The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-06 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

1101752 OF LORDS.—Trway, Jinni 5.
The Lofts CL tscsuoa took kis /Obi 00 the woolusk s 6
IT o'clock.

Earl Brain promoted petitions from dimannias onh
prepationa in Notts and Bud's in favour of the abolition of
church rater.

NUMWROUS politica, to the same effect were preeented by
Lord Be!per, Lord Lynda', Lord Lyttettoa, Lewd *mew&
sad the of Claniedoe.

Lod TALWAT preseated a peaks ham the
associated medical preetitioners of Ireland._ praying that
greater facilities might be gives for the sardedis of sick
penal., Dot being retool into residuum
ENTIoN OP CROI LTY TO 111/INALES BILL
TM !denier of TOWNSEllNDiecreddie sesead reeding
of thie bill.

The lA)RD I 'HINCELLOR mid be wee not &peed to
oppose the second main at the hill, het, et the awe time,
it would re•pore careful oarialwatere ht order that the
numerous otfeers sought to be ash with by the aumeree•
"revenuesof the bill shook! be dolma wish deem= sad
certainty. He highly approved of the olsjeet of the MU, sad
would coexist to the wood roadies, bat reeommencled that
it should he refereed to a select cumasittes.
The bill was read a wooed time.
BELLING AND HAWKING GOODS ON SUNDAY

moved the third reading at this

The Earl of sit, GERMANS said the law bad hitherto forbid
bayieg and selling, or transacting any secular Waimea on
This bill would for the first time legalise buying
sad se lliag =Plumley' withal certain hours. 1( it were right
to bay and sell between 9 aad 10 o'clock on Sunday, it
could not be wrong between II and 12. The proper mune
would be to allow the law to remain an it stood, sad
not to enforce it too strictly, but to be_ guided by the re-
quirements of the commualty. He believed, looking at
the extent of the metropolis, sad Has peat variety of
classes of its ishabiteate, that Sunday was tolerably well
observed. Much pod hail been effected in Liverpool by
efforts apart fray the enforeemeet of the law ; and he be-
lieved that the same rod remit. might be attained here
by the WOO means. If tradmenen would boldly close their
atop as *milky it would go • long way to yemedy the
sad they would sod lose their custom on oar days is
consequence. Were this bill to pais, certain clause of
trademou would be compelled in silldefenc• to open their
!hop till ten o'clock on Sunday amok% The bill wee
taconsistent with the law, and wadi be ineffectual for the
purpose it was designed to serve. He mowed that the bill
should he read a thud thus that is, eta month&
Lord TEINHAX suppeeted the easeadmat. The pod-
timers in favour of tbe b were time who sappesai
they were losing at premat by eel wake their Ago ea
Sunday ; they bad as conedoess tatmeadves with
to the Sabbath, and wishedpod a yoke on their (=-
SWUM. TIM pawing of this bill would secomitate • mare
correive and severe aseesere ; sad the result would be to
aggravate the evil which it was 111111111111 to remedy. la the
time of Charles I. the first attack ea the liberties of the
people was made ander the guise of rafeeciag the observ-
ance of the (Sabbath ; sad this wee followed two years
itetriadta more *trumpet act. The only trade abrolutely
to be followed tie a Scads, was that of a botcher.
A reactioe net in, and in the 9th year of the same reign
the " Book of Sports' of James L wee fe•i■•01111.
and commanded to be rued la eburches. The inevitable no
salt of passim the bill before the bowie, followed salt mild
t5..14 more striegest arateurve, woad be that the people
kick spinet it, sad the Sabbath would not be as well
kept se sow. If the law of the Sabbath were a Aridly
metal law, they had so power to enact exceptions to its oh.
serums. If men chose to buy newspaper. or perimlicale
oe Sunday, let them do so as their responsibility to their
Maker. but let not the house give its sanction to such acts
up to • certain hear. While permitting the sale of news-
pipers. tie, hill did not authorise the sale of • single Bible
or Prayer book. .touther objection to the hill was its
limdedrange it was rosined to the metnipolitan district
—the sere wont place for giving these exemptinan
If any difference was to be made, the Limo
tiro °tight to have been given to the cienatuy
district.. aol withheld from the metropolis.
He would net enlarge on the injustice of enforcing this law
upon all oh., 11••••1 within what he might call
heel would
to • exemptim: all who outode it. He
to oeseler the articles of consumption which would be
affected by the hill. Its would tell as much upon
the red and fuel with which food was conked, ea
1111011 foul itself. Thus the poor would he dependent upon
the bakers sio,ps for their cooking. Many of the poor of
Lindon were in the habit of haying their bred at the
chandler'. shop ; hut this hill would prevent their getting
bread at the ,hope where they had credit. lio in order to
pus toteevo, the poor man would be forced to go to the
public.hou.e. This he thought was a great evil.
He would further observe that the minimum penalty di-
rected to be enforced by this measure win Is, This was a
severe fine for mane a poor person, who without certain
means of knowing the hour of the day might very inno-
cently he led into an infringement of the act. He thought
it would be found impossible in practice to enforce these
toe.. Rut the hill went further, and impreed the punishment
of impriomineut fur ex months for a first offence. For
these masons he hee,„—ed to move that the bill be read •
third time t' :‘t day three months.
Lord t'H ELMSIORD said his object had been to pre.
mat being assailed either by one side or the other. On the
one haul sic fi.ireil to be told that he had relaxed the rigid
oteservanee ..f the Lord's-day '• on the other, that he had
interfered with the rights and liberties of the people.
Now, there w.ll great difficulty in Meeting
_upon a rigid
oho:rouse of the diy, because legislation did sot pongee
the means of ehforeing strict obeaheace, That mad, in a
great TIMMS,. In• left to conscience. Still securities might
be ,i.ovidol for the general observance of the day in •
proper mans"r. The force of example, they knew, wiervery
Brent. He had nut, therefore thought it right to abandon
the subject altooether. On the other hand, it was said that
the poi- were unable to obtain their wages till late on
Saturday ; oral if no opportunity had been afforded"( making
purchases ..a Sunday, then he knew perfectly well
the ueble lord would have said, " this is most
ve." Between these opposing difficulties be had
emdrtvoured to steer hie way as carefully as possible.
Redid hope, therefore, that the kill would agent receive the
assent of their lordships, sal that it would as soon as pos-
sible be sent down to the ether bond of parliament.
Earl GRANVILLE did not think the complaints of the
noble lord, as to the opposition which his halloo' met with at
its present stage, were justifiable; for the measure was now
quite a different one from that to which their lordships had
given • second rooting. He (Lod Granville) hail a great
objet Lido to the employment of the police in enforcing the
provisions of the bill ; but that portion of it having been
etru.k out, he was informed that the measure had
no longer any chance of lemming operative at all.
He am no inconsistency in objecting w legialation
for enforcing the observance of the Lonls-daLitaa
sad
at the same time in objeetam to glee any degree of
tire maim° to practices on that day which they lull
deprecate. The noble lord admitted that an improved
moral feeling had been found sufficient in Liverpool to pit
down OuoLly trading ; but what was there peculiar i the
um .4 that city, which did not bear a particularly good re-
putation as rug:tried drinking! Why 'hoold nut the me-
tropolie be equally arninehle to moral influences! Indeed
he was informed that though there was now MON, Beadily
teatime in Lorehm than formerly, it had not increased is ea
!noel ratio with the population ; and therefore ft bed
in reality dimiuished. As the bill offended the
religious feelings of a portion of the community;
as it might iuthet hardship upon another if it ROM ever
carried mit; ..nod so he thought it very injudicious to at-
tempt ',Violation of this kiwi unless there was • miteembie
prospect of its proving snootadul, he should vote for the
ameudrnei t.

The Buimp of LICHFIELD laid it was very painted to
him to opl. r the thin! reading of the bill ; but he COMM
lever give ha ,inction to moseure which warn the very
first that hal ever proposed to legalise the sale of limy
articles Oil Sunder e,..-ept milk and fish. He believed
that it would he murti better to leave the mat-
ter to nien's consciences than to introduce mea-
sures of this nature. The noble earl sated bow it was
that mural ierluences had proved more elierialous a Liver-
pool than in Louie"? The answer might be Ned la the re-
port of tb. it loot-hips' committee last year an spirituel dee-
titution. re was no part of the kingdom In whisk
there ass e. much of that destitution en in the metro-
polo. and in Liverpool the people were heoight mach mere
within the larinenoe of the church's ordinances. Onlv let
sulti. not eurAii. of religious instruction be provided in Loa-
doe. and cher- was Do doubt that the evil now complained
of wou'd it rem.-lied.

I:.. I'A•IHEL could not support the thin!
fled of tb.• provision for the male of prriedicale were
e~itte.t. The male of sewspapcts w.a • work neither of
hereseit_y ear rharit
The LORD CHAN R said that it wee still Cow
ratgfor...the ri;ht rev. mist' to propose the omission of

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mistime the 4.1. .4 pryer olorys.
WoDEHOUSE-sespoied that the sale of paper
should gm I. alhare.i.

Lool El.W.YoliD agreed to the anble sod learned
lord'. propo“1, 16 it .16d sot erne as reason for the further
saertahneet. 1 n ca. it beereter bererealy to ',rite a letter
ea &tatty thcre could be be elleulty ia obtaining a *beet
of
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them...l••• Via IYepe. (Haar, hear
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LICHFIkI.() moved the insertion of
woe* restraining the seas of seinpapens nod other perio-
dicals as %Mare.

Lord I.IIEIANFORD the motion, and after •
short diecreiou it waseept3rd.
The ball wee then paired.