The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-02 00:00:00

.6TEMPERANCE MEETING.

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On Tuesday night a meeting Of the friends and menaliboiriuse-0:
the Total:Abs'tinence Societies was held in the Amphitheatre,
Great Charlotte-street. The object of the meeting-was to eon.
cert measures for erecting or purchasing a building to
as aTemperance-hull.

Lawrence Ileyworth, Esq., was celled to the chair.

The CHAIRMAN said, when he looked round and saw so many
of his fellow-men met together for the purpose of putting down
vice in the strongholds of drunkenness, and with the avowed
object of establishing virtue, it gladdened his soul and he felt
delighted to preside over such a meeting. The reason why the
meeting had been called was that their numbers had so increased
that the room which they had occupied had not sufficient space
to contain them. The gentlemen who composed the present
committee had not been, therefore, enabled to labour so success-
fully, as they wished, and a scheme would that night be brought
before them for effecting the desired change. It did net behove
him to say what it ought to be, but he hoped the scheme would
have the blessing of the Almighty upon it, and that the persons
present would not have to be called upon in vain. He hoped
they would be the means of reclaiming hundreds of idl.Qind
drunken characters, who now had the money drained from Zieir
pockets by drunkenness and debauchery, while their families
at home were sitting in .solitary misery. He hoped they would
be the means of forming such into different characters.
Mr. HENRY JONES said, it had been stated, that this society
was a political engine. There were, he doubted not, there pre.
seat men of all political opinions. There were three societies
in Liverpool, and they were, he believed, all within the walls of
(hat building, and all tried to inculcate the grand principles of
total abstinence from all intoxicating drink. When he looked
at that vast assembly, and looked back upon their small 'begin.
ning, be could-scarcely believe that, from so Small a source,-
could arise in so short a space of time so vast en increase.
,The
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endeavours
lrsw
degradationereequ
is
rofi t
efur h
societyte
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was
s,soe o
great, i t
that
~y i n g
the further increaseof depravity. Ou behalf of drun kat ds and
their wives and their families, of their sisters and their war,
little, neglected suffering children, he called upon them' trP
assist in their undertaking. He called their attention to the'
prospectus, which he was about to read. The prospectus set
forth, that it -wita proposed to forma joint-stock com
the purpose of building a ternperance-hall; capital, 1?-8-?txnYi to
be raised in shares of £1 each, The prospectus was not laid
x., to
r
before the public from any interested or sordid motives, but from
a mete desire to secure to the inhabitants of Liverpool and the
neighbourhood a suitable place for the purpose of holding, tem-
perance tea parties, festivals, &c., as well as other meetings fur
the furtherance of the cause of total abstinence. .After men.
tioning that the Music-hall, in Bold-street, had been found too
small for the purposes of the society,
the prospectus went
,
on to
state, that the promoters of this undertaking had resolved upon
forming a joint-stock company for the purpose of purchasing
the Royal Amphitheatre, or of erecting anot her building suitable
thelives
all
in
being. Nhe corporation might
for their purpose, and of naming the Shares at such a low rate
as would allow all the working-classes to become subscriberS.
It would be impossible to get a more,Cotnatodious buildinv, and
a new one would cost inure Money. The ground ou which it
waserec,te
3.
d was h, under the Corporation,for three lives and
twenty-one
.be induced to go further, and grant them a reversioe of the
lease to their heirs and assigns for ever, v4,OYOY the property
would be secured to them as freehold. The tdenine, they co.
culated, would accrue as follows
The front part of the building. would be converted into a
temperance hotel, to yield an annual rent Of .......... £
110 60
Four shops in Roe street ......... . ......... . ....... .., •
The stabling underneath to be converted into cellars ler
. - -
goods -
...... .
.. .
...... . . 30,
The boxes to hetet to those who subscribed £1 per annum, 200
Choral SoCiety meetings
Other ineetiegs,., . ~ ' • l'3o
.
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(11; o '<o+ tit 0v0,.. £650
150
Deduct salary tor' . . ....

• :;il9fd ir.ov 'I„
"_..:,- Balance...
The prospectus further stated, that the theatre had been of- •
fered to them: for £6,500. The company was to be considered
as formed when .4,000 shares hid been subscribed for. Mr. ~
Jones continued, that since this prospectus had been formed,
they had received a communication, stating that the theatre
could not be 'sold for less than .E 8,000.. Ile therefore shotild:,
proose, that ten thousand shares should be the number, andtp.'
make a cOrresponding rate of income he raised the items above
enumerated proportionally.-
Mr....JouN JONES said, he hoped this meeting would receive
with feelings of kindness that address from a-small portion of ,
their townsmen. They ventured,to make their earnest request,
hoping that the meeting would second their efforts by all the
means in their power,
.to break up and destroy that pernicious
habit of di inking. intoxicating tliinks,which had arrived at such
a frightful pitch in this otherwise highly favoured land. A habit.
which had become associated with all the circumstances and oc-
currences of life, whether pleasing or mournful,' prosperouS.ot
adverse, religious or profane ; it was a habit, Mr. Chairman,
by which thousands of drUnkards were annually mannfactuied
from all ranks and clases of society. It was a habit by which
was occasioned the destruction of much property, and the ruin
of many families. A. habit which was the destroyer of health,
of peace. of virtue. and religion. and sent thousands ofotir fel-
low-crealures, male and feinale ppOr and rich, learned itid.lin-
learned into another world, without hope or comfort (Cheers.)
It was a habit so perniCi4Us, and yet so established by custom,
example, and inte.res *Yt. it,Could not be changed without the
.most united and,..permyssing, effoi?.
,They had deplored aii..l
anxionsly,,,e,nclea,qinflmierregt44.oWing. evil with Ino d era -
taiP n, 1i'q.,Y441..9 eßiefw„Bul'ilie„, rireluul now atri‘ed, as the
e Iselin" /
ils.P- '-- „IP , , f}vingbi,egt,t, nu the grand secret was
f
::rsien:s'el:.69u.:(7ite.uic,iic iinFinnlfhts generaldestroyer ; and it
was denigT4traig_ ittipbqilem lon could nOt effect the cure of
this eyiJ---,notht,p, Altit:9l,l-,K, kinence froin all intoxicating
(Cheers.) Tt,ie0;14,56j,f eperts,;l,44l\o4' t,,bia.ptv‘‘,,aliiitilo'tei cifi:n"Ottiiirall:«.eyl,Telic.adg)e.
system a!t()t-r'tlilitAidherallelerl. in the history .cf Great Britain
—a revolution w idi %lould vesture comfort to tlw habitation. of