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LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1861.

Sir JOHN TRELAWNY has commenced in good
time to address his constituents, and divulge his
♦iews on various subjects connected with the great
political questions of the day. He soon began his
strictures, for he commented on Lord PALMER-
STON'S remarks at Bradford. " The noble lord
spoke in very flattering terms of the energy, ability,
and capacity of the working classes of England."
Now, from thi3, Sir JOINT not inaptly deduces that
he need not be so reluctant to extend the franchise.
This was quite a home thrust, but it is well known
that the Premier can be all things to all men just
as it suits his tarn, and no one who has attained
much experience can-be taken is by the specious
remarks which the members of our Cabinet choose
to make concerning important matters relating to
home and foreign policy. But the member for Tavis-
tock did not confine himself to these inuendces—
he went much further, and spoke of that most
awkward subject of all, the question of Reform.
Although some years have now passed since the
great claptrap was made by Earl RUSSELL and
his friends, it is as much to their disgrace now as
then that they should have taken office under false
pretences, and stooped to an unworthy subterfuge
in order to oust their political opponents from office.
Sir JOHN TRELAWNY uttered the exact words
which the working classes might have said to the
Administration as to their conduct of trickery and
deceit—" You took office with the understanding
that you were going to bring in a better reform
bill than that introduced by Mr DISRAELI, and we
supported you in the belief that we were going to
receive that instalment of justice for which we have
so long waited." It seems strange that such dupli-
city should cot excite more indignation than it
has done, but in the pages of history none of these
arch-deceivers will escape the criticism they deserve.
Ia this discourse we find a good humoured hint

thrown out to the Government that they must be a
little more zealous in the discharge of their duties.
It is indeed not likely that this Cabinet will much
longer survive the shocks it is continually receiving,
but at the same time the Liberal supporters have a
right to complain in no measured terms upon the
faineant policy which has been pursued for so long
a period. It is given out that the Ministers are
most t apable men, eminent in ability, skilled in
legislation, experienced in parliamentary tactics,
and well versed in administrative affairs, and yet
the result is ever the same. Such lame and impo.
tent conclusions, after so much unseemly self lau-
dAtion and boastful pararle of power, may well call
forth the comment of vox et pretera nihzl. Sir J OIIN

TRELAWNY rather overpraised Lord PALKERsToN,

but still the Premier is so great a favourite
among many classes, that perhaps it was not
to be wondered at, and doubtless many political
adversaries might concur with the member for
Tavistock, when he said that the noble lord was
the first working man in office. "He has worked
as hard as any hundred men—l was going to say,
in the various offices he has held during fifty years
or *so, atd he will probably remain in office till the
end of his life." Such may be all very well, but it
ig too much for paticnco when we pass on to (Alio.
giatus upon Earl RUSSELL. To praise him for his
management of our relations with America is
indeed intolerable. 'Who has seen any evidence of
that tact, courage, coolness, and calmness, which
are here spoken of, and as to the conciliation when
proper, and the firmness when necessary, it must
be imagined that the former refers to the lenity
invariably shown to the Federals, and the latter
to the constant enmity displayed to the eJnfederate

cause. Neither does the Danish question appear
satisfactorily treated in this sp.ech ; we hear the old
rigmarole of the Conservative party not explaining
their policy. Th.s
1. 18 a very convenient subterfuge,
but as the Minister, and not the Opposition are re-
sponsible to the Rouse and the country it would be
bet! e to scan their cause a little mere scrutinisingly,
and touch on their commissions rather than specn-
commissions of others. Sir JOHN
late upon the
proved the badness
of his cause by his feeble advo-
cacy, and the space that be appropriated in his
long discourse to this ail absorbing topic. Church
Rites, the Bello., & r., era very well in their place,
but their consideration may well be postponed to a
m )re couvenient period when a question is mooted
which, concerns the honour of the country. Nest
year or the year after might do for home reforms,
but fore:A:7n matters wilt not wait. TLe
great world meanwhile spins for ever dc..vn the
rirgiog grooves of change, and the opportunity

once lost cannot be recalled. Perhaps we may dis-
cover the secret of the shortcomings of men in
office in the fact that their misdeeds are slurred
over, and their measures supported at a pinch by
the very men who should stand aloof if they sought
to be true to the policy they advocate, and the cone
stitnents they represent. It is too bad to hear a
member of Parliament declare to his constituents
that if we had gone to war we should have been
beaten, " a war with all Germany on behalf of the
Danes would almost certainly have been a ffsilure.''
This is an imputation on the English nation that is
write uncalled for. "All Germany" would have
foolish if the attempt had been wade,
laonodk e v
it
is especially
specially rid;cnlous to put forward such a
statement when it is a fsct patent to the world that
it was the love and not the fear of Germv.ny that
actuated cur policy. Those in high places were too
frightened of the harm we should inflict on that
country,and consequently the Danea were sacrificed.
What, if in the pe ace-offering our national honour
had to be immolated, the sacrifice was not deemed
too great considering the occasion that called it
forth.

This is not the season that we usually associate
with the sufferings of the poor. Want and suffer-
ing there must be, we know, all the year round in
more or less degree, especially when a sickly season
or slackness of work increase the ordinary hard-
ships of the lower classes. But winter is the time
which poor folks dread, and in which their wants
press moat heavily. It is then that cold adds its
numbing influence to hunger, that the system
needs more food, more clothing, more warmth,
just as the necessaries of life rise in price and be..
come consequently more unattainable. It is in
winter time that our workhouses fill, that our re-
lieving societies are in active operation, and that
charitable associations of every kind appeal for
increased help. During the gloomy winter menthe
we are pained but not surprised to hear sad tales of
want and poverty even if they reach to the tragic
point of absolute starvation, the frequency of whose
recurrence in sue wealthy metropolis has set wise
and conscientious men to work to devise some
remedy. That such is needed is clearly proved by
the fact that while the bright summer days are
yet with us, while the reapers are busy, and before
the harvest is fully gathered, in comes another
mournful story of death from starvation in the
midst of our London streets and squares. We may
well feel surprised that such should be the case,
even though the scene of its occurrence should be
Bethnal-green. The circumstances of the case were,
too, of a particularly painful nature. The victim
was a child of tender years, who naturally claims
our pity more then an adult, whose own folly or
imprudence may be supposed to have had some
share in his or her destitution. The father was a
hardworking, labouring man, who had been laid
aside from his work by illness, and therefore pre-
vented, by unavoidable causes, from properly sup-
porting his family. He and his wife both appeared
in court, where their emaciated and miserable
looks excited deep commiseration. Indeed,
they were still so weak from recent ill-
ness that the medical man who gave his
evidence, said he thought they could hardly under-
stand what was going on. The sad story was soon
told. The father, a labourer, earned half-a-crown
a day, but for the last fortnight had been unable to
work from illness, typhus fever having attacked
the whole family one by one, and reduced them to a
state of the greatest weakness. The mother, who
came into court with an infant in her arms, could
hardly speak from weakness. The poor child who
died was eight years old, and wes like the others
recovering from the fever, when, of course, instead
of diminished food, or rather no food at all, he
required all the nourishment he could take. The
doctor who made the post nzortem examination
said the child had died from convaisons brought on
by want of food, only half an ounce of gruel being
found in his stomach. It will be naturally asked
why application was not made to the parish au-
thorities, and the question is answered in the usual
fashion. Two or three years ago the father, when
in distress, applied to the workhouse for help, and
was given a shilling a week and a loaf; but after
some time he was told that he and family must
come into the house, or they should have nothing
more. The man who, as we see, can earn, when in
good health, half-a-crown a day, and has been
able to maintain his family in the inter
vening years, very naturally refused, and, therefore
when this illness came on he would not ask again,
expecting to be refused. Very probably, notwithe
standing their former experience, the father and
mother would have made some effort on behalf of
their starving child had they themselves been in a
condition to understand the state of the case, but
prostrated by illness of the most terrible character
they were unfit or unable to exert themselves. We
have no reason to doubt that bad the parish autho-
rities known of this instance they would have
granted some relief, but the question remains
whether there is not something very wrong in our
social arrangements. The case before us is just one
of those which parochial relief_ should be extended
to ; it is one which has an especial claim on the well•
to-doeclasees of the community. The richest and
wisest is liable at any time to be laid aside from his
work, his profession, his ordinary pursuits of what-
ever kind. Illness is one of the ordinary visitations
of humanity, and while it excites our feelings of
sympathy and pity on behalf of the suff,rer, it
unquestionably exonerates him from any blame for
inaction. The political economist may, indeed,
contend that those who wholly depend upon their
health and strength for maintenance should lay by
some provision for a rainy day,bnt we have yet to
find the theory whose practical applicationwill enable
a Lendonllabonrer with half a crown a day to keep
himself, his wife, and six children, to put by enough
to maintain eight persons during a fortnight's corn
pelled inaction. Threepence a day is not so large
a sum for the support of a human being of whatever
age at the present rate of prices that the most
rigid of censors need blame, because rent and cloth-
ing is all that can be saved out of it. It is in fami-
lies living like this that typhus finds so ready a
prey. Their customary rate of living is only just
enough to keep body and soul together, and then
when a bad season comes fever sweeps them
off, or an unusually cold winter mows them
down by the hundred. Mendicancy is forbidden
by law, small trades that had no capital, such ss
trucks and barrow selling, are discouraged by the
police, the workhouse saddles their relief with the
condition of going into the house—What are the in-
digent to do ? Oar practice has for too long been
entirely negative. We tell the People what they
ought net to dO, but no one can find out what course
they ought to take except putting themselves under
ground with the least possible delay. It is absurd
as well as unjust to suppose that a man possessing
all his limbs and faculties will voluntarily abandon
himself to a pauper's life. That life entails total
separation from his family, the sacrifice of
all the little comforts of home, the surren-
der of his freedom of action for a very
prison-like existence, where every one re-
gards him as a burden. The strineenoy of the
rules for admission is exeuaed on the ground that
it is desirable to keep people off' the rates and to
discourage pauperism ea much as p €eible. How

does this consist with the condition so often
attached to succouring a poor family out of doors ?
The real meaning is plain enough. As little
as possible is to be done, and the poor
are not to be encouraged to be troublesome. But
we cannot so get rid of our social duties and obli-
gations, and so long as deaths from starvation recur
in London, a heavy responsibility rests upon its
citizens. A little temporary relief would have
caved this child's life. Might not the neighbours
have applied for it had they thought there was
a chance of success ? The fact is that our whole
system of levying rates must be altered, if we
wish to avoid this reproach ; for so long as each
parish is compelled to bear its own burden, so long
we shall reap the fruits of that unreasonable in•
equality in death and distress among our labour..
ing classes,

PUBLIC HONOURS,