The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-13 00:00:00

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dismissed
Another magistrate. -
it as hie *Mien that a person going from
one part of Leiden to another shoed be
deemed a traveller. Bet all these pleas did sot avail
poor Mr. Faux, who was obliged to pay the oosts of
the sussmoss. with pessimism to waste a little more
tines and messy by appealing to either the Quarter
Sessions or the Court of Queen's Bomb. in mass to
learn pesitMly what the Aet of Portioned testa
by "a base fide traveler." Mr. num strongly
objects that "a loose eousesetion" should be pat
upon the word "traveller ;1' and, to enforce the, judo* of
his opinion epos the minds of his hearers, be pat the
following somewhat impondble sue Supposing,"
he said, "the Act of Pediment made it compulsory
upon inskespere to supply travellers with provisions,
shelter. or liquors, at a price below their value, or
far nothing at all, what construction would the de-
featist pot upon the question as to who was, or was
lA'S traveller ?" We coshes ourselves unable to
imelle gest of the magistrate's illostratiou, and are
est sougaimed that the defendant did not make any
reply to so decidedly imaginary a ease. The re-
port winds up by saying that "a variety of
further questions were here put to the magistrate,
which, however, threw no additional light upon the
inexplicable question, and the defendant left the
court." Thus, it yet remains to be answered,
" What is a beesailds traveller ?"
Now, half ineasms, or half legislation, are always
objectionable. If we en to have this new Beer Let
continued, let it be properly enforced. Let us
establish the continental system of passports, and
make every man who wants to travel on a Sunday
provide himself oa the Saturday with out of these
documeats. Should the word " passport be thought
to savour too moth of a despotic Government and as
un-English police espionage, the same could be easily
changed. The paper might be termed "a lleenes,which
allows the bearer to partake of so much ale, so
mush meat and so nine* bread, on the Sunday," and,
NW die mason tickets of the Crystal Palace, those
" limme" ahead be not transferable." The idea
in real we make over to the honourable mambos
for West Surrey, who might, without much trouble.
work it up into an Act of Parliament, and introduce
it before this session is over. Every man who pro-
vides himself with one of these indulgences should
be considered a " bona _Ale traveller," and all hotel-
keepers or publicans should be, on the strength of
the document, allowed to entertain the holder of it
to his heart's content. There is no other plan that
we can me for the sedation of this difficult question.
Mr. Manx says that "a person at a distance from
home, sod pursuing a lawful calling," is a traveller,
and may have the serfs into a house of entertain-
ment. On this principle a Londoner who goes down
to see a friend at Brighton on the Sunday is decidedly
" • traveller." He is, when at his destination, cer-
tainly "at a distance, from home," and the moat in-
veterate supporters of the new Beer Act will hardly
assert that he is not " pursuing • lawful calling."
The only other reading of the Greenwich magis-
trate's dictum is, that• although it is unlawful to
take any recreation on Sunday, it is permissible for
people to go about the country on their usual week-
day avocations.
The landlord of the Princess of Wales Hotel at
Blackheath was summoned for having people in his
house on Good Friday. But, it should be remarked
that Good Friday is a day not observed as one set
apart for religious exercises by any of the nume-
roas dissenting denominations in England. We
ineetioa whether on this day week there was
religious worship is a single dissenting chapel
throughout the kingdom. Now as nearly ose-half
of each of the labomiog classes as go to church at
all are dissenters, it seems somewhat of an anomaly
to carry into effect a forced observance of Good Friday,
in the same year that we are proposing to abolish
church rates. The hours during which the law now
obliges public-houses to be shut on the afternoon of
Sunday, viz., from half-past two to six, are exactly
thee which interfere most with the poor
man's comfort. And, strange to say, they are
exactly those when—in London at least—the
churches and chapels of all denominations are most
empty. The man who goes once to church or
chapel on Sunday, dome so in the forenoon t he that
goes twice, goes in the forenoon and evening.
In some places of warship—in many of those
belonging to dissenters—there is no @ernce whatever
between the termination of the morning one, at I p.m.,
and the commencement of evening service, at 6 p.m.
Thus the Act mina to be framed for the purpose of
inteeheiag as much as possible with the comfort of
dome who are too pow to keep a cellar of their own.
Mug shall Inborn how grievous a mistake it s
'tahrsidato for the consciences of men P Not all the
give Asia in the world would ever induce people who
are not so inclined to go to church. On the contrary,
every one acquainted with the habits, customs, and
wants of oar labouring population, is aware
that by systematically dosing every place of
recreation for them on Sunday, we simply add
to their other sins a discontented, grumbling spirit,
and the holy day which should be spent in a feeling
of thank:Mess, is now passed in a frame of mind the
least likely to induce an uneducated man to enter the
doors of a church.—Doily News.

NG A BILL THROUGH
PARLIAMENT.

The following bill, under the title " Cathedral
Aete Continnanee," stands en the Order Book of the
Hoene of Coeesnine for Wednesday, the 18th inet

A bill, intituled An Let to madams until the sod of the
present swam of Parliament a Prevision contained in the
Aet'of the sixteenth sad senateeath Tenn of her present
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abandoned,
Lord Aberdeen's government being beaten ea Mr.
Roebuck's modes on the 29th January, thenielerward
retained aloe only pending the nomination et their
soooessors. On the let of February, the bishop's bill
Wes read a mooed time, was committed on the 6th, and
read a third time on the Bth of February I the forma-
tion of the new government being anasaneed by
Lord Granville on the Bth of February. Ito other
bill was during the same period—when prastisally no
government existed—Meanest! WWI a single stage ;
but then no other pending bill was supposed to be
specially distasteful to Lord John Russell. Evert
exertion has eines been mode to prase the bill t
the Commons in Lord John Itneedra absence, and Jte
committee, as we have already mentioned, is now
fixed for Wednesday next.
The sanction of this bill by government would
practically reopen the question of appropriating to
the erection and endowment of new bishoprics the
funds which the Aot of 1864 appropriates to the
working clergy. During its proven in par-
liament the Cathedral Commission, of which the
Bishop of Oxford is the most energetic member,
has been delivered of • premature report, small in
size, and but imperfectly developed, and which,
although not as yet presented to parliament, advo-
cates the institution of one new bishopric, so as to
relieve the Bishop of Exeter of part of his diocese.
The bill tends to provide the funds for this new
bishopric, and for any similar Sees to be recom-
mended in the forthcoming general report of the
Cathedral Commission ; so that Lord John Russell
may have the satisfaction, on his return, of finding
that the administration of which he is supposed to be
an essential part have ingeniously contrived to com-
' mit themselves to a course exactly contrary to his
last legislation, as well u to the principles which
have governed all previous acts relating to °birch
property,
thereof paned under his administration
or under Sir Robert Peel.—Daily News.

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WINDSOR, Arun. 12.

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The dinner party yesterday included the Prince of
Wawa. Major General the Ron. C. sad Mrs. Grey, the
Hon. Miss Vernon, Sir James Clark, and Captain Mac-
donald, R.M.
The bend of the 94th Regiment played daring dinner,
and the Queen's private band after.
The Queen and Prince, accompanied by the Prism of
Wales sad Priam Alfred, rode out oa horseback this
movalag, attended by the Ron. Fiera Macdonald, Lord
Charles Fitzroy, and Colonel Seymour.
The Princess Royal and Princess Alice drove oat is an
open carriage. The younger royal children also took a
carriage drive.
Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Seymour, left Wind-
sor at two o'clock to-day by a special train of the South-
Western Railway, for London.

Prune Albert pneided yesterday afternoon at a meeting
of the Royal Commission of the Patriotic Fend. His
Royal Highness, attended by Colonel Seymour, arrived at
the Palms of Westminster at a quarter before three o'clock.
The other emuninionne present were Berl Grey, the Earl
of Chickens?, the Berl of Hardwick', Lord Colchester,
Lord St. Leotards, the Right Ho*. Mr John Pakington,
M.P., the Han. Colonel Lindsay, M.P., sad Hr. J. G.
Hubbard. Captain Finsboarne gad Captain Wray, the
honorary secretaries, attended. The nesting broke up at a
quarter before six o'clock.

Viscount Palmenton left Landes for his seat, Broadleads,
Hants, after the Cabinet Council es Wednesday afternooa.
His lordship returned to tow*, with Insinuates, PaLiman,
yesterday morals', sad is the swain proceeded to
1 Wiarisor Castle ea a visit to the Queen.

A deputation, consieting of Mr. Baxter, President of the
Provincial Newspaper Society, sad proprietor of the
Sussex Express; Yr. Johan Gage, of theßwry Pati ;Mr.
Austin, of the Maidstone letwitelcAlr. E. Johnson, of the
Wormier Journal; Mr. B. Baines, Mae Leek Merry;
Kr. Kensplay, of the Leeds legelligawer ; sad Mr. Hams,
of the Ludo Times, had as interview with the Claudio!
of the Exchequer, yesterday, at his oMcial residenos, in
Downing-street, to present • resolution, unaahnously
adopted by a meeting of provincial newspaper proprietors,
yesterday, in London, in favour of a halfpeiny stamp for
newspaper, to entitle them to pus through the post, instead
of • penny; and also to press that the registratios, with
sureties, should not be se•Ased to such newspapers as may
be printed on stamped paper.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland
Revenue, had an interview with the Chanoellor of the Ex-
aminer, yesterday.

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