The "Working Men's Lord's Day Rest Association" is quite in
a flutter at the possibility that Parliament may repeal the law which presses so hardly upon the Brighton Aquarium. It felt it its duty on Friday week to wait on the Home Secretary, and urge, through Lord Shaftesbury, that its members "earned their bread by the sweat of their brows," and did not want to be amused on Sunday. If the Act were repealed, all manner of places of amuse- ment, immoral as well as harmless, would be opened, and Sunday would be like a Bank Holiday. Sunday amusements, too, and Sunday drinking went hand-in-hand. Mr. Waddy, who represents the Wesleyans, joined in the remonstrance, and so did Sir H. Flavelock, who represents the Baptists, and all in the Sabbatarian way begged the whole question by the assumption that Sunday is in some way.different from other days. Lord Shaftesbury even seems to think sin on the first day worse than in on the second day of the week. The Home Secretary hinted to the deputation that he did not agree with them, but he was quite aware of the depth of feeling on both sides ; he "did not know that Govern- ment would do anything," but he would take trouble 4o ascertain exactly how the law stood.
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