The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-30 00:00:00

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)wn his sorrows in drink. (Hear, hear.) Another
tson why he thought the government lad done well in
.owing the matter upon the shoulders of the public,
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with by a body of private individuals. Finally, Mr.
Mansfield proposed the resolution, and resumed his seat
amid loud applause.
Mr. Samuel Holme said: Mr. Mayor, I have been
requested to second the resolution which has jest been
proposed by Mr. Mansfield, acid I should have been well
content, sir, to leave the question on the basis where it
has been placed by the preceding speakers, but that I
think it is of some importance that the proceedings of a
meetinc, like this should go forth to the world, and
especially upon a subject which touches so nearly the
interests of the whole conaniunity. You and I know, sir,
that there are gentlemen who have an objection to a
reformatory, and we have heard objections to it even in
this room. Amidst the anxieties and responsibilities, sir,
which often attach to the high office you at present so
well fill, anxieties and responsibilities which frequently
occur, it is cheering to be able at all times to bring the
influence and the dignity of that office to bear upon any
purpose of true benevolence. (Hear, hear.) And it is
strikingly characteristic of the present age that while
we are astounded by the wonderful achievements of science
which are changing the features of human society.
benevolence itself is not left in the rear. (Hear, hear.)
If any proof were wanting, sir, I might point to
our dispensaries and infirmaries for the sick, to the
asylums for our deaf and for our blind, and
I might point likewise to those noble institutions
I mean the ragged schools ; and all honour be to those
gentlemen who went into the very purlieus of our great
cities, dived into the materials, of the existence of which,
many of us were scarcely aware, who have acted as the
pioneers of institutions like this, and have been our pre-
cursors in the good work. (Hear, hear, and applause.)
Sir, benevolence, ran, indeed, exhibit her trophies .in our
Christian country ; and I trust she shall ever have her
trophies more important in these legitimate results, than
the victories of our army and our navy • more important
than the victories of science, because the one is physical,
the other is moral ; the one deals with questions of time,
the other deals with questions of eternity. (Hear, hear.)
Sir, the benevolence of which I have spoken, which cops
among the.poor, wretched, and forlorn, is an emanation
from the spirit of hiin who went about doing good. (Hear,
hear.) All these institutions, and there are many more
than I have already named, are merely the precursors of
something more; and my experience, and the experience
of many of the gentlemen who surround me, tell us that
we must go one step further. (Hear, hear.) It is true,
indeed, that all those which I have named. are doing
good, but we have more yet to do. (Hear, hear.)
Hitherto, Mr. 'Mayor, we have :punished crime-in this
country rather than attempted to prevent it. We have
permitted the evil seed to grow up, and are we then sur-
prised at the harvest? Who can read the appalling
accounts, sir, which fill the columns of our newspapers
from day to dap heinz moresl—.vho can read
those records wnich distisTore Vic. face of a human srr.iety,