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THE PI, F; L IC-1101 ,S 1.; QUESTION.

A DEPI rATIoN, strangely composed, waited on
Mr. DI,RP 13.1 MI Saturday, on thu subject of the
Sale of Liquors on Sunday Hill. It included the
Roman Catholic Allen nttilli it. of WENTMINSTER,
clergymen of the Church of England, and emi-
nent Ninconfonnist ministers. The political
elements enlisted in sol.pert of the measure are
not less 0:k iously blended. The rcpresentativee of
the 'lathe:Alain of Manchester and Leeds, of the
Toryism of the mall cathedral city of Chichester,
and of rid: social democracy of Lambeth are co-
operatiiii; cordially. A charm as potent as that
ed by i:ccate—

Black spirits and white,
Red epiril. :tad toil',
Mingle, atingle, atingle,
You that atittgle may—

must have been used to unite spirits of political
and ecclesiastical lines and shades of colours as
divers as those which the incantation invoked. That
charm is a common interest in tho material and
moral well.being of the humbler classes of society.
In his great speech on Friday, Mr. Bittuur urged
that we are all, at bottom, of one religion. " I sup-
" pow," he said, "there will cane a day when men
" will be astonished that Catholics, Protestants,and
" Nono.nformista have all had so much animosity
" and snvivion towards each other. I accept and
" believe in a very grand patiage which I once met
" with in the writings of the illustrious founder
"of the State and colony of Pennsylvania. He
" says that, ' humble, meek, merciful, just, pious,
" and devout souls are all of ono religion, and
" that when death has taken off tho mask, they
" ' will know one another, though the divers
" liveries they wear here makes them strangers.'"
The deputation which met Mr. Disquiet' on Satur-
day was, in its small way, an illustration of the
words to which the House of Commons had
listened with sympathy on Friday. The faith
which operates by works is common to
various churches, and brings their representatives
into friendly relations. No doubt they know each
other better for their intercourse ; the liveries which
disguise them are for the moment dropped, and the
ono religion by which they are animated is recog-
nised by all. But this is not the only strange
thing in the matter. A miracle as great as that
which wafted the holy house of Loretto across
the sea transported Archbishop MANNING into
Exeter Hall. The conscious walls of that edifice,
listening to what passed, can scarcely have
believed their ears. We shall hardly be
surprised now to learn that the Foes has con-
sented to do duty for Mr. SPURGEON at the
Tabernacle ; or that Mr. NEWMAN HALL has under-
taken a curse of lectures in St. Peter's. How-
ever this may be, the association of men of different
creeds in the common work of philanthropy is of
good omen for England, in these days of theological
division and estrangement.
The Bill, which unites men so far apart theolo-
gically as Archbishop MANNING and Mr. NEWMAN
HALL, and who politically have as little in common
as Mr. HAZLET and Mr. JOUN AGEL SMITH, has for

its object to impose restrictions on the sale of
liquor on Sundays. At present the hours on which
public-houses are open on Sunday are from one to
three in the afternoon, anti from live to eleven in
the evening—that is, eight hours in all. Mr.fJoirs
AUL SMITH'S Bill limits these hours from 011 e to
half-past two in the afternoon, and from
eight to ten in the evening. It, there-
fore, cuts four and a half hours from the publicans'
Sunday trade. Outside of the metropolitan district
it forbids drinking on the promises. Our worthy
contemporary, the Hunting Advertiser, the organ of
the Licensed Victuallers, is sadly distracted between