A preliminary meeting, we are informed, took place at the
City of London Tavern on Tuesday, to take into consideration the necessity of colonizing the Falkland Islands ; and is said to have hem" well at- tended. A letter from Lord Glenelg was read, stating on what terms the Government would grant a charter to enable a company to carry the undertaking into effect —Morning Chronicle.
A correspondent of the Standard is quite horrified at the idea of letters being delivered in London on Sunday morning. He writes- " One of any clerks the other day asked me what arrangement was to be made in the office when letters were delivered on Sundays! I was quite astounded when he told me that they had informed him so at the Post-office. And mark, this is not to be done openly, but fir a time covertly ; i. e. they are to be delivered to those who call for them. Now, does any rational man sup- pose fora motnent, that the dour having been thus set ajar, it will nor, by Jews, Infidels, (who do not keep our Sabbath) soon be pushed open? And within a year—ay, three mouths—all letters will be delivered, a d the mails despatched upon a Sunday. Then what will ensue? Why. L ion will be like Paris, Brussels, and the other Continental towns now are. Will not this be giving is heavy blow and great diseourageinent to Protestantism (the only thing the Whigs are consistent in)? I will not suffer my letters t. be received, or my clerks to attend upon the Sunda) ; but who knows but that at length we may all he obliged to do it, in toiler to compete with the ("reign merchants, who abound in London. In fact, suet, a principle carried out, will keep thousands from church, and eventually tens of thousands: but t ne guilt will be with its projectors. This is not a thing to stand still about —it most be gene- rally known—every London parish should petition their Quern. I doubt not their ministers will take it up when they know it, and raise such an astounding cry that the miserable promoters of such a profanation shall lie driven from their bad project." I In Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and the chief towns in the United States, the delivery of letters on Sunday does not prevent the "observance " of that day.] Messrs. Curling and Young, of Limehouse, who built the British Queen, have a steam. vessel now upon the stocks of 2000 tons burden, being 100 more than that of the noble ship just named. The model
has been muteriully ; for, though not so long, she will be much leder.
Attention is again becoming much directed in the City to the dis- tressieg state of the silk-weavers of Spitalfields. Iu the course of the kast winter, these unfortunate people, to the number of nearly 20,000 'tads, were almost all unemployed, and lived upon charity alone. This miserable condition of so great a number of the Metropolitan popula- cion, it is feared, will be greatly increased as the winter approaches ; 'or not only is the silk manufacture becoming so much depressed that hundreds of the weavers are daily thrown out of employment, but this sailing-off in the business is commencing at a season when the neces- aaries of life are already very high, and expected to be still considerably .higher in the course of the winter-months. If formerly the Spina- fields weavers have been almost a continual burd,:n to the poor rates And charities of the Metropolis, there is little do iht that the expense s.f supporting them will be now very greatly increased ; and that also at a time when the rate-payers are themselves amidst all the difficulties 41 increased expenses for housekeeping, and a great reduction in the 'profits of geemal trade.—Nurning Chronicle.
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