Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-19 00:00:00

TIMES TUESDAI, APRIL 19, 1859

ments have not vet come to an understanding, and
the Diplomatists are nearly at their wits end. The
writer adds that Prussia begins to exhibit symptoms
of a resolve not to allow her interests to be separated
from those of• Germany and Aatria.
There is no change for the better' in commercial-
prospects -in France, nor is -any expected" until the
political horizon has become 'more bright. Wine- and
brandy have slightly risen, in consequence of the vines
having suffered from frost. In Lanquedoe, one-eighth.
of the wine crop has been destroyed.
Athices from Berlin, the capital of Prussia, dated
the 17th inst., says that several political
_prisoners at
Brandenburg and Thorn, imprisoned for the last ten
yeah, have been released, though without a formal
amnesty. There has, however, been no general
liberation of prisoners nor any amnesty for the
exiles.

There is nothing domestic or local worthy of
notice in this coluumi to-day.

journals, with the most ordinary attention, and have
failed to be satisfied that the places indicted were
very hot-beds of vice and immorality, and that the
'respectable portion of the inhabitants of thii town,
of all classes, owe a large debt of gratitaidelaihose
public-spiritcd, though shamefully abused gentlemen
who, regaraless of the ridicule and vituperation
heaped upon them, have by perseverance in their
vigilant course at length succeeded in inflicting a
`heavy blow and great discouragement upon a vicious
and demoralising system, thu prevalence of which
was a must flagrant disgrace to the community.

•
Some idea may be formed of the audacious manner
in- which the_ efforts to suppress that abominable
system were treated, in certain quarters, from the
following passage in a lecture delivered in Liverpool
two or three weeks ago, which we condemned'at the
time, on what is so sentimentally, and so absurdly
called, the " Social Evil"—with special reference to
the Society for the Suppression of Vice :—" Our
town is at present," said the lecturer, " the scene of
an impudent attempt to wrest_from its legal protec-
tors a power of discretion which they have hitherto
exercised with wisdom and forbearance The great
cry against the social evil has grown into a wild and
demoniac howl ; maw-worm has armed himself for
the fight, and he has enlisted under his ragged
banner the halt, the lame; and the blind, from
amongst the saintly sinners of his party,. He has
declared a war of extermination, and if his will were
law (which, thank God, it is not), he would likewise
annihilate all those-who entertain- opinions contrary
to his own. Let it not be supposed that I would
deprecate any wise and virtuous atteinpt, to lessen
the fearful profligacy of this great town. Let it not
be thought that I would ridicule the well-meaning
intentions of really good men to remedy or check the
greatest evil in the world. But Ido condemn,
firmly and emphatically, the unwise and abortive
efforts of a vain clique, who have thrust themselves
into notoriety by treacherously attempting to under-
mine the allegiance aid discipline of those who are
sworn protectors of the paL)lic." Now, we really
cannot afford to be so
.cuaritable as to believe that
one who could thus bitterly express himself of those
who were exerting themselves to arrest the progress
of a vice which is acknowledged to be a vile disgrace
to civilisation, cars really regard prostitution as "the
greatest evil iu the world," or have any great desire
"to remedy or cheek " it, even according .to his own
evidently loose ideas of the way to deal with it,
But that the elf.irts that have been employed
were no more " unwise". than they have-now beefs
shown uut to be "abortive," is evident from the
trials in question. We know nothing personally, as
we have said before, of those who are so foully
aspersed for their good deeds. But we do know
teat they have suweeded in exposing, and, let us
cope, putting a stop to a system of pandering to
prostatutioa, as degrading and containinating in its
ea:3as, as it W.Li i1J4.3 41.1(1 ISSeilj..-3tlll in its pre-

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sentence tieua tau cuay.uted parties, express very
unaustaiiauty tae nut character, the actual atrocity
of the ultune:.% Ut oilo, tau teamed gentleman said,
uaatic to be ~tale. tta exampte of.- Here he

kept au upeo uuuse !or prostitutes, who assembled
were till: night, Ltda made the greatest noise
Ho -tuerefore felt-

awl cu.u44..u.0.1. 1.1 WA: 4Leska..i.

L)UUULL to beV 4;;A:ly pUialbll ann."

Aud of another,

and that a W 0414.1, ue d,:initred, that her house " was
the r.:sult of tilieves, prostitutes, blacklegs, and
returaed convicts, unit sa perfectly well knew the
e.laracter id_ the wao .6.4aq.uouted her house."
dud these uiay be taken as saluples of the whole
series of C,161:i; ana, in au probability, of Many other
siwilar cases 1,114 C havo " not yet been brought
Lae seilteh4eS of two, three, and four
111,),11,11.1' illyri4uainaut, even when accompanied by
hues, are bea,:eet.y-, one would think, punishment
ehough for such grave ullenees; and especially wheu
it is eoilsiti,:red, that tuey were found guilty- by the
verdicts of jacies of tiwir cutiiitryinen. However, it
is , LiJagn. lighter Luau was deserved,

iur ward.

twat yvc WILL peuu.bly uaprate b.u.edcially fur other

6utitle.;,s peostttation.

pity. wb way be induced. to feel for the
l'alleu AN oaten tneinsuives, there ean'be none in any
virtabas auud fug tiivsc wilt) pander to their vile anu

poliuting• And! Vac persons convicted ut
keeping places ofresort for them were, substantially,

suenconviction, stigmatised as pimps and panders.
There could scarcely be a -more vile, a more dis-
graceful occupation, or one more injurious to the
morals of those wao are brought iu any wise under
its influence. Let us Hope, then, that comparatively
slight, for such au offence, though the punishment
bei. it will yet exert a beneficial effect upon all who,
from kindred associations or any other cause, might
be disposed to look without regret upon so foul a
thing as prostitution, and think no harm even of
ministering, as these people now enduring punish-
ment have done, to its systematic and habitual
practice. There can be little doubt that the haunts
of infamy, immorality, and vice which they severally
kept, have been the ruin of many a young person ;
as well as being so foul and so disgraceful in their
constitution and their object. And such a considera-
tion as this, were there no other, ought to show our
civic authorities that they fail most- -wefully in the-
'
duty they owe to society, of which they possess a
degree of guardianship, by permitting such- houses
of ill-fame, and hot-beds of immorality and vice, to
exist amongst us, and to contaminate all around
them by the open exhibitions they nightly make of
so much that is disgusting and degrading. " The
moral cement of all society," it has been well ob-
served, "is -virtue : it unites and preserves, while
vice separates and destroys." And surely, therefore,
the appointed conservators of society are in duty
bound to see to the suppression and punishment of
so contaminating a vice as that which has, in this
instance, been grappled with ; although not by them,
but by those who\ were impelled to interfere, in the
absence of any more authorised endeavours, to arrest
a growing evil of so revolting, and fearful, and
mischievous a character. • •

Two Haytian envoys had an interview with tho Qicen,
on Saturday, to announce to her Majesty the establishment
of a republic in Hayti.

GALWAY, Monday, 10.15 . P.M.—The Circassian has just
sailed for Newfoundland and New York, with 350 passen-
gers, fair cargo, and heavy mails.