The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1871-05-13 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

WITHDRAWL OF THE LICENSING BILL—The Licensing Bill has been withdrawn. This step was inevitable. The Government could not have carried the measure through this session. The other work already cut out for Parliament rendered it impossible for members to give the bill due consideration this year. Besides, public opinion on the subject is still unripe. More time is wanted for weighing the important issues at stake. In withdrawing the bill the Government have taken the only course open to them. But they have not altogether abandoned all legislation on the subject for the present session. A determination of the licensing question has been postponed till a more convenient season, but legislation on the regulation of public houses is to take place at once. This is in accordance with the suggestions made by the Liverpool magistrates at their recont meeting, "Vested interests' obtain a respite ; but the restrictions placed upon the trade are to be further tightened. The terms of the new measure are yet unknown, but they will probably be slar to those embodied In the abandoned bill, which provided for earlier closing, shortening of the Sabbath traffic, and inspection and non-adulteration.— Liverpool Mercury. THE WORKPEOPLE'S DEMAND FOR MOHR HOLIDATIL —Holidays are very good, but it is still better to have a round sum in store against a rainy day, or to lay by a provision against old age. The Legislature has fixed upon ten hours a day as the maximum period of labour in cotton factories, and considering how many women and young persons are engaged in factory labour, some such limitation is justly regarded as necessary. But the maximum of work for women and young per.ons cannot overtax the energies of strong and healthy men, and within the limits already fixed one would say that the more work they did, and the more money they earned the better for all parties, but particularly for themselves. Labour is the working man's capital, and the longer he works, provided only that he gets paid in proportion to the time he works, the richer he will be. The prime motive to labour is the need of subsistence. A man must work or starve, and, placed between the horns of such a dilemma, he consents to work. But it is the part of • rational being to create motives for himself, and as intelligence progresses, the mere necessities of subsistence are reduced to a lower grade, while other considerations occupy the first place. What is meant by the "elevation of the working classes" amounts very largely to a multiplication and a bettering of the motives which lead them to work. One great object will be attained when they become quietly and reasonably ambitious; when they look upon labour, not merely as a means of living, but as a possible basis for the improvement in their entire condition now and to the end of their days, and of their families afterwards. We have no objection to the half-holiday movement in itself, but we should like to see some of the objects we have mentioned competing successfully with the mere desire for leisure. Persistent labour is, after all, one of the chief attributes of humanity; it is that which beyond anything else has raised us above the inferior animals, and which furnishes the solid foundation upon which all that is good and noble and spiritual can hereafter arise.—Manehoster Ezsaucer and Timm  The Peel collection in the National Gallery is now open to the public. A meeting in favour of non-sectarian education in Ireland was held in Londonderry on Tuesday night. The Aberdeen harbour commissioners have decided to borrow £20,000 for the purpose of harbour improvement works. The Board of Trade has received a decree of tho Commune of Paris permitting the export of all merchandise, except munitions of war. The Scotism states that Mr. Bright has completely recovered from his nttack of erysipelas, and will shortly proceed to Scotland. The death of Dr. Bruce, resident Burgeon of the Dundee Infirmary, occurred on Monday, from the effects, it is supposed, of an overdose of a poisonous drug taken to relieve the pain of a cut finger. A lad named Reid died at Greenock, on Monday, from sunstoke, the consequence of lying for several hours exposed to the sun after having bathed in the river on Sunday: . .  The Whitsuntide recess will probably last in the Lords from Friday, the 26th instant, to Monday, June btb, and in the Commons from May 26th to Thursday, June let.  For "personally insulting- the people of Cheyenne, a Hr. Forbes was recently shot there. His offence was attempting to deliver n temperance lecture. . .  A man committed suicide by hanging in St. Lewis the othr day, having arranged the noose so that it would do its work while h was under the influence of chloroform. .  The negroes of Guena have sent a petition to the King of Rolland against their transfer to the Government of Great Britian, and offer to pay the same sum to remain under Dutch rule. _  A parliamentarT;eturn, which has just been is. sued, gives the number of honorary colonelcies in the British army no 186. The total amount received from army grants by the holders of these colonelcies is £236,763. The number of regiments which have no paid honorary colonels is Fix. The new regulaiions for future enlistments came into operation on Monday. In future, all enlistments for the Foot Guards and regiments of the line are to be for "short senice"—that is, for six years in the army service, and six years in the reserve' without pensions. The Archbishop of York, presiding at a meeting of the Church of England Temperance Reformation Society, on Tuesday, said he was not discouraged because an overladen Government had abandoned the Licensing Bill. He looked not so much to legislation as to action on public opinion. AN EXTRAORDINARY FRINCR DWARF is now being exhibited in London. The Princess Felicie, as her exhibitors have christened her, is a real living Lilliputian. She is now in her ninth year, measures scarcely nineteen inches in height, and weighs just six pounds. She is of perfect symmetry in limb and feature, and altogether a pleasing and gentle child. .  Love