The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-18 00:00:00

THE SUNDAY LIQUOR TRAFFIC'.

A. meeting. in support of Mr. John Abel Smith's bill
for restricting the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sunday
was held in Hanover-square ?Looms yesterday, under
the presidency of his Grace the Archbishop of York.
Amongst the speakers were his Grace the Duke of
Argyll, the Earl of Harrowby, Sir Harry Verney, M.P.,
Sir Brook W. Bridges, M.P., the Rev. John Garrett,
D.D., Mr. Edward Baines, M.P., the Rev. Robert
Maguire, the Rev. J. Moorhouse, Mr. Jose, J.P., Mr,
Alderman Putland, and Mr. Joseph Clarke, J.P.
Prayers were said by the Rev. J. Moorhouse, M.A.,
rector of Paddington.
The Archbishop of YORK, prior to his opening address,
read two letters—one from the Archbishop of Canterbury
and one from the Bishop of London, both warmly express•
ing the sympathy felt with the movement by the writers.
The Archbishop then proceeded to state the great pleasure
he felt in presiding over the meeting, and argued that the
conviction was coming over all classes of the com-
munity, from the highest to the lowest, that drink
was one of the greatest curses under which the country
laboured, and that nothing could be done materially to
elevate society until the effects of that curse were removed.
His Grace having referred to the statistics of the past year,
showed that the sin of drunkenness descended from one
generation to another ; affecting the father it also
affected the son; and further, that it was one
of the most fruitful sources of crime. This
being so, could it be said that there was anything
domineering in the conduct of those who sought by all
fair means to remedy the evil ? What, he asked, could be
said of the movement they were met to advocate ? Minis-
ters of religion of all denominations, who saw so much of the
sin of drunkenness, were in favour of the bill. Without
temperance it was useless, they felt, to preach
the gospel to the masses. The civil authorities
throughout the country, too, regarded the bill as a great
boon. Further than this, it was a great mistake to sup-
pose that the more respectable licensed victuallers were
against the bill. Then, coming to the working classes, it
could not be disputed that they were beginning to feel that
if they were to be raised it must be not only, or so much,
by the enjoyment of the franchise, as by giving up the
poison which men put into their mouths to steal away their
reason. It may be taken, then, there is a strong feeling at work
in the community that we do not do well to allow so many
people to poison themselves in our midst without doing
something to avert it. His Grace admitted that he him.
self was not an advocate of total prohibition. What he
wished to see was that the working men should be brought
by moral means to abhor the habit of drinking, as
did gentlemen in the station above them. With this
opinion he knew all did not agree, but then all must admit
that it would not do to ask too much at once. (The state-
ment that there were many who thought that nothing
would do but total prohibition, was received with loud
cheers.) The Archbishop having pointed out that the bill
would provide that public-houses should only be open for
an hour and a half in the middle of the day and two hours
in the evening, and that only for the supply of liquor to
be consumed at home, warmly commended it to the BUD•
nort of the meeting.
The following resolutions were then submitted
".1. That this meeting recognises with hearty satisfaction
the general wish of the great mass of the people to have
public-houses and beershoos closed during Sunday.
2. That, considering that English law provides for all
classes of the people freedom from trading and labour on
the first day of the week, it is unwise and indefensible
to make an exception in favour of the sellers of in-
toxicating drinks ; such an exception being especially
conducive to the increase of drunkenness, and in
principle unfair to all other retail traders. 3. That
while this meeting upholds as sound and beneficial
the principle of prohibiting trading on the Sabbath, it
accepts the bill introduced into Parliament by Mr. John
Abel Smith, Mr. Bazley, and Mr. Baines, as an important
improvement of the existing legislation, and resolves to
petition both Houses of the Legislatnre to pass it into law
without delay. 4. That the best thanks of this meeting
be given to his Grace the Archbishop of York in acknow-
ledgment of his great kindness in consenting to preside
over this meeting, and of the important service his Grace
has thereby rendered to the cause of. tczyperawej J;q2E2&ii
Paid SabbathQbaervexice.% "

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"The elevation of Sir Brook Bridges," observes
the Maidstone Journal, " will cause a vacancy in the re-
presentation of East Kent. No step has, of course, yet
been taken ; but we understand that the Conservative
party are prepared with a candidate who is likely to be ex-
tremely popular with the constituency."

TUE CORNISH MASONS.—The Cornish masons
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nanimously proposed that Gd. per day be taken off their
wages. At present the men of one large firm only have
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