The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-01-05 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

WORKING MEN'S -LORD'S DAY RES'  ASSOCIATION. On Monday evening a meeting of about 1,000 per. 11(11:91, chiefly of the working class, was held M the Surrey Chapel, Blackfriars-road, London. The object of the meeting was to give working men the °plan trinity of expressing their views on the Sunday quest thin. The Rev. Newman Hall occupied the chair. Mr. Burr, upholsterer, said working men were opposed to the opening of the Crystal Palace and museums on Sundays, because such proceedings would increase Sunday labour. Mr. Clifton, watchmaker, said that twenty years ago he used to work on Sundays as well as on week days. He knew a hairdresser who I had not hada Sunday for thirty years, and he appealed to working men and others not to shop on Sundays, so that shopmen might have their Sunday rest. Mr. Salmon, formerly & scavengsr, said that some of the railway servants had not had aSmiday's rest for twenty years. These men were deprived of their rest by the Sunday excursionists. He denied that there was any necessity for opening museums on Sunday P, and dwslt on the social advantages of Sunday rest. Mr. Bagg, a hatter, said that our physical necessities required the Sunday rest, and the efforts to open the Crystal Palace were a great mistake. The proceedings were closed in the usual manner.  Slr,—lii your article" Pool c All al's, ' of last November, when criticising Mr Bright's Glasgow speech, you say the absurd inaccuracy of BOMB Of hia statement., ill,, for instance, that sit wbe land of .c eland ni in the hands of 12, and of E,glan• ~ in the hand. of 160 proprietors, are serious Gentnnes in hie oratory.' Mr Bight's own statement, taken from the Glasgow Weekly Mail, Is as follow.—' Are you aware oft fact ehtch I ••••• st .tani the other day in an essay to this soijec,—Mat htrif the land of England Is In the possession of fewer than lao men? Are you aware of the fact that half the land of Sc Omni is in the possession of not mire than ten or twelve in another part of yonr article you wii:e: " Mr. Bight es.y. s that the poor are the only people fit to legislate for the rich" Again you say : " Mr. Bright, if left unchecked, would speedily bring on the war between 'ii tse who have and those who have not. B's tone too much indicates that in his In tragical love affairs the cold and rational city of heart he h,n adopted wI, French maxim, 'La pr mriete c est Berlin emulates warm and susceptible Vienna. At the le via.' Vitro dtner tl el can ne place on his saying that 'ti e poorEn onlyterpreta are nt to legtblate for thd e rich? moment when nthe latter city& youth of eighteen, the Such a coons es thli would bring me to the Goody •• aye of only eon of wealthy parentg, poisoned himself for seeing ,lion, which is a curious climax for a member of the S Inlet" his love for a young girl of his own age unrequited, a of F. sends in wish Mr!' young man of Berlin shot, for a eimilar reason, the girl Inp p wsage fiom Mr. Bright'. Glasgow speech, on which he adored. At the inquest he, bursting into tears, you hive dated to found this disgraceful attack, is as follows : threw himself over the dead body, exclaiming, in an " liot 1 deny altogether that Ihe rich alone me qualified t, agony of grief, '' Oh, my pow Mary' A labourer of leal,hate for the poor, any more ih ou that the poor alone would be qualified to legislate for the rich. Mph 'mat belief an age tolerably advanced commits suicide by hanging Is, that if we could he all called nnon to lent-late for all, that himself from unhappy love for • blind itinerant harp.' would he more Justly treated, anti would be more happy playing woman of nearly sixty years! If such thing. 1 than we are n-w. We should have then an anew; we I should have tin influence of wealth Slut of hlgh couture, ano ismilesnatchesh.: happenf,fr: ;ramong t ri pi t, ai ti,,.sihttehho :la aged womand I because itnishiel3.Blsimired:i'bfdianueirynr:nlo:efvhiiseiseYgiiiiurailaat if: hot thb... ~,,.:,7 4 I: ,a, bl tut i:ts: r thatgcloitmi qualities fromth. t I.e iamu Le ~ rsonut ht leuleun earned= Now, etr, I shall not seek tor epithets wherewith to girl of eighteen, was working.* a factory. Her un