GENERAL REMARKS.—Such are the principal diseases brought on by drunkenness. There are still several others which have not been enumerated—nor is there any affection incident to either the body or mind which the vice does not aggravate into double activity. The number of persons who die in consequence of complaints so produced, is much greater than unprofessional people imagine. This fact is well known to medical men, who are aware that many of the cases they are called upon to attend, originate in liquor, although very often the circumstance is totally unknown either to the patient or his friends. This is particularly the case with regard to affections of the liver, stomach, and other viscera concerned in digestion. Dr. Willan, in his reports of the diseases of London, states his conviction that considerably more than one-eighth of all the deaths which take place in persons above twenty years old, happen prematurely through excess in drinking spirits. Nor are the moral consequences less striking: Mr. Poynter, for three years Under-Sheriff of London and Westminster, made the following declaration before a Committee of the House of Commons:—“I have long been in the habit of hearing criminals refer all their misery to drinking, so that I now almost cease to ask them the cause of their ruin. This evil lies at the root of all other evils of this city and elsewhere. Nearly all the convicts for murder with whom I have conversed, have admitted themselves to have been under the influence of liquor at the time of the act.” “By due observation for nearly twenty years,” says the great Judge Hales, “I have found that if the murders and manslaughters, the burglaries and robberies, and riots and tumults, the adulteries, fornications, rapes, and other great enormities, that have happened in that time, were divided into five parts, four of them have been the issues and product of excessive drinking—of tavern and ale-house meetings.” According to the _Caledonian Mercury_ of October 26, 1829, no fewer than ninety males, and one hundred and thirty _females_, in a state of intoxication, were brought to the different police watchhouses of Edinburgh, in the course of the previous week—being the greatest number for many years. Nor is Glasgow, in this respect, a whit better than Edinburgh. On March 1, 1830, of forty-five cases brought before the police magistrate in Glasgow, forty were for drunkenness; and it is correctly ascertained that more than nine thousand cases of drunkenness are annually brought before the police, from this city and suburbs—a frightful picture of vice. In the ingenious Introductory Essay attached to the Rev. Dr. Beecher’s Sermons on Intemperance, the following passage occurs, and I think, instead of exaggerating it rather underrates the number of drunkards in the quarter alluded to. “Supposing that one-half of the eighteen hundred licensed houses for the sale of spirits which are in that city, send forth each