The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-29 00:00:00

COMETH UPS 4 I'u2wEil.

Ititud Bentley, New

THE lIEE OP PUBLIC-HOLM= AT ELECTIONS.—
The members for North Lancashire were the chief speakers
at a bazaar held the day before yesterday in support of
the funds of the Lancaster Total A.M. Society. The_
opening ceremony took place at noon, the °hair being
taken by the Right Hon. Wilson Patten, the chancellor of
the duchy. The trustees of the hall presented, through
Mr. Dawson, an address to the chairman, in which they
took credit for the circumetanee that the members of the
Total Abstinence Society were, almoat without exception,
free from the stain of bribery or corruption at the last
election. The trustees further said that if they had been
permitted, the teetotal electors would have formed the
nucleus of a new and reformed constituency. They
earnestly entreated the candidates for North Lanembire
to set their faces against the use of public-houses during
the mutest, and so secure victory from tarnish, or defeat
from disgrace. Colonel Patten during his speech said—
" The request that be and his hon. oelleague would not use
public-houses durng the election sprang, no doubt, from
the intimate knowledge which the framers of the address
had of the evils that occurred is Lancaster during the last
contested election. Although he was so old a member,
the pending contested election was the first in which he
bad been _engaged. Both he and his noble opponent had
used a number of public-houses in furtherance of their can-
vass ; and be must say that neither of them had witnessed
the slightest indication of the evils which the address
alluded to. He assured the trustees that it was quite im-
possible to adopt their suggestion in carrying on • county
contest. It was the abuse of publics-homes, and not their
use, that was objected to. He was far from saying
that the interest of the publicans, as • class, was
opposed to the public interest. There were men
amongst the publicans of the highest
and it was a mistake on the part of Plrs.
tem-
perance friends to endeavour to taboo the publicans
as a class who were disinclined to promote the public wel-
fare; hi should consider himself disgraced if he was re-
turned by practices which produced the evils of intemper-
ance in any part of the constituency that he hoped to have
the honour to represent; but he nand repeat that he dif-
fered from thine who were for strong measures
of, legira-
tion at the present tune. He concluded by assuring the
audience that be was at one witk them in their dads to
pet down the greateet earn thatmer afflicted the nation."
The Marquis of Hartirigton said be entirely and cordially
sympathised with the object for which the society bad been
formed--namely, to promote terapermee and to combat
intemperance by means of moral sewn= rather than by
coercive measures of legislation. He agreed with very
much that had been said by his right hon. colleague, but
at the same time be held a strong opinion that the time
was approaching when it would be necessary for the legis-
lature to take into its very serious consideration all the
laws that affected the liquor traffic in this country.
Doi) LAW IN 1;388.—In the eleventh year of
the reign of Richard 11. (A.D. 1388), a singular proclama-
tion was made by the mayor, aldermen, and commons of
the city of London, prohibiting the wandering of dogs
within the city jurisdiction. Probably a perusal of the
identical proclamation at the present time may prove inte-
resting. The following is a oopy :—" To avoid the noise,
damage, and strife that used to arise from the wandering
of dogs about the city, it is forbidden that any parson
shall keep a dog accustomed to go at large out of his own
r I if. 105111 e without guard thereof, by day or night, within
the fialichve of the raid city. genteel dogs excepted, under
pain of )4,3 nig forty pence to the use of the chamber.
And if any one shall make prayer for any person who
shall do the contrary hereof he shall pay forty pence to
the chamber for !tacit his
.prayer." Mr. Riley. the editor
of the Li ier .41:.a. (originally compiled by John Car-
l...liter and Itichaid Whittington), *ay: that "the word
cfssii., Di the orignal may possibly seem ' gentle,' Sur pot
of the tLen known descriEtion.."—L'ily 4?css.
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