The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-09 00:00:00

RAILWAYS IN THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

The Select Committee of the Hoses of Assembly
appointed to lignite Wm the =go*
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sochsions ara r follow :
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relbieds.
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At tho first monthly general meeting of the Na-
tional Sunday Lesgue, held at Lacerates-house, 2, Duke-
street, Adelphi, Mr. W. MOTETS in the chair, a report from
the general committee and the first monthly report were
toad and adopted. The latter document was es follows :
" The formation of the National Sunday League is of so
recent a date that the committee, in this their first report,
have to deal with indications of success rather than with
positive results, although the latter are by no means
petianle. Upon the recommendation of &select committee
eepoiated to report upon the propriety of establishing such
see a ssociation, the League s formed on September
have bee 7,
1865, and its efforts during twa be past month n
devoted to the construction of rules, the appointment of
officers, and the fusing of an &Arose. In the selection
of officers the attention of the committee was naturally
directed to those gentlemen who had already performed
active settle, in the clues ; and in the choice of a president
their unanimous decision fell upon Sir Joshua Walmsley.
It is only justice to state that, when Sir Joshua Walmeley
wee solicited to assume the presidentship of the league, he
'normal!' his great willingness to assist the object of its
formation in every way in his power, adding, ho -ever, that
be would "at ail times rather than guide," and ad-
vising the selection of the officers from the body of the Om.
mimes themselves. The tried sincerity and knows, seal of Sir
Joshua Walmaley were sufficient guarantees kw his unflinch-
ing support of soy cause he had once undertaken, and the
committee felt no hesitation in pressing upon his acceptases
the position of leader of the league. The committee
anticipate being able to add considerably to the list of vies
president., and in the meantime beg to call the attention a
the members to the letters from Lora Stanley, Lord Goderieb,
Vinous% Ebrington, Bit Benjamin Ball, and kilt. Charles
Dickens ,in favour of the general question.
" In framing the rules for the internal government of the
League, the *minims have endeavoured to °train the
utmost efficiency in the most simple . and have boa
especial regard to the laws which regulate the expediter*
of its finances, knowing that there is no point which se-
quins more strict attention than the pecuniary arrange-
meats of public aseesiations. While speaking upon tub
point, it is as well to state that they are not yet is a pee Mes
to report upon the number of members sempAift the
League, as, although cards of membership in esseldwable
numbers have already been issued, they have as yet re-
ceived no regular return as to their distribution. Bob.
sariptions have been received firm the following gentle-
mea :—P. Grisham, E,q , one guinea ; D. M'Dotinell, Est,
one goatee; W. Detbie, Kap., one
two guinea ; Mr. W
Thehitcoeman,
6e. ; and W. A. Wilkinson, E.g., guineas. as-
tline. feel great pleasure in referring to the ready
responses made by the public press to the appeals
of the League. Copies of the rosectus have
bees forwarded to the political end literary serials, and
of these publications, an important list have given f
able publicity. or well•epossoived leaden, in support of the
movement Valuable as are these evidence, of a general
conviction of the jostles and necessity of the proposed
Mange, they are but indications of what may with reason
bs snouted when the knowledge of the movement becomes
mere widely disseminated, and the efface of the committee
I MM. particular have had time to mature their fruits. It
eemelns ealy for the committee to tender a few remarks
upon the address already issued. This address, in which it
was necessary to say much without trespassing too heavily
upon the attention of the reader, may be mol-
dered meagre, in so far as it does not fully
plain the course traced out by the League for its
future conduct. Bat although there are certain methods
of action which the trommittee ham already proved
t, be them most likely to be successful, and which they
are resolved upon working oat, still there is much in its I
future proceedings which must depend upon circumstances,
and which will require calm deliberation and serious study
to determine. It may be found necessary to issue pamphlets
in illustration of its principles and objects, or deliver lea
turfs, id order more completely to speed the knowledge
and importance of the movement among the people. There
ie, however, one course which lies clearly before the stom-
mitme and every member of the league, which is broad and
undeviating, and which, fortunately, is 'wither difficult
nor costly to follow. It may be summed up in one word.
reissued as matter how often—petition, Witten, littitlos
It Is to teat. malt that ell our efforts must tend. This is
the grist Meet by which we may hops to raise the load
which gems upon the people, and to toes it lumbering into
the sea et eigivion. For this we need number' ; hands
" NOM sessniestion ; willing Wale end reedy
411sMnil me lie hag* gni Wei* Of Me land every
Seers MI eisigskes4 every Allege he simeate and labourer,
ttft. minsia_sb. ///Mbie food of pub opinion through
all eilsselele into one vast reservoir, in which we
I may awe fillistasse, and enrol ph tenancies.
" WILLIAM Donets,
"Chairman of the Committee."

RI-OPENING or Lummox PA3ISK Csuacs.--1
On Sudsy loorsiag tbs dram* of St. Mary, bliagtoa, was
proposed to pablie worship, altar Wag eland for several
soothe for tbo purpcoo of node/gob; ostionive main sad
boaattfriag.

The article which appeared under the above title
ID the July number of the Westminster Review has at
length called forth an answer from the London Temperance
League, in the shape of a public lecture, which was deli-
vered last evening at Exeter Hall, by Dr. F. R. Luxe, the
euthot of,seveval essays in advocacy of the total abstinence
principle. The hall was well filled by an audieocie of both
'eau, conspoud, as their frequent and veciferctu cheering
sufficiently proved, of persons pledged to the views of the
lecturer.
Dr. CanisntiTill presided, and opened the proceedings
with as address, in which be took credit for his own
consistent and lung tried adherence to the teetotal doctrine,
referred to the great progress that that doctrine was making,
and remarked upon the comments of the press for and
against it. lie charged the writer in the Wesinsinskr
Review with prejudice and entire ignorance of physiological
science, and pledged his own scientific reutation as a
physiologist, and a former editor of the lepading medical
quarterly review of this country, to that opinion. lie then
proceeded to argue that animal food was unnecessary
to the existence of man, inasmuch as grain, routs,
and other vegetables contained all the elements of nou-
rishment to be feuad in the flub of animals. He altogether
denied the puition of the reviewer, that alcohol was food,
and gave force to the body. The enemies' element which au,-
plied the waste of muscle end fosse was nitrogen, and it
was well known that alcohol was nun-nitrogenous.
The Limit's followed—Teetotalism, be contended,
was the expression of natural law and divine science. He
complained that the Westminster reviewer had not fairly
treated the teetotal doctrine, and that he had resorted to
abuse to make up for his lack of argument. In audeavour-
kg to prove that total abstinence was illogical, the reviewer
urged that it rested upon two pillars, viz., that alcohol
was a poison, and that it was not • food. The ad-
vocates of teetotalism rested their principle upon
no such pillar. What they contended was that
alcohol was found by experience to be injurious
to the fullest development of all the animal and mental
powers of man. Neither did they, as the reviewer stated,
assert that the lam evil resulted from the moderate as from
the excessive use of alcohol, or that the moderate use neces-
sarily led to excess. What they held was, that the limited
use of all narcotics" tended" to their greater use. It did nut
follow,' however, that if alcohol was a poison it was
not a food, but it was not a natural or a wholesome food.
The teetotallers did not, as wu asserted, object to the use of
stimulants, but to the lase of improper stimulants. The
various conclusions drawn by the reviewer were not
the natural deductions from the premises he laid
down, and were about as logical as it would be to
say that because a positive philosopher (which the reviewer
professed to be) was a man, and a fool was • ease, ergo, •
natural philosopher was a fool. (This satirical allusion to
the mental powers of the impugned article was reee:ved wits
roars of laughter.) The whole of the article was •n this
way taken point by point, gad almost sentence by sentence,
and answered, occasionally with some sarcasm, and evidently
with the most perfect satisfaction to the lecturer and the
audience; and the chemical question be met by asserting
that the operation of alcohol in the human body was to ex-
baud the oxygen in the blood, to deteriorate and pollute
vital fluid, end gradually to destroy the organs of the
lite. The position that the °mensal use of alcohol
eoonomieed the tissues, and prevented their waste, he treated
as ridiculous The reviewer had compared alcohol with tea
as • stimulant, but tea and alcohol were opposites—the one
was a narcotic, the other simply a stimutaut. Teetotallers
did not object to the use of stimulants, but of nave tics, espe-
cially three, via., alcohol. tobacco, and • plum. He charged
the reviewer, 1n quoting Liebig in sunpurt of his views,wlth
suppressing passages which told against him, and concluded
by asserting that the practice of entire abstinence from alco-
holic drinks was consonant with the principles of true
seine*, and urging the absolute necessity, both for the sake
of the morals and the health of the rising g ion, of in
colcating the practice as a part of the system of national
@demotion.
Dr. OSLIT, who said he had been 60 years • teetotaller
(a portion of that time serving in the Arctic upon') and
was now an octogenarian, enjoyins robust health, moved a
vote of thanks to the lecturer, which having been seconded
by Dr. ELLIS, who claimed to be a teeto eller of 17 years'
standing—and was certainly, as far as external appearances
are concerned, the most favourable specimen of the sani-
tary effects of total abstinence in the room—was carried
nuanimnusly.
The Rev. Nxwwilc HALL, in moving a vote of thanks to
the chairman, bore his testimony, derived from personal
experience, to the benefits of total abstinence, physically,
mentally, and religiously—and after one or two other
addressee and an acknowlegment of the vote from Dr.
.IAIPINIZA, the audience separated.

MELANCHOLY DEATH or Two Boys.—Yesterday
morning, as two lads named Charles and Alfred Miller,
twin sons of a co. keeper and grazier residing at Ealing,
were driving a cow along • road which crosses the Great
Western Railway new the Baling station, the animal
stopped upon the down line of rails and could not be got to
move on. At this time the quarter past nine ezprem riown
train appeared in sight, and one of the brothers did all he
could to make the animal proceed. His brother ran to his
assistance, and while they were thus engaged the train came
up and attack the poor laris, throwing one of them over an
adjoining hedge, and *ending the other some distanos on the
up line. The train thou passed ever the cow, which wee
cut to pieces. When the lads were picked up, it was found
they were both dead. They were fourteen years of age, and
of very preposesesing appearance. The grief et their parent',
especially of the mother, is meet acute.
On Sunday morning, the ship Scotia arrived off
Gravesend, from Australis, having performed the voyage
in four months, to a day, from Sidney. She brought home
82 men, women, and children, of the 11th Regiment, or
North Devon, losing two during the voyag The detach-
lebber alter lending, tramoded in vane to Fort Pitt, in charge
of Colour-Serpent Irwin. Most of these men having pot
to their fall time, after leaving hospital will be discharged
as matt for further Denise.
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