The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-25 00:00:00

TEE SUNDAY TRADING BILL

The following is $ copy of the bill prepared by
Mr. Thomas Hughes, Lord Claud Hamilton, and Mr.
Luck, to amend the law relating to selling and hawking
goods on Sunday
"Whom. the practice ci Sunday trading prevails ex-
ter.sively in various parts of Lueland, and the law is in-
sufficient to prevent the same: lie it therefore enacted by
the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the
advice end consent of the lords spiritual and temporal,'
end commons in this present porliainent assembled, and
by the authority of the same, as folio's :
'l. No person shell, on Sunday, hawk. cry, sell,
offer, expose for side or deliver in the way of his trade.
or cause to be hawked, cried, sold, offered, exposed for
sale or so delivered. any goods, wares, merchandise, or
ether things whatsoever (except as hereinafter excepted) : I
and any person who shall coin nit any such °flume. said
than be convicted thereof before a police or tithe-Laing
istrate, or before any two justices of the peace, shall
forfeit anal pay any sum not exceeding 20s. nor less than
5s as chill be adjudged by rued. ina-'istrate er justices :
provided always, that no pel"on who has not before beeu
convicted of any offeues against this act shall be liable
to more than one penalty for any offence against this set
mininittied on este and the same day.
2. The revisions of ail, act shall not apply to the
selling, cffenng, or expiring for Bale or delivery of any
article or thing for medicinal purprees; nor to the welling.
off cing. or esposing for ink without public cry, nor to the
delivery of any meat, fish, poultry, game, or vegetables
before the hour of 9 o'clock in the morning. Nor to
the selling, offering. or exposing for sale or delivery of
any milk or cream before the tour of 10 &dock in the
morning or after the hour of 1 o'clock in the afternoon.
Nor to the selling, offering, or exposing for sale without
public cry of any wiry, fruit. or any herrne which
may lawfully be sold without • license before the hour of
10 o'clock in the murmur Led after the hour of 1 o'clock
in the afternoon. Nor to the selling, offering, or expos- I
ing for wile without public cry, nor to the delivery. of
any psrledical publication before the hour of 10 o'clock in
the mem*. Nor to the exercise of the ordinary buidnee
of the keeper of • cook-shop. eating-house, or coffee-
house, before the hour of 1) o'clock in the morning and
after the hour of 1 o'clock in the afternoon. Nor to the
exercise of the ordinary and la eel business of a taker,
s-ctusl:or, or keeper of any inn, tavern, hotel,
puLlic.l:ouse, home licensed for the sale of beer, or cf ex-
ciseuole
S. If any person, baring Leen once convicted of an
offence against this set. shill be again convicted by any
maristrut o or jlstiees of thr peace of any such offence,
curb p. son shall for every such subsequent offence for
lied illy any sum not r ...eding 40w nor I. u than 20s.
for es ore separate sot of selLng, offering, or exposing for
sale or deLvere on one and the same day, as shall be ad-
ju"dged by mei magietrate er Metier.
1. le al: cases In which It shall be sought to prove any
previous conviction against any person under this set •
eertifiate containing tie substance and effect only (omit-
ting the formal part) of the record of the conviction of
the previous offence, purporting to be signed by the
proper off: er having the custody of such record of con-
viction, or • certificate of ouch previous conviction pur-
porting to he signed by the person who shall have
acted as clerk to the justices or magistrate before whom
ouch previous conviction shall have taken place, chap,
upon proof of the identity of the person of the offender,
be sufficient rides= of the previous conviction. withoutl
roof of the signature or ufficial character of the person
appearing to have wiped the saws ; and if any person
whatsoever shall wilfully and knowingly utter a false
certificate of • conviction for • previous offence agairet
this act, or if any other person, other than nosh proper
officer or person acting as such clerk, shall sign such certi-
ficate as such proper officer or person acting as clerk,
every person so offending shall be guilty of • misdemea-
nor. and being convicted thereof, shall be liable to impri-
sonrnent, wither without hard labour. for any period not
exerodiug six months.
"O. An penalties or mime of money ordered and ad-
judged within the city of London or Marne* thereof to
be paid under this act, and not otherwise appropriated.
shall be payable to the chamberlain of the city of
in aid of the funds of the said city, end all penalties or;
alms of money oedema and adjudged within any county,
city, or borough to be paid under this act, and not other-
whse appropriated, shall be payable to the treasurer of seek
county. city, or borough, or other person duly authorised
to receive the same, in aid of the fund* of the said county.
city, or borough.
"O. MI proseraMme for offences punishable by this
Act shall be oominesold within seven days next after the
onninission of the offense, and not efterwsrds.
"7. This act shalt not apply to any city_ town. ow,
hamlet mostelning at the Ur or any subsequent omens e
sovolaikot et km than 10,000 meow.
" 8. This act stall artily toangland only.
" 9. This act shall conic trio operation on the 701 day
of October, 1080."

A Paris letter ISIS :—" A very tragic affair,
which Is likely to tad in a et tainal prosecution, Is jest
now exciting some sensation. One of the frail sisterlawsl,
whose dashing turnout eclipsed there of all the ether
' ladies of the lake'--they main that saute ham the open
way in which they parade ie the drive round the lards de
Boulogne—died the other day under very spieling elr-
carastanoes. The police were set in maw, sad it was
discovered that her death was roused by ee operatiott in-
tended to destroy her expected offering. A speculator at
the Bowes, who' proteetel ' the deceased, is old to be
nixed rep with this star, which affords one meta in-
stance of the state of Parisian morals M the present day.*
A latter from Rome says :—" Our Carnival has
hitherto been a my sorry affair, seemly a oarrisge to be
mos in the formsely py and noisy Corso, and the pedes-
trians taking Mlle part in the gaieties. Ramp of Law
Ikons we hare few foreigners, end apecielly few beak
—our countrymen being detained at Cannot and NW by
the Wounded riposte oiroulated there by Inaba's:et end
cash like intended parsons, relative to the insalubrity el
mom, whams pothape at so former Wind did less
new mist bons, and that mosisting Welly of slight pal.
meow streaks, the exact of tisadifas from ear low&
I siewilme dam to sold Morligbt siglibm."