Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-24 00:00:00

ALCOHOL;

OR, THR
MINOR CURSE OF ENGLAND.
BEING T 3 SUBSTANCE OF A SERIES OF ADDRESSES DELIVERED IN
CONNECTION WITH ST. MARY'S TOTAL ABSTINENCE SOCIETY,

KIEHDALE.

DEDICATED TO THE
REV. C. E. TIT i ERTON, 8.A., PRESIDENT,

EY A
LIVERPOOL WORKING MAN.

‘. Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that pnt:est thy
bottle to him and makest him drunken."—klabak. H. 15.

[Continued from 23rd IVoycmber]

The amount of diease resulting from drunkenness is a a eject of
painful interest, and an evil cf enormous magnitude. Dr. Gordon,
of Dia London Hospital, said, Lefore a Parliamentary Committee,.
That two-third:. at the very leas, of the disease of his fellow-
countrymen was attributable to intoxicating drinks."
Mr. Neilson, actuary, in some returns prepared, by order of
government, says—" That from thirty to thirty-five times as many
employed in connection with fermented liquor die as any other trade,
from the age of twenty five to fifty."

EFFECTS OF LIUNKENNESS.—Patrick Doran, 53 years of age,
s'evedore, residing at V, Dwerryhouse-street, Toxteth-park, was
found dead in bed about h:lf-past eleven o'clock. He was ling on
his face whet found, and was put to bed ahoat cne o'clock the same
morning by his eldest son, Thomas Doran, and John Griffiths.
Nothing more was heard of him until found an described by his
daughter, Jane Gibson, and the servant, El zabeth Banks.
The following is ex ratted from the Liverpool Mercury, of the
2nd September:—Oa Monday last an inquest was held on the body of
Catherine Kemple, 43 years of ago, the widow of a soap-boiler, who
resided with her sister, in the service of Mr. John Harrleoa, No. 5
Rodney-street:, and now in care of the house daring the absence
of the family. Deceased was in the habit of drinking, and on Satur-
day night, while in a state of intoxication, she left, and was cat and
bruised over the eye. She was placed in her chair, and her sister,
Anne M'Cartney, an 1 a charwoman, went to bed, leaving her in that
state. On Sunday morning, when her sister came down stars, at
five o'ciock, she found her dead. A post mar fem examination war
made by Mr. Banner, surgeon, and a fracture of the skull was found
The jury considered that the sister of deceased was guilty of groat
neglect in alio. ing her to remain all night in such a state. The
Coroner said he agreed with the jury, and hoped it did not arise from
her having been in nearly the same state as regarded intoxication. A
verdict: was returned that death was c lased from injuries received
whilst in a state of intemperance.—Also on the body of El•zibeth
Mottram, wife of a nightman, re,idng in Cramp-street, who was in
the habit of drinking to esters, and was found deal in her bad.
Verdict, " Died of excessive drinkiog."
The 14th Annual Report of the Registrar-general states that deaths
are as follows .

Average cf all occupations. Engaged in bear and spirits.
From 20 to 25
„ 25 to 35.... . 1,206
„ 35 to 45 1,787

Mr. Wakley, coroner, says--" Gin may be thought my best friend ; I
hold 1,000 inquests annually more than I should do if all men were
total abstainer."

The following comparative statement of mortality In Dublin, in the
years 1757 and 1760, when distillatim was allowed, and in the years
1758 and 17g, when distillation was prohibited :-
1757, deaths 1,926 1753, deaths 1,353
1760, deaths 1,923 1759, deaths 1,452

3,919
Thus ti ere were 1,109 less Ceaths during the two years intoxicating
drinks were prohibited.
Again, the deaths in Dublin, in 18 -9, tee year distillation was
prohibited, were 1,151, while in 1810, when distillation Wai again
resumed, the deaths were 1,774, or 723 more in one year.
Tee Rev. Dawson Burnes says that, in the year ending January,
1856, 54,2'3 immortal beings were hurried into e ernity through
&n u!, enness.
Lippeck, in his work on vital statistics, says—" The result of enquiry
into forty children of intemperate parents was, that six only were in
possession of rig iron s health, while the offspring of the others were
withered in the womb. To license, therofera, the sale of spirits is
virtually to legalize the vary worst forms of infanticide:' Tcaly did
that gre it and good man John Wesley observe, that sellers of latex'.
eating drink, were poisoners in general, and this designation ought
to be appli, d to all vendors of fermented liquor.
An Irish physician, some years ago, published his conviction, that
two-thirds, or 66 per cent., of the disease of the working c!as•e, were
of Alcoholic origin. Startling as it may at first eight appear, that
gentleman is fu ly borne out in his calculations by other medical
gentlemen of very extensive practice,
Dr. Gordon, of the London Hospital, being asked by a Parliamentary
Committee what was the proportion of sueh Cases coining under his
oisservation, m ide the following statement:—" Sly attention was called
to this sul-ject some time ago, when I was assistant-physician to the
hospital, lied was in the habit of seeing the oat-patients, to the
amount o ' some thousands probably in the course of the year. In
c mvereation with a friend who felt au interest in the subject. I hid
occasiim to remark that the proportion of disease which was distinctly
referabln to ardent spirits might be abqut 25 per cent. My friend
hesitated to admit S 3 large an average, and, is consequence, I kept
an exeunt for twelve months, I sued say that the result was not a
methane Weal but merely an aproximation, and even with this
reservation I am almost afraid to anaoanze to the comm tree the
result. It amounted to 65 per cent. upon the whole amount of cases;
at the sane time I made every poe,ible allowance I could; I even
struck out part, wishing to look at the subject fairly. The le tilt was
65 per cant upon some thousands. My subsequent experience and
observations induce me to say even a larger number: my second
average came to 75 per cent., but I h ere stated. 65 per cent. rather
than exceed the tounds.
Dr. AlcClelland said to the same committee, tint the year after the
reduction of duty on .spirits the deaths in G asgow increased to 1,000.
A wealthy invalt I said to his physician—" Doctor, you h ive hum-
bugged me long enough with your good-for-nothing pills and draughts,
they don't reach the difficulty at all ; I wish you would strike the
real c visa of my ailments, if yon can." '• It shall be done," replied the
doctor, at :ho same time raisins his c no and smashing a decanter of
gin on the table, "Now I have struck the real c ruse of your disease ;
banish the bottle and you will have no need of my pills and
dret“hte."

Here's a lesson to be learned by all. Far many years past, statesmen,
paliticiau3, a•id rsTor.ners, hive ben trying to improve our moral,
social, al d roligious condition ; nalwitn t nliag, it is ft melan:l f •ct,
that prison workhouses, and asylums are being enlarged and multi-
plie and these huge buildings are :hind; supplied from among
drunkards. Acti of Fa-Han:lents are good things, but, like the doctor,
s p Hs, they won't raise oar mor.:ls if we do not strike at the battle

" Who would bo free,
Ilimielt maq rrika the blom."

Surely this evid,inze i 3 sudlneit to, a3ti:y Cu adToelte3 of the
MAin-law priz ip'ei, rn 1 the dezna..id for a n4tianal renanciation of
int xicating drink as a beverage.

The destruction to hcal:h, in every form and alive proasa'ure
descripitude, stunted growth, deaihty, add general decay h. the
young, loss oF life by peroxysnis, dslir.u,n tremens, paralys s, idiots,
madness, and violent death, dastracam of mental eapaciry. Even
whLe I aoa peening this paper I ail informed that a relaton of mine,
who, three months ago, was strong and healthy, is now on the verge
of t! e grave througi drunkanue,s, and sic of ray near neighbours
have been carried. away In a few months t dia iltard; graves. There
s also, in a:Ili:ion to then dire evils, the ext!netod of aotitule for
learning 4i well a; practicing any ustfat art or (neap:a:ion ; irritation
of the v.xy worst P.13ii013 of the heart, hyred, revenge, with a brat
lization or dispositiod which bra ilts asunder the :asst endearing Is
anotara an 1 soc'ety; ye;, intelligence has roe ent'y arrive I in torn
th a man hes ralrderei h:s wife at Str.,tford, because she refused to
give him the j.it penny she lii,i to ob:tio after afo ta;ght's
debeueli.

The nat'onil us: of intintbatng drink has entailed on Great
Britain 4 Ol'aiing u ition ti vice-4 vice which bee far a long ttnc
sinittea dawn tn lay of tne ablest an I c2)3: prainsias of oar i/134
8113209i' ye generations—a, vice which is Dec Illasly insidious in its
beginn:n ;s, but which is more tyrannous i a its power, more
odious ia its forms, and more pralidc of disease and death nen any
ofner afency which Satan has w eldad far the destruction of raln. it
seems to me monstrously anomalous that, in this Christian land,
consi Taring the desolation, disease, and dee into ,stating drinks have
produced anon; profs o:.; of the Christian religion a single advocate
should ba especially when we COl3l'or that Christ'
taught us to be so guarded against sin, that If oar eye offeld us
we must pluck it out." Ani, in refer.mca to our duty to our neigh-
bear, the Apostle Paul enjoin; that if eating flash causes our wc.tker
brother to s'n wa must not ett it. To me it seems deer that no valid
plea or retaining the rise of in taxicatin; drink can b 3 advanced.
Oft does nature in her course take aton, as when night
claaug,d into day, and the dark fields of the firmament are a awn with
light; when the buds of the morning burst into rosy tints, awl o
watcher sees the golden glory of ilea sun &scowling on the !want .in
ltigh!a ; cr as when sickness naives into health, and the bo ty
waste i d seasebegins to irenew its vital energies; when pain sub-
sides exhaustion seizes, and then grows up conscionsiess of str ngth,
and the anxious heart that had been ateuding the patient, sympa-
thises in his new found life; as when madness chaniteth into reairm'
and the wild imagination that had brokm the b idle of jed ;me it, and
had dashoii away into strange regions, there to be excited by unreal
seen -9 (by groups of imaginary fl nds; differing In ntnlae,, size, and

colours, as they eo Ia their ugly deformity, and the exultation and
mode of their attaclis and tr•umph over the victims of Alcho!le drinks.
And when nature is once more reined In to serve in works of usefulness,

and to to to of real joys, and the friends who deplore the moody mad:
ness and wretchedness 'cf the drunkard, iow are gladdened to
behold serious thoughtfulress restored, bringing with it the satisfac-
tion of peace and comfort. Total abstinence princi, lee, faith'ul to

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their office, are tysical of these blesseJ, these happy elanges. Where
k the man that would not hate himself if be could but see what is his

appearance, as he lies like the sow wallowing in f lth in the gutter—
and where is the man that does not feel ashame 3 of himself when he
becomes sober as he tt•inks what a fool he I as be n ? It Is this con-
viction of his folly that often drives the weakminded man to rush

after more drink that he may become UrICOIUIdOtLI of the reproaches
that haunt him when sober.

The human sacrifices which Hiadoeism demands are frightful and
appalling; whatever may be the character of the people, and however
quiet and passive and =bulb sive they may appear, their superstition
is barbarous and cruel. In Goomsoor, a province lately come into the
possessi in of the British, the scenes witnessed were beyond descrip_
tion. Wherever a disease raged in the family of the monarch, a
human sacrifice was demanded, to appease the offended imaginary
deity, and nothing leas precious than the life of an only son would
gratify the demon. Immured in houses and dungeons there were
found hundreds of children who had been stolen from the adjoining
territories, and for what purpose ware they concealed and preserved, but
that they might be fattened like: so many sheep and oxen (or slaugh-
ter, and at a suitable season offered up to the Moloch of the country,
Barbarous as these abominations undoubtedly are, I ask are they a
whit more barbarous, odious, abominable, detestable, and vile, than
the cruelties inflicted on the human race in Great Britain, in the
annual sacrifice of 54,001 human beings, not offered up to the Moloch
of Hindooism,lbut to the belly-god of England—Alcoholic drink.
ft.lf it is iniquitous to offer sacrifices to an imaginary deity in India,
b 3 consistent, and renounce at once a practice that offers 54,000
immortal souls annually at the shrine of Bacchus to the Moloch of
Europe Alcohol.

If it be a sa isfaiction to be instrumental in ;causing the grass to
grow, flowers to bloom, and trees to yield fruit, where all was barren-
ness and sterility htfore, haw mach greater must be the privilege and
happiness to be the means of leading the drunkard to become sober,
to raise oar fellow creatures from sickuess:,wretchedness, and misery,
to health, happiness, and comfort, by the diffusion of the emblem
principle of total abstinence.

sensible of the value of those principles, ;and knowing that there
era thousands of my fellow-countrymen ignorant of the elevating and
enabling principles of total abstinence, and remembering tlaa words of
oar adorable Redeemer —" It is more blessed to givelthan to receive,"
I therefore urge all drunkards to sign the pledge, and seek to d if use
the high principles of total abstinence among their fellow men;
and if I should be the happy instrument of inducing one drunkard to
sign the pledge, " Unto Gad be all the glory," I shall rejoins in
thus recovering one drunkard, who, like the sheep that wax imoerilicd
but found and safely folded—like the piece of money which had been
useless, but was found and usefully employed, ha was an the verge of
perdition—lost to troth, to Go I, to holiness. to men, bat may now be
put in his proper place, his powers devoted to Christ, to Gad, and his
fellow men, and enjoy, what in all probability he otherwise would
never have known, a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesse Christ.
Whatever the fears entertained, whatever the anxieties awakened,
whatever the commisseration stirred, when I contemplate the appalling
amount of disease and death resulting from drunkenness, I confidently
assert that the glorious triumph of total abstinenal principles, which
are t nth, intelligence, and virtue, cannot be long delayed.
(To be- continued.)

At LEWIS & COIIPANY'S, Renelagh-street.
BOYS are CLOTHED from the Ages of Six to Twenty Year

THE MODEST GENERAL WALKER.—G:neraI Walker, in
a letter addressed to the Secretary of State, says that, E 0
far from any violation on his part of any acts of Congress
is concerned, he denies the charge with scorn and indig-
nation, and will not so far forget his duty as an officer of
Nicaragua as to violate the laws of the United States while
enjoyleg hospitality within its limits. As the military
organisation is abandoned, about 2,6.00 men from various
Southern States have enrolled as emigrants to Nicaragua.
Pales ow Nzalsoas IN GEOItGIA.—At an executor's sale
of negroes in Rotnealast Tuesday, for cash, and none of
whom were bou2ht by the legatees, the following prices,
by no means eugg.tstive of hard times or bank susptnsions,
were bid : A woman named Mary, 35 years old, 1,000 dol-
lars ; Abdy, aged 26, and her two children, one about six
years old wad the other an infant of about four months,
1,740 dollars ; Oscar, 16 years old, 750 dollars; Theodore,
8 years old, 635 dollars; Lewis, 17 years old, 1,137 dol-
lars ; and Thaddeus, 10 years old, 860 dollars ; making an
aggregate of 6,293 dollars for the nine.—Rome (aa) soulker-
ner Oct. 22
SEIZURE OF Seaves.—CINCINNATI, 0., Nov. 3:—Three
slaves, belonging to Th anton Withers en route from St.
Louis to Parkersburgb, Va., were seized here yesterday
when on board a steam boat at the wharf, through a writ
of habeas corpus issued by Judge Burgoyne, and were
placed under the charge of Darius Egglestone, by order of
the court. Mr. Withers swore out a habeas corpus before
Judge Carter, claiming that the eaves were unlawfully re-
strained or their liberty, and claiming that they owed him
service in Virginia, whither he was carrying them when
they were wrested from his hands. The writ was served
ay the Deputy Sheriff, and the slaves were brought before
Judge Carter in the afternoon. The case resulted in the
deliverance of the slaves to their master by Judge Carter,
and they have been carried to Kentucky.
Love, DECEPTION, AND BLOODY REYENGE.—Philadel-
phia, Nov. 4.—Richard Carter, president of the Anthracite
Bank of Taonaqua, WAS shot dead this evening, in the par-
lour of St. Lawrence H eel, by Thomas Washington Smith,
of Cecil eautity, Maryland. Smith fired fist four balls
from hie revolver and two more after carter bad fallen on
the floor. Carter is a middle aged man, wealthy, and has
a family. Smith is aged 30 years. and was labouring un-
der greet excitement. Carter had accused Smith of the
seduction of a ward or adoptel daughter of his. Smith
stated that he met the girl at a boarding school, and mar-
ried her. He subsequently discovered that she had been
the mistress of Carter. She had a child four months after
marriage. The shooting was in revenge. Smith was
arrested and taken to the Mayor's (Alice. Smith claims to
be the travelling agent of a mercantile agency.
FATAL ACCIDENT TO TUE HON. SPENCER HAWKE,—
On Thursday, the Hon. Martin Hawke, brother to Lord
Hawke, while out hunting on a fine spirited anima', pass-
ing through a field belonging to Mr. Newsome, cause to
some rails, which he attempted to leap. Tae animal made
a false leap, and came upon the rails with his chest, Mr.
Hawke bsing thrown over his head, while the horse turned
a complete summersault and fell upon him. The hon.
gentleman when taken up was bleeding profusely from his
mouth and novel's, enl a carriage was pronured for the
purpose of conveying him to Doncaster; but on the Toad
the lion. gentleman was found unable to sustain the jour-
ney, and was taken to Mr. Newsom:as, Barn.by Dan, where
every accommodation was afforded him. Several ribs
were found to be broken, and serious internal injuries had
b. ea sustained. The lion. gentleman grew worse and
expired during the same day. —llfaischester Ixaminer.
A G A LLANT COWIIIDED BY A WOMAN.--A singular
affair, which has givsn rise to a good deal of scandal, has
occurred in the New York B.oadway. About a quarter
post one o'clock, a handsome cordage drove up to the
curb-stone at the corner of Mortis-s.reet and Broadway,
just above the Bowling G:een, when a flue looking young
women sprang to the sidewalk and collared a gentlernau
wao was passina. Ile was apparently very much excited,
and attempted to release himself ; but she held him with
an iron grip, and, drawing a.shorr, stout gate perch'
whip from the folds of her rube, lashed him over the head
and face without mercy. Ha roared out lustily, and with
a desperate effort wrenched Himself loose ; but she sprang
afer him again, and crachisg him by the skirts of his coat,
renee ed the c stigation, Every blow stung to the quick,
ant besualit up a livid wale, causing the v.ctina to writhe
and yell with pain, to the infieite amusement of a large
crowd of bys'andere. At length, her patience satiated,
the lady ga:nercd all her strength for a finishing stroke,
and, loosing her hold, brought dawn her whilow
ibith:
force that sent the unhappy gallant spinning
along
ci iewalk. tato next mom nt, she was in her carriage
and dasning up Broadway at headlong speed. The un-
fortunate fellow fled iu the opposite direction, amid the
jeers and merriment of the mob, and took refug= in the
South mpton and Hay e seam-ship office, Nee 7, Broad way.
A Youo LADS ALVSNTURE. —The following incident
is rei:fe-1 by a correspondent. of t e Cheltenkom Examiner
of Wednesday :—" Oa a cold, thick foggy day last -wet k
my bdiiff and a neighbour, walking horns from marker on
the old turnpike road, °nand: a ladylike, well-dressed
young wienan, quite alone, silently travelling the same '
way. They passed on, but obvirvel*that the for'oro one •
kept a few paces behind thews. They continued for abou.
two miles walking on, but without speaking to the stranger.
At length the neighbour came to his residence and left
his friend wao walked on towards the firm. It, appeared
extraordinary to see a young lady some miles from a t ewe,
on a hourly road, in a dense fog, at seven o'clock in the
evenieg le Naramber, and out of kindness he asked her
where she wes going. The poor thin; answered, Ido
not keowa Why, ware did you came from ?' Oh,
from --." What, to far off as that ?" Yes, 1 have,
hen /walking ail day, and have had nothing to eat. Oh,
lam very unhappy !' At this time they had arrived et
my large; ihe b iliff, feeling the impropriety of leav ng a
beautiful and ladylike yeusg creature In Her exposed con-
dition, and k sowing there was a spire bed there, called to
the housekeeper and explained the case, when tiro good
Satnariten at once took the %vesicle: er in, made tea for her,
prepared her a beta and treated her like her own child. It
soon became knots n in the house, and other supervision
was instituted, and an arrangement made that in the morn-
ing two peer but respect:All, women should accompany the
young lady to her home, a distance of 12 or 14 nii'er.
they did so, anti on arriving et the mansion of the young
lady's parents, after a four hours' w elk, a teece of dry
bread and cheese and Is, to each worn au was se rt from
the drawing- oom. The coachman had been riding about
all night in different directions in search of the young
lady ; the footman had been all over the village, the whole
neighbourhood uneasy and anxious, and the resterai:n of
the lost sheep was valued at 25., as a reward for two poor
woman walking nearly 30 miles, and is the most affection-
ate manner taking care of an interesting. fellow-treature,
who might, but for that very kindness, have been lost to
her family for ever.''

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