The Express. — 1850-12-03 (London, England)

GEORGE. CRUIKSHANK said the subjett h.IS had bean given to him to speak upon was the pub it psi., a subject so worthy that he could h .ve wish. I it to the hands of some one else. The only re.i.on he hart un r it was that from early life be had b en a,s ILio.d with ;re. ' rary men, of whom a great many had been coaneetrd the public press, and or all these ha was able to soers both as regarded their private life and their puhlm ts;. h... He had limeys gonad them extremely liberal and k 14 all who came within their circle, mid he hub lum self expeeiemeed it. Having alluded in deprecatrry term to an article its the Times newspaper on the late taitgas.os meeting at Drury-lane Theatre, Mr. Cruikslim k out— Let those who require artificial restrictions the then and profit by them: those who do without are col chargeable with setting a bad exempla because OM morality is a principle instead ef • force." That en ill the anhatanc• of the article • and was there in it ore err must against total abstinence.? (Hear, hear) lire, Ulm was a writer in the Times, one of the most p• issrtul ergrsel in England, who sat down to write sissies: the ',stem, std had not adduced one argument *plait the cause. That, thin was one of their great triumphs. He deemed the erti:le to be the greatest tissue of nommen, that had ever apperm'A the Times newspaper. The writer called him a vivistenc. He did not wish to employ any ability he might Loa In that line against the writer, although all he heal's. , EA all he could do, was to launch pimpernel abuse 'Pin,' W. and his friend.. The editor of the Times anew the 1.0 al was about to state. He (Mr. 0.) had hewn sequin:id sill • person nested with that paper, who had a hr Usti ability that would have distinguished him in the Hoer but from his habits he became • more potehoure °each, nA there were other cases of • similar kind. He know teal instances of men connected with the press who We, dieted that way. lie knew of aMe of one man who, alter a convivial meeting in tee /reams. n!*l tempted suicide the following morning. ll' tell them of two clergymen, one the father or a hilor l. and who was men intoxicated, but by drinking redueed himself to such a state that his WIPP deprived him of his gown, and he too attempted to email ®taco suicide. The other was the case of a clerman who n" translated to a living is the weet, but was agotive of tte north, and had been accustomed to drink whi.ky. Wntl_ two young farmers went to him to psi their tithe,. ar. brought out the whisky bottle to treat them 13 •inif custom/id to this liquor, they got drunk. One sou oeuil tumbling Leto the water on his way home, and the ethanol so intoxicated that he could not go home at all—(• and his widowed mother, who went to the perennsP„',„„ found him &tisk and lying on the floor. Wou,' writer in the Times say that this was morality and TO'."' (Hest, hear.) The only differenoe in the ease of thstl4o:, mas and the farmer was, that the one could drink a twit 7 whisky end the other only half a bottle. Sat the t roc lees owed a debt of gratitude to ell those osOrri *ln'h reported their ly; bet the Times bid oil, it. All they wantedwas fair play; and if the them to"' plai,he wall eatisfied. (Hear, hat) The CHAIRMAN said be eassidered the 'dials Tinton • great triumph for the teetotallers, for it no •" Eea dictation of the power and troth of their eels,•; Inch a paper es the Timm made so weak an attack up:11, Dr. BURNS then addressed the meeting at ouneid 7;4 length In advocacy of the principle of teetotalism. On r.r.°200, physiological, chemical, moral, philosophical, and held up interoperanos as the great root 0 which unit be eradiftted before secondary evils Own remedied. ggiles Mr. THOMAS ALLEN SMITH also spoke is acej strain for some time, and the ammeter, having 211 the additional subseitiptioce, ier. The CHAIRMAN said that it was now lialf.psete _ was no good policy to begin a speech, and tine'ro wet, wee thinly attended owing to the s..th pried of admission. He should, therefor*, reserve lu ft 'Botha mossion.—The meeting then separated. odr:res.! .4