Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-08 00:00:00

THE N ORTHERN TIME S.---LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1857.

ACCIDENT ON THE TRENr VALLEY

RAILWAY.

On the morning of Monday, at half past two o'clock, as
the up-express train was proceeding towards Rugby, and
witheo two miles of it, while coming down an incline at a
great speed (being more than half-en-hour behind time,
and a very heavy o; e), it separated in about the centre.
The enene being set free from part of its load, proaesdul
at a fearful rate, and soon became detached from the
guard's break. The driver socre discovered that he had left
his train behind, and, it is said, reversed his engine. Thus
the middle portion of the train became jammed between
the last portion of the train which was followieg behind
the engine. The conqrqeence was that the guard's break
became a wreck Mr. MeGeeb, a gentleman from
Shrewsbury, 'received intern I injuries of a painful nature,
bat to what ex-ent, the Messrs. Ilucknells, of Rugby, who
have been unremitting in their attention to him up to eight
o'clock las, Light, were unable to di,c,ver. They think
favourably of him. Mr. Jonea, a travelling Post office
clerk, had his nose completely split from his temple dowa-
warle and Mr. La•r.s has been sent from London to
a,tend upon him. He is said to be pro greeting fev, urably.
Mr. Ashby, of Staines, receive I a wound in the forehead.
but he was able to proceed efter afe A hours' delay. The
sufferers were immediately conveyed to the E. 403 Hotel,
Rugby, by the orders of Mr. Grew, the station-matter,
where every attention W 713 paid to them.

THE FRESCII EXHIBITION OF 1555.

Prince Napoleon has published a report addressed to the
Emperor of the Universal Exhibition of 1855 It dwells
upon the d,ffieulties which attended the opening of the
exhibition, owing to the war with Russia, and expresses an
opinion that the respone3 made by the nations of Europe
to the noble confidence of France must have greatly con-
tributed to bring about the general peace. With natural
and ]audible pride, hiS imperial highness brings out in
strong relief the fact that France showed herself, at the
same momaut, great in peace and powerful is war. As a
proof of the great attractton of the Exhibtion. it is stated
that the police re, urns of the number of visitors at the
hotels and furnished lodging-houses durirg the period of
the exhibition (viz. from May 15 to Novemeer ZO), which,
in 1854, was only 198.000, was in 1855, 330,000, showing
an increase of an 132 000 Of the 330 000 visitors to
Paris, so far as the number can be ascertained by the hotel
books it appears that 231,000 were French subjects and
99,000 foreigners But the Prince's report observes that
vase numbers, of whom no accurate account can be taken,
must have lodged with r&a'ions and friends. It has been
ascertained the number of railway travellers who arrived
at the different station., in Paris in 1853, was 4,081,000
against 3 223.000 in 1854. The total. number of visitors
to the exhibition was 5 162,000, of whom 4,180,000 entered
the great building p 35,000 the separate exhibition of the
fine arts, and 46,000 the Chinese mus um, for which there
was an extra payment. Of course the greater number of
those who visited the fine arts exhibition had also visited
the Palais d'lndustrie, but it is obviously impossible to
know in whit proportion. Some very cu,ious staistics,
showing the stringent actionof a high admission in keeping
out the public, is contained in the report. The number of
persons who paid for admission on Sundays,when 20c. was
charged, was 2,182;000, while the visitors on all other
days of the week (Fricia)s excepted) amounted to
2,097,000. From the 16Th May to 31st July the entrance
was fixed on Fridays at sfr. This charge operated almost
as a prohibition. Only 33,000 persons paid that price, al
the attraction of exclusiveness for the rich notwithstanding
On the let of August, the Friday fee as reduced to 2f,
and from that day to November 9 tl,e number of Friday
visitors was 95,0t0. The Prince temarks up ne these figures
that experience is alroget :et. in favour of cheapness (bon
marcke). The report enters a: great leng, h iato the causes
of the great expense of the Patti, liniver-al Exhibition of
1835, and emits the opinion that another exhibition of
equal magnitude might be he, with the benefit of
experience, for a third of the cost. On the quesri .n,
however, whe'her exhibitions of this kind should be re
p aced, the Prince is of opinion that on account of the vast
space ;hat woull be required to keep pate with the progress
of industry, they can only be ha,d at long intervals. Bat
he lee( pees that exhibitions anivers rl, in the sense that al
nations shall be permitted to compete, but pa, tial, in so
far as to be confined to certain categories of manufactures,
should be held in Paris frequently. In the meanwhile the
building may he utilised as a theatre fir the exhibeion cf
Fieech products only.

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A FRE ICEMAN.

At the Mansion-House, London, on Monday, Charles
Foul d, the Frenchman charged last week with obtaining
credit to a large amount from various persone, on false pre-
ten ces, and eveciallv by representing himself to be related
to M. Fonld, the F each Minister of the Interior, wad
brought: up again for further examination. Me. Lewis ap.
pear;cl for the prosecution, end Mr. Sleigh for the defence.
Mr. J Sykes re-examined : The prisoner gave me an
order for 150 toilet quilts, and directed them to be packed
in double canvass, as they were to go to Paris I
told hint they should be packed in wood cases, and
he said they might be done so. Afterwards I deli-
vered three mice, containing the quilts, to a man in
the prisoner's employ. The amount of the invoice was
£lO4, and they were delivered on June 15th On the 18th
June he called again, and had some samples of blankets,
which he told me were wanted for the French army. The
samples were delivered to his man as before, their value
being £l4l 3i 63, Between that day and the 21th June he
gave me an or ler for 100 mo e pairs of blankets of larger
size, as samples for the French Government, and received
them, their value being £ll3 154 7d. On the 27th
of July I delivered him 222 pairs of blankets,
as the first delivery on account of what be said was
an or 'er for the government of France, their value being
£lB6 104 6d, and he then told me to get the remainder of
the 5,000 pairs as son as possib e, as he wanted to be
getting the money from Franca. If I had known that his
name was not Fould—that he was not related to the
Prime M nister of France—that he had no order from the
i French Government for the supply cf blankets—and that
the geode; were not to go to Paris—l should not have
snpptied him with goods to the amount of more than
£1 000, nor on credit to any amount. On the 26th of
Augu,t T. went to his counting-h .nee and could nft find
him, and did not see him again until the 29th of Sep-
tem,er, when he was taken into custody. Cross-exeminel
by Mr. Sleigh: I became acTiained with the prisoner on
the 18th of May, and sold him goods to the amount of
£144 4s. 61 , f.,r which he gave me a bill at three months,
which has been diehonoured. Oa the same day I received
another bid for £ll3, at two months, for goods sold to
him on the 20 h. That bill was peid. He gave me a
reference at fire, and I made inqui,y, the result of which
satisfied me, before I parted with my goods. I afterwards
gave a reference for him myself. I can't say that any
one else was present when he told me about his contract
for Feancs. He hes lent me money f time to time
upon my which was to be taken cff the account.
The largest amount Iso had at one time was £3O. The
amount of all my was about £l7O When we
talked about business, he told me he hoped and expected
to be a contractor. Pater Ward said : I was in the pri-
soner's employment as porter from the beginning of March
last till within the last wesk. It was part of my duty to
fetch goods which he had purchased. I know Messrs.
Sykes's place in Aldermanbary, and I have frequently
fetched goofs from thence. I remember fetching three
wooden cases from there by the prisoner's direction, add
•aking them to Me. Arnold, a packer, in Barge-yard. A
few -days after, I fetched them away from Mr. Arnold's.
and took them to a Me Hart. in St. Mary Axe.
A. few days afterwards, I fetched some bales from
Messrs. Sykes, and took them to Mr Arnold's, and
afterwards to Mr. Hart's, in the same way. I have taken
goods direct from Mr. Sykes to Mr. Hart, but cannot say
the dates. Edward Pound, warehouseman to Mr. Arnold,
packer, Barge-yard, deposed that his master had been in
the habit of packing goods for the prisoner, including
some blankets lsft by the previous witness, and afterwards
re-deliverei to him. Mr. S A. Hart, 22, Bury-street, St.
Mary Axe, merchant and warehouseman : I have known
the prisoner for about four months, and during that
period I have bought many goods of him. I- keep
no bought ledger, but there would be an entry in
my cheque book cf every payment to the prisoner,
corresponding with the invoice rec ived from him, I
have not the invoices here, but can produce them. I did
not show the invoices to Mr. Sykes and the peli-e
inspector when they called, because it was not convenient ;
but I agreed to do so next day. I bought blankets, flan-
nels, and other things of the prisoner ; sometimes by
samples, and sometimes in bulk. Sometimes I saw the
bade at No 3, Cannon-street, and at other times at a
packer's in Barge-yard. I can't say how many transac-
tions I have had with the prisoner. I recollect receiving
three cases of quilts of him, containing 150 altogether. I
had purchased them by samples, and on comparing the
buek with the sample. I found the former inferior, and
insisted upon having a reduction I bought them for 7s.
64. or 7s. 9d. all round, and sold them for Bs. 61.
Mr. Lewis : Do you know that they were invoiced at
lis6 i„ 13e. 61., and 15s. 6d ? Witness : No ; Ido not.
Mr. Lewie: To whom did you sell them ? Witness : I
decline to tell yeu tha. I will do so in private, if you
please. It would do me a serious iejery to mention i'
publicly. M. Lewis : But I don't want to hear any of
your secrets, Witness : But injury has been done ma by
the statement made in the papers on the last occasion, that

I gave a mere nominal sum, and for the flannel I give
ls. 61. per lb., nett, sold them for is 81. on the usual terms
of the trade, and conkl have bought th)usands of pounds'
worth this morning for leis money. I will bring my cheque-
book next time, and show what I paid. Mr. Lewis then
applied for a remand, as there were other eases to be gone
into. Tao prisoner was remanded accordingly.

BO YS' CLOTHING lf ADE WITH GREAT 'PAST e., at LEWIS an
COMPANY'S, Itanglagh-street.

Tunxisu RAILWAYS.—A despatch from Smyrna, dated
Sept. 2.4.11, states that ilia works on the railroad to Aidin
were c nrmencid two d ;ys before.

Taoor SHIPS PHi Isnra.—The Robert Low& (s.) was
spoken in let. 2 north, lon. 22 west, on the 26th August,
with part of the Ist Royal regiment on board. The Balla-
rc ship was spoken the tad Sept., with the 2nd division
and third battalion 60rAs Rifles.
ARMY RECSII TING DHPARTMENT.-4 circular has been
issued from the Harse Guards reducing the etandard for
cavalry and infantry. The age for infantry is reduced to
17 3ears, excepting fir India. In no case must the age of
the recruit exceed 25 years. The rule as to height has
been made public already.
INDIAN NAMES:—" Pa.'s." or '° pore," wh;oh is found to
mike the termiution of so many Indian cities and settle-
ments, signifies town. Thus Nagpore means the Town of
SA•pents—a dtfieition by the way, suEficient:y appr. priate
when we r,flcct on the treacherous Character of tne Sepoys
by whom it was so recen ly girrisoned. "Abad" will
patam" also signify town ; Hyderabad bring IlydeT's
Town, and Seringspitam—trom Sreringa, a nama of a
col Vishnoo—being the town of Sreringa. Allahabid,
from " Allah," God, and " abad," abode, me.ns the Abide
of God; that city bki 'g the capital of Agra, the chief
school of the Brahmins, and much resorted to by pilgrims.
Putjaub is the country of the Five Rivers, and Ddab is
applied to a part of the coun'ry bAxeln two rivers.

Riots Ar STocserore.—Several hundred men belonging
to the iron shipyards, in Stockton, have biea on strike frr
about ten days. They belong to the neion, and kept the
price of labour to the highest terms of the neion—,arising
above £2 a week. Niels v. Richer isou, Deck and C arid
Messrs. Peerge and Ca., hive giv in terii notice th it th it
services will be dispened wite, aid introduced men nor,
connected with the union, when the form's turned-on', and
on Tees lay afternoon eseemblel at t_e works of IlLsars,
Richardior, Duck and Co., and as the new men .me out
of the yard, cimm'nced an attack upon them, when a
regular fight was kept up for a long time, till the police
came to the vot. The scene of the riot was Yorks' ire,
and there was only one officer on duty thire. Siperintendenz
,tkinton, of the Stockton polies, speedily despatched a
force across the Tees, but the rioters made off. Several of
hem have .iace been apprehended. Messrs. Richardsoo.
and Co. lieve applied to the authorities of the Noi-th Riding,
and a s'aff of policemen his been sent to nueect the new
hands, now at w ark on the premises.—Newcastle Guardian.
GositP AT VIENZ.A.--41 correspondent writes :—By its
new c nnmercial treaty with France, Russia has inflicted a
heavy blow opt its p otege, Greece. Fk,rmsrly ti e Greek
wines introduced into Itussia paid ab nit 50 per cent.
less than the French, but as the duty is now almost
the same on both, few persons wil! con inue to drink the
produce of the vines of the islands of Scoos'oi,
Skiathos, Mykene, Santorin, Nacoe, &c. the Greek
skippers are ale° of opinion that they shall soon lose a
great part of the South Russia corn trade, as the ships of
France now erj iy the same privileges as three of
Greece in all the _Russian ports. According to the well-
info:med Pere correspondent of the Triester Zeitung. Lead
Stratford has iaforrned the Porte that vast quantities of
weapons are brought up by the Mira- Mahommedan party
for the use of their fellow bAievere an ladle. The wares-
ponlent asserts that the substance of the reply given by the
Grand Vizier to his Lordship was, that he could not possiliy
interfere with any private speculation which was prejudicial
neither to the existence nor t) the welfare of Turkey.
If the Austrian papers are to be believed, Baron
Prokesch is now doing all in his power to per-
suade the Porte to sanction the &men by which
the Viceroy of Egypt authorised M. de Lee ieps to form a
canal across the Isthmus of Suez. Ishan Bey, the Turkish
diplomatist who signed the " preliminaries of peace" here
on the let of February, 1856, is now in VLenna. on his way
to Berlin, where he will reside as the Represent hive of
Turkey at the Prussian Court. Information has just been
given me that the Emperors Alexander and Francis Joseph
have agreed to reduce their armies. The vintage in Austria
is likely to be first-rate in reelect both to quality and
quantity.

At LEWIS & MPANIPS, Rane!agh-street.
BOYS are CLO IlEkfrom the Ages Of Si: to Twenty Years.

ALCOHOL;
OR, THE

MINOR CURSE OF ENGLAND.
BEING THY SUBSTANCE OF A SER/Es OF ADDRESSER DELIrEEED IN
CONNS.,TION WITH ST, M4,RY's T ,TAL ABSTINENCE SOCIETY,

RIB :DALE.

DEDICATED To THE
REV. C. E. TITTERTON, 8.A.:, PRESIDENT,
Y A '
LIVERPOOL IVY) !..i.KING MAN.

" Woe nnt) hlm that giveth his neig•Tymr drink, that puttest thy
bottle to !Lai and makes: him dranken."—llabak. ii. 15.

[Continued from 7th October.]

Mr. Hales, coroner for this division of the county, in 1843, said—l
have hell 1,455 inquests, and I can safely affirm, that if I take away
the chi'dren, many of whom cam's by their de ithi through drunken-
ness, ni.le-teaths of the remainder came by their deaths through the
same eau se.

Mr. Curry, coroner for this toms, reports 650 :ncinetts during the
year ending January, 1857. In thgt report Mr. Curry says thtt a
great nu nher of accidental deaths arrtongchldren, were from burning
and scalding; and it is remarkabls that eight out of ten of those
children vr,ro burned or scalded from Saturd ty night to Tueso ay
noraing, aid almost all wore the children of parents in humble life.
This shows that they were burned or se tided whoa there was money
to get intoxicating drinks. The depositions show tit.tt drunkenness
is fearfary oa the increase. In seven cases out of ten throughout
the ye tr, drink his hal more orle .5 to do with the cause of death.
A surgeon at an L,riaest ia London sail, that 1,030 children
annually lost their lives in the metnpolis throug'o drunkenness.
The Cheeer Ciurant gave one of the most lamentable Cases of sud-
den death, through drunkenness, ever recorded. The unfortunate
v'ctim of intemoeraa e, on rho day of his death, drank two noggins of
whiskey, two of two of rum, four bottles of porter, and some wine
and ale

The felloieleg melancholy death of a man, once a Salo'sath echola-,
illustriiter, i a a most appallieg manner, the sad effects of intoxicating
drinks. James Se vyer was once a sober and happy man, his business
eros,,ere I, her worldly prospects ware flattermg, his famiiy all that
be could desire; the sun never Ahone on m rre love, pe happiness,
and comfort, than were found around the fireside of this man. Bat,
in an evil hour, be tast4 the poisonous cue, and all was lost. He
bee:me a drunkard. Oh that la=t hour of this victim of strong drink
—the last bier of the destroyer of himself, and happiness of his
famlly ; of him why hal deli.,e:atrly brought a blight upon all that
was bee .tifol around him—it wac, indeed, awful. As ha lay upon his
bed groaning wader the burden of a guilty con cienee, and his wife
and children gathered around him and weeping by h a bed side—
(druskard, have you experienced this? It awaits yea unless you
reform) —the doctor ente.ts the room; " doctor, exclaimed the
dying drunkard, do you think there is a hell" ? —laying strong em-
phasis on the last word as he uttered it. I do, replied the doctor.
"'There is, rejoined. he." I feel it hers,laying his hand upon his breast ;
I feel it here—the worm that can never die —the fire that can never
be q tenehed—sternal torments—eternal punishment; I feel them ;
they kava begun to be my portion even here. The doctor suggested
the mercy of Go i to him, that it was infinite, and offered to the very
v lost sinner on repentance. Catching the w#rd repentance—l c :num
repent, he exclaimed ; I can reflect on my treatment to my dear wife,
my dreadful abuse to my children, on my loss of respect, honour, and
every noble feeling, and still not be moved, not be penitent; the day
of repentance is past ; there is now no hope lam lost I I a.n lost 1
Horror struck with this expression of despair, and with the agony
depicted cn the countenance of his wife, and the bursts of grief of his
children, the doctor did no; know what to do. The poor man lay
motionless for a short time, and then burst forth in tie most
blasphemous expressions of horror and despair; and these were
followed by a cry, as if amine from the world of woe for rum —give
me some rum, give me some rum ! Fearing In his paroxysm of
rage he might spring f. ern his bed and do mischief, as on a former
occasion, the doctor ordered some to be given him. His miserable
wife brought some to the bed side : raising himself on his pillow, and
seizing the tarneler with a convu'sive grasp in both hands, he m de
an ineffectual effort to raise it to his mouth. Enraged at his repeated
failures, occasioned by the high oceitement of his nervous system, he
uttered a dreadful oath, and called upon his trembling wife for
assistance, who turned from soothing tine distress of their Youngest
chid—a beautiful little girl of between five and six years of age—bet
before she could get to him, he dished from him tlie tomb er,
exclaiming damnation! damnation ! and expired 1 "1
Tee In,: umanity drunleeeness engenders is another sad and appalling;
evil. A few facts shah illustrate this awful truth.

The enemies of the G)s;.el, aware oftlis, use intoxic sting drink as
an agent to imomptish abominable 'les;gl4. Two priests in
Italy, says Pater I.3rn almond, in his 31 esseiger ,of Fabrairy, 1957,
seeing a Roman Catholic girl come on' of a P,:otestant meeting, and
know ng that intoxiaatin drink convertal her father into a savage,
made him drunk in order t) iadace him to warder his own chid,
which ha attemp sd with a knife, cat through the kind providence of
God, she escaped. I England, the system to which these monsters
belong, i 3 bed in its a,meal for re igioas Ikberty and religions tolera-
tion; and Englishmen suffer themselves to be cajoled wi h this base
hypocrisy.

A m o the name Reid, was summoned not along ago, before
one of the police magistrates of London, for brut illy assault ng his
wife. The poor woman, with her face one macs of bru!ses, and carry-
ing four of her front teeth In her hand, which he ha I knocked out,
declar .d to the bench, that a kinder man never lived than he was,
when he did not take drink. She said, if he would only take the
pledge she would forgive him, and do her utmost to m ,ke hint com-
fortable, and she knew they would b h app j. He promised the
,gistrate he would do so. A tetotaller happening to be in curt,
stepped forward with a pledge; the man s;goed L in the presence of
the bench, and a temperance missionary, who visits them, reports that
they are very comfortable, and can now b 3 seen on a Sabbath morning
on their way to the H 01133 of God instea I of the giu shop.
Mrs. Owen was drank and making a great row in the street, in
London, on the 2:th of May. Her daughter trying to get her into
the house so enraged her that she seized the poker, infictiGg a blow
on the heal, which caused her daagh,e death that night.
Robert Mather, a rat w ‘y labourer, woo brought Wore the magis-
trates at Manchester, charged with throwine his own child, a girl
about threeyears old, In the tire, when he was drunk, an i so severely
was the child burnt, that it was stated by a mectcal gentleman that
recove• y was doubtful.
Patrick Bell, the keeper of a boerhotre, in B tnniere-etreet, Liver-
pool, was charged with assaulting his wife. Th 3 co:ileer founl him
beating her in a most brutal manner, yet she refused to prosecute
him, because he WAS a kind husband when he did not drink.

Lord act ,n, when Sopre nejadgo of Rome, told Mr. Daleny, en
American gentleman, that oa the nest d►y he would have to pass
sentence of death on a man, who, when under the brutallzaig lath.
once of intoxicating drink, butchere I his wife and mother; that
whea the man did not take driak he was a kind husband, an aff se-
tionate father, and dutiful son.
It is recorded that a brutal wo nan, under the influence of drink,
positively, in her raga, cut a piece oat of the thtsh of her own child.
A. woman of the name Of Clark, threw two o: her ctulirsa over
Battersea Bridge, L )ndon, who were drowned, and RAI in the act
of throwing herself over whea arrested; when arraigned before the
magistrates she assigned tae crael-y of her husband a i the c ruse; ha
was then drinking, and had told her that day that he woa..d be her
end if he was hanged for it. She sAd to the migistra:e if he was
without drink one week a Hader man never lived.

lntexlca lag drinks are U 93 i t) inspire men in the time of battle
with that asarars which mash es them to itte3U9 t..eir hands in ths
life bloli of their felioWS. On bnri he Dike of Wallington war
ship th,re waa 7 toils I cwt. of be, c ffin, and sajar, while tiera was
10 tans 10 cwt. cf rum.

Daring the war b;t7f3eri Eng!aid and America, the English baarded
.n Amer can vessel and found the awl, sore; lying b,astly dca ik.o
deck, others staggering drank at their guns, wh hly aid; for action,
and is that sod coniitiaa the/ ware cat dx.va and seat into eternity,
white bu..kets of ram ware stewed an deck.

This inhuman ts_eory, without enta6ng into the justice or injustice
of war, WAS co 1321E141'y eicplulad by lie God-M.lpin' coaraga ,
Christian ()Agile, and heroism of tint lin floAal slim aid fitithfal
solaier of Q seen Vic orla, Cspt. Vicars, bifor3 the almost
imoregiable walls of Sobistopil; tha blogrsphy---whiM ou;ht to be
read by evary m ti, m, ail —of that di Ai iguishe 1 Christ-
ian soldier Mattis s,:t; of herJism, Christian coiraga and patrirds n,
which wiil echo a 3 that blo;rsphy ravecharstas on tha wings tin 0,
and will toll a povsrfnl story whoa th! loft sense of the demon-
inspiring drink shall no lonkr tr3i3f3rm mm iito Mars; and the
howling and nog) of i.s victims shill too the pns:lnta of the boa )m-
-less pit.

Tremble., 0 drunkard! reflect before you pat the delusive cup to
your lips; re n,mber that you are about to make yourself rots ly to
commit ev. C'iTll3 to veli.ch an evil nature no longer checked can
incite you, and that you in y awake from a stets of drunkenness
guilty cs offences against the laws of your coant y sullaient to draw
down just vengeance upon your head, an i while suffering the
punishment of your evil deeds, or reflecting on the harm done,
perhaps to your very best frion', what consolation can the r -mem-
brane of yonr worn, than lr.a.ty troj ,yment g;ve you. All the
crimes on the eor:h do not destroy so many of the human race; nor
alienate so much property, as drunkenness.
Unfortunate drunkard, I Lel for yon; I know your sad con lit:on ;
you arc wretched, a horrid appetite hurri,s you on in the :old to rain,
abroad you are desdised, an i home is a desolation. It may be an
affectionate, dut;fa', chris lan but broken hearts I wl e, weeps over
you, unwilling to forsske yon—she prays, she hopes, she wa is for
your re'orin, and for the return of those days when your fireside and
the embrale of your family were your greatest solace. Conscience
bids you yield to your loving Wife's entreaties; companions esy one
glass more, and than—fatal glass!—yon rise b rt 0 tall again, and
thus yOu feel -you never can reform. But you can refurn—the
drunken prize-tigh er has reformed. .nd by abstainng from the soul
destroying, moral blasting, hope destroying, family ruining drink,
and imploring forgiveness at the heads of the God of Heaven, through
grace bestowed by our told and Saviour Jesus Christ, has htcome
a preacher of His blessed Gospel. Yes, thousands and thousands
around you have 'reformed; I know reformed drunkards, in the
enjoyment of christian Moony, that would not for the whole world go
_back again to erunkenness; they are happy at home, respected
abroad, well armed, and employed in reclaiming poor drunkards

from their iniquity ; they feel for them, and their language ii, " Come
with us, and we will do you good"—come sign the pledge of total
ab linence, in this is your only safe shelter from the avenging power
of intoxicating drink; In this is your only hope, this is a certain
cure, touch not, taste nat the unclean things—rum, whiskey, gin,
brandy, wine., or ale—except for religious ordinances ; touch not
anything that intoxicates then will you be a new, a happy man. I
ap3ak advisedly—l speak experimentally—l know you will be happy
ii yon abstain from intoxicating drinks.. Begin now, in the strength
of the Lord; from this moment resolve that none of those soul
destroying, moral blasting. fam'ly ruining drinks shall a :ain enter
your lips. The struggle may b 9 a severe one, but I tell you, from
experience, that it will soon be over—say c ume life, come death, with
the help of God will break t'ae chain that has so long bound me in
the fe-ter3 of slavery; 1 will be free Happy moment when you
thu resolve.

C lristian parents, philanthropists, and patriots who take your glass,
suffer ma to offer a word r two to you.

If I had the Archangel's tramp, and oald spa ik with the voice of
thunder, I would say to every christ an parent, you, who are instructed
to mourn with those that mourn, think, 0 think, upon the heart-
rending scenes cud sorrows—the wives, widows, and childrea f
drunkards exp rrience as they enter the foroidding door of the work-
house, until you give up your little drop. It seems to ma to be the
duty of all who ca 1 then 'elves C nristians to do so. Let the philan-
thropist reflect upon the shattered minds—the humiliated feelings of
those pauperised millions as they hove given one long and l isting
upon the soeaety of the free and in leper' lent, and cast their first furtive
g ante at their future companions, the sons and daughters of poverty
—the inmates of the workhouse. Could I but wield the pencil of
Fli 'girth, I would delineate such a pieta-e, that when the philanthro-
pist was filing it up he would be coo :trot nal irresistibly to adopt
total abstinence principles, and while contemplating the llama
suffering inflicted by drunkenness, would confess that alcohol is a
mighty curse. Let the patriot amid the boast of Englanl being the
land of the free, the home of the refugee elcaping the horrors of the
tyrant, that none can be sold as slaves, reflect upon the feet that no
other country on earth is charged with anything like the stigma ;
that for every nine men there is a pauper—a being, fed and clothed by
legal charity; a being, who his not one farthing's worth of property
in the world, and whose position as a poutper, precludes him by law
from the hare pessibility of acquiring the least amount of capital ; a
being, indeed, whose sry freedom is sold to the parish in exchange
for its cold chority ; a being, who cannot move at his will beyond
pre icribei precincts; a being, who at work or leisure, is surrounded
by walls, bolts, bars, an i locks; a being, though in England, the
horns of the free, English born, and in the nine.eenth century, living
upon English !oil, Is in very deed through drunkenness, a slave. I
say, let the Christian think upon these appalling facts ; consult the
word of God, and act from its dictates. Let the philanthropi st think
upon them, and give free play to his purer sympathies. Let the patriot
think and gaze upon the picture, thus delineating the evils of drank-
enness until his boasted regard for his countrymen and the reputation
of his c 'wary prompts him to abandon Isis share in upholding these
pauperised habits eageadered by drunkenness. Surely reform must
be desirable. To obtain it is obv ously practicable, and certainly the
change would compensate the cost—cost did I say. Why, really, just
consider it ; it wouid reauire all to give up their glass ; oh, the happy
change— _ . _

Drunkenness for sobriety;
Diseaie for health ;
Poverty for wealth ;
Ins inity for— GJi'd best g:ft—reason ;
Ignorance for knowledge ;
Riot and crime for peace and plenty—
The elevationof our social condition coming as certAin as the morr ow
Drunkard, what think you of the change ?