Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1892-04-14 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

TEMPERANCE NOTES AND NEWS.  REV. F. Willett, a Sussex clergyman res!" resident at Lindfield, has announced hie intention of establishing a model public-house. Being the freeholder of the only inn at Scaynee Hill, which the tenant gives up after thirty-five years' occupancy, the rev, gentleman propose? to enter into possesion himself and to work It on his own lines.  LAST week the teetotal mayors of Grimsby, West Hartlepool, Ro 'hdale, Stockton, Basingstoke, Burnley, Heywood, and many more of the forty four English and Welsh towns whoga chief magistrates have abjured liquor, met ill the mayoral parlour in Manchester Town Soil and exchanged greetings.  EHEN ! A Burns' club, under the name of the "Jolly Beggars," has been started in Dumbarton on a total abstinence basis, its first honorarf president being Rev. David Macrae.  CANVASSES of householders in over 1,004 towns and villages show a strong demand for the English Sunday Closing Bill, the proportion being seven to one in favour, viz. :—Fort 755,409; against, 106,328; neutral, 68,545. Separate votes of the working classes show. nearly eleven to one in favour, viz. :--For., 97,135; against, 8,946 ; neutral, 5,225. Petltions in favour of the Bill have been presentet to the present Parliament to the number 01 11,790, with 1,703,733 signatures.  THE position of the brewer in politics is 130 longer what it once was. There are still tee, many such in Parliament, but the way 01 " trade " aspirants to the Legislative Halls Is becoming more and more difficult. Some time back Mr. E. N. Buxton, a shining light in the Liberal party, resigned his Essex candidature because he was not in accord with the policy of his party in temperance questions, and said he found it useless for a brew,r to contest the seat in view of the action of the tt mperance partY Under the circumstances Mr. Buxton acted wisely and well, and it is only fair to add thi,i he has since cordially supported a fresh canal' date who does satisfy the demands of the temperance electorate.  LET into the outer wall of the vicarage garden at Kindford, in Sussex, is a tablet of stone, which contains the following inscription: —" There is no sin which doth more deface God's image than drunkenness. It disguised' a person, and doth even unman him. Drunken' ness makes him have the throat of a fish, the body of a swine, and the head of an ' Drunkenness is the bane of nature, the extio' guisher of reason, the shipwreck of chastity, an.a the murderer of conscience. Drunkenness iø hurtful to the body. The cup kills more than the cannon. It causes deafness, catarrh, apoplexy. It fills the eyes with fire, the legs with water, and turns the body into an hospital."  Mn. C. S. Roundel!, speaking at a meet: ing of the Cheshire Quarter Sessions, declarea that "Anyone who took into, account the prof& ence in this country of habits of intemperance, anyone who laid to heart what a national curs° drunkenness was, how drunkenness was respousible for half, and more than half, the pauper' I ism, the crime, the misery, and the hutoac degradation which were a blot upon our civiliza' tion—everyone, he said, who laid those facts W I heart must welcome the awakening of public opinion upon this subject, and the hope thA they would now be able to cautiously Oa, wisely, but at the same time firmly az' strongly, to find a remedy for this canker upou our national life."