The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-02 00:00:00

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letters in our local press, all breathing. more (
less cant, and all more or less illogical, " That tl
really sober, industrious, intelligent, and religiot
ofthe working classes disagree with the views ti
advocate."
,:Even were this true, which it is nc
it would be no answer to our claim. " The real
sober, industrious, intelligent, and religim
working-man" Will always be found among tho:
who, at least once a week, surrounded by the
families, enter a place of worship, and not amen
the 150,000 of our population, for whom we claii
some rational amusement en Sunday afternoon-
some rival to the gin-shop.
It is in favour of these, the great majority of our
fellow-citizens, we would legislate. We wish
to convert to sobriety, intelligence, morality, and
religion, those thousands, and tens of thousands,-
who are, now neither sober, intelligent, morak or.
religious. With those who now go tb church
or
chapel, any measure for throwing open gardens or
museums, will in no way interfere; the. ineellii,ient
working-man will then, as now, be free to- follow
his own inclination. •

We are toid, " if the labouring man will not go to►
church, let him stay at home quietly with his wife
and family." Go and see his home in the darkened:
cellar, lighted and ventilated by the aperture, at
once witidOw.and door; observe its.danip black
floor, its loathsome smell ; look at the ilia
fire, hardly warming. the food (what food, too lj tor
the half-dozen occupants of the filthy.bea ; notice
the broken table, the one three-legged chair; talk
to the wife—a miserable slattern, whose whole.
life is spent in nursing child after child from its
birth in that cellar, to its tomb in the parish grave
yard, and who wishes 'her turn would come too ;
find out how 7s a-week can keep a Working-man,
his wife, and five children; learn that the Sunday.
spent in drunkenness; made that home. what it: is,
and makes thousands more in Liverpool like it;
and, when you find you cannot remain in such art
atmosphere five minutes, refuse to encourage the
owner to pass his Sunday afternoon more
Profitably, and " expect him to spend it. at
home."

We are reminded "that the innovations we pro-
pose will render it impossible for many to go to
church." No douht some persons will be compelled
to attend at the various places of public recreation
to keep order amongst the vast crowds who will
flock to them on Sunday afternoons, but experirned
has taught us how uniformly well the working
classes behave on such occasions, and but few
officials will be required to point out the regula-
tions to be followed, and to protect the num-rims
orderly visitors from the unruly few who will be
foUnd in every large assemblage. Besides, this
objection applies each Sunday to every polieew;ot
who guards our docks, to every fireman wI3, pre--
s our' houses and shops from fire, to every
apothecary Whose shop is open, to every pilot \CLO
stool's Ool' ships through the entrance of our port.
We are told, " That once break through the 1,!w"
in defence of the Sabbath, and the Sunday will
become the seventh day of toil, and not the co!c
day sacred to the Lord." We answer, that, :the
public opinion of the country will never permit
this; that the employer himself would not. wish it,
knowing that a day of rest is necessary to. the
existence of the employed; that the Sunday - -
its healthy recreations, and its innocent enjoyi.
would be dearer to the working man than (
before, and he would be less inclined to (rive i
than he is now.

which have been brought

we have answered all the: object .ns
against the • 0-pc,nin ; 0
chs, gardens, museums, find halls r
-
•Nunday afternoon, to all who wish to make use of
'tern, to the poorer of our population especially..
The clergy have, according to their. own con.
. failed in impressing upon three quarters
of our adult population the duty of 'attending
Divine worship ou Sundays, let them .not deny
the right of the laity to step in and • try if
they cannot seduce this large proportion...Of their
fellow Christians from the gin palaces and beer
houses, and give them ono happy day out of the

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moderation, the best course to •be pursued
on this question in the interest of less
Wphoiilnetin weg out,ar e wde
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educated, and, therefore, less prosperous fellow=
townsmen, we will gladly accept the charge of
" rationalism " which is brought against.uS ;. and if
we succeed in ameliorating the position of the
working man, in making the- life of any one of
God's creatures happier and better than it is, our
" worldly wisdom" will not "have proved foolish-

ness."

TILE RUGELEY POISONING CASES.-- The Court of Queen's
Bench has granted the application for a certiorari made on
behalf of William Palmer. In face of the grounds disclosed
on the affidavits we hardly see how the application could
with justice have been refused, it being abundantly clear
that the man could have had no reasonable chance of a
fair or satisfactory trial in the town of Stafford. TN)
practical result of the success of the application. will. be that
the prisoner cinnot be tried during the- assizes. • The
of indictment, when found against him by •the grand jury
at Stafford, will be forthwith removed, by the
.oivation of
the.writ of certiorari, to the Court of Queen's Bench,
and the trial will take, place either there, or; aais perhaps
more probable, in the Central Criminal Court at the
May sessions.

DEMOLITION OF THE BUILDINGS IN HIGH-STEEET..--It 15
known that some time aue the Liverpool and London
Fire and Life Assurance Company :purchased the large
pile .of buildings near the Town-hall, bounded-by. MO-
street, Exchange-street East, and Dale-street, which are to
be pulled down, and a magnificent erection Aubsfituted,
in which, besides other offices, will be comprised a build-
ing for carrying on the large and increasing business of
the company. The sale of the old materials took place
this week, and already the work of demolition is in pro-
gress. The whole pile was divided into four lots,'and sold
by auction by Messrs, \Vinstanley in the old pollae-oftice.
The several lots were purchased by Mr. Williams, builde'r,
Crown-street, for about £520, the lots, thus averaging
£l3O a-piece—a very decided bargain, as the buildings
were in good condition. Mr. Williams is tied (I.)wn to
have the buildings demolished and the materials off the ground before the 20th of March next. The
numerous tenants; including share brokers, ship b •077ei,s,
brokers, lawyers, ship owners, rail vay•
carriers, &c., have Pll "cleared out," with the -ex-
ception
of two, Mr. Lea, the news vender, aila
Mr. Richard Bird, chemist and drurtgist, whose tot-ins
of notice do not expire until the 30th of June nest'
and with whom, it appears, the ; company have P'
yet been able to come to a satisfactory settlement.
land is said to have cost the purchasers altogether at
£7O 000, on an average of over £5O per square yard.
some portion of it, (the corner of Dale street, and
change-street East, £7O per square yard was paid. 'l
new building is from the design of Mr. Cockerel', of Lo'''
don, the artist entrusted with the completion of St.;
George's Ball, after the death of Mr. Elmes, the original designer of the " lion" of Liverpool. It is to be eomplet,°,,
as speedily as possible, and will consist of nothing e's.'
but offices, all the present shops behr abolished in 1-I'°
new plan. No doubt the rental to be derived from •these
offices will return good interest on the large outlay 0)113-
prised in their erection, and the purchase of the sit;';
With regard to the two tenants who will not move, it !i". expected that something similar will take place to vide! I
was witnessed a few years ago in the case of the
ROY.'S
Insurance Company's Buildings, where a contumattuti
barber, who occupied a little shop at the corner of No' .i„ John-street and Dale-street, refused to evacuate until CI u
roof was literally taken off above his head, and an ar:.
lanche of bricks, mortar, and old flooring drove him °of the premises.

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