The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-20 00:00:00

NATIONAL TIIMPEA.ANON LEAGUE.

The annual meeting of this association was held
but night in Exeter Hall, which wog nearly filled with the
members sad friends of the society, the platfoem
occupied by clargymea aad other prominent pranotetinl
tempersaos is town and from • distance. About thirty
tancial son-comninaloaed dims from Woolwich and other
garrison, were as the platform. Mr. Sant= MORLEY pre-
aided, sad the report, which was road by Mr. Tweedie,
refined to the establishmeat, by amass of doputatioas
from the League, of temperance societies by the under-
graduates at Oxford and Cambridge. About ow-half of the
students attending the English tbsokignal colleges are total
abstainers, while at five of thaw colleges, the Irma of
which were given, there is no dietetic use of fermented or
spirituous liquors by the students. Ten meetings had bon
held by the League at diocesan and other trait/mg
colleges for Mutters, which wren ttended by the
minarets aid tutors, aa well as b the etudes*
many of whom became abstainers, and it was found
that at six of the ten colleges visited no intoxicating liquors
of on kind are provided for the use of the students except
wider medical poncriptioa. Two conferences hod boas held
with London soboolasastas to coasider the propriety of
iatroduitag temperance into tionnatary schools as • breach
' of common education, and arrangements were mada for the
delivery of &Odors.* to the children of many maropolitaa
schools duriog the ordinary school Man as well rfor at
extensive distribution of temperas» publicatiosa An illy
listed chemical lecture bed boos given to the inmates of the
Orphan Asylum, Clapos ; and whoa the elder chat of
bop wire asked, two weeks afterwards, if aay of them
had abstained from beer root bearing the lecture, three-
fourths of them stated that they had cased to take the
small quantity of beer allowed beech at dieser. Eleven
mrynp bad bon bald at the warehouses of Nam. Cope-
stake& Moon, Craaipton, sad Co. ; MMES. 3. and B. 31°T-
ley ; Mews. Hitchcock, Willis,.., bad 00. ; Mean. Fors-
ter, Porter, sad Co. ; Mew. W. Tars sad Co.
J. Crane sad Co. ; Mews. Bradbury, Groatorsx, Beata, sod
Co. ; Messrs. Swan and Edgar ; sad Messrs. Lest, Sow,
sad Co. The average attaideacis at these maitiaga
was about 120, sod sight of them were presided
over by principals of arms. Select private meet•
lags had been held is towu sad cosatry, to bring the
Tootle° before tin influential dame, sod • wise of special
public meetings bad bees held to differed diarists of
London, iocludioc sixteea at the Lambeth Baba, the overage
stteadanos at which was upwsrds of 1,600 papas. The num-
ber of addresses delivered by the lecturers and hosonuy
deputations of the league dunog Lot year was skeet
1,600. The Missionary to Salon had dorm three pars
held 420 meetings on beard ships to the port
of London, sod had induced 796 means to sip
the pledge. Numerous marians had bola held with the
soldiers at Aldershott, Woolwich, Watley, Wooden, Bir-
stiogharn, as well as at Keasiogtoa Barracks, Regent'e•park
Barracks, and the Tower • and a Military Temperance
Society had been formed at ;he Tower which bad sow 120
members. Meetings had also boon held with the militia,
the police, and other tiara. An extensive corresposderioe
hod beat maintained with friends of the movement is
all cf the coustry ; advice sod assistance, both in
an sad pubbeations, had been freely rendered to
moo, misaioaaries, end others desirous of espging is
temperance work ; interviews had been held with sameroas

prs"neipals of colleges, heeds of mercantile firma, military
officials, amid other gentlemen of influence • sod to many
cases of of intempsrate habits, follot;ed up b 1 your
most sad private treads, the results had been of the
most delightful character. The subscriptioas and dooa-
tioos for the year smootibsd te 13W. months& the pomading
year, end the liabilities were 1801. 15...

After the report bad bona read the toasting was ad-
dressed by the Chairmea, Yr. Edward Homer, J.P., Hal-
stead ; the Rev. Jobs GrialtM, 11. A., rector of Heath ; Bev.
Joseph Brows, D. D., deputy ?ma the Scottish Two
Lamm ; Mr. Samuel Bowl y, Gloucester ; the Rev. sumac
Hall, LLB. ; and the Rev. Stentoa Eardley„ ILA., of
Streatham.