Drunkenness, inheritability of, 2. in certain apes, 3. amongst savages in Africa, 4, 5. Malay Archipelago, 5. Alison, on savage and civilised, 10. of Lapps at Tromsoe, 10. “The Announcement about,” an ancient Chinese edict, 19-22. of Brahmans, how punished, 42. at modern Indian festivals, 45, 46. suppression of, by Mahomet, 53. the supposed work of Agromanyus, 50. of ancient Persians, 51. partial, of modern Persians, 55. of wandering tribes in Persia, 55. early mention of, in Scripture, 64. amongst the ancient Hebrews, 65, 66. St. Paul’s denunciation of, 68. of ancient Egyptians, 73. cabbage believed to be an antidote to, 75. in the heroic age, 80. of the Lacedæmonians, 81. Eubulus on, 82. Epicharmus on, 83. in ancient Rome, 86, 87. at Roman feasts, 96-98. crimes resulting from, in imperial Rome, 98, 99. of eminent Romans, 99. of the plebeians in imperial Rome, 100. and the fall of the Roman empire, 101. ancient German, 102, 103. edicts against, by Charlemagne and Frederick III., 105. Karl IV., 105. German, in the Middle Ages, 107-112. amongst women, 109, 111. of monastic orders in mediæval Germany, 113, 114. punishment of, in mediæval Germany, 114. decline of, in Germany, 115 _et seq._ amongst the Anglo-Saxons, 119-121, 128. clergy, 124. of the Danes, 125. of Norman knights, 126, 127. Anglo-Normans, 129, 130. in monasteries, 131, 141-144. in mediæval England, 138, 139. amongst nuns, 144. of friars and clerics, 145. of the cavaliers, 151. in the eighteenth century in England, 158, 160 _et seq._ increase of, in the eighteenth century in England from the introduction of spirits, 160. frightful, in the early part of the eighteenth century, 161. Bishop Benson on the, of the eighteenth century, 164. Scotch and Irish, of the eighteenth century, 166, 167. in England at the present time, 169 _et seq._ origin of English, 169. in English seaports, 170. in the lowest classes in England, 170, 174-5. lower middle-classes, 173. in Liverpool, 170, 175. controversy concerning increase of, 175 _et seq._ arrests for, in London, 177, 247. in Liverpool, 178, 247. in Birmingham, 179. apparent increase of, in large towns, from figures, 177-179. probable decrease of, 177-181. decrease of, from Mr. Gladstone’s fiscal measures, 182, 183. fostered by old trade customs, 183. diminished by reformed trade customs, 183-186. improved feeling of working classes concerning, 186, 187. probable increase of, in prosperous times, 189. multiplication of gin-palaces, the chief cause of, 190. in Liverpool, graphically described, 191. and insanity, 191. probable general decrease of, 192. excessive, in Sweden this century, 195.