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

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPLIITEIEATRE.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty.
The best ventilated Theatre in London.

Crowded Houses to witness the attractive and magnificent Spectacle
of Mazeppa, which, with brilliant novelties in the Wonders of the
Arena, form the most varied and attractive Entertainments in the
Metropolis.
THIS EVENING,
Will be produced Lord Byron's gorgeous Spectacle of 3fAZEPPA
nd the WILD HORSE. Mazeppa, Mr. N. T. Hicks.
To be succeeded by an inimitable Display of Batty's Feats of
Equitation in the Cirque Olympique.
To conclude with the Balle of THE CHAMOIS HUNTER.
Box-office ..pen From Eleven till Four
Stage Manager. Mr. W. West.

ader the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty, his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, &c. &c.
ROYAL SCItREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
OPEN every MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, and
THUR.sDAY.
Last Week of M. Jallien.
Another splendid Elephant.

Promenade Concert, conducted by M. Jullien and Mr. Godfrey—Se-
lect Programme of Ancient and Modern 3lnsic--Jullien's Nepali!.

ese Quadrille.
The nww Irish Quadrille, the "Hibernian," composed by M. Jullien.
' The Derby-Day Galop," composed expsissly for these Gardens, is
one of the most successful of Monsieur Jullien's compositions, and

in consequence of the nightly encore, will be repeated till further

notice.
The Grand Ghorka March, performed for the first time before the
Nepaulese Ambassador.
Prodigious Success of the entirely new-modelled Dioramic Pic-
tire representing the PASSAGE of the ALPS by Napoleon and his
Army ! the largest Picture In the World ! with innumerable moving
Figures the size of life. Modelled, painted, and produced by Mr.
Danson and Son, assisted by Messrs. Adams, Wilson, &c. &c. The
Picture has occupied the INlessrs. Danson for many months, and it is
cenfidently submitted to the Public as a chef-d'oeuvre of art, and not
inferior to any production of the day.
The Splendid MENAGERIE has lately been enriched by several
valuable Presents from the Queen.
The Musical Department will be conducted by Mons. Jullien and
Mr. Godfrey. It will be the aim of the Establishment to offer
for the gratification of the Subscribers arid the Public, the
most Splendid Military Band in the • Kingdom ! 1 Selected
from the Bands of her Majesty's Horse and Foot Guards, and the
most eminent Artistes in the profession.

The following list of engagements will, it is hoped, convince the
Public, that the long-acknowledged excellence of the Band of this
Establishment will be Lilly maintained ! The Repertoire of Music
will be most extensive and varied, arranged from the most Popular
Operas In this and other countries. Solo-Players—Messrs. licenig,
Lazarus, Prosperre, Colinet, Pratten, Jarrett, Sonnenberg, Sommers,
and Winterbotham. _ .

During the evening a grand Colossal, Scenic, and Pyrotechnic
Tableau illustrating the celebrated Picture by David, of Buonaparte
Crossing the Alps l Showing a general view of the Region of the
Alps, stretching from the small mountain lake in the foreground to
the distant snow-clad mountains, crowned by the stupendous Mount
St. Bernard and its far-famed Monastery. A portion of the French
Army is first seen "en bivouac," presently the drums beat to arms,
and amid the clash of Military Bands and Martial Music, the Troops
commence the Ascent. The Soldiers are seen dragging the Artillery in
Trunks of Trees, now ascending almost Perpendicular Heights, and
traversing the most Terrific Ravines, but all difficulties are overcome,
and the Gallant Army is seen pursuing its course to the Fertile
plains of Italy.
The whole to conclude with a Gorgeous Display of Fireworks, by
Messrs. Southby, introducing, amongst various novelties, the most
admired fella d'artifice of former seasons, jets d'eau, water rockets,
revolving pieces, a magnificent Transparency fifty feet in height,
painted by Messrs. Denson, representing Buonaparte on Horseback
cheering on his Troops, surrounded by warlike emblems, insiguia of
honour, flags, trophies, &c., amidst a cerruscation of various coloured
Ares.

The complicated and difficult machinery, and the erection of the
picture under the direction of Mr. Thos Lowe. The extensive gas
fittings by Messrs. Botcherby and Dixon, 23, King-street, Covent-
garden. . _ .

Admission. ls.

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 Muse
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 instances, 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-
e ing uninterruptedly during the periol, 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 dilemmae, 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' elsims, 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 to gratify 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.
Mr. 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. HILL is too sagacious 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. Martin'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.