Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-02 00:00:00

OUR STREETS AT NIGHT.

India, with her lamentable wants. has cur
ears, hearts, heads, and hands iu demand and Aid
work. Powerful doiags alms, devotions, sria
lives, numberlessly concentrating, ezecutinop".
defending right from wrong. All well. Let I
continue and end where, when, and for what it Oi.
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be practicable and dutifully becoming; but
we are and may require to go abroad to p 1
rocs
good for our own or others, let Ui 110 t 'orb
the rescue at home.
and cer;
lamentable It is reflective, instructive, lamentable
tain, what we hear of and do ; for misery andatinati;
at a distance, nigh us, and abroad, Church and
combine to suppress, oppose, remove and des`r
evil. When it breaks out, the reasons are search 7
concluded upon, right and wrong, ad
' And then to the rescue. Not long ago, on a l day
scale, to the Crimea—now to India—and ever,' 7.
at home, Crime, occupies rctentives of ra°l/e4;
life awl labours of the potent and the good, by fore
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means, words and works. 9 Ani
How are these undertakings to be judged • no
one walking one streets will see union and harintyd,"
in preventions are not hand in hand. Wilt4tos,
foreigners, oppositely persuaded and displitittbo.
consider the signs and effects, admixed Itz
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mis plification of our hig'a-claimed chriad
nationality—christianity, practised and pruids so
the'
amongst us. and introduced among hoe.
" nations of the earth." Besides --lir mile
prowlers avowedly and unmolested P°.l4:of
our streets for unlawful traffic, iu localia.ed"dio
acknowledged rendezvous of vice—the ral ti
disiricts, better, and even best, residing retirtenella
of the town. The intelligent will not WOO no,
authority for the cause, but is it not natural' ts:ts,
aistent, possible, and necessary, that oar atreh;is
" free as our country is," should be eroptial of I"-
foulness. cod
The evil exists. What is, and how the "
should be applied, claim attention, discovery'
application. It cannot be said to dete
prevent, and punish ; error and evil lg „Ito
glected ; on an elevated scale, military re :061
we oppose ; civil commotioos are allowed'
not long lived ; social obligations it:lc111°11;SO
personality protected, yet, exposure is rit:e--40
the proverb it may be said, " let every rnii°
care of himself," and who cannot, pay the
pt' v. 00,.
This random impropriety may be the we
but not, happily, the rule of our eommunitY," it,•tecV
Cannot, should not, our streets be pr°''s-oleet
entrance of what by day is not voluntarily opt
nor admitted? What harm will the bstd6',l,B9o.
Flo to the victims of mysterious and mis-used "„,-10e.
If prevented parade, will infection break oat
where ? perhaps, but no mater ; under retr
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their deeds, though not abolished, will not bone-
dangerous, nor in the way of the many of all so?,
lawfully to and fro going about. Is it unessoll3tse
is it not extending at night all over our tosgh,for
encounter of sad lives and purposes ? what of
fancied effect may issue from the mere rern°l",;es'
the evil out of doors, is it not by degrees PrAc3a°or°
ble and proper that our highways, and s'erYlAu be
everywhere week-day and Sunday, 0110tein; the
guarded against the admission of snares 1"-„ger
unwary—assuagers of the un-self denied--dfl'ood
of the innocent—the abhorrence, pity' „jell?
temptation, of those that desire to do -ode
Should such a state of things at our finger,,-8061
and door-steps not be remembered, cared !to' ear,
attended to—along with others, far an" 1'
generated originally from crime, and now e'l'f
•
inn our antidotes? Should it not be Publicol9
flounced, officially investigated, authorttl-600-
heeded to—to lessen, restrain, prohibit, a",.001.
tend against what our streets nightly and
incly offer, to foster and seduce. ANON-01°'
Liverpool, Monday, October 26th, 1857.

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We ( Poet) understand that a marriage is on the
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between Mr. Hopwood, M. P , and Miss Augusta Cc/ bride
third daughter of the Hon. Henry Coventry. Ihe
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THE WESTERN BANE SCOTLAND.—The 37:- 4 alei),
Daily Mail of Wednesday says :—" It has beau et st
intimated at the (Glasgow) Stock Exchange, thteothle
meeting of the direct, rs of the Western Bank of ''oister
h, Id to-day (Wednesday), it was res lved that the, 4 09.
of transfers for shares sold from at d after two o'co"
day, shall be closed till further notice." red
A CELEBRATED CLUB Watier's Club had a., .tile
short duration in London ; but it was a feature 0
society of that day which wilt long be remembereLl 0110
scene of dissipation and high Ord
fatal and ruinous consequences. it was e,,d
instituted in 18'17 by the Maddockees, CalvertS,erpo 1",
play, attended with tue• all/
Headfort, as a harmanie meeting ; a house was.„,,afe6l-4
Piccadilly, at the corner of Balton-street, and ",,," a-
superlative cook, was hired as master of the refe'citeae'
destination of the club was soon changed ; the tots
were so recherche, and was so much talked of ltibect's.
that all the young men of fashion and fortune asFlre
members of it. The catches and glees were thellra 'Fitt
seded by cards and dice; the mast luxurious diner Oder
furnished at any price, as the deep play at night roes ter
all charges a matter of indifference. Macao roil;0
constanCgame, and thousands passed from one to a
it
with as much facility as marbles. Erutiantlol -aitie"„oo
supreme dictator, their club's perpetual Preip th"„
laying down the law in dress, in manners, and reg,,:r;
magnificent snuff-boxes for which there was - pa-0
he fomented the excesses, ridiculed the scruples:ooloos
raised the novices, and exercised paramouat ouseco,
over all. He had, as I have before said, gre,tre Lila;
at Macao, winning in two or three years a '-ft I'l,
which went no one knew how, for he never le caleslo
more than a fourth of it before he levanted °kg ilia
Daring the height of his prosperity I renle,n3,,,,s's, "-as-
coming in one night after the opera to Wal;tels DO
finding the Macao table full. one place at Ir-,be le'se
occupied by Tom Sheridan, who was never in; iota le
of play, but, having dined freely, had dropPeuttnie e.
club, and was trying to catch the smiles of tow 0.
risking a few pounds, which he could ill affer, aoqs
Brnmmel proposed to him to give up his rea:e0111170-
shares in his deal, and adding to the £lO `-taok "a 0
which Tom had before him £3OO for himself otn ,r
le 1°
cards. He dealt with his usual success, and tale!so
ten minutes won £1,500. He then stped, 111,,,,'1•`;ci
division, and giving £750 to Sheridan, said to a'7,ner, 70,
Tom, go home and give your wife and brats a 5"Yr rOP
chais
never play again.' 1 mention the anecdote atherall•-ata
istio of the times, the set, and of a spirit of "a,";50:11,-aft
Brumrnel, which, with all his faults, he 13055.the'isto
which was shown towards an old friend in a w"bartcgol,
no pretext for refusal. Among the singular c !ea IR
that frequented Watier's Club, was a mani.nhasse. ,003
Bligh, a heavy fat fellow, as wad as a Marc,` -00%44
was first cousin to Lord Darnley, but had the 'ire-
a violent enmity against him, and whenever was or
in the street attempted to horsewhip him. 1-{e seep
quently taken up by the police and bound overt-biS renal
peace, but as soon as lie saw his victim he forgetah elle r
niz :aces and incurred fresh prosecution, vrinorss Ler
in a long confinement in the King's Bench. very e,;teei
ing, at the Macao table, when the play wee 011'04
Brumtnel, having lost a considerable stake'anied 01,
in his farcical way a very tragic air, ands piatm,
Wafter, bring me a flat candlestick and. to 'o.oat
frou
Upon which Blight, who was sitting OPPct his
calmly produced two loaded • pistols said, ‘,sfoo
pocket, which he placed on the table, 1114 st--s Pr 00
Brummel, if you are really desirous to Put afferflact
to your existence, lam extremely haPPY:, The edlal;
the means without troubling the waiter. at Piles
upon those present may easily be imagineadon, Jet,
themselves in the company of a known re3ast re; of
had loaded weapons with him. Still, I tio setl,sveas'
one justice to that ill-fated club—the hig the woeld
honourable feeling which prevailed
berg, where all were equally incautious, and
have designed to take an unfair advantage ud nree;2o
I must also add that general system of gc„e•or Wool
and good humour which, under very exr`-at'ner.sraisa
stances, was never once interrupted hf °dace Pir 1,9
quarrel. It remained for later times to Pr one!' slop,
of rank and fortune who would disgral..
coast
acting the part of a sharper to his frien,7_ aoasr„oo
arnoeg _toe
commenced by a sinister event, which might Dueatail 7/b0
an omen of the desolation it was doomed toAdoaxs, our
its votaries. The founder, Mr. John hlauwita 1.,
married Lord Craven's sister, cut his throat
_tiotar,
at his house in Stratton-street, under the re't eaclor,vot;
flaence of mental aberration. The club did at ,t 0 of
twelve years altogether; the pace was too crved attlegs,
it died a natural death in 1819, from the Par! j,f blac form
its members; the house was taken by a sel; 1.0 wiofr
who instituted a common bank for galolriv'ed estawa, a
an idea of the ruin produced by this short- 1. 1,00
eissr
ment among men whom I have so intinsting 000;
choly list,
cursory glance to the past suggests the folio...bis ario
None of the dead reached the average age back
which only forms a part of its dePlwa'f ase% the
look eats'
hose who have survived may always ra„ssta
life of Watier's as the source of their emus
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