The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-07-08 00:00:00

CURE AS BAD AS DISEASE.
To dress uolten-!;.1 wuud of disaster
That from German, or worse, civil war
France hr.. lost faith In elle famous plaster—
for once ranoted plaster of ruts —Ptet,h.

SUNDAY TRADING IN LONDON.

At the Hammerarnith police-court, on Monday, Mr.
Walter, one of ths secretaries of the Free Sunday
Si ciety, applied for three distinct commoners tinder
the 7th section of the Sunday Observance Act
aralnet tradesmen for pursuing their ordinary buei-
nee. en the Lord's Day. Ile maid that they were of
a d fferent kind from those which were usually heard
at that c urt, as th. y were egainst tradesmen for
eerving the wealthier elapses in various ways. The
first WAS against the parish contractor for watering
the roads nearly opposite Kensington Palace on Sun-
day unnecessarily, as he thought, on account of the
weather. Although the contractor did not perform
any of the work yet he was of opinion that if the
servants were employed on a Sunday to follow their
business, the master was equally liable, as the Act em.
bodied the Fourth Commandment. In the second
case an ice merchant's cart was driven up to Kensing-
ton Palace on Sunday morning, in an ordinary
business-like way, when a man alighted and carried a
iar e bucket of ice inside. There was evidence of the ice
merchant carrying on his worldly trade and calling on a
fienday, but Instead of the dealing being with the poor,
it Woe to supply Prince Teck with ice OD the laved's
Day. The third case Was against Mr. Hall, a fish-
monger of High-street, Kensington, who sent a boy on
Sanday morning with half a salmon on a board to
Kensington Palace, lie proceeded to state that Mr.
Hall followed his ordinary business on Sunday, as be
SAW other eh sent out, and that on going to his shop
he was offered for sale the tail part of the !aim= vaich
had been sent to the Palace.
At the conclusion of his statement the magistrate
(Mr. Ingham) said that on Friday last his colleague,
Mr. Daynaan, returned to town, when they consulted
together AS to the proper course to be adopted in such
ewes, and they came to the determination henceforth
to refuse all applications for summonses unless made
by some public authority. He therefore gave the same
answer to the applicant as he would give to the Rey.
Bee Wright.
The applicant then withdrew.

The Manchester GMViitia states that the municipal
anthoritiett of Warrington have determined to put in
force within their boundaries the provhdons of the
Lent's-day Act, and Several prosecutions were brought
More the borough justices en Monday. A woman
was charged with having sold two loaves to a man
who had been out harvesting till late on Saturday
night, and had walked four mites to procure the loaves."
The mayor dismissed this charge. It Was much less
blameable. be said, to sell bread than beer on the Suns
day. The defendant in another case was charged with
selling a pout() o II or, some biscuits, and sweets ; but
: he put in a plea that his customer hod purchased the
' mutinies in anticipatio of the visit of some friends to
tea; and justice again relaxed its frown. But a third
rffender, who bad sold Eve pounds of potatoes, was
ordered to pay a fins of one shilling; and the justices
announced that the penalties inapoted in future would
be more stringent