The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-02 00:00:00

pretences. It is a financial operation which would
disgrace Spain, Portugal, or even the pickpocket
monarchy of Greece !"
Our contemporary is sensitively alive to the
danger which will arise to the morality of our
post-office officials from the cessation of Sunday
labour. He says :
" In the first place, the regulation will have the effect
of encouraging every postmaster and his wife, or his,
daughter, to violate the sabbath by travelling, jaunting,
and junketing on that day—in running O'er some popu-,
lar preacher and deserting their parish church, or in
visiting distant friends, or the wonders of railways."
An awful thing, that running after popular
preachers ! To stop it, however, and to preserve
his compositors and others from the possibility of
such an enormity, why should he not put them to
Sunday work ? Then, he continues, the Sunday
papers " will not lose their provincial circulation
without a struggle." They are going to employ
hosts of boys, with horns, and what not, to circu-
late their trash throughout the provincial towns on
the Sabbath. Let them do so. It would be volun-
tary and individual sin and labour. instead of
nationally enforced sin and labour ; and as for the
horns, &c., perhaps the law would be strong
enough to pretent the nuisance. Our contempo-
rary is sensitive also as to the possibility of " mer-
cantile letters, sporting letters, gambling letters,"
&c., being enclosed in parcels, instead of going
respectably through the Postoffice. We should
willingly risk this rather than encourage either the
receipt or the despatch of some of those letters on
the Sunday.
But on religious grounds (!) our contemporary
opposes the closing of the Postoffice on the Sabbath
day. He says :

" The Christian sabbath is not, and ought not to be,
the Jewish sabbath. When our blessed Saviour, in his
humanity, was baptised, the ceremonial strictness of the
Levitical law expired. The law and the prophets were
until John."

We presume, then, that the rest of the decalogue
—the prohibition of theft and murder, for instance
—as well at that commandment which bids us
" remember and keep holy the Sabbath day," may
he dispensed with, now that " the strictness of the
Levitical law has expired" I
Our contemporary talks of bigots and puritans,
pharisees, tyrants, despots, &c., as being the origi7
nators of this measure. We refer him, in reply, to
the following list Of its avowed supporters in Li-
verpool, published in February last, and composed,
as he will admit, of men of all religious creeds, and
the reverse of being tainted with either bigotry or'.
cant :

LIVERPOOL LAY ASSOCIATION FOR CLOSING
THE POST-OFFICES ON SUNDAY.

John Holmes, Mayor
John Moss
Hugh Hornby
George Grant
Robert Angus
Robert Rankin
John North
John Orred
Adam Hodgson
James Stitt
Samuel Stitt
James M' Henry
James Adam
William Gardner
David Hodgson
Peter Wright
Richard Griffiths
Adam Gladstone
Francis Shand
Charles Saunders
John Campbell
Thomas Berry Horsfall
Duncan Gibb
W. J. Tomlinson
Thomas Bouch
William Jones
David Bellhouse
Alexander Smith
• Johr Semple
Thomas Carson
J. Owens Johnson
Robert Norris
James A. Smith
Archibald Sinclair
Thos. H. Holderness
Francis A. Clint
John. Houghton
John Cropper
Charles Cotesworth
Thomas Beil
John Nichol
Edward Jones
Josias Booker
George J. Duncan
William Hall
James Lawrence
Samuel Martin
Thomas Forsyth
E. M. Brodie
James Tyrer
Edward Cropper
T. K. Hassall
J. P. Younghusband
Richard Fry
H. J. Webster
Robert Williams
Henry T. Browne
John Chism
James Middleton
Thomas Sands
James Houghton
R. L. Jones
John Torr
I. Oliver Jones
William Craies
Hugh Barclay
James Thompson
Joseph Thompson
Charles Inman
Hugh Matheson
George Louthean
T. D. Anderson
Robert Trotter
George H. Horsfall
R. A. Macfie
William Bennett
Robert Williams
Thomas Fry
W. Joseph Horsfall
Vinunt King
Francis Mill
William Maples
James Howell
J. K. Rountliwaite
John Nelson Wood
T. R. Arnott
George Wilson
Kenneth Dowie
Charles Groves
A. T. Ritchie
Christopher Bushell
Robert C. Crosbie
John Grantham
Arthur Steains, jun.
Joseph llubback
R. H. Taylor, M.D.
Richard Carlisle
John Eden
Robert Dirom
F. Hunter
Thomas Matheson
Bryce Allan
Robert Lamont

John Barbour
Joseph Hampson
Joseph Ralph
John Philip Mather
John M. Gladstone
Robert T. Gladstone
Thos. Durie Moore
Charles Jenkins
Withal:6 Potter
Andrew Browne •
Thomas Chilton
Thomas Boyd
Robert Girvin
Christopher Bell
T. T. Glazebrook
Dr. Wm. Fergusson
Robert Lang
John Wittingham
James Cumming
William Imrie
Richard Houghton
George Prvde
Samuel Smith
Francis A. Hamilton
Henry Case
John S. De Wolf and CO.
Ridyard Daly, and Co.
John Longton and CO.
Brown and Harrisons
James Poole
Thos. Postlethwaite
George G. Hornby
William Gordon
George Beley
Percy M. Dove
R. Derbyshire
William Nevett
C, T. Hamilton
William Carson
Lawrence Peel
Wm. K. Coubrough
Joseph Robinson
W. E. Mackintosh
James Dowie
William Forbes
William Cook
James Procter
Harmood Banner and Son
Edward Banner
William Armstrong
Robert Higgin
J. Graham
Arthur H. Holine
Stanley Black
William Fisher
Leone Levi
John Stewart
Thomas Macgill
George Withers
Robert M'William
Jam s Robertson
Duncan James Kay
John Whitley
R. W. Preston
Thomas Donnison
John Rogers
Thomas Dover
Thomas Wagstaff
John Rowlinson
Robert M'Kean
Edward Astley
John Rose
A. H. Wylie
William Rowe
James Burt
John Scott
C. S. Lemon
Thomas Muncaster
John Roberts
Robert Hutchinson
Thomas Brakell
Abraham Gartside
Henry Moore
Nathaniel Field
William Duncan
Ito bt.rt. Roberts
Evans, Brothers, and Co.
Valentine Smith
Bartholomew M. Galen
John Best
William Rodger
George Badenach
S. It. Graves
Thomas Morris
John Willis. jun.
Alex. .D. Anderson'
John Reid
It. M. Ferguson
Hilton Halhead
J. Woodruff
Richard Harbord
E. C. Hindley
John Peacock
Thomas Harrison
Wilson and Derbyshire
Molyneux, Taylor, and Co.
Elijah Harrison and Co.
John Johnson
Eggers and Taylor
James Williams

Henry Steele
Samuel Holme
.William Preston
James Little
R. C. Gardner and Co.
JAM ues Afulleneux
Francis Foster

CHRISTOPHER BUSHELL, 1
1 Hon. Secretaries.
ARCHIBALD T. RiTcnlE,

A report of the mee!ing held here yesterday will
show that these gentlemen are faithfully and
quietly doing all they can to meet the exigency of
the case. Mr. Locke brings forward a motion on
Tuesday next, to rescind the recent resolution of
the House of Commons. We would suggest to
our readers that it is highly desirable for them, as
numerously as possible, to make known, in the
interim, privately, by letter, to our borough and
county members their wishes on the subject.

" Long and loud continued cheering," we are
told, followed the announcement, of the result of
the division in favour of Mr. Roebuck's White-
washing motion. A majority of 46, absolving
government, of which 41 were placemen, is truly a
matter to boast of, especially considering the num-
ber cf stray fish which fell into the ministerial
basket. In fact, their opponents as well found
themselves afflicted with some unwonted compa-
nions in the lobby. A more singular admixture of
parties on both sides, more significant of a break
up, has rarely been witnessed at the conclusion of
a motion involving the fate of a government. The.
most singular feature connected with the whole
affair is the changed and prominent position taken
up by Sir James Graham, Mr. Gladstone, and
others, in opposition to ministers. The general
impression has been, with respect to their move-
ment, that it was a biduing for official station ; and
although we disbelieve the rumours which have,
been current, as to a specific arrangement made
between this party and the Protectionists, it must
he admitted that their movements betray symp--
toms of a disposition to turn hack in the political
march.
The government, notwithstanding their narrow
majority, which honourable statesmen in past times
would regard as a defeat, obviously intends to hold
last the reins of power. We are most glad of it.