Dr. Temple's reception at Manchester on Thursday (where he attended
a discussion on the subject of the proposed "Permissive Bill" for excluding drink-shops from any districts where two- thirds of the ratepayers object to them) was a notable answer to the bigots assembled in Cockspur Street. Dr. Temple, though carefully declining to commit himself to the principle of the Alliance and the Permissive Bill, took the chair at the evening meeting, when the whole audience rose to meet him with most enthusiastic and prolonged cheering. When at a later period Dr. McCulloch proposed a vote of thanks to the chairman, and preferred a request that he, Dr. Temple, would not forget that night "in the higher and wider sphere to which the Queen was about to call him," a round of vociferous cheer- ing interrupted him, which lasted for several minutes, many of the audience rising and waving their handkerchiefs. Evidently Manchester knows a high-minded man when it sees him, with- out puzzling its head as to the reflex influence of his rise upon heretics who might once have published their speculations between the same covers as he.
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