The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-31 00:00:00

THE NATAL BISHOP&

The Rev. William Butler, vicar of Wantage,
who was lately elected a bishop in South Africa, publishes
the following letter, which he has received from the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Oxford :
Addington Park, Jan. 12.
My dear Sir,—We have carefully weighed the difficult
question which you have proposed to us, as to your accept-
ance of your election to the office of a bishop in South
Africa, and we have concluded—that the decision of the
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council having deter-
mined the position of our church in South Africa to he
that of a voluntary spiritual society, and that the lettere
Jtent held by Dr. Coleus° confer on him no territorial
urisdiction or authority there is nothing in his legal
position to prevent the el;ction of a bishop to preside over
them, by those of our communion in South
Africa who, with ourselves, hold him to have
been canonically deposed from his spiritual office.
Considering, then, the post of bishop to be vawant,
and the needs of this diatnct of South Africa to be urgent,
we dare not advise you to refuse the call which has reached
you. But before we can advise you to accept it, there
appear to us to be certain grave doubts which require to
be solved. his evidently of the utmost moment that no
room should be left, in the action which you are invited to
take, for creating a schism, which would still further
weaken and divide the church. For the avoidance of so
great a danger it seems to us unusually important that tho
canonicity of your election should be clear from every
reasonable doubt. Now we perceive-1. That the electing
clergy were a deckled minority of the clergy of the diocese.
2. That an equal number voted for and against the pro-
ceeding to an election. 3. That some of those who
opposed proceeding tout election recorded their refusal to
receive a bishop if one were consecrated us the result of so
evenly balanced a vote.
These considerations suggest to us the doubt whether
there is as yet the proof which you have a right to require,
viz.-1. That the canonicity of the election is certain.
2. That it will be recognised by the metropolitan and
suffragans of the province as canonical. 3. That it will be
so recognised by the church at home.
We further notice, that though a large majority of the
' lay communicants present voted for the election, yet that
they amounted only to twenty-nine so small a propor-
tion of the whole number of lay communicants in the dio-
cese, that we doubt whether these votes can properly be
taken as expressing the " assent of the laity ;" more espe.
ceially as we do not perceive that they pledged their
order to make the needful provision for their bishop. We
advise you, therefore, to suspend your decision until these
1 important questions concerning your election shall have
been completely answered. With earnest prayer to God
to lead you in this matter to see and to, do His will,—We
remain, ever yours, (Signed) C. T. CAKruan.
Rev. W. Butler. S. Oxos.

Tii BOMBAY MAIL.—ALEXANDRIA, JAN. 30.
The Mantilla and Nyanza left at 9.40 a.m. to-day. The
former may be expected at Marseilles on the sth, and the
latter at Southampton about the 12th prox.

The address was then adopted, and presented to Mr.
Bright amidst loud cheering.
Mr. BRIGHT, when the cheering had subsided, said—l
am, as I ought to be, very grateful to you for the address
which has just been presented to me, and for the most
kind manner in which you have received the ob-
servations which have been made in my favour
If we were all here in the witness-box to-night, I must
say that I would not undertake to prove one-half of that
which has been said in my praise ; but, grateful as I am,
I confess to you honestly that the address and the meeting
to-night in prospect have been burdensome to me, for I
feel that I have mall claim to the honour which my
townsmen have seen fit to show me, and I would, if it
had been possible, h►ve escaped this meeting altogether;
and, as you know, it has been driven off almost to the last
moment for the meeting of parliament, partly in the ex-
pectation and the hope that it might have been forgotten.
(A laugh.) I account foryourexceeding kindness in this way,
that you have observed that I have been assailed in the
most unusual manner by public writers and public speakers
of a particular party, speaking and writing in many parts
of the kingdom, and doubtless you have count to the con-
clusion, which was reasonable, from the fact, that some
order had gone out from head.quarters that all the
miserable writers and speakers of the miserable
and hatefnl faction should endeavour, in the interval
between the session of 1866 and the session of 1867, to
defame me as much as possible, in the hope of injuring in
some degree whatever influence I may have in favour of the
great question of the extension of the franchise. Seeing all
this, you thought it but fair and right that you, my neigh-
bours, and townsmen and friends, should give me such
support as was in your power, in the hope that, placed as
.1 sin by some accident which I cannot explain, partly in
the fore front of this great conflict, I might perhaps de-
rive, as I certainly shall derive, much strength from your
generous sympathy. (Loud cheering.) Wondering some-
times at these various and continued assaults, I have just
cast a look over the 25 years of political life which I have
lived, and I have asked myself how it happens that that
is done in political life which is not dons in any other kind
of life with which we are acquainted. (Hear, hear.) A
man may be very active, and in the fore front of a re.
ligious controversy he may hold the same position in some
literary controversy, or in some scientific disputation, but
no man living, however much opposed to him, would
think of pursuing him with that rancorous spirit which
unfortunately is introduced into political controversy, and
which has pursued me with an unrelenting animosity,
not for months only, but for years past. (Loud cries of
" Hear, hear.") In looking over that 2.: years I found,
as far as my mental eye could detect, that my
path had been straightforward, not varying, so far as I
know, to the right hand or to the left from any unworthy
motive. (Loud cheers.) I found that the principles upon
which I had acted were well defined—were distinctly
avowed, and were easily comprehended ; and the prin-
ciples were simply these—that the law and the adminis-
tration of the law in this country should regard with just
and equal eye all classes of the people—(cheers)—and that
on all questions of government—all great national ques-
tions—we should bring to bear these simple but sublime
principles, the high and everlasting principles of a pure
morality which we derive, or ought to dirive, from the reli-
gion which we profess. (Loud cheers.) Now, in these 25 years,
so far as I know, I found no divergence from the principles
with which I first set out, but unfortunately, in some re-
spects, I have not allied myself with any political party.
(Hear, hear.) The public men of this country are mainly
of two parties ; the public press until recently was of two
parties, and if any politician took a line independent of
these two parties, he did not and could not hope to receive
any friendly support from either of them. (Hear, hear.)
Perhaps I have held a peculiar position on another ground.
I am, as you know, a member of • small, but somewhat
remarkable religions sect—a religions body which had a re-
markable origin, and which in its early days at least had a
somewhat remarkable history. Of all the religious sects
which have appeared in the world, certainly since the
corruption of the Christian church, it is that which of all
others has most taught the equality and equal rights of
men ; and I venture to say more, that it is remarkable for
another thing, that probably more than any other body
without its border, and in its service personal ambition is
practically unknown. (Hear, hear.) I think that much
of my opinion, and much of my course of life, has been
determined, or at least greatly influenced, by the training I
received in that body. Belief in the equality of all men
in the sight of Heaven, and of the rights of all men before
earthly governments, naturally leads to a strong sympathy
with the great body of the people. (Loud cheers.) I look
upon the multitude—the millions who form • nation, in the
social rank they may be called of the lowly ; they labour
more, they suffer more than the ranks above them; they have
less of what we consider enjoyment of life; they have
fewer of those compensations which give to us who are
better off the many charms of life ; and I have learned
from my earliest youth to feel for these men—(loud cheers)
—to feel for them a sympathy which I have never been
side to express in words, and which I can find no proper
exhibition of in any outward conduct which I can manifest
towards them. My belief is that the condition of this vast
body of the people might be immensely improved and
raised. I believe they might have less toil, more joy in
their lives, and more of all that without which
to persons in another state life would appear
to be hardly worth the having. (Hear, hear.) Well,
with this sympathy it was not wonderful that five and
twenty years ago I should find myself called out into
active political life. Many of you will recollect the state
of this country from the year 183 K to the year 1:,12, during
the period of bad harvests, when starvation visited hun-
dreds and thousands of homes. Now I became convinced
that the origin of that fearful suffering was the land-
owners' monopoly in the supply of food to the people.
(Hear, hear.) In this beautiful address there is a reference
' to the services which you are kind enough to say I have
rendered in conjunction with the illustrious and lamented
Mr. Cobden. (Cheers.) This reminds me of an incident
which had something to do with my ►fter career. In the year

itioii;:iiiiW;si;;tl;;;(l7
And so exactly was that prophecy fulfilled, that if you
will turn to the parliamentary books, you will find that
from the year 18441 to this year in which I speak, more
than four hundred million—l believe near five hundred
million—pounds' worth of food, which the corn laws were
intended to prohibit, has been imported into this coun-
try, and has been eaten upon the tables of the
English poor—(cheers)—and, as you know, trade has
so far extended within twenty years, that it has
surpassed beyond all calculation its extension in the pre-
vious history of England. Mr. Bright then referred to
the brood of evils—the monopoly in sugar, in shipping,
and the import duties—which perished with the protec-
tion in corn. He dwelt especially on the impedimenta in
the way of a cheap press which existed in the time of the
'Paper and the advertisement duties —and said there was
not a single village in the I:nited Kingdom in which the
average intelligence of the people has not been rained by
the repeal of the taxes on newspapers. The government
of India by a company he had opposed long before the
Indian mutiny made the transfer of administration im-
perative, but the division of India into five or six inde-
pendent presidencies or states which he had urged as
necessary to perpetuate order, when the time comes for the
power of England to be withdrawn from India, bad still to
besdopted. Turning to Ireland, the hon. gentleman showed
that he had raised his voice on every fitting occasion
against the Irish church establishment, and the mainte.
nance of laws which are adverse to the national division
of the land. Against the game laws, the punishment of
death, the laws encouraging the injurious accumulation of
land, he had constantly spoken; and he had urged the
establishment of anational system of education, under local
direction, and supported by local rates. The only thing which
he regretted in the retrospect was the small success which
had attended his efforts. The end which was now proposed
by the electoral changes was not to destroy our insti-
tutions ; " it is not to change a dynasty ; it is not to seize
the property of the rieh ; it is not to give to ignorance and
to vice the disposition of great national affairs ; but it is
to give power to parliament from that source from which
its only power can be derived, so that parliament may
have the power to remedy abuses which are acknowledged
to exist on every hand in the departments and the legisla-
tion of the state." Parliament, as it is, cannot
do more than spend additional money for the
army and the navy ; our laws are in chaos ;
the church and the land laws cannot be meddled with,
and there is no man—not even Mr. Gladstone— who can
prevail on the House of Commons to do anything substan-
tial to remedy the grievances of the Irish people. No man
who will meet in the house next week can prevail on it to
set itself resolutely and honestly to the consideration of
any measures of amelioration and improvement which the
peopla have a right to demand, and which nearly every
man in parliament will admit call for its attention. The
improvement of the representation was therefore necessary
for every institution of the country as well as for the con-
tentment of the people. Mr. Bright concluded by ex-
pressing his gratitude for their kindness. You judge
(he said) favourably of my services. I have not
worked, as you know, for honours or the emoluments
of office. I have striven for the substantial good
of the millions of my countrymen, and I can rest content
with the feeling that my country will do me justice.
The hon. gentleman having spoken more than an hour
sat down amidst enthusiastic cheering.

OR the motion of Alderman THOMAS ASHWORTH,
seconded by Alderman E. L. Ahnwoirrii, and nipported
by Mr. Councillor JOHN Prrem, it was resolved—

That this meeting, regarding parliamentary reform as the
political question of the day, thoroughly apposes of Mr.
Might's course in reference to It, and assures him of Its hearty
sympathy, and pledtsa itself to give him and his colleagues its
earaset support until a good, honest, and substantial reform hill
becomes the law of the laud.

The usual vote of thanks was then given to the &sir-
!nen, and the proceedings terminated.

FASHIONS FOR FEBRUARY.

(From Le Fond.)

We are just now in the season when our sub-
seam are the most anxious for ► description of evening
costumes, and we are fortunately this month able to give
them some very charming dresses es models.
Many ball-dress materials are of great elegance. One of
the principal, of a fancy description, is the embroidered
silk tulle, the patterns of which are bouquet, of a lively
shade of silk on white satin, producing a very rich effect.
Satin is, par excellence, the material for full toilette,
either for ceremonial visits or evening dress. Chambery
gauze, striped or spotted in colours, or with satin stripes,
as well as those quite plain, is very pretty, and especially
suitable for young ladies. Those of gauze, embroidered
with gold or silver, either in stars, spots, or dowers, are
very fashionable. When simply striped with threads of
gold and silver, they are, perhaps, the prettiest. With
these the under-skirt should be always of plain gauze, or
a trained skirt over white satin is still more elegant.
Striped velvets are much in favour. Amber is ► very
favourite colour for full dress, but of course it cannot be
worn by ladies of a fair complexion. For walking costume
black is still the favourite, though many toilettes of
green or blue cloth, or of violet brown or English velvet,
are seen.

Although the short dress is still worn for morning pro-
menade, it is principally confined to quite young girls,
and is scarcely admissible for visiting-dress. A very few
have been seen for full dress, but we may say the trained
skirt is almost indispensable. The short dress may be
convenient for out of doors, but in the room it must be
pronounced anything but graceful ; and, judging by the
very few that have been as yet seen in the ball-room,
we have no doubt they will not be at all generally adopted
this winter. The make of dresses tends more and more
to the " empire " style, the bodies being so short that the
skirt is nearly close up to the arm.
A great variety of trimmings are made for ball dresses.
Rouleaux of satin are used for this purpose, as well as for
trimming visiting dresses. Sometimes they are covered
with white tulle spotted with gold or silver. Coquilles of
gold lace are fashionable for trimmings; also satin ruches,
ad or crystal fringes, Cluny with beads. With the four-
naiu skirts it is nearly impossible to
visiting dress this is not
admissible, very pretty little aunionieree are worn, really
both ornamental and useful ; they may be made of a dif-
ferent material to the dress—many are of velvet.
Opera cloaks of cashmere or satin bordered with swan's-
down are frequently beautifully embroidered in the ori-
ental style; they are made long at the back, but quite
short in the front. Some are composed entire yof lace to
match the peplum. There are chancing little Greek vestes
made of satin, embroidered with gold and silver.
Paletets and essaques are nearly all trimmed with fur.
The peletot ruse. is entirely lined with fur, and up the
openings at the back and sides, and up every seam, a very
narrow fur band is placed.
The bonnets worn for visiting-dress bays not altered in
ahape since the commencement of the year, the artistic
arrangements of the trimmings form the principal charm.
Take, for example, some of the newest models.

A meeting of delegates from the metropolitan
parishes interested in the equalisation of the poor rate took
plass yesterday evening, at the Landon Ocdf se-house, under
the presidency or Mr. Wa. Whaler. The object of the
meeting was " to take Mee conaideratien the homerooms of
pressing on the government the necessity of speedy legal-
lotion on the subject."
The following parishes—St. Saviour's, West Leaden,
Feat London, Lambeth, Chelsea, Si. Mary Newington,
Fulham Union, St. George Southwark, St. Mary Strat-
ford, Bermondsey, Itotherhithe, St. Olive's Southwark,
St.,. George's-imthe.Esst, Strand Union, Wandsworth
Union—representing a population of 794,916, and a rateable
value of 2,874,826/. It was expected that ultimately the
association would be supported by upwards of a million of
the inhabitants of the metropolis.
Mr. FowLea commenced the proceedings by reading the
follow* report :
" The committee, in presenting their ninth annual re-
port, congratulate their friends and supporters upon the
moose which has attended their labours, and the steady
advance and public recognition of the principles advocated
by this association, as evidenced in the passing by the
legislature of the Union Assessment and the Union Charge-
ability Bills, which are now in full operation throughout
the whole of England and Wales. The association, while
giving their full support to this just and equitable hange,
felt assured that the principle must extend to thole large
parishes which form unions in themselves, which are un-
touched by these enactments, and left in the same, if nut
in a a worse state than they were under the old system.
The committee always objected to the adoption of union
rating as a final settleineut of the question • and while
they gave their support to the Union Chargeability: Bill,
as a step in the right direction, and admitting
an important principle, they reserved to them-
selves the right of continuing the agitation until some plan
for the effectual relief of these parishes had been adopted.
Public attention is being called to the subject, and a very
general movement is now being made in favour of the for-
mation of the whole of the metropolis into one district,
for the purpose of raising the funds for the relief of the
poor by an equalised rate. In the year 1858 this amnia-
Lion brought this question prominently before the public,
and a bill was introduced by the hon. members for the
Tower Hamlets and the borough of Southwark for that
purpose, but withdrawn on the second reading, upon the
imegestioa of many country members, that it would be
unjust to equalise the rates in the metropolis, and leave
the other parts of England and Wales untouched, and who
promised their support if ouch an extended measure was
introduced. Another difficulty was the formation of any
machinery by which such a rate could be collected. This,
however, has beennowovercome, and the practicability has
been proved, inasmuch ea the Metropolitan Board of Works
now levy andlcollect a rate over the whole metropolitan area,
for the relief of the houseless or casual poor, and the
maintenance of the fire brigade. The committee now feel
that the practicability being proved, and the justness of
the principle admitted, the time Las Arrived when the
question must receive from the legislature that attention
and support that will tend to is ultimate development.
They do not venture to propose any plan for carrying it
eat. They think that having proved the evil as well as
the injustice of the system, and having called public at-
tention to it, they should press upon the government the
necessity of finding the remedy. In order to effect this
they are now desirous of obtaining the renewed co-opera-
tion of the parochial authorities of the metropolis for that
purpose, and they are making arrangements for holding an
aggregate meeting of guardians, overseers, and vestrymen,
for the purpose of a conference maths subject,and likewise
for the appointment of additional members to the cum-
! enittee. which, by the dilution of time, has become reduced
1 in number." _

The CHAIRMAN, in moving its adoption, reminded the
meeting that, although the bill which had been introduced
by the association into parliament had failed, yet it had
had the effect of calling attention to the subject, and a
committee of inquiry had been appointed. The facts were
indeed startling. Take, for example, his own pariah, Ken-
sington. 5,000 poor persons had been ejected from it and
were now living in the poor parishes of Chelsea and Ful-
ham. In St. Bartholomew's Finsbury, the whole of the
poor had been ejected by the ;railway, and in St. Clement
Danes a similar result would soon follow through the
building of the law courts. The rental would be increased
by aboutso,oool. &year, whilst the poor would be banished
over into Lambeth. St. George's, Ilanover-square, with a
rateable value of two millions, paid scarcely any rate,
athough it had a working population (of ser-
vants) of upwards of 4)0,000 persons. It was said
that the richer districts, although not paying much to the
poor rate, made up the difference by the liberality of their
charitable contributions. But what were the facts? Re
bad ascertained that if instead of all the recent donations
for the relief of cholera patients, including the Bishop of
London's fund, the money required had been raised by
rate, a halfpenny rate would have produced the whole and
5,0001. over. A farthing rate would have provided a thou-
sand beds for cholera patients. The Chairman concluded
by moving the adoption of the report.
Mr. BLACHFORD, chairman of the Fulham union, se-
conded the motion.

Mr. I'OLLINNON. from Southwark, explained the hard-
ships arising from the inequality of the rate in Southwark
and other poorer pariahes. All the later alterations in the
poor law, although good in themselves, had, be contended,
Geir opersiital web
_curfthvatet! the ;;„;,, or in•qnsiity.
He believed that both Baines and Mr. Villiers had
contemplated equalization, and that if it had not been for
" that abominable Reform Bill "—(laughter)--they would
have had a bill last session. " That bill was always poking
its nose into the way of really useful measures." (Laughter.)
Mr. GALLI( (Blackwell) said his parish was now most
heavily rated in consequence of the influx of strangers to
the huge worka. The pariah bad no means to support
them, but yet was without power to remove them.
Mr. BURI.TON (St. Saviours) said the only proper remedy
for the present state of things was a national rate.
Mr.FOWLZR depreuated the introduction of the national.
rate question into their diecussions. He believed that
their policy was to stick to the metropolis.
Mr. BONHAM (St. Clement Danes) stated that the pull-
ing down of houses in the adjacent parish for the law
courts had sent such an influx of poor into his parish as
had raised their half-year's rate from eightpenoe to
eighteenpence in the pound. He had not much confidence
in the present Poor-law Board, whose object, be thought,
was merely to keep matters as quiet as passible. He
wished very much to see Mr. Villiers back again. (Cheers.)
Mr. WAMMICH, vice-chairman of the London Union,
said that an equal shilling rate would meet all the
ordin necessities of the metropolis. The property tax
would ary
be a most fallacious test of value. Having been
engaged during the last four years in assessing the City
parishes, he had found many properties set down at WV.
which he assessed for the poor rate at more than 1,0u0i.,
and there was no appeaL In some cases, where immense
piles of buildings had been erected, only the ground-rent
was assessed to the income tax. (Hear, hear.)
The report was then agreed to.
Resolutions declaring the absolute necessity of equalisa-
tion, and appanting a deputation to wait on the President
of the Poor-law Board, were then agreed to, and the pro-
ceediogs terminated.

THE EAST LONDON RAlLWAY.—Yesterday the
directors of this railway company, accompanied by the
contractors, Messrs. Brassey and Waring, and several gen-
tlemen interested in the undertaking, paid an official visit
to the works on the southern section of the line, be-
tween the shaft of the Thames Tunnel at Rotherhithe
and the London, Brighton, and South Coast line et
New-cross. The weather was most unfavourable, but the
rain could not quench the enthusiasm of the Vill•
tors, who, under the guidance of the engineer, Mr. Burke,
made their way through mud and mire front tunnel to
cutting, and from cutting to embankment. Considering
the shortness of time the company has been incorporated
the progress of the works is considerable. A large
portion of the brickwork of the tunnel has been
completed. For several hundred yards in the neigh-
bourhood of the Deptford-road station, where the hue
is in an open cutting, the retaining walls have been
for some time finished and the excavation perfected, so
that that portion of the line is in fact ready for the per.
rnanent way. The line on reaching the St. Helena Gar-
dens forks so as to form a double junction with the
Brighton line. The embankment for one of these branches
has been carried some distance over the Surrey Canal, and
that for the other has been just brought up to it. About
60 yards of tunnel will make these works and the Thames
Tunnel a continuous undertaking.

The Rev. Sir LOVELACE STARER congratulated the meet-
ing on having passed the amendment, and moved, " That
this conference having affirmed the principle of the rate-
payers being heard on the granting of licenses for the sale
of intoxicating drinks, adjourns the consideration of the
details of the resolution proposed by the executive for
three week, from this day."
The Rev. Dr. GARRETT seconded, but
Mr. ETTEINTHAL observing that they had done more than
establish the principle that the ratepayers should be heard
on the subject of new licenses, but that they should re-
strain the granting of them,
The Rev. Sir L. STARER altered the resolution by in-
serting after the word " ratepayers " the word " restrain-
ing" instead of " being heard on."
Mr. MONTAGU (Nauman suggested that before they
met again they should consider whether the restraining
lamer proposed to be given to the ratepayers might not in
itself be an evil through the ratepayers being subject to
undue influences, and thus promote the very mischief they
desired to prevent.
After some further discussion, the resolution in its
amended form was put and carried.
The 1t.,. R. SOUS mid it was ortglnatti Intenlidd
deputation should go from the conference to her Majesty's
government to state the results of the conference, but it
was now proposed to defer the appointment of that depu-
tation until the adjourned meeting, three weeks hence.
Mr. LAWRENCE, of Liverpool, stated the details of the
Liverpool bill, which is to be introduced in the ensuing
session under the soapiests of tits joint committee of the
town council and of the magistracy of that town. It pro-
vides that there shall be one charge for licenses beginning
at 351. a-year for large towns, and a proportionate reduc-
tion for small towns and villages, with a reduction of 30
per cent. for houses whir& did not open on the Sunday ;
that the magistrates shall be satisfied of the respectability
of the •pplicant ; that the rateable value of the houses be
increas d that • person intending to build a public-house
shall give notice, and the inhabitants, by a vote of two-
thirds, may prevent the license being granted. That the
houses shall not be open before 7 in the morning nor after
11 at night, and on Sundays from 1 to 3in the afternoon,
and from Stolo in the evening. The penalties not to
exceed 20f., the third fine causing also the loss of the
license ; the town council however having the power to
shut the houses on Sundays altogether.
There was another provision authorising town councils
in other towns to adopt the bill.
The discussion was then adjourned until 7 o'clock.
At 7 o'clock the conference re-msemtged, when Mr. M.
BAKER took the chair, and after the reading of letters
from Sir Stephen Glynn, the Lord-Lieutenant of Flint-
shire, Mr. French, the Chairman of the Local Board of
Health at Sand/gate, and several others, expressive oftyrn-
pathy with the objects of the conference,
The discussion on the Liverpool Licensing Bill was then
resumed by . . . . . . .

11r. Srerwrsau., who said they were much indebted to
the joint committee at Liverpool for the pains they bad
taken to make the bill as perfect as possible. He disap-
proved of the provision granting an immunity for fourteen
yearn to the present holders of licenses; he also disapproved
of the permission to sell intoxicating liquors during four
hours on the Sunday, and of the permission to grant
dancing and music licenses. Among the good points he
considered were those which provided that no new licenses
should be granted if opposed by three-fourths of the
owners and occupiers ; that the landlord should pro-
vide two sureties of 1001. each for his good conduct.
He moved :—" That this conference approves of the gene-
ral scope of the new Liverpool Licensing Bill, inasmuch as
it contains valuable elements of improvement, and embo-
dies principle, already sanctioned by this conference, and
is so far entitled to its support ; but not approving of some
of the details of the measure, such as allowing four hours
for selling intoxicating liquors on the Sunday, and giving
14 yearn sure to persons at present holding licenses, it
hopes that the said bill will be amended in that respect so
as to command the support of the community at large."
Dr. 'MARTIN, of Warrington, seconded the motion. He
thought, however, that there should be no direct provi-
sion to prevent Sunday trading. He did not think the
House of Commons would agree to that, for it had already
burnt its fingers in attempting to legislate against Sunday
trading. It would be better to make it a provision to be
applied by the town council or local authority. It would
at once be adopted in Liverpool, and the results would be
such as to make the example followed by the rest of the
country.
Mr. 'Timm* disapproved so much of the bill as made it
incumbent on the magistrates to grant a license if
proved of by three-fourths of the inhabitant.. He would
leave it in the power of the magistrates still to refuse.
Mr. SMITH, of Tottenham, protested against many of
the doctrines which had been laid down, and be charged
the gentlemen on the platform with being ready enough to
attack the retailer, while they let the great brewers alone.
But if it were wrong to retail beer and epirits, it was wrung
to manufacture the article. (Hear, hear.) He objected to
restrictions being put on the trade, becalms he believed
they would lead to the increase of drunkenness.
Dr. Caeaerr thought that that conference out not
to approve of the Liverpool Licensing Bill, which be
looked upon as a bill of loose principles. He objected to
that portion of the bill which increased the expense of the
license, and required that the premises should be larger.
The effect of that would be to prevent a poor man from
opening a homely house for the accommodation of his
poorer neighbours ; and though he shou id be glad if there
were no such houses at all, yet if they slid express an
approval of a bill, it ought to be a bill that would com-
mend itself to the reasonable judgment of the House of
Commons and of the public press. He moved vs an amend-
ment :—" That this conference has lm aril with regret the
provisions of the Liverpool bill respecting the sale of in-
toxicating liquors on the Sunday, and hereby records its
opinion that it is both impolitic and unfair to give such

a.liberty."
Mr. WHMVELL seconded the amendment, but after
some discussion in the course of which Mr. Conn.'. sug-
gested that some means should be adopted to punish
adulteration, and Mr. S. Pore showed that there was
already this power. expressed his general approval of the
bill, and the amendment was withdrawn.
Mr. Sturows, machine maker, and who cam stated that
he was a teetotal advocate, moved that the licensing power
should be vested in the ratepayers sitting as a petty jury,
votes to be hkeu by ballot ; the ULM) Daly to ban: in-
specting powers, and be compelled to do their duty.
Mr. Pon submitted that the motion was out of order:
and
Mr. &meows withdrew it.

Mr. LAWRENCY. then replied to the various criticisms cu
the bill ; and Mr. STZINTIML having replied, the resolu-
tion was put and agreed to unanituonsly.
The Rev. S. SULLY then stated that, at the request of
Lord Lichfield and other friends of the movement, he hail
consented to continue in his position honorary secre-
tary for the present, and that the vice•ppreaidenta would
be called together on Saturday work, when they would
detenuine when sod where the next conference would be
held.
A vote of thanks to the chairman for his conduct in the
chair was thou agreed to, awl the proccodings terminated.

THE CASE OF PERJURY BY A NEWSPAPER PRO-
PRILYon.—We much regret that an error occurred in our re-
port of this case, which was tried at the Central Criminal
Court on Tuesday. Cannon, the defendant, was described
as the proprietor of the South Lowl,” 'looted, instead of
the South Lomion News, Mr. W. E. Baxter being the pro-
prietor of the Journal.
ANOTHER FIR/ ON TH2 THAMEi EMBANKMENT.
—At aLite hoar last evening the attention of the foot
passengers was attracted to flames issuing from the works
in connexion with the Thames ihnbanknieat, on the north
aide of Waterloo-bridge. Near the foot of the bridge a
wooden shed hail been erected, which was used by the
workmen as a kind of mess-room. and it is supposed that
at the termination of the daily labour the fire in it WAS left
burning, the sparks from which occasioned the outbreak.
At the time of the discovery the wind drifted the sparks
in the direction of the Stamp and Inland Revenue-offices
at Sonierset-house ; and such we. the alarm of the
employai on duty there that before the arrival of the
engines the hose belonging to the establishment was
brought into play, and the water applied so as to protect
that building. A number of hind steam and manual
engines were soon in attendance, and their presence
necessitated the complete blockade of the bridge for nearly
an hour and a half. In its progress the fire destroyed the
wooden bridge.leading to the steam-boat pier, in addition
to the shed where it commenced, and other damage to the
works ; but we learn that the contractors of the embank-
ment have undertaken to have sufficient accommodation
ready by this morning, so that the steam-boat traffic shall
not be impeded. The present is the third fire oa the
Thames Embankment within a very short period.
COLONIAL HAND-800/M, D7r. Alger, of
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and weal colonial hand-books, revised for the new year.
The hand-books now ready are for Wellington and Nelson,
in New Zealand ; and Auckland and Victoria, in Australis.
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