The Express.
London, England, 1856-09-16 00:00:00

NATIONAL SUNDAY LEAGUE.

Yesterday afternoon a a:armour* of the country
delegates sad friend■ of the National Sunday League was
held at St. Martin's Hall ma steeling was of a priest.,
character, reporters sot being admitted. In the etreei,..,B a
pOlic met tieg wea bald in the lugs room, at whin), &Nisi
800 p, mai use. pr gat, Ineleding de:epatra Ireva Edle-
beret, the Potteries, Northampton, Nottk,ghana, sad
Eastbourae.

ate Sir Ort A W AttiaLlT, the Presides: of the AlOOOll-
- took the shah, and Is opening the 'malaise of the meet-
iag, after. aeogratulatiag them os the preemie of ladies,
expresser his regret at the "Wenn of Sir Jeha Shelley who
took ttie chair at the Uonfereece is the attention, and de-
sired him to tepees his regret that • special eagagesaset
Mee 'mad his attendee's that eve Mag. He coegratulated
ar in on the satisfactory rash of the confereace. It Woo
ahso a MK* of sstisfactica to Imam that whatever bad been
loaresplished had bees, to a gnat iciest, the work of the
'producing slants themselves. He regretted to say
d.at nesterom saisrepreasntatioas gad calumnies had
from time to time here premelgated es to the
Proelledage, the &kat, end the intentions of the misty,
whore interests they hat met to aqvanee. It would be ha-
mmerer to let this opportunity paws without reinstating that
tenleAi had again and .gale twee 'stated, that they illuired to
sur.ain the right of priest* jad gaunt and perigee esilpioes
etkeelity. (Chews.) They de.,ree to apply *see pettish**
to the elevation of their fellow men teed to the whemeement
' of piety sad virtue. (Clines.) So far Ices ',Ws, se in-
terfere with those Inelastic,. of religion mad mmHg which
the good of all ages her endeavoured le peieeeve, the
Bendel Lomas wits most raisins, to stnegthee led le sue-
taie them; they also dcair ed that their efforts theuld be
tested by that word to ertr'.ob all denonsinatioas of eletreleoe
retorted. They nebula/ tied that innocent reereatismen lb,
flood*, woo rot rely' ompatible with, but ens M anserd-
"es with oorileto re, r od they courted discussion public ead
At the se an tune be was bound to say they
eschewed all interfere nee with the nligions oplaionsof others.
They allowed full le army to other', but they demanded the
elms freedom for tb means. They billeted that far from
lowering the reigio us toes of public *pieties, inaeognt recrea-
tion on the afternoe nofSundayweanotoelyeebul•tedtoeu-
taia ontf slrougthe a It, be' also to foster sad advance then
social virtues, wit hoot which there would be little tree piety.
And they were r agsgtbened and confirmed is those opinions
by the ProtePr s aid example of those good sad learned
men who had i .00hly stood leeward to aid the efforts of the
motleys claws sin the struggle which they had now before
them. Of all room the working saes was the mow interested
ie weinteithe g the integrity of the theday. (Hear, hear)
It was to hie a a day of joy, of consolation, and of comfort.
He regards, i it as the great bulwsrk sealant inomeaut
and he sod they demanded that that day should be as free
tithe Poor as to the rich. (Cheers.) They did not for •
monism d negate from the labour of those philanthropists
who bid beg been struggling to relieve the working classes
from the: many grievences and miseries to which they were
eabieset, hut they natured to remind them, good sod vir-
Mese 0 * they might he, that it was jialite and not charity that
thew, r kiss man sought. They desired to do their owa work,
he tle nr own way, and not to be ecerced by others. In his
sopel'.on its only off, et ai mode of improviag the condition
end advancing the interests of the worklag claims of this
temetry oat by sympathy, by kindeese„ and by the form of
grid *ample. Coercion was far lam likely to attain this
inject. They meat elm* the parks oa Swami, but they
by ea doing would open the public-house. They might
shut up their public institutions, Mt they would keep the
people in ireepeence. They might surround them with
pains and mushier., but Mewed of making them Will!r and
barer. that would may latrodan and strengthen an organ-
feed hypceriey. (Caren) Income% recreation on •
Sunday was absolutely essential—asy, it was vital to
the men who six days out of sena was shut up
in his factory and his workshop. Having perms.
ally been present at most of the mule gat=
rn en the aftecoa of the Sunday during this year, he
bear tessiwony to the humonislag inflames of those meet.,
lege, to the jcyous and orderly emielset of the multitudes
there aseemblied, to the neat and ilea appearance of the
children, and to the parental care of Woes who bad them
is charge. Few could come away from throe meetings
without feeling sympathy aid sttisfactiou, and, be thought,
without entertaining those opinions which were to well ex-
pressed by oue of their owe poets, timid Massey :
TM world la full at beauty, as are thole worlds abort;
AW it we did our duly it maid be tan et low.
(Cheers.) He should cell on them, as their chairman' te
give him their support ia nrrying oat the bushier it the
meetug. He was told that an amendment would be moved
to ens of the resoUtions, and ha trusted that they would
give a fair bearing to all.
Mr. W. Loopy( moved the first reaolatiou: 't Thet In
the r pinion of this meeting the °psalm of the public
meseewe, epuleries, sad libreiries 011 Sunday. would in-
prove the social hibits led morals, sad increase the happi-
nue of the working cisme." He said there could be so
doubt that thee* insti•tations were Weeded for the Newel
of the people. The duff. renew betimes them and the &b.
betakes was that they thought then hastiettioas should be
open os all days, while the Babbatarians thought they ought
sot to be oper on Sundays, imegleing, no doubt, that by
closing them the people wonted be induced to go to places of
worship. But they could sot make all minds alike. There
wen some who would not go to places of worship, and the
object of this saineation was to 'amble oath 'ems",
and all who thought proper, to avail themselves
of the privilege of 'tilting our public inetitutions.
He complained that in almost every term the Sebbetaiime
had written to the members %bruising them that If they
voted for opening filavallia and seek like ies:itutions on
Sundays their seats wield be In danger. He gave credit
to the Sabhateriens fir good late:dins, but be must say
that in their curlew Is this matter they had not doro to
other" what they would wish others to do to them, and that
though piety was a virtue, bigotry was a vice. He con-
tended that by opening of the museums and galleries
and gardens no a Sunday the accial habits of the people
would he improve 1. It was wall known that while tto
beads played in the parks on Sundays the publiosas in
the neighbourhood were anxious to get rid of the mare,
because there was lees drinking. The Strada, League
dented th, t then was any divose coasted to keep the
Sunday; if th n wee a commandment to keep say day it
was the Saturday. and that constesadment was oaty gives
to Jews. Christ was a If oth:oat-breaker according to
the fourth commandenect. (Cheers, and hisses.) The
thief accusatios of the Jews against him was, tort he w.a
a Sabbath-breaker. Neither be nor his disciplas kept the
Sabbath. Nor did the Ap loth s keep the fiatitotth. Oa the
entrary, they wrote against °bowfin days. The notion of
Christianity was, that every day wee a Sucday. It wee
more 'hen 300 years sit,, the institution of Christianity that
the Sunday was constituted a rest day by Coestantint,
Christimity hiving then so far advanced as to become the
religicm of the people. And it was right that it should be
made a day of rest, snit, that the old Paean twine were
disentieued, and there was no rest for the people. Siam
that time Sunday bad beta a festival, and was so now oe the
Coatineut, and was soil this toiletry up toe claire pirlott.
row, however, they would Gad many ministers of religion
oewerrantably di clads" shat if they took •on on the
Seaday, they were assenting a mortal sin. Had it sot
bean fir the tyranay of the Sabbatariana, in trying to de- I
prone the petit!" of the few privileges left to them, the Sun-
day League would have misted.
to. Pongee Cox, of H linburgh, seconded the motion.
He eafd he was the lest man to advocate myth's, which
would tend to Wel Rion, but he did not think that the oh-
juts aired at by this society had that tendency. Oe the
contrary, he believed that the attainment of them would
protect• the moral well-being of the people.
Mr. LIIS,ER moved at an anasedormt,', That this not elle',
abeekfully amepting the late decision of the House of Cors-
ages on rho Sabji et of opening Ore i of public amusement
on Sunday, pledgee Owl to promote the more frequent,
opening of those places at times on week days when tLOIO
who have to work ter their bread cur felt and themselves
of ttoo advantages those picots afford." (Hies.,) he raid
he vie ved the Sunday not in *slight of a Jewish ordineen,
but to point toe greater redemption than that of the Jews
from the bondage of Egypt. lie alluded to the redemption
which was of (lod Sy Cl rat Jams. He appealed to them
whether the beat mole of employing the Sunday wee not in
tair* to the people the truth of God's word. aligns, and
interrieptiam.)
The CaaJamart regulated that the 'pukes might be I
heard for tee steams.
Ha LINDLIt resumed, cad amid Beek iuterraptlsn pro-
emoted to advocate ragged schools and Sunday schools. At
!tenth the meeting becalm• so noisy that he retired, and
Kr. Tatar aiszonded the amendment. Ile also attempted
to spa 'k, bet the suet ng continued noisy, and his leap
were weak.
Mr. 0111DLLSTOlti thee eau, forward, and with a sten-
torian rules virleavOlared to make himself heard, but gamut
la leis. After uttering a few @talcum's about its Wisp
their deep to keep the Sabbath holy, and that their proper
SOWN With regard to the pubis Inset...eons was to have
them p longer ie the week day, he al o retired.
Mr. NViLaSSISOM, M.P. said they wen there for the pup
mes of that which they M.P.,
was the birthright of every
Esigliehmas, namely, the r gbt of piivate yr:gain+, and ha
meat say that the sooners on this quietus had hardly hod
pieties at their hands; they Ls l not had the opportunity
of patties before them the shuteer sf an argument. One
weetkineen send the day was to be kept hole, but they said
ry mai tees lied he the gospel any authority for keeping
it. Men thes that, they eleimei the right to private judg-
ment as to how they ware t) keep this day. there wee this
gnat difference between them and their opponent, en this
quer icsa, that :heir opponents said, e' You shall use this day
tea cuticle amen, aid we will p you from doing as
yes wish by closing certain plans which yea rhiok It right
and proper to visit." What they said to their opponecte
tens, We do not want to force yon to go to thew, plena, we
sly went to be free to go to them ourselves; you may gear
pot. We ask nothing but what we consider right ; and opus
to the rs:noniihility." Ile asked them to go hoot* end
mg their Bads', and sea if there was any low laid eown
Chit justified Mhos' veto instated upon their observe,' In ie
day in the:, particular • They would see that there
was nAbien in the Etb:o tie, tt retested their doing u they
twisted in Chet Hemet.
The a,e.t was then put and negatlw. Stl1:1
tieing held up for it. The original new•
letim was then agreed le. •
Mr. K !memo t'..a shortly ~lOrrwid the meet;rg ea the
• comity of aspolsieg the eeem,,:we with pecahiere range
to carry c• the sett own. There err: inallemen. he s, fa the association who had d to•tse,"o 4001 and dI at the disposal of the tozaraitte 1, but f. `nu feablellel
s
eesMr.ok ery.
1110011, the chairman of the eommitte for kellohm
no the beads in the pests on Soudan moved I,`:e next re-
soluticta—M That it's meeting .e of epinim Cat the mute

la the pat's. of the metropolis and in the ewe,. of um Mai-
den us flusdaye bee bees productive of vent leered peed."
He bore aimed testimony to the geed ening., et the wow&
reetabled is the perk. oboes the rac.nin, On pie lest due
day that they pl.yed the patekeer,n at 11,pesit'e.park said
won than 100,009 passed the but neither then nor on
say of the previous &metals 'cod them been say disorderly
eoeduet, nor had there beer, Den nouns caw
He. Paavirn seconded ,he lonics is au enersetle epode,
la which he treated the (invades as am of axial justice sad
*pious liberty.
'rite aotWa paired waardateusly.
A vote of thank, •InS then gives to Air I. Willman for
his goaded la the %hair, and the meeting eoyanted.