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

sent day, particularly, as this agitation was going on. The
magistrates wou'd Book get enlightened on the subject, and
then the magistrates'-would refuse to grant the licenses,
and then 'they would have his Maine Liquor Law.
(Cheers.) That was the way it was done in his city, and
that was the way it could be done here.
A Voice: What about the repealing men ?
Mr. Dow : After the enactment of the Almshouses, the
Houses of Correction, and the Bridewell, which had been
full, became almost unoccupied. He then described the
great good that had. been derived from the Maine Law.
But that law was repealed, and it was said it had been a
failure ; bat it had been done by an opposing politic tl
party ; and at the last election the whole of that party
had been sent out of the stag, and then they.had the Maine
Lew again. (Cheers.) He would advise the Englishmen
to do the same and they would add to their own happiness
and honour. (Cheers:) The Hon. Mr. Dow concluded
his 'address by eicquently calling upon the people of EnZ-
land to follow the example of the people of b's c)on,ry,
and adopt the same system. Let them only
inscribe the same motto on their own banner,
and the same result would follow, and prosperity and
happiness would attend them. He resumed his seat
amidst the greatest applause, the cheering being °Len
repeated.

The CIILIRMAY then called on the Hon. Ja3ge Marshall
to address the meeting. He regretted that he could not
make a short speech, but he would try to d so. (Hear, and
laught'r.) He then read the second resolution :—" That
this meeting having heard the statement now made, and
b ing otherwise informed of the irjtirions tendencies of
the liquor traffic upon public morality, and national
prosperity, pledge itself to support by all prac-
tical means the measures of the United Kngdom
Alliance for the Soppres...- sine of the Liquor Traffic "
He dwelt on the evils arising from the liquor traffic, and
said it. must be put down by a prohibitory law. (Cheers.)
He then alluded to the trial of Miss Smith ; and some
statistics in regard to drunkenness; and the accident at
Shrewsbury, where, he said, ten or eleven persons were
drowned in consequence of drunkenness. In every paper
that he took no, he found deaths from drunkenness. In
London he was disgusted to see the numbers of well
dressed men and women who frequented the grog shops,
and he actually saw children of five and'six years old
getting plenty of drink from the people at the counter.
He described some grog-sheps in Liverpool, and sai 1 near
one of these was a pawnbroker, named Honker, who
took in the people and gave them money on
their clothes, to go and spend it in the grog-shops. He
went on to show that publicans, who kept open homes at
illegal hours, were only fined 55., whilst: people who kept,
betting-houses were fined £25. Tie declared, as a lawyer,
that the licensing system was contrary to law, to equity
and justice, and was like the Indian's old gun, wanted
a new lock, stock,- and barrel. (Cheers.) He next
went on to the question of education, and spoke of the
speech delivered on that point by the Prince Consort;
but he contended that his Royal Highness was not well
informed on the subject. as the great cause of the lack of
instruction was the liquor traffic. This should
be known and remedied in the high quarters and
by the legislature. He attended at some of the meetings
of the Rev. H. S. Brown, but said he did not. see a dezen
of people there to whom his observations were applicable
—no Stiggins and his wife ever met there, they were at
the grog shops. From this he 'drew the conclusion that
liquor traffic should be put. down by law, the same as it
was put down in America. He read a letter from New
Brunswick in regard to the law there, and said the
Governor was against the law there, but he would be
recalled and the law would be successfully carried out
there. (Loud cheers.)
Dr. LEE, author of the Alliance Pr;ze Essay, then came
forward to address the meeting, and was warmly received.
He then referred to the statements that had been made in
the papers of Liverpool, as to what Mr. Gough and Mr.
Barker had said on the subject, and denied the truthful-
ness of either, as they were thousands of miles from that
place, He denied that the prohibition cause, or the Maine
Liquor Law, was in a depressed state on the other side of
the water. He then ably advocate& the cause of the
alliance, and concluded amidst great applause.
The resolution having, been unanimously carried, a vote
of thanks oncluded the meeting:

Com merttai Intelltgenre.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.-JULY 8.

There has been an active demand for cotton to-day, and the market
closes very strong at eat ems rates. The sales—inclnding 200 Pernum-
bucos Bil to 9}d, 400 Babies 811 to Sid. VO Maranhams 8!d to 91d,
700 Egyptians 93d to 111, 2,500 Snrats 4jl to old—are reported
15,000 bales, of which 4,000 are on speculation and for export.