary to China, but was refused on
account of being unmarried. To her the application
of Mr. M'Clay was shown ; she at once filled up the
blank application, and a correspondence ensued,
which ended in her leaving New York, in company
with a number of other missionaries, on the 12th of
March last, in the ship Tartar, for Hong-Kong,
where she will be met by Mr. M'Clay, and the
nuptial ceremony will be solemnised.
The lady's personal attractions have been described
to us, by one who had the pleasure of seeing her pre-
vious to taking sail on her mission of love. She is
described as being beautiful and fascinating in appear-
ance, and possessed of that charm of loveliness which
should adorn every female character—a well culti-
vated mind, stored with the richest gifts of know-
ledge from the fountain of education, and a moral re-
finement which will bear with it the jewel of a bright
inheritance beyond the confines of time.—American
Paper.

SUNDAY POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS.
Yesterday, by command of the Postmaster-General,
,here was a general delivery of letters and newspapers
,hroughout the metropolitan districts and the provinces.
:a the majority of cases the delivery commenced shortly
after nine o'clock, and terminated at half-past ten in
the forenoon, and although in some instances it began
rather later, in no case was it permitted during the hours
of Divine service. As some misapprehension appears to
have arisen as to the official rule for the circulation of
newspapers on the Sunday morning in the (London)
town and country delivery, a list of places is subjoined,
at each of which newspapers pouted at any of the re-
ceiving houses by six o'clock, or at the chief office by
seven o'clock on the Saturday evening, will be delivered
on Sunday morning free, except in those cases where
the place to which they may be directed is situated
within three miles of the General Post-office, in which
cases the charge is Id. on each newspaper. The fellow-
ing is the list above alluded to:—Acton, Acton (East),
Apperton, Balbam, Barking, Barnes, Barnet, Battersea,
Bayswater, Beckenham, Beddington, Bexley, Bexley-
heath, Blackheath, Blendon, Bow, Brentford, Bridging,
Bromley (Kent), Bromley (Middlesex), Bromptoa, Bush-
hill, Caraba'ton, Charlton, Charlton (New), Cheano,
Chelsea, Chigwell, ;Chigwell-row, Chingford, Chisel-
hurst, Chiswick, Clapham, Clapton, Colney-hatch, Cray-
ford, Crouchend, Croydon, Dagenham, Deptford, Dul-
wich, Ealing, Ealing (Little), East Barnet, East Ham,
East Sheen, Edgware, Edmonton (Lower), Edmonton
Upper), Elstree, Eltham, Enfield, Enfield-highway,
Erith, Finchley, Foots Cray, Friern Barnet. Fulham,
Golder's-green, Greenford, Greenwich, Hadley, Ham,
Hammersmith, Hampstead, Hampton, Hampton-court,
Hampton-wick, Hanwell, Harrow, Hayes (Kent). Hen-
don, Heston, High Beach, Highgate, Highwood, Holds-
den-greet, Homerton, Hornsey, Hounslow, Hurst,
Hyde, Ilford, Ilford (Little), Isleworth, Kensal- green,
Kensington, Keston, Kew, Kilburn, Kingsbury, Lamp-
ton, Loe, Lewishrm, Leyton, Leytonstone, Lisson-
grove, Lock's-bottom, Loughton, Maldon (Surrey),
Merton, Mill-hill, Mitcham (Lower), Mitcham
(Upper), Morden, Mortlake, M.uswell-hill, Neasden,
New-cross, Newington (Stoke), North Cray, North-
end (Fulham), North-end (Hampstead), Northolt,
Norwood (Surrey), Norwood (Middlesex), Old
Ford, Paddington, Palmer's-green, Parson's-green, Peck-
ham, Perrivale, Petersham, Plaistew (Essex), Plaistow,
(Kent), Plumatead, Ponder's-end, Potter's-bar, Putney,
Qieen's Elm, Rainbam (Essex), Richmond, Roehampton,
Romford, Se wardston, Shepherd's- bush, Shooter's-hill,
Sidcup, Snaresbrook, Southall, Southborough, South-
end (Eltham), South-end (Lewisham), Southgate, Stam-
ford-hill, Stanmore, St. Mary Cray, Stockwell, St.
Paul's Cray, Strand-under-the-Green (New), Stratford,
Streatham, Sunbury, Sutton (Surrey), Sutton (Middle-
sex), Sutton (Little), Sydenham, Teddingtoo, Thornton-
hea.tb, Tooting (Lower), Tooting (Upper), Tottenham,
Totteridge, Turnham-green, Twickenham, Upton (Es-
sex), Upton (Kent), Waddon (Croydon), Walham-green,
Wallington, Waltham-abbey, Waltham-cross, Waltham-
stow, Wandsworth, Wanstead, Welling, Wembly, West-
end (Elampstead), West Ham, West Ham (Abbey),
Whetstone, Whib's-cross, Whitchurch (Edgware),
Wilton, Wickham (East)), Wickham (West), Widmore,
Willesden, Wimbledon, Winchmore-hill, Woodford,
Woodford-bridge, Woolwich, and Worton. It is gene-
rally understood-by the authorities that no future modi-
fications on points of detail will affect the existing regu-
lations in the London district (country) department,
though further orders will be shortly issued with refer-
ence to the Sunday duty in many of the more distant
post towns.