The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-27 00:00:00

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SUN OPPICE, Six o'clock.

TATTERSALL'S.

(THIS EVENING.)

METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
30 to 1 agst Wedlock filly.
10 to 1 agst Contentment.

LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
10 to 1 agst Oscar (taken.)
12 to 1 agst Miss Mowbray (taken.)

CHESTER CUP.
20 to 1 agst Lady Evelyn.
30 to 1 agst Constantine (taken).
40 to 1 agst Contentment.
33 to 1 agst Tremble.

DERBY.

11 to 1 agst West Australian (taken).
18 to 1 agst Sittingbourne taken).
1000 to 15 agst Contentment (taken).
1000 to 10 agst Mr. Sykes (taken).

AMERICAN SLA VERY-THE EARL OF
SHAFTESBURY'S REJOINDER

The Earl of Shaftesbury has written the following
letter to the editor of the Times. It is an answer to
the reply published in the name of the ladies of America
to the address of the women of England
have just read in your paper a letter purport-
ing to be the reply of the American ladies to the address
of the " Women of England," on the subject of slavery
in the United States.
You have inserted so many articles adverse to the ad-
dress that you will, I am sure, in a spirit of justice, in-
sert these few remarks in explanation of the measure.
If the letter were really the production of American
ladies, I should certainly regard it with much respect
and deference ; but its own internal evidence shows
clearly that no woman has had any share whatever in
the spirit and composition of such a document.
Its whole value, in truth, is derived from the fact that
it made its first appearance in your columns.
Now, were the assertions of the paper as true as they
are the reverse, it would be altogether beside the ques-
tion. We have abolished slavery through the length and
breadth of her Majesty's dominions, and we call on our
American brethren to do the same in their own terri-
tories. They reply to us (if this, at least, be a real
document) by accusations and revilings on subjects
totally distinct Prom the matter in hand.
" But the writer is not more happy in his facts than
in his reasoning. I shall speak of those alone which
eome under my own knowledge. I will admit, for the
sake of argument, and that only, that had he composed
his paper some twenty years ago, there might have been
in it an approximation to accuracy ; such, however, is
far from the case now.
" One person," he says, " out of every eight is a
pauper." I believe, on the contrary, that the working
people of Englana were never in a more thriving condi-
tion, and that it requires but a few more improvements
to place them on a footing nearly equal to the physical
condition of those in the United States.

He charges us with defective supplies for the educa-
tion of our people. Let him parambulate the country
and the towns, and observe everywhere the rapid multi-
plication of schools and churches. We may be behind-
hand, but we are labouring to overtake the mischief. It

was the present Archbishop of Canterbury who stated
in his charge that, during the time he was Bishop of
Chester there were more churches built in that vast
diocese than in the whole of England fr9m the beginning
of the contury.
" London," he proceeds, "contains 33,000 needle-
women, who earn, on an average, only 41d. a day by
working 14 hours." Ax offer was made through my-
a short time ago, to provide lodging and 6s a week
for 200 or 300 female hands required in the north of
England. The proposition was laid before this formerly
suffering clam, but rejected, because their actual condi-
tion was so much better in London.
He speaks of the factory classes with commiseration.
He would do well to visit the great hives of industry in
Lancashire and Yorkshire. He would there see a pros-
perous, active, and contented population ; work is
abundant, and wages good ; the best feeling exists
between the employer and the employed, while a large
proportion of them, both children and adults, have en
tered on a course of personal and social improvement.
The great factory bazaar at Bolton will fully justify this
assertion.
"A very large proportion," he continues, of your
agricultural population live in filthy and crowded cotta-
ges, &c." This, I regret to say, is still true, both in
town and country. But, have no efforts been made—are
none being made—to abate the evil ?To quote but one in-
stance, did not the Duke of Bedford lately erect 400
cottages, I believe, in a single year ? I can answer,
from personal inspection, for their excellence. Are not,
many other landowners in all parts of the kingdom en-
gaged at present in the same course ? The reduction of
the duty on bricks has greatly facilitated such operations.
We see a corresponding effort for the towns in the
formation of societies to "improve the dwellings of the
poor," in model lodging-houses, in baths and wash-
houses, in the larger diffusion of the means of cleanli-
ness, decency, and comfort. Your own columns have

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recently contained an article on the effects of the " Corn

mon Lodging-house Act," showing that under the ex-
cellent administration of Captaih Hay, of the police, the
resorts of the most vagrant and degraded of the poorer
classes will at least be purified.
Again, about 130 tons have been brought under the
operation of the Health Act, and many more are waiting
for admission ; nor do I hesitate to assert, from long
and anxious experience, that, whenever we shall have
applied to our courts and alleys the sanatory amend-
ments for which we have so long contended, we shall
have gone far towards rendering our people one of the
most thriving, healthy, and happy on the face of the
earth.

"There are 30,000 cosiermongers," he adds ; "of
these only one-tenth—at the outside, one-tenth--of the
couples living together and carrying on their coster-
mongering trade are married." It may be so, and, if so,
we deeply regret it. But their state is, at least, the
result of choice ; it is not the result of the power of the
owner over the slave, nor the condition of things neces-
sary to the rights of property and the accomplishment of
the commercial policy of the "breeding farms."
I might recriminate, if I pleased, and exhibit many
deformities that have come to my knowledge in Boston,
New York, and other towns of America ; but we have
far different objects ; we have a real regard and kindness
for our brethren in the United States, and we heartily
and respectfully entreat their co-operation.
The long and short of the case is this. We have had,
and we still have, in England, many evils, but we are
doing our best to remove them. They have had, and
they stilll have, in America, a great evil, which they not
only will not endeavour to remove, but they make it
daily worse (witness their Fugitive Slave Law), reviling,
moreover, and persecuting every one who ventures to
jog their memories on things of vital importance to the
temporal and eternal interests of the human race.
I am, Sir, your very obedient servant,
SHAFTESBURY.

Genoa, Jan. 20, 1853.

STRIKE AMONGST THE SEAMEN FOR WAGES.--The
sailors belonging to this port, Maryport and Harrington,
turned out for wages about a week or ten days ago.
The seamen belonging to the coal vessels have lately
been receiving three guineas and a half per voyage to
Dublin and back, and the strike was for an additional
half-guinea, making the voyage amount to four guineas.
The demand, we are glad to state, has been complied
with, and the men have again returned to their vessels,
several of which have left their respective ports for
Dublin.— Whitehaven Herald.
[ADVERTISEMENT].-41 SUFFERER FROM SETE= DE-
BILITY, AND A SHATTERED CONSTITuTIQR CURED BY
HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—Mr. Reintzes Van Veerssen, a
merchant residing at Nymegen, in Holland, had been
suffering for years from a general debility, his strength
had become so prostrated that he was quite incapable of
attending to any kind of business • his constitution was
rapidly giving way, notwithstanding the efforts of the
cleverest medical men to arrest it ; at this crisis he com-
menced taking Holloway's pills, and by their use his
health and strength are perfectly re-established, in grati-
tude for which blessing he desires that publicity be given
to it, that others may seek relief by the same means.—
Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Esta-
blishment, 244, Strand, London.
EDUCATION OF TEE JEWS 40 YEARS AGO.—Who.
ever among us is enabled to carry his back
some thirty or forty years, memory
must remember the system adopted—if such a mode of instruction ass then.preavartlled
could be dignified with the title of system—in
what was then called education to the clildrieninpof theing
poorer classes. In a second-floor back room, or more
frequently in a back attic, sat an aged man, past labour,
who, having a beard, was dignified with the high-sound-
ing title of Rabbi. Around this aged teacher, in such
foetid chamber, with the thing called a bed in the corner,
sat, or rather squatted, a number of ill-clad and, with
but few exceptions, dirty children, whpoortroenrse
nbfeitnhge
taught Hebrew, and to translate some
Pentateuch and prayer-book, in a jargon composed ofl
various portions of the languages of the countries which
the said Rabbi might have visited during his migration
rom the land of his birth—Poland.—Jewish Chronicle.
SHOCKING MURDER IN CUPAR.—It is our duty to re-
cord an instance of this awful crime which has occurred
in our community. The victim in this case is a boy of
five or six years of age, and the perpetrator of the horrid
deed is his own mother. It appears that Janet Keddie
or Johnstone had been drinking hard for some days pre-
viously, and on Tuesday evening, in a drunken frenzy
(irritated, it is supposed, by the refusal of the child to
go for more whisky), she seized and maltreated him till
the poor child died under her treatment, as he was found
in bed evidently strangled. The wretched mother is in .
the hands of the authorities, and in due course will be
tr
ied for the murder. At resent she is still suffering
from delirium tremens Her husband and the father of
the boy is a book distributor, tor, and was from home at the
time of the murder.
Keddie has oftener than
one
ce dearlrsetaanddy, twhhatenthuenwdeormtahne
lifinfl —Fife Herald.
of liqu
ld.our, attempted to take away her own
e.
TIM REFORMATION IN IRELAND. During
Ire
' the llandast
lour years no less than 40,000 Romanists in have joined the Protestant Church.