Progress of the Temperance Movement.
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Among the notable occurrences of these
changing times, may be mentioned some no
velties in fashionable life. At the close of
recent exhibition in Harvard College, large
company of the friends of the chief orator had
a sumptuous entertainment at his rooms, tUith-
out the introduction Of toine ! which formerly
was deemed an essential, and in fact was an
abundant ingredient in college feasts; and at
a recent wedding in this city, a splendid
marriage supper was given to nearly two hum
dred of the friends of the bride and bride
groom, whose family connections were very
numerous, moving in the higher ranks of life,
and not bubble Of champagne, or drop of
any other aUi1ee, or strong drink was produc-
ed.


Conviviality and social enjoyment, we are
told, abounded in both places; and the pio-
neers in this moral inroad upon the domains of
custom and fashion, exhibited beautiful
proof Of consistency and principle, the river
of the feast in the first case, being the author
of several celebrated temperance tales, and in
the other, being a distinguished officer of
temperance society. Here is a new cause of
joy for teetotallers, and an example calculated
for extensive and salutary inf1uence.-Irans-
cript.


The above is encouraging; and if all who
are in heart convinced that temperance, or to-
tai abstinence from wine and all else that can
intoxicate, is the right and the safe way, will
but practice what they preach, we shall have
many more such feasts and weddings to re-
cord. Some friends of ours who have made
the fashionable tour the past summer, assure
us that they did not, on the whole route, see
as much liquor and wine as two years prev-
ously they saw in one day. During the time
they sojourned at Saratoga, they did not, at
their hotel, see any thing intoxicating on the
dinner table, or provided for the refreshment
of those who at evening joined in the dance.