TEMPERANCE IN LENT.
[TO THE EDITOR OF TILE "SPECTATOR."] Sia„—Some time ago, you suggested what a Pope friendly to Temperance might accomplish. We have not yet had the opinion of the Vatican, but as things go, surely it is a matter for a. little hopefulness that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Glasgow has taken the step of officially recommending the disuse of intoxicating drinks in his diocese during Holy Week. Were the injunction extended to the entire season of Lent, and over the United Kingdom, a perceptible advance in the Temper- ance reformation would indeed be attained, greatly to the national benefit. J. S. Mill, in his "Political Economy," page 226, speaks of the Roman Catholic Clergy as the only religious teachers with any influence over the working-classes. 'However we may differ here, it is pretty plain that all of us may wish to see Mr. Mill's opinion realised iu Roman Catholic action in the clamant Temperance question.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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