tiASZAltI)'S oA7.i«;'i"i‘E NOVEMBER 15.

Gsrtriilii. wlNDltA|( srto ‘rite AIIAB.

When a young Guardsman, he was spending his leave in a tour through Syria. and was jour- ngying in the desert, under convoy of an Arab ssheik and stime twenty or tlirity retIiners— swarihy, desperate looking sons of the desert himself and his scrv;tni.a stalwart “Uoldstreemcr being the only two Europeans of the party. The route was dntigcious and beset by brigsnds. It on; impossible to travel exept under escort, and Captain Windham had engaged the services of his guides and guardians at a fair reinuneration. For the first few days they went on amicably enou h. The captain, with his short black pipe. “"1 .-an]; hand.-‘ems face, winning, as tves his wont, golden opinions from all with whom be associated ;but at the end ofthat time, and when so far advanced into the desert that it was equally dangerous to go forward, or to return. behold the wily scheik bethinks him ofa scheme by whic heiney yet worm out another thousand or two of paisireens from his Em.-ligh fricnd. Accor- dinglv, at their evening halt, he proceeds to the Guerdsman's tent, and liolde conversation wit him, through the intervention of a rascally drago- msn, to the following eﬂ'ect :—

Arab sclieik—“shawled to the eyes and heard- ed to the nose." enveloped, inoreover, to dirty draperies, waving his pipe-stick courteously to dn‘oma,,_.i'l‘el| my brother that the way ts long, our barley exhausted, our hotlel Without water, we must return, or parish. _

\Vindham—in shirt sleeves aiio miieh-worn inexpressihles, without removing the short black pipe from his inouth-—“'l‘ell him tti he d d.”

Sclieilt—"Unlt-as the elfendi will pay us two thousand more piastres 'hach-aceesh,’ my men will be compelled to reiiirn ” _

\Vj“dham——“Asl( litm if he means to abide by his agreement or not . ' _ _

Dragomen—much alarmed, as is their wont— “Better give him the money: “'0 5ll3llb° lei‘

l'e.' h"\§':xcllil;m——witli a sign to Private \V. S} lies oftlic Light Company, iihuiii iioiliini: has ever estonished—“liill ; \\'lll you catch hold ofihis chap whilst I leaili»-r hiiii." _ _

In ,,,.,,,ki',,,g mo st‘.ll€lk'3‘Qf:|\'ll_\' is iipsei, by me ,,,,,,m._,,.y Pnincgg of tripping np_ his lieels, pi-i-fmmeil by the captain. s [tilts-cfltll square. built ni:iii, no wliit inferior in all uiheleiic exerci- ses to his illustrous ancestor and iiatnesakc, the famous siett-siiiaii. llill, a lirawiiy froiit-tank man, holds the chief down by the slioiiltletsa Mid his master, with it good-huitiored smile the whole time upoti his countenance, lays into the prostrate Any, snwi[h 3 will,"some twenty or thirty telling gnvjpqg from an honest, English hunting-wliip that has accompanied him tliI'0\I2l' ll“ ""_'9l-5"’ the Arab writhing, and abjectly entreating for mercy.

At the end of the performance, what ‘does the wild son of the desert to evenittl ill! d|9t!W~‘8l Does he call in his retainers and massacre the two bold strangers on the spot, or does he spring like a tiger on the strongarmed Englishman, and bury his yaiaghsn in the throat of his enemv ? Not I hit of it. He crawls to the captains feel, he embraces his knees, he calls hiin_-‘my fsiheIr._ he promises to do his bidding, “hI¢|t!0_lf Iﬂd ltll troop, and all that is his, in everything he shall require,” and moreover he keeps his pr°IIII0$ and to use Windhem's owti words, "beh_sves quit. like . gsnilsmanf’ till the end of the jour- nsy.—n-ezer‘a Magazine

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_?—o—-—— Tlx Pnxssxr CONDITION or sIBA5'l:0P0la-""A letter from Constsntniople of the 6th inst.., and published in the Danube of Vienna, 90!‘ "“ rson who has just arrived from Sebnstopol states, that that place still presents the _nspect of destruction, scarcely any houses being _tc- ths only ones that are 80. 5°13 those which the French had put in order for themselves. The torts on the northern side are only occupied by s gsrrisom couiP°3Fd °l “‘° remnants of the crews of the fleet. 1110 SW09‘! are literally covered with the splinters of shells and shot. In the Naval Fanbourg tlﬁlillclllgjifln. ii of men have been for weeks post cngug In icking up the shells which had npt burst- missch and Balnklnve contain an Immonle uentity of old warlike moléricl which the allies id not take the trouble of ciii-jiying with them. such as tents, csrri_s s, the. he in barrilcltl at Belnklava are stil _ _ ‘ ed by Russian soldiers. This _is_tlio only pkece where any windcws_are remaining unbro”0n- In Ssbustopol there is not one pane whole.

A Lanes. OvitN.—'I‘ho New York Jour- nal of Commerce says en_enormous oven hes just been completed in Brooklyn. 0 sufficient to bake ﬁve hundred

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and forty barrels of door ev_ery _¢ltIy- “I0 gppu-gm. is purely scientiﬁc in its con- struction. While exposed to the heat the

breed is constantly in motion, on :1 series of revolving platforms, and ﬁnally emerges on miniature rail cars, ready for delivery. The plan is to furnish the bakers with their daily supplies at the wholesale prices, which, it is contended, can be done nt a much loss rate than they can supply them- selves, and the public will get about forty per cent. more breed.

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CORRESPONDENCE.

'l‘o -ri-ts: Eon-on or llAszauo's Gazrrre.

"Lord Stanley has refuted by eight wciglitv Pawns. the advocates for the Maine III“! in I".ngland—a subject which creates vuttr i.tr1-Lt: interest there, because every one knows zhat its being carriedtliere is simply iiiirosstunlt. The Times says, ‘Imagine a law to inalie it a crime to to sell a glass of ale 1’ "

SIR : Under the genial head, “News by the English Mail,” your contemporary, rite exa- MINER publishes the above paragraph As a kind of set off to this precious marctau. I hive li~.l(0fl the liberiv to inclose the London WATCHNAN o the Silt insl., which contains an editorial article on the same subject, and which, it appears to me presents the state of the case, as between Lord Stanley and Mr. Pope, and the questions ofa Priihihitcry Liquor Law generally in a far more candid and trtitliful point of view than is to be found in the extract above. It is, perhaps, un- necessary to add, that the WATCIIMAN has never hiIhcrio—tlinnph a long-established. tvidely-circu- ciilated, and influential Journsl—commiited itself to the advocacy of the Maine Liquor Law, or any enactment bearing the slightest resemblance to that celebrated measure, this being, I believe the ﬁrst editorial article on the subject, worthy o note which has appeared in its columns. On the contrary, it has, up to the appearance of this article, persisted in maintaining a decree of can- tioti and reserve with reference to the Temperance qurstion anything but edifyiniz or agreeable to it lame nuinher ofits best friends and stipporters. Whilst, therefore, its utterances on the present occasion will neither be accepted nor rejected by any one on the score ofits iemperaiice procliviiies and partialities, it will doubtless, he gratifying to many of the readers of the WATCHMAN to learn that its talented editor is at last (to use his own words) trying to feel his way to a position on vvliilh he can unite with the Tcetotallers for some good work. That he and all others similar- ly circumstanccd may soon attain that honorable position must. I think. he the sincere and aniiiotis desire oftlie friends of humanity and social pro- gress in overv part of the worhl.1'l'lie iiiclosed article will afford grtitiﬁratinii, also, as indicating a very derided interest in the subject it so ably discusses, and as adiiiiibrating an era—perlinp$ not very tlistiiii—i\-lien, even in Great liritain the selling of a glass of ale will be dcemed"a crime,” and punished accordingly.

Yours

LORD STANLEY AND ME. SAMUEL POPE

(From the London lVolchman, Oct. 8.)

Tue last week has been it great one for “ the Allinnce”—we do not refer to the alliance of the Western Powers. but to “ The United King- dom Allinnce ;” and lest any one of our read- ers should siill be in ignorance as to what par- ticular association we mean, we beg to give him, or her, enlightenment by presentin the two following constitutional beans of the ody in question :—

“ The object of the Alliance shall be to call forth and direct an enli htcncd Public Opinion to procure the total and immediate Legislative Suppression of the Trsﬁc in all intoxicating Liquors ns Beverages." _

“ The Alliance, basin its proceedings on broad and catholic groun s, shall at all times recognise its ultimate dependence for success on the blessing of Almight Goo." _

" Suppression of the tre._ c 1" It.|8 it start ling idea, if this metropolis alone is taken as the scene of its realisation. Ima inc London

8 without it single gin-palace, and nine-tenths of

its public-houses turned to purposes of busi- ness instead of alcoholic refreshment; the smaller of them converted into retail shops, the larger into warehouses and oﬂices, and the most splendid into Literary Institutions, Lec- ture Rooms, or Club-houses for the mental re- fection of clcrks,'eppren_tices arid journeynien, relieved from their evening _toilsb the Early Closing Association. Imagine, a so, the _de- crease of drunkenness, vice and poverty which. according to the ratio that has actually result- d in the New England States, would be 75 per cent.; that is, a decrease of three-fourths! Add, too, the dilerence it would make in the popular observance of the Lortn‘s Day. to which the publicens are (many of them, we dpubt not. unconsciously or unwillingly) enemiias much more to he dreaded than the _Ant_i-Sunday League. There would be some privntion, some inconvenience, some interference with our so- .i;,1 ougtoms; but who v-"ll say, that so stupen- dous a reform would no ' e cheaply h0“Kl" 3-: the price of such secriﬁc -Q en times repeaj«led_.t We, at any rate. dare n i ey _I0 . H1003 1

may be prudent, as well than idid, to own that we have not as yet been st NR 0098“ bYAﬁ'.° statistics and reasoning pr Wnmlu b the hi- aucc,as tojhold ourselves " _ vocatc t e immediate application 01 Ml} N01‘ does the Alliance itself ask this. mantle to be heard. ‘O b°_ 3“°"°fl lb“ '““°'."‘,: ofattention _j_‘,icl_i its object ln§l_'|CI, and whicd may enable it to inlluence_ p|I_ 110 °P““°“v “‘

then to carry this along with ll.

,liae cons to apply to Parliament. We have

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,. tic interpreter ofEricuiius himself,—

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good common sense of the lnglisli character, will linve shaped the project into form and di-, niensions neither impracticable nor ineﬂicient. Meanwhile, there is nothing to be feared from 1 the Alliance. but much beneﬁt to he hoped; from its movement; and tliorefore it cannot be ; wrong for all persons to say as much in its favour, and to reserve prejudices and objections as for in the back ground, us they conveniently and conscientiously can. Sticli at least will be our own line on the present occasion.

We congratulate the Alliance on the recent tidings from the State of Maine. All who have watched with unhiiisscd regard the social ex- forwiird in the New England States must have regretted that, at the very

oint where it originated, it won for n tiiuo in- juriously interfered with by the conspiracy of several factions. The people tvere coerced by it minority in Maine, but have recovered them- selves, and are fully determined to restore their famous Law in its integrit . Those ofus who may not be ready to vote or its applica- tion here, ought yet to be desirous that the ex- periinent should be fairly tried yonder. “ It won‘t do in Old England,” any not a few ; well let us patiently observe how it works in New gland. It is pleasant, according to the poe-

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tcrra magnum ullerius spectare lnborem ; and America is practically working out it pro- blem iu which no diﬂerence of opinion should hinder us from feeling that morality. religion, international peace and the regeneration of so- ciety nre intensely interested. We are nshiim» , though not surprised, that the temporary defeat of the advocates of the Prohibitory Law in Maine should have been glad news to many people in Britain. What good could their ill- success do us? We may learn something from the example ofn country which redecms itself from intcinpernnce, but nothing except warning from one which returns to it. In the State of New York, this Law, after being passed by the Legislature, was virtually act uside b Court ofAppeals; ntid in the British Colony of New Brunswick, after being constitutionally carried there, and even sanctioned by the Ciiowx, it was got rid ofhy what we four were the unconstitutional measures of the Govuttxort. Nevertheless it is popular on both sides of the Lakes, and of the St. Lawrence and St. John Rivers; it hits been adopted by the enlightened citizens of .\l:l.8S!1Cllll!6ll5, and ircviii s, we be- licve, is most: of the States (with modifications, however, in some) not-tlitvni-ds and westwards, including New llnmpsliirc, Veriiiont, Michigan, on n , also southwards in Connecticut. lthode Island, and Delaware : in Indiana, New York, and Maine it will probably be restored, and in other States where it has been suspen- ded or rejected, the license system is an incom- pnrnbly more stringent one than that of this country. The Earl of HARRINGTON states that there are “ eleven millions of free Americans now under the Maine-law."

We have further to congratulate the Alliance on the publication ofits Prize Essay, of which we may say, that the man who raises his hand to arrest and suppress the reformntor move- ment here, until he has rend nud foun in his own mind it conscience-satisfying answer to that “ Argument for the Legislative Prohibition of the Liquor Trallic,” will be guilt of no little rasliness, and will involve himsel in no li ht responsibility. But that which has help- etfniorc than anything else of late to briu the whole subject before the public, is the orig correspondence between Lord S1-arti.I:r and Mr. 8. Porn. Only one or two ofoiir contemporar- ies huve ivon it in full, and of those who have abridged it, most Iiuve bestowed an un- due proportion of space and emphasis on Lord Sr.tNt.sr's share in the controversy. The Alli- ancc Weekly News of lastSnturduy contains both sides, with a quantity of other valuable matter, for a single ienny, and the letters will no doubt be re u lished as a tract. at it still small- er pricc. e recommend our friends, since we have not ourselves four or five columns vacant for these documents, to rocure and read them for themselves. Lord ANLIY has _done him- self rent credit by his appreciation of the magnitude of the su ject and by his candour in the discussion of it. Mr. Porn. the Secretary of the Alliance, has replied with iiiuch sk_i‘i_l, with fullness of knowledge, and in it (spirit which has none of that ‘intolerance w'-ich_ in too many cases has been justly charged against Teetotellers. 'l‘o ourselves the simple rno_i-sl argument appeals with almost overwhelming force. Temperance we hold to be the ruin- nent, un vernal, and highest rule; on total nbstinenc the individual, occasional, and in- fcrior one. If the latter suit one, that is not an adequate reason why he should enjoin it upon another. If he proceeds to add, " Ab- stain for thy brother's sake,” the answer must be, “ Most willingly, if you will prove that my brother will be saved or lost by in example. ’ Now there is nothing in the cxemp e of temper- ance which can incite to excess; and there is lnothing in that of total abstinence which can

a peel with the force of a moral law. But lthbngli such is the general principle, exception- al cases, and exceptional times too, may modi- fy it. A srent. who had a son given to insh- riety wo d not choose to have the decanters

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frequenil on the table. A riest who saw the wondcrlii eﬂbcts ofF.itber \ a'riii:w‘s agitation would have acted on un-Christian part in dis- countennncing it by his opposite example. might pcrhu. c any that is l the good men in the nation woul become Teetotallers to-morrow if they could induce till the intempcrnte to follow their example. But the weakness of the case lies in this, that you cannot employ the ethical signs “ must" and “ ought." simply because you are able to point to your own practice. t in note valid argument to any to your neighbour, " You ought to do this thing, because I do it; and must not do that, because I do not.’ Com ru- tively few men feel, for any length of time, the force of such an employment of the imperative mood. They turn round at last and demand is moral law binding on themselves, instead of an arbitrary one exemplified in another. Let it not be thought from these remarks that we are disputing with our friends the Teetotiillers. For frotn it; we are trying to feel our way toa position on which we can unite with them for some good work. We concede to them that voluntnry associations of persons pledged to entire abstinence are at nl times defensible and honourable, and may at some periods be- come absolutely necessary for the social exist- ence of a people; and that, in our own day, they have had it blessing attendant on them far beyond that promised to the house of the Rec- hubites. Let rill, therefore, who can do good by joining them, make what will be found, on actual experiment, a very easy sacrifice, and do so at once. But how are we to advance from tlieee concessions, keeping in view the truth of things, to the requirement ofii. legis- lative prohibition of the sale of strong drink? t is not possible for all the friends of tem- pcrnnce to couibine—we will not say for the adoption here of the Maine L:iw—but for the application of u. better license system? We now that it will he said this has been tried often and failed always. Still we apprehend it must be tried here too, if only its a first step. People will ask, is there no no media between Nctv England and Old England? No way to reconcile the lubourer’e glass of beer with no.- tiouiiltempernnce? no possibility of allowing him to hu.ve his customary beverage at home, without at the saline time exposing liiiu to the aillurciuents of the rocking ule-lioiise? Two questions like these we imagine the opuliir tiiind will be content with no other rep y than that ofnctuiil ex eriment under their own eyes. They will some ay try it for themselves. We submit to the Alliance therefore whether it cannot set before the nation some nearer and inoro attainable object than total prohibition, at least in the first instance. llot suppose we were actually put under the Maine Law, would the balance at the yeur’s end he one of reﬁt or loss? Would “ merry England” be ess merry thenceforward? In the first place, this Law, or one equivalent to it, would gain an end which voluntary absti- nence societies have failed fully to reach. It would remove temptation, and hiudcr perhaps half a hundred millions sterling from bein every year squandered in en un roductive, an , for the most part, criminal an destructive ex- enditure: it woul make ten thousand ‘Is- aunted homes the abodes of the spirit 0 in- dustry nnd peace, bri hten the dawn of every Sabbath morning. pro ong the life of number- less individuals, prevent the puhition at lnr e from bocoinin deterioratedmb s ro try 5 . . .-V .P 3° nﬂlicted with alcoho -tainted or nisstions,snd nall , would save souls from eath and hide I multitude ofeine. The object seems to us worth almost any price. There would be at first a loss to the revenue, but that, Lord Srsitnxr owns, is a secondary consideration, and would be speedily made od b the increased value of the national industry, t c addition to the pub- lic resources of the food eonsuni by the dis- tilleries, and the outlay of a people enriched by temperance. The new movement. it’ we under- stand it eright, does not aim to corn 1 the peo- le or tiny class of men to become '1 eetotttllcrs; if it did,we should not be prepared to advocate such an interference with ersonel liberty. Its aim is to remove temptation, to ut down gin-palaces. and to make the pub ic-houses which remain places of refreshment, and not for tippling; and its direction towards this end is to be parallel with the enlightened opin- ion nnd will of the people themselves. It is no to be attained by what is called " class legis- lntion." but by it ular impulse. We run therefore foresee that the path will be is dillicu t and long one ; but any pro ess, and even the attempt at progress, must iave a beneﬁcial in- ﬂuence—th:it is the conviction which has prompted us to write these paragra he; and the success which has been won in bn t‘ it score of the American States, leaves the advocates of this social reform not tvithouttt good hope of gaining some substantial nnd beneficent tri- umph even on our side of the Atlantic.

DRAIN warns PIPES.

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