Lord Stanhope's Bill prohibiting the payment of wages in public-houses,--on
account of the overwhelming temptation which that choice of a locality causes to weak men to spend their wages in drink,—was read a second time in the House of Lords on Tuesday by a majority of 58 to 20. The discussion was very curious. Lord Bramwell moved its rejection, on the- general principle that it was a bit of grandmotherly legislation ; Lord Shaftesbury warmly supported it ; Lord Granville and Lord Rosebery, though not "in love" with Bills of this kind,. thought it one demanded by public opinion, and likely to remove a temptation to drink which no one had a right to force on the
and which the weak were not likely to remove for them- selves. Lord Salisbury opposed the Bill, and then Lord Cairns, though he had disliked the Bill last year, cordially sup- ported it this. And Lord Cairns prevailed. When he and Lord Salisbury differ, Lord Cairns, we notice, generally does. prevail.
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