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would be stopped at an earlier hour; so that, in fact, such
a step 'would in reality be to inflict a penalty on the
woeimen. (Rear.) By our Sabbath, from 12 o'clock
en Saturday night till 12 o'clock on Sunday night, we
restricted a great many useful things. That was not
the original Sabbath) which commenced at -sunset of
one day, and ended at sunset of the next day, and there-
fore die considered we did much mischief by
our modern reading of the Sabbath. This bill
fixed upon trading exclusively, leaving out amusements
and work entirely, and that was a point which the Sab-
batarian legislators shrunk from touching. To interfere
'vith work would affect our great clubs and coteries ' • it
would interfere with the cook., and footmen, and but-
lers, and carriages of the aristocracy ; and he thought
that to stop short of the legislation that would affect
those was a pitiful and sordid hypocrisy. (Hear.)
Mr. KER SEYMER wished the house would go
into committee on this bill. He was not a Sabbatarian,
but be was not prepared to give up the Lord's-day as a
day of rest. Although Sunday was a day of rest it
-hould be also the Lord's-day. The hon. gentleman (Mr.
Massey) said there was little trading on Sundays in Mary-
lebone ; he (Mr. Seymer) wished the hon. member had
accompanied him last Sunday to Houndsditch. He went
purposely to see that district, and the amount of Sunday
trading there was very extensive ; and not only trading,
but a public meeting was placarded to petition against
this bill. He did not see many people sign the petition,
for he believed it would be highly inconvenient for
most of the people he saw there to state their names and
residences. (Laughter.) He thought that all that had
taken place on the discussion of this bill showed in the
strongest way the necessity for the adoption of the pre-
sent bill.
Sir J. SHELLEY supported the bill, because be be-
ieved that its provisions were likely to produce the best
esults, and the health of the working classes would be
insured.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE deprecated the course that had
been pursued with respect to this bill, and he objected
to it on the ground that it ought to be introduced by
the Government. He looked at the measure as a
cowardly attempt on the part of the promoters of the
oill to effect that of which they would be ashamed if
personally appealed to.
Mr. WILKINSON concurred with the hon. member
for Finsbury that this measure ought to be taken up by
the Government,
sight of in the bill.
and hoped that that would not be lost
Sir G. GREY said that the bill, in fact, ought to be
adopted by the house ; he would, therefore, support the
Hill and oppose the amendment.
Mr. MAGUIRE supported the amendment, pre-
ferring, as he did, the testimony of Sir R. Mayne to that
of the policeman, whom the hon. gentleman opposite en-
eou itered in the course of his tour arid whose experience
he had so graphically described. He was as anxious as
icy member of the house that the Lotei's-day should
er kept holy—(hear, he4o—and no persons were more so
than the Roman Catholic members of the house that
such should be the case, but there was an overpowering
necessity on the part of the poorer classes of society,
and it was consequently unfair that coercion should be
orought to bear upon, them. Re agreed with Sir R.
Mayne in thinking that the question was one which
must be left to the decision of public
Jpinion, which would adjust it much better than by
legislation. On that account he should support the
amendment.
Sir J. WALMSLEY said he objected to the bill on
principle. He thought that the upper classes of society
ought to set those below them a better example in keep-
ing the Sabbath.
Lord R. GROSVENOR, in reply to the right hon.
member for Leicester, said that he had not undertaken
the bill at the desire of the upper classes all, but that
he had taken it up at the solicitation of the inhabitants
of the metropolis generally, consisting chiefly of
!.he lower classes, upon the prayer of a nu-
merously signed petition. With regard to the upper
classes setting a better example, he had obtained some
,tatistics with regard to the number 'of carriages
and horses passing through Hyde-park on Saturday
and Sunday last. On the former day he found
there were 1,936 one-horse carriages, 2,199 two and
core horse carriages, and 1,740 saddle horses. On the
following day there were 1,698 one-horse carriages, but
hose aboveone had dwindled to 854, and thesaddle-horse
to 413, whilst on the Sunday there were 1,228 ()Irani-
cruses and 2,047 cabs passing under the Wellington-arch
at Hyde-park. He therefore thought there was nothing
to complain of in the example set by the class to which
he had the honour to belong.
After a few words from J. HEYWORTH and Mr. BAR-
ROW,
The house divided in the question that the Speaker
cow leave the chair, rhea the numbers were—
Ayes
Noes..

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date 1,425 calves, and he pig-market 900 pigs. Lairage
is, provided for 3,009 bullocks and 8,160 sheep. There are
four depots for hay, and slaughter-house accommodation
to a considerable extent. There are five public-houses—
the Black Bull, the Lion, the Lamb, the White Horse,
and the Butchers' Arms. There are also nearly completed
two large hotels, with shops underneath the principal
rooms. Between these Mr. B. Edgington, the eminent tent
builder and rick-cloth manufacturer, erected a spacious
marquee, capable of accommodating 1,709 persons.
This tent, which was 16) feet long by 80 feet wide, was
most tastefully fitted up both externally and internally, the
flags of England, France, and Turkey being most artisti-
cally displayed. At the west end of the tent a dais was
erected, on which was a very elegant chair of state, where
his Royal Highness Prince Albert (who at all times evinces
so much interest in the promotion of agriculture) received
the Corporation address.
The importance of the event was commemorated in that
liberal and magnificent style for which the Corporation of
London are so justly celebrated. The Corporation very wisely
deciding that the ceremony should be conducted in the
presence of those for whose immediate benefit the markets
have been erected, sent invitations to upwards of a thou•
sand persons connected with the breeding and feeding of
cattle, butchers, dealers, and others.
Precisely at 12 o'clock the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor,
Sir F. Moon (who looked remarkably well after his recent
visit to Paris), accompanied by the City Remembrancer,
the Sheriffs, the Recorder, Aldermen, Common Council-
men, and other officers connected with the Corporation,
arrived on the ground and was enthusiastically received,
and proceeded to examine the arrangements of the day, of
which he expressed himself highly satisfied.
With that punctuality for which the It )yal family are
so noted, his Royal Highness, accompanied with his suite,
arrived at the north-west entrance gate of the Market,
at one o'clock, where he was met by the Right Hon.
the Lord Mayor, H. L. Taylor, Esq., the Chairman of the
Committee, the various members of the Committee, and
other gentlemen, and was received most enthusiastically
by the numerous concourse assembled, the band playing
the National Anthem.
The Lord Mayor then entered his Royal Highness's car-
riage, and accompanied him round the extensive grounds,
the slaughter-houses, &c., which were examined by his
Royal Highness, wso expressed his admiration at the
admirable manner in which the whole had been
arranged and carried out.
The survey of the vast area and inspection of the various
buildings occupied his Royal Highness nearly an hour, it
being two o'clock before he returned to the pavilion.
On entering the pavilion, his Royal Highness was again
enthusiastically cheered, and was conducted to the dais,
whore the town-clerk read, in the presence of the Lord
Mayor and the civic functionaries, the following address
to his Royal Highness :
TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT, &C.
" May it please your Royal Highness,--We, her Ma-
jesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lord Mayor, Alder-
men, and Commissioners of the City of London, in Common
Council assembled, desire, by the warmest expression of
our gratitude, to testify to your Royal Highness the value
which we attribute to your gracious presence on this occa-
sion.
" The proceedings of this day are of deep interest and
importance to the great community of the metropolis and
to the country at large.
" These costly and extensive works have been under-
taken by the Corporation of the City of London, in defe-
rence to the suggestions of the national Legislature, and
under a strong sense of the responsibility accompanying
the powers and the means confided to them by their fellow-
citizens.
" If the transfer of the City Metropolitan Market to the
new and spacious locality shall be successful, it will not
only have removed all ground of complaint arising from,
, the character of its ancient site, but will also have confer-
red essential benefit on the population of this vast capital,
as well as on those important branches of our national in-
dustry which are concerned in supplying with food the
increasing masses of its inhabitants, and the countless
numbers who frequent it.
" In the happiness and prosperity of all classes of her
Majesty's subjects, your Royal Highness has always evinced
the warmest and most active interest, and we know no-
thing more likely to secure success to this great undertak-
ing than the sanction and encouragement afforded in its
inauguration by the illustrious Consort of the Queen.
" We, therefore, humbly rejoice in the opportunity thus
given us of welcoming your Royal Highness on this spot,
of expressing our heartfelt gratitude for your Royal High-
ness's attendance, and of manifesting anew our affectionate
and respectful attachment to the person and family of the
beloved Sovereign of these realms."
His ROYAL HIGHNESS replied in the following terms :
" My Lord Mayor and gentlemen, accept the expression
of my hearty thanks for your kind welcome and for the
gratifying assurance of your loyal and affectionate attach-
ment to the Queen and her family.
" I have been much pleased by the opportunity which
your kind invitation has afforded me of seeing and ad-
miring this great work which you this day °pea to the
public—a work which not only deserves admiration in
itself on account of the exoellence of the arrangements and the
magnificence of the design, but which will t trustbe found
eminently conducive to the comfort and health of the city
of London.
" That its success will be commensurate with the
spirit in which it has been undertaken and carried out, I
cannot doubt. A certain dislocation of habits and interests
must inevitably attend the removal of the great city mar-
ket on the site it has occupied for so many centuries,
and thin may possibly retard for the moment
the fullest development of the undertaking.
But any opposition arising from such causes will
soon cease, and the farmers will doubtless soon learn to
appreciate the boon thus conferred upon them by the
landed corporation in the increased facility which will be
afforded to them for the transaction of their business, and
the comparative security with which they will be enabled
to bring up and display their valuable stock in this Great
New Cattle Market.'
His Royal Highness and suite then partook of an ele-
gant cold collation (supplied by Messrs. Staples, of the
Albion, in their usual excellent style).
The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor presided, and was sup-
ported on his right by Prince Albert, and among the dis-
tinguished company present were—Sir George Grey,
Home Secretary, Sir Corne wall Lewis, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Marquis of Abercorn, Marquis of Breadal-
bane, Earl Spencer, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Belgian,
Bavarian, Sicilian, American, and Prussian Ministers,
'Viscount Monck, Viscount Duncannon, Rear-Admiral
Berkeley, Duke of Newcastle, Marquis of Salisbury, Mar-
quis of Westminster, Earl of Macclesfield, Earl of Yar-
borough, Lord Redesdale, Lord Berners, Lord Southamp-
ton, Lord Feversham, Lord Portman, Lord Wenlock, &c.
The LORD MAYOR, in appropriate language, proposed
the "health of the Queen,"—(cheers) —followed by that of
his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and the other members
of the Royal family. (Applause.)
His ROYAL HIGHNESS, in rising to acknowledge the
toast, was again most enthusiastically received. He said--
My Lord Mayor and gentlemen,—For the very kind and
flattering manner in which you have received this toast I
most sincerely thank you. I assure you it has given me
great pleasure at being able to accept the kind invitation
of the Lord Mayor, and to be present at the opening of this
splendid and useful work (cheers), and I beg to assure you
that the oftener the Lord Mayor will invite me to similar
ceremonies the better I shall be pleased. (Renewed
cheers.) Such works can only be undertaken by public
bodies and carried out with success by public spirit
—(loud oheers)—and I hail the present instance as an
earnest of your (the Corporation's) determination to ac-
cept the duties which your position has imposed on you,
and as success in all things depends on the manner in
which it is undertaken and carried out, I beg to propose
" the health of the Lord Mayor and Corporation of
London." (Cheers.)
His Royal Highness and the other distinguished visitors
then retired, and the proceedings terminated.
The weather, which at the commencement of the day
was rather unpropitious, as the morning advanced cleared
off, and the sun, which shone out at intervals, continued
to do so till the termination of the proceedings.
During the morning the bands of the boys of the Cale-
donian Asylum, the boys from Chelsea Hospital, and the
Foundling Society were in attendance, and played various
Airs and pieces of music in a very masterly manner.
The proceedings terminated aboat five minutes to three
o'clock.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

HAMPTON RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

STAND PLATE.

Cranbourne
Bandead ...
Mary Ann .

Seven ran.
CLAREMONT STAKES.

Sugarcane.
Tharnes Ditton
Bul Bul

'Dace ran.
HURST PLATE.

Spinaway

Usurer
Miss Hatch..... _

____
Six ran.
SURREY AND MIDDLESEX STAKES.
Dead heat with Rodo Meli and Cock Pheasant.
DECIDING HEAT.

Cock Pheasant
Rodo•Meli
Wiekfield

Six ran.
NEWTON HANDICAP.
sto 2 agst Louvat (taken.)

NEWTON RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.),
OLBORNE PARK STAKES.

Tilly
Fisherman

Seven ran.
GOLD CUP.

Lurley
Saucebox

Five ran.
TRIAL HANDICAP.

Virtuous
Billy Richardson
Eight ran.
SELLING PLATE.

Cockspur
Young Hack
MA KERFIELD HANDICAP.

Comfort

syren

ADDITIONAL SCRATCHINGS FOR THE
LIVERPOOL CUP.
Master Tom, Dr. O'Toole, Exile of Erin, St. Michael,
Gamekeeper, Marc Antony, Rylstone, Diana, Penitent,
Lady Palmerston, Master Johnny, Alston, General Pic-
ton, and Atharstone.

TRAINERS' STAKES.
Patience, Victory, Phoenix, and Atherstone have paid
forfeit.

MPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
The Severn Valley Railway Bill, and the Somerset
Central Railway Bill were read a third time and passed
PETITIONS.

Petitions were presented (4) by Sir J. Walmsley from
the metropolis generally, and from Woolwich, against
the Sunday Beer Bill ; also a petition from Leicester,
praying for amendment of the Poor-law Bill, so as to
give local control ; by Lord Stanley, from Colchester,
praying that steps may be taken for the restoration of
peace ; by Mr. Palmer, from Berkshire, against the
Sunday Trading Bill, and one against the endowment
of Maynooth ; by Mr. Pellatt, 12 petitions from Dis-
senting congregations in favour of the Marriages Bill.
SUNDAY TRADING (METROPOLIS) BILL.
On the order of the day for the house_going into com-
mittee on this bill,
Mr. T. DIINCOMBE presented a large number of
petitions from various parts of the metropolis against
the bill, complaining that the bill is a gross attack on the
liberty of the working classes.
Mr. WILKINSON also presented a number of peti-
tions from Lambeth with the same prayer, and one in
favour of it.
Lord R. GROSVENOR then presented several peti-
tions from the Tower Hamlets, Finsbury, and West-
minster, in favour of the bill.
Lord R !GROSVENOR then appealed to the hon.
member for Newport (Mr. Massey) to postpone his
amendment (that the house go into committee on the
bill that day three months), as he should have proposed
that amendment on the second reading.
Mr. MASSEY regretted that he bad omitted to pro-
pose his amendment at the second reading of the bill,
for he believed it to be a bill unjust, iniquitous, and mis-
chievous in principle, and one which he felt bound to
oppose in every stage of its progress. He contended
that the bill, besides being bad in principle, was
partial in application, for it would affect only the
metropolis, leaving entirely untouched the great
hives of manufacturing industry in the large towns,
where the habits and manners of the people were pretty
similar to those of the working classes of the metropolis.
(Hear.) Besides, he contended there was not any trading
on Sunday in the metropolis calling for such a measure.
A man might walk through the heart of London—from
the Bank of England along Cheapside, Fleet-street, the
Strand, and go on to Hyde Park Corner without seeing
any shops open or any trading. (Hear.) The same
remark would apply to the other great line of thorough-
fare—Oxford-street. (Hear.) He had himself gone through
many of the more humble streets on a Sunday to ob-
serve what sort of trading was going on there, and it was
true he found some shops open. But what were they?
They were small milk shops, bakers, lollipop shops, and
such as contributed to the necessities or comforts of the
working classes—(hear)—and to call that a desecration
of the Sabbath was the grossest exaggeration. (Hear,
hear.) He thought such legislation as this bill belonged
to an age gone by ; he thought those matters ought to
be left entirely to the judgment of individuals them-
selves. (Hear.) If the bill were passed, the observ-
ance of the Sabbath wouli not be advanced an incb, nor,
indeed, did the promoters of the bill themselves pat it
on that footing. There were thousands of poor coster-
mongers, and others of that class, who rose on the Sun-
day morning without perhaps a meal in their
wretched dwellings, and were they to starve ?
It was said, too, that why should not
the working classes purchase their provisions on the,
Saturday ; but it was well known that thousands of
honest working men, who did not frequent public.houses,
who occupied but one or two rooms, and were they to
be compelled to keep their food for four-and-twenty hours
in a close, and often unhealthy atm-fsphere ! If they
were, he considered teat would not be the
way to promote either the self-respect or the
health or habits of those industrious classes. (Hear.)
Hs contended that, even in those localities where Sunday
traffic most prevailed, the traffic was over at a compara-
tively early hour—say by 11 o'clock in the morning.
The hon. member for Westminster (Sir J. Shelley)
expressed dissent, but be (Mr. Massey) knew that in
those districts the trading was so sensibly dimi-
nished by one o'clock that there was no re-
munerative reason to induce the tradesmen to keep
their shops open after that hour. (Hear.) Was any gen-
tleman in the house prepared to bring in a bill to fix the
time on which a master should pay his servants ? He
believed the day for such legislation as that had long since
passed away; yet it was well known the workmen did not
receive their wages till late on Saturday nights, and such
a bill as this would probably compel the labouring
classes to resort to a " tick" system or a " truck" sys-
tem, which would be most injurious. The hon. member
then referred to the evidence given by Sir Richard
Mayne before the Lords' Committee on Sunday trading,
who stated that though the trading was on the increase,
the observance of the Sabbath was at the same time
more and more kept up, and he also stated that the
enforcement of the prevention of Sunday trading was a
matter of the greatest difficulty. Such legislation as
this was calculated to drive the working classes to the
low gin shops, on the windows of one of which he lately
saw an invitation to the people to come in and "get
drunk for a penny ; dead drunk for twopence; and clean
straw to get sober upon for nothing." He would not
trespass further on the house, but would conclude by
saying the bill was unjust in principle and partial in cha-
racter—that it was uncalled for, and that it would be
much better to leave such subjects to the self-respect of
the workirg classes, which, he thanked God, was daily
increasing, as was also their knowledge and intelligence,
and therefore he thought it much better to desist from
any legislation on this subject. He therefore moved an
amendment that the house should go into committee on
the bill on that day three months.

Majority
The Speaker accordiigly left the chair, and the house
resolved itself into a committee upon the bill.
Mr. W. J. FOX proposed to add to the bill a proviso
that all persons of the Jewish persuasion should be exempt
from all the restrictionsimposed by the bill. He affirmed
that the bill if enforced upon them would be a penalty
upon them not only for their race, but also for their re-
ligion ; and he trusted the house would excuse his
4peaking in their behalf, when it was borne in mind that
they could not speak for themselves. (Hear, hear.)
After a few words fron Mr. LLOYD DAVIS,
The proviso was negatived without a division.
Clauses 1 to 3 were then agreed to after a short dis-
cussion upon each.
On clause 4,
Mr. CHAMBERS reeved that the words "in cases
of emergency or charity be inserted, urging that there
were cases in which it might be necessary to take excep-
tion to the provisions of the act.
Mr. DUNCOMBE described the act as a bungling
piece of legislation altogether, and was by no means the
proper course to take to subvert the act of Charles IL
The clause was afterwards agreed to, amended as pro-
posed.
Upin clause 4 being proposeA, a short discussion took
place. The object of the clause was, that no trading
should take place before nine in the morning of Sunday,
or after one of the same day.
Several divisions took place upon amendments that
were proposed to this clause, all of which ended in the
defeat of the amendments and the adoption of the ori-
ginal clause.

In clause 5, which provided that there should be no
hawking or crying of newspapers or any sale of them
after 10,o'clock on the Sabbath some discussion took
place.

Mr. R. SPOONER thought that no newspaper should
be allowed to be sold after a, certain hour on Sunday,
and moved as an amendment that the words nine be in-
serted in the clause instead of ten.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE considered that all metric-
Cm should be taken off the sale of newspapers on
Sunday. Their sale was in his opinion essential for
the benefit of society as it at present existed.
Upon a division taking place on Mr. Spooner's
amendment, the original motion was carried by a majo-
rityof 116.

Mr. 0. DITNCOMBE then moved, as a further
amendment, that instead of ten o'clock in the morning
the provision§ of the clause should be ten o'clock in the
evening, thereby giving liberty to all parties to sell
newspapers the whole of Sunday.
The committee divided on the amendment, which was
lost by a majority of 93.
The ChaimAn then reported progress, and the house
adjourned.

INAUGURATION OP THE METROPO-
LITAN CATTLE MARKET (THIS DAY).

VISIT OF PRINCE ALBERT.

Sir G. GREY, her Majesty's Secretary of State for the
Home Department, having issued his notice in accordance
with the terms of the Metropolitan Cattle Market bill,
passed in 1851, for the opening of this market and
slaughter-houses cn Friday next, the 15th, to-day was ap-
pointed for the inaugural ceremony.
Smithfield, as a market for the sale of cattle and horses,
has ceased to exist—has become one of the byegones of
the age, but the historical associations connected with
the spot are so great, that whilst it has been shorn
of this portion of its notoriety, the stirring events
of past ages connected with it are too indelibly
marked on the memory ever to be forgotten.
Although Smithfield has been used as a market from time
immemorial, the first traces of a charter connected with it
are only to be found in the year 1327, is the first year of
the reign of Edward 111., and the extent of the market,
so far as it can be ascertained, was 4 acres, 2 roods, and 35
perches. As the population of this great city increased,
and the requirements of more extensive market accommo-
dation were needed, the Corporation of London made ad-
ditions, at their own expense, by the purchase of property
adjoining, until it became that vast area we now have it,
extending over G acres and 15 perches, and even noir too
small for the growing wants of the metropolis.
The movement originated for the removal of a cattle
market from the centre of so large a place as
modern London is a matter of history, and so notorious as
not to require recapitulation on the present occasion. The
Legislature in August.lBsl, passed the act for the erection
of these markets, on which a committee was appointed by
the Corporation of the city of London, H. L. Taylor,
Esq., being appointed chairman, with powers to select a
site most suitable for the purposes of a market on an ex-
tensive scale. After much time and atte; tion, the com•
mittee selected Copenhagen-fields, in the neighbOurhood of
Islington, and situate between that place and Camden-
town, as the best that could be found, which they recom-
mended to Mr. Walpole, the then Secretary of State, for
his approval, and whose consent was obtained July 29, 1852.
The markets, which extend over au area of 75 acres of
ground were, on the assent of the Secretary of State being
so obtained, immediately commenced under the superin-
tendence of the city architect,J. B. Bunning, Esq., F.
a gentleman of known reputation, and whose abilities
eminently fitted him for the efficient discharge of such
onerous duties as the works in question naturally imposed,
and the whole of the works have been constructed since
the above period. Thesite of the new market proper is an
equal-sided rectangle, having a fall from the west corner to
the south , east,and north corners, and includes an area of about
15 acres, of which one acre is devoted to the pig market, and
an equal area to the calf market. In the centre of the
market aro erected shops and banking-houses, over which
is a lofty clock tower, not yet completed, but which, when
finished, will have a market bell. Accommodation is pro-
vided fur 34,')80 sheep in 1,749 pens, with a reserve for
considerable extension; and 13,23! feet of rail, for the
tying of 6,616 bullocks, The calf market will accornmo•

Lord STANLEY said he felt bound to give his sup-
port to the bill. The honourable member who had just
sat down drew a very pathetic picture of a poor
man being obliged to keep his food for 24 hours
in his room ; but had the honourable gentleman
read the bill? Why the third clause provided that
any article of food, meat, poultry, &c., may he sold on
Sundays up to the hour of nine o'clock. (Hear.) Aa
to the objdction of the hon. member that this bill
would affect only the metropolis, there was nothing
unusual in that; it was quite customary to legis-
late for the metropolis; on a separate scale from the
country, and, in fact, there was at this moment
a bill before the house for the local manage-
ment of the metropolis, which would not at all affect the
country. (Hear.) He, therefore, considered the hon.
member had not made out any case against the bill.
Mr. W. J. FOX said he knew the metropolis now for
a period of nearly fifty years, anci he believed that
the inhabitants of the working order had increased
in knowledge, self-respect, and civi'ising influences
in that time to a most extraordinary extent, and he be-
lieved such legislation as this bill proposed was utterly
uncalled for. As to the absence of necessity for making
purchases on Sunday, why, if workmen received their
wages at an earlier hour on Saturday than now their work

one-sided limitation of her naval forces in the Black Sea.
But while declaring such an engagement to be an infringe-
ment on the rights of Sovereignty of the Emperor, th
Plenipotentiaries of Russia hese not beforehand declined
to examine every proposition relating to the principle of
limitation, and they concurred that a stipulation of this
nature would not be an infringement upon honour, from
the moment that it became the result of a mutual agree-
! meat betwe su the contracting parties.
" With the view of removing this difficulty, ono of the
French Plenipotentiaries, who no longer assists at our de-
liberations, has pointed out a scheme which I am happy to
reproduce, because it records the sentiments of modera-
tion which stamped his instructions.
" A mutual agreement between the Plenipotentiaries of
Russia and the Sublime Nita on tae basis of a balance of
their respective forces and the subsequent annexation to
the general treaty of an arrangement signed by them on
this subject, were proposed by ee. peony
proper means of conciliatingalland all require-
ments.o de Jehuys as a
interests
"This course, dictated as it appears to us by an idea
eminently conciliatory, seemed at the same time to be the
practical application of a happy expression of the British
Plenipotentiary, who v.lso is no longer with us.
"In the eyes of England (so he expressed himself) the
best conditions, and the only ones which were admissible,
would be those which, while being the most conformable to the honour of Russia, should at the same time be suffi-
cient for the security ofEarope, and for preventing a re-
turn of such complications as that which it is now a ques-
tion of
.patting an end to.
" It is, therefore, this idea (the honour of which belongs
to the French Cabinet), which has served as a basis to the
project that I am about to read, and which, while it is
perfectly honourable for all pal ties, unites, in our eyes, all
the elements of a satisfactory solution of the third gua-
rantee."
After this preface he read the project, of which a copy is
hereto annexed. Having finished reading it, he concluded
by thus expressing himself :
Austria, I am authorised to declare, would see in the
acceptance of this outline the complete bases of an effec-
tual and honourable solution for all parties. Al ways faith-
ful to the engagements which she has contracted with her
allies, faithful to the principles which she has Lid down, but
being in a position apart from the hostile action which sepa-
rates the otherpartiesrepresented here, she has considered ita
sacred duty imposed upon herby herexceptionalposition, to
exhaust all means for obtaining a triumph of those princi-
ples, at the same time putting an end, if possible, to the
calamities of a war which has already cost so many noble
victims. It is with these feelings that Austria presents
this proposition, and recommends it to the serious and
friendly consideration as well of her allies as of the Court
of Russia."
Baron Bourqueney said that as Count Buol's proposition
had for its basis a principle so repeatedly and peremp-
torily rejected by the Pleuipotentiaries of Russia, it was
for them to speak first on this subject.
The Earl of Westmoreland stated that he came to the
Conference in pursuance of the invitation of the Austrian
Minister for Foreign Affairs, but that he finds himself in
the same position in which he was placed at the last
meeting when he declared that his instructions were ex-
hausted.
Prince Gortchakoff, whilst contesting the opinion of
Baron Bourqueney that the proposition of Count Buol
rests on a principle which has been categorically rejected
by the Russian Plenipotentiaries, begs the Plenipotentiary
of France to be so good as to speak first.
B iron Bourqueney then stated, that as he is pressed to
express his opinion, he finds himself compelled to recur to
the peremptory and reiterated refusal of the Plenipoten-
tiaries of Russia to agree to the reduction of their naval
forces by treaty, or on a basis discussed in Conference.
This refusal had of course left traces and exercised a de-
cided influence on the instructions with which his Govern-
ment supplied him with reference to the Conference which
would be called by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of
Austria, for the purpose of making known the means
of reconciliation to which he had declared he would devote
himself. As the project proposed by Count Buol does not
completely fulfil the conditions which his former instruc-
tions point out, he must for his own part declare that the
mission of the Conference is exhausted.
Prince Gortschakoff stated, that after the declarations
which he has just heard, the Conferences for peace have de
facto ceased. He would, therefore, have a right to remain
perfectly silent, since to enter into particulars would only
be to discuss bases which in the opinion of Austria are
complete, whilst the Allies consider them insufficient.
But he does not wish to take advanage of this right. As
the Aastrian propositions have already been considered by
the Cabinets of Paris and London, he will also make his
Court acquainted with them, reserving for his Court a free
and full estimation of them.
Nevertheless, be swill express his personal opinion, as a
mark of respect for the Cabinet which has taken so much
pains in preparing the project in question.
In analysing it he asserted, in the first place, that this
project does not rest on the principle which the Plipoten-
tiari©s of Russia have invariably rejected, and will always
reject. Proceeding then to the different articles, he had
nothing to object to in the principle laid down in the first.
As to the second, the gist of it lies in the direct under-
standing between the Plenipotentiaries of Russia and the
Sublime Porte, with regard to the counterpoise of ther
respective naval forces.
He does not reject such a jcombination, maintaining,
however, that fixing the number of those forces regards the
two Powers directly interested, and that the rights of sove-
reignty of either would be infringed if other Powers wished
to dictate to them on this subject. He agrees to article 3.
He finds that articles 4 and 5 are based upon article 2 of
the Russian counterproject, which left his highness the
Sultan sovereign judge of the question of deciding whe-
ther it would be, or not, compatible with his interests ex-
ceptionally to open the straits.
In conclusion, he finds in the general principles of Count
Dues project, the bases of a possible solution of the third
guarantee.
M. de Titoff participates in the opinion of his colleague ;
and without having anything to add to the personal con-
siderations put forward by the letter, he associates him-
self fully with his official declaration of his wish to submit
the plan of arrangement proposed by the Austrian Minister
for Foreign Aff.sire to the examination and decision of his
Court.
Aali Pasha declares that the project of a direct under-
standing between the Sublime Porteand Russia was based,
as were all the other systems discussed within the Confer-
ence, upon the principle of limitation. The reiterated
and categorical rejection of this principle on the part of
the Plenipotentiaries of Russia having led to the abandon-
ment of every plan of this nature, his colleague and himself
did not consider that they should call for instructions of
their Court on this same project; and they are, conse-
quently, in the same position as the Plenipotentiaries of
France and Great Britain.
Aarif Effendi concurred in this view.
Baron Prokesch maintains that the Plenipotentiaries of
Russia do not absolutely reject the principle of limitation
—that their objections apply rather to the form under
which it could be applied. The Plenipotentiaries of Rus-
sia having declared themselves ready to submit the Aus-
trian proposition to their Court, he expresses the hope that
the Plenipotentiaries of France and Great Britain will do
as much on their side.
The Plenipotentiaries of France and Groat Britain de-
cline to bind themselves on this subject.
Count Buol, while seeing with satisfaction that the
Plenipotentiaries of Russia will submit his proposition to
their Courts, thinks he need not answer the observations
made upon it by Prince Gortchakoff, since he himself only
attached to them the value of personal impressions. He
adds that he is, moreover, too just not to acknowledge that
the declarations of the Plenipotentiaries of France and Great
Britain rendered it in fact difficult for Prince Gortehakoff
o enter into a deeper discussion. He finally declaresthat the
Plenipotentiaries of the maritime Powers having them•
selves declared the Conferences to be closed, have relieved
him from a painful duty, the accomplishment of which
would have been imposed on him by his position. Whilst
thanking the Plenipotentiaries for having assembled at his
invitation to bring the Conferences to a suitable conclu-
sion, he declares that Austria has no further proposition to
make ; that she will, nevertheless, be always ready, espe-
cially if it were in the interest of peace, to transmit to the
belligerent Powers the overtures which one or the other of
them might have occasion to address to him.
Baron Bourquency again resumes, in order to define
the respective positions. He maintains that after all
that had passed in the Conferences, his Government had
perfectly the right of considering every project founde I on
the principle of limitation as decidedly rejected by the Pleni-
potentiaries of Russia ; it could not,consequently,introd nee
a contrary proviso in the instructions with which it had
furnished its Plenipotentiaries for a closing Conference. It
has been confirmed in this conviction by the circular of
Count Nesselrode, giving an opinion on the whole beating
of the conferences, and authorising from that moment the
belief that the Cabinet of St. Petersburg itself consider
them as closed. He finally observes to Prince Gortschakoff
that the Austrian project is founded on the principle of li-
mitation in its strictest expression.
The Earl of Westmoreland declares that after the catego-
rical rejection of the principle of limitation, his Government
no longer saw any advantage in continuing the delibera-
tions. It considered the preceding Conferences as closed.
His full powers being exhausted, he had nothing more to
say, except that he will submit to the consideration of his
Government the protocol of this day's Conference.
Prince Gortschakoff, in answer to M. de Bourg ueuey, e gain
maintains that both in and out of the Conferences, and at all
times when the question was mooted, he had constantly
declared that all limitation of forces which might be
sought to be imposed on Russia would be regarded by her
Plenipotentiaries as an infringement on the sovereign
rights of their master, and an insurmountable obstable to
peace ; that he had invariably remained faithful to this
principle, and that he again establishes it in this closing
Conference; that, moreover, he challenges the members of
the Conference who have the protocols in their hands,
and more particularly the plenipotentiary of France, to find
in those acts a single principle or a single word which is
not in accordance with that which he now affirms ; that
Count Buol having said in his introductory discourse that
the Cabinet of Vienna had applied itself to find a solution
equally honourable for all parties, he has only gathered
and admitted from the second Article the idea which alone
is of a nature to offer a basis of negotiation for Powers
who respect themselves, that is to say, the combination to
carry out a counterpoise of forces by the direct under-
standing and the mutual consent of the parties interested.
Baron Bourqueney observes to him, that it is neverthe-
less indisputable that the proposition made by M. Drouyn
de Lhuys in the eleventh Conference, to the effect " that
the Plenipotentiaries of Russia and the Porte should come
to some understanding with each other, in the presence of
the Conference, on basis of counterpois of their respective
forces, which basis should be recorded in an arrangement
which they should mutually sign, and which, annexed to
the Treaty, should have the same value and the same
force," had been rejected.
Prince Gortchakoff reminds M. de Bourqueney that he
will find in the Protocol of the sitting to which he refers
the proof that his objections did not bent* on the idea it-
self a direct u ,derstanding,, but on the method so little
feasible in which it was proposed to carry it out.
After some observations of Prince Gortchakoff, made
with a view of modifyingjthe iinpressi,pn produced on Baron
Bourqueney by the circular of the Chancellor of the Em-
pire of Russia, the meeting was broken up.
(Signed) BeOL-SCHAIJENSQTEOT;
CIiA.KOFF.
PROKESCH-OSTEN.
BOURQUENEY. TITOFF.
W ESTMORLAND.
AALI.
AABIP

Inclosure.
Annex to Protocol No. 14.
(Translation. )
Article 1. The High Contracting Parties wishing that
the Sublime Porte should participate in the advantages of
the system established by public law between the diffe-
rent States of Europe, engage themselves severally to re-
spect the independence and territorial integrity of the
Ottoman Empire, ,marantee together the strict observance
of this engaPementb, and will in consequence consider every
act or event which should be of a nature to infringe on it
as a questson of European interest.
If a misuudentandiDg the Porte