The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-27 00:00:00

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ETRY.

POETICAL CLAN(

42. AT THE STATESMEN
11E DAY.

autious-mbid betr
)e'er his back,
to thy hack 1

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a down

I'd a Prophet's crown

,übtle eye
arch defy

eems it sin
ox's skin ;

3 he creeps through all;--

to tell;

- ,
scorns the glance!

And Time
First in ti
He sans I

from the mean.
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RY-DAY

LIFE

1 Standard.)

EMPSTRESS,

le, only half conscioi
Men her, and not at a

epriva

'hich it was to involve

and conviction, which assures the
,ver individual caprice, or selfish-
ay for a time repress them, its aspi-
Ay be gratified, if urged forward
stness and honesty. the poor girl

nd - her child by the

as a penance which she
rself, as the only one
em the guilt of her fall

ciousness pressing upon

but it did not press

er fur th

Ltince in her posses-

p hunge

from the

ispered to her that

3 closed against her claims
her the sense of justice—
She was willing to_labour ;

those lessons which she

earn i

r, from a divine source,
" and that, mean-
hor❑ lamb."

s hire,

a selfish generation! A
,o the sympathies of hei•

same sex—weak as herself,
as—told her that she must
le scale of earthly comfort,
meant to live by the labour
e of her beauty in those
ttions to which she had
ie found, too many Mrs.
o many philanthropic in-
ced for half nothing, to
iale members of commit-
es, in which the eyesight
to slopsellers and Jew
, with their plate-
se cost miserable woman,
rs, has to pay with her
[ding tears. Enter, ye
of misery-purchased
with their low-priced
shilling which you save,
n or in velvets, in bro-

come lower, mu,
than she had yet
Of her fingers,

r:o'n pat

norequite

wares ! but refl

'ap" cassimere—you are
uman tears, to construct
Last stich, human life has
ren and made up amidst
ought, if there was re-

fishnessof this world, to

hose whose passion for say-
ffering of their weaker and
blinds to the consequences
dity. The poor sempstress

more miser

of thei
felt th,

iia for cheapness. She had
'en in the selfish, ealcu'aing,
entially hollow-hearted, phi-

lost a filen

much proiessir
lanthropist—N

Her litt

Khausted; and famine for
s her own lot, stared the

re pass over her struggles
ssionate resolves. Suffice

. She was not aban-
ng who watches and

!st of his children

he unrell

her in a position which
call more miserable than
Mrs. Joseph Smith was the
I fortunes. We must, to

indulgent reader to sup-

have lapsed, and to gale
ich those twelve months

Seated in en
rs. Joseph Sr

her magnificent hall, was
enoon of the anniversary of
3 troduced the poor sernp-
)f those articles—blankets,
,es which charitable ladies
upon the poor in their va-
eaped before her ;. and the
with the labour of arrang-
le consciousness of the su-
pted their distribution. A
vas in Mrs. Joseph Smith's
, was of a cheap kind. The
;e petticoats and wrappers,
cost herself or her lord and
t a meal to the distressed of
:esSity of one such resorting
'his year she had got crime

her own

e her commodities for no-
here were hundreds of vir-

Mrs. J

the most scanty pay ?
the toil of the imprisoned
,nor sempstress, and others
.lves for employment and
. ice and the loss of modesty,
asylums and penitentiaries without number
ir doors to them, and lady patronesses—
td, and young—bc found to take them by
bestow upon them their sympathy:; but
stitnte and miserable of the world—those
ho are not sufficiently sunk as to require
of the professedly humane—let them toil
n—until society drives them low enough to
3 of prurient contemplation and pity, and
to the thilanthropical ! We.do not, in
'its upon humble industry in
cabin or on the bed of. death: Modern
ing prefer the condemned cell, the pinion-
front of the Old Bailey..
Joseph Smith, in the .exercise of her
Ind turn to the contemplation of the
gable apartment,•ia ,the .outskirts
.e same in which we originally
; but a much more wretched and
,ce cannot call that a bed, in whifh
%uman being, coiled up upon the
is the child upon whom, a

vicious withou

qualify the
`pence in v

food by the in,
'and Magdalen

would open the
old, middle-am
the hand, and

the merely d

poor t

the protection

'on—struggle o

become object

this age,

bestow our thong

ing_Toom, or t
We leave

cheap phitant

[pant of

lies a poor,*suf
floor -

in a cover
ago, she 11

And wher

iindnes

3. though suffering. herself, so much

—.LI, poor innocent, although the offspringuf
guilt, sleeps soundly as the child of a more fortunate and
sonless parent—dare we say " more sinless ? "—in one of
• ,-..,:t.h1e-looking receptacles for the poor

tt. F
which we see in the outskirts of London, with ungrassed
mounds over them, and unblossoming, unleafed willow,
bent over their heads as if in mockery. Cruelly desolate
are these churchyards, in the immediate neighbourhood
of the wealth which the ill-paid labour of their occupants
has created The child of the poor sempstress has pined
and died ; and, with her, has died all the love which the
poor-forsaken being had to the things of this earth. There
was a gulf between her and the home of her youth. This
child filled it up,. It was the living memento of her fall
from virtue ; but it was dear, nevertheless. It was some-
thing which she had felt belonged to her through long,
weary months, when the world seemed to have thrown
her off, as not belonging to it, or worthy of its love. She
Lad toiled for it. The hectic flushing of her face she had