The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-11 00:00:00

BEFORE. MR. MANSFIELD.

ASSAULT ON THE POLICE.—A man named Fairclough,
a lorry driver, was Geed 203 and costs, for assaulting a
police officer (263) while in a state of drunkenness. In
default of payment, he was ordered to be committed for
one month.

WIFE BEATING.—A powerful looking fellow, who
gave his name as Thomas Patterson, was charged with
assaulting his wife, a tidy looking woman, who stated
that she had for the last 22 years been employed at one
house as an assistant tripe dresser. The complainant
said that on the previous night she went home after her
work was done, and as soon as she got into bed, he began
abusing anal beating her, so that she was compelled to
make her escape, and seek shelter in a neighbour's house.
The prisoner had previously been before the court f,r a
similar offence, but the wife had consented again to live
with him, upon his promising to keep from drink. This
promise he soon forgot, and commenced his old practices,
and she therefore claimed the protection of the court.
He was committed fur one month.

STEALING NAms.—James Boardman was committed
for six months (having pleaded guilty) for stealing cop.
per nails from a ship in the Clarence graving dock.

SUNDAY RECREATION

TO THE REV. DR. IJLAKENEY, CHRIST CHURCH,

OXTON

REVEREND Stn,—ln your discourse on S.inday evening
last you made a statement, with regard to the introduction
of the bands of mr_sie into the metrop ,titan parks on Sunday
afternoons, so utterly at variance with truth that I cannot
permit it to pass unrefuted. That statement was, that all
England rose up as one man to protest against the innova-
tion.

The following extract from the Archbishop of Canter-
bury's recent letter to Lord Pa'merston, will show the
amount of reliance to be placed upon your assertion :

" It is with much reluctance that I interfere in a matter
which has the sanction of her Majesty's government, and
in which a large class of perms is interested, whom we
should be unwilling to deprive of any harmless gratifica-
tion. But the letters and petitions which reach me daily,
and call for an expression of my opinion, either in parlia-
ment or elsewhere, make it impossible for me to conceal
from your lordship the feelings with which these perform-
ances are regarded, and the offence which they occasion to
a large and influential portion of her Majesty's subjects.
These consider the question as to their continuance, or
discontinuance, a vital question, as regards the national
religion."

You will thus perceive that, according to the evidence
of your own primate (by no means an impartial
witness) that so far from " all England having risen
to protest," it has been merely one large prtion of
society against another equally large, but, unfortunately,
not equally influential, for had it ben so the Pce•
mier would never have given instructions for discon-
tinuing the bands. Were the middling and working
classes for whom this innocent amusement was propounded,
to be polled on the question to-morrow, the result would be
an overwhelming majority in its favour, an opinion, which
a little enquiry on your part amongst those cl isses, would
tend to impress itself on you.

Into the remainder of a discourse which might easily bo
shewn to have been as full of erroneous argument as it was
of illogical conclusions, it is not my intension to enter fur-
ther than to express my regret to find that any minister in
this, the nineteenth century, can be found to ennunciate
ideas from the pulpit which would confound the Christian
Sunday with the Jewish Sabbath—a joyous festival with a
gloomy abnegation, or that would compel us ti believe that
anything under the old or Mosaic dispensation (whether

judicial, typic9l, or in,ira)) is in the sliglztest degree obliga-
tory ou_the believer in the new one. Either Christiauity

In conclusion, I wouN :,16k you to peruse th
able disceuis, ci Dr. Hook, the Vicar of Leeds, on to
Sunday Q ;estion, as well as an article in the Westminster
Review for April, entitled " The Sunday in England."—l
are, Reverend Sir, your obedient servant,
Liverpool, 10th June, 1856. QUAS/MODO.

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