The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-04 00:00:00

I‘l.P
I am exceed

the chairman

ly happy on this occasion,
have been on all previous, to come before you as the advo
pies of total abstinence—that is, the
of intoxicating drinks. This
great question, for it is a great question, as it is now moving
the whole world, was commenced about twenty years ago,
but it did not begin with the mighty, the learned, the wise,
or the affluent; it did not rest with thole parties to
bring before the public this great scheme. No, these great
principles—and they were great principles, for they were
extending now throughout the length and brea'th of the
world—these great principles, I say, did not commence
the proud, the great, or the mighty, but were first
;it forward by a few labouring men of Preston, who
'arils advocated their principles. These poor men
ered what the wise and the great 'could not; they
()very that in all intoxicating drinks there
was a poison. Alcohol is that poison. They discovered
what the meaning of the word intoxicating was. They
found that it was derived from a Latin word, which meant

total abstaining from the use

made the d

. We are all now aware what alcohol is,
I liquors contains alcohol ; such as ale, or l
(Laughter.) There is no fer-
What is the

All fer-

eer, or

porter, or

n " pop" itself

. contain - poison.
r at characteristics of these intoxicating
Why, I will tell you. If you once begin to ta.%le them, even
if not in great quantities, you always kel that you want
more and more, and you go on talc;:ng them win they end
in your destruction. That is the true character of these
;poisons. There are some people who say, " yes, but you may
take them moderately." Now, Ido not mean to say that
there hare

aors bu

,'.rinks ?

been men in the world who have taken this
p,isonoua drink in moderation, and have been healthy, and
have lived to a good ';,id age. But such men are the excep-
tito to the rule, :,nd not the rule itself. I say the rule is,
that if a mar once begins to take these poisonous drinks, he
g^,3 on 'caking more and more until he undermines his
destroys his strength, and eventually destroys his

mortal son]. That is the effect of these poisons. But that
is not all ; for he will not only lose his health, his strength,
but he destroys all his future prospects, and sinks himself
in the moral scale of society. Drink destroys his natural
feeling, makes a man a murderer, and prone to all sorts of
evil. It makes him a murderer, not only of the stranger,
bit also of his wife, whom he has sworn to love and to
cherish, but also of his own children. There are not isolated
circumstances, for they are occurring almost every day.
Take up a newspaper, where you will find such to be the
case. A husband goeehome late at night, full of drink ; he
quarrels with his wife—for drink always causes quarrelling,
eren with his wife, who is his best friend—and then he,
.with come fell blow, takes the life of his own dear wife. That
is but too frequently the case, and then the poor innocent
children are likewise the sufferers from his brutality. Now,
the great question we have to consider is, what are we to do
with the men who will frequent the tavern ? The time is
came when that question must claim your serious attention.
TC'e say, take away the temptation. But how is that to be done?
Why, by ail becoming teetotallers—let all become total
abstaiters—all men, women, and children—and we shall
soon have the evil removed. But there may be some who
`are se weak that they cannot resist the temptation. How
are we to keep and preserve them from such temptations ?
Why, the time has now arrived—the great principles of
total abstinence are becoming so well known throughout
the world—that the time has now arrived when we have a
right to call upon the legislature to do away with the evil
by shuting up the houses where such poisons are sold. In

this count'ry‘there were more shops open for the sale of
poisons than there were for gond and healthy food. These
shops are the temptation, and from going to them men are
sent to the scaffold, and therefore they should be removed
And we say the day is now come when we will
such men to represent us in Parliament as
sist on the prohibition of the manufacturing
nd of the sale of all intoxicating drinks. His view of the
hal been adopted by a large number of our fellow-

at once

only send

'men in America ; and why should we not do it here ? In
the United States, where I have been during the summer,
thirteen of the States out of the 31 have adopted that plan,
rind have prohibited the production and the sale of all in-
`toxicating drinks. The State of Maine was the first State
to adopt that principle, and hence arose the name of the
Maine Liquor Law. That law was stringently carried out
until last year, when, at the election, a majority of these
returned were not total abstainers, and the effect of that was
that the law was not so stringently carried out as before :
but this year there had been a majority of total ab-
stainers returned, and I have much pleasure in telling
you ble ti,, lan "so ao otrinycntlY a rrirfi out as ever
it was

Having read several quotations from an
American annual report, showing bow the Maine Law bad
benefited the States in which it had been adopted, and
referred to the speech of the King of Sweden, who had
become a total abstainer, as well as the Queen, he
concluded by saying, I consider this is a very
satisfactory state of affairs ; and I hope you will
pay attention to the advocates who will address you, and
not only be total abstainers yourselves, but also endeavour
to make your friends the same. This advice I wish
strongly to impress on the ladies, and hope they will not
have any acquaintance with those who are not total
abstainers. _ _

~~blr. Rawlins
and Mr. Grubb then, at considerable length,
addressed the meeting, strongly and eloquently enforcing
the opinions they advocated on the meeting. They
admitted that the arguments they had to adduce had
nearly become thread bare by repetition, but still it was
impossible to have the principles they advocated too often
expounded.

After a vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting
separated.

ATTEMPTED MURDER

On Sunday morning a murderous assault was committed
on a woman named Martin, an " unfortunate," residing at
No. 14, Lucy's-buildings, St. Andrews, Holborn. The
assailant, a widower named Thomas Burke, had been pay-
ing his addresses to Martin, and it had been arranged that
they should be married shortly. On Saturday night, how-
ever, he only brought her home a very trifling sum, which
she said would not be sufficient to keep her honest. He
then asked her to accompany him to the theatre to witness
the performance of Dred. She refused, saying at the same
time, " I must stop at home and earn my living." He
returned about half-past twelve o'clock, and found
the street door open. He was seen by a person living
next door to enter, and after a brief space of time to sud-
denly leave, closing the door violently, and then run off.
The neighbour apprehending something wrong had hap-
pened, went outside, knocking violently at the street door,
but getting no answer, called to the police on duty in the
district, when Sergeant Hackney and an officer arrived. It
was then ascertained that the woman had gone to bed with
another man, and the accused coming to the house and
finding the pair together deliberately inflicted a tremendous
b'ow with one of his boots on the woman's head, from which
blood flowed so copiously as to saturate the sheets and pillows
of the bed, and to cover a considerable portion of the floor-
ing. The wounded woman was removed to the infirmary
of the Holborn Union. When the police entered the house
they found the man who had been sleeping with the injured
woman in the act of dressing himself, and being accused of
having caused the injury, the woman replied, "No, it was
not hint, but it was the man Burke." The following
description of the man was circulated last night :—" A
man, named Thomas Burke, has made his escape after
attempting to murder a woman, named Mary Martin,
who at present lies in the Holborn Union, Gray's-inn-
lane, from the injuries received. The accused is of
middle stature, he has a dark complexion, with few
whiskers under his chin. He was dre4sed in a dark
striped trowsers, brown vest, blue cloth coat, and black hat,
with a broad band. He is by trade a lithographic 'minter,
and works near St. Paul's Cathedral. He is a widower with
two children."

A DYING CONFESSION.—A few days ago an individual,
named John Barnes, who had been in the Crimean war,
died in the Wrexham Union Workhcuse. On his death
bed he confessed to the nurse of the sick ward that he
had carried a pistol in his breast for twelve months,
for
the purpose of shooting Captain Meredith, bnt had
never had au opportunity for carrying his intention into
execution.

EMIGRKTIOtiae b
pM FRANCE TO CaNADA.—The Canadian
News, which cby last arrival, saps:—" Fifteen
families of French far from Normandy, and fifty two
individuals from Belgium, have arrived to settle on govern-
ment lands in Lower Canada, and are only the first instal-
ment of a large French emigration expected there during
emigration
fifteen families
o the present season. It is believed that
from Normandy, are a larger emi from France to
Canada, than has taken place in any onne year since the
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oonquest of the province.
Ex rENSIVE FIRE AT HUDDERSFIELD.—Abont half-past
five o'clock on Saturday morning the extensive factory at
Folly Hall, Huddersfield, the property of Mr. Joseph
Kaye, builder. was discovered to be on fire. In ten minutes
the flames were issuing from every window of the floor in
which the conflagration commenced, and at a quarter to
seven o'clock every floor of the edifice had fallen in. The
walla of the building, which is a strong struc`ure of stone,
are all that is now standing. The interior is a complete
wreck, scarcely anything having been saved. The premiseq,
though belonging to Mr. Kaye, were in the occupation •f
several manufacturers. At least 300 workpeople are thrcwn
out of employment by the disaster The damage is esti
mated at from £12:000 to £15,000. Both owner and
occupiers were to a considerable extent insured.