One hundred years ago
A REMARKABLE set of petitions was presented to the House of Commons on Tuesday. One Member after another rose to convey the wish of this or that body of persons that there shall be no more Sunday post. One of two general characters ran through almost the whole series. They came either from the con- gregations of Dissenting chapels, or from associations of working men. The Ancient Order of Foresters and Co- operative and Industrial Societies with- out number agree with Wesleyans, Con- gregationalists, Baptists, and Presby- terians in demanding that the Sunday delivery of letters shall be abolished. Dr Clark, to support whose motion all these petitions were presented, asked the House to say that on 26 June next, the Sunday post shall cease . . . . It may be useful for the moment to disarm opposition by the plea that the result of Dr Clark's motion would only be the substitution of telegrams for letters as the ordinary means of Sunday com- munication.
The Spectator, 23 April 1887
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