Baptist Reporter and Missionary Intelligencer Volume 29

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...if they can, to clear themselves of the foul imputation. A Governor In Ceylon, thoroughly impregnated with the spirit of the British constitution, impannelled a jury of Mussulmans, on a man found drowned, and they returned the solemn and significant verdict, "His time was come." Calcutta.---There is a project to build a bridge across the river so as to connect the railway with the city, the expense, nearly JE500,000, would be borne by the Government Afeweconomicalfacts.--Savings from Drowsy Drinks. The electors of the united kingdom would be doubled at once if only one-eleventh part of what is now spent by the working classes in drink, were saved and used to rent a better habitation, to say nothing of an increase of health and comfort--Three thousand millions of pounds sterling are thrown into the dead sea of drink in the life-time of a father and son, or in forty years. This money would build 125 cities as large as Glasgow!--A young man of twenty-one, saving a penny a day from drink he does not need, will, when he is sixty-one, have saved as much as will secure an annuity of one shilling a day for the rest of his life.--The whole annual sum expended on literature, including newspapers, in Great Britian, is five millions; whilst the amount spent in intoxicating drinks is fifty-four millions. Lunatics.--In the city of London, --without any increase of population, --the number of lunatic poor has doubled within the memory of some of the guardians; and the cause has baffled their inquiries. Some are inclined to attribute this dreadful visitation to excess of eagerness and strife in commercial pursuits, or in mental exertions; others, to diet; and some partially to the effects of railway travelling. Mount Vesuvius.--An eruption far greater than has been...