VINDICATED***


Transcribed from the 1855 William Tweedie edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org





                                   THE
                          NEW SUNDAY LIQUOR LAW
                               VINDICATED.


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                           BY J. EWING RITCHIE.

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                                 LONDON:
                      WILLIAM TWEEDIE, 337, STRAND.

                                  1855.

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                                   THE
                            PUBLIC-HOUSE TRADE
                                AS IT IS:
                                    OR
                        AN EPITOME OF THE EVIDENCE
                              TAKEN BEFORE A
                    COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
                                  IN THE
                    PARLIAMENTARY SESSIONS OF 1853–4.

                           BY J. EWING RITCHIE.

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THE
NEW SUNDAY LIQUOR LAW VINDICATED.


AN Act came into operation in August, denominated “The New Beer Bill,”
requiring public-houses to be closed on Sundays, with the exception of
the hours 1 to 3 p.m., and 6 to 10 p.m.  No sooner was it passed than it
was found there was a great decrease in the number of cases of persons
charged with drunkenness at the various police stations of the
metropolis.  Monday, instead of being a heavy day, was the reverse—the
magistrates had little or nothing to do.  But this great public good was
not brought about without inconveniencing some parties.  The publicans
felt their craft was in danger,—that they were, as Benjamin Disraeli
informed them the other day at Plymouth, “in a critical situation;” and
that if they acquiesced in the law, the result would be most
unsatisfactory,