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(Swansea, Lowe; &c.), and Ipswich and Felixstow Rail-
way.
The Marquis of WESTMEATH moved the second read-
ing of the Divine Worship in the Church of England Bill ;
but, subsequently, at the request of the Earl of Derby and
Earl Granville, who pointed out that the measure was of
such importance in respect of the changes it proposed to
introduce that it could not be considered in the present
session, consented to its withdrawal. The order was there-
upon discharged.
The Poor-law Board Continuance Bill was read a second
time, after an observation by the Earl of ELLENBOROUGH,
to the effect that it would be better to make the board per-
manent at once than to bring in repeated continuance bills,
without a word of explanation as to what were the ultimate
intentions of the Government on the subject.
On the order for going into committee on the Peace Pre-
servation (Ireland) Act Amendment Bill,
Earl GRANVILLE stated, in reply to the Marquis of
Clanricarde, that the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland had
adopted precautions against the occurrence of any outrage
on the coming 12th of July.
The Earl of DONOUGHMORE did not oppose the bill,
and expressed regret that the state of Ireland was such as
to render this measure necessary.
The Earl ST. GERMANS concurred in the expression
of regret, and said it had been found impossible, although
crime had materially decreased in Ireland for the last
fourteen years, to deprive the Lord-Lieutenant of the
power which this measure afforded him of proclaiming
certain districts in which outrages were committed.
Several bills were forwarded a stage, including the Ap-
propriation Bill (read a second time) and the Greenwich
Hospital Bill, the Fire Brigade (Metropolis) Bill, the
Comptroller of Exchequer and Public Audit Bill, the In-
land Revenue Bill. the Indemnity Bill, and the Compound
Spirits Warehousing Bill (passed through committee).
Their lordships adjourned at half-past seven until four
o'clock this

tion should be resorted to, and recommended that the
military finance committee should be revived and a rigid
examination instituted into the number of European troops
that were really required without too great a strain upon
recruiting in the United Kingdom. Only two things were
requisite to insure the continuous and permanent prospe-
rity of India. These were to respect the systems found
existing there, without endeavouring to carry out theories
of our own, and next to leave the religion of the natives
entirely uninterfered with.

Mr. VANSIT TART regretted that the Indian Minister
had taken upon himself to reverse Sir Charles Trevelyan's
arrangements, especially as they had received the approval
of Sir John Lawrence and his council. The Government
had no alternative but to give up the income tax, as when
it was imposed by the late Mr. Wilson he gave a solemn
assurance that it should not be continued for more than
five years.

Mr. BUXTON considered that the European force main-
tained in India was excessive, regard being had to the
fact that the artillery and the chief strong places of defence
had been taken altogether out of the hands of the native
troops.

Mr. BAZLEY commented generally upon the unneces-
sary expense incurred in the government of India, espe-
cially the cost of collecting the revenue, which he said
amounted to 25 per cent. of the entire receipts.
Colonel SYKES b1§94119-4.lhe_duty of tla4 Gozonamant
people of India by abolishing the

A.-
income tax.

XrNNATlTTP`teplied to the ciiticisins of 31-r: gzi-
-1101711 and other members, and lauded the policy and ad-
ministration of the Government in India to the highest.
After a few words from Mr. W. EWART, the debate,
which had been carried on throughout the greater portion
of it in a house of half-a-dozen members, was brought to
a close with some brief observations from Sir C. WOOD,
and the resolutions were agreed to.
The Admiralty Acts repeal Bill, the Dockyard Ports
Regulation Bill, and the Admiralty Powers Bill passed
through committee.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-LAST EVENING..
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
ROYAL ASSENT.
The SPEAKER, in obedience to the summons of tire
House of Peers, went to the bar of their lordships' house
to hear the royal assent given to a number of public-.and
private bills.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The amendments to the following bills were considered
and agreed to ;—Aberdeenshire Roads ; Bishops':, Castro,.
Railway-; Burton-upon-Trent Connection Railways,; )3ur-,
ton:upon-Trent Railways ; - Etta and West YorYshire
Union Railway ; Glasgow and South Western hallway
(Additional Powers); Glasgow: and South Westernßail-
ay (Ayrshire, &c. Lines) ; Glasgow (City) Union
way; 'Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railvray
(Nrehase, &c.); Mellif; and Eye Railway ; Newcastle-on-
Tyne, Improvement ; North-Eastern Railways (LeeclsE32-
tension) ; Perth General Railway Station, Scottish Central,
&c., Railway Companies ; ditto (Station Hotel, &c.);- I'ort
Glasgow Police and Water; South Devon Railway"; Sciuth
Northumberland Railway ; Torquay Gas ; Waterloo and
Whitehall Railway ; West Riding and Grimsby Railway ;
Wrexham and Minera Railway ; and Wrexham, Mold, and
Connah's Quay Railway (Extension). _
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Bodmin and Wadebridge RailwaY; Burnley Market; Car-
martheushire Railway, Fergus River Navigation, &d,-Lia-
nelly Railway and Dock (Extension to Mumbles), West
Cork Railway.
INDIA MEDICAL WARRANT.
Mr. BAZLEY asked the Secretary of State for India
whether it was true, as stated in the United Service Gazette
and Home News, that the Indian medical warrant had been
cancelled ; if such be the case, what measures had- been
taken as regarded the pay and organisation of the medical
department, and when would. those measures be reported to
the house ?
Sir C. WOOD said the warrant had not been cancelled.
On the contrary, it had given great satisfaction in India,
and still remained in force. r.
BRITISH-GROWN TOBACCO.
Mr. seuLLy asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer
whetheat was not practicable; to devise some convenient
mode of levying a duty upon home-grown tobacco, so as
to permit-its profitable cultivation in those countries with-
out loss to the imperial revenue.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that
with every desire to extend the sphere of employment lu
this country, and after giving the utmost attention to the
matter, the difficulties in the way of the growth of tobacco
in England had been found, at ail events up to the present
moment, insurmountable. He did not think under the
present circumstances it would be possible, although he
candidly declared it would be-a source of satisfaction to
him if it could.
LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES.
Mr. CRAWFORD asked the President of the Board of
Trade whether it was true that a Charter of Incorporation
had been granted. by the Crown to the " British India and
Colonial Trust and Agency Corporation, Limited;" and,
if so, if he would state the grounds on which
such charter was granted to a company constituted
under the provisions of the " Limited Liability Act ;"
and whether he would consent to lay the correspondence
in the particular case in question upon the table of the
house.
Mr. M. GIBSON, in reply, said the Crown had not been
advised to grant a charter of incorporation to the company
referred to. With respect to the correspondence connected
with the matter, there would be no objection to its pro-
duction.
THE INDIAN OFFICERS' GRIEVANCE.
Colonel SYKES asked the Secretary of State for India
whether the Royal Commission to inquire into the griev-
ances of Indian officers had been appointed ; the names of
the commissioners ; when the commission was likely to
commence its labours ; and whether the 717 petitions pre-
sented to the House of Commons could be brought to the
consideration of the commission ?
Sir C. WOOD said he hoped he should have been en-
abled to have appointed this committee sooner, but great
difficulty had been experienced in obtaining a chairman.
That had been effected last week, and the commission had
been signed on Monday. The names would appear in the
Gazette to morrow, and after that the sittings would
immediately commence.
IRISH RAILWAYS.
Mr. MONSELL asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer
whether the evidence taken by the Railway Commissioners
on the Irish railway system would be laid before the house
before the end of the session.
INDIA.

The house adjoVrned at nine o'clock, until the usual
hour this day.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Sir C. WOOD made his annual exposition of the financial
affairs of India. After tracing the progress of revenue and
expenditure during the last three years, and noting the
differences between the actual and ordinary estimates, he
observed that the gradual and steady improvement in the
income clearly proved the advance of general prosperity
from one end of the country to the other. On the other
hand, the charge had gone on increasing, especially for the
army, owing to the increased price of provisions, the half
batta, the Bhootan war, and the augmented pay to medical
officers. There had also been a large increased outlay for
public works, law and justice, education and superannua-
tions. Now although a considerable portion of the increase
could not be prevented, and seemed to be justified by the
extraordinary and satisfactory increase in the revenue
year after year, nevertheless he urged that it was neces-
sary that the strictest economy should be enforced ; for
upon that depended the safety of the finances of India.
Referring to the important subject of the encouragement
given to public works, Sir Charles stated that he believed
the people of India were ready to expend any amount of
money in that direction ; and he himself was prepared to
borrow money for the purpose whenever they supplied him
with any well-digested plan for the execution of really
necessary and useful works, but he certainly would not go
hand over head, and raise loans for every project that was
started. During the last six years there had been an enor-
mous expenditure on this account ; namely, out of public
funds X 30,000,000, and from local funds X 4,500,000 ; whilst
there had been expended for railways X 38,500,000, making
a total for the six years of £73,000,000. Taking the last
two years only, the outlay for the same object was from
public funds upwards of X 11,000,000, and from local funds
upwards of £2,000,000—together X 13,200,000, and that
exclusive of the railroads constructed. With regard to the
cultivation of cotton in India, the increased price and the
measures adopted to stimulate this branch of industry had
been attended with great success; and he was informed
that capitalists at Bombay were introducing at the various
railway stations establishments and machinery for cleaning,
pressing, and packing cotton, and to a certain extent
weaving a class of goods that would not compete with
English manufactures, but displace the wasteful process of
hand-loom weaving, and so divert the persons so employed
to useful agricultural pursuits and the culture of the cotton
plant. The right hon. gentleman also adverted to the
questions lately in dispute with the talookdars of Oude,
and stated that the rights of this class of proprietors had
been established; that a very good feeling existed be-
tween them and the ryots, and that there had been no
necessity for appealing to a judicial decision. After
stating the present position of the Bhootanese difficulty,
the right honourable gentleman moved a series of reso-
lutions setting forth that the total net revenues of the
several presidencies for the year ended the 30th day of
April, 1864, amounted to X 35,636,898, and the charges
thereof to X 26,018,388, leaving a surplus revenue of
X 9,618,510. That the interest on the registered debt of
India, paid in the same period, amounted to X 8,093,250, and
the charges defrayed in England, on account of the Indian
territory, including interest on debt incurred in England
and guaranteed interest on the capital of railway andother
companies, after deducting net traffic receipts of railways,

by Mr. H. Seymour, whether so large an army of ''''':'-'
Europeans is still required in India. : Between . .-, - i
seventy and eighty thousand men make a great a:-.'::`,
drain on the population of England as well as On
the resources of India. The permanent' mainten-
ance of such an army presents no hopeful prospect
for either country.
HER ALD.--The Americans of the North are boast-
ing that they have set free the negro. We are
waiting for some evidence, however, to show that
the African black has regarded those human rights
which are denied to the captive statesmen and sol-
diers of the South. But the patience of the world,
it seems, must be tested for a long time before the
dark race is actually admitted, at IVashington or
New York, to an ostensible equality with the
patriots of the Broadway. Now, indeed, the ques-
tion is, whether Uncle Tom shall have a vote. A.
thousand journals, it is asserted by disputants on
both sides, are urging that point as though it
involved the whole future of the commonwealth.
But it is a remarkable fact that the very men who
have been blustering about emancipation as their
policy, and equality as its natural results, are in-
dignant with the negrees of Tennessee for daring
to memorialise the State Legislature and insist upon
the suffrage for themselves. Tennessee, perhaps,
may accord them the privilege. Its governor does
a little trade in popularity, on his own account, by
advocating their claims, though he does so upon the
ground that they would neutralise the influence of
the disloyal whites ? But what of Andrew Johnson,
the illustrious predecessor of Parson Brownlow ?
He waits for the advice of Congress—he dreads the
" nigger" doctrine—he leaves Judge Chase to exalt
black audiences with the belief that they are the salt
of the earth ; he allows the ebony people to be free,
but doubts their capacity to exercise a constitu-
tional franchise? Well, what will Cuffee do ? Will
he appreciate his new masters? He is " a man and
a brother ;" but is he to be a " fellow-citizen?"
Clearly, he may be designated " a man," and hailed
from a distance as " a brother ;" yet where is the
public conveyance which will carry him uninsulted ?
Where is the steamboat on the deck of which he is
ille-23.44,1 -Qt. iw,......21g31,*---Paamengers?. Where ems-
the Yankee -labwartrs *Bo will work where he is
employed? It is hardly time as yet to discuss his
political Magna- Charta in u the home of the set-- ~
ting sun." That may be done after his liberators
have determined whether he shall remain an outcast,
outlaw, and leper, or be transported to the moral de-
solation of Liberia, where a little amateur African
languishes, ill calculated to fulfil the sublime hopes
of Bolingbroke for the professors of "Talkee-talkee,
or the negro language." "We desire to vote at
elections," ejaculate the Nigritian patriots of Ten-
nessee. " Keep your sonorous nonsense to your-
selves," rejoin their emancipators, " and do not
bring your Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese,
Hottentot, and Mumbo-Jumbo dialects to the poll-
ing booths of a civilised republic, the greatest on.
the earth." It is interesting from many points of
view to watch the progress of this controversy i but
one fact is palpable that the hatred of the North
TlMES.—There is no more striking example of the American for the negro is more intense and more
tendencies of the House of Commons than its man- regret that he and is species cannot be pitiless than ever. He spurns him ; hiss
organs
ut u
ner of treating the Indian Budget. Year after year
to
the financial statement affecting the most important auction wholesalhe to stock the plantations of
interests of a vast section of mankind is made to a Dutch Guiana ;" and one of the very journals
which eulogised Abraham Lincoln as " the father
house which sometimes falls short of 40 members.
of African liberty in the New World," lately pro-
Neither policy, nor philanthropy, nor party spirit,
tested against " the ludicrous impossibility" of- a
nor curiosity as to the progress or reverses of the woolly-headed population existing in any relation-
mighty populations of the far East, is able to bring
ship with a nation of whites. We shall see this dif-
together a decent proportion of those 600 gentlemen ficulty enhanced as time goes on, and the Ameri-
to listen to a debate on what is really one of the
cans take leisure to bethink themselves what they
most interesting subjects to which the attention of
have done for their commonwealth by their ravage
a statesman can be given. We fear that in this the
and oppression of the South. Just now their moral
House of Commons too truly represents the coun-otherwise absorbed. They are thirsting
energies are
try. Members of Parliament will listen to exactly for revenge and the punishment of unarmed oppo-
the things that the public will read about. Anything vents captured in a spirit of treason after solemn
relating to domestic legislation or enterprise, any
local -squabble or personal scandal, will make a guarantee of safety. When the blood for which
house, and even a full one, but people do not care to they pant has been shed they will have the negro to
deal with, and what will they do with him ? The
undergo the exertion requisite to master details con-
nected with a distant and still comparatively un- doctrine of miscegenation, by which so many of our
contemporaries were befooled, was, as we have ex-
known land. This year the usual influences were
made more intense by the imminence of edissolu- plained, no more than an impudent, although inge-
st.tion, and Sir Charles Wood, who, in spite of indis- p
ious je Already we witness the abhorrence with
which American society in the Federal States looks '
position, made a long and valuable statement, spoke forward to the necessity of carrying out in practice
to a thin house, which subsequently dwindled down
to literally empty benches. Yet there has hardly the principles proclaimed,
though never sincerely,
during the epoch of the civil war. " What is to be-
ever been a time when it was more necessary that come of Mungo ?" inquire the chilled philanthropists,
the British Parliament should try to pay some at-
lately so fervent, of New York. But Mungo answers
tention to India. The feeling seems to be that this for himself and demands his vote as a free citizen
,
country performs all its duties when able officials
are appointed to the highest posts in the East ; that of the United States, which are thus invited to draw
from the deep sources of human genius at Surinam,
the House of Commons, at any rate, cannot do Congo and Old Calabar for the future elements of
better than leave such matters to Government, constitution.their-'
Which has always placed Indian politics apart from The' dilemma is awkward, but
party consideration, and done its utmost to select must be said that they have brought it r.iport
it
themselves -and must mit- be' astonished when the
the best men and encourage the best measures. To t '•
a great extent this view is correct. India has been name of George Washington is held up to ridicule
.
administered by a succession of most able and ems- in the chapels. of Paramaribo.. They are punished
,by being designated, in the noble pages which
neat politicians, and the result of their exertions •
, glorified t
Lin-
is in every way 'favourable. An immense country he "Liberation"- policy of Abraham
'coln as " inherently, ridiculously, offensively, and
has been reduced to order, and is now being
incurably base ;" but, for all that, they are
animated with the spirit of industry and enter-
thundering at the doors of the State Legislatures,
prise; its wealth is increasing with rapidity, its
wanting votes, and
be
urging that the successor of
people have risen from the sloth and ignorance of
-Andrew Johnson shall elected in part by the
ages, communications are every day extended, and
in all these things succeeding
each year will see:tits ii
dwellers
n wattle and sweet-wood cabins, loung-
u
rate of progress accelerated. Yet we cannot but African dhrs black stall-keepers, who
think that the present time is one which requires thi'ive byc cheating,' ' illiterate negro tailors
some special attention to India. It is to direct this carpenters, and cooprs, and vagrants, whose only
extraordinary material advance of the country that use
rof freedom is the enjoyment of refusing.r to work.bt
the intervention of the ruling State is desirable. We e congratulate these folk upon their liberty ; u
India has now recovered from the effects of the we can imagine without surprise, even the state
electors who made Andrew Johnson their governor,
mutiny, or, rather, the irresistibility of British power,
hesitating to register a horde of abject blacks on
which was. made clear to the native mind by that
event, has given stability to the institutions of the the roll of their constituency.
." Had none but
permitted to settle in America," said
country, and enabled governors and governed to Africans been
begin, as it were, a new career. For the present a great writer once, " how little would mankind.
both appear to be going a little fast. The wealth have profited by the discovery of Columbia." The
good-
that has poured in on India, tdotohedemand for one negro has great physical strength ;he is
of its great staples causedan
by the American war, humoured, cheerful, and often affectionate ; but he
is incapable of art and science ; he cannot be fitly
have given an impulse to speculation, and specula-
incorporated with any race of European descent,
tion has in many cases ended in collapse. The in-
and the Americans understand this as well as we do-
crease of money and the enlargement of expenditureof th • benevolence, and now
have raised the price of food until large classes of But they made a cry
in their
a very
it returns to themembarrassing echo.
the community have come to suffer great distress.
How can they settle the question between them-
Provisions are two, three, or four times as dear as
selves and " the primitive type." Chief Justice
they were a few years ago. The little clothing that
the native requires has also advanced in price. In is ' Chase a judge of the true American quality—that
. an unblushing partisan—bids the Africans con-
the cities rent is higher and accommodation less, eider
themselves his equals, and promises them a
though mansions and warehouses rise on a larger charter. But the bulk of American opinion shrinks
scale than any to which Anglo-Indians have hitherto from the suggestion. The majority deny that the
been accustomed. All the official people are well negroes fought their battle, or decided the fate of
paid according to English notions, and yet they com- Secession. But Quashee is importunate, and some-
plain of the hardness of the times and how impos- thing must be done with him. They cannot send
sable it is for a man with a fixed income to compete him home; he disdains Liberia ; work he will not,
with the grandees of trade. Thus it will be seen that and beg he must not ; so that there seems no alter-
India is in many respects like England, or rather like native beyond making him a citizen of the United
Europe in general. The Calcutta or Bombay resident States, an elector, and an independent politician.
finds himself in much the same position as the man in There is a grisly look about the matter, we confess,
a similar position in London or Paris, or even Berlin or
and yet what help is there for those who would
Vienna. The world is becoming richer, and expen- rather not, upon the whole, be elbowed by Sambo
diture is increasing sometimes faster than riches. at the hustings ? They voluntarily lifted their Old
There is another point of similarity between this , Man of the Mountain upon their shoulders, and
country and its dependency. If individual expen-1 since the energy displayed by Sinbad cannot be well
diture rises, so does that of the Government. Sir exercised when the Old Man has three millions of
C. Wood last night gave a formidable list of the
estimates for the army; public works, education, and heads the
rider. He abhors him, nevertheless ; he
the American horse must submit to his
other matters. Although the revenue had increased, African
will not eat, ride, walk, or worship with him • he
the charge for 1864-65 had increased, as compared
'
with 1863-64, to a more than corresponding degree— loathes his kindred '
and his colour • he murders him
when he can ; he drives him into the forest and.
by no less than £2,262,000. Of this very large addition
swamp ; when he cannot be his tyrant he is his
to the expenditure, £63,000 was on account of the
enemy ; he teaches the newly-arrived emigrant to
army for increased allowances and pay, £310,000 is detest him ; he would now, if possible, starve and
for public works, £186,000 for law and justice (that exterminate him from the land. And this after
is, for the improvement of the courts of justice four years of a war for liberty—aLer a crusade for
throughout the country), £143,000 for education, for the assertion of negro right !
•
and £270,000 for superannuation. Thus it will be
seen that the items in the Indian Budget are grow-
ing like our own Civil Service Estimates, and Sir C.
Wood reminded the House that as they were charges
for the improved administration of the country, it
was impossible to expect anything but a steady and
gradual increase. "It is indispensable," he said,
" to improve public works, and most desirable to
aid education and make better provision for the ad-
ministration of justice." Very true ; but these things
are not accomplished without an increase of outlay
with which even an advancing country cannot always
keep up. This may be seen in the present case, for
though India has been selling its cotton and absorb-
ing our silver on an unusual scale the revenue no
longer equals the expenditure. There is a deficit,
and one with which it has proved not very easy to
deal. We need say nothing of the year 1863-4, the
small amount of the surplus in which, compared with
the year before, is attributed to the diminution in
the opium returns. But in the last year there was
an absolute deficiency. " According to the Budget
estimates there would be a surplus of £823,000, but
according to the regular estimates there was a deficit
of £263,000, the calculations being, in fact, worse
than the reality by £1,086.000." Yet the revenue was
better than was estimated. The Budget estimate
was £46,163,000 ; the regular estimate £46,284,000,
giving an increase of £120,000. The Budget for
next year has to be framed with due consideration
for the influences which are here at work. It is
evident from Sir C. 'Wood's statement that especial
care must now be taken to balance national ac-
counts which are equal in importance to those of
great European Kingdoms. The history of the
removal of the Income-tax shows what influences
may be brought to bear upon statesmen in India,
and how suddenly they may act. The result of the
calculations in india and at home is that the revenue
for next year will be £46,548,000. The actual ex-
penditure in India, excluding interest on railways,
was, in 1862-3, £36,800,000 ; and in the Budget of
1865-66 it was estimated at £4o,4B7,ooo—being an
increase of £3,687,000, of which £1,000,000 is due
to the army. With respect to this last item we
think there is some reason for the questicin asked

GLORIOUS REBELS.—There is a very unnecessary
irritability in some minds with respect to the word
rebel. How any Virginian can share this sensitiveness we
cannot imagine. The annals of the Old Dominion are the
biographies of rebels. She cherishes few memories save
those of rebels. She has never raised a monument except
to a rebel. She names her counties and her colleges after
rebels. Her seal is a victorious rebel. Her flag reproduces
on a larger scale the triumphant rebel. A rebel lies within
the hallowed bounds of Mount Vernon. A rebel looks down
on her noblest public work from Monticello. A rebel in
enduring bronze keeps watch and ward over her capital,
and none but rebels are thought worthy to line the pedes•
tal of the rebel's statue. Does it become her to blush at
the name of rebel ?—Petersburg News.

Is A PRINTED PLACARD AN OBSTRUCTION?—.
A somewhat novelquestion came before Mr. George
and Mr. Croft at the Leeds Town-hall on Wednesday.
Edward Sheldon, the well-known bill poster, was sum-
moned on an information charging:him with " unlawfully
obstructing the free passage of the highway"—the alleged
offence consisting in his having on Sunday, the 4th inst.,
posted upon the thoroughfare in Briggate an enormous
placard 25 yards in length, announcing the performance of
" Adah Isaacs Menken as Mazeppa." The facts were ad-
nutted, but on the part of the defendant, Mr. Ferns con-
tended that to paste a piece of paper upon a highway was
no obstruction to the free passage of the public, either in
law or fact. They might as well say that a fly would ob-
struct a railway engine. (Laughter.) The Chief Con-
stable said the bill in question was posted down nearly the
entire length of Briggate, and horses in carriages, convey-
ing people to church, shied at it. Mr. Ferns said his at-
tention was directed to the placard, but the soberminded
animal that did him the honour of drawing Him and his
family to church was not in the slightest degree affected.
(Laughter.) In reply to the magistrates, Mr. Barr ex-
pressed the opinion that posting placards on the thorough-
fare was an offence of some kind, buthe doubted very much
whether it was an obstruction. Mr. George—The Highway
surveyors have a right to prevent it. Mr. kerns--It
won't occur again so far as Sheldon is concerned. The in.
formation was then digunissede—hosok Mercury.