MEETING OF SOUTHAMPTON MAINEACS.

Here was a gathering of Teetotallers and advocates of the Maine Law in the Town Hall of Southampton on Tuesday evening last week. The chair was occupied by the Worshipful the Mayor, Mr. F. Perkins, who had convened the meeting in compliance with a requisition of a numerous body of simpletons. The magnanimity of the Mayor in acceding to their ridiculous request, will be appreciated by our readers, when they are told, if they do not know, that he is an eminent liquor merchant. We wonder that the bare name of Perkins, its associations considered, had not deterred them from the attempt to hold their abstemious orgies under the presidency of its bearer; but probably if Meux had been Mayor of Southampton, they would have perpetrated the same absurd impropriety; and would not have stuck, under similar circumstances, at offering a similar impertinence to Truman, Hanbury, or Buxton. Perhaps Vegetarianism will take root and flourish in Southampton; for the soil which nourishes monomania in drinking is to an equal extent favourable to the allied insanity in eating. The Southampton Vegetarians will, in that case, perhaps, assemble to discuss their greens under the auspices of a butcher. If there are so many members of the Peace Society in the “Liverpool of the South,” we shall probably soon hear of their meeting, or proposing to meet, with Lord Clyde in the chair. They could not, to be sure, have a better chairman, regarding him from a rational point of view, and, in like wise, a distinguished wine-and-spirit merchant may be considered to be a very suitable person to preside over an assembly having for its reasonable object the practice of moderation in the use of fermenter liquors.

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