HASZARD'S GAZETTE, DECEMBER. 15.

INTEMPERANCE AND IGNORANCE THE CAUSE OF CRIME. I

Ma. Saarosi. Waaasit, the learned Recorder of Hull. and the well-knows author of some of the most popular works of fiction of the day, has recently addressed a charge to the Grand Jury of the borough in which his functions are exercised,

"in which, after an able review of the several

measures passed in the last lession of Parliament for sltestiog and amending the administration of civil and criminal justice in this country, he dwelt with especial emphasis, and with earnest eloquence, upon the lamentable and glaring inad- equacy of all the alone as yet made, either by society or by the legislature, for the prevention and suppression of crime. As this topic must necessarily possess a deep interest for every one aaed ofs grain of humanity, we shall not saints to transfer to this part of our journal some of the more striking observations whic Its. Warren has been induced to make upon it. Having sketched with a masterly hand the leading features of the last year's civil and cri- minal legislation. and having briefly but lucidly explained the nature of the changes that would be produced by them. the le'arned gentleman pointedly inquired, whether they were such as should satisfy the nation? " Do let me ask you,” said he, " as humane and Christian men— as gentlemen ofexperience and reflectioti—are you content to let the matter rest here! What do you see. biita legislature timid and vacillsting. be- cause of the visible disturbing forces within it, in dealing with the most fearful social problems of the age? They are not only fearful but pressing problems: and God is forcing upon us the consid- eration of them. He will not let us evade them hose who make, and thoso who administer, the laws against crime, are fairly at their wits’ end. it makes such head against them; the pendulum of punishment has swung from extreme point to extreme point, between severity and lenity; every kind of unishment that can be borne in a free country as been tried, in every_ variation and combination; but we see, that it will not do; both ‘Manila and adult criminals are too much for us. he cancer is in the body politic; it is spreading, and approaching the vital parts. e may shut our eyes to it, it‘ we will ; but there is the cancer, eating on!” Then, speaking of his own anxious and deep reflvction upon the subject, he says: —“ All I can say is, that I see more clearly than ever—terribly clearly-the connection between cause and effect, in crime: I can see it in the very act of hideous growth from the twin stems of intempernnce and iguoraiice, which themselves take quick and deep root in the soil of man's corrupt heart. While we ought to be laying the axe to the root of the infernal tree, we content ourselves with snipping elfleisurely a few of the uppermost leaves and vwigsl Is not this merely child's workl-idiot’e wurhl May we not be guilty of impious trifling with an awful task set us by God? Do we forget who has told us, that men do notgatliner figs from tltistlcs, not grapes from thorns.’ And tliis- tlea and thorns are the hearts of the best of us, unreelaimed by the grace of God; but how can it be otherwise with the little outcasts of society, whom we suffer to grow up day by day. month by month, and year by year, into the rufiian—the robber, the burglar, the murderer—tliat is now terrifying a society become helpless from its own weak and guilty apathy! We look on, almost with a horrid sort of interest, while ‘ the dog re- turns to his vomit, the sow to her wallowing if the mire.” Of what avail are the mere accents on honied eloquence-of sympathy and sorrow—in dealing with such dreadful realities as these‘? They are mere ‘Parinacity for an inward bruise!‘ Well, then, first ol'all, let us attack at once—and straining every nerve with a holy eiiergy—the cause, which is to be found—as, else! we too well know—in intemperance and ignorance. No one doubts it; assent to the proposition is given with complacent readiness; but alas!——

‘ The flighty purpose never is o'ertook,

Unless the deed go with it!’

Would that a holy crusade could be set on foot 8 national movement——against these two inveter-

ate and deadly foes of mankind!" Proceeding in the same earnest vein, the learned gentleman cxpatiated on the moral advantages of temperance, and gave a vivid instance of the guilt and misery produced by drink. “ I was never heard," said he, '- to speak a syllable with levity or disrespect to the temperance movement, as it is it led; for, to me. the sight of a man es- ecially in humble life, who voluntarily abstains mm a pleasure and an excitement, which he has found to lead him far astray from virtue. peace, and happiness, is very noble and affecting. as an act of self-denial, to the best of my belief, no temperance man ever stood at that bar, to re- ceive judgment from this seat, in my time at least; while I tremble to express my belief, that seven out of every ten who have done so, have, been brought there by intoxicating liquor: l have talked with many ofthem afterwards in prison, and they have owned it with tears of agony. And since I sate here, the same truth came as a very groan from the gallows! On Saturday, the 4th of August, one Joseph Meadows, a young man 25 years old was hanged in Worcestershircn for the diabolical murder of a respectable girl, only 17 years old, whose parents had refused to allow him to keep company with her! He shot: her through the head, poor soul! and. looking atl

her corpse, exclaimed, in the presence of two witnesses,‘ I’ve had my revenge. an I've hbd my revenge. is sweet, and now I'm setiafigd. I wasdetermined that ifl did not have lteruo one else should!’ But this fiendish tem r did not continue to the last: a few hours been his death-he wrote a humble and, penitential letter to the bereaved parents of his young victim and I

copied from it the concluding _sentenae t read

from this seat:—

“ ' I hope and trust it will be a warning to these that are given to lead a wicked and rebellious life, like Idid, until that time. Iladl notlsd that life, it never would havclisppened; not that I upraid any of you for it; it is merely to show you all what drink brings on.’

“ Does this fearful sentence need a word of comment? Only tliis—may God speed the cause of temperance!’

Not less cogent or forcible was the testimony which the learned gentlemen brought to bear upon the national evil of ignorance as a cause of crime. " As for i,.........ee—ignoranoe, above all. of rcligion,”—said he,“ I shall present to you my own matured and profound conviction on that subject, in the impressive language of a circular which was sent from this place to me. whenl was out of England; it was the circular of the eorirmittee. formed at the instance of the venera- ble vicar, to secure a suitable site for the exten- sion of the Hol Trinity parish schools;I sub- scribe to every syllable of what so admirably fol- lows:—“ ‘ The testimony oftliose charged with the repression of wickedness and vice—ofjudges. magistrates. and chaplains of prisons— is uiii- formly confirmative of the fact, that prevalence of crime is to be attributed in it great measure to the ignorance and practical lreathenism naturally arising from a neglected childhood. Now when the immense expense attending the conviction, and punishment of criminals is taken into account, it becomes most evident that in the end it is far more true economy to grapple with the evil in its infancy, than by neglect to suffer it to attain a fa- tul maturity. As, itis,_ multitudes are growing up uiieared for. and exciting most serious appre- hensions for the future: and it must be allowed to be the high mission of practical Christianity, to anticipate the evil associations of the world, by the timely inculcation of religious principles, and the early-formed habits of regular industry.’ ”

Let us trust that this time is not so distant as it appears to I‘U. and that ‘lie Legislature, in the next Session of l':irliainent, will adopt the convic- tion which Mr. Warren, in his admirable charge to the Grand Jury of Hull, declared to be firmly planted in his own breast. that “ the vocation of this age is the rec|amation—-the reformation-of auch youthful members of the communiiy, as ne- glect and wickedness havethrown into the way of crime—a work that can only be effected by the solemn recognition ofthe cnrtlinal truth, that pre- vention is better than cure."

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