At a meeting of conspicuous Liverpool persons of all parties,
held yesterday, the Mayor in the chair, it was resolved that a memorial should be erected to commemorate the late Archdeacon Brooks. As it stands, the memorial will be a statue of the venerated Archdeacon, .set up in St. George's Hall.
The Earl of Albemarle is "carrying on with vigour" the campaign, against the drunkenness of Norfolk and Suffolk, initiated by him at the Benham tea-meeting. His latest published effort was a speech of earnest exhortation against the besetting vice of those counties, delivered on Tuesday, at a meeting of the Shropbam and Guiltcroas Agricultural Society, held at East Harling, near Thetford. " My friends, labouring men, if wo tender to you the hand of good fellow- ship, have we not a right to ask something on your parts in return ? What do we ask of you ? Do we ask for any favour? No; we ask you not to in- jure yourselves—to abstain from drink ; not to do that which injures your health, ruins your family, bleats your character, and leads you to the per- petration of crimes. We ask you not to squander that which would improve your household comforts and raise you in the scale of society. I wish to see the labouring men in this country a little more like freeborn Englishmen I wish to see the labourer raised in every possible way Don't imagine that we want to strike at your amusements. I wish to see your amusements of a better kind—I wish to see the manly sporta of our country, such as cricket and quoits, more generally practised. I should even like to see them taught at schools."
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