The Bee-Hive. — 1872-01-06 (London, England)

THE PERMISSIVE BILL.  By order of the executive council of the United Kingdom Alliance, the Alliance News publishes an analysis of what is known as: the Permissive Bill, which applies to all the three kingdoms, and adds :—'The Bill does: not touch the question of the licensing authority, Snd the Alliance gives no opinion as to the best method of granting licenses. The great measure, for which nearly a million persons petitioned last session, proposes that whoever may dispense the licences they shall not be thrust into or perpetuated in any district against the will of the inhabitants. The 13ill provides the machinery for getting the public will expressed, and when it has reached a certain point, the Bill declares that it shall be potent, and the parish or district is then placed An the circumstances as regards the -liquor traffic which are to be found in nearly two thousand parishes and villages in the country. With this explanation it will be seen the Alliance opposes no plan which will limit the evils arising from the liquor traffic, but accepts with gratification every reduction, whilst firmly maintaining that 'the history and results of all past legislation, in regard to.ths liquor traffic abundantly prove that it is impossible satisfactorily to limit or regulate a system FO essentially mischievous in its tendencies.' Under this conviction the General Council of the Alliance at its annual meeting resolved to put forth increased efforts to secure the protection the country needs, and to aid in the creation of the public opinion requisite, they resolved to raise a fund of £100,000,. to be expended during thertext five years. The response to this call has been most enthusiastic) and the executive go forward with determination to secure at the earliest momentthe power by which the people may remove their temptations to intemperance, reduce pauperism and crime, lessen poor-rates and taxes, and largely increase the trade in useful manufactures, whilst at the same time the cause of education, morality, and religion will, thereby receive an impulse beyond the power Qf words to express.  The ladies of Strasburg, Bisoliwiller, and towns of Alsace and Lorramo,-havo sent offerings to M. Thiers, as contributions towards the payment of the indemnity.  The Telegraph's Paris correspondent is informed that in all probability M. Casimir Perier, the Minister of the Interior, will resign, ostensibly because of the reluctance of the Assembly to remove its sittings to Paris, but really because he is a Free Trader, and is annoyed at the course pursued by the Government in reversing a poliey that has done so much to render, not only Paris, but France, commereially prosperous.  The French Minister of War, h iø said, has decided that, in the absence of documents, showing non,commissioned officers and men who were prisonera in Germany to have received the whole, or part of their pay from the British Embassy, the Government will trust to their honour; those who received nothing will be entitled to two months' pay for the period of their captivity.  The affair between the Germans and the inhabitants of Reviu, arising out of the murder of a Bavaritut soldier, has been brought to a satisfaetoiy conclusion. Tie rigorous measures adopted by the Bavarian General will cease to be enforced from Thursday, and the troops billited on the inhabitants will return to their barracks at Sedan. The Frenchman who had been imprisoned on a charge of inciting the inhabitants against the Bavarians has been set at liberty. The other analogous ioolilont, which occurred at Luneville andTont-a-Mousson, aye on the point of being fottled.  A special department of the Vienna Inter-, national Exhibition is to he devoted to the various articles of commerce which pass through the chief trading ports of the world, such as Liverpool, Hull, Leipsig, Nishnei-Novgbrod, Kiakta' •$4O. Each article will be accompanied by a statement showing the qtytntity exported and imported, its average price, the place of its production, alld so on. Prizes will also be offered, for the best machine for manufacturing beetroot sugar.  •A_ competitive examination of candidates for the Naval Medical Service will take place at the University of London, Burlington Uardena, on Monday, the 12th of February. next, And following days.  It is reported that the arms taken from France by the Prussians and stilasoquently sold to the Belgians have been bought by the International.  While the petty sessions were on Wednesday being held in the village of Killyelogber, in Leitrim, the floor of the court-house gave way, and about 300 persons fell to the ground floor, a height of 18 feet. It is feared that ,some of the injuries, will prove fatal, he magistrates and attorneys escaped unhurt.