The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-08 00:00:00

GAOLS BILL.

Sir G. GREY said he should postpone the second read-
ing of the bill which stood for to-morrow until this day
week.

INTOXICATING LIQUORS BILL.

A lard; number of petitions having been presented in
favour of the bill,
Mr LAWSON moved its second reading. The object of
the measure, which is commonly known as the " Permis-
sive Bill," is to enable any parish, on the approval of the
proposition of a majority of ratepayers, to prevent the sale
of intoxicating liquors during Sunday, by entirely closing
the public •house for four•and-twenty hours.
Capt. JERVIS rosa to move that the bill be read a second
time this day six months. He had been five years against
his will in the States of America where the sale of intoxicat-
ing liquors was prohibited, and he knew that drunken-

ness had increased there, A man there, instead of going to
a bar to take his glass, want down into a cellar, where ho
got drunk and was kept there, because if he came up end
was seen, the seller would be fined as well as the drinker.
Amongst the higher classes people were ob:igod to close their
shutters before they brought their wine on the table.
(Laughter.)

Mr ROEBUCK said that during the many years he had
been in Parliament, he had never heard submitted a more
mischievous bill. H 3 did not mince the matter at all.
(Laughter.) By this bill it was proposed that the House
of Commons should abdicate its functions. In the next
place the bill would sow dissension in every parish in Eng-
land, and by the time it came into full operation England
would be no place for a peaceable person to live in. His next
objection to the bill was that it was eminently an unjust
bill and directed entirely against the poor, It was a most
cruel bill. He had great faith in the intentions of the per-
sons who brought forward their bill, but none in their in-
tellect—(hear, hear)—and regarded it as mere idle talk on
a bill which it was well known could not pass. If West-
minster. under this bill, put this bill in operation, would
that extend to the refreshment room of the House of Com-
mons ? Would it have the effect of preventing the in-
troduction of intoxicating liquors into that housa ?
Could anything be more foolish than that? (Laughter.)
This was a bill directed against the poor; for the rich, who
could lay in a stock of such things as they wanted, would
not be in the slightest degree affected by it. As between
the nngistrates and the municipal authorities he preferred
the magistrates, although he readily admitted that the
question was well worthy of consideration.
Mr MARTIN opposed the bill on the ground that it
would lead to smuggling, and to worse evils than those
which at present existed.

Mr SCOURFIELD thought the bill would give wide-
spread annoyance.

Sir G. GREY opposed the bill, on the ground that it
would give an intolerable tyranny to the majority. With
regard to an increase in the number of convictions, it was no
proof of the increase of drunkenness, as by the refreshment
houses a new class of offences had been created. He thought
the evil might to a great extent be prevented, if there were
a better administration of the law in the metropolitan
districts. At present a man might be convicted two
or three times, and yet was able to transfer the license. He
thought that in such a case the house should be closed for
at least two years.

Mr. BUXTON considered that great improvements had
taken place in the habits of the working classes. In that
improvement he considered all reforms rested.
Mr. HUMBERSTONE opposed the bill.
Me. W. FORSTER sympathised with temperance prin-
ciples, but he could not vote for the bill. Ho could not
think it right to transfer the power of granting licenses from
the magistrates to town councils, although he thought the
inhabitants should have some voice in the number of
licensed houses there should be. He hoped that early next
session a bill would be brought forward by the Govern-
ment for putting the drinking houses of the country under
some general system. (Hear, hear.)
Mr HENLEY said the duty of granting licenses was a
very unpleasant duty devolving upon magistrates. The
difficulty they felt was not with regard to public houses,
but with rt gard to beer houses, on the establishment of
which he thought there ought to be some restraint. lie
believed that if this bill passed the people of a parish on
which an interdict was placed would go out of the parish,
and people would drink twice as much. He opposed the
bill because it was unjust, and because he believed it would
be wholly inoperative.

Mr PEASE had hoped that the Government would have
been induced to support the bill after the multitude of
petitions that had been presented.
The house then divided, when there appeared—
For the amendment .................. 292
Ageinst it .......................... 35
.Majetity against •the bill ............ —257
The bill was consequently lost.
VALUATION OF LANDS AND HERITAGES
(SCOTLAND) ACT AMENDMENT BILL.
This bill, which was proposed for second reading was in
parliamentary language " talked out" at a quarter to six.
RAILWAY COMPANIES POWERS BILL.
This bill Was read a third time and passed.
The house adjourned at 5 minutes to 6.

A SPECIMEN OF THE GRAPHIC STYLE OF
TACITIJS
;--Galba was hurried to and fro with every
movement of the surging crowd ; the halls and temples all
around were thronged with spectators of this dismal sight.
Not a voice was heard from the people or even from the
rabble. Everywhere were terror-stricken countenances,
and ears turned to catch every sound. It was a scene
neither of agitation nor of repose, but there reigned the
silence of profound alarm and profound indignation. Otho,
however, was told that they were arming the mob. Ife
ordered his men to hurry on at full speed, and to anticipate
the danger. Then did these Roman soldiers rush forward
like men who had to drive some Vologeses or Pacotus from
the ancestral throne of the Arsacidw, oat as though they
were hastening to murder their aged and defenceh es Em-
peror. In all the terror of their arms, and at the full speed
of their horses, they burst into the Forum, thrusting aside
the crowd and trampling on the Senate. Neither the sight
of the Capitol, nor the sanctity of the overhanging temples,
nor the thought of rulers past or future, could &mu them
from committing a crime, which any one succeeding to
power must avenge.
The Gazette:de France states that the weekly
id'
journal La Paroisse has just been again seized for having
in an article entitled " Bref Pontifical de Lyon," discus
juridically the note by which the Monileur interdicted thess
publication of that brief. The Discussion of t
yesterday
also se:zcd at the pest -ctlice by order of the I\linister was
also the
Interior.

FARM—A public dinner, at which the advocates
for the abolition of the punishment of death proposed to
meet yesterday, was interdicted by the police.

FOURTH EDITION

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 7 o'CLocK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,
ASCOT RACES—Tms DAY.
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LATEST BETTING.
ASCOT GOLD CUP.
sto 2 agst Lord Clifden (taken)
5 to 2 agat Scottish Chief (taken)
10 to lagat Little Stag (offered)

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

General tone of Market firm 7 Sales, probably
6,000 or 7,000 bales.

GRANT FIGHTING IT OUT " ON THIS LINE !"--,
Manhattan " says :—Grant's memorable speech
completely shading the remark of the Duke of Wellington at
Waterloo, " Up Guards, and at them"), "I propose to fight
it out on this line, if it takes me all this summer," has be-
come a heading for everything. Brandreth heads his pill
advertisements with it, Bryant's Ministrels announce it
in negro talk, Omnibus lines, in announcing the lowering
of fares to six cents., say," We propose to fight it out on
this line." I see advertisements quote it, and so does the
announcement of Coster, the bed bug ;exterminator ; he too
proposes to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer
and the roaches, and moths, and other things, will feed it
THE PERMISSITE BlLL—Yesterday Lord Pal-
merston received a numerous deputation from the
United Kingdom Alliance. The interview took place at
his lordship's residence in Piccadilly; and the object of the
deputation was to solicit his lordship to support the second
reading of Mr Lawson's and Mr Bazley's Intoxicating
Liquors Bill in the House of Commons to-day. The de-
putation was headed by Lord Calthorpe, and consisted of 51
gentlemen, including Messrs B. Whitworth, T. Clegg,
Councillor Thompson, G. B. Addison, S. Pope, J. H, Raper
and T. 11. Barker, of Manchester; W. Saunders, of Ply-
mouth; J. Guest, of Rotherham; G. Tatham, of Leeds;
W. 11. Higginbottom, of Bolton ; W. Hoyle, of Bary ;
Edward Whitwell, of Kendal ; W. J. Clegg and Joseph
Pearson, of Sheffield ; W. Campbell, H, Dyson, and G.
Ward, of Leeds; the Revs. the Hon. Leland Noel, Canon
Jenkins, W. N. Molesworth, of Rochdale; Dr. Barns,
Dawson Burns, J. S. Workman, and 5, Schadhorst ; Pro-
fessor Newman, and several gentlemen connected with the
metropolis. Having been introduced by Lord Calthorpe,
whom Lord Palmerston recognised and shook heartily by
the hand, Mr Pope stated the object of the deputation, and
presented to his lordship a memorial representing that there
was a strong feeling against the present licensing system,
and a prevalent conviction that strong drink was an ex-
ceptional article of trade, that many landowners had stopped
the sale of it on their estates ; and that agitation had proved
that the people were prepared for the Intoxicating Liquors
Bill, which the memorialists prayed Lord Pahnerston and
the Government to support. Mr Pope was followed by
the Rev. W. N. Molesworth, who spoke for the manufac-
turing districts; Mr Saunders, of Plymouth; Mr Tatham,
of Leeds ; Professor Newman, the Rev. H. Gale, and Mr.
Raper. Lord Palmerston listened to all with marked at-
tention and evident interest, and elicited several pertinent
explanations ; and on retiring the deputation thanked his
his lordship for the courtesy and consideration which had
been extended to them.
NOT DEAD YET. By J. C. Jeaffreson, Author of
"Live it Down," &c. 3 vets.--" This is a very clever
novel. There is a hearty pleasant tone throughout, and
the interest is sustained from the very first to the very last
page, The characters are sketched with a masterly hand.
Rupert Smith, the man about town,' plausible schemer,
and thorough villain; Edward Smith, the artist, as pure
and noble-minded a character as novelist ever depicted ; Sir
hank Starling, the hard unforgiving old baronet ; Mr.
Purfloet, the family solicitor; John Harrison. Newbolt, the
Radical Boanerges of the House of Commons, who buys
pictures as an investment, and thus becomes the patron of
Edward ; his daughters Ida and Florence ; the rollicking
but right-hearted medical man, Nat Savage ; pretty Kitty
Kent, Rupert'a victim ; Dick O'Mulligan, the fortunate
digger—are all true to the life, and could only have been
depicted by one who is quite familiar with all the various
aspects of modern society."—United SerVief: Magazine,
GALLANT EXPLOIT OF AN ENGLISHMAN IN THE
CONFEDERATE ARMY.—Nov. 18, 1863.—We drove
the enemy to-day from his advanced lines in front of Knox-
ville, close under his works. This sortie was the occasion
of one of those dashing feats of individual gallantry which
demands a passing notice. A breastwork was charged by
our infantry. They winced under the galling fire of the
enemy and wavered, when Captain Stephen Winthrop,
formerly captain in her Britannic Majesty's 22d Foot, who
had joined our ranks and was on duty in Alexander's
Artillery Battalion, stationed several hundred yards from
the scene of conflict, mounting his horse and dashing across

the plain—the only horseman in the melee—rode in advance
of the wavering line up to the very works of the enemy. A
hundred rifles were lowered upon him, but he moved on,
and rallied the wavering line; the work was carried, and
Winthrop borne away with a Minie ball through his shoul-
der, his sword scabbard broken by another, and the point of
his sword cut off by another. His escape was miraculous,
but he is doing well, and will soon again report for duty.
—Richmond Enquirer of Feb. 16, 1864.

A NICE STATE OF THINGS (according to " Man.
hattan").—Look at our position truthfully, and you
will see that I have described it. There are many
of our citizens who have long foreseen the gloomy
state of that which is about to come upon us. Look
at the gold market. Up, up--nearly at its highest
point again. In vain the Government buys largely
of exchange, and throws it upon the market
at a losing price to keep down gold; it has
no effect. Gold rises, or rather greenbacks are
going down. All kinds of merchandise is rising.
Merchants refuse to sell goods at any price,
and will not until the fight in
Virginia between
Grant and Lee is settled one way or the other.
This makes consumers and manufacturers anxious
to buy. Shoes that cost in 1860 1 dol. sc. now sell
for 5 dole. Boots made for 5 dole. now sell for
12 dole. It is so with every article that is sold.
If this goes on few will be able to wear boots and
shocs. We shall have to step into sabots as they
do in Holland, though wood is so high that a pair
of wooden shoes would cost about 3 dole. 50c.

Everybody talks about the gloomy prospects. Men

shake their heads and say, " What are we coining
to?" Others see hope in the prospect so cheeringly
and so constantly announced in the daily papers
when Grant shall have captured Lee. But this has
been so often repeated that it is an old story. Tens
of thousands have left this city for the country
—within 200 miles of New York—in order to live
cheaper. Of these thousands are returning to get
a foothold in the city. They find food higher in
the interior than here. It is almost impossible to
get board anywhere. Proprietors are afraid of the
rise in articles. Everything is adulterated. Pow-
deredu s t a
rwhite
that sugarsells
cheap by the s unsafe t buy,o A heavy white
b
ton, is mixed •
with sugar, and sold for
genuine, so
s
that to use
the article in tea or coffee, or in " icecrearn cue is
liable to die by means of the tr:in '
eral substance left
in the stomach. Fortunes are still made in Wall-
street on paper. Tested by sterling* bills or (void the
prof ts fly elf. The • • nt'
mininr, schemes and bubbles
swell out into
magnificent proportions. Men
without a dollar have become rich by mining
stocks. All
w io aro interested in the places of
public amusement are getting rich. Those pLiees
are crowded every night. It seems as though cur
citizens throng to them to dri;-e away care, and I
judge it is so, because the more foolish the amuse-
ment the larger the crowd. If Jack the Giant
Killer was played at Nib:o's it would draw crowded
houses every night, especially if the actors could
sing an allusion to oar great giant Grant. Murders
keep up to the average standard. Not a day passes
without one or more murders,

In addition to the legacy of io,ooor. made by M.
Meyer beer to the Aesociatiouo► Musical Artists, a donation
of a similar amount has been left by him to the Associa•ion
of Dramatic Authors and Composers, as announced by
lame. Meyerbecr in a letter to M. de Saint-George, the
president of that institution.