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

from the

to her that

Must her claims
ie of justice—

,ng to labour ;
ons which she

divine source,
'ire," and that, mean-
ne shorn lamb."

selfish generation ! A

sympathies of her

ex—weak as herself,
ler that she must
I earthly comfort,
nt to live by the labour

scale o

ace of her beauty in those
cations to which she had
she found, too many Mrs.

J many p

ropic in-

or half nothing, to

embers of commit-

in which the eyesight
siopsellers and Jew

, with their plate-

cost miserable woman,

has to pay with her

g tears

Enter, ye

)f misery-purchased
ith their low-priced
ling which you save,

n or in velvets, in bro-

)" cassimere—you.. are

3t stich, human life has
a and made up amidst

t, if there was re-

ssof this world, to

se whose passion for say-
Ting of their weaker and

; to the consequences
The poor sempstress
cheapness. She had

selfish, caleulaing,

hollow-hearted,

Listed; and famine for

s her owvn lot, stared the

We pass over her struggles
passionate resolves. Suffice

She was not aban-

being who watches and
3t of his children. We

in a position which

ore inißerable than

Joseph Smith was the
unes. We must, to

ndulgent reader to sup-
ave lapsed, and to gaze

twelve months

.gnificent hall, was

Mrs. J

on of the anniversP

atroduced the poor semp-
)f those articles—blankets,

es which charitable lhdieS
upon the poor in their va-
!aped before her ; and the

with the labour of arrang-
consciousness of the su-

greater

opted their distribution. A
was in Mrs. Joseph Smith's
r, was of a cheap kind. The
!se petticoats and wrappers,
d cost herself or her lord and
It a meal to the distressed of

of one sneh resorting

ear she had got crime
r commodities for no-
were hundreds of vir-

he most scanty pay

oil of the impiisOned

r sempstress, and others

wretche

food by tb

iselves for employment and
:e and the loss of modesty,
.niteatiaries without number
-tem, and lady patronesses-
--he found to take them by
them their sympathy ; but
iserable of the world—those
fficiently sunk as to require
;sedly humane—let them toil
;y drives them low enough to
contemplation and pity, and
lantbropical ! We do not, in
is upon humble industry in
the bed of death. Modern
condemned cell, the pinion-

would open their doors to t
old, middle-aped, and young
the hand, and bestow upor

the merely d

itute a

poor bein
the protei

s who a

on of the proles

Tuggle on—un

become c

withal, o

the ill-fur

led cabin or on
er the
of the

charity and feeli

ing root
We 1

n, or the fro

Old Bailey.
tith, in the exercise of her
to the contemplation of the
iserable apartment, in the outskirts

occupant of
of the metr

e in which we originally
saw our poor sempstress ; but a much more wretched and
worse furnished one. We cannot call that a bed, in which
amen being, coiled up upon the
is the child upon whom, a

lies a poor, suffer
floor in a cover.

year ago, she lavished, though suffering herself, so much
kindness ? That poor innocent, although the offspring of
guilt, sleeps soundly as the child of a more fortunate and
sonless parent—dare we say " more sinless ? "—in one of
those inhospitable-looking receptacles for the poor,
which we see in the outskirts of London, with ungrassed
mounds over them, and unblossoming, untested 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 I The child of the poor sempatress 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 borne 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
bad toiled for it. The hectic flushing of her face she had