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LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 8.

As far as we can see, the British Temperance
Associations drop out of sight the fundamental
difference between the special legislation of a
young democratic republic and that of an old
monarchy, with however liberal a constitution. Lord
STANLIT points out that • public opinion which
could in England demand repreesetatim in the hem
of • law, and prevail with our Legislators for that
object, is already the strongest possible power on the
side of temperance, and could not be aided by law.
The dilemma with which the advocates of temperame
laws have to grapple is this: if public opinion is
strong.enough to obtain any law in regulation of
personal morals, the law is net wanted; and if the
law is pueed by the power of the minority
it is merely meddling legislation, and cannot be
esforeed. Le the United States the cue is wholly
different. There the whole people in fact constitutes
the Legislature, and their special laws are simply
experiments tried by themselves on themselves. If
not wise, such experiments are in their ease jeetifiable.
The majority directly crest* the law, and ma directly
abolish it it it does not answer. With us the laws are
not proposed by the majority, and the need is the
greater for avoiding meddling legislation, which, by
provoking resistance or evasion, ends in aggravating
the mischief. Justifiable in • coastitational sense es
was the original Maine Liquor Law, sad favourable as
all circumstances were to its working, it has failed in
the proof. Nowhere else perbape can circus'.
steams ever be so ignorable. The worst &-
beaches took place when the Imeberers of that
scantily-peopled State cams down from the woods to
mil their timber, and when the Indians appromhed
the towns for their allowances. Tiro mesas of supply
la those cases were easily cat off by the law in its
Ant days; and for many months the citizens ranked
In empty prisms and gresogrown geol-yerds. Bet
ems there the law has been ones repealed, aced
soy be repealed again ; sad neighbouring
Stater, alter going through a world of strike, and,
far worse, of frauds and exasperated evil desires, have,
me after mother, repudiated the meddling legisla-
tion of liquor-laws. While they lasted, spirits were
purchased in large quantities by ladivideals, and
bartered away, under the name of a gift, to neigh-
bours. Whim sash importation was forbidden, it
was yet poetised by evasies or in deism& Sport-
ing or mormatile parties were farmed to paw the
frontier, and have a drinking boat, meow other
cocapations. The methods devised for indulg-
ing an appetite exasperated by opposition
would All • voles; and at lesgth the
supporters et such special legislation beams
convinced, sooner or later, that as the rally Ivey to
extinguish the slave trade is to abolish slavery, so
the only way to extinguish drunkenness is to super-
sede the appetite for drink. Not only has the result
not bees obtained by liquor laws, but the agitation of
the subject, the political strife and moral bigotry
attending it, have stimulated the appetite, sad sees-
pied the imagination with ideas of driok, tea degree
which sadly soberness the difficulty of the work re.
maiaing to be accomplished.
Then comes the question,—what is to be dose?
Intemperance abounds is England and in the
United States: it is the acknowledged origia of mare
Grime and misery than any other Modestly or habit

whatever—what is to be ion with it ? No desk,
the principle is the seas in dealing with all ruse of
prosiest vice. Its mum most be sought out and
dealt with, and aet its manifestatioea. In the ab-
sence of space to treat of that topic ken, we nay
Metes* a single fact which say yield eons light
and guidasee. The familiar truth that one say
travel through all the towes and villages of the
pleasure loving ishabitests of the Continent without
seeing a tipsy roan, is well worthy of study. The
love of aniusement, and the facilities for being
sawed, have driven out the foal spirit of inebriety.

In the same way that resident' in the heart of
London are, in multitudes, almost compelled to drink
by the difficulty of obtaining pure and pleasant
water, the Americans are driven to the we d artifi-
cial beverages by the scarcity of wholesome water,
fresh fruit', and, in many parts, of dairy produces.
Salt fat bacon is the stack article of diet throeghoat
the reentry; and the bread eaten with it is het, heavy,
and indigestible. The thirst produced by such diet
acting on a singularly nerving and extiltalde tem-
perament as be met in travelling, and in many sat
dements, only by the alternative of ieenffimable
mike or more seductive stimulants of the intoxi-
cating clam The absence of out-door angemsmeatai
of popular sports, of a wholesome and varied dietary,
sad of calmness and leisure in daily life, toads
everywhere to originate and eseoursge intemperance;
sad it has been observed, with too much truth, that in
America the choice is betwees being a dyspeptic, a
fanatic, or a drankard—so deficient are the means
of natiefying the demanded nature in a healthy way-
llesetime, while these evil auditions are prevalent,
leaving only the rich and highly educated under the
natural safeguards which all should enjoy, it Is ob.
esevable that Louisiana offers a favourable contrast
to the other States in the matter of temperance. Yet
nowhere to wholesome water so difficult to obtain.
Claret is cheap—so cheap that it is not worth while
to adulterate it. It is conanealy takes, as in
Southern Europe, at breakket ; sad it been
the same proportion to the daily diet that
light bser dose in same countries whereat
as in Louisiana, drunkenness and dyspepsia are ez-
evadingly rare. The whisky drinkers in Louisiana
are usually the traders gad travellers from other
States, by whom alone the lowest tavern bare are
eapported. With t, the dames of Muskiness? other
physical, NNW, and political dimes, are less pre-
valent and less virulent in Laski's' than in most of
the other States. In some of the Northam, Ws
hake of drinking light beer is rapidly kesmilag
the coseemptioa of alcoholic liquors; and there to a
spreadiag is/ligation to soma Native% perm lag

'ltalian to grow light wines in the middle States, I
where a dna demand would presently meats any
amount of supply. The readers of Mr. Omentee
interesting book on the "Seaboard Slave States "
cannot but see a strong probability that that tempe-
rance will be attained in America by a careful ob-
servance of Nature's laws, which has not been
achieved by Man-made laws, set up in defiance of
Nature. To accept Nature's pleasant gifts is to obey
her laws ; and the fair distribution of her pleasant
gifts is the surest way to universal temperance.