ABSTRACT
THE Annnal Meeting of the Belfast Women's Temperance Union was held about ten days previously in the Lombard Temperance Hall, Belfast. It was an influential representative meeting, numbering between two and three hundred, ladies only being present. Miss NIOHOLSON, Lisdhu, presided. Letters of apology were read from ladies who could not be present; among them one from the Dowager Countess of Annesley, in which she stated that she had been for forty years a teetotaler, and spoke of the obligation resting on the upper classes of society to practise temperance. Mrs. BYERS submitted the Annual Report. Interesting accounts were then given by delegates who attended from branch associations throughout Ulster, detailing the different kinds of work which the ladiesundcrtake in different places, and which is everywhere, not antagonistic,. but supplemental to that of men, who are trying to educate the conscience of the country on the drink question. Mrs. SHANNON and Miss BRYSON gave details of prison gate work in Belfast and Glasgow. :Mrs. S. A. JOHNSTON, Mrs. N. E. 8MITH, Mrs. KNOX, and other ladies reported the kind of work undertaken by members of this association in Belfast. Two interesting papers were then read, one from Miss TOD, and one written by Mrs. SCHOLEFIELD "On Affiliation." Miss TOD'S Paper ably reasoned that changing circnmstances req nire changing modes of action, but that we should always have our principles of action ready, and the chief root of all our doings should be love to God. In all work of reform she stated that both opposition and blessing are met with; for example, Hannah More was suspected of being in league with the French Revolutionists because she
