Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-07 00:00:00

KIR ,IDALE,

DEDICATED TJ THE

REV. O. E. TirVERTON, BA,

is
LIVE RPOOJ, WORKINGMAN.

" Woe nub h!m Vaal giveth his naighbanr drink, that patteat thy
bott!ta b him and makasc him draikea."—Ltabak. u 1.3.

[Continued front 6th October]
There was a wealthy farmer, at Melll tg, celebrated for hospitality,
which consisted in keeping a goal "ta ;" his sons, folo wing the ex am -
ple of their induleent parent, became drankerds; the oldest fell into a
stone quarry when drank. and was killed; weather sole of er a eon;
debauch, aid when Ishouring and er tremens, want t 3 the
Rev. Miles Formby, minister of the place, aired to'd him the folio ving
illusion : that (led h sd see.; for him, and that ha mast die that night.
The 'Om gentlemen, with his worsted kininess, directed his coach-
man to see him home, aid give his (deals instrietiois to look eter
him. Next morning this victim of intoxi :atilt; drink was fain I dead
in a smell pool of water, near to his own door. Three of the sons of
• as other wealthy farmer of the same place, have bean harried to
drunkards graves. Bat the reeler need not be astonished at this,
whoa the non resi ling minister, not tse R gentleman alla to I to
aboee, would adja Ira with christening parties, after ce'ebrating the
solemn ordinance, to t re public horse, an i propose the new-made
Christian with a do ale'e glass of gin, net- et the fact of this mit-sister's
son being downed in the L eels a-id Liverpool canal when druek.
But the reader will be less sarpriscd w 1133 I state there wee not any
re !dant minister ;or mere than 30 years; that the wealthy i acarnbent
of St. J ohn'e, Livarpee!, who died worth aboat £lOl,OOO, received
from £4OO to £503 a year (cone that place, foe which, thimgh born
and resiaed there, I don't rernsmher him doing anything.
I knew an elogneat and talented ministe-, the e :itor so! the
loading pablicatio a in can section with one of the m ist extensive
and useful d sienting bolies of the age, .who was first a Sunday
school sch star, then a teethe-, then inderintenlaat, and ultimately a
useful minist r of the Gospel, hurled, through drunkenness, into
degreditios and ruin. B wished his country, he finished his awful
course in a foreign lead, dyiog of that dreaiful malady of drunken
ness, the delerium :tremens.
Mr. Mott, a zentlemea of great experience in parochial matters,
inlormed me vs hen he was Poor-law Audito-, and E. Chadwick. Esq.
chief secretary to the Poor-law Commtesieners, stated to a Parlia-
mentary Committee, th at the nagovern able inclination for intoxicat-
ing drinks was the great source of paupeEism in this co entry.
Sir A. Alliee 5, the his oriel, refers to the annals of Glasgow
H :use of Refuge, as shoeing, in the clearest m nner, the fatal
influence of intoxication drink npoa society. Oat of 231 bays I
examieei there, I form 172 had drunken fat sere, 63 drunken mo he s,
and G 9 drnaken mo.hers wed fathers, so that there were 204 out of
231 boys thus earl/ precipitated into misery and wic!ae lne,s through
the drnn eaness of their parents. An i so it is parents see their children
rained and children witness their p :rents ruined. Husbands have
to mourn broken-hea-te3 for their wives, wives for their husbands.
Socie'y dads Itself imp verished sad &exalted by a load of poor-rates
and couity-ra'es, and all because an ineidious ay-ate nof delusion is
practised under the -anction of the legislature.
It would not, I think, be too mach to sey,- that if the drinking of
fermented Bitter was done away with, the whole tone of moral feeling
and sentiment would be indednitely raised. Not only does drunken-
ness produce alt kinds of aanton neischiec, bit it has also a negative
effe.t of great importeece—it is, in feet, the migiitest of all forces
that clog the progress of alt goo I. It is,. indeed, in vain that every
engine is set to work the Christian and the philanthropist can devise,
when they whom they seek to bcaelit are' haoitual y tampering with
their faculties of reason and will ; and wnla they are soaking their
brains wits ardent B;4s-its—the st.mg,la of the ce arches and faithtal
mtlsters, and never wore ther3 33 many as at this moment, in Liver-
pool, the shoo', the-free ibrary--these living*, intell'gent, active, and
cultivated agencies, for t!,e good of tee ignorant, united against the
gin "hop, is but the devele)in at of t se war bat +teen He woo and
HelL

Who, I a+k, eat d-ay thst intosi:atisg drinks degrsl3 the humin

race; th3y m ist. be abandoned, or eo3i:ty wial never a 581.1113 a heal by
tone ; Yvilt never be elevate 1 tintl sona ioneetrms for that m :nst,ons
and nocaol3 be,orage be substituted.
Woeraver tail monstrous evil prerills there are wives wronged,
chil na ail hoase'a ordsr ii at an en I, aid what on ;ht to
b 3 th centre of all charities al 1 th> school of all v rue is a ruin and
dessolation. Ti remeve,,therefore, what feeds yin and inflames the
pas-dons, a ,cl by all lawful p eeautions impede theirg- attic dim, is as
macli an axiom of educ itienal wis Ism as the ineulcalon of m seal
p inciples and d'seiplined posi:ive duties.
The immortal Doctor Chatm said " pahlic-honses are by far the
most delet4rans source of emus and pauperism." God seems to have
sat the lazy and selisa publ csh agthost the ho seat industrious
citizen.

lf,itbdc•honses wore closed, on' prisons, poor holies, asylum
hnuies of reap, orphan hearer, &3., whiali are sirup y the escrui-
, sences of the gin shop,. world saaa etith3r b 3 convcrtel to useful
purposes, or they would raseend With the tonal of the jack-claw ; like
delapidated 01:3C0311t0.39 Of lazy moakism of the dark age?, they' would
be monuments—la rains—af the nicht infamous arid diabolical curie
that ever denial creation. Lis hardly psiiible to go into 0113 of our
criminal cohrts without see.ng zo no jolly landlo:d or landlady
charging poor wretches, after robbing them of their• manej and
son-es, with creating a row, breaking windows, smaahi ig jugs or
glasie ,ant to prison the magistrate sends theca; where is common
sense declares that the maglatrate o iglu to remove the came—:hat
is, send the publican to prison, and the effect would cease. From
returns lately issued at Preston, out of 330 3rimiaale, 251 committed
their crimes through drunkenness.
Let me beseech oPull who real the paper, aid Maio in the

intoxicating draught, even though they may consider themselves
temperate, to give np their little drop, au t by that means assist in
breaking the chains which bind Iran Ire is of thonsaa is of their folio,'
countrymen in that disgraceful coalition. I have feebly endeavoured
to delineate, that they may e nergs like m, =sin crass from tho
mist of eight and darknass., and assume the character of men.
If my realer has not previously considered the relation between
dru,kenna is and aims:, as between cause and effect, I trust the
details I am furnishing will net only leal him to the es:eviction that
it is his duty to give intoxicating drialc up, bat is the determination
to do all in his power to., cm,ve the appal ing evil from 'he country.
Bet further the 1331 of life and woperty by sea and lan ?, through
drunkenness, is tremendous, and a ffsrds a painful subject for reflection
It is a well attested fact, that many, vary rn illy, of tie accidents and
wrecks by sea are hronght about by the drunkenness of t'se seamen
or officers on board ships, an 1 that many others mig:st be averts I by
the exert' 3LS Vkat w.)12.1.1 be made were it not th it the ph,sical powers
are deadened, and their perceptions blunted by &local:olio drinks
Ca inlanders, whsa they observe a storm coming, take grog to me'le
them, as they foolish'y fancy, waterproof, the real offset of which is
to deprive them of the most essential ra4uis te in peril—c imneis
of mind and pruden,e; tiro, in critical meineuts, their per7ertel
perceptions or distarbei judgments prevent them.embracin; the
opportunity of escape or a roldiag danger.

Tae Rev. W. Szeraaby, vicar of B:adforl, no,pra ea a melancholy
catwropha he wltneaJed on tae Yorkshire cJait, in wai:a four out of
a craw of a VcS3 31 l 031: th3ir iivaj. All the 111.33, 01 board got drank,
and Oft tie halua. is charge of a b,y, who ra3. the vaaiel oa Wlaltby
rock.

well-knoan traveller, J. Silk B ickla flume , Esq., stited at a
public meeting Out, from the 5C31.99 of draultohneas he witnessed on.
b art the ill Wed President, when eo.ntag nom A.earic i, a paiseuge,
in her, it wit hit delbentte c3avic.l n that inert wit the

canso of htn• it or tai im n swills with wAIcX :ha wss

freighted.
Mr. Purnet•l, d suer of this Ow 1, deci sred to a Per:iamentsry
nittee• th ,t he w. 13 persoully accos, rased wi ;h the eaptlia f the

tie, Ind =3lLn%; Mal allca a iii,t ;I t) (I ran'in leas ;
in lo,d, altird air, Puma!, I balieve hat he ta'icia wy aciv:ct he you'd

have s tvel his o ?la life aid one hnoilred others.

Mr. J. Gary, dock-miter of Dick, highly esieezed by
all who are seciatiat3l with him. bath al a gsatlastin ant chr:clan
phi aathro?ist, U lard t) iii the. La! annum: of !maim lUe and
p7operty that hal bosa saerifleod on the gre t sea wss beyon 1 a:1
emordnasion through al2ols3lic drinks.

Oran ienuess ani revelry mare being indulge' in whn. the Royal
George caps'zed at Spitheal.
On the 33th of lily, 14 hums i beings were sacrificed to this idol at
Mo:ecombe Bay. Instead of praaecati )g their j sun ey, they stopped
drinkinl nut, I the tide 11 risen too high; wit n they di' start —some

of them drank—that' wara soon no in era alive.
I rem s•nber mooting sv4th a nat.ira ist, in 1846,, in this town, who
hal just arrival fro% Arnerin, and wh) told ms the following
melancho y incilant :—lfasa W 3 !el New York, there wit a p seen

ger, a Welshman, of tie atm! of WEMimi. w'io had beau in the

ean war, and a bag tim) is the Amarkan nava' fOrvic3. By

frugality and Inisitri hs hsl 1M 1i331 .4'2Cita sterling, villa' he slid
would enable h in to sett e co.nfor.ably in business in his native land.

Oa© day, however, he indnig,d in drink, and, while carrying on same
antics in 'hat st it fe'l overboard, his ramay and praspect, with

him, and was seen HO more.

Of the multitude of human bones which strew, and the incaknlable
ashes which lie bur:el beneath a wast.l of waters, and for ever los
to man, whit potion ought to be placed to the account of secholic
drilks, wilt only be declared when the sea sh It give up its dead.
Tho lonl, as well as o:her pn'tioni of the plh'ic press, furnish
heartrending details of the dreadful death; and other social and
domestic evils resulting from drunke less.

I lately read an art'cle in a newspaper, heniel ." family ruin,"
Which was as Lams :—A family n)tor;ous for drunkenness;
the wife when drank overlaid her child aid killed it; the
huband. oa coming home drank, beat her so brutal:y that

she gave birth to a ch ld, when both m)ther and child died.
The husband w a taken into custoly, and committed to prison,

where ha dial in fourteen days broken-heartsd. The same

imrital of the 25th February, 1857, gave a melancholy account of
the ter: able effects of intoz7citing drink. On Monday morning, Mary
Smith, the wife of a platelayer employed by the Doak Committee, and

residing in Beckwith-street, Birkenhes 1, was burnt in a most skock-

lag mauler, whllo IA a otste of UnCOll2O2lO 10tOXIcatiOnt It seon23