ILLEGAL EXPENDITURE. Our Book Table. Lorrimore Square, London, S.E.] Evans' Temperance Annual (1883). London: National Temperance Depôt, 337, Strand, W C.-This is a welcome visitor as the years roll by; for Mr. Evans really makes variety run over with telling points for talker and reader. The Annual deserves a wide circulation. Our Pledge Book. Blue Ribbon Army. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 27, Paternoster-row.-Capitally printed on good paper, in blue ink, this book of pledge forms, each of which bears the autograph of "William Noble," ought to find ready sale. We have come across nothing of the kind nearly so good. Hints and Topics for Temperance Speakers: By the Rev. J. M. Morrell. London: Church of England Temperance Society, 10, Bridge-street, S. W.-In the course of 175 pages, the reverend author of this book manages to treat of 27 topics. Thirty-two pages are devoted to the matter and manner of a speech. The advice is wordy; the criticism of some examples of speech-making very much strained. For example,-some poor fellow in dealing with the wine which Paul recommended to Timothy, suggested that it was something like jam with a little hot water. Our reverend author remarks: "The man seemed utterly unconscious of the absurdity, or almost blasphemy, of which he was guilty." There is much more of the same sort. The author has evidently recognised a pressing want, but he has most certainly failed to meet it, notwithstanding the fact that Canon Ellison, in a capital introduction, says the pages for educational work "Will be invaluable." In the annual return from the Hand-in-Hand Friendly | [Books, &c., for notice, must be addressed to the Editor, 16, Society, Machine House, Pemberton, Lancashire, for the year 1881, there was an item as follows :-" A gift to 78 members of two shillings each, £7 16s." Complaint was made on behalf of some of the members that this expenditure was unjustifyable and illegal, as it was expenditure for a dinner held in the month of July, which was paid for out of the funds, although the 34th rule of the society expressly states that "no portion of the expenses of the annual dinner shall be paid for out of any of the funds." This practice, it appears, had been carried on in previous years in defiance of the rules and of the protests of about 25 members who were dissatisfied with these proceedings. It appears, moreover, that one of the dissentients formerly held the office of treasurer, and another that of president, and in consequence of their refusing to sanction these illegal payments they were removed from office. Not content with these proceedings, the majority who were in favour of the dinners being paid out of the funds, called a meeting on the 2nd September, 1882, at which it was resolved to alter rule 34, as follows:-" Rule 34.-Annual Meetings.That this society may meet annually, and dine, on the Monday nearest to St. James's-day, the expense of which shall be paid for as a majority shall decide, at a meeting to be called for that purpose." This rule was refused registration by the the Chief Registrar, whereupon the society issued a fresh edition of the rules, with the following notification at the end: "Hand-in-Hand Society.-The Registrar would not certify the new rules, because they were not in accordance with the Act. That being so, they passed a resolution to put the foregoing rules into force, and to be deemed unregistered. They were duly passed at a generally summoned meeting of the above-named society, held at the Machine House Inn, Lamberhead Green, on Saturday, the 2nd day of September, 1882." As it appeared from the above statement that the majority of the members were determined to persist in the illegal application of funds, the minority applied through their solicitor to the Central Office for authority to prosecute for misappropriation of the funds. The authority was granted. Finally, the solicitors in January, 1883, write as follows: "Hand-in-Hand Friendly Society. We instituted these proceedings before the magistrates, and the result has been that the defendant has come forward and admitted the illegality of the payments made, promised for himself and his co-members not to commit a similar error in future, and has arranged to refund the money." ALCOHOL IN WORKHOUSES.-(To the Editor).-Sir,-In the report just issued of the first year of the Marylebone Workhouse, since the opening of the new infirmary at Notting Hill, the able and experienced master, Mr. Douglas, speaks most favourably of the general good conduct of the inmates. A prominent factor in the promotion of this desirable state of order, is disclosed in a paragraph of Mr. Douglas's report to the effect, that during the year not a single ounce of ale, porter, brandy, wine, gin, or whisky had been ordered by the medical officer; and except on Christmas Day, there had been no fermented or spirituous liquors consumed in the workhouse by the inmates. The average daily number of inmates was 1,557. It may be of interest to add that the cost of alcoholic stimulants consumed by patients in the infirmary during 1882, was £246; while in the last year when the sick were in the workhouse, the cost for the latter was £1,608; a decrease of £1,362 in the twelve months.-Your obedient servant, NORMAN KERR, M.D., 42, Grove Road, Regent's Park, N.W., February 17th.-Daily News, February 20th, 1883. MERRY SONGS AND LIVELY MELODIES! Send 24d. stamps for post-free sample copy of "Merry Temperance Songster." Witty and Racy Dialogues and Recitations, brimful of Temperance teaching, just the thing to keep the young employed. "Havart's Temperance Entertainer," 12 Penny numbers, postfree, 1s., or bound in cloth, 1s. 6d. Sample copy 14d.-Address C. J. HAVART, 34, Huddleston-road, Tufnell-park, London, N.-[ADVT.] Malcolm's Enemy: By Mrs. Skinner. London: National Temperance Depôt, 337, Strand, W.C.-This little book is prettily got up. After a glance through its pages we handed it to two little girls for careful perusal. Their criticism was: "Oh, it is interesting; have you any more stories by Mrs. Skinner? We shall read this again.' MILK V. ALCOHOL IN THE TREATMENT OF INSANITY." The greater my experience becomes," writes Dr. Clouston, in the Annual Report of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum for the Insane, "I tend more to substitute milk for stimulants. I do not undervalue the latter in suitable cases; but in very acute cases, both of depression and maniacal exaltation, where the disordered working of the brain tends rapidly to exhaust the strength, I rely more and more on milk and eggs made into liquid custards. One such case this year got eight pints of milk and sixteen eggs every day for three months, and under this treatment recovered. I question whether he would have done so under any other. He was almost dead on admission, acutely delirious, absolutely sleepless, and very nearly pulseless. It was a hand-to-hand fight between the acute disease in his brain and his general vitality. If his stomach could not have digested and his body assimilated enough suitable nourishment, or if he could not have been taken out freely into the open air, he must have died. But to-day he is fulfilling the duties of his position as well as he ever did in his life. All acute mental diseases, like most nervous diseases, tend to thinness of body; and therefore all foods, and all medicines, and all treatments that fatten are good. To my assistants, and nurses, and patients, I preach the gospel of fatness as the great antidote to the exhausting tendencies of the disease we have to treat; and it would be well if all people of nervous constitution would obey this gospel."-Temperance Record. BREWING BEER.-A Parliamantary return shows that the year ended September 30, 1882, there were 16,609 persons licensed in the United Kingdom as brewers for sale, who paid 8,668,405 14s. 14d. as licence and beer duty. Of these 14,499 brewed under 1,000 barrels, and 1,619 over 1,000 and under 10,000. The largest firm brewed nearly 1,200,000 barrels, and paid £374,483 10s. as duty; the next close upon 1,000,000 barrels, paying £312,161 1s. 3d.; and the third nearly 800,000, paying £248,742 3s. 9d. The total exported was 428,037 barrels of the declared value of £1,812,424. British India took most with 76,857, the British possessions in South Africa following with 42,976, New South Wales came next with 30,074, the United States with 29,095, and Victoria with 27,426. On the Continent France takes most with 15,864 barrels, Gibraltar closely following with 15,865, and Malta with 15,611, Austria taking least with two barrels, of the declared value of £11. Facts for the Thoughtful. LIBERTY AND LICENSE.-It is a monstrous thing to mix up the idea of liberty with unrestricted license. There was nothing common in the idea of freedom and the unrestricted liberty of getting drunk. When they knew. the vast evils which arose from the drinking habits of the masses, and the terrible results which they saw exhibited on every hand, they claimed the right in the name of common justice, in the name of common sense, and in the name of morality, to interfere by legislation to remove the cause of this terrible misery. Do let them get rid of that terrible reproach which clings to them, that drink was the cause of a great part of the crime in this country. He urged them to take to heart the words of Thomas Carlyle, who said, "That a good man be free as we call it, and be permitted to unfold himself in works of boldness and goodness, is surely a blessing to him, immense and indispensable to him and those about him. But that a bad man be free, be permitted to unfold himself in his particular way,is contrariwise the fatalest curse you could inflict upon him—a curse and nothing else to him and to all his neighbours-thus the very heavens call upon you to persuade, to compel him into something of welldoing."-Canon Farrar. DISEASED CONDITIONS IN INEBRIETY.-Habitual inebriety has a physical as well as a moral aspect. Whatever the original predisposing or exciting cause, the alcohol that has been drunk habitually to excess has altered the tissues of the brain, as it has altered the tissues of the liver, and pierced the walls of the heart with degenerated fat. You have thus to do with an altered state of the organ of thought, feeling, and volition. You have to do with a changed condition of the mind. The structure of the organ of thought having been deteriorated, the power of thought is diminished, the range of thought is limited, concentration of the reasoning powers is difficult, if not impossible. You have to do with a changed condition of the senses. The lower senses are deprived of much of their acuteness. Vision is disturbed, hearing is impaired, the tactile sense is deadened, and there is a lack of ability to enjoy the sweetest and most delicate perfumes. That the sense of taste is depraved you have ample proof in the capricious appetite, when he has an appetite, of the habitual inebriate.-Norman Kerr. TOILET DRUNKENNESS-Dr. Groussin (Journal de Medecine de Paris, September 9th, 1882), has a letter on the curious form of drunkenness which he mildly describes as toilet drunkenness. Those who by birth or fortune, or by a combination of both, belong to what we call the upper classes, are subject, like other mortals, to all the faults and vices inherent in our nature; but their respectable position and the money at their disposal enable them to throw over their bad habits a veil which the world in general cannot see through, and which even the doctor can hardly raise. A lady whom Dr. Groussin lately attended four times complained of giddiness, headache, difficulty in walking, and a want of accuracy in manual movements. Fearing apoplexy, he turned all his attention in that direction, and prescribed purgatives, mustard foot baths, and bicarbonate of soda to dilute the blood. He found by accident that this lady, otherwise excellent and kind to the poor, got drunk regularly four times a week on eau de Botot. She drank this water instead of using it to wash her mouth, and no one discovered it. Had she drunk wine, chartreuse, or cognac her breath would have betrayed her to the least knowing person. Eau de Cologne and other toilet tinctures are used in the same way.-London Medical Record. THE SCRIPTURAL OBJECTION (?).-He was not there to He left it to argue upon the evil of taking a glass of drink. his neighbour, and even to his own children, to decide such a question for themselves. Such a matter involved Christian liberty. In all such arguments then they should allow largely for idiosyncracies, and he objected very much to those nonabstainers who argued against their practice, partly on Scriptural grounds, and partly as opposed to Christian liberty. As to the first of such arguments, they knew that the publican would be fined if he sold drink to a drunken man. But in such a matter they must remember that the publican had to decide in the case of those who were his best friends, and who were able to take a very large amount of drink without showing it. One publican used to decide the question by making his customers pronounce the words "Biblical criticism." If the customer could use these words, he would not be so far gone, but that he could take a little more. No doubt the publican was very willing in his way, and he was quite sure that he must have felt that Biblical criticism" of a certain kind had stood him and his friends in very good stead. Let him state this, that if anyone attempted to argue in favour of the use of wine from Scripture, he was engaged in untenable sophistry. But, on the other hand, if anyone tried to argue from Scripture against the theory, as well as the practice of wine drinking, he was engaged also in sophistry of a still more untenable kind. Strong drink was seldom mentioned without the most emphatic warning. For one passage in favour of intoxication, there were twenty on the other side. The wine mentioned in Scripture, he maintained, was the unfermented juice of the grape, and as such perfectly harmless and unintoxicating. It had been said that it was something like raspberry jam; but the wine of Scripture did not bear any more resemblance to the fire waters of the present day, than did raspberry jam. There was the greatest possible difference between the use of the word "wine" in Scripture, and the use of the word in these days. There was hardly any relation between them if the whole of the circumstances were taken. The wines of Scripture were always drunk largely diluted with water; ours were not. The wines of Scripture were not rabid intoxicants as ours were. In the wines of Scripture, alcohol was not distinguished as a separate principle; in these days any man might drink himself into a brute in almost every other street. In those days gin palaces were unknown; in these they clung round every locality. And not only was there this great difference, but the times were different, because drunkenness was what it was not among the Jews-a national sin. Drunkenness was now the common temptation of the many-in ancient days it was the rare temptation of the few. It was frequently said that Christ never forbade the use of intoxicating drinks. This was perfectly true; but neither did our Blessed Saviour forbid polygamy or slavery. Our Lord came to teach eternal principles, not to lay down rules which must vary with the circumstances of the age and time. It must be remembered that during His short ministry, our Lord never had His sight horrified with the shameful sight of a drunken man, or the still more shameful sight of a drunken woman. When the moderate drinkers said that they were great enemies of fanaticism and extravagance, and that they did not need to take the pledge; they might be reminded that there were once such people as Nazarines and Rechabites. The former, who from their infancy never touch strong drink, so far from being treated with contempt by their fellows, were the only laymen who were allowed to take any part in the sacred functions of public worship, and it might, therefore, be safely said that the Bible was as much on one side as the other. And when people fell into the error of using isolated¦ verses or words of Scripture against Total Abstinence, he would say to them, "For the shame and scorn be on you all who turn the good to evil; who take the Bible from the Lord and give it to the Devil."- Canon Farrar. UNTRUTHFULNESS OF INEBRIATES.-This perversion affects also the higher feelings. If there is one feature which more than another is characteristic of the dipsomaniac, it is that of untruthfulness. Habitual excessive indulgence in strong drink would turn the most truthful person in this assembly into an unblushing liar. Nor is this all. If he were to forswear his cups and become a consistent abstainer, it would be long ere he recovered, if he ever did completely recover, his former power to speak the truth, and to discriminate between the false and the true. This utter overthrow of the truthful sense is especially marked in women. It has frequently been my lot to be assured most solemnly by an educated and refined lady that she had not tasted a drop of drink that day, when her breath was reeking with the odour of brandy.-Norman Kerr. NEW ENTERTAINMENT !-THE SILVER-CHIME TEMPERANCE HANDBELL RINGERS commence the season 1882-3 with New Entertainment, New Tunes, New Songs, New Glees, and Grand New Peal of Handbells. The programme comprises fresh Bell effects, Melodious Ocarina Playing, Vocal, Instrumental, and Elocutionary Variety, Novelty, and Originality (they don't copy other Bands.) The only Performers of Carillon Music. The only Ocarina Quintette.-Conductor, C. J. HAVART, 34, Huddlestone-road, Tufnell-rd., N.—[ADVT.] It was late in summer when Benny Towers found a large paper of radish-seed that had been left once from the spring gardening. Now he sowed his radish-seed in a corner of the garden and raked it in. Then he told his mother about it, and how much money he was going to make selling his radishes. Soon the radishes peeped out of the ground, and so abundant were they, he had to keep thinning them out. Benny's father and mother were very poor, and it was rum that made them so. Mr. Towers would drink, and so the money went his family so much needed. He was a kind, pleasant man, when not under the influence of liquor. He wept over himself when sober, but it was only to fall with the first temptation. Mrs. Towers took in sewing, and did what she could to feed and clothe the children, and kept Benny at school. The little fellow's radishes were just as nice as could becrisp and sweet-they had grown so rapidly. Benny had to wheel ever so many loads of dirt to cover his treasure to keep them from wilting. Through all this labour Benny had one plan, one idea-to get his mother a warm shawl. He knew something of how hard she worked and tried to get along. He saw how thin, worn, and faded her shawl was, and he often bethought how, like the old shawl, she had grown thin, worn, and faded. The very next day after the radishes were safely housed, Benny was taken sick with the measles. Sometimes he felt a little impatient, for Christmas was coming, and he had set his heart upon having the shawl ready by that time. Well he knew that out of mamma's small means there would be something to make Christmas glad and happy. It would probably be something her own loving hands had fashioned, but the best she could do. It was the last week in November before Benny was able to go out. The snow was sifting softly, silently, down from the grey overhanging clouds, covering the walks, catching in the tree-tops, and chinking lovingly in around Benny's radishes; a pretty contrast to the scarlet and green tops. Yes, there he was fairly started; snow and radishes seemed odd to passers by, and when Benny called out: "Here is your nice fresh radishes: a gentleman passing by, said: “Out of season, my man." "They're nice, though; see that." And Benny snapped one in two, showing the crystal inside. come "You are right," said the gentleman, taking a bite; “ along with me, I will have some for my table.' Benny followed the gentleman to a large house, and the bunches were counted. There were ten. "Well," said the gentleman, "I will give you two shillings; but I know there must be a story connected with these radishes; I want to know all about it." Benny gave a quick glad look up in the face of his new friend and told his story: told it in such a way, too, that the corner in the garden and all his toil lay like a picture before the gentlemen. When Benny finished, and had tucked his money safe and deep in his jacket-pocket, he was gladdened by the words "Now, Benny, I want all your radishes; you may bring me as many as you did to day every other day, until they are gone.' 66 Oh, thank you, sir; and will I have the shawl by Christmas do you think?" "Yes, unless you have a smaller stock than I think you have." Benny thanked the gentleman, and ran down the steps. He did not see a form that was leaning against one of the pillars, and had heard all his story--it was his father. When he saw Benny's finger closed over his first-earned money, there was a wicked gleam in his eyes as he thought, "that will do, I'll have it." But in spite of his terrible thirst, when he heard about the shawl, he clenched his hands until the nails sank in the flesh, and exclaimed: "No! I won't be such a brute, and I'll help buy the shawl, so help me God." He turned in an opposite direction from what Benny went, and walked rapidly away. His cry was to the right source now; his wife had often said that grace alone could save him, he was so weak-too weak to depend upon himself. He had taken his usual drink that morning, and now the time was approaching for the next; he had spent his last penny, and that was the reason he felt tempted to take Benny's money. He went into the cabinet shop, where he might have steady work if he would; he was a good workman, and worked by the piece. He drew from a corner an unfinished bureau of the finest walnut. He went to work with such a force and will that his employer quickly observed him. There was a desperate, determined look in his eye, and around his mouth, that was quite unlike him. When Mr. Dunn, his employer, drew on his coat to go to dinner, Mr. Towers stepped in front of him. "Mr. Dunn." he said: "are you going to dinner? I want you to lock me in this room, and be kind enough to bring me some coffee." Mr. Dunn was touched with pity. "Ben, you are trying to stop drinking." earn." "I am, and I will; I pray you to help me. Why, Mr. Dunn, I've got the nicest wife in the world; you remember when she was the prettiest girl in all W- ; now look at her and see what this cursed drinking has done; I tell you sir, I'm going to stop. And that boy of mine-God bless him-has brought me to this determination; he's gone to work to try to buy his mother a shawl; think of that, and me drinking all I Mr. Towers sank into a chair entirely overcome. Then he told Mr. Dunn the story of the morning. His employer had often tried to reclaim him; and now was only too glad to do anything in his power to help the struggling man. He did lock him in. Oh, how the demon assailed the wretched drunkard; what a battle he had with himself; such a craving for drink; he felt he must have it, that he must tear the door from its hinges, or smash the window with one desperate blow. He polished the carved handles of the bureau until they shone like ebony. He shut and ground his teeth in despair. When he heard the key again in the lock, his impulse was to rush past Mr. Dunn and beg for drink. Mr. Dunn stepped inside, locked the door, put the key in his pocket. He saw the desperate struggle; he bought not only a bottle of hot coffee, but a nice substantial dinner beside. "Ben," he said, "I believe you will conquer. Eat your dinner now, and save a part of this coffee for the afternoon. I will go home with you to-night. I will go after you in the morning; in a few days the worst will be over. Mr. Dunn locked him in again until tea time. The strong coffee allayed his thirst and stimulated him, so that he got along very well. Mrs. Towers was much frightened when she saw Mr. Dunn with her husband. He left him on the doorstep. When he stepped before her she saw a new light in his eyes, and that he was perfectly sober. She threw her arms around his neck and kissed him, and Benny-he didn't quite understand what it meant-he was surprised his father did not throw himself upon the lounge to sleep as usual. Mrs. Towers did not like to ask any questions, and her husband did not dare to make any promises, or tell of his struggle, for fear he should fail. Mr. Dunn came for him in the morn ing and took him to his work. He had more coffee ready for him. So the battle went on-successfully, too. And Benny's trading went on, until all the radishes had been tied into bunches and sold, and he had eleven shillings The coveted grey and black shawl was twelve shillings. Where was the other shilling coming from? He was in the cellar cleaning up the dirt used to cover his radishes, when his father came down. Benny thought he had kept his secret. His mother knew he was selling his radishes, but she asked no questions. He did not know his father knew anything about it, so Benny was quite surprised when he asked, "How is it, my boy, about the radishes?" Benny gazed into his father's face, and then came a feeling that he might trust him-that new father, who had grown so kind and good, who brought baskets of good food home, and supplied mamma with coal. When his father stretched out his arms, Benny sprang into them, and told them all his heart. "I want to help buy the shawl, Benny. You go to Mr. Dunn, and he will give you the other shilling. I can't trust myself to handle money yet, but I'm getting stronger every day, and hope to set you a better example in the future. I feel it was you and your radishes that saved me, Benny." Then he told his little boy how he had overheard his story, and all his struggle. Oh! what a happy, merry Christmas that was. The warm shawl was ready for mamma, and Benny had a bran new pair of boots, his first. There were other things to gladden the children, a nice dinner, too, turkey and mince pies, but best of all the redeemed husband and father. THE SON OF TEMPERANCE. DIVISION DIRECTORY. i [Where not otherwise stated, the Meetings commence at Eight. Applicants for admission may apply on the night of meeting, or address a note to the Financial Scribe. Divisions advertised as under at Five Shillings per annum.] Lily of the Valley Venerable Bede.... ...... Hope of Lincoln ... Walworth & Cam berwell Star of the East... Sir Hugh Myddelton Hand-in-Hand Hope of Battersea Holloway Ormond Wandsworth Excelsior .... Belle Isle Moor Temp. Hall, Derby-st... Foresters' Hall, Charlotte-st... Last Sat. 4.30 R. Weightman, East Holywell, New Alt. Sat. 4th Tu. Alt. Sat. Alt. Tu. Alt. S. 6.30 Alt. Tu. 7 Alt. M. Alt. W. 8 Alt. M. Tu. 1st & 3rd Alt. F. castle. W Roffey, 20, Wheeler-street. G. F. Adams, Grove Villa, The Groves W. Reed, 26, West Powlat-st.. Chas. Fenwick, 27, Glendower-street. A. Rossiter, 3, Sussex-ter, Pagnell-st. H. Tait, 36, Cowlairs-road J. Fanning, 30, Newhall-st, Bridgeton H. Douglas, Willington-ter., Willington J. P. Gill, 69, Fore-street R. J. Bird, 19, Newmarch-street. J. Gilbertson, 45, Cockburn-street Zion Church School, Neate-st, Tu. 2nd & 4th E. Bastin, Chapel-place, Camberwell. Camberwell Cong. Church, Boro'-rd., S.E. Temp. Hall, Spa-rd, Bermondsey Tu. C. M. Collier, 148, Hackney-road, E. G. Central Hall, Bishopsgate.. Alt. Tu. 8.30 W. Tranter, 9, Bridgewater-sq., E.C. Tollington Hall, Hornsey-rd. C. Tav.,13, Gt. Ormond-st.W.C. 1st & 3rd W. W. Cove, 2, Westminster-blgs., Pye-st. T. Evans, 114, Copenhagen-st., N. W. Wyatt, 9A, Hethpool-st., Maida- J.P. Budd, 28, Giesbach-rd., UprHollwy R. F. Passmore, 1, Woburn-bldgs, W.C DIVISION DIRECTORY.-Continued. [Where not otherwise stated, the Meetings commence at Eight. Applicants for admission may apply on the night of meeting, or address a note to the Financial Scribe. Divisions advertised as under at Five Shillings per annum. NIGHT. .... Sir Henry Havelock Bapt. School, Ainsworth-st.,.. Tu. 2nd Tu. Erimus Alt. M. 7.30 Northbrook-bls, Linthorpe-rd. Sons of Temperance Hall .... Sceptre of Charity Eng. Baptist Vestry, Treorky.. Pride of St. Helen's Bee-hive...... Stockton-on-Tees.. Morning Star ...... ...... Crystal Fount Rescue Salem Self-help. Wallsend-on-Tyne Tyne ... .... .... Weston-in-Runcorn Nil Desperandum West Hartlepool Albert. Wednesbury Wigan Wolverhampton Worcester Meliora ORDER OF THE SONS OF TEMPERANCE Of Great Britain and Ireland (American Unity). The objects of this society are to shield its members from the temptation to, and the evils resulting from intemperance, and to afford mutual assistance in time of sickness or accident. The first is effected by the adoption of the total abstinence pledge, avoiding the public-house, and securing its members from the many evils attending upon unabstaining societies holding their meetings in public-houses, which have proved not only injurious to the societies themselves, but to the members individually-wasting the money of the one, and destroying the health, morals, and social standing of the other; the second, by the payment of a stated initiation fee, and a weekly subscription, affording advantages second to none offered by any other society. Societies or bodies of men can obtain a charter to open a new Division of the above Order, provided their ages do not exceed 45 years. Applications for charters to open new divisions. or any other information, can be had by applying to WILLIAM CLARKE, M.W.S., 29, Pitt-terrace, Miles Platting, Manchester. RICHARD D. PETTERSON, 70, Jacob-street, Liverpool. W. H. Lowe, G.S., 136, Bedford-street, Lower Moss-lane, Hulme, Manchester. HENRY GARSTANG, G.S., 23, Charnock-street, Preston. CHARLES KERSHAW, G.S., 28, Norreys-street, Rochdale. HENRY LLOYD, G.S., 4, Commercial-street, Dowlais, Wales. F. 7.30 W. 7.30 Alt. Sat. 6.30 Alt. Sat. 7 Alt. Tu. FINANCIAL SCRIBE. Jno. Brooks, 127, Clowes-st., W. Gorton T. Rigsby, 21, Baxter-st. J. A. Harrison, 91, Church-street. M. 2nd & 4th 1st Tu. Alt. Sat. 7 4th W. Alt. Tu. 7.30 Alt. S. 6 2nd & last Sat Alt. Fri. Alt. Wed. Alt. F. 2nd. W. Alt. Sat., 7. Alt. Tu., 7.30 Alt. W. 7 Alt. Th. 7.30 Alt. M. Alt. S., 7. Alt. Th. 7 Alt. Tu. 7.30 Alt. M. Alt. M. 2nd & 4th Tu. Wm. Lasseter, 40, Ivy-street, Southsea J. Fothergill, 11, Stratton-street. J. Steel, 24, West Burton-st., Regent-rd W. Hadlast, A. Brown, 90, Woodhead-rd, London-rd R. Forster, 22, Tower-st., New Hendon J. Fawcett, 10, Claremont-terrace J. Bowie, 24, Lansdowne-street. Alt. M., 7.30. William Shirley, Coventry-road. JAMES GIBSON, G.S., 46, Derby-street, Newcastle-on-Tyne. W. GLEADHILL, 10, Crystal-terrace, Courtney-street, Holderness-road, Hull. HENRY NICHOLSON, G.S., Rodley, near Leeds. chester. NATHAN YATES, G.S., 17, Grafton-street, Bolton. THOMAS COOKE, G.S., Y.M.C Association, Camden-buildings, JOHN ANDERSON, G.S., Crown Smith Works, Coatbridge. JOHN GRUBB, G.S., Windmill House, Mill-lane, Stockton-on-Tees. T. C. HOBSON, G.S., 3, America-street, Tunstall, Stoke-on- C. RICHARDSON, F.S., 3, Shandoor-place, Edinburgh. |