The Potteries Examiner : — 1879-02-22 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

SAILORS ON STRIKE AND THETRANSPORTS. hell? Is there any comfort ? Oh, it is pitiful! In to a close, Mr. Gough alluded to prisoner yourself yesterday, were you not ?" The At a meeting of about three thouaend sailors who Bri'giug '...5. oration.l. by tee tem . man replied that he wan, 'he had been acquitted of are on strike at Liverpool, Mr. W. Simpson asked therr weejlT t C ra ranee moverayut. He ago a rev ots ; the Baithor, of bete:limy. Mn. Justice Grove thereupon remarked them whether it was true that they had expressed Mc' e presided, amid ha' ever heard a grander that his sympathy with time., mequitted that dee wail their willingnme to raan Liverpool steamers undea teetotal atimeto than the Bisliop delivered—tappleneel. r„,,,„p,,,,,t.,-0 ; he might go. Go he did, evidently charter of the Admiralty to carry troops to the Cape Ili, LereehipreouarkedtWit ha aeservea neitas e credit thinking that a Court of Justiee tra. hardly a desi- at the reduced rates of i'3 10s. elmonth—(loud extolled nor pity for beiug a. total uheteauer ; he haa been SO sable phee for ono who could not restrain the "We are for our country "). feeble that he hailbeen ordered to abstain :rem week, promptings of thnt fellow-feeling which makes one but since he irse a teetotaller he had been 'wondrous kind."  '  ir I r %,,tttotl for at b-ant four : 1..1 in ant she was ejeetea. I no • 1 t I.l' e iters.m to have been a Lt ly w!to 11,t1 a rt.:atm fur the repeal of the lara4 laws. _  j General von Roan, the lata German Maids al War. is serionalz _ _  able to Is twin the work he ii beore—(ap. planes). Canon Duckworth and other clergymen and ministers were also cited as bearing testimony to the advantages of total abstinence In thi, res?ect they hal made g^cat p7ogress. for be ,  remcinberA that;L;s years ago:s.leioty was on the jiz lie if a rector took the chair at a teet,tal meeting:. . . .  (laughter and applause). Now they had men like the Bislwo of Exeter aid Rochester and Gloucester, and the new Bishop of Durham presiding—(applausel. These were not all teetotallers, but persoaaily he was ,  glad to got all the help they could an temperance men —(applause). With a few of his telling anecdotes. however, Mr. Gough illustrated the da,ger of compromise, and closed with a grand peroration, in the course of which he said  Now temperance may be for you a common-place subject. Utopatu! If we are right, it cannot be an Utopian scheme:because the right is to triumph byand-by. That is sure. Why, sometimes we see the wrong on the throne and the right on the scaffold. Bat time rolls On, and all is reversed. Thank er3d  for that!—Ad ibo revers-I-on-e ill go -on to all eternity. Nero, Emperor of Borne, sits upon his throne clothed in ,purple ; a nation bows to him ;st  his nod men tremble. t-irest Ciosar, who can touch him? In the Mamertine dungeon sits a man chained  to a soldier he is writing a letter to Timothy to semi him his cloak, for he was shivering in the cold cell of the Roman prison. What & contrast between the  two—this poor prisoner and that mighty Emperor— the right and the wrong ! The wrong on the throne, and the right in the prison. But read on ! read on! That hateful wretch, a slave to every evil passion, !lel from his infuriated soldiery ; and like a coward, with the help of an attendant, he committed suicide: and his name is now a by-word. No Christian will give it to his children, and men wi'l only occasionally give it to a dog. The other finished his letter :--• I have fought tha good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith—and wrote words that have thrilled the hearts of millions, and will for ages yet to conse—(applause). Those who are with tho right are with God; and those who are with the wrong are against Min. Tell me that such a battle as that is Utopian; I grant you we may never see the full results; but we are seeing the growth of a public sentiment, which, under God, is to sweep away the pillars of this tremendous snperstraature.—(Loud applause.)