The Express.
London, England, 1855-07-30 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.-THIS DAY.

Messrs. Pattenden and Smith report that the accounted.
the hop plantations continue to come vf ry favourable.
There is a good demand at a alight reduction in prices.
Duty, 250,000/.

COAL MARKET.—THIS DAY.
Walls End Haswell, 225. 6 I.; Walls End Hoforth, 201.;
Walls End Stewart's. 225. 6d.-27 fresh ships at market.

THE IVEll' SALE OF BEER BILL.

We subjoin Mr. H. Berkeley's bill, issued this

day :
A Bill to repeal, alter, and amend the act of the seventeenth
and eighteenth years of her present Majesty for further
regulating the sale of beer and other liquors on the Lord's
Day, and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof.
Whereas the laws now in force against the sac of fer-
mented and distilled liquors on the Lord's Day have been
found to be attended with inconvenience to the people • Be
It therefore enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty,
by and with t`se advice end consent of the Lords Spirituel
and Temporal, and Commons, in this present parliament
assembled, end by the authority of the same, as follows:
1. That the Act of parliament poised in the seventeenth
and eighteenth years of the reign of her presenr Majesty,
intituled " An Act for further regulating the Sale of Beer
and other Liquors on the Lord's Day," be and the seine is
herb repealed.
2. It shall not be lawful for any licensed vic-
tualler, or person licensed to sell beer by retail, •
to he drunk on the premises, or not to be drunk
on the premises, or any person Fceneed or autho-
rised to sell any fermented or distilled liquors, or any pc; sail
who by reason of the freedom of the mys•ery or croft of
vinters of the City of London, or of any right or privilege,
shall claim to be be entitled to sell wine by retail, to be
drunk or consumed on the premises, in any part of England
or Wales, to open or keep open his house for the sale of
or to sell beer, wine, spirits, or any other fermented or
distilled liquor between the hours of three and five o'clock
o'clock in the afternoon, nor after eleven ~'clock in the after
won on Sunday, or on Christmas Day, cr Good Friday, or
any day appointed for a public fast or thanksgiving, or
before four o'clock in the morning of the day following
such Sunday, Christmas Day, G aod Friday, or such day, of
public fast or thanksgiving, except to traveller or lodger
therein.
3. No person shall open any house or place of public re-
sort for the sale of fermented or •'iatilled liquor, or sell
therein such liquors, in any part of England or Wales, be-
tween three and five o'clock in the afternoon or after eleven
o'clock in the afternoon on Sunday, cr on Christmas Day or
Goad Friday, or any day appointed for a public la-t or
thanksgiving, or before four o'clock in the morning of the
day following such Sundays, Christmas Day, Good Friday,
or such other days spnoi..ted as aforesaid, except to tra-
vellers.
4. It shall be lawful for any constable at any time to enter
into any house or place of public resort for the sale of beer,
wine, spirit., or other fermented or distilled liquor or li-
quors ; and every person who shall re fuse to admit or shall
not admit such entstable into such house or place shall be
deemed guilty of an offence against this act.
5. Every person who shall offend against this act shall be
liable, upon a summary conviction for the same before any
justice of the peace for the county, riding, division, liberty,
city, borough, or place where the cffence shall he com-
mitted, to a penalty not exceeding five pcunds for every
such offence, and every separate sale shall be deemed a

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separate offence.
6. Every lemon who shall think himself or here( ag-
grieved by any conviction of any justice made under tlas
Act may appeal spinet such conviction to the General
Of Quarter Sessions of the Peace holden for the county,
riding, division, liberty, city, borough, or place wherein
such conviction shall have been made, in the manner
provided for appeals to Quarter Sessions by the twenty
seventh section of the act of parliament pawed in the ninth
year of the reign of his late Majesty Ki►g George the
Fourth. intituled "An Act to regulate the Reacting of
Licences to Keepers of Inns, Alehensre, and Victualling
Mouses in England," and ell the enactments, ptovieione,
and regulations relating to appeals to the quarter sessions in
the said last-men'ioned act contained shall extend to and
regulate spinals to be mace under the act.

Lieutenant-C.lonel Lowtb, who was in a moribund
state when the Manua arrived alongside of l'oromouth
dockyard on Saturday, was removed in a stretcher through
the weds to lodgings, where be died in half an hour af-
terwaros. Ten of the fifteen officers brought home in the
gaup were engaged in the attack upon the Redan on the
18th, and wounded, among them the late Colonel Lowtb,
who was wounded in the thigh, but dysentery was the
awe of bie death.
COLLISION AND Loss OF LIFE.—PLYMOUTH, JULY
28 —The Edmund Graham, Shields, hum Newcastle to
Calcutta, was in contact yesterday morning off the Start,
with the Elisabeth (Dartmouth trawler), which sank with
all.banda, the former receiving no damage.

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Raba intelligence.

METROPOLITAN COUNTY COVETS.
Maw drys aypolould lot the prawn week.
Warns Ilarlm..ladae.—luesd.y, July if; Wabssiday,
Amt I , 7lufwluy. 2...inday, 3.
IllAMT1430)114 M.-riaL—ttdndy. August I; Thursday, 3;
Itidey, 3.
llsoutryou, Mbitylvad'urove.—Mmulay,, July SO.
Maaawswau.. LleimeimUM.MMOloy. hay NI; Tusoday, July
WudimdAy. I Mumilf.2.
Warriaushi. SIONAIN AIMS ; Friday, S.
emousunuut, 130mMoth /1111 Mot 3; Ilaturay, 4.
Pew, Patr4•144444.-48444. laly
SuaruwAss, ovrou.serom. AIWA 1 Thunday, 2.
Lamm, Lamiumell New-yomd.—Tosulay, July 3;; V. adreaday,
A Qua Ifoodey, July SO.
Wasiousuuys —Friany August S.
Ctil 101.00 S, GuildbalLbutldlnit.—Tusuday. July 31; Rod.
arimi, Assam 1; Thursday. 3; Friday. 3.

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