and ladies, among his acquaintance in Belfast,
who were seriously inquiring after salvation."
A gentleman of some property, "connected
with the liquor traffic," and owner of several
public-houses in Newcastle, was so impressed,
during a Revivalist meeting held there, that he
declared in full congregation his intention of
giving up all connexion with this said liquor
traffic, and of living in the ways of teetotalism
for the future. The meeting was taken by
storm, and the declaration "impressed many
powerfully." Much stress has been laid by the
Revivalists, and those of the Evangelical Alliance
favourable to its excesses, on the decrease of
drunkenness, and the increase of good works
and practical piety among the converted; or, as
the phrase goes, "those who have got religion."
One clergyman gives us quite a picture of a
Christian Arcadia:

"The moral change in the Protestant population
seems to keep pace with the religious movement.
Drunkenness has almost entirely disappeared from
among them. I understand that the collector of
revenue in one district—not a very large one—has
stated that the consumption of spirits within his
boundary has fallen off at the rate of 600% per
month. The testimony of all whom I met was to
the same effect. Rioting and ill-conduct in the small
towns have also passed away. I myself visited one
evening, after dark, the public-houses of a once very
drunken town, and found them empty of customers.
Quietness and peace have entered into neighbourhoods
which before were torn by party strife. A
gentleman who is in the habit of examining
witnesses in the sessions' courts told me of the great
change which he observed in the manner of taking
an oath, and the cautious way in which testimony is
now given lest anything should be stated amiss. A
friend observed to me that even petty thefts of fruit
from orchards and gardens, which he used to be
aware of, are now not known; and the churchwardens
of a parish church have remarked poor people, whom
they never knew to contribute before, now dropping
their pence and halfpence into the alms-box."

Another speaks of congregations of ministers
of all denominations—Episcopalians and
Presbyterians, Independents, Methodists, Baptists,
and Romanists, meeting in paternal love and
Christian union, reading, and praying, and singing
praises together. Another clergyman, "a man
of sound judgment," speaks of the peace and quiet
of Sandy-row, the former scene of riot and
mischief, but where now "the policemen say there
is no drunkenness or trouble of any kind."
"A driver of the car yesterday said that in one
place in the country he had seen people fall
down thirty at a time, crying for mercy. 'What
did he think it was?' 'Why sure it must be
the works of the Almighty! The Catholics say
it's the work of the devil, but I always tell
them, Would the devil teach people to pray?'"
Mr. Sewell says that "even Romanists are
standing in awe, and that many have professed
conversion; that there is no drunkenness, and
no work doing at the police courts." The Rev.
B. Trench says that a solicitor told him litigation
had ceased; a publican, that no man
could live by that trade; lost women were fast
disappearing—"they had cried to Jesus for
mercy;" the savings banks' deposits had greatly
increased, which at least shows commendable
thrift in the saints; political feeling was dead;
quarrelling at an end; one editor of a public
newspaper "has been entirely incapacitated
from collecting his thoughts on any other
subject;" and "compositors in a printing-office
have been unable, through strong feelings of
sin and bodily weakness, to go on with their
ordinary work." Others assert "the most entire
change in the manners and morals of the
people;" the general habit of family worship
and the discontinuance of swearing and profane
language; the extinction of religious feuds, the
abolition of sectarian differences, and the rolling
of the full flood of harmony, peace, and good-
will. Unfortunately, those fatal figures those
unenthusiastic, disbelieving, obstinate statistics
—come to destroy all these beautiful assertions.
In the four months immediately preceding the
Revivals from January to April, inclusive—
there was a falling off of one hundred and twenty-
nine in the number of persons committed for
crime (chiefly for being "drunk and disorderly")
as compared with the four corresponding months
of the previous year. From May, when the
Revivals began, to August, the excess of
persons so committed was no fewer than four
hundred and eighty-two, compared with the four
corresponding months in eighteen hundred and
fifty-eight. Thus, we have indubitable evidence
that there was less crime when there were no
Revivals, no Christian Arcadia, no miracles, and
no hysteria, but just the usual plodding, everyday
virtues which attempted nothing supernatural,
and were content with simple duty, than
there was when people were foaming at the
mouth as they yelled for grace and mercy—
grovelling by scores in the dust and mud at the
feet of ignorant fanatics dealing largely in
universal damnation, and the impossibility of the
non-Revivalist to be saved. The most immoral
scenes take place on Sunday nights; precisely
on those very nights when the preaching is
wildest, loudest, most excited. Fifty
persons and more have generally, on Monday
mornings, to answer to the Belfast magistrates
for their offences of the Sabbath evening
previous. And, indeed, this is only the unanswerable
logic of human nature, which always makes
a more turbulent outfall for itself in proportion
to the strictness of the barrier it overleaps;
and which, when thoroughly moved and excited
—no matter how in the beginning—turns to
excess and immorality as the best relief known
to the passionate and ignorant.

It is gratifying, though, to know that all
pious men are not the dupes of the physiological
phenomena sought to be ranked as divine gifts.
Clergymen in the Revival district, have written
their strong and sorrowful protest against the
whole movement. One, who has met with much
contumely and scorn because of his want of
faith, speaks of the total want of any real
reformation among the "struck." They speak
more nasally, often quote the Scriptures, see