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Hawke's Bay Times, 16 September 1867, Page 2

Tim Hon. Nkal Dow in England.— The lion. Neal Dow, father of the Maine Law, is at present in England, and agitating theliquorquesliou there,in connection with the United Kingdom Alliance, at a Conference held in the Queens rooms Hanover Square on the tided May, ho made the following remark? which we extract from the Conference published in the Alliance News of the Ist June; —The Hon. Neal Dow, in remarking upon the evident absurdity ol the Government legalising the sale of intoxicating liquors, said: There is not a member of the House of Commons, not a member of the Hrilish Government at thida}-, who will not admit that it is a most important department of Christianity and philanthropic clihrt to draw the people away from the sho; s which the Government opens for the sale of liquor. Now we are going to change all that. We who are engaged in this great work artgoing to keep them away, ami then we are jgoing to shut the places up. (Applause.) | Various plans have been tried of pro; celling the public from the evil, but it lias been just like the attempt to keep moths away from a candle ; you may try it for a long time with no result, but the wearing out of your patience ; but if you put an (extinguisher upon the candle, it is done hit once. (Applause.) That is exactly what we are going to do. Wo "ill come down upon the Ihpior tratlic here as we did in my eiumry — just like an extiu giiishiT upon a candle. And if any gentle man here are proposing to invest any con siderable sum in a brewery, why, they had better not do it. 1 tel! them it won’t pay ; ihcv had belter write to -11, John Daltonstreet first, and knowhow long the trulile "ill last dbere is no subject, it seems to me, more worthy the attention of the Hritish statesman than that of the pauperism of this country, in connection with its crime. 1 apprehend there is no country in this world the newspapers oi which dis close such a stale ot things as can be f. und here. Every morning 1 lie dailypaper contains a long jist, of bru'ahties,

ami crimes, and atrocities, ibo like oil which cannot bo found in any other country in the world. Trace them to tm-ir source. Every one of them goes back to the grogshop. Sometimes there may be one you cannot truce to it, but it is a very rare •iiiil crimp stand very differently to what they are hero. It is remarkable —I find i! in a .British blue-book —that disease and) insanity, and deaf and dumbness, and pau peris'ii— not most il.-af and dumb pauperism, as (he l imes hud it to-d.ay--but deal and dumbness, pauperism and crime, all those constitute less than I per cent, of the population in the Now England Slates. Now, pauperism alone in this country constitutes 5 per cent, of your population. Hie richest nation in the world you are, and yet with more wide-spread and more abject pauperism than amongst any population the world ; the rao?t magnificent homes in the word, and at same time the most miserable dens, with English men and women and children bring in them, it they can by said to lire at a!! ; and you and the Government permitting things to go on in this way. You talk about the wretchedness of the country, and the miserable woman suffering a thousand deaths, and never do you talk about the cause —the traffic iu intoxicating drinks. (Hear, hear.) It is proposed to buildt better houses for the poor people, and u* to sweep away the eau-c of all that poverty, and then the people will provide better houses for themselves. Yoar soup kitchens [and various other appliances to supph [poor people with Joa-.i arc all very proper, | ibut let us pul away the cause which makes ,tbese people sutler, and die with burger [and cold, and (hen they will provide fuel [and food for themselves, as well a; proper I houses. The traffic in intoxicating drinks jis the great sin and shame of Christians of this country; and the movement of the!

Alliance has for its object the shifting- of it all, bo that this country may Tia redeemed | from the incubus. Are we right? We judge at least according to the Dest evidences before us, and, judging by those evidences, we pronounce that the hqour trallic is an infinite curse to the nation, and an infinite mischief to the people. About that we are sure we are right. Don’t let gentlemen be afraid they will not get drink enough if we succeed in stopping the liquor traffic. It may put them to a little inconvenience, I dare say. In the State of which 1 belong the people are by no means " fanatical teetotalers some of our warmest friends are not teetotalers at all, but in that State there are gentlemen who take their wine and their liquors too. Some have said, “You are very in-! consistent, you who take these things, to i come and put down the grogshops. Why do you do it P” “ Beeause the grogshops are an infinite curse to the people, and therefore we put them down, and we willingly suffer a slight inconvenience in obtaining wine and liquor for the general good.” (Applause.) Eow, Sir George, and ladies and gentlemen, any person who objects to our movement on any other ground titan that it trenches upon the just rights of the people virtually says this, “ 1 must admit that the liquor traffic is an infinite curse to the nation, an infinite curse to the people, and that the suppression of it would be of infinite benefit to the nation, and an iniiinite blessing to the people; but still I will not support, any movement for the suppression of the traffic, because if the traffic were suppressed, it would put me to inconvenience in getting my drink.” Let the Times and the Telegraph put that in their pipes and smoke it. (Applause) I tell you wo are going to put the grogshops down, and I say it because I think I know and understand the -British character. You are as we are. As I look down into your faces I see nothing to remind me that I am not in my own country. I don’t know whether you will consider that a compliment or not—(laughter)—but one thing I think you will admit, and that is that the Americans have a considerable amount of reputation for sharpness as to what belongs to their interest, and of abillity to comprehend it, and a resolute purpose to follow it out. 1 see exactly the same qualities of mind and heart here, wherever I go, as in my own country. An English gentleman was talking to me the other day. lie was one of those who thought that the Atlantic cable could not succeed, but when it did succeed be came into the front ranks and threw up his hat, and shouted, and greatly magnified the glory- of that enterprise. Well, lie wanted to know if we were not astonished with the success of the operation. I answered not at all. It did not create the slightest sensation on our side of the water, lie thought I was depreciating the importance of the enterprise, but I was not; and why? Because our countrymen think of the English that whatever they undertake they are sure to succeed in ; and as they had undertaken to lay the Atlantic cable, we regarded it as a fact accomplished ; although it was not done, wo were sure it was to be done And when the first message came across it did not create the slightest sensation or excitement in our minds. But, on the contrary, a fatal failure of it would have astonished us very much, as it would have been contrary to all our experience of the British character. And so, ladies and great numbers of Englishmen and Englishwomen have undertaken the work of putting the grogshops down, and they will do it —(applause)—and within five years, a kind Providence sparing my life and health, 1 will be surely over here to help you to n-jjiee m that happy consummation.

An Insect Destroyer.—The Virtues of Pennyroyal. —Much the larger number of Ileus are brought into our family circles by pet dogs and cats, and the pigsty is generally filled with them at this season of the your, where numbers will bop on you when visiting for the purpose of feeding or inspection. The oil of pennyroyal will drive these insects oil’; but a cheapo: nn-lhod, where the herb flourishes, is to throw your dogs and cats into a decoction of it once a week. Mow the herb and s'utter it in (he beds of the pigs once a month. I have seen this done for many years in succession. Where the herb cannot be got, (he oil may be procured. In Mi is ease saturate strings with it and tie them round the necks of the dogs and eats ; pour a little on the back and about the ears of hogs, which you can do while they are feeding, without touching them. By repeating th se applications every twelve or ilttecii days the fleas will flee from your quadrupeds, to their relief and improvement, and to your relief and comfort in the house. String saturated with the oil of peimyroal and tied around the neck and tail of horses will drive o(T lice; the strings should be saturated once a day. Mint freshly cut, and huim round a bed-

stead round, or on the bed furniture, will prevent annoyance from bed insects.— Gardener’s Magazine.

Taxation jx America. —The notion that ignorant impatience of taxation is a democratic quality, is likely to become cbsol fe. The taxation of the United States is about £SO,UOO,(X'O a year ; that of the State of .New Yoik, £2,000,000; and that of New Yo;k City, £8,000,000. livery New York citizen pays, therefore, about £8 to his city, 12s. to bis State, and £2 15s. to his country, making together more than £l3. 3 art ■ f the city revenue e nnes from property, bur tire actual taxes, head by head, must exceed those borne in any country in the woild, except New Zealand, which is also democratic.—Spectator.

CrmoFS Eii:ld Hand. —A white bear got loose from a menagerie the other day at Nottingham, and strayed into a field where some labourers were at work. They looked at the strange animal, thought it looked diiiigi-roiis. and went off to call tho police, the richest illustration of true British instinct we hare recently had. If Satan were to appear to an average Englishman, he would first call a constable, then write to the times, and then describe his visitor at a public meeting.—Spectator.

An AETrtJL Dod&E.—A certain old lady, whenever -be hires a servant man, asks, “ Can yen whistle?” On being asked the reason of this curious question, she says that she always makes him whistle when ho goes to draw the ale until he returns, thus securing him from tastiug.