Probable Effect of Mr.Somes's Sunday Closing Bill Finish:none On the Strand

On the Strand

showing three women and two men seated round a tea table while one of the younger women pours tea into a milk jug

'The Westminster Deserter drum'd out of the regiment'

The Grand Union canal was built between 1790 and 1929 and is an amalgamation of several canals between Birmingham and London

including Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

Probable Effect of Mr.Somes's Sunday Closing Bill Finish:none On the Strand'Probable Effect of Mr. Somes's Sunday Closing Bill', 1863. Workman says: Well, Betsy, If They Won't Let Us Get Any Refreshment O'Sunday Out O'Doors We Must Lay In A Stock, And Drink At Home, Like The Pious Scotch! The MP, Mr Somes, introduced a Bill that proposed that all public houses should be closed all day Sunday. Resistance came from both 'patrician champagne and plebian beer'. Here, Mr Punch points out the absurdity of the proposal. Those