The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-16 00:00:00

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Hoertrai Ton ConsomPrion, BIONTTON.—On
lionday last, through the kindness of the Hector, the Bev.
E. E. Copketone, • sermon eras preached at 9t. Mary's,
Barnes, by the Rev. J. T. Manley, Incumbent of Mortlake,
in behalf of the shove excellent charity. Having given a
short account of the rise of this much needed institution
nineteen years ago, and of its present position of eminent
usefulness, as nue of the noblest of the charities which form,
as it were, a halo of glory round this vast metropolis, the
reverend preacher brWy but feelingly pleaded for help on
behalf of nearly 900 fellow manure whose sufferinivare
being dleviated, or the prosper of when mated is •
dated by means of the comforts and medical testprat
received at ibis hospital. 71d• insertutton was elated to be
entirely unendowed, there being moreover a yearly doled.
eery (beyond the amount of the annual eulimenperous) of
about 3,000 f., which has to be male op by legacies, church
collections, sad donations. The colleens., notwitheneding
that the church is not large, and that the morning was un•
prmising, amounted to XL 17s. 9.1.
QI,ItiN'S UNIVIISITY IN IRELAND.—Yesterday a
deputation tram the padnates of the Queen's University in
Ireland Ind an interview, at the Irisb-dioe, with Mr.
Cardwell, Chief &ureter, for Ireland, and Mr. Dray, At-
torney-dews/ The deputation, omelet* of Basses A.
IL Porter A. 8., Theme Modal,, A.M. and J. Wilma%
A. (Ballast), J. Meares, A.M., and D. A.B.
(Galway), and M. M. Gadd, A. 8., and Themes ' A.D.
(Carl), was istoduoul hy Richard Dries% NeA.. P.,
Vit
and aoounipanial by His H. IL Owns, 4e,
Mir John Arnott, M.P. Mayor of Cork J. •0.
Lever, Esq., M.P., and J. Harry, Viefherts
Reporter). The oblate of the dew
..a.
urge ~n government the claim of the Queen's ale bz
repriventrition is parliamewt. Mr. Cardwell Nand he
and his colleague were fully alive to the importance of the
subject, and wan minima to carry out the wishes of the
university. He also said that though there was at present
no seat at the disposal of the government, yet II nits proba-
ble that in the event of any of the exist* Irish lesepuglis
being disfranchised, parliament might be &spread 'to look
favourahly on the claims of the Queen's University to the
vacancy thus created. The dapaintlen Una withdrew.
USURY-LANS THAATILL—An astir' change of
mime
has taken place at this base& The panto-
mime having boss withdrawn and Mr. Man DOW' im-
pounded terminated, • sew diem and a new tires wen
Zardon Monday night The fem. 11l idled dliristinise
r, the Dud My Me Moms, and the prlnelpl parts are
aapparial by Menem Robert Noy, Itrafin Vanier, Mrs.
D•wtan, Mies H. Howard, mein Paw The fame, called
Ths Watt Mew tie the is • very slight affair,
and le played by Memo. , J. haunders P. Hall,
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OSTMTAL PALACL - OWN SHILLING DAY.

TIMMWAIT, MAIM 15.—Achaiiiiivin on payload% ON; ditto
by soma Warts, 414; total visitors, 1,372.

MAROH 16, 1890.

,ihnntiliHNlNlP NOUNNS AND Whin
LIONNSE6 BILL.

• Mr. Edwin James has addressed the following
lsltar to Ir. 1101111 K in refereoce to the above bin
" Rouse of Commons, Thursday Night.
.• Ny dear Sir,—On my arrival at the house this evening
the ' 11.11 to Regulate the Licensing of Refreshment Houser
;anti the Granting of Wine Licensee' was placed in my
hands This measure so seriously affects the interests of
the hawed victualler, that I have requested the Chan-
cellos of the Exchequer to postpone the second reading of
the bill in order to afford time to ascertain the feelings and
views of those so deeply tnterested upon this qocetion, •
"The right hon. gentleman will, I believe, announce
in the house to-morrow evening, that the seceal reading
will be deferred mail Monday week.

" Faithfully, Eowur J 41130.,
"J. J. Hose& RN., Lionised Yiatuallere Protactiou
Asiocistion."

This morning a return wee made to parliament
d the memorial edopted by the Licensed Victuallers' Pee.
teethe Society, London., the Birmingham United Towne
deseelahon sf Licemsed oietaal.e, litinoisester Licensed
=ere' Defence Le. the Meta Licensed Vic- '
Aseocintes, the Liverpool Licensed Victuallers'
AMetdietiop. the Sheffield sod Rotherham Licensed Vie-
Aisociation, and the Lelcester Lensed Victuallers'
s„lssithit the licensing of refriditpit sell .
horis to sell
licensing w
eriW Ilheineeni imengdea Pdgim -noir WO
that to "give a wins homes looser subject who pays ter
it, is to'llise every piece 4 public resort, every club of
ditaton, every place of assignation, every rentlesvons
vice crime," and they sak if public opinion is to go foe
nothing with government.

"We are not aware of a single meeting being held, of
petition presented, to throw the wine and spirit trade open,
while hundreds of both have appeared to increase the re-
strictions upon, and circumscribe the number of Oboee for,
the consumption of intoxicating drinks. The clergy of all
• •

denominatio.ns, with their congregations, philanthropie and
educational bodies, the judges from the bench, remakes
before the grand jury, have all denounced the increase of
temptations to the 000aumption of beverages which stisaw.
late to crime. Are these protests against a heedkeg
policy to be ignored by ministers? We cannot afford
to violate the law, to defraud the revenue, to
increase penalties. How can we compete with those who
have nothing to lose, to whom the risk of detection is with.
out heard, and whom the penalty of fines could leave no
poorer than before? Let parliament deprive us of our
prodta and where will be the safety for travelling strangers
or oar wayfaring public? what will become of the cheracter
oar wayside houses, and decent country inns? We es-
treat for these suggestions the candid consideration of the
government. We had certainly understood that Sir C.
Wood, in deprecating en opposithm to the Maraschino Act,
bad implied something like an assurance that we were not
to be further disturbed. We earnestly solicit now th►t a
Anal period may be put to tie course .1 meddling legisla-
lion which keeps us in suspense, and our trade in m•
certainty."

5.R117011,1 11.11XTINGS.

tARx.—
At a meeth

NTARY REIPORM COMMITTEE
of this committee held on Wedneo-

—.v. meeting
day at Fendall's Hotel, Wesfasiaster, Mr. litithar. LUC"
in cheer, it was resolved : 1. That as it appears from
the Parliamentary Paper, No. 124, that in many boroughs,
especially in those of the metropolis, the redact:keel
the bane& franchise for inhabitant householders from DX
to Si. yearly value can add very scantily to the existing
electors, e.p., in Marylebone, with 21,031 electors, oody
400; in Finsbury, with 10,951 electors, only 588; in Weft,
waster, with 111,791 electors, only 700; and in the City of
tettwith 19,026 electors, only 255; it is desiralle,
e New Reform Hill, further to extend the borough
franchise to those who occupy apartments, furnished or un-
furnished, at • rent amounting to 10/. • year; and also to
those, whether in counties or boroughs, who pay forty
shillings • year direct taxes. 2. That the extension of the
rate-paying clauses, relating to the borough franchise reader
the act of 1832, to county voters, as proposed by the Now
Reform Hill, will occasion a serious limitation of the fran-
chise, involve great trouble and perplexity in preparing the
county registers, and offer facilities, for the commission of
bribery; and that there is no sufficient reason why the pay.
went of poor rates, any more than of assessed taxer, should
say longer be insisted on as a audition of registration. 3.
That the general expenses which are necessary in the con-
duct of an election, such as the coat of polling booths, fees
to public officers, Le., ought to be defrayed out of the
public funds belonging to the constituency to which ouch
election relates; and • provisions to this effect, similar to
that which appeared in the bill of the late government,
should be adopted by the legislature in the present session
of parliament. 4. That it is an Injustice any longer to with-
held from Scotch and bell counties the privilege of a forty.
shillings franchise for freeholders or tenants in perpetuity,
similar to that which is enjoyed by the forty-shillings county
freeholders of England.

LticarrrEn. —A public meeting wan held on
Wednesday night at the Town-hall, Leicester—the Mayor in
the chair —to take into consideration thelleforia Bill of Lord
John Russell. After an interesting diecoesion, a petition
was agreed to, praying the house to peas the bill, but at the
seine time atoning that it was considered only as an in-
stalment, and that the parties present would upon any
fitting occasion endeavour to obtain still further mid more
extensive measures of reform.
Lame. —There was a large gathering of reformers
in the Leeds Town-hell on Tuesday evening, for the put.-
, pose of expressing an opinion on the Reform Billust
introduced into the House of Commons by Lord John
Russell. The chair was occupied by the mayor (W.
Releall, Esq.), and he was supported on the plat-till
the principal reformers of the town and neighbo
Upwards of 3,000 persons were present. The mayor having
briefly opened the proceedings read • letter from Mr.
Edward Bain., 111. P., who, in his communication, regretted
that he was unable to meet his conaituente on such an im-
portant occasion. The hum gentlemen, however, an-
nounced his intention to support Lord John Russell's bill,
the main feature+ of which were "wise and good." The
assembly was unanimous in support ef the measure so far
as it goes. The only difference of opinion was whether or
not there should he added to the expression of approbation
one of regret that the bill was not of a more sweeping cha-
racter, but an amendment to that effect having been lost,
the weighed resolution was agreed to without a dlisarotient.
One of the resolutions, however, submitted by the pro-
moters of the meeting affirmed the desirableness of pro.
viding that persons otherwise entitled to vote should not
be cut off by the operation of the practice of compounding
for mase.

JULADFOlD.—Airanzting, convened by the
committee of the Reform A.,nciation, was
held in the Back-lane -roes, Meaningham, on Mon-
day evening, to consider the Reform Bill now before the
Rouse of Commons. Mr. James Hanson was celled to the
chair. The following resolution was moved by Mr. J. A.
Clapham That this approves of that portioned
the Reform Bill recently t into the Home of Com-
mons, so far as it relates to reduction of the borough
and county trasebano, sad considers it another important
step in the direction of a suffrage adapted to the wants of a
free and enlightened people." Mr. Malcolm Boas seconded
the mutation, which was supported by Mr. W. R. Haigh,
and carried by an overwhelming majority. Mr. E. Carter pro-
, pooled the next resolution " That it is the opinion of this
mooting that the reduction of small seats which Lord John
Rowell proposes to make, with the extension of larger owes,
does not go far enough, ad in this reepect • much nearer
approximation to his 11211111111W11 al 1864 would have been more
awasialaut and more deserving of the support of the mass of
the country, inasmuch as whether we take wealth, orpupm
Intim, or taxation as the proper lads of representation, it
mat be evident that while small country towns have more
Om their share of political power, the manufacturing
districts are most unfairly represented." The revolution
was unanimously agreed to. A petition to the HOMO of
Commons, founded on the preceding resolutions, wee then
adopted.

This Poinnonans POOR-LAW GUARDIANS AND
111 AUDITOR --ilbs weekly meeting of the Baird of Gar-
dimes yesterehy bed bdore it a cow of s letter eddreseed to
the auditor Mr. Roberta, by the Poor-law Board, in reply to
one from him, as to moult prouiedings. The letter is dated
14th Merck, sail refers in the tint pleas to a previous inti-
mation from the board, on the 14th December, that in their
opinion an auditor ought have the eminent* of a clerk pro-
vided he hisseelf ooaducted the audit in all substantial par-
**Wins, and that under the circumstances se then presented
use els& ealOt seam. If, however, the extent and ear
seeens raider further ineisteines seiesinery,
eit a
rd te
think the auditor entitled to avail hiniesltoefis
and they have every confidence that it will not be obsa
to by the oversees and guadiaas se keg as it is eardned to
such part ad the duty aa can poopft be dol•Ilaud
assistests
to
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meshed adhere sear Weymouth drachm the lain week. TheY
ere supposed to have famed a parties of the carpe d suns.]
shipwrecked vesseL