THE DEVIL'S MILITIA.
"W. Digby Seymour, Esq., Q.C., the Becorder of Newcastle, in his charge to the Grand Jury, at the late Michaelmas Session, made strong reference to the drink traffic. Among other things he said—" The jury would agree with him, that it was bringing under their attention the extent, effect, and general statistics—guaranteed by being complied with a great deal of care—of the ■extent to which the liquor traffic is rife in England. There are at this time, six thousand habitual drunkards abroad in this country, one million fire hundred thousand occasional drunkards, five hundred thousand criminals, one hundred thousand of which number were continually in custody, making a total of two million *ix hundred thousand, a constant *tanding army of crime, or as it had been properly and forcibly put, ' The devil's militia of the line' There was only one way of practically checking the evils arising from this melancholy Btate of things, or rather, two ways: tbe one being to extend their police establishments, the other to change the licensing pystem. He left the Grand Jury to Bay which would be the more economical and judicious course.'
Pedigree.—ln reference to Lockhart's attempt to make out an irreproachable pedigree for Sir Walter Scott, Sydney Smith said, —" When Lady Lanodowne asked me about my grandfather, I told her he disappeared about the time of the assizes, and we asked no questions.
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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 892, 25 November 1871, Page 3
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233THE DEVIL'S MILITIA. Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 892, 25 November 1871, Page 3
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