Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-07 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TiMES.--LIVERPOOLI MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 1857,

THE LIV:dRPOOJ, FINANCIAL REFORM

ASSOCIATION,

Sr zee our lost notice of the proceedings of the Council,
!Ira attendance at the weekly meetings has been some what
Irregular, owing to the repeated abiencas of the president in
London, on business connected with the Mersey Conservancy
and Dock Bill, summer excursions, and other circumstances
The association has sustained a great loss in the lamented
death of Mr. Malachi Donohue, its zealous and indefati-
gable agent, who acted in the same capac"ty for the Reform
Association. A subscription has been set on foot, in order
to establish his widow—who is left, with two young
children, unprovided for—in a small way of bu,iness.
Robert Thernely, of Commerce-court, has been
appointed collector, and is to be assisted by Mr. F. S.
Macqueen, in the town and district collection. As the
expenditure has been rather heavy of late, and additional
funds are requisite to ex end the operation; of the
association, and give increased efficiency to its exertions,
a circular address, soliciting all who •are at present
members, to continue their support, and to urge its claims
on the attention cf their friends and Acquaintances, was
ordered to be issued, at the meeting on Monday last.
Amongst the subscriptions and donations announced, was
one of £5, from Thomas Thomassou., Esq., of Bolton.

THE PEOPLE'S BLUE BOOK.

Taxation as it is, and as it ought to be —The author
of this remarkable work, just published by Messrs.
Routledge and Co., of Farringdon street, London, forwarded
two copies to the council, a letter requesting its
assistance in circulating ' The People's Blue Book" as
widely as possible, and offering any number of copies for
this purpose, at a considerable discount off the selling
price, though that is so low as scarcely to cover the cost
of publication. The author, in the preface, ackowlelgas
his obligations to various persons and sources of
information, and, amongst the rest, to the tracts
issued by the Financial Rebrm Association, from
which, both of the old and new series, he has bor-
rowed largely. His views as to the comparative advan-
tages and disadvantages of direct and indirect taxation, are
in fact, identical wi'h those of tho Association. He enters
into elaborate calculations for the purpose of showing that
for every shilling that'finds its way into the national ex-
chequer, somebody or other has to pay in one shape or other
'upwards of two ehiU'ngs more. He would abolish customs
and excise duties utterly,—thus giving perfect freedom to
commerce, trade and industry ; and, exempting all more
precarious income, from professional exertions, or personal
labour,—he looks to a tax of 25 per cent on all real
property—that is to a realization of the Land Tax of
William the 111, which has been 93 frittered away and
evaded, as the main sou, ca of revenue under " Taxation
as it ought to be." The following is the scheme on which
he proposes to raise an income of upwards of 70 millions
annually, or more if need be :

1. Property Tax of 4i in the pound 58,431,022
2. Capitation Tex. on all persons
over 14 years years old 7,500000
3. Stamps (the amount rsceivad in 1856) 1,097,536
4. Crown Lands 421,715
5. " Miscellaneous" 1,158,147

£68,608,420
Deduct cost of collection, 1
3d the pound f 857,603

Total net Revalue

£07,750,817

It was observel that greatly as such a scheme of taxa
tion as this would be to the advantage of the country, and
most especially to the working classes themselves, who
now, in indirect duties on sugar, tea &e., low wages, and
restricted employment, are actually paying very much
more than the proposed Poll Tax of xl. The difficulty
of collecting such a tax, unless by instalments, or through
employers, would be all bat insuperable The council
hailed with satisfaction the assistance of so zealous
and efficient a fellow labourer in the advocacy
of sound principles of taxation; the sincerity and
strength of whose convictions that from landed
property the great bulk of the revenue
should be derived may he safely assumed from the fact
that he himself, like other members of his family, is
largely interested in land, and entirely dependant upon it.
The funds of the Association are, unfortunately, not in
such a state at present as to warrant any expenditure in
the circulation of this very valuable work, but the council
would recommend its perusal to all who are desirous of
thoroughly understanding the multifarious evils of
Taxation as it is," and of forming a very definite idea
of the &teat ac/vantages, national and individual, which
would certainly flaw from the introduction of a system of
-"Taxatton as it ought to be."

TIIS LATE SESSION—THE TWO MONSTER MONOPOLIES.
Lord Palmerston's glowing eulogium on the new parlia-
ment, and its labours, which he pronounced in his own
name the other day ; and also that which he caused to be
delivered in the name of the Queen on Friday, as t^e
royal speech on the prorogation of parliament, were sub-
jects of discuttsion. As to both it was held that whatever
satisfaction her Majesty's ministers may derive from having
obtained a House of Commons submissive, with one or
two tare exception., to all their demands, however extra-
vagant, and tamely acquiescent in all they have Thought
proper to do, or to leave undone, the pe ,ple have most
abundant reason for dissatisfaction, both with tho pro-
ceedings of the government, and the conduct of their
representatives. The most lavish expenditure iu every
branch of the public service has been sandoned, with
scarcely a breath of opeosiq ; the words "Econony and
Retrenchment" have been mentioned only to be scouted.
Nothing to the purpose has been said, and nothing what-
ever done towards the much required revisien of the flied
sy teem, either as regards the mode of taxation, or the safe
custody and proper distribution of the public money; and
no one has to much as ventured to hint at the appointment
of a finance committee, the only means by which the
House of Commons can discharge one of its most impor•
tent functions—that of controlling the public expenditure.
It was observed that by the formal repeal of the clause in
the Appropriation Act, limiting the application of the
supplies voted to the purpo.es specified, the treasury has
freed itself from the check devised by the great Lord
Somers, and his without a word of obj-ction in parliament,
excepting a barren protest from Lord Monteagte, after the
mischievous innovation had been quietly smugged through
the Commons.
The so-called Queen's speech was criticised both as to
style and matter, and it was thought difficult to decide
which was more objectionable, the things said or the
manner of saying them, especially as regards the Indian
revolt. It was observed that repression was all that was
spoken of; there was no mention of any inquiry into, or
any redress of grievances, still less of the one thing
necessary to placing the government of India on a proper
footing, namely, the making of the country an integral
part of the Queen's dominions, to which measure the
abolition of the East India Company will be an indis-
pensable preliminary. The speech of Mr. Layard, at
Aylesbury, was referred to as poiuting out the real causes
of the revolt, iahich were held to be a long continued
course of spoilation, oppression, fraud and injustice, all
naturally praceEd;ng from the very cenetitution. A system
which hes conferred dominion on a compuuy of private
traders, whose main object has always been the extraction
of the utmost possible amount of teatime from its subjects,
an object sometimes enforced even by means of torture,
and embracing in its exactions so cruel and grinding a
monopoly as thee of sett. Lord Palmerston's mode of
silencing that once zealous Indian reformer, Mr. Dauby
Seymour, by making him Secretary of the Board of Con-
trol, was thought very characteristic; and the conduct of
Yhe Times newspaper, in describing the insurrection as a
mere mutiny of spoiled an I petted soldiers, in which
Ilitictios and liahometans generally have no concarn,—
and in seeking to deceive the British people, by talking in
opposition to its own better knowledge, of " the justice
and benevolence" of our past rule in India, was freely
commentel on.
The sister monopoly—that of the Hudson's Bay Com-
pany, was spoken of as likely to lead to exactly similar
eonseqeences in British America, two sets of rulers and
two armies. conflicting jurisdictions —disaffection,
revolte—in short, all that we now see in India,—if the
Hudson's Bay Company be stiff rel to retain its monetrons
privileges, unless the people of the United States should
decide, in the meanwhile that the immense territories
which the Company has hitherto turned to waste, shall no
longer be mere preserves for beavers, bears, and foxes.
A hope was expressed that, before Parliament reassembles,
the attention of the commercial and manufacturing towns,
of chambers of commerce, and of the public generally will
be sufficiently aroused to the grave importance of the
question at issue, to prevent the completion of the com-
fortable arrangement for the continuance of the monopoly
which seems to have been contemplated by the packed
committee of the H ,use of Commons, ti e Hudson's Bay
Company itself, and its influential friends in and about
the Colonial Office.

The suceetssful mission of Captain Kennedy to the Red
River Settlement, by the route of Lake Superior, as re-
cently described by him to the people of Toronto, was
referred to as completely refuting the misrepresentations
of the Company and its witnesses. It was observed that
Government had refused to send troops by this route, pre-
ferring for them the round about journey, and dangerous
voyage through the frozen waters of Hudson's Bay, because
it was told by the Company that the way by Lake superior
was utterly impracticable. • Captain Kennedy's glowing
description of the beauty and fertility of the regions
through which he passed, (which exactly tallies with that
given by Gewgaw Sir George Simpeop, in hie " Overland

Journey," when his object was to speak the simple
truth, not to bolster up the monopoly)--was
referred to as flowing how bitterly inexcusable
the British Government will be, if it determine
to continue the monopoly of the Hudson's Bay Company
in any shape whatever; and, also, how resolutely the
British Parliament and the Thitish people ought to oppose
so Ecandalous and so suicidal a consummation.

THE TRAVELS OF PRINCE NAPOLEON.

A letter from Chambery, of September 1, gives some
account of the arrival of Prince Ndp)leon on the Sardinian
tot ritory : _ _

" Toe Prince was expected here on Sunday morning at
9, and an hour before a body of troops were sent to the
railway to serve as a guard of honour. Hour after hour,
however, passed away, and 12 o'clock had just struck,
when a telegraphic deep :ten announced that the Prince
had rot crossed the frontier until half-past 8. On the
Prince reaching Calez, the place were the two countries
join, ho was received on descending from the railway
carriage by the Dake de Gramont, French Ambassador, to
the Court of It one ; the Chevalier S rembio, Sardinian
Consul at Lyons ; General Count de Castelborgo, in com-
mand of the military di' ision of Savoy ' • and the authorities
of the place, all in official costume. After a stunt stay,
the Prince proceeded to the Coquette steamer, which was
handsomely dressed up for the occasion, the band of the
light horse of Aosta playing fartant pour la Syria.
Immediately after, the steamer left the quay, and entered
the Lake of Bourget, when it proceeded to St. Inno-
cent. Thence the Prince proceeded by railway to
kx-les-Baine, where he arrived at noon. It was then
that was forwarded the telegraphic despatch mentioned
abate. A second message s non of er stated that the Prince
would tot arrive at Chambery before 7 o'clock is the
eveuing. Accodiog'y at that hour his Imperial Highness
was at the station, add after a short delay went on by rail
to St. Jean de Maurienne. There the Prince alighted at
the Bishop's palace, and the next morning at 4, left for
Mondane, where he joined King Victor-Eminanui, to take
part in the ceremony of commencing the great tunnel
through the Ales. A magnificent tent was erected at the
foot of Mont Cenis, and the King and Prince took- their
places in it, after which the engineers prepared the mine
which was to be let off. As aeon as all the preliminaries
lied been arranged, the King exploded it by means of an
electric wire, and some pieces of the rock-work were
removed. The ceremony then terminated ; the King and
Prince left for St. Jean de Maurienne, which place a de/-
pitch announced to us they left at half-past 11. The
troops then took up their station along the streets of
Chambery, where His Majesty arrived at a quarter past 2
On reaching the pavilion prepared for the occasion, oppo-
site the altar where the religious ceremony of blessing the
locomotives was to be performed, the King was addressed by
the Archbishop of Chamb el, accompanied by three other
prelates and a large holy of ttee clergy. When the b_ne-
diction of the locomotives had taken place, the King got
into an open carriage, having on his left Prince Napoleon,
and opposite them the Duke de Gramont and the Cunt
de Cavour. In the carriages which followed that of His
Majesty where the Marquis d 3 Villamarina, the Marquis
d' Angrogna, several French Generals, and a number of
other persons of distinction. The cortege proceeded
towards the Palace, on the steps of which His
Majesty placed himself to witness the filing off of the
troops. The receptions commenced immediately after.
In the evening the town was brilliantly illuminated, and
bands of music, preceeded by torches, paraded the streets.
Tice brass plate which is to be placed wider the first stone
of the bridge of Cake hears the following inscription in
French :---‘ On the lstofSeptember,lBs7, Victor-Emmanuel
11., King of Sardinia, and Prince Napoleon Bonaparte,
laid the first stone of this bridge, taken from the mountain
before Mondane by the aid of gunpowder and the electric
fluid, in order to inaugurate the works of a tunnel under
the Alps.'
Prince Napoleon gave a grand dinner on Sunday last,
at Aix-les-Bein-r, to all the persons of disti iction who were
present at tee ceremony at Mont-Cenis. The Prince had
on his right the Marquis de Villamarina, and oa his left
the Duke de Gramont.

THE NEW LAW OF DIVORCE.-POWERS
CONFERRED ON ASSIZE JUDGES.

The object of the Legislature in enabling the Judges
of Assize to entertain original applications under this act,
seems to be that of saving expense to the parties in
bringing their witnesses to London from a distance.
The power, however, is confined to application for the
restituti)n of conjugal rights, and for judicial separation.
The application must be by petition to the Judge of
Assize at the assizes held for the county in which the
husband and wife resided, or have last resided together.
Upon satisfactory evidence being I.id before him, he may
make the degree prayed for ; and when the application is
made by the wife for " judicial separation " he may make
any order for as many as he may deem just. The act
does not say whether the petition is to be heard in the
open court, or otherwise, but it is presumed that the
same course will be adopted upon petitions presented at
the assizes as the full C mrt will pursue where petitions
are heard before them. The Judge of Assize may delegate
his authority to any of her Majesty's Counsel or Sergeants
named in the Commission of Assize, who, for the purpose
of deciding upon the matters of such petitions, are vested
with all the powers which the Judge himself might
exercise. This is a power beyond that given to the full
Court, and it is presumed, will be ex2rcised only
in exceptional cases. All the other powers which
may be exerlised by the full Court except re-
ceiving and hearing petitions for the dissolution
of marriages, are also vested in the Judge of
Assize, including the power to make orders as to the
custody, maintainenee, and education of children. All
orders made under the powers so conferred may, upon
the application of the party obtaining the same, be
entered as the order of the full Court, and be enforced in
the same manner as if originally made by the Court.

PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK

On Friday a meeting of the Royal National Life-boat
Institution was held at its house, J Am-street, Adelphi ;
Captain Lambert Parrott in the chair. The minutes of
the previous meeting having bean read, the silver medal
and £2 were voted respectively to William -Wedge and
James Turpin, commission boatmen of the Coastguard
inat
Salcombe, Devon, and to Thomas D. Warder, boatman,
acknowledgement of their gallant conduct in putting off
in a small boat in a heavy sea, at the imminent risk of
their lives, and rescuing two out of three men who were
capsized from their fishing boat on Banthe.,m Bar, on the
night of the 27th inst. A reward of £6 was also granted
to three Coastguard men for patting off in a small boat
and rescuing, at the imminent risk of their lives, four out
of five persons who had been in a heavy sea, capsized
from their beat off Port R ash, on the coast of Antrim, on
the 22 ad of July ; after they were rescued the little beat
again put off and succeeded in bringing in the capsized
boat. A reward of £6 was likewise granted to six
fishermen for rescuing, at the peril of their lives, two out of
four persons who had been capsized during a sudden and
heavy squall of wind from their beat off Hsmnaroe,
Shetland, a few weeks since. It appeared that while the
boat was fishing the wind suddenly rose to a strong gale,
accompanied by a sudden squall off the land, which
capsized the boat before her crew of four men were able to
take in her sail. They were plunged into the sea; two of
them were happily caved by clinging to their boat,
although twice washed from it ; two others sank to rise no
more. Much risk was incurred in the rescue of the two
men, inasmuch as they could only ba approached after the
sea broke, and then quickly snatched from their vary
dangerous situation, The loss of life among the Shetland
fishermen this year has been unusually great. No doubt
many of these accidents, which have caused the greatest
misery among the fernilies of these poor but deserving
men, have been caused ft-xi the defective construction of
their fishing beats, and the unskilful manner with which
we fear they are too frequently handled in the hour of
peril. Fishermen's boats are often of the m 3st primitive
construction, and are probably now the same in character
as they were 100 or 200 years ago. Captain Ward, R.N.,
the inspector of lifeboats to the institution, read a report
of his recant visit of inspection to the lifeboats of the
society on the Lancashire and on the north and south
coasts of Wales. On those occasions he is in the habit of
taking the boats afloat, in order to thoroughly examine
them and test their capacity for service in the hour of need.
The boats are also regularly exercised once a quarter
throughout the year. He reported highly of the qualities
of the new class of lifeboats of the institution, sod sug-
gested that some of its cider boats, built 20 or 30 years
ago, should be replace!. A communication was read from
the Boulogne Sh!pwreck and Humane Society, in the
management of which some of the English residents take
an active part, ieviting the inspector of lifeboats to visit
their establishment. Their request was complied with
Captain Ward, R.N., and Mr Paake, the inventor of the
lifeboat of the institution, were deputed to visit the Boul-
ogne Lifeboat Station accordingly. The proceedings
then closed.

NAVAL Pitizti; MoNEY.—Friday night's Gazo`te contains
a notice from the Department of the Accountant-Genera;
of the Navy to the effect th,.t preparations are now making
for the intended distribution of procreds arsing from the
Greek brig Apsis, captured on the 15th May, 1855, by her
Majesty's ship Niger, anti the ship-of-war Le Man,
belonging to his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the
French... Agin's or other persans haying nay just and
legal demand, unliquidated, against the Said proceeds, are
required to transmit the panieulars of any slch demand
to the Registrar of the High Court of Admiralty, in order
that the same may be examined, taxed, and allowed by
that officer, and paid under the sanction of the Judge of
the said Court. Notice of the date proposed for the
commencement of distribution and the amount of share in
the respective classes will be duly announced.

ALCOHOL;

OR, THE
MINOR CURSE OF ENGLAND.

BEING TUE SUBSTANCE OF A SFBIES OF ADDRESSES DELIVERED IN
CONNECTION WITII ST. MARY'S TOTAL ABSTINENCE SOCIETY,
BIBEDALE.

DEDICATED TO THE
REV. MR. TIT FE RTON, PREUDENT,
BY A
LIVERPOOL WORKING MAN.

" Woe unto him that givoth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy
bottle to him and maksst him drarlken."--Liabak. ii. 15.

[Continued from 4th September]

Though it might bs slid these men were temperate in reference to
drink, man ought not, however, to live merely for the exercise of his
faculties, but for such a wise development of them as harmonizes w th
th true hierarchy of human powers, and is conducive to the social
good of his fellow-men.
Intemperance in the a'estract is what I have to; do with, and to
demonstrate that it hounds on its victims from one crime to another ,
is fact, that drunkenness and crime are like iron-bound criminals. I
mean teat species of Intemperance whiee, in addition to being tke
most extensive, is the most direful and enduring in its effects. Of all
the species of intemperance that have sprung up since the fall of man,
the intemperance of drinking as a vice is the most appalling; indeed,
drunkenness might be the hired advocate and special pleader of the
devil, so eff3c many does it d) his wo:k, riviting its victims in the
very chains of the bottomless pit of oppre4sion.
That drunkenness has long desolated this highly favoured land Is a
stereotyped historical fact; as a scourge it surpasses the ravages of
famine, pestilence, or war—.vhilst its melancho:y effects will be
regretted as long as eternity endures.
That the intemperance of drinking has long been a sceurge to Eng-
land, 1 again aver is affirmed by the testimony of history ; and to inch an
extent did drunkenness prevail in teis country in the sixteenth cen-
tury, especially in the reign of Qieen Mary who feared the
Bible, and conse.inently banished it from the churches, and the
pre; ers and fastings of that immortal man, John Knox, and other
friends of the Bible; hence their exile, or extermination at
the stake. Then all the evils of drunkenness, or even the hosts of
the greatest enemy, though producing famine, wretchedness, disease,
and death. The torrent of evils resulting from drunkenness, leaving
thus set in, and continuing to roll on to such an alarming ex-
tent as to render legislatve interference imperative, thus in
the reign of James I. (in 16)6, that memorable year), drunk-
enness was dee'ared by the Parliament of England to be a critnival
offence against society. Tae renew assigned by the legislature for
this proceeding were, that the loathsome and odious sin of drunken-
ness had of late grown into common use in the realm, being the rot
and foundation of many other alas, as treason, murder, bloodshed,
stabbing, fornication, adultery, and such like, to the dishonour of Guel
and the nation, the overthrow of mai), good arts and 'mullet t ades,
the disabling of many gaol workmen, and the general impoverishing
of divers and loyal subjects, abusively wasting the good creatures of
God.

This proceeding, on the part of the legislature of the day, though,
doubtless, well meant, oeviously aseellel the affects only, whilst it
let: the cause of dranice aness unimeairel. Hence intemperance not
only coatinued, but Increased, is ev de it from the fact of Sraollet, the
historian ,p. 133), averring th it the Bishop of Salisbury, on a debate,
in the House of Lords, is 1736, while disclaiming against the dranken
ness of the age, declared that publicans had become so impudent and
audacious, as to have inscribed on the.ir sign-boards, such daring,
infamous, and disgusting allnre meats, as the following—" yon may
get drunk here for one penny, Atmd drunk for twopence,
and clean straw for nothiage, Tue same historian asserting
further (p. 173) that hovels and cellars were strewed with
straw, to which dismal places the victims, overwhelmed with intoxi-
cation, were earried; that these horrible places resound with exe-
crations and blasphemy, as is natural to conclude. Publicans,
however, in this refined age, after plundering their dupes of their
money and reason, vary politely kick them into the street—quite as
civil treatment as their folly deserves.
As from Ararat we ceatemplate a ;dismantled and depopulated
world, so, as we descend the ravine of Intemperaace, does the pestilen-
tial atmosphere we inhale become more and more infections. Thus
intemperance coatiaued to inereese to such a fearful extent, that a
Parlia nentary Commission reported to the House of Commons, in
1743, that 19,8)0,00) gallon; of wines and spirits ware annually con-
sumed in Great Briteia. The Legislature, a'armed at this sad state
of things (world to Gad the Leeisl 'tura of the preseat day would
manifest that spirit), and seeing from the past that dea'ing with effects
only tended to increase rather than diminish the crime of drunken-
ness, showed a disposition to deal with the cause, hence distillation
from grain, sugar, &c., was prohibited. Tais wise measure had the
happy and extraordinary effect of reducing the consumption of intoxi-
cating drinks from 19,800,000 gallons annual y to 4,256,36 s ga lone,
or dawn to about one quarter of the annual consumption In a very
few years.
Principles of a higher order appeared then to operate on men's
minds the darkness of night, Interspersed with many bright stars—
the tongue of nations, th it dread of tycanes —began to tell a powerful
story, and the dawn of a purer light seemel to omen at the corn-
mencenvent of the 18th entail, a brighter epoch. Politicians,
however, overlooking the hi tort'' ;of the pest, or forgettirig
that in the dark ag s ewe of Honkish ignorance and intpirstitian,
great emotions, feelings, and enthusiasm impe led a few man, actu-
ated by great principles, and believing in great truths, amid the
selfish calculations of saltil and interested men in the achievemeat of
great victories; yes, those great emotions, great principles, great
truths, giving an impulse to moral power, ailed by the divine inspira-
tion of the souls of those man, in spite of spiritual deeootism, and the
blind bigotry of dt•signing tyrants, obtained for Great Britain that
light freedom, and happlaaaa, which crael;aad in*.erested despots had
robbed the world of for at least 1,000 years. I moan the patriots who
first whispered into the ears of Flarope the] principles of „religious
liberzy..;Peliticiaiis, forgetting all that, and wishing thiege still to be
moaltle I after the feitiiea of past ages, adapted to a n irrower sphere
of intellectual deve'opment, and composed of materials too much
reseinblieg cut iron, or at least not suffielant'y elestie to expand with
the expansion of mMd, to grow with the growth, and advaeco with
the progre,si,o principles of the age, an 1 seizing on the nate ow
solaile principles of haulm nature, i ellencid by mi.st teen and
craven-heated expediency retarded its realisation, and thus the in-
spiration and eetheseiasm which had lima directed against the most
trees endoas agent of sac'al o ostreetion and calamity the world has
ever known ware damped. And Wore the con elate ove,throw of
that teemendoes agent of evil has its echo aad, r ,spoase in tht uni-
versal heart of in in, the Christian, the parent, the philanthropist, the
patriot, and the cidcsn, mutt p ttiantly wait the advent of that law
which will pronounce a final prohibition.

In the mean time, right or wroaz, do not dayea-1 loon haman
ladgment, or human w 11. Truth and duty mry b 3 hidden fora time,
but they remain unshaken as Gyi's thcoae, ani w:tea in the order of
His Providence they are. fully kn-Ava, whet Cie vent troth is
saffiieltly diffisedannong our hardy sons of toil— Ato, I rej ,ize to
thlulr, are dilly b 33.3 ming more ani mare iaterasted is their CariAinn

duty—that it is an evil thin; to dritfL intoxi.:atiag drinks, it wit]
then laa salcassfully pro,l3im3d, whaevar may be iwoiel,evan shlu Id
the powers of e trth au l hell'eanspire. Truth is the hops of the warld.

Let it then ba spoked with baidass3 and in live. Life and death
are in th3paxer of Cie tmos, ani thej thit.lon trash shall eit the
fruit thereof, Yei, wh.32 th 3 tr ith is dledly d3p Altai in the puhlie

mind, that alcohol is a nation 1 eon% it will sulks at Cat ro)t of
druakenne 41, with a blow so strong and dash, that it will inevitab

;I(33tray it. Th 3 raaigiol of chit troth ii..th3 miu3, and its publics,
ti ani diff.tsion bi this b3nlp, elevating, and eon ,blia.; a;e icy

total pAnciplas and siciet7es, will be the sufe mein3 0
catermiqating drankeanass from the land.

It is rem,rk Mies that, not withstladia; ttl ex'nordin try diminution
in the coasumgoa of int ale ttin3 drink!, t) which I have adver tel.

as tha malt of prohibition, prolueing, as I gust to be able to demon,

strate, a corroipmling deer3at in cri:n3. Tao lam aff"..ciing that

grand di mitratila wig, for some extrAoriinary aril aesphineiC to Se,

abrogated on the 21t6 Dac3nber, 1759. Tni3 su;cilal act of Govarn
mint W. 13 followelty a stal le and an alarming incraas3 in the con•

sn n2tba of intoxicAting drinks, and thl3 itlett3,433 hag gralailly and

almost uninterruptedly gone on until G )rerurnent returns announce

the appaling (aet, gilt abut 1,5) ),00) a trete! the vary choicest land

ara ealtiva'el analtily for this parpase white if that vast
quantity of land was sows with wisest it w.tuld prola3a n)t less than
53,000,000 bushels, alai thus provlde b:eal for about 7,000,000 of the

adult population of Great Britain aunt:tally, givin; to each, one and
a-half p mai daily. Walele' there are annaally aboat 5A,000,030
gallons of intoxicating drinks consumed in E tgland, at a direct cost
of iei7,000,000 to the country, there is bat little mere than doable
that ammo; expended in all article) o demesne comMr::. In

the year en ling January, 1837, there W 3. sKpenie lin duty on sugar,
taa, coff3e, £ I 2,61g,787, while on malt, spirits, wine, aad tobacco,

;'.iere was tha aniz;ng sum of £23,993,000, or naarly double the

amount was eaprn•ied last year in intoxi:iti g d ink and tobacco,

than in sugar, tea, and coffee.

Nov, tae inipired apostla St. Pau .iepresentilln: law as a terror

evil-doors, all a praise to them tt do welt. Mazitstone says,

;he principle of law ia, " to prohibit evil aid commend gopd ; " bat.

when it h cJutemplated that Otero is a lexalls3d annnul exp ,nditure
of .67,000,000 at the shrine of Baechls by th 3 devotes of intern-
panince, while there Is little more then helf a millim,; or one hundred

and thirty-fowth part of fait amount rased for the Lord of heaven

and earth, by the Bible Society, an 1 all the miss:oaary societies pat

;ogether, for th 3 extension of the knowlolga of C'trist in the world,

doll it not appear that our senators invert the apostole maxim, as
well as violat, the spirit an I consti.ution of law; do nit the by thus
legalising that enormous expaudic are, tenpt to d) evil, and create a

burden and terror to them that do we'', whl'e the object V Govern-
ment ought to Le the greatest ha2pines3 to the greate,t;, amount of
the community.
If I succeed, as I trust to do, in demonstra‘ing that intemperance
and crimo are like the 4. T pperary Volunteers," iron bound —to be
transm!tted to some penal sett!eMent —that the one exists in a corres-

pond;rg ratio of the other, who can contomplate this enormous annual

expeuditure, which fills our massive prisons with crlmina's, onr poor-

houses with paupers, our asylums with lunatio, and sepulchres with
dead, producing famine. wretchedness, disease, and death, without
feelings of the deepest shame

(To be co2ttinwd.)