The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-17 00:00:00

THE NEW BEER ACT.

The following circular has been issued amongst the
licensed victuallers :
" The Recorder of Birmingham will gratefully receive
information on the following points :
" 1. Is the New Beer Act brought into general ope-
ration in your neighbourhood ? 2. Has its enforce-
ment been attended with much irritation, and is such
irritation, if any, allayed or aggravated by experience
'of its working? 3. If irritation has been occasioned,
does it appear to you to essentially belong to any
measure of restriction, or to arise from the enactment
respecting travellers, or from any other provisions cap-
able of amendment 1 4. Would the difficulty of
enforcing the act, or the irritation belonging to its en-
forcement, be, in your opinion, augmented or diminished
by making it apply to the whole of Sunday, as in Scot-
' land ? 5. Has it diminished the number of charges for
drunkenness wade before magistrates ? 6. Is the dimi-
nution on Mondays, if any, countervailed by an excess
in any other period of the week ? 7. Has there been a
diminution in any other offences (specify them) which
may be fairly attributed to the operation of the act ?
8. Are there any indications that the restrictions of the
act will lead to important evasions of the law 3 9. Is
the act popular with the upper and middle classes, and
the well-conducted portion of those below them ?"

PUBLIC BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES.

An account showing the numbers of the bathers and
washers, and the receipts at eleven establishments now
open in London, and at a few out of the many similar
establishments in the country, in the quarter ended
Michaelmas, 1854 :

Number

Number

Name of the establish-
ment.

Total
Receipts.

Bathers

1 Washers

METROP
WOLIS.
The Model, hitechapel,
George-et., Buston-square,
St. Martin-in-the-Fields
St. Marylebono
Westminster, St. Margaret
sad St. John ..............
Greenwich .......
Westminster, St. James
Poplar
St. Giles and Bloomsbury,
Lambeth .... ...........
Bermondsey
Totals for London in
three months
COUNTRY.
Liverpool—
Cornwallis-street .
Paul-street .............. ,
George's Pierhead ...... .
Frederick-street
Hull
. ...................... .
Bristol
Preston
Birmingham
Maidstone ........ : ...... :

56,986
34,738
41,430
70,993

43,570
26,336
44,972
28,499
72,041
70,509
47,226

537,345

53,289
26,759
28,262

23,651
16,140
14,285
43,681
14,622

9,008
19,932
10,529
7,207

14,552
1,222
9,740
1,611
10,349

1,140

85,260*

4,010

2,923
1,032
3,118
1,964

£8,410 7 6

-811
1,729

731 9 11
361 17 2
967 14 2
54 8 4
226 19 9
209 3 7
149 12 9
728 14 11
135 7 5

(Signed) GEORGE WO.OLCOTT, Assist.-Sec,
Secrctary s Office, No. 12, Beekingham-stroet,
Adelphi, London.
* Or the linen of 431,000 persons.

The people of Wexfdd are about to give a banquet to
their distinguished fellow-townsman, Captain M 'Glum,
the discoverer of the North-West Passage.
THE PENDING CIRJECiII CONTROVEusY.—The Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, disregarding objecwhtions and
there pro-
tests, has issued a commission to inquireether
is any ground for proceeding further with the objections
that have been made against the Venerable Archdeacon
Denison's doctrinal teaching.. The commission consists
of the Right Rev. Dr. Carr, late Bishop of Bombay,
but now rector of Bath ; the Rev. Charles Langdon, of
Queen Camel Vicarage, Ilohester ; the Rev. Charles
Pole,, rural dean, Yeovilton Rectory, Ilchester ; the
Rev. R. C. Philips, Cuoldington Rectory, Witicanton ;
the FAY. g. Parro Ohipoton7on7Stour.
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