The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-27 00:00:00

THE NEW GUN LICENSE.

The text of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's bill to
substitute a gun licence for the present game certificate
has been presented. It is proposed to enact that every
person who shall use or carry a gun elsewhere than in a
dwelling house or the curtilage thereof without having
in force a licence duly granted to him under this
Act shall forfeit the sum of ten pounds. Soldiers,
sailors, volunteers, and policemen, or persons carrying a
gun on behalf of another person duly licensed under the
Act, are exempted when carrying a gun in the discharge
of their duty, If a gun is carried in parts by two or more
persons in company the bill orders that every one of those
persons shall be deemed to be carrying the gun.
The bill further enacts that the "game certificate," where-
ever tne same occurs in the sections of the Act of the
first and second years of King William the Fourth, chap-
ter 32, which are now in force, and not repealed
by this Act, shall be construed to mean a license
to use or carry a gun under this Act, and if
any person having obtained a license under this Act
shall be convicted of any offence under section thirty of
the said Act of the first and second years of King William
the Fourth, chapter thirty-two, or under the Act of the
econd and third years of King William the Fourth,
chapter sixty-eight, the said license shall thenceforth
be null and void. 14. No license under this
Act shall entitle the person to whom the same
is granted to use, carry, or have in his custody
or possession any firearm in any yart of the United
Kingdom where such person is by any other Act now or
hereafter in force forbidden to use, carry, or have in his
custody or possession any firearm, nor to entitle such
person to use, carry, or have in his custody or possession
any firearm unless he shall have obtained a licence
or permission so to do from any authority empowered
by any such other Act to grant snob licence or per-
mission.

The Liverpool Mercury says that thy Rev. Alex-
ander Stewart, M.A., at present curate of Chilton Can-
tillo, Ilchester, Somerset, the second son of the patron of
the living, Mr. Alderman John Stewart, will have the
refusal of the Rectory of Liverpool, vacant by the decease
of the late Rev. Augustus Campbell.

Among the parliamentary documents issued
are returns of Savings Banks, South Kensington Museum,
and Civil Service, and Revenue. Also the following
bills :—Benefices, Metropolitan Boards of Works, Sale of
Poisons (Ireland), Gun Licenses, Benefit Building
Societies, and Cust& ms, and Inland Revenue.

The three turnouts who were recently sentenced
to one month's imprisonment for intimidating non-unionists
working at the Allerton Main Colliery, were liberated
from the Wakefield House of Correction on Wednesday, and
their friends made a demonstration in their favour by
meeting them at the prison gates with a brass band, and
parading round the town.

The General Assembly of the Established Church
of Scotland has this week resolved to use all prudent and
constitutional means to obtain, as speedily as possible, a
measure for the alteration of the law of Patronage, in
accordance with the principles embodied in the resolution
of the last General Assembly, and to prepare an outline
of a bill in harmony with these principles, to be submitted
to a meeting of the Commission of Assemby.

Mr. George Gager, addressing a meeting on the
Government Education Bill at Bradford, expressed his
conviction that the majority of the working men in this
country were in favour of the scheme of the Birmingham
League, and urged the electors to express their opinion to
Mr. Forster, and let him not fall into a mistake as to
what the opinions of his constituents were on that impor-
tant subject.
The Sultan has addressed a note to all the Turkish
legations, calling. attention to the alleged abuse committed
by the owners of foreign printing-offices in the capital by
printing works "injurious to the peace of the country."
His Majesty gives notice that the full rigour of the law
will in the future be applied against those who may thus
violate the existing regulations.

The Countess Volsamachi, who married, as her
first husband, the celebrated Bishop Heber, died at
Hodnot Hall on the 13th instant, in the eighty-first
year of her age. Sixty-one years ago she commenced
her labours at the same place,of which her husband was
incumbent. The clepdased lady was the youngest
daughter of Dean Shipley, of St. 4saph and a niece
of Sir William Jones, the Oriental scholar. Her
second husband
died a few months 481:L-98/vestry 4d-
vertiser.