[295] Third Report of the Lords’ Committee, p. 954, Q. 10,116. [296] For further details as to the sale of alcoholic drinks to females, and reputed drinking practices amongst them, _vide_ First Report of Lords’ Committee on Intemperance, evidence of Captain Palin, Chief Constable of Manchester, p. 166, Q. 1601; also Third Report, evidence of Sir William Gull, M.D., p. 254, Q. 10,116. In the work on “The Uses of Wines in Health and Disease,” p. 8, by Dr. Anstie (Macmillan), the author refers to secret dram-drinking by women; but medical men, like police magistrates, usually have before their eyes the worst side of human nature. [297] First Report of Lords’ Committee, p. 16, Q. 184. [298] Third Report, p. 32, Qs. 8311, 8312. [299] It must be clearly understood that the above remarks are not intended to disparage the evidence that was tendered by Mr. Chamberlain, M.P., who replied to the questions of Lord Aberdare, and whose efforts in the cause of licensing reform merit, in the author’s opinion, greater appreciation than they have received. [300] First Report, p. 240, Qs. 2416-2418. [301] Table No. 22, Extract from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis for the year 1876. [302] In the same report (1876) the reader will find that Colonel Henderson attributes the additional number of arrests to “the increased activity of the police,” but he believes there has been some increase in drunkenness during the last six years. Of course he can only judge of the class which comes under the notice of the police. [303] Table laid before the Committee of the House of Lords on Intemperance, by the Head Constable of Liverpool, being a compendium of the facts relating to the subject for twenty-one years. [304] “Instructions” for 1845, pp. 34, 35; 1867, p. 33; and 1878, p. 42; kindly supplied to the author by the Chief Constable. [305] Journal of the Statistical Society, March 1875. [306] P. 7. [307] Return to a canvass of working men made by sixty-seven of the largest employers of labour in Liverpool, and verified by the President of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce. See also the remarks on the extension of the hours by the present Government.