the English had made one thousand drunkards! That was a sad thought, but it was the simt truth. If the English were driven out of India to-metrow, the chief trace of their having been there would be the number of drunkards they left behind. Had he (the Archdeacon) not, reason, then to love the cause of teetotalism? If be could express cely a throundth part of what he felt, he was sure that he should rose the feelings of those whom he addressed to the greatest energy and real. He knew that they had to toil against prejudices of long standing, against habits and customs adopted and pracused from early infamy; and if it was found difficult to get mowy with wire to carry on the operations of temperance societies, it was far more difficult to get a sufficient amount of self-denial He rejoiced to see so many files present. To them the teetotal cause should be very dear. What a poor, wretched creature was the wife of the drunkard! Her ears are assailed with the most hand Marcare, her children are cruelly used-perhaps half murdered before ber eres—and she dare not for her life interfere. See the tears trickle down her cheeks while her children_cry for bread and she has none to give them. Oh, it was enough to fill every feeling heart with angush! If there was any woman present who knew what was the misery of having a drunken husband and a drunken parent, she would surely feel that it was her duty to espouse the teetotal cause with her whole heart and soul. He prived earnestly that God would grant them all grace, that they might straggle successfully against selfishness and hard-heartedness, and that the cause might spread and grow till the foe Intemperance was driven from the country." The meeting was then addressed by several speakers. Little did any one in that large and respectable audience imagine that before that day week their chairman would be in eternity! The foregoing impressive speech may be regarded as the dying testimony of a good man, to the evils of intemperance, and the value of total abstinence. Information has since been obtained from Ceylon, that the Cingalese Atheistical Boodhists have recently formed a Temperance Society to resist the tide of intemperance introduced by British Christians!! READERS, what is your conduct in relation to the drinking cus toms of society? Do you sell or use intoxicating drinks? Whether ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." Sveinties may receive 24 Sixpenny Packets of Tracts and Hand Bills, in any part of Lonion, by a post-c Fce order for 10s. 6d., or 50 packets for 21s., being sent to Kichard Dikes Llerander, Ipswich. All country Booksellers may obtain Tracts through Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., London. J. M. Burton and Co., Stereotypers and Printers, Ipswich. THE DRINKER'S SONG. BY GEORGE HOOD. AIR.-"Song of the Shirt." With features bloated and pale- In misery, madness and woe; • Drink-Drink-Drink From "dewy eve" till midnight hour; Beneath the demon's power, Whose sad and dreary reign Is in palace so dim and low; Where pleasure leads on to sorrow and pain, Drink-Drink-Drink Till the head begins to reel- Till the heart now ceases to feel. Thought and feeling are gone Why did I drink it up? And the soul, the gem which so brightly shone, Is lost in the streaming cup. Drink Drink-Drink Till the moonlight wanes away→→ Till appears the morning grey. Home-Home-Home- For, ch! my wife's sad smile Strikes through my soul like a dart, And now my lonely child, Of gladness and joyful hours, I grow untimely old My cheek it is thin and wan- For bound to a tyrant's car, A weak and helpless slave, What would I give to be free- I may not break the spell. That makes my breast a hell. To the dreary grave I go, My being and nature curst. There is no drink in shades below To quench ne'er-ending thirst. My face is bloated without, My mind is darkened within, Black thoughts encompass my mind about, With features haggard and pale- In misery, madness, and woe, Societies may receive 24 Sixpenny Packets of Tracts and Hand Bills in any part of London, by a post-office order for 10s. 6d., or 50 packets for 21s., being sent to Richard Dykes Alexander, Ipswich. All Country Booksellers may obtain Tracts through William Tweedie, 337, Strand, London. J. M. Burton and Co., Stereotypers and Printers, Ipswich. SELF-IMPOSED TAXATION. Mr. G. R. Porter, who is known to the public by his valuable work on the Progress of the Nation, has submitted to the British Association for the Advancement of Science a valuable paper on "The Self-Imposed Taxation of the Working Classes." The writer refers, of course, to that self-imposed taxation which consists in the use of articles from which we could very well abstain, and which are of no use to us either bodily or intellectually. The particular instances were the consumption of ardent spirits, beer, and tobacco; the yearly expenditure of which articles. in the United Kingdom, amounts to a sum which must appear perfectly fabulous until the reasonableness of the result be shown by means of calculations adopted and formed on good authority. The quantity of spirits of home production consumed in 1849 within the kingdom was, in England, 9,053,676 imperial gallons; Scotland, 6,935,003 imperial gallons; Ireland, 6,973,333 imperial gallons: together, 22,962,012 imperial gallons. The duty upon which quantity amounted to £5,793,381. The wholesale cost, including the duty, would probably amount to about £8,000,000, a sum which would, however, be very far short of that paid by the consumers. It has been given as the opinion of several distillers, that the consumer pays for every gallon of spirits used three times the amount of the duty. Assuming this estimate, it would appear that the cost of British and Irish distilled spirits to the people of England, Scotland, and Ireland, respectively, in 1849, was £17,381,643, thus divided:-England, £8,838,768; Scotland, £5,369,868; Ireland, £3,173,007; total, £17,381,643. The consumption of rum in 1849 amounted to 3,044,758 imperial gallons, the duty paid on which was £1,142,855. Making the same calculation, the expenditure for this kind of spirit will reach £3,428,565, making the whole outlay of the people for these two descriptions of ardent spirits, £20,810,208, thus locally divided: England, £8,205,242; Scotland, £6,285,114; Ireland, £6,319,852; making a total of £20,810,208. If we assume that the population of the three divisions of the United Kingdom was the same in 1849 as it was found to be at the enumeration of 1841, the consumption per head in the year was-In England, 0.569 gallons; Scotland, 2.647 gallons; Ireland, 0-853 gallons. These proportions are such as would fall to the share of each man, woman, and child throughout the land; but it must be evident that many, and especially the women and children, can count for very little in the calculation, if, indeed, they should not be wholly discarded from it. Dividing the quantity consumed by the adult males as they were ascertained in 1841, the following portions would fall to the share of each :-In England 2,330 gallons, or about 2 1-3 gallons; in Scotland 11,168 gallons, or about 11 1-6 gallons; in Ireland, 3,469 gallons, or about 3 gallons. Brandy is for the most part drunk by persons not of the working class, as that term is generally, but somewhat arbitrarily, understood. The quantity consumed in 1849 was 2,187,500 imperial gallons, the first or wholesale cost of which was about £546,875; and the duty paid amounted to £1,640,282: together £2,187,157. If we assume that each gallon costs, on the average, to the consumers, 30s. or 50s. per cent. advance upon the import cost and duty, this would exhibit an expenditure for brandy of £3,281,250, which, added to the sum formerly stated, gives a total expenditure within the year for ardent spirits of the enormous sum of £24,091,458. The number of bushels of malt subjected to duty in 1849 was 37,999,032, or 4,749,879 quarters; but of this quantity only 3,719,145 quarters is set down as having been used by licensed brewers. Of the remaining 1,010,734 quarters, the greater part was, no doubt, used by private families, and the remainder was worked up by the distillers. In order to be on the side of moderation, let us assume that only the quantity (3,719,145 quarters) used in licensed breweries was employed in making beer, and we shall find, upon the usual calculation of 3 barrels of beer, of average quality and strength, as the product of each quarter of malt, that the number of gallons brewed from the above-mentioned quantity was 435,139,965. Assuming the price to be 1s. 2d. per gallon, we arrive at the sum of £25,383,105 annually spent by the popula tion of this kingdom, and chiefly by the labouring portion, for beer. It is shown by a statement recently presented to the House of Commons, that the number of persons who are engaged as pro |