The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-12 00:00:00

CONGREGATIONAL UNION.

The annual session of the ministers and delegates of the
Churches composing this Union was held in Finsbury
Chapel, under the presidency of the Rev. R. W. Dale,
Birmingham, chairman for the year. After devotional
exercises, Mr. Dale delivered an address upon the leading
questions of the day, and pointed out that the living
personal Christ, and not dogmatic teachings and theories,
was the answer to every one of them. From the report,
read by the Rev. Dr. G. Smith, it appeared that
the income of the union had been £5,570 3s. 7d., and that
their various publications had had a large circulation.
Amongst those present were Mr. S. Morley, M.P.,
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Francis Crossley, M.P., Mr. Richard, M4'., Rev. .
Binney, &c.

MISCELLANEOUS.
The Trinitarian Bible Society, an opponini to the
"broad" principles of the British and Foreign Bible
Society, also held a meeting at Exeter Hall, the Earl of
Cavan presiding. Very warmly the policy of the last-
named society was condemned.—The Young Men's
Christian Association held a breakfast at Aldersgate-
street.

Mr. Easton, one of the passengers injured iu the
collision near the Thirsk Railway Station early on Sunday
morning, has succumbed from the effects of the Shock
to the system. He died at York, whether he had been re-
moved at his own request. Tho other injured passengers
are going on favourably.
TURNPIKE TRUSTS.—The following statement
chews the comparative condition of the trusts in England
and North Wales in the year 1837, when the highest
amount of revenue from the tolls was received, and 1867
respectively : —Tolls, in 1837, £1,509,985; in 1867, £889,922 ;
money borrowed, in 1837, £134,044 ; in 1867, £4,755 ; total
receipts, in 1837, £1,699,428; in 1867, £997,587. The
total expenditure in 1837 was 21,742,2371867,
27,011,989 and in 1867,
£1,032,282 ; bonded debt in 1837,
£3,291,594 ; unpaid interest in 1837, £1,019,568; and in
1867, £325,487.
THE DRINK or PLAriTs.—The use of manure.
water is a matter of profoundest importance, and every
point connected therewith should be canvassed freely and
without prejudice. It is customary to say, " Give a
strong dose at such a time, then pure water only, then
another strong dose," and so on, and so on. It is quite
true that some of our favourites endure such treatment
without visible injury, but we feel persuaded that the
results would be far more satisfactory were the plants
needing extra nourishment supplied with weak manure-
water constantly instead of with strong doses at intervals.
A little calm consideration of the manner in which
plants take up and assimilate their food must surely
tend to the conclusion that strong. doses of liquid
I manure approximate very nearly to strong doses of
poison ; at all events, accidents resulting from such prac-
tice are by no means uncommon, and there are probably
many more accidents of the kind than are heard of
beyond the gardens in which they occur. We have never
seen more satisfactory growth than in cases where the only
water obtainable was constantly charged with manurial
matters ; yet the liquid was so far from being what we
call " strong " that there was no indication to the senses
of the peculiar properties of the fluid. We must not be
understood as advocating what are sarcastically termed
homceopathic" doses. We simply urge that liquid
manure may be so weak that seedling plants and newly-
potted plants may be watered with it safely, yet so far
strong enough that by its constant use the plants sub-
jected to its influence will attain in the end a far higher
degree of perfection than can be ensured by any other
method of stimulus.—The Gardener's Magazine.

lIIPER.IAL TAUT A .Y 1 EN

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THIS DAY.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
THE PERMISSIVE BILL.

A great number of petitions were presented from all
,arts of the country in favour of this bill.
Mr. Locyu and Mr. G Itt,VE S presented petitions from
icy used victuallers in London and Liverpool against the

Sir W. LAWSON, in moving the second reading of this
bill, saM he was not going to s!..ow that drinking way
on the decrease, hut he thought th..t many would agree
with him that it was still the great source of pauperism
and crime, and that alone would form a. good
basis to proceed upon. What was wanted by
a great many persons was a trial of the per-
missive system, because where it had been volun-
tarily hied it had invariably given the greatest
satisfaction. There was a large number of per-
sons engaged in the trade of selling drink, and whose
direct interest it was to sell the greatest amount
possible, but it was not with those persons that he
fuuud fault, but the law under which they carried
on their trade. The bill he had tha honour to move the
second reading was not for the improving of the licensing
laws, because he did not believe in these laws ; but the
great object of his measure was to allow the ma
jority of the inhabitant; of any particular place
to put a veto on the licensing of the magistrates.
The principle of the bill was not new, becauss they had
already tried it with respect to public libraries, in which it
had given the greatest satisfaction, and he merely asked
that the system might be tried with respect to the sale of
drink. (Hear, hear.) It had been clearly demonstrated that
where there were no public-houses in a place there was
an entire absence of drunkenness ; and Saltaire, in Bess-
borough, showed how well the system worked. He hoped
the house would permit his bill to receive a second read-
ing, because its object was a good and benevolent one, and
one that had the improvement of the people as its great
object.

POLICE lIVTELLIGENCE.-77his Day

THAMES.

IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—John Connor, a labourer, was
brought before Mr. Benson charged with-stealing fead from
the Island Leadworks, Limehouse, the property of Messrs
Pitchford and Co.

Mr. Charles Young stated the case for the prosecution.
The prosecutors had lost a large quantity of ing As of lead
from their premises in the course of the last moth. The
property disappeared almost daily in a very mysterious
manner, and exceeded in value £3O. The police were con-
sulted, and on Monday, the 3d inst., Police-sergeant
Briden, 4 K, was concealed on the premises, and after
watching some time saw a man enter the premises through
a hole near the banks of the canal called the Lea-cut, and
proceed in the direction of a pile of pigs of lead from which
he removed one, and returned with it on his shoulder to
the hole in the side of the premises. Briden then dis-
covered himself and pursued the thief, who threw down
the pig of lead, and being about thirty yards in
advance of the officer he reached the hole first
and got his legs through. Briden seized the villain by
the shoulders and attempted to pull him back, but a c3n-
federate of the prisoner, who was in a barge outside the
lead works, pulled the thief the other way, and liberated
bin. The thief escaped, leaving his jacket in Brid,m's
hands. The prisoner was met with yesterday by the
Lacer and taken into custody.
Mr. Charles loung then called witnesses in support of
his statement.
Janis Stratton, of No. 7, EU:int-place, Stepney, car-
man, said that ou Monday week 110 saw three meu on a
barge en the canal. The prisoner was on% They all left

le barge, pulled a mau through the whole of tho lead
ictory, and ran away. He was sure the prisoner was
a-, and he ran past him within a foot of him.

Dani:•l Leak, foreman to the prosecutors, said the pig of
lead removed" from a pile was worth 155., and was the
property of Messrs. Pitchford and Co. It was on a pile at
six o'clock in the evening of Monday, the 3d of May.
Mr. Benson remanded the prisoner for a wee'.:.

MARKE7 S-7111.5 D.I Y.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
May 12.—Sales probably 8,000 bales. The market
very dull.

LISKEARD ELECT lON.--(T DAY.)

Lycett ... ...
Horsman ... ...

12 O'CLOCK.
.. 174
.. 149

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.

Amsterdam Short ... 12 3 ... 12 3
Do
Rotterdam — ... 12 4 ... 12 41
Autwerp — ... 25 4-21- ... 23 471
13russels — 'l5 4. 2A- 25 4:4-

Hamburg n — 13 12 ... 13 13-1
Parie
. _

Ditto - ... 25 42i
Marseilles
Frankfurt-on-the-Main
_l2l{ ...

Vienna — ... 12 6,; ... 12 75
Trieste — ... 12 65 ... 12 10
Petersburg
Copenhagen . ... ~ 9 23 ... 9 26
Berlin
Madrid..
Cadiz — ... 4J ... 49,t-
Leghorn
Milan — ... 26 60 ... 26 65
Genoa — ... 26 60 .., 26 65
Naples
Palermo — ... 26 60 ... 26 63
Messina
Lisbon — ... 52 .... 524
I Oporto — ... 52 . ... 524

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.
Australia and Ncw Zealand, via Southampton May 22
Ditto, via 3' Insetlles May 17
Brazil. BuenoS Ayres, and Monte Video
Ditto, by French packet May 16
eape Verds. by Brazil packet
espe of Good Clupe;Asoension. and St. Helena... May 13.
Latina. Penang, and Singapore. via Southampton. May 15.
'.)ibraltar. via Southampton
India, via Sou tb amnton
1. id*, via Handles .... May ld
Malta, &opt, &o. • May 15
Ditto, Marseilles May
,ewioundla na ...... ....... .......... May 19

Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope. and Natal. via
mutbann ton
Ditto, Mar:seinen • May 9
Portugal Juno 4.
United States. - anada, California, dfc., by Britiau
packet
Ditto dittt (Baltimore)
Ditto. by L nited States packet

Ditto, by Inman packet
West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerife May 17
Bahamas, via New York
West Indies and Ps.3lLic (except Mexico and Baha-
mas)
Cuba and $1 exioo
Bermuda. via Halifax..

POPE, REE, AND M'LEAN'S TELEGRAM

(Br ATLANTIC CABLE.)
NEW YORK, May 11.

The completion of the Pacific Railway, connect-
ing the Atlantic with the Pacific, was celebrated
yesterday at Trinity Church by a sole-Mn Te Deunt

CHINA AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS.

MASSINA, May 12.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company'sateamer
Ceylon passed Alessiva at seven this morning en
route for Marseilles.

THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND.—WICK, Saturday.—
We have had a week of exceedingly cold weather, wi►h in-
tense frosts in the mornings. The distant hills of Suther-
land on the one side, and of Orkney on the other, are
covered with snow, and yesterday morning snow fell to the
depth of three inches on the Ord. Grass and oat briards are
suffering greatly in consequence.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Shilling Day.—Mon-
day, May 10.—Admissions by season tickets, 1,763 ; ditto
on payment, 1,642; total visitors, 3,405.

THE TEA TRADE. —May 10.—The deliveries in
London estimated for the week were 1,,,32,362 lb, which
is an increase of 109,344 lb., compared with the previous
statement.

The 2d Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers,. con-
sisting of 52 officers, 544 men, seven horses, 79
soldiers' wives, and 103 children, is under orders to
proceed from Newport and Brecon to Aldershot,
and is expected to reach the camp about mid-day
on Friday.
Major. Gen. Lord George Paget, C. 8., Inspector-
Gen. of Cavalry, made the usual spring inspection
of the rides and interior economy of the Ist Life
Guards, stationed at Regent's Park Barracks, on the
Bth inst., and of the Cavalry Depot at Canterbury
on the 10th.

The Union Pacific Railroad sold 10,000 passen-
ger tickets from Chicago to White Pine, Nevada, during
the month of March. Everything indicates a great rush
to the silver regions from the East this spring.
A most extraordinary and rapid increase in the
emigration front Liverpool has just commenced, and from
the number of applicants for berths there is ovary likeli-
hood of the exodus continuing for ✓some mouths.