Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-07-14
GREAT BRITAIN

ChNnges in the English Criminal Law.
LONDON, July Is The Pail Mall
Gazette this afternoon in response to
requests for its opinion as to the nature
OF the changes required in the present
! English criminal law, makes several
/ important suggestions II advocates
/ first, an addition to the criminal act
raising the age at which female chill
dren may legally consent to sinful
conduct from thirteen yeArs, the pres
eut period, to sixteen years.
The second suggestion IL So exten.
sion OF the law prohibiting sOlicitingt to
both sexes
Third, is the denial OF any additional
| power over woman to the police that
will bs armed at the suppression OF
crime aud not at the suppression OF
vice, that is complete legal liberty for
voluntary immortality between adults
contracting on equal terms,
| but vigorous repression Of
the second criminality in all cases
In which the parties are uuder age, or
| the elements OF full, free aud intelll.
| gent consent are absent.
Fourth, greatly increased stringency
in the laws against procurAtion.
The Gazette in an editorial com
menting upon the results OF its reveal
tons declares that its trumpet
blast has reused the world.
No word was raised yesterday
in the churches against u.s.
continues the paper, "but all the forces
Of wickeduess la high places are ar
rayed against us. The Hon. w. II
smith q Sons, possessing the monop.
oily OF the news stands on the railway
system of England, have suppressed
the sale OF the Fall Mall Gazette. The
| prince of Wales has stopped his paper.
The Right Hon. Mr.. Ben
timex ia posing in parliament
in the name Of outraged morality, and
clamoTs for our extinction. The Ga.
zette did not undertake this inquiry to
unesrth the vices of the great, but il
compelled by the action of our assail.
ants to speak out and spare none.
Sturgeon on the Sins of Mankind.
LONDON, July 13.--Rev. Mr.. Spur
geon yesterday preached a powerful
sermon on the patrician iniuui-
ties of London as exposed
by the Pail Mall Gazette during the
past week. Mr.. SpuIgeon took for his
text the l4th verse, I'd chapter of the
epistle Of Paul to the Romans, which
he quoted In defense OF the. Pail Mall
Gazette's work in making the revela-
tions. Paul, so the preacher said
fslti 1t necessary to meDIion the hideous
Vices Of the heather, and left
on record an exposure OF the ain OF his
day which crimsoned the cheek of the
modest when they read it. II had to
be written to shame the abominatiop
of age, almost past shame. There was
Judgment for sin in this world for
Doth lmen and nations. Assyris,
Babylon, Persia, Rome and
Egypt were empires of oppression and
cruelty and full of iniquIty. When
the sins CT those people could no
longer be tolerated then they were
wiped off the face of the earth,
Thus OF nations, and no one
could tell what bloodshedding
and suffering came upon men for their
iniqnities.
why should London exclaimed
the preacher, "be more favored than
Romt? What Is there about our boast
fil race, on this or the other side of the
Atlantic, that we should monopolize
Gods favor? God will Judge
men. The secret sins too vile
to be spoken OF, and which cause the
nation to shudder II dragged, as they
ought to he, into the daylight; The
deeds Of night, OF the closed room,
done when the finger is put upon the
Up, and the act committed which
must never be mentioned lest the man
himself be regarded as an outcast
aonorred even OF his fellow
SINNERS all all shall be
revealed all that we have for our own
comfort blinded our eyes to and
averted our gaze from, things incon-
venient to see, but they shalt be re.
Vealed. we here make difference
between the secret and the public, but
900 does not. Every secret sin Is but
lying phantasy OF the imaglna.
lion. IL Is public before God
II lie necessary for the church 10 warn
men OF what will happen IL they con-
tinue In their sins and not To- keen
them in false paradise until thew
shall be sent down to hell's dAmns.
tisn. IL bee ,mes every preacher To
cry aloud and spare not one.n
Lord wolseley In london.
LONDON, July l3,-Gen. Lord
Wolseiey arrived here this afternoon.
The Vic!orls railway station was
crowded with soldiers, officers and
civilians IN anticipation of his arrival
and he was given an enthusiastic re.
ception.
The Women ROused 10 Action
LONDON, July ia mass.meeilng
OF women was held in the Princes
theater this afternoon to consider waye
and mesna to protect young girls from
the horrible pitfalls OF l. lndon