The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-30 00:00:00

dIsTDAY /tIUSIC.

It will be remembered that for a long period Mr.
Clapham, of the Leeds Royal Park, has been paying
a weekly fine for the performance of music on the
Sunday. This has cost him £l7O altogether ; and
according to his statement he has been a loser by
it. The case has been heard by the Recorder of
Leeds, to whom Mr. Clapham appealed against the
decision of the bench, and the Recorder has dis-
missed the appeal. He held that the magistrates
opinion
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condemned Mr. Claphamr'seqcuironedducbt,y
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It should be noted that the
music was described as sacred, though this diCi
not guarantee the respectability of the meeting
A very shady public-house in a certain provincia
town used to advertise a " selection of sacred music
on Sunday evenings ; doubtless upon the principi
that it was more intellectual to get drunk to th,
music of Handel than to a nigger melody.

FOREIGN NOTES,
THE REORGANISATION OF SFAIIc

The candidates for the throne of Spain are rapidly
diminishing in numbers, and none arise to fill their
places. King Ferdinand of Portugal has retired. The
Epoca states that the candidature of the Duke of
Montpensier has been finally abandoned by the
generals of the Liberal Uni,,o. Excepting the more
improbable nominations, there remains only Don Carlos,
and he can hardly be supposed to have a chance, even in
the absence of every other claimant. Republicanism
seems to make progress. A programme, signed by Senor
Orense, and which demands the establishment of a Federal
Republic, shews that the Democrats have fairly taken
the field. The theory of Republicanism promulgated by
this document is of the most extreme character. It
demands a single Assembly, elected every year by universal
suffrage, with a head of the executive power who shall be
responsible in everything to the Assembly. This is return.
ing to a "state of nature" rather too rapidly,
The full text of the new manifesto has been publishes.
It is a very lengthy, wordy document, and contains
nothing notable beyond the telegraphic summary already
published. On the subject of religious liberty, the Govern.
ment says that the deeply-rooted faith of the country will
not be injured by the free exercise of other forms of
worship. It will rather be strengthened by the conflict,
and will be enabled to repulse the invasion of religious
indifference which is now becoming so baneful. The
change is, besides, a political necessity.
Religious freedom is already becoming generally ac-
cepted. Bibles are being freely circulated by zealous agents
of evangelical societies ; and the Jews look upon the
establishment and promises of the new Government
as so secure a pledge, that they, too, are preparing to return
to the country from which they have been excluded for
centuries by the suicidal policy of bigoted rulers. The
correspondent of the Incilpendance Beige says that two or
three English agents have been traversing Madrid on
horseback, distributing bibles to the crowd. It is difficult
for us in England to realise the radical nature of the
change which such an occurrence signifies.
The value of British property in the province of Anda-
lusia alone is estimated at over five millions sterling,