The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-30 00:00:00

WAGES.

PAST AND PRESENT CONDITION OF THE

PEOPLE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR-I Saw in your Paper that you wanted to know the
opinions, of the Worliing,Alett, -now my-opiniln is those that
say the Pervistion being Cheap, will Make if wors fur the
Working Alan ; are Devlis incarnate ! who have Some Selfish
Aloteive, or very ignorant ! I Can Bomber .55 years
a go my Father was a Labouring man at a Farm house, we all
ways had a Hot Supper of Meat, eery Night he Brewed his
own Beer allway had Current Wine in his house, and Syder he
Made of his own appels, and Meade of the Monney Syder,
Wine, and Meade, was to give a Friend a Glass ! Flower then
9d. a Gallon, Finesh Butter 6d. a lb., every other article Cheap
in perportion I I have gone with an Father into the Faint
house to Satt by the Farmers Fire to Eat Our dinners, and the
Farmer Sonic; times would go and Cut of a good Slice of Meat
and give Him, and me a Large piaco of plumcake, and a
Pitcher of Milk every Night to take home—and the poor Alen
that yuse to Come on afternoon on Sunday to take Tea with
us, a Most allways Gave me 6d., So that I Saved 265. and
Bought me a Coat. waistcote Leather Breeches, Shoes, Hatt,
and was a Little King, in my Sunday Cloaths, every a poor
Man and Family had Sunday Coath, if they were Sober and
Industress.

8 years a go I visited the Same Spot, and a Sister Marled
to a Labouring Man a Sober and industers Man ; and I was
informd they Never had any Meat, Chees, Butter, Tea or
Shougar, or Beer, their Diet was Bread, or Pudding, or Vege-
tables, their Drink Toast and Water, no Sunday Cloaths. no
Money Saved by the Children, I Finde it is wors and Wors
every year, the working Alan in Lordon is Getting Less and
Less ever year, and those that Can get work their Pay i 3 so
Small that they Work Night and Day to keep them Selves out
of Debt ; I Work for Less and Less every year,--1 very Sel-
dome have any Meat, Excep on Sundays, if their Freetrade
their would be as many More hands imployed, and the work-
ing Men Would be able to by Cloaths, so that the Tailor the
Shoemaker the Hatter the Butcher Sc. would be Better of,
and imploy more •Hands,—Solomon Says apprestion Makes a
Wise Man Mad! if opprestion Makes a Wise Alm Mad ;
can we wonder if those that are egorant go Raving mad, and
as the prophet Says to God ! the wicked are they Rod !
Sir 1 believe that the Leaders amongest the Socialest, and
Chartist, arc Wicked Men, I em Sertain they are, for they
meet on a Sunday for political purposes, when they
ought to oc Worshipping of God, and the poor who are So
Dredfully Tried, are Lissining to ever a person that Promesed
them Help, but the Leaders of The Chartist Would be as Big
Tyrants as the Tories ! Solomon says When the Righteous
Bare rule the People Rejoice When the Wicked Pare Rule the
People Marne! The Chartis are very Newmerous at Least
1,200;000, if God Should Lett them Loose, e Least the Wicked
amongst them, and Tens of thousands of Men their is Who
Suffer from opVreshtion, Would join any Movement that are
not Chartist ; if God was to Let Loose the Wicked, as he did
in france at the French Revolution and Drive the Landholders
and Parsons that oppress us, out of the Country Must not we
aekrroledge it a, a Just Judgment, from God ! now to Pervent
all this the Rightious augt to Corn forward and form a Society,
Men from every Society Who Would Declare that by the help
of God, they would do unto all Men as they would have men
to do unto them.

and to have a Society in every Country. it should be Called
the Poor Mans Friend Society, their Should be a Free Discus-
sion in every Large Town in the Country, once a Month and
every a Member Should Pay What he Could afford Weekley,
and a Collection once a Month to Raise a Fund, to asist any
Member, that May be ingered for his opinions on Politicks or
Religion, this would give the Voters Who ware Timed and
afrade of Man, to Vote according to their Cenchiance; but a
truly Rightious Man Who has a True knowlege of the Schrip-
tures, and as our Lord. Says is Born of the Sperit, would not it
he was shure of bceing destroyed the verry Mat daye,
vote contrarry to his conehiance, I would not ! ! but
their is some who Call them Selves Christian, that as our Lord
Said to some, o thou of Little faith, These Want a Society to
Stir them up and to Stand by them, Shuch a Society would
save the counterry if some Jentleman would Come forward
Who is a christian, and in surcomestance that the working man
Could pat Confidence in him So as to Make him Tresurcer, a
Society might be formed in the Boreough of Southwork, and
Soon Extend all over the County of Sorry, and Drive the
Tores from Pediment I would Join immediately ! tho I am
but a poor Writer I can talk, and by the help of God face any
Devil, if it is Required! A WORKING MAN.

DEAD CONFORMITY.—The objection to con-
forming to usages that have become dead to you is, that
scatters your force ; it loses your time, and blurs the impres-
sion of your character. If you maintain a dead church, con-
tribute to a dead bible society, vote with a great party either
for the government or against it, spread your table like base
housekeepers—under all these screens, 1 have difficulty to
detect the precise man you are ; and, of course, so much force
is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your thing, and I
shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce Your-
self. A man must consider what a blind-man's buff is thi •
this game of conformity. If I know your sect, I anticipate
your argument. I hear a preacher announce fir his text and
topic the expediency of one of the institutions of his church.
Do I not know beforehand that not possibly can he say a new
and spontaneous word? Do I not know that with all this ostec-
tation of examining the grounds of the institution, he will eo
no such thing? Do I not know that he Pi pledged to himself
not to look but at one side ; the permitted side, not as a man,
but as a parish !minister? He is a retained attorney, and
these airs of the bench arc the emptiest affectation. Well,
most men have bound their eyes with one or another hantlkcr_
chief, and attached themselves to some one of these communi-
ties of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few
particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars.
Their every truth is not quite true.— - 4s'merson's Essays o
Self- Redonee

REPRESENTATION OF BRADFORD,LZNICTC
is to be a severe contest for the vacant seat in this borough.
Mr. Wilberforce presented himself to to the electors on Mon-
day, and addressed them in a voluble and declamatory manner,
abusing the Whigs, and advocating the sliding scale and
Sliding Scale Ministry. We believe the contest will be very
close. The new writ has not yet been moved for in the House
cf Commons, but it is most probable that the election will take
place next week. —Leeds Mercury.
M ARYLEBONE. VESTRY.—Gn Saturday at
the meeting of the Vestry (Mr. Lowe in the Chair), the ad-
journed debate on the motion of Mr. Thomas to reduce the
salary of Mr. Flood, the vestry clerk, from 5001. to 4501., was
resumed.—Mr. Foster contended that no argument whatever
had been adduced to induce the vestry to come to such a reso-
lution.—The Rev, Dr. Dibdin at great length opposed the
motion. After a discussion of nearly four hours, a division
took place, when there' appeared—For the motion, 16 ; against
it, `...52. ; Majority against reducing the vestry clerk's salary, 6,