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FOOTNOTES:

[A] “English Merchants,” by H. R. Fox Bourne, p. 60.

[B] At present M.P. for Flintshire.

[C] “English Merchants,” by H. R. Fox Bourne, p. 60.

[D] “Social Aspects of Christianity,” Preface, pp. 6, 7.

[E] “Social Aspects of Christianity,” p. 7.

[F] From speech at the annual meeting of the Seamen’s Orphanage in 1875.

[G] The following table of questions and answers gives the precise results of the canvass:--

Are you in favour of--

Votes.
Yes. No. Majority.

1. Effective control of public-houses and beer-houses by an adequate staff of inspectors? 41,079 6,633 34,446

2. Lessening the number of houses, especially by withdrawal of licenses after convictions? 46,797 4,087 42,710

3. Shortening the hours of sale? 43,857 7,510 36,347

4. Entire Sunday closing? 44,061 8,542 35,519

The number of voters, at that time on the Municipal Register, within the borough, was 68,879. There were about 2300 public-houses and beer-houses, many of whose managers and employés could not be expected to vote; there were many persons at sea or absent from home. There were 690 bad votes, from the papers being out of order. In these circumstances the 54,893 returns actually received must be considered as a very large proportion, and as giving a fair view of the opinions and wishes of the householders of Liverpool.

[H] This map was carefully prepared by the Secretary, Mr. Nathaniel Smyth, a faithful and life-long worker in the temperance cause.

[I] “Intemperance and the Licensing System,” by Alexander Balfour; reprinted from the _Contemporary Review_, pp. 26, 27.

[J] Speech delivered by Mr. Gladstone on the 16th October 1884, on the occasion of his cutting the first sod of the Mersey Railway.

[K] The great wooden hall, erected in Liverpool for Messrs. Moody and Sankey.

[L] On temperance-reform.