THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE.

Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 108, 2 November 1889, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE.

The Recorder of Dublin, Mr. Falkinor, gave a sad account to the i Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Sunday Closing (Ireland) Bill as to drunkeness iv Dublin among tho working classes. The Recorder said that of the 54,000 families residing in Dublin, 32,000 familios lived in 7,000 houses, containing 48,000 rooms, 30,000 families in Dublin having only a room and a half each. The wretchedness of the surroundings drove the peoplo to the drink shops and tho children to the streets. Painful sights were witnessed of wives waiting for and seizing their husbands outside the places of work when wages were paid. Witness gave an instance of a man producing a pound and some shillings from his pocket and giving his wifo the shillings only. Ho appealed to tho committee to shorten the opportunities on Saturdays and Sundays of tho men wasting thoir wages This attribution of intemporance to overcrowding sets tho cart before tho horso. Intemperance necessitates overcrowding ; and had the man

who spent the weekly pound in drink, applied it, or only half of it, to house-rent, he and his wifo need not have been overcrowded.

JOTTINGS. Rev. F. C. Wines, of the National Prison Associotion, says: — "Judging by the number of commitments, year by year, to our penitentiaries and State prisons, crime has increased in the United States relatively to population, siuce tho war, by not less than one-third. ' Another home for inebriate women has been opened this week in the North of London, by the Church of England Temperance Socioty. It will bo for two classes of women, and will hold 26. A number of cases are already waiting to be admitted. Miss Millington, hon. sec. of the Travellers' National Total Abstainers' Union, gave an account of eight 3'ears' work at a recent gathering in Islington, London She stated that 6,100 members had been enrollod, and that nearly thrnefomths had been faithful to their pledges. Farm and Home makes rathor a good remark. " Many liquor bills are paid at the lunatic asylum," it says. " Drawing a draft on tho future, is not unknown to many men, though it is generally forgotten that it has to be paid back, most frequently with compound interest — about the ago of sixty, James Payn the novelist once suggested." Tho electors of Toronto replied with an emphatic "No" when asked the other day to vote money for the establishment of an inebriate asylum. The Christian Leader says that perhaps they see tho absurdity of licensing a traffic to make drunkards and thon taxing sober citizens to take care of them. Dr. Singleton, of Melbourne, now over eighty, says he has beon an abstainer for 64 years and for over 59 has hardly ever prescribed alcohol. He finds that ether, camphor, or carbonate of ammonia quite as well answer the purpose. 80,000 persons had consulted him at a dispensary and to not one of these had ho prescribed alcohol. Dr. Siugloton is a native of Dublin and received his medical education in Glasgow. A ROMANTIC MARRIAGE. Mr. Edwin do Lisle, M.P., was married tho other day to Miss Agnes Hope, the oldest daughter of Mr. Adrian Hope. The history of this marriage, as known to the initiated, is somewhat extraordinary. Mr. de Lisle comes from a very ancient, but not over-wealthy Catholic family, hails from Leicestershire, which is also the county of Mr. Adrian Hope — one of tho many wealthy Hopes. Tho happy couple had not, however, met till the day of Lord Salisbury's garden party to the Shah, some six weeks ago. Ho was introduced to her there, and found the time go so pleasantly and so sweetly that later in the afternoon he proposed to her in the conservator}'. Miss Hope had also beon prepossessed by her young cavalier, and she accepted his offer. He expressed his fear that the family would object to the match on religious grounds, but Bho annulled this objection, saying that she had always had a desire to belong to the only church which would not admit of div.orce. True enough, the Hopes did not offer any material objection, and Mr. Adrian Hope settled £20,000 on his daughter forthwith, and now the marriage has taken place. The Hopes, however, were always remarkable. The three brothers, Henry (or waa it Thomas ?). Adrian, and Beresford-Hope, got their money from an ancient banking firm which originally sprang from Holland. All of tnom were very friendly with Lord Beaconsfield, who wrote one of his books while staying with Mr. Henry Hope, of Deepdare, one of the prettiest estates in Surrey. This Hope did not marry till late in life, when his daughter by the lady who lived with him became engaged to tho Duke of Newcastle. It was thought desirable at this time to mako things as square and conventional as possible, and so the long-deferred marriage of tho father and mother took place. Subsoquently the daughter was married to the Duke of Nowcastle, and it is said that whon someone spoke pleasantly, as a wedding guest should, of the general delightf ulness of weddings, the young duchess answered innocently, " I haven't much experience of marriages, as the only other marriage I was at was that of papa aud mamma." When the Duke of Newcastle died, the Duchess married her son's tutor, Mr. Holer, and the young duke, her crippled son, lately married the wealthy Miss Candy. But this does not exhaust the adventures of the Hopes, for Mr. Adrian Hope — the second Adrian — married first the sister of the Duke of Fife, whose daughter Mrs. I)e Lisle is ; but alas ! Lady Agnes Hope was a scandal to her family, as she left her husband and went away with a Mr. Wilson whom subsequently she marriod. The Hopes may therefore be said to be peculiar in their marriage arrangements.