CLOSING PUBLIC HOUSES ON SUNDAY.
—Cardinal Cullen has written a letter, dated at Dublin on the 10th inst., in which he says: “Undoubtedly, the peace and morality of the city would be greatly promoted, and many useful and hard-working citizens saved from ruin, if the principle of closing public houses and beer shops on Sundays were adopted. I am also of opinion that some measures should be taken to check drunkenness on Saturday evenings, for those who abandon themselves to excessive drinking to a late hour on Saturday night are unfit to take part in the public services of religion on Sunday morning. This is an abuse which should be prevented, and I hope it will be taken into the account by our legislators, and some effective remedy applied to an evil which regularly prepares the way for the neglect of all religious duties on Sunday.”