They will confine the evil to the dregs of society. When we are governed by a moral Code, the Family institution grounded on morality and labour, will be able, without aid, to tread down the hydra of debauchery, wallowing in the mire of idleness and licentiousness. But, if justice and honour do not come out victorious from the present struggle, woe, a thousand times woe, to the vanquished! T. BRAKELL, PRINTER, LIVERPOOL. ----- Footnote 1: Published by Ernest Thorin, 7, Rue de Médicis, Paris, 1869. Footnote 2: One of our salaried seducers learned that destitution was reducing one of his illegitimate daughters to have herself registered at the office of the department of morals. A friend of his urged him to claim her, so as to save her from this disgrace:—“If,” said he, “I were obliged to help all my daughters, my income would not be sufficient to do it.” Footnote 3: Alfred de Musset—“Confessions d’un enfant du siècle.” Footnote 4: To turn, for a moment, from these horrors, let us say they horrify the moral working-men who have undertaken the responsibilities of the family without selfish ideas conceived previously. These men generally give proof of a sentiment of honour, too often extinguished in the upper classes; but what is their state of mind when they are not able to guard their wives and daughters against a disgrace which is the daily bread of an insufficient labour-market? Their faces are then stern, their eyes vindictive; their heads droop, but they cherish in their hearts, against the peace of society, a profound hatred and projects of vengeance which are only too inveterate. Ah! let us dread the storms we are collecting over our heads, in a gloomy future; if we have not the energy to put down profligacy from a love of virtue, let us, at least, do it from considerations of its cost. Footnote 5: Clandestine prostitution invariably increases wherever the system of registration and police regulation exist. Footnote 6: E. A. Duchesne—“De la prostitution dans la ville d’Alger, depuis la conquête, 1853.” Footnote 7: Letter from the Bishop of Algiers to the Governor-General of Algeria, May 1868. Footnote 8: