The Express.
London, England, 1859-02-17 00:00:00

' OP TES LIQUOR P 1147720.

A palio Mani of the United Leedom Alliance
fair suppreseloa of the liquor traffic was held last evening
la tads-lEall, era vas reread is ever part. The chair
Tltern by the Praha of the Nara Sr Ware C.
gmcati, Est , who. aftar elbellay to the meld, axaml.
ad paildal sae et Stespereace, rid that it was
riaTiastar ef as Mimeo to lateelase a la late pair
weer
ets the isle dintoS liars, sad .
, order to someaplia the, that It woad be
snarl with most esedereep a, they had well .6-
eaariered • sernee, the names of ebbe wad Whit
lase them. The at, rare= was r folless That ,
this maim is of War that the Gay setiereor mods '
a dear with the *dal, IS Strew Make tot. reeer the :
people, who sr, boa as to ita
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and ea red border, frineted fa tie ale
death to thenseres es to Its weber y. That MI
ihtehlia tarwati, seollentede the issiera If • Par .
the ibrtholoery yeasineet mare, ark TM eishie the
isteerers of • era dirket to vets any of pair
he... art beer-elioca tetra Oa Meta; as by -
w United Meadow Anima. That a ory of testis ,
aka be 'lra by the &amp, co behalf a this arstry,
sad forward lo the Plat fir. B. Wolper, 111. P., her
JIMMIE*r. Saar of Illate.
. D Drum, 14 mar this resolution, was ci
ovate GM it as thus fee the Seca Mak Sae OD IN
vas sad Prewar P. W. NISI.
MAI, CRISS=I4.6.7I= that the dears of polltlea •
sear, woe sot rand
bew ato thereir oases. Theis wen teat
mar pablieliterts sad , sad if le might fa.
Ins whet lad bra Pepe ia
othr Abram la Nab narks, it was Al, poorer
which carried these snood sabot the wish
adarled.
Mr. W. MOST SSTYOI7I. Escudo of
rorTyne, supported its isolation, and Mis
Sara to • fa aloft of tS4I4 OS
oboe IL a sambros • little write IMeetl°
Aail boa is" 18 oas per Ara
is MISII•ber, 111—abete 2, esemerear lie Vial
erase sad amass drab melting fan hasigente la
arty dram.
TM matey wiener aboard by Mr SANT= Pont,
barray asontarral the abase, who, la altars to
the bill shout to Irma& farwasd in rehear tho
regolatkm of bier. sby Sir. Walpole. staid that he had
so doubt bat that it would ramble is salt what Mr. Hardy
had introdoced ; sod thrill' he did aot expect aay very
wet rate from it, yet he tared that, Com what Look
pros is that hell that night, the Home Betretery Watt hi
convinced tree wes a season i the country that he amid
as go tco far ia the regabeisa of ha shops. The arms
was entries to deliver the House of Commons from a great
MHcuhy, to fare rem to bre rainy to do with the
Istatios, but bead tt over to the public
The reolot"ou having has. pat and curled, the assay
sereand am a vote drab to the chairmen.

WDL4RD 1.41LW41.

The half-yeertv meeting of this cerageny wee
Yid mesas, al Darby—Mr. SiNWIL Blum, Y.P., la

reiort (as abstract of which bee appeared is the Ns.
press mod statement of accwaite were token as read. •
epplementary report was read from the audit committee,
ripresetws of their sense of the very large amount of time
mid =I whist the 1110600111 have dt voted to the duties of
their elks darA,terLgest year ; and by which they have
made a fail in stion into metal important departments
of the tempsay'e •
Tba groins for the adoption and the report was pat and or-
tied unanimously.
Her lathes were weed declaring the dividenos on the
various smells a* ammunkended to rte report, the dividends to
be payable ea the Ist of March stest.l
Votes were also takes for the various new outlay,. MOM.
mended, end for the cepitatiernien of ouch of tee 181. lbs. 4d.
shikido stack
ares as are tally pad up, end of the W. Leicester sad
a . _

The retirini akt,etors wen re-fleeted. Mr. Jones, one of
the audit commits, wan alto elected a member of the board.
the non of Mr. Bell who hie re•bei.

ofBhomeld, wu elected auditor in
the epee of Mr. Jaw; the chairman alba audit committee,
Mr.ißeard y Moil* remarked co the factittica which the dime.
tors hatkattot Bed to tho audit commit ice for turestigatiag the

affairs of tha compasy,
The fame:hap tarshaa'ad irkh a vote of thanks to tha
chairman.

NORTH LONDON idllirdr.

On Tmaday the half-yearly meeting of this eon-
patsy was bed at the Railway Station, Enamour'', ;
R. D. MANGLES in the chair._
Cncsa, the secretary, recd the minutes of the last
wenn, Ilhia win oasts mad. The report, aa abstract of
which be appeared In the "Wren', was takes as read.
'1 he CHAIRMAN, In moving the sdopre of the report,
=tasted the shareholders sad the public at the sec.
working of their lice. It mu vtry useful to the
L nice end North Western in conveying turtle to and kora
their etareitateee in Hayden equate, and the clove alliance
at the two companies war morally berfisial. The
of the liamreto4 Junction B. limy la the course
rhiag • summer would give them a coneldenthee @cordon at
trade. The Groat Northern Railway Company had
Waned a Jordon with their lir Dear Kiss's• foe
the parpose of coneeyieg mods to the Gnat Noes
warehonoss in the City on the Blackwell Belway,
which would, no doubt, be r useful to than se the
fleydce-squent depdt was to the London and North Western
Campo,. With ?egad to the late socklect on the line, the
matter bad been bare. igated by the dinettese and the deems
of the Bcerd of Trade, sod it appeared that no senor biome
WAS ispatable to say one, bat that it had occurred in conso-
mmes of the dimity of the fog, sad owing to the ebefagive
working of some stentle which was intended to be self.
acting. A large WM had been set part for compensation;
hi fad, a larger son than bad bra cat. There wee no
siren_ erompectcd dissinuten loony stare dividend from that
8°5.11."

Recohnkme were permed adopting the report • declaring a
dividend of 21 lOr. per cent. for the pa-t lialf-year on the
paid-up cepTtel of the company ; coeverttng the 101. share}
emounthm to 75,0001., in'e capital Mock of the company, and
realeoting Mr. G. G. Olyn. M.P., mad Mr. G. Altenthr, the
tauter m directors, end Mr. Eanaderacia, the retiring auditor.
♦ vets of Meeks to the cbatrman end &name concluded
the presuMass.

MIPrTID RZWAII,D.—A aalsooriptioa has boon sot
ou foot at the fialatat'on Tavern, 17, Niod`t°4ll64" fel. the
papas of rewarding the valorous andel of Wood, the ea-
ale or or the toseeist, in the pariah of Wittecirpd, who
neatly diatingesbot himself by saving tae lies el is per.
eons at the ere which occurred at Mr. Weltou'o, tho Mo.
dealer. Wood saved ens lives in three days, oat oblgothar
the live. of ntss'y promo in the same pule. B. he. for
quatly toady surfaced himself in his eadtavom to mow
Ws fellow-orretersa Bach oondect deserve a more sob-
asocial scheroisdpaent than we comatadatitots to do
pops of rahhis sesta A list he ben Opted, sa4 lass!
moist en nbeeralvd.

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SONDON, THURSDAY, PRI. 17.

Tun "Martin. with a Dammed Wife's Sister" Bill
is taking the place of the Jewish Disabilities Re-
moval among the standard performances of the
Session. The feeling of the constituencies, no it h
expressed in petitions, and in Parliamentary divi-
sions, has been manifestly remrded in favour of con-
ferring a legislative permission upon a pectin's,
which the absence of legal sanction is &and to be
unable to arrest among the most numerous class
the population, and which obtains very largely
among the most orderly and enlightened portisa
the community.

This i. pm Moly one of those social goes- II
time on which every males pelsonel feeliag
and prints experkaes are peesticslly sad
instinctively their OWN Lealabris, taikpondently of
all those u priori emelisetises whisk are imam boss
imported into the dissuades by a ells of curious sad
ardent formalists. Lad BURT, who has talus
charge of the quid= la the Meese et Oammass
very fairly ezessed hismseM ken making a est
speech is the re-inteedestien st a Bill textually the
sense se that whisk we reiseted by the Lords last
year. The neseeme Ims boss again and again
debated, sad waded by all sorts of oeclemier
bell sad social objeskeer as every geed
and pretext, beau sad Males ; without the
possibility of unmakes a step beyond the
samertioa that Moses weal bare Imbiddes
it, had be lived I. this peet-sesrldiaa age; that, at
all events, "the Qs/lii" bee kr same She. seater
ries dimallowed it (wept es is Isidgesss," for
vane reseind)l sad that sa shrub' amber of
coatempersey wives would be made enemy, eed a
seeltitede sf sMfMale and astir. sisteesia-law
would lees their seespetiee, if esatingsst isajegal
remainders were setablisimed by Ast of Psalmist.
Now we assert reel& the ingeemisa that the &-
leaden of the notes cue weld do well to carve
their oppositice to the sestimeatal and social pelat
of view, aad to leave sesisekethal &to to dispatents
of the theological sad jecakr roan of Mr. HIRST
flit sails D, whose kseiliarity with the logislaties
of another work is only equalled by his diarist et
the legislation et this. Mr. DRUMMOND ism up
the most gamed mums with the Milk at a Basks I
yet. wheal he speaks " the aesalmems vales at the
" Chards, so keg se the voice et the Char& maid
"be heard; we seem to be listanieg I. the
jargon of one of these " Papists' when be
quotes end derides is a breath. Time k a
clam of pablie met whims originality enable la
&in pistols out of window to frighten the passes"
by. MM. Peocasolv, VIMILLOT, Ism Da
DIRAILDIN, are aotoristise et this typo an the ether
side of the realer; sad Mr. lIIINIT DROMMOND
is a British brother of the Order. Who bat an
of theme umpired Aroma weak nature to desig-
nate marries" with a wits's sister es " inert i" or
the 'betides et shank rates as " seseilege ?" Better
that epees\ should have bees gins to meta to con-
ceal hie thoughts them to expels them, if it ose
lad se wiser re than this.

The miens ableatioes to the Bill were stated ably
sad seggestkely, though with a twang sidegmatis
potatoes, by Kr. Busaaroan Hors, who wade tie
wenn mistake °flowing to mech. To his ante-
ten that " the preponderating Isalleg Cl the religious
" mind of the country " was hada to the Bill, it
was easy for Mr. Bi x roe sad Ms. E. Rau 011 Wale
the peeetisal replies that "darns the hot MR pin art
" leme thee 836,000 peremos," mad thee "d 750 elegy-
•• sea Is the netrepais awe this 400, bed rained
"in Isar et the ItiU." More thee SUS el the
Disbaps. we knew, reeld be ready to sapped it ; aid
it le jest se ash as epee genies woos the sew
able new a wan enable hyena It h, is
preemetantly en partieelarly a natural quer
the, sad must be decided without reference to anal-
-4'l authorities. It is not attempted to be damned
that theme marriages ere daily taking place snag the
poor ; bet Mr. B. Hoes tell as that " more sibeteal
religious leachiag, end, above all. an improvemeat
in their dwellings will "remedy the evil," whisk
more than 400 graduated clergy men in say neon
anew are petitioning the Legislature to eneemrsta
Mr. Hors paints a gloomy picture of a hareehad
into which Lord BURT'S " bread ef dined "h sap-
poen to be carried. He repremsts sesserried de-
ters Dourless, nephews sad Inas untlen and
asks why, if marriage with a wife's deter is to be
permitted, marriage with " the nisei, thou ant. er
" any bbnAirelai.n," should be forbidden. Simply, we
should imagine, because a wife's sister is sot I
blood relation.

The speech of Lord Joni Rrsszu„ who mamma
that " for several years he had refrained fres
" giving a rots" on the subject, is, perhaps, the
most thoughtful and judicious exposition of the
whole question which has yet been heard in the
Houle. Haring satisfied himself that " there
"is no religious prohibition," he admits that
it is "in itself a misfortune, a disadvantage,"
if " the feeling which has hitherto prevailed,
" that when a man marries a woman, the sisters of
" that woman become his sisters u if they were
" sisters by blood," should "be weakened by say
" alteratioe." But there is a pressing practical evil
to be dealt with, and an existing state of facts which
cannot be denied. Among the middle, and espe-
cially among the poorer dares, there is a prevailing
ferling that "after the death of the wife there is
often no ;memo so fit to take are of the children,
" as the beloved sister of that wife."

Coder this impression innocent marriages are con-
stantly taking place to which tt the stigma of coney
bias's" is attached. This stigma it is sought to re-
more,and it is the it nee of thlsgreat practical nil that
Nepali Lord Jwt• Itussru. w i'lorer the wail