Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-12-01

uRUs1ESSEss Is Omar BEHA:N.-iu one Of
the statistical reports on morals, recently PIE
scented to the English parliament. some very IL
teres,ing facts concerning drunkenness in Scot
land sre given. I, appears that in one single
parish Of Edinburgh. in which there arc 90, 900
people. ,o58 were found dead drunk, and
2,935 crazy drunk 10 year Drunkenness is
more common in Edinburgh in summer than in
winter. Saturday Is the fayorite day, aud
Tuesday ranks next, for debsuohery Nothing
+ is more common than 20 find man who has
been in prison twenty or thirty times for drunk
ennss1
Rev. E. H. Vibbert, who has just returned
from 8 lecturing tour in Great Britain,
delivered q lecture in Boston, last Sum
day evening in which be said that they
speat for drink in Great Britain from 1866
TO the close Of 1863, an sversqe amount OF
sl12. j99, $50, greater average by $40, 405,
+ 27., than between 1886 and 1861. In the year
1869 there were G2,772 572 bushels Of grain
usel in making liquor. or enough to make 10
four pound loAves for every family Of hve per
sons in Great Britain. At the same time there
was one seller to every thiIty-three houses, and
the5e averages were fesrfully on the increase.
Strong liquor was sold in Gil Of the railroad
: stations, aud almost invarIsby by women.
/ At the meeting Of the Socisl Science Congress at
Leeds, body which was composed Of the most
learned and intelligent people Of the kingdom,
/ there was on sale in their refreshment room
seven different kinds OF intoxicating lquors
The streets Of the principal cites we're filed in
the night time with drunken people, aud he
said that in going through the liquor shops in
Manchester between the hours of nine
and ten on Saturday evening, he saw
more drinking by men and women than he had
seen in six years in Massachusetts,, and he was
told that they hsd then only begun TO drink,
and that by twelve O'Clock it would be very
much worse. He also mentioned an instance
where liquor WAS sold at a Methodist Sunday
Scnoo picnic on Sunday.
In abiding to the methods which had been
adopted to stay the evil, he said that in June.
1853, the United Kingdom Alliance was formed
for the purpose Of securing the passage Of Per-
missive bill, which should allow the people to
say by two-thirds vote whether they would
have lGuOr sold or not. and through the it,
huence of its recent meeting the sum of $780,
600 had been secured to Induce the people and
Parliament 10 pass this bill. This Alliance en-
braced men of all denominations snd occups-
tons At the annual meeting there was an at
tendance of 600 people, and it was addressed BY
prominent clergy Of the Catholic. Episcopal,
Methodist and other churches, and by members
Of Parliament Dsnominstional differences were
put out Of sight more among Temperance reior-
mers there than IN this country. Besides tbi,
, Alliance the British Temperance League and
the National Temperance League we're each
doing good work. There were also the Irish
and the Scottish Temperance Leagues. the Coco
Templsrs, Rechsbites and other societies. Tn
Good Templsrs, although onlv recently intro
duced there, numbered over 60 900 members
and were rapidly increasing and doing a nobl.
work