The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-04-12 00:00:00

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March. 1879. Victoria Street, London, S.W

FARM LABOURERS.

Christmas, and the terrible frost was putting
a stop even to those works which m Ide
wegther would have enabled to proceed.
While the industry of the towns was thus
standing still, and the homes of thousands
of artizans wig to labour were rendered
cheerless through no fault of their own,
those few agricultural pursuits capable of
being carried on in the winter were entirely
suspended, for the frost had bound the earth
in a bond of iron, the fierce north-east wind
swept through forests of leaflees trees ; the
birds were slain in thousands by the fearful
cold ; and a silence like that of the mountain
top hovered over the valleys and the dells.
The life of both town and country stood still,
while the lowered temperature prematurely
cut short the existence of infants and of the
aged and infirm, the latter of whom had
weathered the blasts of many a winter to be
cut down thus mercilessly in an atmosphere
much more frigid than that ordinarily ex-
perienced in Canada. The gloom was in-
creased by the death of the Quaen's second
daughter, the beloved Princess Alice, within
ten days of Christmas Eve, upon the
anniversary of the death of her father, whom
she had nursed so devotedly in his last ill-
ness.

A change has passed over the spirit of the
scene. The dull December light has gono,
and with it the withering cold. The sun no
longer shines with oblique and powerless
rays upon a paralysed land. Every day
sees it rise higher in the heavens, sending
down its stronger beams upon country and
town, lighting up street and landscape, and
telling both the artisan and the agricultural
labourer of these brighter and clearer days
which are yet to come. Instead of our most
recent memories being those of a Royal
bereavement, they tell of a Royal wedding.
Her Majesty had lost a daughter at Christ-
mas; the law of marriage had given her an-
other before Easter. Trade, though not
what it was some years ago certainly does
not exhibit that depression, with its accom-
panying distress which produced so much
anxiety and even alarm at Christmas. The
longer days seem the reflex of better times;
the Chancellor of the Exchequer has told us
that practically there will be no additions to
the burdens of the taxpayers this year.
Therefore, while we welcome the Easter
holidays, we may well contrast favourably
with those of Christmas the circumstances
which attend them, and may well be justi-
fied in looking forward to those better days
which, although long postponed must come
at last.