The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-21 00:00:00

it as a jOkr,<articularly a large numbe
"gents" in peg-tops who were conspicu
sent. In the afternoon at the rector's sere
Litany) the mob prevented the priests and chi
tors from taking their accustomed places before the
altar, and the service was performed from the
choristers' seats with the usual amount of confu-
sion. Long before half-past six o'clock, the time
appointed for opening the doors for the evening
service, there was an immense concourse of persons
in Cannon-street, and the rush for admission was
terrific. Women and children shrie,ked, men were
knocked down, and, had it not been for the praise-
worthy exei t ions of the police, serious results might
have followed. In a few minutes the spacious
church was densely packed, and standing-room was
scarcely to be had. When the priests and choristers
entered, and the service commenced, it was clear
that measures had been taken to drown the voices
of the dissentients. This was a perfect success.
There were three priests, and an increase in the
number of surpliced choristers, while gentlemen,
evidently well practised in the choral service, were
stationed in various parts of the church. The
prayers were said, with little interruption, by the
Rev. C. F. Lowder, M.A., but when he gave out
hymns the people hissed and coughed. The sermon
was preached by the Rev. Edward Stuart, M.A.,.
incumbent of St. Mary Magdalene, Munstcr-street,
Regent's Park, from the words of the Epistle of
St. John, " God is love." In spite of a somewhat
unattractive style of oratory, the rev. gentleman
managed to get through his sermon without much
interruption. Indeed, it was only on turning his
back upon the congregation at the final prayer that
he was hissed at all.

At the close Of-this service, the last of the day,
hundreds of persons assembled in Cannon-street,
and discussed the ecclesiastical state of the parish,
but the clergy and choristers managed to get away
without being insulted.
It was announced some time since that the third
annual commemoration of the foundation of the
mission chapel in Calvert-street would be celebrated
on Thursday next, the 24th instant, and that the
Dean of A.V4stininster would preach. At the ear-
nest request of the Bishop of Landon that service
will be dispensed with.

SUPPRESSION OF TILE SUNDAY FAIR
AT SOMERS-TOWN.

Yesterday the authorities of St. Pancras, aided
by a powerful body of police, took the initiative
with a view to the abolition of one of the most dis-
graceful blots that ever existed in the metropolis,
known as the Somers-town Sunday Market, or more
properly speaking, Sunday Fair. The flagrant and
open Sunday trading in this district has for years
been felt as a thorough disgrace to the parish. But
all the efforts of the clergy, with the Rev. Thomas
Dale, the vicar, at their head, those of the local
authorities, or the police have been unavailing,
hitherto, to effect a remedy, and the suppression of
the Sunday traffic in Petticoat-lane and Rag Fair
tended to augment the evil by transferring the Jew
vendors of herbs, lollypops, jewellery, sweetmeats,
cigars, and even quack medicines, as well as White-
chapel birdcatchers, to thislocality. Theneighbour-
hood comprised in the market extended from the
Great Northern. Railway terminus on the east to

Chalton-street, Euston-road, on the west, a distance

of nearly half a mile, and included the following
thoroughfares, viz.,' Weston-street, Skinner street,

Brewer-street, the large space fronting the Brill,
Brill-row, Chapel-street, and the various streets
abutting thereon. No respect whatever was paid to
the hours of Divine service. Not only do the mass
of the shopkeepers to their utter disgrace, continuo
to vend their wares during those hours, but there
were to be seen stalls for shooting at targets for
nuts, machines for trying the strength, testing the
power of the lungs, itinerant vendors of live fowls,
guinea pigs, cheap jacks, medical practitioners
(who exhibited diagrams of the lungs and in-
testines, tapeworms, warts, and corns which
their nostrums had cured and extracted), a
dentist who either drew or stopped decayed teeth
in the public thoroughfare, a Polish Jew who sold
Turkish rhubarb made of dahlia bulbs coloured
with saffron, cheap crockery salesmen, stinking fish-
mongers, costermongers, and even unlicensed dealers
in game, and showmen. After repeated represen-
tations to the police authorities and even the
Government, the local authorities, acting on legal
advice and with the promised aid of the police, de-
termined on seeing if they could not put a stop to
those disgraceful and disgusting proceedings, and as
a preliminary step the following noiice had been
posted and distributed throughout the locality for
some weeks :--

" St. Pancras, Middlesex.--Notice is hereby
given, that on and after Sunday, the 20th day of
November next, all barrows, trucks, and stalls found
in the streets and other public ways of Somers-
town, will be seized, and all other obstructions to

the carriage-ways and foot-ways will be removed,
and all Pen_ aities authorised by law wilthe enforced.
liy order ofthe vestry. WM. BOOTH SCOTT, chia
surveyor.--Pepartment of Works, Oct. 27."
In accordance witl► this notice, and with a deter-
mination to enforce the orders of the vestry, nearly
kixty of the parochial ofDeers, all sworn constables,
together with a large body of the S division of
police, under the orders of Inspectors Stokes and
Fraser, and also a detachment of the reserve force
of the A division, took possession of the ground
shortly before seven o'clock yesterday morning.
The arrangements, carried out under the direction
of Mr. Scott, the chief surveyor, aided by the police,
were of the most excellent and praiseworthy, as
well as effective character. The local constables
were stationed at the entrance of every avenue, and
as the costermongere arrived with their barrows or
stalls, they were each served with a copy of the
printed notice, and called upon to read it, and when
they were unable to do so, it was read over to them,
and they were warned that the moment they
pitched their stall or barrow it would be seized
and conveyed to the station•house. This plan of
taking the enemy in detail had the effect of pre-
venting any settling down or disturbance, as would
no doubt have been the case had the police
and authorities allowed the various vendors to have
taken up their positions in the first instance. Other
bodies of officers passed through the line of the
market and warned the various shopkeepers that no
articles would be permitted to be exhibited on shop
boards projecting over the pavement. _ _ _

As the Morning advanced the locality was visited
by thousands of persons, chiefly of the lower orders,
and it is believed more out of curiosity than any-
thing else; a general belief prevailing that the pro-
ceeding would lead to resistance on the part of the
costermongers and others who had previously en-
joyed that which they considered a privilege to
desecrate the Sabbath. In this, however, they were
disappointed.
Bodies of police and the local officers patrolled
from end to end, and the vendors of kippered her-
rings, skinned rabbits, stationers, linendrapers, and
hosiers, and even the Turkey rhubarb vendor and
the quack doctors were kept in constant motion,
and showmen began speedily to find " Othello's
occupation gone."
The local costermongers and stall-keepers, to their
credit, at once bowed to the exercise of the authority
of the law ; not so many of the shopkeepers, and it
is gratifying to find that the authorities are deter-
mined to deal with them as they deserve.
A beer-shop keeper at the corner of Middlesex-
street, who combines with that trade a rag and
crockery shop, insisted in covering the pavement in
front of his premises with his wares ; whilst in other
cases shopkeepers let their doors and passages to
Jew vendors of "jewellery," and bird fanciers.
The names of several of the principal alders and
abettors in setting the law at defiance were taken
down, and its violators are to be summoned at once
before the magistrate at Clorkenwell Police-court,
who, it is hoped, will mete out to them their fall
me?d of punishment.
Even on this the first day of the experiment of
removing the stalls, it was admitted by the shop-
keepers that their takings had fallen off nearly 60
per cent. The local authorities and the police have
therefore only to persevere for a few weeks, and on
every occasion that a stall appears, or a tradesman
encroaches on the public thoroughfare, to seize his
goods and the Sunday trade will soon so diminish
as to not make it worth while to keep open the
shops, and this great scandal to the district will be
effectually removed.

So effectively were the proceedings carried out,
that notwithstanding the thousands of people as-
sembled, there was no instance of a person being
taken into custody.

RECTORSHIP OF EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY.—The
following letter has been received from Mr. Gladstone, in
reply to the telegram announcing his election to the office
of Rector of Edinburgh University :—" Deanery, Windsor,
Nov. had the honour to receive on Saturday
your telegram which announced the result of the election
for the Rectorship of the University of Edinburgh. Permit
me to express to you my strong sense of the honour which
the students of the University have conferred upon me in
this exercise of the power which Parliament has placed in
their hands. I could have wished that they had selected a
man less absorbed by the number and weight of the claims
upon his time, and I am also sensible of the disadvantages
under which I lie from the want of experimental acquaint-
ance with the Universities of Scotland, but I am conscious
of an honest desire to servo them, and I do not think it will
be found that my connexion with and my love for Oxford
inspire me with any eager or indiscriminate solicitude to
press her as a model upon other institutions differing more
or less in circumstances 'and objects. At the same tinr,
they make me desirous to see other universities flourish
in
eve] y kind of honourable exertion, for this, even if it were
for no other reason, that there is among us unwraught ma-
t irial amply suffic'ent to supply them all, and tl • efforts
and success of each one will act as a powerful incentive and
a real assistance to every other.—l have the honour to be,
sir, your voi y faithful servant, W. E. GLADSIO SE."