The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-09 00:00:00

SALE OF LIQUOR ON SUNDAY BILL.

The committee reassembled yesterday in Room 18, when
evidence was taken in opposition to the bill. The first wit.
ness examined was Mr. Morrell, the secretary of the Sunday
bands and various other societies for the opening of places of
recreation, amongst which wore the British Museum and Crys-
tal Palace, on Sunday. Ile said he altogether objected to
the bill, and ho believed the feeling of the well-informed
working men was also contrary to the bill. He had heard
of statistics being collected, but then he should greatly dis-
trust them when they were got up by interested par-
ties. Ile did not think that it was fair to say
that restrictive measures had effected the groat
diminution that had taken place with regard to
drinking. He thought increased intelligence had had a
great deal to do in lessening the evil. If the public-
houses were closed, as provided by the bill, great
i❑convenience must of necessity follow. Restriction, in
his opinion, had reached its limit, and ho did not think
but it would be in consonance with the feeling of a very large
body of the public if on Sunday evening they were com-
pelled to take their beer whilst out of doors in the evening,
and their supper when they got home. It was altogether
ridiculous to suppose they were in favour of such an
arrangement. A family man could not afford to give his
children bottled ale to drink. They could all have a little
out of a pot of beer, which cost 3d., but the ale was 10d. a
bottle, and that was a consideration. He thought all
days alike one as good as the other. He knew
how they did things in Paris, but he did not think
that sort of arrangement would suit London. It
would be, however, a great advantage if the insti.
tutions of art 'a ere open in the afternoon, but he did
not go in for everything as in Paris on a Sunday. The
decrease of the consumption of spirits in Scotland he attri-
buted to the same cause as in England, viz:, increased
intelligence.

A woman named Hannah Russell, 104 years old,
entered the Yeovil Workhouse last week as a pauper.
The Northern, Daily Express reports the funeral
of Robert Chamber; which took place on Sunday. It
was estimated that there were from 60,000 to 60,000 per-
sons in the procession.

A man named Peter Morris has been committed
for trial by the Bristol magistrates for personating the vote
of Henry Howley at the late election of that city. He voted
for Mr. Miles.

The eighth report of the Trades Union Commis-
sioners has been Issued. It contains the testimony of Messrs.
Pickard, Normans°ll, Macdonald, Brown, Hewlett, Eley, and
Higginson.

PEDESTRIAN FEAT. —On Monday an amateu._
pedestrian undertook to run twice from the Elephant and
Castle, Newington, to Croydon and back, a distance of
forty miles, within five hours. The first journey to Croy-
don and back was performed in two-and-a-quarter hours,
and the second was completed and the match won with
seven minutes to spare.

SHOCKING SUICIDE. —A young man, namea
Patrick Hayden, 21 years of age, a private of the 86th
Regiment, stationed at the New Barracks, Gosport, has
committed suicide by discharging the contents of a loaded
rifle into his mouth, at his quarters. He was last seen
alive by a comrade named Samuel Virgent, about five
minutes before the dreadful act, who, on hearing the report
of the gun, went to the bedside of Hayden, and found him
quite dead, the upper part of his face and head being clean
blown away.
A WORKHOUSE MASTER STABBED BY A
PAUPER. -At Mallow workhouse a pauper, named
Moynehan, objecting to the quality of his rations, endea-
voured to help himself to more from a table. Mr. Fitz-
patrick, the master, interposed, and in the struggle which
ensued Moynehan stabbed the master in the abdomen with
a shoemaker's knife. Mr. Fitzpatrick's condition is very
critical, and but for the downward direction of the knife the
wound would have been fatal at once. Shortly after the
occurrence the police placed Moynehan under arrest. He
is a cripple, one of his legs having been amputated.

SHOCKING DEATH OF A PEACEMAKER. —On
Saturday evening a young man, named Reuben Nobbs,
carpenter, residing at Welwyn, Hertfordshire, received a
fatal blow on the head with a poker from a man named
James Blow, who was fig] with another man. Nobbs
was endeavouring to make between the parties, when
the poker came down upon head, smashing the skull
and forcing the eyeball out of the socket. He died in ex-
cruciating agony between eleven and twelve o'clock on
Sunday. Blow stated that he never intended to strike
Nobbs, but aimed at the other man.

POOR LAW RETURNS. —From a return which ha
just been presented to Parliament, we gather that no less
than 931,546 persons were relieved throughout England and
Wales in the twi-lve monthe ending Lady-day, 1867 ; of this
number 122,454 received help in the metropolis, which shows
an increase of 17,955 on the 1 revious year. The largest
number in England during the last ten years was in 1863,
which showed a total of 1,079,382. The total expenditure
for 1867 was £10,905,173, and of this sum the metropolis
came in for £1,844,765.

THE OAKS COLLIERY.---The workmen engaged in
clearing the roads have come across two bodies in the N 0.2
board, in what is known as "Jones's Jinny," between 800
and 900 yards from the pit bottom. They were found close
to each other, and near where a horse, which had evidently
been yoked to a train of corves, was lying. One of the bodies
was identified as that of a lad named John Graham, fifteen
years of age, who resided with his parents at Littleworth,
near Monk Bretton. The other body has not been identified,
although the poor fellow bad on a pair of new boots.

Two MEN DROWNED. —Early on Sunday morn-
ing three men, Mr. Augustus Wynne, Mr. Arthur Hunt,
and Mr. J. Carr, accompanied by a boatman named
Gallagher, proceeded on a pike fishing excursion on Lough
Gill, mar the town of Sligo. It appears that they had
entered into an agreement with each other as to
who should get each fish as it was caught. Mr.
Wynne claimed and obtained the first fish. A second
fish was about being landed when Mr. Wynne claimed
it also. This gave rise to a dispute, and all of the
parties leaned to one side of the boat to settle the point,
causing the boat to capsize. Mr. Carr and the boatman
swam safely to shore about sixty yards distant. The other
two were drowned. Mr. Hunt leaves a wife and seven
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7bildren.