The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-23 00:00:00

contribution in any measure

sustain the movement,

he did

poor men, for he knew already that their hearts were tho-
roughly in the cause, and that they would stani with them
to the last. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) He had been
delighted last night to receive from a number of men work-
ing in a large manufactory an expression of high encou-
ragement, and of confident hope in the success of the
movement, for those black-faced mechanics knew

they lost all,

As he feared God and hononred th

long may she

to reign over them—

S ahhath

thanked them f
always connected love of the Queen, with love of God,

that chee

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see the prosperity". of all those institu
mercifil, social, aril religions, ho mos

resolution which he hadr

~ pcOatical, corn-

cordially moved thi

(Loud cheers.)

The 13.. v. Joseph Bardsley, in the absence of the Rev. ltv.
Pollock, seconded the rco.ution. After stating that he
assumed what he conceived luid been clearly and unanswer-
ably established by the preceding speakers, namely, the
divine institution of the Sabbath, be proceeded to say that
there was one part of the subject embraced in the resolution
villch had not as yet been brought before them, and that
vas in referenm to the law which regulated the sale of
ntoxicating drinks on the Sabbath day. He conceived that
important question. When they remembered
a England and Wales 103,000 public-
n they remembered that, on

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an average, from three to four per
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if they would vindiente the honour of God andl

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of intoxicating liquors might be very clearly proved. In
district, one of the seventeen police districts of
censns•Seuday there were in attendance at the publ
places of worship in the evening, 17,805 ; and at the

,ondon, or

same time, or rather on the same evening, between
tha hours of 9 and 10 o'&cok in the same district,
there were nssembled in the public-houses and bee

more than 20,000 persons. Last year arrangements were
made in Manchester to ascertain, as far as possible, how
many visits were made on the Lore's day to the drinkine-
houses of that city, and it appe.:red from the statement
then made out (and if there were any inaccuracies they
were in favour of the publicans, for while many visits
must have been made unseen, those only that were seen
were reported)—that taking 1437 public-houses and beer-
shops, and taking an average of nine Sundays, there were
on any one of those Sundays visits from men to the num-
ber of 120,000, from women to the number of 71,000, and
visits from children to the number of 23,000—making
altogether from men, women, and children, visits to the
amount of 214,000. And he feared that if they were in
possession of the information it would be found that
Liverpool, in this respect, occupied a bad and proud pre-
eminence, for while in Manchester they had but 1437
public-house and beer-shops, in Liverpool they had 2348.
He had been very much struck the other day by the state-
ment of one of the inspectors of police, that if a person
stool in Naylor-street he could at. any time count. from the
place where he:stood, thirty-three public-houses and beer-
shops. (Cries of "Oh I oh !") Need he then say that it
could not surprise any one when they remembered
the number of such houses in the cointry, that the Rev.
Mr. Clay, of Preston, should say in his last report,
" during the last two years I have heard 1126 male
prisoners attribute their offences, fraud, larcenies, burg-
laries, rapes. stabbing, and homicides to drink, and if the
habits and history of every prisoner were carefully looked
into, it would be placed beyond doubt, that nine-tenths of
the English crime, which the law is compelled to deal
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remembered
open for what he was certain he might call, with some
fi!er exceptionse" the worshippers of 13acohus,” not fewer
than 103,000 houses, had they not in the form of that
fact, a dreadful picture of the desecration of God's holy
deer? (Hear, hear.) The question then was, how were
they prepared to deal with it? What could they do in
the matter ? In the first place he would remark, that to
him it seemed an extraordinary anomaly, marvellously
strange, that whilst by the law, the butcher could nut
sell his beef, or the baker his bread, or the bookseller the
bible, yet that whilst all these were forbidden, by the
same English law, the publican and the;; beer-
house keeper might sell their beer and
branly (Hear, hear.) Was not that a strange
thing? (Hear, hear.) If it could be affirmed of bread,
beef, and of what the grocer sold, that they led to nine-
tenths of_ the crime of the country—if that could be
affirmed of them, surely they would have arguments ten
thousand times stronger than at present, for preventing, by
law, those various places from being opened on the Sab-
bath. That, however, could not be said of them ; and
why then should an exception be made in favour of those
houses which led to so much crime, so much vice, and so
much immorality? (Hear, hear.) He repeated why
should-an exception be made in favour, by law, of allowing
those persons to seek intoxicating liquors on the Sunday,
which, though not intended by them, yet, nevertheless, as
an iaevitable and invariable consequence, led to so much
crime, so much poverty, and so much irreligion ? (Ap-
plause.) Perhaps it might be said that they could not deal
with it by law. Well, they had dealt with it already by
law. The principle had been conceded, and all they asked
for now in this country, was an extension of the same
thing. "Would their opponents—enemies he would not call
them—but would their opponents, abide by the results in
tShcaottliatnf,
a? s
tI
ht
which led them to repeal Wilson Patten's act. Would
they now abide on the question of convenience
poufbltiheesluaffsteraecdt,
in
! or incon-
venience to the public—of advantage or disadvantage to
morality and social order ? Would they allow the question
to be treated upon that issue? He did not say it ought to
be so tested—they took the higher ground, but they
i
were prepared as an argument to adopt it. They
went to Scotland, and what did they find? He would ask
them to read the statements of the magistrates of the
chaplains, of the ministers of the gospel, of Scripture-
readera,:andof city missionaries, he would as); the to

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For seven years, the average number in the prison had
been 698, but on the day before the Lord Pcovost,mada
the statement, there were only 408 in it. Mbar hear.)
But let him now say a few words on the subject, so far
as it-was connected with England: They were told that
there was no advantage connected with the act, and thpt
there was nothing in it in favour of morality and so
order.. That. was . the statement, for they were tole
one magistrate t -

that the

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