The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-06 00:00:00

LIBERATION SOCIETY.

The eighth triennial conference of this society has been
held in the large room of the Ctinnon-street Hotel. About
900 delegates attended, including several from the prin.
cTpal Dissenting bodies in England, and about 150 from
London and its neighbourhood. Amongst those present
were Mr. Barnes, M P., Mr. E. Baines, M.P., Mr.
Duncan McLaren, M.P., Sir F. Crossley, M.P., Sir John
Cray, M.P., Sir John Bowring, Mr. E. Mialll Mr.
Ca Williams (secretary), &c.

The Rev. J. P. MunsELL (Leicester) presided, and deli-
vered an address, in which he compared the past and
present of the society.

Mr. CARVELL WILLIAMS presented the report of the
executive committee, which referred to the parliamentary
reverses which the committee had to report of the last
triennial conference. An unbroken series of successes
could now be reported. The report described at length
the steps taken by the society to promote the abolition of
the Irish Establishment, from the time of Mr. Aliall's
motion, in 1853, to the recent triumphant divisions, which
affirmed that it ought to cease to exist as an establish.
meat. Mr. Gladstone's course in relation to the ques-
tion was warmly eulogised, and the salutary effects of
the recent debates and divisions, both in Ireland and Eng.
land, were commented on. The discussion of the details
of disestablishment would greatly further the society's
object, and the endeavour to connect the English with the
Irish Establishment was hastening the catastrophe it was
intended to avert.

Mr. WILLIAM EDWARDS, the treasurer, then presented
a financial statement, from which it appeared that,
including the balance in hand at the beginning of
the last financial year, the total receipts had been
£8,564 2s. Bd. The expenditure amounted to £7,489 3s. id.,
leaving in the treasurer's hands at this date the sum of
£1,074 19s. 7d.
Mr. E. S. ROBINSON (Bristol) proposed the first re-
solution : " That the conference, in receiving and adopt-
ing the report of the executive committee and the
treasurer's account now presented, expresses its devout
gratitude to God for the recent unprecedented advance of
public sentiment in the direction of the society's aims,
and, congratulating the executive committee on the posi-
tion of increased pecuniary resources and on the satisfac-
tory results of their parliamentary labours, it expresses
the hope that the society's supporters will avail themselves
of the opportunities afforded by the course of public events
for pursuing with unrelaxed energy the object for which
the society was established."

The resolutions was seconded by Rev. J. H. Hinton,
supported by Mr. E. Baines, M.P., Sir John Bowring,
and Mr. E. Mall, and unanimously adopted.
Mr. DUNCAN M`LAREN, M.P., moved the next resolu-
tion. It was in the following words : " That the con-
ference rejoices at the triumphant and repeated majorities
by which the House of Commons has resolved that ' it is
necessary that the Established Church of Ireland should
cease to exist as an establishment, due regard being had to
all personal interests and all individual rights of property.'
It desires to express warm admiration of the decision and
earnestness displayed by Mr. Gladstone in the realisation
of so important a result, as well as the hope that the policy
which he has initiated will be strenuously supported by all
the friends of religious equality, not only at the present
time, but when the question is remitted to the country for
its decision at the approaching general election."

The resolution was seconded by the Rev. C. 11. Spur-
geon, and supported by Sir John Gray, M.P., Mr. Whit-
worth, M.P., and Sir F. Crossley, M.P., and unanimously
adopted.
Mr. 11. LEE (Manchester) moved, and the Rev. W.
BRocK seconded, a resolution in respect to church rates,
and the conference adjourned.
In the evening the conference resumed its business,
under the presidency of Mr. T. Barnes, M.P. A resolu-
tion was adopted on the abolition of university tests ;
and a paper was read by the Rev. Edward White on
"Modern Theories of Church Establishments," with espe-
cial reference to the rezent paper of Dean Stanley.
The conference then adjourned.

The death is announced of Sir Samuel Benjamin
Auchmuty, of pneumonia, at the age of 81 years.

A parliamentary return published chews that the
quantity of proof spirits distilled in the :United Kingdom
and Ireland, during the year ending the 31st December
last, was 23,323,G13 gallons. The duty paid amounted to
£11,382,594 53. 7d.

The royal warrant amalgamating the army pur-
veying, store, and commissariat branches, and transferring
the authority of the commissary-general-in-chief, the
director of stores, and the purveyor-in-chief, to the con-
troller-in-chief, has, it is understood, been signed by her
Majesty, and awaits promulgation.

We have to announce a serious accident to Baron
ce Sehmidthals, Secretary to the Embassy of the King of
Prussia. The baron sustained a heavy fall and dislocat.(l
his shoulder. Mr. Manley Sims was shortly in atteudauce,
and at once reduced the dislocation. The baron is pro-
gressing favourably.

A correspondent in Newtownlimavady writes :
" I am informed that Dr. Watson, who assisted in ex-
tracting the bullet from the Duke of Edinburgh, is son of
the late Mr. John 'Watson, Keeboll, near Castlerock, in
this county. Mr. John Watson was a martyr to tenant-
right, and widespread sympathy was entertained for him
in consequence."—Northern Whig.

ABYSSINIA.—The Government is not yet in pos-
session of details in reference to the victory achieved by
the British forces in Abyssinia on Good Friday. In the
absence of any communication by telegraph, the public
will not obtain any further intelligence concerning the
death of King Theodore and the release of the prisoners
until the arrival of the next mail, which is due about
Monday next.

A PLEASANT TRAVELLING COMPANION.—John
Carter, a carter, of Bolton•le-Moors, has been charged at
Clitheroe with attempting to throw passengers out of the
train on Sunday night, while the train was in motion.
He had got in at Whalley, drunk, and the passengers were
heard to cry out " Murder." The prisoner said he did
not intend to hurt anybody in the carriage, but only to
kill himself. He was fined 20s. and costs, or fourteen days'
imprisonment.

BATTENING AT SHEFFIELD.—Strange to say, one
of the still many representatives of " Mary Ann " has
been apprehended at Sheffield while in the act of ratten-
ing three jobbing grinders who are said to be some-
what behind in their contributions to the union. The
name of the rattened is Joseph Bradshaw, who three
years ago was sentenced to a term of six months' hard
labour for being engaged in a case of rattening. Late on
Monday night he was seen to enter the wheel in which
the three defaulting members worked by getting through
one of the windows, and in this he was assisted by two com-
panions. While in the wheel a policeman who happened
to be near was communicated with, and on his approach
the two men, who were keeping watch outside, ran away.
Wlign the police-officer got into the room where Bradshaw
was, he found him sitting opposite the fireplace, in which,
however, there was no fire, and three wheel-bands, which
had been taken off the drums, were found rolled up close
by his side, ready for removal. He pretended not to know
anything about the bands, and on being brought before
the magistrates he pleaded that he got into the wheel
while in a state of intoxication. This they refused to
believe, and granted the request of the chief constable for
a remand.

ATTEMPTED MURDER.. —A shocking occurrence is
reported from Lowestoft, Suffolk, a young man, named
Isaac Clarke, a cooper, having attempted to murder a
Maria Simpson, by cutting
single woman, named Anna
her throat. It appears that Clarke had kept company
with Simpson for some time, and had seduced her under
a promise of marriage. She was recently delivered of a
child, for the support of which Clarke had been ordered to
pay. The young woman met Clarke by appointment
in the High-street at Lowestoft, under a promise
that he would give her some money. He then
persuaded her to pass through a field with him,
stating that it presented the shortest cut to her house.
When in the field he attempted an assault upon her; she
resisted, and he then threw her down and deliberately cut
her throat with a sharp pocket-knife. Clarke then re.,
turned to the High-street, wliere he met a young man,,
named Moore, who, observing that Clarke's hands were!
bloody, asked him if he had been fighting. Clarke re
plied that he had murdered a young woman. Moore asked
"Where ?" to which Clarke replied, " In the station•field,.
went a short way together, and Clarke then said, " I dare
and if you come with me you shall see for yourself." They
not go any further." Moore continued in the direction the
prisoner had pointed out, and saw a young woman lying
in a ditch by the side of the path. He immediately gave
information to the police, two medical men were sent fort
ant a small quantity of brandy having been administered
to the poor girl, she revived sufficiently to state that
Clarke had cut her throat. She was removed to her
mother's house, and her deposition was at once taken
before Mr. James Peto, one of the local magistrates.
Clarke was taken into custody ; his hands were besmeared
with blood, and the knife with which he had attempted the
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