The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-24 00:00:00

THE SUNDAY BEER BILL.

A resolution of thanks to Mr. Berkeley having
bAseszt=sed by the Bristol Lionised VistasLen' Protection
on, for hie exertions in promoting the repeal of the
Sunday Beer Bill of 1854, the following correspondent* bee
passed:
At a unities of the committee of the Bristol Licensed
Victuallers' Protection Association, held oa Thursday, 18th
Anon, 1866,
It was resolved uaanknonsly : " That the beet thinks of
this association be presented to our excellent representative
in parliament the Honourable F. Henry F. Berkeley, for
his conduct is opposing the Sunday Beer Bill of 1854
during that smoke, and for his consistency in moving for,
and obtaining, • emainittee during the session of 1856, for
impaling into the operation of the said obnoxious act. We
thank him for his able speech in moving for that committee,
and the indefatigable manner in which he discharged the
duties of chairmaa. We thank him for bringing ins bill,
founded on the report of that committee. and we believe
that the industrial (dames will join with the Association of
Licensed Victuallers in viewing the honourable member's
sot as a remedial measure tending to their comfort and
convenience, while it removes from our trade the persecution
of being subject to a law containing a phrase cepahle of
being twisted into any meaning, and which has proved •
Mattel somas of misconstruction and injustice." .
Hinny Minas, Vice President, Chairman.

Viaterie-equare, 18th August, 1866.
Dear Bir,—With mush Jammu* I acknowledge your letter
enclosed with a me at drake inn the Bristol Association
of Licensed Vietnam, to whisk they are kind enouch to
consider that I have rendered the pablie in general, and
their class is particular, some service by having obtained a
committee to inquire intothe !Sunday Beer Act of last sm•
sion, and pared a bill to alter that measure. I certainly,
with reference to that committee, may congratulate your
association on the marked testimony given by some of the
highest authorities as to the excellent conduct and respect-
ability of the licensed victuallers as a body, and they have
the more rumen to be proud of such testimony, inasmuch as
it was gives by witnesses not called on behalf of the trade,
and whose opinions were previously unknown to the com-
mittee.

kitsch has bees said of no evidence having been called on
behalf of thou who inculcate total abstiaence. Such com-
plaints are unfounded. The committee took evidence
declining the ingestions of uy party. They had a list
submitted to theta of upwards of one hundred witnesses
sugguted by the solicitor to aa asrociatioa of licensed via
Wailers, but not au was heard; had your witnesses bun
heard, the committee were prepared to hue beard those
suggested by the total abstinence people.
rho committee rewired to report OA the evidence before
them, because they felt that it was wrong to entail upon
your trade another twelve months of perstention ender the
loose wording of the Beer Act of 1861, and that twelve
months ought not to pass over without the comforts and
convenience of the industrial classes having du considera-
tion from that class which make the laws, but which were
perfectly exempt from the discomfort end inconvenience of
the law they had made in 1854, and which anted the in.
Mistrial classes alone. Bo far the evidence was complete
sad anaaswerable.

I think this legislature showed ezcellent feeling in adopt
tag the reeenussiadation of the eocarnittee, and in passing
the ramsdial iseenars founded on its report, which I had
thellteresex le prepeoe.—l am, dux sir, yours vary faithfully,
F. EBNAT F. BBILILILEY.
Kr. Allem, Hon. Secretary.