The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-24 00:00:00

TEA MARKET.

Prices of Free Trade firm, with a good demand
Company's Congou ls.

_
TALLOW MARKET.
The demand for Russian Tallow good, and prices firm
at 48s. 3d. on the spot, and 48s. 9d. for delivery in the
next two months.

PROVISION MARKET.
Butter in good request, and prices are firm. Fine
Dutch, 114 s. to 116 s. per cwt. Bacon sold steadily at
Ms. to 545. per cwt.

HOP MARKET.
Prices are firm, with a good demand for all sorts.

DEATH Or LADY LOUISA MURRAY.--We
have to announce the death of the above amiable lady,
who expired at a quarter past ten o'clock yesterday
morning, after a lengthened illness. Her ladyship, who
was third daughter of Henry first Earl of Uxbridge, and
sister of the Marquis of Anglesey, Dowager Coun-
tess of Galloway, the Hon. Gentleman Sir Edward
Paget, &c. was born 26th March, 1777, and married,
first, the sth March, 1801, Lieutenant-General Sir James
Erskine, Bart., who died 3d March, 1825, and se-
condly the Right Hon. General Sir George Murray,
G.C.8., Master-General of the Ordnance, by whom
we believe her Ladyship leaves an only daughter. The
death of this estimable lady place a great many
families of distinction in mourning—namely, the
Duke and Duchess of Richmond, Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Anglesey, Earl and Countess of Uxbridge,
Dowager Lady Templemore, Viscount and Viscountess
Sidney, Lord and Lady Crofton, Lady Caroline Cape],
Earl and Countess of Sandwich, Earl of Enniskillen, Sir
Edward and Lady Paget, Earl and Countess of kiallo-
way, Right Hon. George and Lady Agnes Byng, Mar-
chioness of Conyngham, Dowager Countess of Galloway,
Lord Graves, &e.
This day (Monday) is the anniversary of the
birthday of Frederick the Great, who was born in 1712,
whose illustrious relative has just arrived in this country
to be present at the Royal christening of the Prince of
Wales, and to-morrow will be the anniversary of the
birthday of Robert Boyle, born in 1627, and also the
birthday of Robert Burns, the Scottish poet, who was
born in 1759.
BEAUMONT SMITII.—.IIII inquiry reached
Portsmouth on Tuesday to ascertain if accommodation
could be found in the Isabella convict ship, lying at Spit-
head, and bound to Hobart Town, for Beaumont Smith's
passage to his place of transportation, keeping in view
that he was to be placed separate and apart, during the
passage, from the other felons. The answer, we pre-
sume, was in the affirmative, as it is believed that this
person came down by the railway to Southampton on
Thursday, and was immediately conveyed to the ship,
which sailed yesterday.—Hampshire Telegraph of Satur-
day.
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.--A paragraph
is now going the round of the papers, in which it is
asserted that, in consequence of the late accident, the
traffic on the above line fell off, on the following week,
to the extent of 2,2801. That the traffic fell off to that
amount is correct enough ; but it was utterly false to
assert that it was owing to the accident. There was a
much larger falling off on the London and Birmingham
line, and a great falling off on every line during that
week, owing to the holidays. The rumour doubtless
originated with one of the London speculators, who
wished to damage the concern and bring down the price
of shares.—Bristol _Mercury.
Sauvaitre, the man who made his escape in
Novtmber, as wo mentioned at the time, from some
gendarmes in the Palais do Justice, as they were con-
ducting him back to prison after being condemned to
three months' confinement for haring belonged to an il-
legal society, was caught the day before yesterday, and
secured.
On Saturday last the country in this vicinity
(Keswick) was covered with snow to the depth of about
half a foot, and the snow was then descending heavily.
In Borrowdale and on the Ambleside road the snow has
fallen in such qUantities that the carriers' carts between
Keswick and Kendal have been compelled to stop for
the present. The south mail left Keswick on Saturday
morning last for Kendal, drawn by six horses.—Carlisle
Patriot.

GREAT WESTERN STEAM-SHIP COMPANY.
—The engine-works and ship-building yard of this Com-
pany were put up for sale by Mr. R. P. Clark, at the
offices in Prince's-street, on Monday, when they were
bought in for the sum of 27,000/. The original cost was
45,0001.--• Bristol Mercury.

THE NEW IRON STEAM-SHIP.—The Diree-
,ors of the Great Western Steam-ship Company last
week bestowed the name of the Great Britain on their
noble vesscl. It is expected she will be floated out of the
building yard in the course of April next.
ACCIDENT BY GUNPOWDER.--MT. C. Al-
worthy, an actor at the Garrick Theatre, was brought to
the London Hospital on Friday night, having received
a severe injury on the face by the discharge of a pistol
too close to him, while enacting a melodramatic part.
The powder and wadding burned his face in a serious
manner, but not so dangerously as to cause any serious
apprehension of his recovery.
A shepherd boy, only 15 years old, of St. Jean
de Marvejois, in the Gard, was a few days ago tending
his shesp, when a wolf sprang suddenly into the middle
of the flock, seized one, and dispersed the rest. The
youth threw a stone at the beast, and striking it on the
head stunned it for a moment. His dog seized the ani-
' mai, and a conflict ensued, which probably would have
ended in favour of the wolf, had not the courageous lad
bestrode its back and laid it lifeless under him by plung-
ing a knife into its throat.

EVENING SUN

LAW INTELLIGENCE.)

CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY)*

JUDGMENT.—WILKICR V. ASTON.
The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment this morning
in this case, the arguments in which concluded on Satur
day. The object of the application was to give lifissrt,
Storr and Mortimer the conduct of the suit, which 111
been filed for the administration of the estate of Dir•'
Harvey Aston, and the ground on which the applicatiol..
was made was the want of due diligence on the part ot
the plaintiff His Lordship ordered the motion to 10
dismissed with costs.

EAYDON V. WATSON.
The further arguments in this part-heard case tic"-
pied the Court the whole morning.

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

GREEN V. MAITLAND.
In this case Mr. Kindersley was heard on the part of
the defendant on a motion for dissolving an injuncti°ll
which had been obtained against the defendant, for the
purpose of restraining him from landing a cargo of do r'•
The case possessed no feature of general interest.
His LORDSHIP disposed of several other motions, '""
of which wore devoid of public interest.

,
QUEEN'S BENCH. (THIS DAY.)
CLAYTON, BART., V. CORBY.
Lord DENMAN gave judgment in this case, which 05
an action of trespass for digging in certain landlelonV
ing to the plaintiff without his authority. The Jura'
found a verdict for the plaintiff, subject to the opinly
of the Court upon certain points reserved. To the ac
tion the defendant had pleaded, first, that for a peri,
of sixty years he had possessed and enjoyed the right
of digging clay in the land in question ; and secondlY,,
that he had enjoyed that right for thirty Y ety
previously to the commencement of the suit. ,
these the plaintiff had replied denying the 0.5
fendant's enjoyment of the right for 60 years, arz
setting forth that Sir William Clayton had been ten}
for life, for 27 or 30 years, and, therefore, the user
30 years, urged in the plea, had not run against
plaintiff. The defendant rejoined, denying the right It,
claim the life estate independent of the 30 years.
was proved at the trial that the plaintiff had been tenall'
for life from 1785, but the defendant proved the enjoy;,
meat of the right from 1761, and the question wag'.
whether the 30 years must be computed independently
of the life estate, and such, in the opinion of the Col'
was the true construction of the 2d and 3d Will. I
chap. 71. It still remained to be considered whether thet.,
unity of possession had been proved. The Court thougil,
it was not, for the land in question was proved to bald
always been the property of the Lord of the manor, 0n,.,
held by the tenants under him. The Jury found for 0°
plaintiff in the first plea, and on the second plea, that_
found an usor of 30 years by the plaintiff. But the 181 a
ter did not dispose of the 30 years' engagement claimed e
by the defendant, that not having been put in issue, ill"
rule for a new trial must therefore be made absolute.

THE ROYAL CHRISTENING.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL had been requested by tilf,
Bar to inquire whether it was the intention of the,
Lordships to sit to-morrow.
Lord DENMAN—I believe it is generally underst°4l,4
that to-morrow will be holiday, and Ido not see-""
Westminster Hall should be an exception.
a Judge
At a subsequent period it was intimated that
would come down and adjourn the Court.

DOE DEM. WILLIAMS, DART. V. LAITSRETT. 5
The COURT gave judgment in this case, -which
an action of ejectment to recover the possession of
a cottage. The grandfather of the plaintiff, ma'
years ago pointed out a spot on the waste of the manor
where the defendant's father might build a cottage, „i 0
which there was no proof that he paid any rent. -Lip,
father died in 1829, and the widow held it till 18--„a
The plaintiff's steward applied to her for rent, or'-
acknowledgment of her tenantcy, and she paid for Were
years is. per annum, and she then received a reglll,3,
notice to quit, but died before its expiration. TheL
fondant, as her son, succeeded to the possession, and
r
the trial the Judge left it to the Jury to say whetrbe
there was a tenantcy from year to year, or whether
jayments were of the nature of high rents, The Jti';?
found for the defendant. The Court, however, I%'a'
opinion that there should be a rule for a new trial,
payment of costs.

THE QUEEN V. IeNAMARA. AND OTHERS. of
t h
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL prayed the judgmell'o
the Court on the defendants, seven in number, who "a
• been convicted of a conspiracy to procure certain
,Pr.
,i'of
sons to vote at the election of Bridgemaster the (ate
of London.
Mr. KELLY had been instructed on behalf of the da'
fendant William Powell, to move for a rule to show cr.:
why the judgment should not be arraited, or why thong
should not be a new trial. There were nineteen per'
~c,
indicted, and the seven defendants had been found guii-vd,
The indictment contained 18 or 20 counts, and theellarLit
of conspiracy was made in the most general and indir`...
terms. -Ile should first address himself to the motion
rest of judgment, because if that was successful the °ta'-of
would be unnecessary. There were a large naulherro
persons indicted and the charges were of a very gelleitir
nature, and the natural result was, that in the °lscil
in which the facts of the case were involved, the Juryt
o
found a verdict against the defendant Powell, without
tittle of evidencef conspiracy against him. The ,„,,r,
teenth count charged this defendant and others with co r
spiring to procure the election of Gibbs to the office 'it,
Bridgemaster by improper and illegal means, but
did not set out any of these means, ore any, Pv-is
act of the defendant. Now the objeet of thederendtol;
was not in itself criminal or unlawful—it Was to secure
the election of an individual, and when that was the cas°
it was necessary to set out the means. The case of the
King v. Peck and others, 9th Adolphus and. Eli havinglis,666,
was decisive on that point. The Learned Counie
referredthe
jutodtghmatenatndmuosvt b
otheroooratrhrreseeted.ln
eases, submitted
The COURT was of opinion that the objection
prevail, and meantime the prisoners were remanded.
that

BROOKES V. DVI.EOD,
The COURT gave judgment in this case, which was,lll
action for goods sold and delivered. The defendant had
purchased several pieces of cloth at the plaintiff's w'i're;
house. Some of the pieces did not answer the descript%
purchased,and were refused on the ground that having bee:
sent in eight days after the order, they had come too late..
The whole question turned upon the nature of the WI
gain between the "parties, and that would be best under~
stood from the evidence at the trial. The jury found i,
verdict for the plaintiff for the value of all the pieces'
the Court thought that verdict could not stand. Th
might be something in the nature of a compromise ""
tween the parties, but their opinion was that the rule f'S
a new trial must be made absolute.

EX PARTE cLAnita.
mit:011-
The defendant in this case, who had been com—
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by the Master of the Rolls fora contempt of the Coup.
Chancery, was now brought upon a writ of habeas cored
Mr. PASRLEY, on behalf of the prisoner, subraiol,
that in its present form the return to the I%i-a
was liable to grave and serious objection,
that the prisoner was entitled to his discher,ts
The first ground upon which he moved, was tli
the return did not state either that the Wsr"Ae
Pt,
had received any legal warrant, or that he was pres-anb..
in the Court when the order was made. His second °
s
jection was, that the prisoner was alleged to hare bee
committed for a contempt of the High Court of ClItT;
eery at the bar of the Court of Chancery ; whereas t
prisoner had been committed from Lord Langdale's Pr`;
rate residence. There was no evidence whatever to sb° 4
that the man had ever been brought to the bar of the Coto
of Chancery, the order of LoriLangdale merely settiobge
forth that the prisoner be turned over to the custodY of t
the Warden,of the Fleet. The Learned Counsel then re,
ferred to the Act, the Ist Will. IV., chap. 36, entitled re
Act for altering and amending the law with regard to to
commitment of parties for contempt by Courts of Eqt;_
„itij
and contended that the commitment of the prisoner P
not taken place in the manner and form prescribedl
that Act of Parliament, and the consequence of whle.
was, according to the provisions of the Act that the Pry.
soner was entitled to his discharge.
(The case was proceeding when we went to Press.)

BAIL COUKT.—(THIS DAY.) in
His LORDSHIP was occupied the whole morning
b.
hearing motions, relating to points of practice, of no pub'
lie interest.

The Court will not sit to-morrow, except for nio+l--00 •
of cause.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY•)

BELL v. nuctim.
ots
The Court was occupied the whole day with arguni
On the pleadings in this case, which possessed no inn'
interest.

•
FOOT RACE.—(FROM A CORRESPONbEI4I,)II,
—A grand foot race for 501., distance 130 yards, betsf';„
E. Smith and R. Nash, will take place at Lord's Cri°'
Grounds on Wednesday next, at two o'clock. 's
The General Steam Navigation Company
vessel the Columbine, W. Norwood, from Rottero°,7l;
arrived off the Custom-house yesterday with the Dui",
mail.

We learn that a puncheon of the finest 1"
land aqua vita, containing about 120 gallons, Will
Monday put into her Majesty's duty-free warehouset„d
London-street, from a celebrated Islay distillery, 11",..
that it was despatched on its way to London to be de Po be
sited in the royal vaults in St. James's Palace, to
used, no doubt, at the festivities consequent on the ~chris-
tening of the Baron of Renfrew, and Lord of the 10s.
This will enable such of our Highland chieftains as 1:111,
be honoured by being invited to the banquet to gavial
bumper of this pure native mountain dew to the
and prosperity of a brother chief, who may yet " re'l4-
in Charlie's stead."—Glasgow Paper of 11, ednesday.
A notorious robber, Picard, who has rendered
himself well known to the police by his repeatedil:i
capes from prison, and who was temporarily confineurd,
Gloom having been recaptured after his last outbreti_
from the hulks, made another attempt to regain his
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berty on Sunday night by setting tire to the door ofl
cell. He had broken up his bedstead, and had lighted
the wood by means of the fragment of a razor blade
other materials for striking a light, which he had ci ;0°
cealed about his person. keepers were alarmed
time 'to prevent him accomplishing his purpose. St.
A converted Chinese has lately presented to
George's Church, at Lyons, a picture painted bY.
oing
self, representing the late massacre of the Christ
in China.

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and highly influential meeting of the electors wns held
to-day in the Adelphi Theatre, for the purpose of 111,,F0r.
ing arrangements Ibr securing the return of Lord.,';'" At
peth. At one o'clock the chair was taken by the ""'"ritl
Hon. the Lord Mayor amid loud applause. After se{
appropriate resolutions had been pe"eed, the meet
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"SERVAN CE F THE SABBATH.
Ctat provoketh me to anger—which say.
41)11 by thyNelf, come not near me ; for I any liothan thou. The se are a smoke in my louse, a fire that
utirueth all the day."—lBAlAss, chap. 65, verses 3, 5.
These

- words were applied to a sect among
the Jews, who,' though the greatest of sin-
ners, proclaimed themselves the only " sanc-
tified ones" of the earth. But the de-
scription is not confined to that " stiff-
necked and rebellious people," for a similar sect
has been the bane Of almost every religious
ecantnitnity since the days of the prophets, and in
n°eountry has it manifested itsel lin more unseem-
Y nand repulsive forms than among the religious,
'oral, and intelligent people of Scotland. At
present the sect has gained a greater ascendancy
4"
become more intolerable than, perhaps, at
ItnY former period. Certain ministers in the
licit!' exhibit all its worst qualities in perfection.
lieY will admit no merit, no practical religion,
au:knowledge of Divine truth in those who.hap-
Pen conscientiously to differ. from them. Con-
.l.karY, to the express commands of our Saviour
tin' make long prayers, they shut up the
they fast, they disfigure their faces that
they may appear unto men to fast;
but Punish with unrelenting cruelty; when con-
tradicted, they revile and disdain to reason ; they
Pervert Scripture for their own selfish purposes ;
slid when their hypocrisy and unchristian spirit
:re exposed to public scorn, they rage and
.tortn, like the thief whoiswears he is an honest
114,,11* We have been led to these reflections by
krusing what is called a reply to an article from
o 'Sun of Wednesday, 24th November, 1841,
he
" Observance of the Sabbath." The
a7.',`er has not thought proper to give his name,
41114 merely subscribes to the effusion the gene-
sonePithet " Fellow Citizen." But he cannot
ceal the fact that he belongs to the race we
stronglyoo
: ate just described. The traits of character are
marked to be mistaken, and we have
n. nesitation in asserting that he is one of the
k
inisters of Glasgow--a Rev. Non-Intrusionist
tha Sabbath worshipper—pa Pharisee. Not aware
itt he belongs to this sect, he thus graphically
seeeseri,hes them :—cc In nothing had the Phari-
t,
more completely obscured the law of God,
4° in the matter of the Sabbath. The side on
1,044 they erred was a superstitious adherence
externals of their own invention, while they
;Yoere destitute of the devotional spirit." In order
show the incalculable injury these modern
Pharisees are inflicting on pure Christianity, we
wrote lecture for them two months ago, which,
From_ its strict adherence to truth and Scriptural
4141101'4y, has excited dire indignation. The
Caoge at first appears to have been such, that they
uld not write or speak on the subject with com-
e" decency. At the end of fifty days, how-
there was. a show of returning reason,
At 'jell, even after this lapse of time, is sufficiently
t:iiesturbed.. The condition of the patient during
l. Paroxysm may be imagined from the follow-
11`4 epithets and paragraphs with which the Rev.
Gentleman, adorns his production :—" The sneer
In' an Editor"_" libeller." " Nobody in Scotland
°uld have written such nonsense, and I wonder
hv
ow, after it was written in the smoke of London,
any Scotsman was foolish enough to reprint it."
\ 4711 y then answer it?) " Miserable sophistry"
.4775. h" wolf in sheep's clothing." These denote the
utld rage of this minister of.peate, who has lec-
tured his congregation no doubt on the sinfulness
°f passion, and taken for his text, " Blessed are
the meek ;. for they shall inherit the earth." We
take for our text, " Blessed are the merciful,"
slid in no instance, perhaps, was mercy more
required, for the senses of the writer appear still
bewildered. " Our Sabbath," says he, " is the
'eventh day." We have been taught by our
Church, and the Kirk teaches the same, that
the Christ:an Sabbath is the first day of the week.
this clergyman a Jew in disguise ? Leaving
hl4l, however, to settle these matters with his
fellow-citizens, we come to the main points
set forth in the previous article in The Sun
--IverulelY, that the " chosen people " alone
enjoin
that ed to obey the Jewish Sabbath;
nses, at the conclusion of the fourth
be Tauchnent, gave reasons why it should
iisl,ea,erved ; that the Jewish Sabbath is abo-
tbar °Y the consent of all Christians ; and
oft neither our Saviour nor the Apostles, in the
ti,tnerous commands which they left to Chris-
fens, ordered them to observe the first day as a
oiBll Sabbath. We made these assertions on the
' °f all authorities—the Bible, but " this man,"
-Ole his own courteous phrase, denies the Bible.
At tilt.'
Will not believe in Moses and the Prophets.
tilt.' conclusion of the fourth commandment,
s And remember
Aloses added these remarkable words :
remember that thou wast a servant in the
land
Ls: of Pgypt, and that the Lord thy. God
and b
tight thee out thence through a mighty hand,
Y
an stretched out arm; thereforerthe Lord
tl";‘4-°(1 Commanded thee -to heep the Sabbath
th;." This Christian minister, In reply to
itha- tqn°tafion, says.--" the man was stating
eon; iwas not true, and he hoped 'to
eo/11,,,-a' it. Every one knows that when the
ssas-tandments were promulgated, nothing
ealb.l,l,dded to the fourth," thus in direct terms
IVIC,6CS a liar. In the 15th verse of the
for chapter. of Deuteronomy, the precise
tat" are found, and in the 22d verse, imme-
gieblY follosving the enumeration, Moses adds,
kis "iyiei,se words the Lord spake unto all your
the -fir uIY in the Mount, out of the midst of
aces, of the cloud, and of the thick dark-
s ' with a great voice; and he added
tdit.4l,,nre.'' This is the way " to unmask an
4rtie7l'''! But it is of a piece with the whole
tleAs-e• The writer sets Scripture and truth at
title te' Whenever it suits his purpose. Refer-
sattn certain verses in the 24th chapter of the
Plov-„:"k he says, " the same motive is em-
not",,' to enforce other commandments," while
the ne e
of the ten is mentioned or referred to in
sit,W,hole chapter, the subject of discussion being
1.4411%13: the sinfulness of " taking the widow's
inteir,,lt to Pledge." The New Testament he tills•
seilsv,rets in the same unbelieving spirit. We as-
s that our Saviour made no allusion to the
tberth, when he enumerated at different times
ites e°nlmandments, and we defied the Agnew-
le t° refute us. The writer accepts the dial-
nge, arid stakes all on the issue." How does
tbe,,'arrYeut the challenge ? Not by giving us
kb': authority of Scripture, but by a quibbling
tld, nof special pleading, proving incontestably
at e could not refute us. We refer the reader
hrithat part of the argument, and leave, him to
came for himself, simply giving one spe-
sbaie,n' In the general command " Thou
he love thy neighbour as 'thyself,"
then aYS there is no allusion to the eighth,
neietby inferring that a man may love his
Arlrbour as himself while he picks his pocket.
4,„ 11,0 w does he reply to the assertion that the
',",sties have left us no divine authority for
the first 'day of the week as a
tic:isa Sabbath ?" With the simple asser-
ss4l' " Pew will venture to deny the change
yeti Inade by the Apostles." Now, we have
ciatilred to deny it, for various reasons,
the'ticed in the previous article. Not one of
sia ill, except St. Paul, has even mentioned the
!'s and that Apostle, as the writer knows well,
bo.sached more frequently on the Jewish Sah-
te.:-.11 than on the first day of the Week. Will he
ev'eate this, or will he deny that the most signal
nt' save one, recorded in the New Testament,
ttn_.!nAll the Apostles were assembled in one place,
Preached the Gospel to the Parthians, Medes.
44°1
w'hthe dwellers in Mesopotamia, took place
was ,en the Day of Pentecost (a Jewish festival)
46 Come ?" Having thus shown how little
the man " knows about tile Scriptures, we
in conclusion, briefly advert to his
irrance of facts which are constantly taking
of in his own country. " No member
th the Church," he asserts, " says or thinks
b_ at the ordinances of the Church should
enforced by pains and penalties." What!
have the General Assembly inflicted no pains
and Penalties in carrying into effect their ordi-
gneS called the " Veto ?" Is it no penalty to

deprive seven ministers of their livings, and leave
them and their children to starve; which these

rcii;4ious il,lnisitors would have accomplibc-q1
but for the strong arm of the law ? Is it no pe-
nalty to deprive a respectable man of Church pri-
vileges becau3e he buries his child on a Sunday ?
Is it no. penalty to send a man to gaol for sel-
ling sweetmeats to children on Sunday, which
he knows was done in Edinburgh at the " ear-
nest request" of a Minister of the Gospel?
Why does he assert that the people and
not the Church cry out for this strict
observance of the Sabbath ? Is he aware
that all the members of the Town Council (ex-
cept one) expressed the strongest disapprobation
of the measure—that a numerous meeting was
held in the same city last year to denounce the
ministers of the West Church for inflicting
pains and penalties to, enforce their ordi
nances, and that the Presbytery of Arbroath
were hooted by many parishioners. for abetting
the tyrannical conduct /of the Minister of Barry?
But we have done with " the man," who, though
a teacher in Israel, knoweth not these things,
and earnestly entreat the people of Scotland not
to be guided by such blind leaders. They de-
serve every praise for the decorous and orderly
manner in which they spontaneously observe
the Sabbath. Let them still continue to observe
it in their own way, and not yield to the selfish
designs of men who are moving heaven and
earth to bring them under the most galling bon-
dage that ever afflicted any nation.
The following is the article referred to :

OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH,
IN REPLY TO AN ARTICLE FROM " THE SUN" OF
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 24, 1841.

Fellow Citizens,—You have probably seen an article
advocating the running of Sabbath trains on the Edin•
burgh and Glasgow Railway, which has been reprinted
from a London newspaper, and extensively circulated in
Glasgow. On this subject, I know, you will judge for
yourselves. My opinion will not make you keep the
Sabbath, and the sneer of an Editor will not make you
break it. You must have a reason of your own. As one
of yourselves and living among you, I beg to say a few
words in reply to this stranger, who has so confidently
prescribed his own rule of duty to you.
This adviser begins in a very suspicious tone.' Ho
calls Scotland a " priest-ridden country." It is clear
that the libeller has never been in the North. He does
not know us. Although priests were willing to ride, the
Scottish people will not be ridden. The steed has cast
many a would-be rider before ; and an English Editor
need not try to bestride him now. The epithet, as ap-
plied to our country, is alike false and insulting. After
introducing himself in this way, the writer cunningly
labours to represent the opposition to Sabbath travelling
as the work of Church courts. You know this is not
true. You know, though this volunteer adviser is blind
to it, the Standing and character and numbers of the
friends of the Sabbath in this country. Divided as we
unhappily are on other subjects, we are cordially at one
on this. Rich and poor, lay and clerical, churchmen
and dissenters, all who fear God in the land are united.

The document avers that the doctrine regarding the
Sbbath now pressed by the Church has been " adopted
within these few years." Nobody in Scotland would
have written swill nonsense ; and I wonder how, after
it was written in the smoke of London, any Scotsman
was foolish enough to reprint it. Every one in this
country knows that the views of our- fathers were more
strict than our own. " The Sabbath is to be sanctified
by a holy resting all that day." Does the Editor of
?'he Sun know from what book that sentence is taken ?
And does he think it has been composed " within these
few years ?" It is further said, that the Church mem-
bers hold it to be " the duty of the Legislature and the
Executive to carry their ordinances into effect by pains
and penalties." Whose ordinances ? Those of the Legis-
lature, or those of the Church? All depends on this.
Of course, every sensible man holds it to be the duty of
the Legislature and Executive to carry their own ordi-
nances into effect. The law of the land must be
enforced. But no member of the Church of Scotland
says or thinks, that the ordinances of tha Church should.
be enforced by pains and penalties. We were freed
from that at the Reformation, and we repudiate it as
heartily as The Sun.
Next, we are treated to a commc nt on Scripture, for
the benefit of the poor priest-ridden Scots, who cannot
think for themselves. The Sabbath, it is said, was
binding on the Jews only—instituted to commemorate an
event which had reference to them only, namely, their
deliverance from Egyptian bondage. Of course we, in
this country, have been in the habit of taking the reason
of the law as it is embodied in the law itself—" Remem-
ber the Sabbath:day, to keep it holy, fur in six days
the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in
them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord
blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it." But in this
document we find it averred, that it was instituted on
another ground, and Scripture is quoted in proof of the
averment. It is said, " When Moses descended from
Mount Horeb, he called all Israel and said, Hear, 0
Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your
ears this day. The Lord our God made a covenant
with us in Horeb.' He then promulgated the Ten Com-
mandments, and at the conclusion of the fourth, added
these remarkable words—' And remember that thou wast
a stranger in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy
God brought thee out thence, through a mighty hand
and by a stretched out arm; therefore the Lord thy God
commanded thee to keep the Sabbath day'." It is evident
the writer had the Bible before him, for the words are
exactly quoted ; and why did he not refer to the chapter
and verse? The man was stating what was not true, and
hoped to conceal it. Every one knows that when the law
was " promulgated," nothing was added to the fourth,
nor to any of the commandments. We are therefore not a
little surprised to learn that when Moses came down
from Mount Horeb he promulgated the Ten Command-
ments, and added a remarkable declaration to the fourth.
Let the reader turn to the fifth chapter of Deuteronomy,
and he will be able to unmask the Editor for himself.
You will there find Moses, about forty years after the
law was given, assembling the people—repeating to them
the precepts of the law, and accompanying them with
his own comments. Their deliverance from Egypt is
urged on Israel, as a special reason why they should keep
the Sabbath. The same motive is employed to enforce
other commandments. Thus, Deuteronomy xxiv, 17, 18.
" Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger,
nor of the fatherless, nor take a widow's raiment
to pledge : But thou shalt remember that thou
west a bond-man in Egypt, and the Lord thy
God redeemed thee thence : therefore I command
thee to do this thing." Justice to the stranger and
the fatherless is enjoined on Israel by the very
same argument which is employed to enforce the ob-
servance of the Sabbath ; and is justice a Jewish insti-
tution, and not binding on us? The deliverance from
bondage was not the ground on which the Sabbath
was instituted, but it was employed as a motive, which
laid the Hebrews under peculiar obligations to obey one
and all of the laws of God.
The next argument is drawn from the example of
Christ. It is not necessary to go over all the cases. We
know that He was made under the law ; that it became
Him to fulfil all righteousness ; that He kept the law,
and disregarded only the traditions that men had mingled
up with it. In nothing had the Pharisees more completely
obscured the law of God than in the matter of the Sab-
bath. The side on which they erred was a superstitious
adherence to externals of their own invention, while
they were destitute of the devotional spirit. Against this
abuse the example of our Lord was constantly directed.
Not one of his actions even seems to countenance the
prosecution of common business or amusements on that
day. When he found it necessary so very often to
check the abuse of Sabbath observance, and yet never
annulled the Sabbath law, it is evidence amounting to
demonstration that he left it in force.
After the example, the teaching of Jesus is adduced
for the same purpose. l'he Commandments as given by
our Lord on different occasions are summed up—thi.
Sabbath is not named among them ; and therefore, it is
concluded, the Sabbath law is annulled under the New
Testament dispensation. The writer deems this a
very strong point ; and waxing heroic as he con-
templates the power of his own argument, exclaims—
"We defy the Agnewites to refute us." I accept
the challenge, and with you, my countrymen, for
judges, I am willing to stake all on the issue. The
writer introduces two cases. The first is as follows :
" To a lawyer tempting him he said, Thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thy heart, and all thy soul, and
all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy
neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments
hang all the Law and the Prophets.' Not a single word
about the Sabbath." To this I answer—Neither is there
s single word here about worshipping images or stealing.
It is obvious that none of the commandments are speci-
fied here. It does as much to annul the second and
eighth as the fourth. But this is mere trifling. Every
child here knows that the thing given is the sum of the
law—love to God comprehending the first four, and
lore to man the last six commandments of the deca-
logue. The next case is quoted from Matthew :ix.
16-21. It is an enumeration of the duties compre-
hended under the second table of the law. In this case
there is another flourish. " Here the commandments
which Christ said were binding are all enumerated, but
not the slightest allusion is made to the fourth." I
answer--Neither is there the slightest allusion made to the
first, second, or third. If this passage repeals the
fourth, it repeals also the first three. The argument is
—The Fourth Commandment is not mentioned in this
enumeration, and therefore it is not binding under the
Christian dispensation. If the argument is good, go on
with it ; thus—The Second Commandment is not men-
tioned in this enumeration, therefore it is not binding
under the Christian dispensation : that is, it is not sin-
ful now to worship the work of our own hands. To
any reader of his Bible the whole matter is very simple.
The esomeration is intended to include only our duty
to men. Duty to God is not spoken of at that place
at all. This is our refutation of the miserable sophistry
_that has been palmed upon the public with such an air
of confidence. We defy Tie Sun to refute us.
The next subject is the change of the day • and the
practice of the apostles is adduced, to show that if any
Sabbath is to be kept, it should be the Jewish Sabbath.
Now, passing over the expressions in the Epistles, which,
like those of our Lord, aimed at prevailing abuses of Sab-
bath observance, have been represented as forbidding it
altogether ; and passing also the abundant evidence that
the Apostles and their successors—all who have borne
the Christian name in every age and nation—set apart
the first day of the week for their assemblies and solemn

• Exodus, xx.

communions, I beg to observe that the opponents of the
Sabbath always magnify the change far above its own
importance. Few. will venture to deny that the change
was made by the Apostks ; and they had good rea-
sons for making it. But it is in its own nature a much
less important thing than it is generally aecoented. Our
Sabbath is the seventh day. The essence of the thing
is the consecration of the seventh day as it comes
round. The time when you begin to count is a circum-
stance of comparatively small import. The absolute
portion of time on which the consecration is made can-
not be of the essence of, the Sabbath. If it were so,
it could not possibly be observed. Suppose we are right
—that we keep it at the exact point of time in which it
should be kept—then of necessity the inhabitants of
New Zealand are wrong, seeing their day occurs at
another point of time. The Sabbath was made for
man ; but if the portion of time had been fixed absolutely
on which the Sabbath must be kept, it would have applied
only to some men, seeing it is day in one country while
it is night in another. Most clear it is that the essence
of it lies in the seventh day proportionally. This is
fixed and universal ; but the point in time at which the
consecration is made has varied, for special reasons, in
the Jewish and Christian dispensations, and in the
nature of things must be different on different portions
of the earth's surface. .

The last argument is about the infliction of punish-
ment. Tho substance of it is—lf you take the law from
Moses, you must punish the Sabbath-breaker with
death ; and Christ's oxample was always merciful.
There is a very short answer to this. It is the moral
law given to Moses in the Ten Commandments that we
hold to be binding on Christians. There are no pains
and penalties in it. The moral law was applied to Israel
in the institutes of Moses, and certain specified penalties
attached to each offence. The same moral law is applied
to us in Acts of Parliament, with certain specific penal-
ties attached to each offence. But wo are not bound to
adopt the penalties prescribed by Moses, and we have
not done it. We say penalties should be inflicted on
transgressors, not because they are in the laws of
Moses, but because they are in Acts of Parliament.
We do not punish the Sabbath-breaker with death,
because our own law does not demand it. Neither
do we put to death an adulterer, for the same
reason. The law is given to men without any other
penalty than the displeasure of God. The rulers of every
nation are bound 'to apply it according to the time and
circumstances in which they live. How often must it
be told that we take from the Bible the moral law with-
out any penalty, and the Legislature of every country
takes its own way of enforcing it ?
I have only to notice now the conclusion, which con-
tains the most unjust insinuation of aIL The Sun, for-
sooth, would make it " a day of joy and gladness, not
of gloom and sorrow." Verily, this is the wolf in
sheep's clothing. We wish a saLbath-law for protection
to the poor as well as the rich. No Christian desires
to make it a day of gloom. Let men be invited to
enter the House of God with the voice of joy and thanks-
giving. Lot them be taught to count the Sabbath a de-
light and with that view let them be allowed to rest
from their toil. Most men see clearly that if the Railway
trains are allowed to ply on the Sabbath.many other in-
roads upon its rest will necessarily and immedi-
ately follow. First one class of labourers and
mechanics and then another would be called to their com-
mon employment on all the days of the week. There
could be no additional remuneration ; for already there
are too many hands. You lose the rest which is needful
alike for body and soul, and get nothing in return. I ad-
dress myself to all who are employed during the week in
the service of others. Would you like to see the Sabbath
destroyed ? We seek to shield you from the tyranny of
avarice. This miserable lust of wealth would impiously
rob God of his due, and cruelly wrest from his creatures
their best birthright. Godliness is profitable unto all
things. We would keep his Sabbaths, because it is the
law of God ; but we know that in keeping them there is
great present reward to men.
Knowing that the Sabbath is " a delight," and fearing
lest that " day of joy and gladness " may soon be made
one of gloom to you,
I am, with affection and respect,
A FELLOW CITIZEN.