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howcrtrer , for having made the attempt . He is rather too much given to be bufty ; bat he has never bestirred himself in a less exceptionable way than on the present occasion . The evils on which the Bishop principally expatiates are the following : 1 . Traffic in the different articles of fooa .
The markets are full of buyers and sellers . —In Clare Market there is not the least show of respecting the day ; an unusual degree of activity seems to prevail . —In the public streets every shop which is occupied by a butcher , a baker , a cook , a confectioner , a chemist , a greengrocer , is open during the whole morning of the Sunday , and many of them throughout the day .- ~ The irregularities of this kind , which occur within the limits of the two cities of London and Westminster , are trivial , compared with the shocking profanation of the
Sabbath which goes on in the populous suburbs of the metropolis . —A gentleman , who had personally inspected various streets and public avenues to the north-west of the metropolis , counted no less than four hundred and seventy-three shops , of various trades , open for business on the Lord ' s Day , besides stalls for miit and other articles of consumption . —On the Paddington canal , business is carried on at the wharfs , and the boats are loaded and unloaded upon the Sunday , as upon the other days of the week . "—Pp . 10 ,, 11 ,
15 . 2 , Drunkenness . " There is one evil of enormous magnitude , which is now too obvious at all times , but more distressingly so on the Lord's Day ; I mean the resort of the lower orders to the almost numberless wine-vaults and gin-shops in which the work of ruin goes on throughout the week without intermission . —One most painful feature of the case is , the increase of drunkenness among females . One can hardly pass a gin-shop without seeing women , either entering or
leaving it , some of them in rags , the infatuated victims of a vice now grown unconquerable by habit ; but many of respectable exterior ; and many , as I can testify from frequent observation , with infants in their arms . —Whoever has watched the details of female dishonesty and profligacy , in the police reports , knows in how large a proportion of cases they may be traced to this cause . —There are more than eighty liquor shops in the single line of street which lies between the two churches of Bishopsgate and Shoreditch . "—Pp . 12 —14 .
3 . Sports . "In the outskirts of London , and especially on the Surrey side of the Thames , and in the neighbourhood of the parks , Sunday is marked by the resorting together of youthful profligates of both sexes , for the purpose of fighting" , pigeon-shooting , gambling , and all kinds of improper pastimes . —A more respectable class resort to the public-houses and tea-gardens . — The principal streets of the town are kept in continual rattle by the passing and repassing of noisy vehicles which disturb our public worship . —The steampackets up the Thames to Richmond , and downwards to Margate and the Note , are crowded .- —It has been stated , that in the month of August last , six thousand persons availed themselves of this convenience to take their pleasure , as it is called . A waterman , who lives near my own house , has told me , that he has known more than five hundred boats pass under Putney Bridge on a fine Sunday , carrying parties of pleasure /*—Pp . 14 , 15 .
4 . Sunday News-rooms * ** There are , at this time , twelve Sunday newspapers , of which forty thousand copies are circulated , principally by means of about three hundred shops . "—P . 16 . These allegations chiefly apply to the poorer classes of society . The Bishop then appeals to the higher orders ; his charges against them are
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1830, page 390, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2585/page/30/
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