The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1867.

free Italy and the House of Savoy is as firm as
ever.

The regattas of the Parisian Sailing Club are
now fixed for the 9th, 12th, 16th, 19th, and 23d of
May. They will take place at Argenteuil, not far
from Versailles.

The masked ball given on Saturday night, at the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, by the Marquis and
Marchioness de Moustier, was the most brilliant of
the season. They did the honours with much cor-
diality and grace. The Emperor and Empress were
present, but being in domino were not greeted, it
being understood that they wished to preserve the
incognito. Prince Napoleon Jerome was in a fancy
Italian costume. The ladies wore allegorical
dresses. Peace and War were personified by the
two sisters, Madame d'Erlaugar and Miss Slidell.
These costumes were very brilliant, and strikingly

illustrative of the subjects they were intended to
represent. Among the Ambassadors present
were—M. Mon, Ambassador from Spain ; M.
de Goltz, the Prussian Ambassador ; and
Djemil Pasha, the Ambassador from the
Sublime Porte. The Prince and Princess Met-
teruich were prevented from being present in con-
sequence of the recent death in the Austrian Royal
family. After the supper, which was extremely
splendid and abundant, dancing was resumed, and
was not concluded until 5 o'clock in the morning.
The weather to-day was much the same as yes-
terday. A tremendously cold north wind prevailed,
but the sun shone uninterruptedly to-day and not
a cloud was to be seen. The procession of the
aced Gras was again very attractive. The route
was changed, and there was some variation in its.
fdatnres.

The steamer Seine et Tamise, which makes the
direct passage from London to Paris, is now moored
off the Quai Voltaire. She has brought from Wool-
wich arsenal a cannon for the Exhibition, which
weighs, it is said, about 46,000 English lbs.

Proposed Legislation on Sunday Trading.

The follow:ng is a copy of a bill to amend the laws
relating to selling and hawking goods on Sunday,
broughtinto the House of Commons by Mr. Thomas
Hughes, Lord Claud Hamilton, and Sir Brook
Bridges :

" Whereas the practice of Sunday trading pre-
vails extensively in various parts of England, and
the law is insufficient to prevent the same, be it
therefore enacted by the Queen's most excellent
Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in this
present Parliament assembled, and by the authority

of the same, as follows :
" 1. No person shall, on Sunday, hawk, cry, sell,
offer, expose for sale, 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 other things whatsoever (except as
hereinafter excepted) ; and any person who shall
commit any such offence, and shall be convicted
thereof before a police or stipendiary magistrate, or
before any two justices of the peace, shall forfeit
and pay any sum not exceeding 20s. nor less than
55., as shall be adjudged by such magistrates or
justices ; provided always, that no person who has
not before been convicted of any offence against this
act shall be liable to more than one penalty for any
offence against this act committed on one and the

same day.
" 2. The provisions of this act shall not apply to
the selling, offering, or exposing for sale or delivery
of any article or thing for medicinal purposes ; nor
to the selling, offering, or exposing for sale, with-
out public cry, nor to the delivery, of any meat,
fish, poultry, game, or vegetables, before the hour of
nine o'clock in the morning ; nor to the selling,
offering, or exposing for sale or delivery of any milk
or cream before the hour of ten o'clock in the morn-

ing or after the hour of one o'clock in the afternoon ;
nor to the selling, offering, or exposing for sale
without public cry of any pastry, fruit, or any
beverage which may lawfully be sold without a
license before the hour of ten in the morning and
after the hour of one o'clock in the afternoon ;
nor to the selling, offering, or exposing for sale
without public cry, nor to the delivery, of any
periodical publication before the hour of 10 o'clock
in the morning ; nor to the exercise of the ordinary
business of a keeper of a cook shop, eating house,
or coffeehouse before the hour of ten o'clock in the
morning, and after the hour of one o'clock in the
afternoon ; nor to the exercise of the ordinary and
lawful business of a baker, licensed victualler, or
keeper of any inn, tavern, hotel, public house,
house licensed for the sale of beer or of excise-

able liquors.
" 3. If any person, having been once convicted o
an offence against this act, shall be again convicted
by any magistrate or justices of the peace of any
such offence, such person shall for every such sub-
sequent offence forfeit and pay any sum not exceed-
ing 405., nor less than 205., for every separate act
of selling, offering, or exposing, for sale or delivery
on one and the satn9 day, as shall be adjudged by
such magistrate or justices.
"4. In all cases in which it shall be sought to
prove any previous conviction against any person
under this act, a certificate containing the substance
and effect only (omitting the formal part) of the
record of the conviction of the previous offence,
purporting to be signed by the proper officer having
the custody of such record of conviction, or a certi-
ficate of such previous conviction purporting to be
signed by the person who shall have acted as clerk
to the justices or magistrates before whom such pre-
vious conviction shall have taken place, shall, upon
proof of the identity of the person of the offender,
be sufficient evidence of the previous conviction,
without proof of the signature oro official
thialesame ;
and
character
of theif person
pearpsnpnearwinhgatstonehvaevr shall wilfully and
signed
knowingly offer a false certificate of a conviction for
a previous offence against this act, or if any other
person, other than such proper officer or person act-
ing as such clerk, shall sign such certificate as such
proper officer or person acting as clerk, every per-
son so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanour,
and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable to im-
prisonment, with or without hard labour, for any
period not exceeding six months.
" 5. All penalties or sums of money ordered and
adjudged within the city of London or liberties
thereof to be paid under this act, and not otherwise
appropriated, shall be payable to the chamberlain of
the city of London, in aid of the funds of the said
city, and all penalties or sums of money ordered
and adjudged within any county, city, borough to be
paid under this act, and not otherwise appropriated,
shall be payable to the treasurer of such county,
city, or borough, or other person duly authorised to
receive the same, in aid of the funds of the said
county, city, or borough.
" 6. All prosecutions for offences punishable by
this act shall be commenced within seven days next
after the commission of the offence, and not after-
wards.
" 7. This act shall not apply to any city, town,
or hamlet containing at the last or any subsequent
census a population of less than 10,000 persons.
" 8. This act shall apply to England only.
" 9. This act shall come into operation on the 7th
day of October, 1867."

Mn. GOLDWIN SMITH AND THE FREEHOLDERS.—
The Rector of Chalfont writes as follows to the Pall Mall
Gazette:—" Mr. Goldwin Smith has instanced this parish
as a proof that the freeholders are not in possession of land
—not 'independent yeomen cultivating their own land.'
Ho asserts that in this parish there is one squire. The fact
is that there are four gentlemen's houses occupied by their
owners, with 726 acres of land cultivated by them. He
asserts that tho freeholders are holders of houses and small
pieces of land. The fact is we have 10 homesteads with
716 acres of land occupied by their owners. He asserts
there are 30 freeholder; 18 of whom are non-resident. The
fact is there aro 29 resident freeholders. Moreover, he
asserts that Milton fled from 'the Tory mercies of the Re-
storation.' I don't know if Mr. G. Smith calls the plague a
Tory mercy, but in Milton's daughter's ' Diary,' in 'New-
ton's Lifo of Milton,' and in 'Ellwood's Life' it is stated be
fled from the plague to Chalfont. I think the Act of In
domnity was in 1660, which would save Milton from Tory
mercies better than in a flight to Chalfont. Those appear
to me to bo random assertions in good earnest—three of
them to strengthen an argument against the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, and ono to bring odium on Tory mercies.'
As Mr. G. Smith has thought fit to instance this parish, I
feel myself bound to state what I believe to be the truth.'