PUBLICHOUSES.—The Bill for amending the Act of last year, closing from 1 to 4 a.m. all public houses and refreshment-houses in the metropolis and in towns that adopt. the Act, has gone up to the House of Lords as finally settled in the Lower House. The Bill now gives a discretionary power to the Justices, upon being satisfied that it is desirable for the accommodation of any considerable number of persons attending a market, or following a lawful trade or calling, to grant licences for any of the houses referred to in the immediate neighbourhood of such market, or of the place where the persons follow their trade or calling, exempting such houses from last year’s Act between 2 and 4 a.m., or some part of that period, on such days as shall be specified in the licence; but a printed notice stating the class of persons for whom the house is open under such licence is to be affixed in a conspicuous position outside the house.