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a ti ssh) ies ee ~ Paovincra Seca ns “= a =i Toronto, wayne A letter lately received from a respectable resident in Saint Thomas, complains,—“ That the * peace of the country is often disturbed—that the Sabbath is every week desecrated by the selling of spirits in ** stores, by hunting, fishing, travelling on business and for pleasure, and ‘manual labor; and that the Taverns “ are thronged on that day r the idle and dissipated.”” SIR, In communicating this tatement toyou, and through you to the other Magistrates in your District, the Lieutenant Governor is persuaded that it cannot be necessary for him to employ any arguments to convince you, that tho decent and religious. observance of the Lord’s Day is closely connected with the morality, and must, consequently, exercise a peel influence on the best interests of a people. Implicitly ryig di, on your disposition to promote this important onject by a mild and judicious enforcement of the Law, whenever its interposition shall become indispensably realest to pepo any gross and public violation of the Sabb: d believing that in granting Licenses for keepil eT regard should be had to a. of the applicant; His Excellency strongly recommends to the Magistrates a careful supervision of the uct of the Innkeepers; and a steady refusal of Licenses to such of them as may, in the management of thi ie usiness, have afforded encouragement to Mas irreligion. aed I have the honor to be, 4 i Sir, ‘Your most obedient and very humble servant, a R. A. TUCKER, Provincial Secretary. ae