The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-06 00:00:00

LEGISLATIVE PROHIBITION OF JUVENILE

BTIZERT-SIIOICMG.
A meeting for the promotion of this object was
held lathe spanks. Vestry-henget. Pancras, on Wednesday
evoking, the 26th alt. under the pre:ldeas, of .1.41C311 OM,
Req., R.M. The Rai. T. B. Bohn opened the Deena,
with
poli
prayer, sitar whisk the secretary of the British Lou -
Tobacco read ths ties to the Lords sad Com.
mass whisk is thane of e4asstare. The %teat wheal-
=fey prevailed respeetiag the enormity of the practise of
juvenile seest-essokimp sad the desirableness of seek's, its
eappreetha. The belled efforts of the various institutions
whisk have far their object the elevates of the masses was
traced to the jorevalesee of ibis habit; sad it was meteaded
that all the efforts which philanthropists hen devise eanaot
by say possibility sum the torrent of drunken's' s, crime,
sad Sabbath elseeerstioa with everywhere abounds, while
the people of this toasty spend 8,000,0001. • yarn/ for
whew. The following letter was read by the &sirens
free Dr. Hodgkin, who, after apologising for his absence,
said : _

1. Wee* I pronst I wild may give my &sided tostintosy
to the foot that tobsino, in all IM forms, • poison, sad
therefore is injurious to tha bodily health, though in
dif-
fennt degrees in different penons, which ought to p t
tie 'spatial impunity which some my ay from bolas pleaded
either in favour of or in extent:atlas of say mei, of indulg-
ing in the anploymest of this nanotio. Is tho sad tobacco
impairs the mind for the "amiss of its Gemlike, though for
• tins it map .eon to load thorn aid. la various ways it
become the provocative and servant of @in, and is largely
oostributing to the vice of On ago. The am of tobacco is
• violation of the mutiny of • Christian and tho good ma-
son of a mamma. Let it ha stigmatised as • vice, and
placed, se it ought to be, ands the observation of the police.
You cannot advoc to the greet reform which is celled for,
or oven bold a single amuse in its favour without soca-
May @spines, and, though idably oboist, I wish to
oostribato • guinea to aid the present effort, independently
of my subscription to the Asti-robs= Society. I hops
others will set a similar example fa a more effectual mon-
sir • sad if then be sap ia this mooting who are in the
pros;tic• of @radius their mousy on tobacco, lit than try
the experiment of paying the moiety the prise of one year's
eansuneption, end easpead the prestige and its lost daring
that patod. The resell would be improved haaltb, and
=say itinforts to which they are now @treason."
At the elms of the minting the following 'isolation was
earned mess con. :—" That this atoning fully concurs is the
sentiments metainid in the petition which has boss sub-
mitted, sad resolves to snits with the British Asti-Tobic:o
Society in mmildag tie legislative prohibitioa of
stroovonoking."
Aa ananinou vote of thanks to the chairman concluded

tM proosedisgs.
[lt would be a favour if the gentlemen of the British
And•Tobaeee Society would explain what they asses by
"waft-seaoking." Tobsceo smoking" we can wader
stead, bet "street-smoking" has quite a earagentaish
Besot With all deferent* for Dr. Hodgkin, we most re-
spectfully dissent from his faltainations @vilest a practice
indulged la by Raleigh, Bobbao, Minos, Newton, cam
issesina sins, as " a violation of the Courtesy of a Christian and
the goal manners of a gentleman." dad whet a miserable
pop-gos Rotted bee the resoloties to abolish "juvenile street-
stsoliiag" after son a thoader-flap as the dower's deans-
static° I To what age is the authority of the pollee to
ceased t At what age is the English toga sirilie—the pips
—to be aesurard ? At 18 it brine down "a Sub of
lightelog "at Bios. Dinah (it* " Cosingeby") falls the
leffeneater "the °playa eater of the selsool-yard." Is do
ales to be subjected to the control of the new nursery
polies ?)