The Express.
London, England, 1853-05-26 00:00:00

TOTAL ABSTINENCE SOIREE.

Last night a teetotal s'tirtc was held at the Whit-
iirena Cies to celebrate the return to parliament of Law-
ns, Ileywerth, Esq., the steady and consistent advocate
of nett-1 ales ilea^ proteadee A large number of persons
were row • the siemseiom, and GEOIWE CLIVIIIL6IIANI,
Eel „ preside J.
The IP v. Mr. "tr tett, who had to attend an anti-slavery
ii„tirit awe:Kee. tint althe seed the audience, and sai 1
they wire weighted on shit occasion to congratulate
the return to parliament el theta a man u Law-
nee tittle .rth, the consistent friend and advo-
cate of teeteval principles. (Hear.) Ile understood
th::: it or. n eyeless.: sae eurrenee to have a representative
of these sear
principles tto the House of Comatose, ad the
coeditatecy which returned Mr. Ileyworth diel itself
honour nelins Sues a mew to parliament. (Cheers.)
Thy were met to oispoo and put down intemperance,
whale wee the e 311,1! of brining so much evil on indivi.
dub. on famtliss, and the country itself. A loge proper-
tem of the matt committed in this country was to be as-
th'eed to driven,/ a. -.es, and though the proceedings for
patti-c dean these tenses were taken in the name of
the Does, tts: expenses wero defrayed from the taxes of
the people, so that they had • money interest in
&ono tar iotemprraucs among all elutes. (Hear, hear.)
The question Ile Mule was one of political economy as well
as moral. England might be regarded as the intellectual
lightheuee of the world, but he presumed that the use of
aleeheli: Nunes slid not contribute much to keep it bright
esti needy. (Hear, hear.) One of the chief impediments
to the development of mind was the use of spirits, and
more than all other drinks :he use of beer tended to make
sea torpid and stupid. (Hear, bear.) lie defied any
max to be submitted for fifteen or twenty years to
the eisets of beer and "entire" without haring his mind
World more or less by the process. He believed that if
the people of England abstained from the too of beer, in-
teoporance would be completely done up in this country.
They had but to go on, to enlighten the people on the sub-
ject, to prove to them by facts and statistics—which were
all ca their side—that the use of spirits and intoxicating
drinks were :hes niece of misery and crime, and they would
sorely succeed in the glorious object they had in view.
(Cheers.) For his own part, he was opposed to the use of
a:colialicdrinhs under any circumstances, even at the coms
senile table. (Hear, hear.) And when he knew that
John Langdon, one of his own congregation in America,
had become a drunken sot from the tasting of wine at the
communion, it was not to be wondered at if he at least was
ci that opinion, and that he abstained trom administering it
to his people. (Cheers.) He hoped that, before long, the
e:cctors would be everywhere for such a " strike "as the
constituency of U. rby, which had returned Mr. Ileyworth
to the House of Commons. (Hear, hear.)
The Cm.% 'Ewe said they were well aware that this wee
the " Derby " dray—(laughter)—and that teseenishousands
of pounds would chauge pockets on the occasion, so that a
great deal of mischief end misery would be the result to a
great many families. (Hear, hear.) But this " Derby "
day was not dot of the teetotallers. (Hear, hear.) Their
Derby day was the return of Mr. Heyworth to the House of
Comuons, as the representative of the borough of Derby.
(Cheers.) That was a Jesuit whish did not bring misery to
say one, and it was effected without any money passing
fru nue pocket to another. He had, perhaps, to apologise
for int:rode-Me 'edifice before ladle., which of course they
were supposed no: to understand. They had met on a tem-
perance queothen—they were met to deal with the question
of
the use of intoxicating liquors. There was a mo-
ans in the object they had in view ; but, if
they succeeded in accomplishiog that object, it
would be accompanied with many other good and hen.-
trial result.. (Hear, hear.) It would affect the well.
being of the whole community, and influence the happi-
ness of a large class of women and children to au extent
which it would be impossible for him to express. (Hear,
hear.) Members of parliament had a powerful influence in
making and altering the laws and usages of this country,
seed this being so, it was most important that they should
have teetotal members of parliament. The members of the
Besse of Commons were of various political opinions, and
held &dam% religious views, and be was eery to say that
they too often occupied their time upwa hholons wad ma-
merry topics. They passed lame be milk the pus Wm-
We boy who picked a pocket, brassy wommest bawd to
bey: with money their own mate in the Honseof Comoros.
He confessed he looked on the latter AS the rime erne of
the two, and thought that the risk men who bre* asset
by bribery deserved more to bepos=“l =the pre
saedscated boy who stele a la the
sweet (Hear, bear.) He recollected the time when he
hit proud of the House of Commons es a belly of hewer
able men and as gentlemen ; but nowt rents had an-
port so much bribery, treatise, and getweption, dist be
kit rather ashamed for his country arc They knew Net
the old philosopher Dirges(' red to go about in
with • lamp to look for an honest man. He much donbSs
U say sedum Drrenes would And many honest man la '
the Home a commowi; but he might at least pare kis
bead ea wee bootee, straightforward, and upright era,
sr that was Lawrence lb yworth. (Year, hear.)
The Rev. Kr. Measta moved a resolution conveying the
finks of the Load= Temperance League to Laurence
keywords, M.P., fee his unflinclsiag support of the tam-
cause, sad more especially for tie service whisk
rcticrthat cause by his triumphant Tetra en pure and
tenterats principles for the borough of Derby. Ho oh-'
reed that if the people throughout the sountry followed
the armpits of Derby and returned sub ma as Mr. Hey-
ward', the triumph of the teetotal err would be easured.
Mr. Hepworth was an earnest, hearty, straightforward,
aright, downright advocate of the ems. sod he was en-
titled to the cordial thank, of the teetotal body throughout
the merry for his long and mead, support of the cause.
Yr. Oracle Calmar-L, eeeretary to tie League, so-
model the molars, which we pat and carried with
sermatioa.

Kr. Her wourn, who was received with loud cheers, re-
tuned thanks for the honour dose him. It had been
said by one of the speakers that he oasts isle parliament in
spite id'his teetotal prineiples. That was sot so. On the
sentrary, be was returned if not directly at least indirectly
hew' of those principles. (Hear, hear.) He was often
tell that he would not have any chases of being returned to
parliament unless he bought his seat by sissy, by bribery
sad treating, but he always replied that hadid not think
the honour of a mat in parliament was worth purchasing
by the use of such *maid sodd debasing mum. (Hear,
kw.) Bofors being invited to stand for Derby
be had been ailed to become a candidate for the
unsullied borough of Stafford—(laughter}-and though the
=saute oat in thousands to meet him, when he was in.
that he had no chance of being Weaned, if he did
net enter beer-barrels to be rolled is the streets, he said!
that he would sot suffer himself to be returned on the con-1
dities of brutalising his fellowman. (Cheers.) He then',
west to Derby ; and although he was opposed by a party
that sesispled not to bribe and to treat ad and who
Vaught that they could take Derby by aon de main se
WI wore opposed by candidates who would have nothing
tedo with either, he was elected umber for that borough.
(Hear, twat.) It wee impossible to And a @Jails person to
whose even a glass of beer bad been given on his aide oe
to that of his colleague, although persons bad been
Net about the borough to get hold of some
one feet or other of the kind. (Hear. beer)
This was a victory for the teetotal party, because it proved
that it was possible to gain a seat in parliament without
baying recourse to brutalising and debasing practice..
(Hear, hear.) Lit but the pesple proceed in the same
Illy elsewhere, and the cause would triumph. (Hear,
hear.) The cause was making a stir, the leaves of tie
tress were beginning to rustle. (Hear, hear.) A bill had
bleu introduce,' lo prevent the sale of spirits in grocers'
oboes in Scotland. (Hear, bear.) That was something
wed. (Hear, hear.) There was also a committee of the',
House of Commons sitting on the subject of beer-houses.
(Hear, hear) When the bill relating to Scotland was
under discessios, he stated that 60,000 persons were emi-
tted by the use of intoxicating drink, and the only way
to remedy the evil was to prohibit the male of
spirits a`.lngether. That ihserration was received with
sone surprise, hut not with ridicule. (Hear, hear.) It was
even listened to with respect, and, by going on in the same
tray, showing the evil produced by the use of intoxicating
drinks and making converts to the cause, he trusted the
time would arrive when drunkenness would be no longer
known awned them. (Hear, hear.)
Daring the evening some temperance music, composed
fez the OCCIIIOII, was sung and played.
A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the pro-
*Wigs.

MINE"; IN SARDINIA.—Two Sardinian gentlemen,
lays a correspondent, arrived at Southampton yegerday
from Havre on their way to London, to form an English
company to work silver and lend mines in Sardinia. The
amend riches of Sardinia have long been known, but
hitherto there have been some difficulties on the part of the
gosernment in allowing strangers to work them. These
nacuities have at length been removed. The gentlemen
above Llholed to are owners of the land on which the mines
are situated, and they have arrived in Ibis country with
specimens of silver and lead ore, and with letters of intro-
duction from wealthy and influential parties in Sardinia. i

MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF lIALY.
A meeting
.of the Society of " The Friends of
Italy" was held yesterday evenitt at the Mw!c 11..11,
Stonnstreet, nutlet the presidency of P. A. TAYLOR,
M. Kossuth was upon the platform, and was loudly ebeired
upon entering the room.
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the procerdinn, apologised
for having forgotten that that was the great Derby day, a
circumstance which he supposed must be token to account
for the paucity of the attendance. He defended the society
from the charge of being a sort of cotlective Mrs. Jellaby,
meddling with matters that did not concern them, and pro-
seeded to show that the liberties of on: country were the
laterests of another, and that England had a deep interest
in the good government of the world. After a rapid
sketch of recent affairs on the Continent, the tyranny
of Auntie, atol the plotting of jeetliti..ol in Piedmont, and the
Homan Stun, Mr. Taylor Bud that, taking all these cir-
ca astancee in connection with the feet that King Leopold
was visiting front one absolutist court to another ; that the
London police had recently been employed al spiel over
peaceful exiles, that letters had been opened; and that the
same men were now in office who held the reins when the
Bendieras were betrayed and murdered, he thought it was
time for the friends of liberty in this euuntry to bestir
themselves, and at least to pronounce against such symp-
toms of a nefarious system. (Cheers.) He next vindiceted
the course of the Friends of It.ly, and appealed to the
auditory whether, seeing that the lesser sta'.s, brave Pied-
mont, nod little Switzerland, had been obliged to crouch
to Austria, they were prepared to see tree and mighty
England placid in a similar predicament. (No, nee)
Having de-enhed the tactics of the ahsolutids at home
and abroad, their open denunciations silenced by the
universal demonstration of public opinion, and their secret
machinatione backed by the libels of their pet writer in the
peens, a man who was not only mercenary, but seemed to
take the delight of an artist in the high colouring of has
foul libels. As to Mezzini, thank Ged, he was sate. (Loud
cheers.) Although known to thowands amongst whom he
passed, be had escaped all the vigilance of the Awnrian
police. (Cheers.) This was the man beloved by whole
nations, whom Lord Aberdeen had stiled an anemia is die-
g alai, while he was not afraid to call the present ruler ofAustria
" the young hope of his nation." Youth was pleaded for this
tyrant, but if he was young, he was sowing hie wild oats at
the butcher's shambles and on a thousand gibbets. (Cheers.)
After one or two further observations, the chairman called
on Dr. Epps to move the first resolution.
Dr. Errs, in moving the resolution, which was a lengthy
condemnation of the policy of the house of Austria, applied
himself solely to the case of Hungary, where, as he main-
mined, the true loyalty was to 'molt. The speaker pro- I
ceeded to give a lucid sketch of the municipal and paella
mentary insritutions of Hungary, more free, as he
contended, than those of agland, and he contended that all
thew institutions had been violated by the perfidy of the
house of Hapsburg. The present representative of that
house had no more right to call himself sovereign
of Hungary, than would the King of Hanover to
call himself King of England. (Cheers.) Having
described the events of the Hungarian revolution,
the learned doctor ridiculed the morbid fear of war now
prevailing. All our ware from 1793 to 1815 had nut cost
us more titan 20,000 men kined, a mere trifle, es he con-
tended, when compared with the general impression as to
the number of lives lost in that long war. If half that
number in Hungary were only determined to die or achieve
their liberty, and if England would tell Russia to leave
Hungary alone, as last week she told her to do by Turkey,
the liberty of Hungary would soon be a fait accompli.
Professor NEWMAN seconded the resolution, pointing
out that the reason why our aristocracy favoured Austria
was, not that they loved despotism, but that they dreaded
democracy. They knew that if Austria fell there must he
republics all over Europe, and then they feared that revolu-
tions in Ireland, in Canada, or in Australia would follow,
and that their own institutions might this be swept away..
Our aristocracy therefore, although they would pro-
bably be the first to resist despotism at home, were impelled
by sheer selfishness to support it in Austen.
The resolution was then put and agreed to.
Mr. LAWRENCE moved the next resolution,condemnetory
of the introduction of the spy system into this country.
He ridiculed the idea of calling Austria • "Friendly
power" as regarded England. She had always been trea-
cherous to England from the time of Richard the nut
down to the aliance of the late Emperor with Napoleon
Buonaparte. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. U. DAWSON seconded the resolution in a humorous
speech, contrastiug the treatment which Kossuth had re-
ceived in the, couutry, with that which bad been accorded
to Louis PhiUippe and Metternich.
This resolution having also been agreed to, the meeting
by their acclamations, expressed their desire to hear M.
Kossuth. He arose, amidst general cheers, and said that
since their last meeting, the reason. which he had them ex-
pressed for reserving himself to pronounce a single speech,
when the great hour should strike, were rather increased
than otherwise. lie would only beg leave to make a single
remark in relation to the foreign policy of England. It was
generally involved in the dark mysteries of diplomacy. The
Home of Commons and the public would hardly be allowed
to know anything of the transactions at the Foreizn-
office before they were concluded and unchangeable. The
result of this system of secrecy was, that the external rela-
tions of Eagland, being little influenced by the people,
were not what they might and should be, for the advantage
of the universal cause of justice and humanity. As an
illustration, he instanced the treaty fur the succession to the
Danish crown, whereby it will depend only on three lives
whether Denmark shall not become a Rosman province, and
whether the key of the Baltic, the Sand, shall not be in
the hands of the Czar. Aa to the Italian question, he re-
quested the meeting to regard his presence among them as
a new proof of his persuasion that, for the common in-
terest, Hungary and Italy mast be intimately and perma-
nently united by the tin of • brotherly alliance. His last
word, of course, was followed by long and warm plaudits.