Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-23 00:00:00

THE N ORTIIERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOLI MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23 1587

know, and it will be the greatest favour you can do to me to put
end to my sufferings. In a few hours this victim of intoxicating drink
d'ed raving mad "—the fate of thousands upon thousands of drunkards
annually. Andrew O'Brien, the publican now incarcerated in Kirk-
dee gaol, charged with the wilful murier of his mother-in-law, is a
sad and painful illustration of the terrible effects of drunkenness.
Dethrone reason by Alcoholic drinks, and arouse the animal passions
now unrestrained by the judgment, and man is fit for anything. No
vice, no crime, of which he may not then be guilty, may have
escaped him when he awakes from his drunkenness, as poor O'Brien
has now done. Parents, Christians, philanthropists, patriots, and
citizens—is not the drunkard's death appalling—will you taste
another drop—will you again touch the health-destroying, reason-
dethroning, moral-blasting, and soul-ruining drink? Abandon it;
oh, abandon it, for the sake of your immortal, your never-dying soul.
Total abstinence is the only safe shelter from the avenging power of
strong drink.

The following singular note or warning, purporting to be a trans-
lation from the Sanscrit, of a letter from Asiatic cholera, to his cousin,
Germa'n, English cholera, is h ghly illustrative ofmy subject, I there-
merit)! it.

" Borders of the Red Sea, August 12, 1857.
"Dear Cousin,—As I intend, after a little more feasting with the
Aralians, to start again on the grand tour is Europe, and very soon
to visit my relations, and all old friends in Britain, I have, therefore,
thought it best to anticipate rumour, and transmit before hand en
authentic sketch of my history and habits, to remind them of my
tastes, so that they might put themselves to no unnecessary trouble in
preparing for my reception; I know their fame for hospitality at their
festive boards ; I have a deadly recollection of my former visit to
Britain, and, therefore, I beg to assure them that nothing will please
me better
botterrn and nourishedthentakinetbem justin India, a g
as lof undtohregmennon:
Imanyd and clime,formervisit
I was
amidst the dissipation of European conquerors, and the degradat3on
of its sable and superstitious castes. My father, who is a member .rf
the great lelorbus family, named me Cholera, by way of signifying
my sympathy with the choleric and discontented portion of mankind.
I have an invincible attachment to whatever my parents hare a hand
in concocting, and can, from the bottom of my heart, freely and
liberally fraternise with the immoral, and promoters of iniquity,
wi.h .ut distinction of colour, country, or clime. I am, however, very
particular about character, unless it be in some way connected with
the morbific kind ; I must decline the interchange of social courtesies,
The disciples of some modern crotchets I particularly dislike; the
members of nature's aliment society, or fresh air and water fanatics
the health of towns commissions; and especially the abominable sect
ca'led teetotallers, or cold water men, I absolutely detest, and peel-
tively will pass by without embracing. Indeed, I mast observe, as a
general ride, that, if a man be industrious, sober, and temperate, I will
not have to do with that class of men, all such characters I regard-
as loathesome and pestilential. If a man rise early, open wide his '
eves and windows, often wash himself from top to toe, whitewash his
house, frequently take his meal at home instead of the beer-horse,
and endeavour to make his wife and children happy_,such a one I
cannot endure; I would prefer that thet man should live in health
and die in good old age, as men foceishly call long We, rather than
have to do with him. Indeed, i will pass by his hearth with its cheerful
stupidness to revel alternately amid the glare and excitement of the
gia palace, the squalor end the corruptions of the drunkard's home;
to sit by the filthy and faded forms of drunkard's in cla-k hove s ; to
range the precincts of the prison, the poe.-house, or the asylum,
surrounded by atone walla and iron gratings, whence the li.tht of
Heaven and tile Gospel e-sl'dem enter to feast with the felon, or enj y
whoredom, tie roam with the criminal, the pauper, and lunatic—yes,
the whoremonger, the profligate, the glutton, the drunkard, the lazy
and discontented, and the filthy of every class, may rest assured I
shall not pass by them ; in one word I shall make my abode with
them and feast Inscrialtly. le never fail to shake hands with those
whose constitutions have been enfeebled by drunkenness and
debauchery, or undermined ley Alcohol, the- favourite poison of
England ; my love for these remain quite unabated; depend upon it
I will not pals their habitations. I may also add that I prefer staying
on my visits in blind courts, (hely and filthy cellars, in chamb rs
where anything can be substituted for that monstrous thingeglass,
which flies at the very smell of Alcohol. I love to be in the pureeus
of public-houses, redolent of gin and blue-ruin, and the effluvia of beer
and brandy. In conc'usion, I way add that I anticipate a rich treat
with your sooty-faced. artizans, of whose hospitality I partook so
largely during my last visit ; binels my fevourite;colour, some may
cell it ghastly, I call it beautiful, therefore I seldom omit visiting the
abode of sooty-faced friends. Teere is another peculiarity I admire
inehe artizans of England, and which renders them particularly
objects of attraction, mud admiration ; their stomachs- are stuffed one
half of the week and starved the other, rendering it delightful t)
drink and revel witlethem, and thus -I can easily conclude the car-
nival with the dance of death.—Adieu, dear consin, yours aff,c-
tienately, "Aszasric CueemeA."
After furnishing the preceding details, I shall not enter into a
pathological representation of the deadly evils intoxicating drinks
inflict on tile humanerstomach, but confine myself to the illustrations
of the pathology of drunkenness or the physical effects of intoxicating
drinks, at set for h on, the testimony of medical gentlemen and pro-
fessors, who have made it their stilly, and whose testimony has been
sanctioned by Pordamentary Committees and never related.
Dr. Beardmont said—" That ardent spirits, if indulged in freely,
proince, in a few days, morbid changes, and, therefore, the. wisest
and best course is not to take these at all."
Dr. Gordon said, before a Parliamentary CommitMe,,on drnak en-
nese and crime—" When I was. studying at Edinbareh, I hod
occasion to open a great many bodies- who had died of different
disc:sea and in most Cases I found. the liver more or less• affected,
and on enquiry I found that, althengl some of them- were moral and
religious people, they were in the habit of drinking ardent spirits in
small quantities, perhaps one or two glasses daily, and. to this fact I
attributel their disease."

Dr. Armstrong, before the same Parliamentary CDmmittee, said—
" A few years ago I saw a person, while engaged in public debate, drop
instantly dead froman affection of the heart, being at the time highly
stimulated by ininxicatlng drink, which the habitual custom of taking
drink had brought on. I have examined the lungs of drunkards and
bave frequently found them adhering to the wails of the chest and,
affected with tubercles."

Dr. Dodd deposed to the same committee--" I remember some
years back seeing a man carrying a bundle of hay on his head drop
down dead, a few yards from me. On a ins"- mortew examination
I found the nun rotten all over, resulting from d:unkennes.
This gentleman. observed further to the committee, that the progeny
of intemperate parents are less healthy in all their fun, tions then the
offspring of temperate parents; that at birth the infant has not merely
the want of healthy aspect of plump round outline l:nt a shrivelle 1,
starved, and imperfect look, and, moreover, that parents suffering
under th, disease of the liver or any other organ, from the use of
intoxicating liquors, give rise to children whose constitutions possess
strong tende❑ties to similar morbid actions in the off pring, even to
t-e third and fourth gmeration--thus oaks aro rotten in the aecorn
And why should we be astonished at that, when we contemplate the
composition of Alcoholic drinks given as follows, by an eminent
gentleman of ungnestioasble voracity.
Laboratory, Kentish Town, London, June 10th, 1857.
This is to certify th I hive examined a sample of beer, mark XX.
sent me by Mews. Hawks, of Severn Brewery, and find it contains—

Alcohol .
E -traction
Eric Acid

Wa:cr

99,133

(Sinned)
(To be continued.)

100,000
JOHN MITCHZLL."

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NOTTINGHAM, Friday, 5 p.m —The town remains per-
fectly tranquil. The meyor and magistrates have succeeded
in preventing a meeting of operatives. Many came in
from the country districts, bat quietly dispersed. It was
generally believed that, upon the meeting being prevented
in the Market-place, the men would assemble in Notting-
ham Forest, and evory precautionary measure was taken
to disperse any crowd that might come together. In the
country districts the county police were prepared to act at
a moment's notice. Temporary relief has been afforded to
a great lnany families. The able bodied are not compelled
to go into the workhouse, and they are to be employed in
constrnctine, a new road. One of the rioters, of Tueoday
night, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment.
BREAKING UP CFA CHURCH SCHOOL —A Linettan VICAR
—At Walton-)r-Thames, after a contest of two years'
duratien between the committee of the national schools
and their chairman, the vicar of the parish, the committee
have resolved on breaking up the schools forthwith. The
committee allege that they have been driven to this course
tliron,gh the persistence of the vicar in ident;fying 'niutself
with a party e gaged in raising a school in the parish, to
be eon incte.l on aetischurch principles, and refusing his
official aid as rep arils the (leelining funds of the national
schools. The poin's of difference are thefe :—The coin-
mtttee, backed by the m .jority of the inhabitants, sj,
‘• We are quite willing to open our doors to all who a'e
not of the church, and meet them in every way as regards
religious matters; bet, at the same time we will retain our
' necessary rules as far as applies to the religions training of
our church children. In asking more than this, the
di setters show a spit it of intolerance to-wards the church,
which we feel in du y bound to resist." The vicar and
party, by their proposed rules, insist that the dissenters
shall take part management in the school ; that the vicar
shall be no longer ex officio a member of committee, but
merely eligible for election ; that all church children shall,
if they please, attend the meeting house on Sundays,
instead of church, as at present; that all, with a mere
nominal exception, shall, if they please, object to church
catechism ; that the school shall be conducted on the
principle of " no interferoace with the religious opinions
of the parents."

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