The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-15 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THIS DAY.

The SPEAKER took the chair at a quarter past 12 o'clock.

SUNDAY TRADING BILL.

Mr. T. HUGHES presented a great number of petitions
in favour of the Sunday Trading Bill. The hon. member
said the bill was looked upon with great favour by the
poorer class of traders.

Mr. M'LAREN presented a petition against the bill.
Mr. T. HUGHES, in moving the second reading of the
bill, said he was quite aware of the amount of misunder-
standing and prejudice which existed with respect to the
bill ;. but ho hoped to show that the feeling ought
not to exist. The old law as it stood Iva:,
contained in a nutshell, and the first statute was
that of Henry VI. That Act did not create the obser-
vance of the Sunday, but took it as it found it, as a day of
rest, and it enacted that no more fairs should be held on
Sunday except the fair to be holden iu harvest time. Four
hundred years ago it was found necessary to protect
Sunday as a day of rest, and it was not, as had been sail,
an attempt to make Eaglishrnon religious by Act of Par-
liament. That statute lasted for 900 years, and then
came the first statute of Charles I. That Act enforced
religious worship of a certain kind. It enacted that
no parishioner should attend illegal bull and bear baiting
out of his parish on Sundays, and any assemblage within
the parish on Sunday should altogether be illegal, but that
a due regard should be paid to the religious observance of
the day. The act under which they now lived was that
of the 27th of Charles 11., which prohibited all trading of
any description, excepting the sale of cooked meats at
inns on the Sabbath, and the_sale of milk, which was to
be allowed between the hours of nine in the morning
and four in the afternoon. An act of William the
111. made the sale 'of mackerel on Sundays legal,
and by the 12th of Vic. the issue of search warrants was
made legal, and with the enactments of the Act of the 14th
of the present reign, which were mainly connected with
the proceedings in the courts of law. Thus it was to be
seen that Sunday was to be observed as a complete day of
rest, or, as was termed in law, a dies non. Those were the
whole of the Acts in force at the present time. Two re-
ports were presented to the house twenty years ago, in
which it was recommended that a bill should be introduced
enacting that no goods should bo allowed to be exposed
for sale at any shop on Sunday, that none' except of a
perishable •-nature should be allowed to be sold,
that no shop should be allowed to remain open after a Cer-
tain hour, and that penalties incurred under the bill should
be cumulative. That was what was recommended twenty
years ago, and he felt that the majority, of traders in the
metropolis at this time were quite of that opinion at the
present day. If .he ventured an illustration to show the
extent to which Sunday trading was carried on ho would
not travel out of his own borough, Lambeth, and there,
within a very small space, containing 1,684 shops,
1,034 were open on Sundays, and only 650 closed.
He had received many letters on the subject, and one to
which ho would allude was that from the Rev. Mr. White,
and alluded to the place called the New-cut, where trading
was carded on to such an extent that it really exceeded
that of ordinary working days. The shops of tobacconists,
drapers, booksellers, clothiers, and other traders in that
locality, were kept open, in addition to which, birds,
umbrellas, and dogs were hawked about for sale, and
created a scene of confusion that rendered it almost im-
passable for well-disposed persons going to the Church in
that neighbourhood. Some time ago an attempt was made
by the parish officers to put the act of Charles 11. into ac-
tive force, and no less than 800 summonses were takeh out
against tradesmen for keeping their shops open on Sun-
days. Out of the number 700 said they were quite ready
to close their shops, provided others were compelled to
do the same thing, and proceedings were taken against
those who refused to close their shops, but they altogether
failed. It had been urged that if the tradesmen were in
earnest in the matter they would arrange the matter
for themselves, but that had been tried, and also
had resulted in failure, and altogether repudiated
the notion that it was an attempt to make people religious
by act of Parliament. If that was the object of the bill ho
would most certainly have had nothing to do with it. He
had his own opinion with respect to the way a day of rest
ought to be observed; and if any person felt disposed to lie
flat on his back the whole of the day and drink beer he
should only pity him, and not find fault with him, because
his notions of rest differed from those which he entertained.
The bill he now asked the house to read a second time con-
tained three propositions. The first was to enumerate those
articles which should not be sold on Sunday ; the second
enacted the hours during which perishable articles, such
as butchers' meat, vegetables, and fish might be sold, which
was sot down that it was to cease at 9 o'clock in the morn-
ing; and the third related to cooked articles, things that
were sold at confectioners' and refreshment houses, the
bill enacting that no such shops should be open after ton in
the morning or one in tho afternoon. He might be asked
what the bill proposed with respect to publichouses and beer-
shop. The measure did not touch that portion of trade at
all, because special legislation was intended on that matter.
He was certain the majority of tha metropolitan traders
and the poorer class were iu favour of the measure, and he
hoped ho shoUld succeed in obtaining the assent of the
house to its second reading. It had been said that the
cream must be allowed to rise" before legislation .cculd
take place; but in this instance the cream, in his belief, had
been allowed to rise with a vengeance, and now it was
only a question whether they would allow the whole of the
mess to get sour.
Mr. FEES HFIELD opposed the bill. He looked upon
the bill as a wolf in sheep's clothing, or as an act to
licensing certain trades. The law at present in force was
quite sufficient for the purpose, and he thought it would
have been better had the hon. gentleman given evidence
to show how the enactment of the Act of Charles 11. could
be carried into force. Ho looked upon the measure in its
present form altogether as objectionable, and therefore he
moved that the bill bo read a second time that day six
mon tbs.

Mr. POWELL objected to the bill as it at present stood,
but if it was improved in committee he would give it his
support on the third reading.
Sir B. BRIDGES supported the second reading of the
bill.

Mr. EVANS thanked the hon. member for introducing
the bill, and although he thought it susceptible of amend-
ment in committee, he should vote for its second reading.
Mr. HORSFALL doubted whether nine-tenths of the
population were in favour of the bill. He knew that iu
the borough which he then represented feeling was quite
the other way. What was wanted was a bill to enable the
constitution authorities to administer the law that at pro-
sent existed, and not a measure such as that now under
discussion.

Lord C. HAMILTON said he supported the bill
because he looked upon it as a protective and
not a coot cive one. It was a bill to enable the
tradesmen to have the Sabbath for himself, and not
forced by competition which was illegal, an evasion of the
law, to carry on his trade during a day which was ordained
to be one of rest. He was surprised at the hon. member
for Oldham (Mr. Horsfall) opposing the bill on the ground
that he did. He told the hon. member opposite (11r.
Hughes) that if he brought in a bill to enable the autho-
rities to carry into effect the present law, he would give
him his support. He thought such a statement was
a clear proof that the present law was altogether
inoperative, and required amendment. He also denied
that the act was one for licensing Sunday trading, and
was certain that nothing was contained in the bill respect-
ing any of the enactments at present on the statute-book.
He hoped the house would read the bill a second tiMe, in
order that the amendments which it was said were required
might be made in committee.

(LEFT sirme.)

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

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HOUSE OF LO—RDS—MAy 14.
CLERICAL 'VESTMENTS (No. 2) BILL.
Moved, "That the further debate on the motion for second
reading be adjourned to this day two months" (the Lord
Archbishop of Canterbury). On question—Content, 61;
Not-Content, 46.

CONTENT.
ARCHBISHOPS. EARLS. LORDS.
Canterbury Erno Delamer°
Dublin Lauderdale Do Ros
LORD CHANCELLOR Leven and Melville Do Tabley
Chelmsford Lucan Egerton
DUKES. Malmesbury Feversham
Buckingham and Manvers Foxford (E. Lime-
Chandos Nelson rick)
Marlborough Tan kerville Hartismere (L.
Richmond Verulam. Henniker)
Rutland VISCOUNTS. Hey t esbury
MARQUIS. Ha warden Hylton
Bath (Teller) Lifford Lyttelton
EARLS. Templetown. Lyvoden
Beauchamp BISHOPS. Mont Eagle (M.
Bolmore Chester Sligo)
Cadogan Ely Penrhyn
Cardigan Glocester & Bristol Redesdale (Teller)
Caruarvon Llandaff Rollo
Dartmouth Oxford Romilly
Derby St. Asaph. Sherborne
De von LORDS. Silchester (E.
Doncaster(D. Buc- Bagot Longford)
clench dc Queens- Carew Southampton
berry) Clinton Tredegar
EARLS. Colonsay
Eldon Colville of Culross

. NOT-CONTENT.
Btsuor. LORDS. . MARQUISES.
Carlisle Cran worth Norman by
Cork, &c. De Manley Westmeath '
Down, ',cc. E bury EARLS.
Durham Farnham Albemarle
Lichfield Foley rTellerl Bandon
Lincoln Griusted (E.Eunis- Chichester
London killen) Cowper
Ossory, &c. Inchiquin Dartrey
Peterborough 0 verstone Elleuborough
Biron Poltimore For tescue
Winchester Ponsouby(E. Bess- Grey
LORDS. borough) Harrowby
Belper Portman Kimberley
Boyle (E. Cork and Rayleigh Macclesfield
Orrery) Saltersford (Earl Shaftesbury(teller)
Brodrick(V. Midle- Courtown) VISCOUNT.
ton) Stanley of Alderley Loinster (D. Lein-
Castlemaine Wentworth tater)
Congleton

LONDON GAZETTE.-LAST EVENING.

WHITEHALL, MAY 13.
The Queen has been pleased to constitute and appoint
the Right Hon. George, Earl of Haddington, to be her
Majesty's High Commissioner to the General Assembly of
the Church of Scotland.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Hugh Seymour
Tremenheere, Esq., and Edward Carleton Tufnell, Esq.,
to be her Majesty's Commissioners to inquire into and re-
port on the employment of children, young persons, and
women in agriculture, for the purpose of ascertaining to
what extent and with what moditicltious the principles of
the Factory Acts can be adopted fur the regulation of
such employment, and especially with a view to the better
education of such children.

WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, MAY 14.
12th Regiment of Laiteers—Lieutenant Edward Albert.
Polo to be G 'Wain, by purchase, vieet \Villiam Blacker,
who retires. Cornet George Arthur 'Thompson to b,

Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Pule.
14th Ilussars --Captain Robert Uhadw:ck to be Major, by
purchase, v:c, Brown, promoted half pay Lieutenant-
Colonel, by purchase; Lieutenant John Mather to b:•
Captain, by purchase, vice Chadwick; Cornet George
Robert Ein es to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vie

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Mather.
-20th Hussars—Major Elward Charles Warner to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel Stanuus, seconded,
on appointin..lit to the command of a• brigade in India ;
Captain C. M‘Clintock Cotton to be Major, vice Warner;
Lieutenant Hem y Alexander Walford to be Captain,
vice Cotton ; Ensign David Carruthers Budd to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Walford ; Gentleman Cadet Charles Wil-
loughby Hemans' from the Royal Military College, to be
Cornet, vice Budd.
Royal Engineers—Lieutenant Colonel and Brevet-Colonel
Robert Maclagan to be Colonel, vice Colonel and Major-
General Baker, to fixed establishment; Lieutenant-
Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Michael Kavanagb Kennedy
to be Colonel, vice Colonel and Major-General Turner,
to fixed establishment; Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-
Colonel John Harley Maxwell to 'be Colonel, vice Sir li.
M. Durand, C. 8., K.C.5.1., promoted; Lieutenant-
Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Alfred de Lisle to be
Colonel, vice Tremenheere, promoted ; Captain Ralph
Young, on the Seconded List, to be Lieutenant-Colonel;
Captain Charles Douglas Newmarch to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel Maclagan ; Captain
James Crofton to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice BreVet-
Colonel Maxwell ; Captain John Sainsbury Trevor to
be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel Kennedy ;
Captain Henry St. Clair Wilkins to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel Do Lisle ; Second Captain
David Limond to be Captain, vice Nevrmarch • Second
Captain Raoul De Bourbel to be Captain, vice 'Crofton ;
Second Captain John Richard Matthaei' to be Captain,
Vice Trevor; Second Captain Harry Pym to be Captain,
vice Wilkins ; Lieut. Geo. Swinton to be Second Captain,
vice Limond ; Lieut. Charles N. Judge to be Second
-Captain, Vice Do Bourbel; Lieutenant Alfred Thomas
Mander to be Second Captain, vice Maunsell ; Lieu-
tenant Joseph Herbert Bedford to be Second Captain;
vice Pym.
Military Train—Lieutenant Roger Forrest has been per-
mitted to retire from the service by the sale of his Com-
mission.
3d Foot—Ensign Henry Brian Buchanan to be Lieute-
nant, by phrchase, vice John Elias Duruford, who re-
tires; Leopold James Henry Grey, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Buchanan ; Arthur Trevor Leslie,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice James Carnac
Brown, who retires.
Bth Foot.—Lieutenant Thomas Palmer Senior to be Pay-
master, vice Paymaster, with the honorary rank of
Major, Francis William Fellows, who retires upon half-
pay.
10th Foot.—Major and Brevet Lieut.-Colonel Stephen F.
C. Annesley to be Lieutenant-Colonel, withoutpurchase,
vice Brevet Colonel William Feuwick, C. 8., seconded
on appointment to the command of a Brigade in India ;
Captain and Brevet-Major Joseph P. H. Crowe to be
Major, without purchase, vice Brevet Lieutenant-Colo-
nel Annesley ; Captain W. H. P. Gordon Bluett, from
the Seconded List, to be Major, without purchase, vice
Brevet-Major Crowe, whose promotiou on the 22dJan.,
1867, has been cancelled.
13th Foot—Ensign Archibald William Harrison to be Lieu-,
tenant, by purchase, vice Richard Hare Home, who
retires ; Frederick Charles Caldwell, Gent:, to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Harrison.
23d Foot— Ensign George Holden Hutton to be Lieuten-
ant, by purchase, vice John Joseph Mahon, who retires;
Arthur Tudor Boddam, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,

vice Hutton.
39th Foot—Ensign Alexander George William Malet to
be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Henry Frederick
Gaubert, who retires; Henry Thomas Finlay, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Robert Turlington Noble
Beasley, who retires; Edward Tufnell, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Malet, promoted.
40th Foot— Edmund Robert Berkeley, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Pretor, promoted ; Horatio Read,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Walker, pro-

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moted. _
51st Foot—Lieutenant Robert Norton Cartwright to be
Captain, by purchase, vice James W. H. Anderson, who
retires ; Ensign Robert Charles Grame to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Cartwright; William a'Court
Beadon, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Gnome.
73th Foot. —Ensign Richard Wilson to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Robert John Fitzgerald Day, who retires ;
Alaric Edward Arengo Cross, Gent., to be Ensign, by

purchase, vice Wilson.
82d Foot—Ensign Robert Robertson Reyne to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Thomas William O'Driscoll,

who retires.
83d Foot—Ensign Charles John Wyndham to be Lieute•
nsut, without purchase, vice Charles Hay Tolleinache
deceased.

ADMIRALTY, MAY 13.
Dr. James John Louis Donnot has thi3 day boon pro-
moted to the rank of Deputy lnsp_eetcr-Creaeral of Hos-
pitals and Fleets in her Majesty's Fleet.

COILISE OF EXCIIANGE.—Last Eveniig.

Amsterdam Short. 11 171 11 18
Ditto 3 Months. 11 19 11 I'l
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 37} 25 421
Brussels
Hamburg — 13. 8f 13 94
Paris Short 25 12 25 25
Ditto 3 Months. 25 32i 25 37}
Marseilles
Frankfor: on the Maine 1191 119 i
Vienna — 13 7f 13 1.-)
Triesto — 13 if 13 13
Petersburgh - 301 311
Berlin
Madrid

Cadiz - 44
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa — 27 95 27 20
Naples — 27 95 27 20
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon
Oporto —52 k

LAYING THE FOUNDA7ION STONE OF
A NEW CA7HOLIC CHURCH.

(The following appeared in our late edition of yesterday.)
The solemnity of laying tho foundation stone of the
new Catholic Church at Kensington dedicated to " Our
Lady" took place to .day. His Grace the Archbishop of
Westminster performed the ceremony, assisted by the
Lord Bishop of Troy (Dr. Morris), Very Rev. Canon
O'Neal, V.G., Very Rsv. Dr. Rock, Very Rev. Dr. Knox,
of the Oratory; the Rev. FF. Connelly, Gorman, Hussey,
Cahill, Dolman, Pennington, Kelly, Toomey ; and the
Carmelite Fathers Lewis and Sebastian. There was a very
large' attendance of the laity, and amougst the ladies pre-
sent were Mrs. M. and J. Murieta, Mrs. Durand, Mrs.
Grey, Mrs. Landon, and Mrs. Nowlan.
The site of the new church is in Newland-terrace, Ken-
sington, and the design for the sacred edifice is the work
of Mr. George Goldie. The style of the church is purely
Gothic. It will be 144 feet long, 59 feet wide, 65 feet
high, and when completed will afford accommodation for
1,200 persons. The building of the new church is entirely
owing to the exertions of the Rev. Father Foley, who, with
the Rev. FF. Mitchell and De Burgh, has at present the charge
of the parish. Previous to fixing the stone in position his
Grace placed in a cavity beneath it a crystal vase, hermeti-
cally sealed, containing a copy of the dedication of the
church, a copy of the Times newspaper, and the coins of
the realm usually deposited on such occasions. At the
conclusion of the ceremony the company proceeded to
an elegant marquee, where defamer vas served, the
Archbishop presiding. His Grace, addressing the
company, said they were assembled that day to
take part in a noble work nobly begun. The present
church at Kensington was -not unworthy tho. parish,;
but it was altogether insufficient, and therefore the neces-
sity of erecting a now one. Father Foley had manfully
undertaken that great work, and he would not say he
hoped he would live to see the accomplishment of his
labour, because that would be wishing him a very short
life, as the architect had promised him that by next Easter
mass should be celebrated therein. It would not,.of course,
be entirely completed by that time, but it would be in such
a state of forwardness as to admit of the administration of
the sacrament. He had often been asked how Catholics built
so many churches,
and ho had been often tempted to say
he did not know, because they were as poor as rats. It
was an old saying, as poor as a church mouse, but the
poverty of all the church mice in England would not ex-
ceed the poverty of the rats. The Catholics, however,
were enabled to build their churches bygiving a great deal,
by begging a great deal, by borrowing a great deal,
and they only stopped at stealing. lie hoped that all pre--
sent would come to the firm resolution of doing all
in their power to assist Father Foley in his work ; and
as the sturdy beggar was a term to be found iu the com-
mon law of England, ho hoped they would beg sturdily
for him, and if they could do anything by borrowing
that they would do it; in fact, ho asked them to do every-
thing they could for him, but not to steal. He asked them,
therefore, to drink "the health of Father Foley, those who
assist him in his mission, and success to his work." The
Rev. Father Foley said it was six years since he first began
his work. Of course he had met with great difficulties, but by
the kind co-operation of his Grace he had overcome them.
His Grace had encouraged him in every way, and next to
that the devotion and zeal of his own people had enabled
him to bring his labours to a successful conclusion.
Having made that public avowal, he had only to thank
his Grace and the company around him for their kind
wishes.
Tho health of his Grace having been drunk,.the com-
pany broke up, after making a very handsome subscrip-
tion towards the expense of the erection of the new church.

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