I have known many prisoners who had gone to such excess in drinking, that for a year after they came into prison they endured a trembling of their hands, and a burning thirst for rum, which rendered their existence a real curse. Very many have I heard lamenting their crimes as having been occasioned by rum. Their language was--"If it had not been for liquor, I should not have done so;" and this was no doubt the fact. But though the prisoners so deeply lament their past folly and sin in drinking, it is not easy to cure them of it. After spending years in prison, and after many a "dolorous lament" over the effects of intoxication--after writing and publishing against intemperance, it is no strange thing to hear that they are drunk the day they are released. With one instance of this kind I will close this article. B. F. H. while in prison, wrote several essays on the sin of intemperance, to which he had been given, and delivered an oration on the subject in the prison chapel; and he professed to have been thoroughly reformed. Through the influence of his friends he was pardoned, and the journal of the prison contains the following entry in respect to him;--"Benj. F. Harwood _pardoned_--returned at night--DRUNK." INFLUENCE OF "FREE MASONRY" ON THE REGULATIONS OF PRISONS, AND THE DECISION OF COURTS. On this contested point, I am, from occular demonstration, a perfect sceptic. I have known many Freemasons in prison, and I have known _masonic_ keepers treat them with a severity for which there can be no excuse. I have known many instances of this kind. And so thoroughly is it understood that MASONRY is of no use to a man in that prison, that when a masonic prisoner is in punishment, the common remark is,--"This is rather hard treatment to receive from a brother." I am not a _mason_, and should there be any real necessity for me to take sides in the contest on this subject, I should be an ANTI. I am not then under the influence of any prejudice in favor of the order, and I wish to record it here as a historic fact, that masonry was not of any obvious advantage to a single prisoner in Windsor, during my whole acquaintance with it. I never heard it mentioned as a matter of complaint by the prisoners, that any one had been favored in the least because he was a mason, which was not the case in respect to other things. It was often said of the Master Weaver, that he was partial to the IRISH, and to ROMAN CATHOLICS. The Superintendent was often accused of shewing favor to the BAPTISTS. One of the Visiters was often cursed because he was thought to be a particular friend to professors. But it was never said of Judge Cotton, or Captain Hunter, that they were partial to the masons. Indeed I always thought that they retained a little _wrath_ against such prisoners as had belonged to _lodges_, on account of their having disgraced the order. As an instance of the treatment which masons have to endure in Windsor, I will relate the case of H. M.