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'1'" 1' AN INTEMPERATE TEMPERANCE MA.-It is start- ling to learn (states a London contemporary) that our legislators are in the habit of making laws with their heads fuddled with liquor," though this supposition would account for many of the legal absurdities which we point out week by week. It is no less than astounding to read that some of the most important divisions of the last few years have taken place with the members so drunk that the whips could scarcely carry them into the lobby to vote," though some of our weightier M.P.'s whom we could mention would severely tax the strength of Mr Arnold Morley or Mr Akers-Douglas, if it were part of the duty of a" whip to convey the party on his back about the House. But do you believe it? We don't. And yet these statements are reported to have been gravely made by the Rev. Hugh Price Hnglies in a speech addressed to the British Women's Temperance Association at Amhurst Park last week. It would be interesting to know whether the reverend gentleman has any reason for these astonishing assertions beyond the laudable desire to advance theca'jseof temperance. Mr Hughes is a sturdy pugilist; but he seems to have taken to hitting round his antagonists lately and with the usual result- Here is Mr Hughes' idea of a West-End club, as mirrored in the printed reports of his speech. It is a place where all sorts of debauchery is generated by the absence of the ennobling influence of a young man's mother and sisters." It is quite possible that young men in clubs" dont grow into plaster saints," Kipling sings. Some people will find a grain of comfort even in tbat reflection. But it is a pity that the temperate women, who no donbt received the speaker's flittering allusion to their functions with rapturous applause, could not extend their en- nobling influence far enough to keep Mr Hughes from internperance in language, which is often as harmful as intemperance in drink. We do not happen to know in what particular club smoking- room this gentleman is usually to be found but j that is a matter for the cluh committee.

DEGREE DAY AT LAMPETEK.

LLANDILO CHRONICLE, j

LLANSADWRX.

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