The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-11 00:00:00

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Worcester.
Stonrbridge
Newmarket
0 !iha-n lO
Liverpool l5
AUGUST.
Ripon
North Staffordshire 4 Rtdcliffe 24
Brighton
Brighton Club
Wolverhampton lO Hereford 27
Reading l2 Maidstone 28
SEPTEMBER.
Warwick
Cardiff
Lichfield
Derby
Thirak ll Newmarket F 0 99
OCTOBER.
Nortballerton
Chester Autumn 6 1 Warwick Autumn 2O
R. Caledonian 8unt...... 6 I Kelso 20
Wrexham
Richmond .

Nottingham 21
Stamford 23
Knut3ford 23
Goodwood .28

NOVE.

PIPER.

Worcester Autumn 3
Wenleek
Shrewsbury Autumn l7

Liverpool Autumn lO
Ludlow Autumn 20

Irish Racing Fixtures for 1857.
JUNE.
Curragb 23
JULY.
Es:llewsiown
Wicklow lB4 I Dow
Heath
R. Cmo
Troytiroot!
81

EHEU, FUGACES !—People remark upon Duke Con
stantine's having paid us English a flying visit. Such
comments are unkind. It is not easy for Russians to
get rid of their habit throughout tha war.—P /melt.
THE Ctors.—The Derbyearc Mercury says :—The
crops in the neighbourhood of Belper present a most
luxuriant appearance. There has been a great change
in the face of the country during the last ten days. The
wheao, we are glad to say, look extremely well. Grass
is plentiful. As to garden produce, we know not the
time when potatoes, tae cottager's friend, showed so
well.

FAMILY JEWELS.—On Tuesday the Lord Chancellor
of Ireland gave judgment in the somewhat curious case
of "Berry v. Berry," relating to family jewel. The
plaintiff, Mrs. Berry, mother of the late John Al. Berry,
E,cl , of the county of Westmeath, filed a petition, pray-
ing that certain jewels given by her son on his marriage,
might be returned by his widow. They were alleged to
be worth from 3,0001. to 0,0001. The Lord Chancellor
decided in favour of the widow, who is the daughter of
the Master of the Rolls.
A CASE FOR Sonoirox.—Two colts were last year, put
into a park on a farm in the Boyne by different owners,
which appear to have shown remarkalle similarity in
shape, size, colour, &c. One died, as bad luck would
have it, and both the owaers claimed the remaining
animal, maintaining their rights so firmly on either side
that the result is a complicated law-suit: A proof ' was
recently taken in the case in the Court House here, and
the animal was brought into Bacff and stabled at the
Royal Oak that it might be txarnined ky the witnesses
ere they were'put on oath as to its identity.—Banffshire
Journal.

ROBBERY OF A PRIEST'S DWELLING —The dwelling-
ing house of the Rev. Mr. Devereux, a Roman Catholic
priest, residing in the parish of Clonmore, county Wex-
ford, was burglarieuely entered a few nights ago by some
sacrilegious rogue, who carried off a considerable quan-
tity of property. The burglar effected an entrance by
breaking a pane of glass in the kitchen window which
is at the rear of the house ; and having removed the
fastenings, he passed through the apartment unobserved
by a servant, who was there asleep at the time.
THE FATAL AFFRAY IN WELLINGION-STREET.—Yee-
terdny afternoon an inquiry took place in King's College
Hospital, before Mr, Bedford, respecting the death of
Mr. Rowland White, aged 35, which was alleged to have
been occasioned by blows received from a young man
named Frederick Hildebrand, an Ethiopian serenader,
in an affray in Wellinzton street, Strand. The jury re.
turned a verdict :—" That the deceased died of inflam-
mation of the lungs, accelerated by h blow from Frederick
Hildebrand, in self-defence."
THE CHILD POISONING CASE IN LIVERPOOL.—An
adjourned inquest was held before the borough coroner
of Liverpool on Tuesday, regarding the death of a child
of Mr. Sillar, of Shaw-street, under circumstances in-
volving a charge of gross negligence, if not more seri-
ous, against an assistant of a chemist and druggist, in
introducing morphia into a prescription instead of pow-
dered sugar, from the effects of which the chili died.
The jury, after a lengthened inquiry, found a verdict of
"Chance medley" against the assistant, Paul Strange.
The verdict does not involve any prosecution.
The Albion and the Wycliffe have arrived from Am-
tratia, but they are not believed to have brought any
gold.

Despatches have been received in Parrs from Stock-
holm, annonncing that the health of the King of
Sweden continues to cause great uneasiness.
MICTROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL—The anniversary
festival of this most excellent institution, situated in
Devonshire square, Bishopsgate---3 most populous dia.
trict, abounding with the poorer members of the com-
munity—was celebrated by an extreensly elegant dinner
at the London Tavern last evening. The chair was
rpi
no supported
of
taken by the Right lion. Lord John Russell, M.P.,
who
Mr. Roupeli, M.P., Mr. White,
M.
byOude and suite, Captain Sands and
officers of the American vessel Susquehanna, and about
150 friends of the institution. The subscriptions of the '
PatsheBUPP
evening awouutsd to close upon 1,400/.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YEsTELDAy.)
SALE OF BEER.

The following is a more extended report of Mr. Vil-
lier's speech than we were enabled to give in our impres-
s:on of yesterday :
Mr. VILLIERS, as chairman of the committee which
had sat on this subject, could not allow the hon. and
learned gentlemen to represent the report of that com-
mittee to the house in a light.not warranted by the facts.
The object of the committee had been to inquire into
the evils connected with the sale of intoxicating liquors,
which the hon. and learned gentleman had brought be-
fore the house, and to inquire further whether the pre-
sent law which regulated publichouses could be amended
with a view to the better protection of public morals and
for the better accommodation of the people. The hon.
and learned gentlemen, however, spoke as though the
committee had been utterly regardless of all those con-
siderations, as if their only object had been to establish
what he called free trade in spirits, utterly reckless of
the consequence, which he professed to detail, and has
argued upon that assumption in favour of his own mea-
sure. (Hear.) If the house did not adopt this most erro-
neous view of the labourers of that committee, he (Mr.
Villiers) could not conceive that they were likely to sup-
port this bill in the face of all the evidence collected by
the committee, and now in their possession—(hear)—and
further, in disregard of the assurance given by the Secre-
tary of State (Sir G. Grey) that the Government was
about to take up the subject, and would be ready
to propose a measure in the course of next session.
(Hear.) The hon. and learned gentleman wanted, he
presumed, to raise the character of houses for the sale of
intoxicating liquor, and to limit their number. But bow
could he attempt to lead the house to suppose that the
committee had been indifferent to these objects, and had
taken no precaution whatever for the future conduct and
character of these bousee, and, indeed, he had implied
that their object was to multiply them indefinitely ?
Why, the first proposition made was that no man should
get a license without the certificate of the magistrate as
to his being a fit person in point of character to receive
it. At present, any man might go to the Excise and
claim a beerhouse license on payment of 1/. 23., while
the proposal of the committee was that the lowest pay-
ment should be 61., and should go on increasing gradu-
ally in proportion to the papulation. Then the hon. and
learned gentleman, very conveniently for his own mea-
sure, ignored altogether the evidence as to the working
of the present licensing system, and its inefficiency in
checking the evils of which he complained, because he
had proposed a measure which, in direct opposition to
that evidence, purported to extend it. Tae hon, and
learned gentleman had observed the two things that the
evidence before the committee most prominently con-
demned—one being the division of the business of the
publican, into the sale of beer only, and the sale of every-
thing she in which he usually dealt, and the present
licensing system—(hear, hear)—and he had adopted
them both as the basis of his plan. The present system
of separating the sale of spirits from the sale of beer
was found to be most unsatisfactory, for it was almost
impossible for a man to live by the sale of beer alone,
and the evidence taken before the committee showed
that this was the occasion in many cases of the disre
putable practices adopted in those houses. (Hear,
hear.) The honourable and learned. gentleman, however,
proposed to perpetuate this artificial distinction occa-
sioned by law between the two classes of houses, and the
oily difference in the scheme from the present would be
that the persons who were to sell beer alone would
get the magistrates' certificate for a license—the very
system which was attended with so little good and
wag so generally complained of. (Hear.) The hon.
anJ learned gentleman ought to have told the house how
he intended to meet the evils of tho I:ceneing system, or
to have told them that the evidence was un rue. (Hear.)
This subject was intentionally referred to very mildly in
the report, but the evidence teemed with statements
made as to the manner in which these licenses were
granted, the system being shown to be of the most irre-
gular and unsatisfactory kind. (Hear.) Nobody at-
tacked the magistrates as a body. The committee did
not feel called upon to make any reflections on the
magistracy, because they had good reason to believe that
the great body of the magistracy were as much dis-
pleased at these irregularities as anybsdy else—(hear)—
that it was a task that devolved only upon a few ; and
that generally they would gladly be relieved from a duty
they deemed very odious. (Hear.) It was, indeed, one
which appertained rather to the police than to men
having judicial functions, and it was felt by some that
suspicions which attached to them in this matter tainted
their character in the administration of justice. (Hear.)
On this subject, however, in consequence of the obser-
vations of the hon. and learned gentleman, he wished
hon. members would read the evidence of the Recorder
of Yarmouth, who spoke from an experience of 17 years,
and who was equally acquainted with that town, Nor-
wich, Lynn, and Ipswich, and who said that the present
licensing system was one of unqualified mischief, and
that in the granting of licenses there was favoritism,
interest, and wrong of every description. (Hear.) It
was mainly on account of the startling evidence exposing
the evils of the licensing system that he (vlr. Where)
advised the committee not to report in the first year of
the inquiry, in order that this evidence should circulate
through the country, and that if anything untrue had
been stated that it might be contradicted, and that the
committee should only make its report upon the truth.
Now, he called upon the house to remember that the main
point involved in the vote tbey were about to give was
this, whether the licensing system, as it existed at present,
should be extended or not. Thetis whatthe hon. and learned
' gentleman proposed, never admitting, and expecting
the house to ignore altogether, the evils shown to exist
in connection with the licensing system. At present the
difficulty which was felt in dealing with this subject was
the enormous value which had artificially been given to
property by the licensing system. " Vested interests"
presented themselves in this ma'ter ; yet the hon. and
learned gentleman wanted the house to increase these
difficulties by the plan he proposed, and which would
work with respect to beerbouges precisely as it had done
with the other houses. He (Mr. Villiers) did not say a
word himself against the magistrates. (Oh!) He only
referred to the evidence which had been given which was
credible. He had no interest ire the matter. They were
magi orates themselves that bad come forward to speak
against the system, and ask to be relieved from the duty
at present imposed upon them. But he begged to say
there was evidence in the report to chow that it was
not the magistrates alone who were to blame in this mat-
ter, and that there were other people of station in society
or possessed of great wealth who had interest in the
houses that were ill-conducted, and who interfered with
the ma!i.,trates to protect them ; and if they would turn
to Mr. Palmer's evidence they would see how the magis-
trates were sometimes told that they were injuring pro-
perty when they were about to suspend a license. The
hon. and learned gentleman had hoped to dispose of the
eadeece against the system by saying that it referred
only to the metropolis; but if the report was referred to
they would see that from every part of the country it
was implied that there is an absence of a'l rule in grant-
ing or withdrawing licenses. The solicitor of the Victu-
aler Association at Liverpool was sent up to the com-
mittee to give evidence in favour of the system, but when
he was asked upon what rule he thought the magistrates
proceeded in granting licenses, replied " None at all,"
and it was very much determined by the varying hu-
mour of the magistrates who attended, and that be
thought many applied and got licensee by that means
who would not otherwise. (Hear.) Now, when evidence
of this kind was submitted to the committee, they were
compelled to notice it, and in considering what amend-
ment they would recommend, it was utterly impossible
that they could pursue the course of the learned gentle-
man and advise this faulty system to be extended fur-
ther. Bat, far from justifying what the learned gentle.
man implied, that the committee had no views of
own, and, therefore, that his scheme should be adopted,
he might see by their report that their opinion was that
a matter so important as that of the sale of intowicating
liquors should not be left to the mercy, or caprice, or in-
terest of any set of men, and that ample security should
be taken for the characteir and conduct of a person en-
gaging in the business, and that the conditions on which
he might enter that business should be defined and
known, and that it should be left to some public re-
sponsible officer to determine whether he had complied
with those conditions, and whether he was entitled to a
renewal ofilis license. He believed that would give more
satisfaction than to leave itto the discretion of so varying
a body as the justices of the peace. The hon. and learned
gentleman had no right in proposing an experiment that
had failed, to claim for himself that be alone had devised
a remedy for great and admitted evils, while the com-
mittee had proposed nothing in lieu of what they had
displaced. He (Mr. Villiers) had only risen to vindicate
the report of that committee from some of the charges
which had been by implication made against it. He
hoped the house would not consent to support this mea-
sure without minutely examining the evidence upon the
whole subject now before them, which, as he believed,
woull lead them to the conclusion that the plan proposed
by the hon. and learned gentleman, however well meant,
would be no security against many evils, and would in
some respects be an aggravation of the mischievous sys-
tem at present existing. (Hear, hear.)
After some remarks from General Thompson and Mr.
Barrow,
The house then divided, The numbers were—

For the second reading lBO
Against it
Majority ---33
The bill was accordingly rejected. (Cheers.)

CONSECRATION OF THE BISHOP or NoRWICH, THIS
DAT.—This morning the Hon. and Rev. Juhn Thomas
Pelham, D.D., was consecrated to the Bishopric of Nor-
wich at St. Marylebone Church, by the Archbishop of
Canterbury, who was assisted by theThshops of London,
Glouclster, and Bristol, and Ripon.
The Crisis has arrived from China with 418,1001 b. of
tea and 766 bales of silk.

CRICKET. —MARYLRBONE CLUB AND GROUND AGAINST
THE COUNTY OF KENT.—This match was concluded at
Lord's yesterday, and proved a very close one, the Mary-
lebone Club and Ground winning by five runs only.
THE EXHIBITION OP ART TREASURES.—On Tuesday
there was by no means a good attendance, the numbers
returned being as follows : Admissions by season
ticket, 284 ; on payment of is. each, 4,889 ; total, 5,873.
Of these, 1,682 arrived by railway. The number of
visitors yesterday was likely to exceed that of Tuesday,
though not large.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East
India House, when the Right Hon. Sir Lawrence Peel
was sworn in a director of the East India Company, and
took his seat at the board accordingly. Lieut.-General
Sir James Outram, K.C.8., was appointed, on the 3d
inst., a proTieional member of the Council of India.