New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-08-18
TEMPERANCE IN GREAT BRITAIN.

We have already ntimated, though not so iuiy AZ We
puposed tina, JoHs b. GoueH has for some months been
lecturing through Great Britain to vast assembages Of
electrified hearers When he returned to his native land
las. summer be did not expect to stay more than two or
three months but the charm of his eloquence was so
powerful so unparalleled that each meeting at which he
spoke was the Of pressing invitations TO address
many more and the friends of the not yet will
in to give him up. He has been literally rewarded
for his efforts than before and will return to his
adopted country richer in purse, though we fear not i'm
proved in health He suffering from illness brought
On by excessive and proracted speaking when we last
| heard from him.
Ofcourse the advocates Of Total Abstinence assume
holder tone indulge hopes under the influence of
his addresses they look forward with confidence to the
day when Liquor Licenses shall be unknown in Great
Britain save az remembrance OF bygone folly and crime
Thomas johnson, Esq, Clerk Of the Corporation Of Ian
caster has resigned his Office, because he no longer
sign Licenses with good conscience and the entreaty OF
the Mayor and Magistrates old not suffice to override his
determinations Petitions for the Suppression Of the Liquor
Traffic begin to pour into Parliament. Temperance
Press begins to be head Of; though for lack of daily
isl uc the notable and the mercantile class seldom realize
its existence The hAas, the London organ Ct the move
ment has the following article, which commend to the
few among ourselves who not yet convinced of the
truth it cogenty advances
MORE PRISONS OR FEWER PUBLIC-HoUsEs.
the great practical question OF
10 our criminal legislation and the administration of
systems of penal and reformatory discipline And il is
question which must force itself upon the attention
of the Legislature and must be dealt with with
teal sagacty and in the spirit of enlightened states
manship than has hitherto been the case From every
prison in the land come voices Of wang from it, wretched
inmates who tell in words OF scorniu repoach peni
tent sorrow that il the dram-shOp, the beer shop
the public house that entrapped degraded and destroyed
them The governors and chapains OF the a al tell US
the mounul tale. Police authorities shers coro-
ners magistrates recorders and judges, and all,
the same testimony in most explicit emphatic and unaal
nous terms. The language of Judge Wghtman, at the
last assizes at Liverpool speaking of the cem.
mission of those crimes of violence and brutality, which
" almost invariably take their origin in public house, or
in beer-shOp," has become hacknied and common
place that il almost 10 impress the feelings or con-
science ofany II is sad truth, but has befn re-
itersted often and with such solemn emphasis that ts
melancholy import is little regarded. Still II must be told
again and agan whether those whose duty is to heed
and profit by it choose to atendto 1t or not we can
hopeto empty our jd so lang as me TAR "dH con-
time 10 Incense and uphold the traffic az intoxicating H.
quors. Churches and chspes of little avail. City
missions IRE almost impotent Even Temperance
Societies cannot meet the exigencies of the case
The legaised liquor traffic IL more than match for all
the merely moral suasve agencies that can possibly be
arrnyed against it, No state did preserve redeem
itself from the evils Of such traffic except by abolishng
or suppr,ssing it, Not Christian Church can keep
its members its ministers, or its hottest apostles and most
Jealous missionaries unspOed and scatheess in the pres
encc of such foul contagon such fell destroyer Inc
conviction has long been growing upon my mind, says
the Rev. W. Reid that city mission operations will
never be effective long the dramshop system is
tolerated. Build church and penitentlary in every
street. says the Governor of Edinburgh City Prison.
with all the and appliances the side of religion
aud virtue and allow drsmshop TO be opened every
second third door, with all lis means and appliances
toward vice and crime, and the result will he that GRIM
inals Of all sorts viii be produced much faster than they
can be reclaimed - Wen might the Rev. Canon Stowel
of Manchester say 1T was blot upon Government
that such temptations should he allowed TO be multi
Piled especially when their powers were brought to bear
upon precisely the most deenseless portion of the
munity; they stimulated to drunkenness and crime,
which the laws afterward called upon TO punish.
What the present Of things in Manchester and Sal
ford where the magistrates are held up as model to the
country for the great discretion with which they have car
ried the license system in respect TO public houses
and where it is well known, by those who know anything
about the matter, that the police a drunken man
or woman in the street if they possibly help it, and
never interfere with their debaucheres and riots until they
find the public peace far broken to make interference
an absolute necessity The recent report of the visiting
Justices of the Stafford House of Correction states There
"Aas becH material increase an each el1ss
"prisoners During the quarter ending m JaRuoryhe ar
"erdge daily RWnter 4l4 whereaS IN ne last quarter
the GrTess dotiy number paS 5li.' An increase OF
nearly % per cent similar state of things is reported
BY the visiting Justices in respect to the two Manchester
ails During the greater part of the past quarter the
- New Bailey has been tHH and the city prisoners both
male and female, have consequently accumulated In the
CITY Jail There now surplus beyond the acoonmo
dation which it properly affords OF 40 males and 81 ie-
males So sad state Of things has been known be-
fore N is Manchester the only place where the jsils
are overcrowded with inmates. The " blot
Government our civilization, and our Christianity,
meets us in all directions At public meeting IN Edin
burgh last week the Rev. W. Reid whose words have
before quoted said to his feow-ctizens You
that is proposed present TO enargeour county prison
at cost of fl6 900 for the accommodation OF the crim
mails which the publcans manufacturing faster than
"your magistrates can punish them, and What have to
ask of You whether YOU enlargement of the
'prison Or dminution OF the dram.shops Cheers.
"Such proposal brings the question TO point Are
ITO have less drnkshop accommodation or more prison
accommodation Why not do as did the people OF
MAINE and very soon as in their case should see
"tioket the door Of Cation JAIL house to let,
cor have converted into better dwellings for the work
ing classes. suppose il would be cheaper TO LEI
hundred or two honest eetotaers cit there rent free than
"keepit as place for boarding at the public expense the
"victms of the strong drink traffic"