The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1890-06-14 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

RESUMED INQUIRY BEFORE THE • ALAGIBTRATES.  Mr. John Morley, in his speech at the National Liberal Club, was very hard upon a number of the Liberal Unionist leaders. , Referring to what had happened at the Leeds ' conference in 1883 in regard to the proposal to extend the franchise, he said, "Who were the gentlemen who were frigid, or at least lukewarm, upon the objects of that conference? With the single exception of Mr. Chamberlain, those who opposed the agitation set on foot in 1883 were the same mew, beginning with Lord Hartingtou, who were opposing them to-day." From this it is to be inferred that if those statesmen had not brbken away from Mr. Gladstone upon the Home Ride question they would soon have become hopelessly estranged in regard to some other.  The Archbishop of York has oast the weight of his enormous influence into the scale against the endowment clauses of the Local Taxation Bill. Speaking at York, he declared that he hoped that those clauses would not be passed this session, as the question was as yet indifferently understood. He must know very well that if they are not passed this year they will never be passed at all, for the more the people of England look into them the more obnoxious will they find then.  Daniel Stews7rt—Gorrie was executed at Wandsworth gaol on Monday or the murder of Thomas Furlonger in a Brixton bakery. The prisoner, who was oonvicted entirely upon circumstantial evidence, which struck some persons as being of a flimsy character, died protesting his innocence—a very ugly fact.  The tide of Nonconformist public opinion still continues to flow steadily against the Licensing Clauses of the Local Taxation Bill. At the conference of the Lancashire and Cheshire Baptist Association, held in the 1 Baptist Ohapel, Grange-road, on Wednesday, , a resolution, condemnatory of those clauses, I was unanimously passed. At the Methodist New Connection Conference, held at Dewsbury, the ex-president moved a resolution condemning the proposal to compensate publicans as prejudicial to a satisfactory settlement of the question of the sale of intoxicating liquors, as it recognised a continued vested interest in existing annual licenses, and requesting all members of Parliament to secure the withdrawal of the endowment clauses in committee. This resolution, however, did not go far enough for the conference, and a committee was appointed to prepare one in stronger terms. Then the , conference of Pastors and Delegates of the Midland Baptist Church BA Wolverhampton on Wednesday passed a resolution expressing strong disapproval of the Compensation Clauses and the Local Taxation Bill. Even Mr. Caine has thrown the Government overboard. Speaking at Barrow, he strongly urged that the Government were pressing this bill to their own absolute ruin, and they richly deserved it. He further maintained that the Government could not defy the Christian and moral sentiment of the country. But Messrs. Goschen and Ritchie continue to have great faith in their proteges, the publicans, though probably some of their Ministerial colleagues are quaking in their shoes.  Mr. O'Brien was married to Mdße Raffalovich on Wednesday. There were a very large number of representative Irish and English Liberal memb3rs at the wedding. The presents were very numerous and beautiful, Mr. O'Brien's friends having evidently determined to avail themselves of the opportunity to make, in some way, their high admiration of his grand patriotism, and his splendid services to his country.  --;"