The Red Cloud chief., 1884-05-30
Temperance Reading.
NIGNPERANCE IN ENGLAND.

Oakley Hall. in I London letter to tho
| BroonIyn Eagle. says: NO place SO
much needs the Temperance movement
as London. Almost every corner build-
inc is u public. and as "a walks the
streets. whether ut midday past the
crowded Poultry Lane o. 1T night III
the suburbs, he hears ever, where the
clink of glasses alternating with churc:,
chimes. which everywhere ring Tho
quarter hours. making the needless
take note of time by its tone. A drop
OF summit is eternally in every En-
cii~h meath, from the ariStocratic Pal
Mall club room to the denizenS of Fox
Court and Saffron Hill. made SD famous
by Dickens. Apropos of drink, j. f.
Murphy, who returned to-day to Amer
lea. had 4 grand send OFT last Thurs
day at Mission Hall, Waterloo street,
st. Helen's in the East, where q thou
sand people, under the joint patronage
of the Vicar and Congregational preach
er OF the parish said goodbye. Mr.
Elurphy's native and characteristic
eioI uence has made great impression,
and clearly his field of usefulness IS here.
where quarterns OF gin and brandy on
bAAt Top vi CIACsIp btOl VI NV
inspire crime, rather than in the States,
where bourbon. that ~honevcombs the
kidneys. can be lett to the medical fac
ulty. Even Sir Charles Dixie has taken
up the Temperance question. and, in \
recent speech in the Commons on the
dwellings and public house question. he
charged that the local rulers, as in New
York CITY. were directly interested in
the tenement house and drink evil. He
charged that 4 member of the District
Board in Holborn owned in Portpool
Lane ten suspicious houses; that IN st.
Pancras n place condemned by survey
orS belonged to = member Of the yeStry
whose father and grandfather We're also
members of il. and that in C"lcrkenwell
two Joint dictatorS-if Sir Charles had
been in Brooklyn he would have used
the word bOS>eS-whO controlled the
leading committees OF the vestry, were
the largest wner of doubtful property
III Clcrkenwell. Observe that in En-
gland the words parish and veStry are
words in civil government, and not, rs
iii America, OF exclusive ecclesiastical
s~ignihcation. As Il consequence. Sir
Wired LawsOn's movement for local
option is making much Roadway; but
IT would seem that the brew no and
house proprietary interest will be too
strong for wears against the proposition.
However. as the lsmented Lincoln said:
.'Reformers must peg away until tho
hard pan crumbles."
meanwhile this advertisement ap-
pear, i'll several London papers: The
want OF = good Temperance drink
which shall take tie place IF the cheap
Intoxicating liquors to which the public
are n cu>tomed has long been fel and,
none of the many drinks hitherto in use
having achieved more than temporary
popularity. two pri>es-the first OF
t1pD. and the second of t3Oa-are now
offered for the two hest Temperance
drinks under ondtiOnS 4 copy of which
may be obtained upon forwa ding to
the secretary 4 stamped envelope bear
ing the name and address Of the appIi-
cant intend mr. to compete. BY orJier
of the tee ". Hodges, Secre-
Iary March. 1851. Victoria Chambers,
ID and . thancerr lane. London
81 believe this Acr Is not gengraph-
ically bounded. The prizes >. 500 and
sl,,Go are open to brooEly mites"