The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-27 00:00:00

THE UNITED KINGDOM ALLIANCE.
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The annual meeting of the Council of the United King-
dom Alliance was heldat Manchester yesterday. Upwards
of 400 members attended, and all parts of the United King-
dom were represented. The guarantee fund of £50,000, pro-
posed five years ago, had, it was stated, now reached
a sum of £51,000 The result of various canvasses of
electors sheaved arge majorities in favour of giving
ratepayers the power to prohibit the traffic. Resolutions
were passed, urging Sir Wilfrid Lawson to introduce the
Permissive Bill in the next session of Parliament. Mr.
B. Whitworth, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, and Sir Walter
Trevellyan, increased their annual subscriptions from
£6OO to £BOO a year each. Other large subscriptions were
announced, and the ncome of the Alliance, which
last year exceeded £lO,OOO, will be largely augmented
henceforward.

Later in the day the public meeting of the Alliance was
held in the Free Trade Hall, Sir Walter C. Trevelyan in
the chair. Numerous letters of excuse from attendance
were read, one of them from the Archbishop of Canter-
bury. His Grace expressed unabated interest in the
object of the Alliance. He did not, indeed, feel that he
could concur in all the plans by which the Alliance
sought to promote temperance ; but they had
his hearty good wishes in the main object they
sought. The Archbishop of York wrote that it
was impossible for him to preside at the meeting,
on account of diocesan engagements. Letters were also
read from Mr. George Melly, M.P., the Hon. Arthur
Kinnaird, M.P., Mr. Dalway, M.P., and the Hon. Neal
Dow. The Chairman congratulated the meeting on the
success of the Alliance in its efforts both in and out of
Parliament. Mr, Bruce's recent utterances shewed him
making great advances in the direction of the Affiance.
It was not too much to hope that the right hon. gentle
man's measure would remove some of the crying evils o
the liquor traffic, though it would hardly effect all that
the Alliance desired.

Mr. Pope read the annual report of the executive. It
congratulated the meeting on the growing attention of the
public to the Alliance, and the increasingly satisfactory
position of its finances. More especially was its parlia-
mentary progress a source of rejoicing. Not one of them
who had formerly voted for the Permissive Bill had this
year gone to thi other side. The losses to the oppo-
nents of the bill were 54 ; and the virtual gain to
the Alliance was 75 votes. The balance sheet shewed
that the income for the year was £15,719, leaving a
balance of £2,310 after paying the year's expenses. The
report and balance-sheet were adopted. Mr. Benjamin
Whitworth moved a resolution pledging the Council to
co-operate with the Executive in raising funds to con-
tinue the agitation with increased vigour. He com-
mented especially upon the last division on the Permissive
BilL The next resolution conveyed a vote of thanks to
the 115 members who voted and paired in favour of the
Permissive Bill. That division leads the Council to an-
ticipate that the principle of Sir Wilfred Lawson's Bill
will shortly receive the sanction of the Legislature. Other
resolutions in furtherance of the principles of the Alli-
ance were also carried. Among the speakers were Pro-
fessor Newman, Dr. F. R. Lees, Mr. W. Saunders (of
London), Mr. Sullivan (of Dublin), Mr. J. S. Wright of
Birmingham), and others.
At the evening meeting, at which Sir Charles Trevelyan
presided, supported by Sir Walter Trevelyan, Sir Wilfrid
Lawson, M.P., Mr. Birley, M.P., Mr. Jacob Bright,
M.P., and others, a letter from Archbishop Manning was
read expressing regret at his inability to be present, and
stating that his desire to work for the great common end
of the Alliance increased year by year. Sir Wilfrid
Lawson, M.P.; gave notice, amid loud cheers, that at
the very earliest possible moment next session he would
re-introduce the Permissive Bill into Parliament.

THE WRECK OF THE CAMBRIA.
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None of the Cambria's missing boats have turned up.
For some time a hope was entertained that they might
have found their way to the Scotch coast ; but this hope
has been entirely abandoned, and it is now believed cer-
tain that they have gone down with the ship. Large
quantities of wreck aro daily being washed ashore on the
coasts of Antrim and Donegal. Some portions are relics
of the Cambria. Men have been placed on Innistrahull
to inter any of the bodies washed ashore.

GLASGOW, OCTOBER V.

The steamer Islay, from Islay, arrived at Glasgow
to-night (Wednesday). She reports that the stern
of the lost steamer Cambria has come ashore on
the Island of Islay, and that she passed great
quantities of wreck. A body was also seen floating,
but it was not picked up. A lifebuoy, broken and lashed
across with cords, was found on the Islay shore, but none
of the boats are known to have turned up. Large quan-
tities of wreckage have come ashore on the Kintyre
coast. •