Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-09-05

the tranquility which exists in that part OF South
America The rumours respecting the shipment oil
considerable in specie tor the payment OF the
Colombian dividends, had the effect also oil enhanc-
| ing the value of the different loans, but we are
fully convinced that however anxious the authori-
ties Bogota may be to maintain their credit with
! the country at the present moment, they have 1t
not in their power TO satisfy the demands of their
creditors.
| The commercial affection of the country CONT
nues undated. The scribes In the pay OF the
! Trinidad Planters, have been lately drawing com
PARSONS to prove that the negroes are better of
than our own easantry and manufacturers. They
have Published in Trinidad paper the following
picture ofthe tree white population of this country,
W hich we blush 10 say is not overcharged-
{" 1t is an appalling picture of human misery,
confessed by the masters themselves, and published
to the world in the journals they pay and support:
! iousands of wretched beings without the means of
subsistence in every part OF the kingdom w omen
! and epess children, united, unhoused in that re-
lentless climate 30 900 wandering about in the
metropolis, under the eyes of the Legislature in
Leeds, the laborers literally starving in Maccles
field in extremis!-in Glasgow dying from prema
ture exhaustion and over-eXer,ion-and in Bolton
/ gracious Heaven! feeding with the hogs on brew
ers grains and coveling morsel OF horse flesh Is
luxury Well may these unhappy wrstches envy
the state of our African laborers -
All that can be said in reply to this terrible truth
is. that the manufacturers are not subject 10 the
branding iron and the cart whip. We must confess
however, that scoufge OF peslilence, war, or
I famine, was ever at any period OF the world more
terrible than the scourge which is now decimatng
tenth of the English Industrious population We
talk with horror of the scourge OF Gothic Soy
,hic Eruption in former ages, but they minor
, evils 10 this, which after the cupidity of traffic
has nursed millions of human beings into artificial
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level of subsistence. The multudes cut oil by the
nroads of barbarous warfare died at once; they had
not TO endure the pro,Tacted mlsery-,he living
DEATH of seeing their families and children perish
ing piecemea before their eyes. The picture o.
Ugono perishing gradually in despairing hunger
with his four SONS, as described by Dante, has been
thought TO be the plus ultra OF imaginary horror:
but Dante and no poet ever conceived the idea OF
myriads dying pecemeal for long months with
their children The miserable people, meanwhile,
are silent Count UgolinO, and the silence be-
comes their despair Their case is beyond words;
besides they cannot eat bayonets!
.NGnutdcturing diStreSS.-There never was
such appalling and awful aspect before us II
things continue many months as they are at pre-
seat, there must be rebellion before Christmas
1879 and 1892 are nothing in comparison with
1926, when the eX ent OF commerce and the in
crease of population are taken into consideration.
a cramped circulation, and The destruction OF cred
it and confidence, which it i'll take ye.rs to
tore have paraly.ed every department OF commerce,
and brought tie country TO state OF misery and
despair.
la the north, the mes chants are losing by every
engagement; in their own defence they oil obliged
TO turn off all their hands. The manufacturers do
not get the price OF the material for their man
ufactured goods, and are obliged 10 turn Off their
hs"ds. There is no employment for the labourng
CLASSES, and young Men, OF good sober habits and
moral principles, are willing to do any thing, how
ever slavish, TO gain couple of shIilirgs week
Every prudent is reducing his establishment,
and curailing his expenses; and many of the mos,
respectable members OF society anxousy
thinking how they TO gain miserable pitiance
Low wooilen goods for the North American
market, sold last week at Huddersheld 10 TO 20
per cent. lower than they have been known for the
last sixty years. In fact, no words paint the
dlsresses OF Lancashire and the West Riding Of
Yorkshire.
The correspondent OF daily paper says, " the
loss OF credit in a mercantile country Is an evil OF
such magnitude years cannot repair Why not
touch on the corn laws? The best wheat is now
selling at Hamburger, and very late purchases made
at 2Os The aris'ocracy do not feel suiferings
- they are al present basking in Fortunes lap
Their turn, however, IS i'll come, and with
redoubled force and they will feel what it is to an
nihllste commerce. There must be an eyentful
crisis ere long-the poor-rates increasing ten
iold--a perfect s;agnaiion in every department of
commerce, Snd iunous sacrifices made by every
merchant, and sill no employment OF any Kind for
the labouring classes
The poor-rale in Bolton is advanced TO IS. in the
H. The collectors state, that it Is next to impossi
ole to get in the old rate, and how they will pro-
coed with this addition may easily be guessed
The rate will be grieyously felt by such as pay
heavy rents. We can state, on the very best au-
tEority that manufacturer in the silk and wOrsted
trsde, OF far fiom the Metropolis, who has hth-
erto kept upwords OF 500 hands, has given init
nation to Minister, thsi lie no longer con-
iinue his business sbout certain ruin, and that he
will lie obliged to discharge the whole soon as
they have finished Tie ork in hand.
Every branch Of business appears to be rapidly
declining or in a state OF inactivity, amounting to
absolute stagna ion. The universal topic is, the
condition OF the people in the manufacturing dis
rcts. Great apprehensions entertained of in
surrec'iOrary movements IN the neighborhood of
Wigan, where persons have been engaged in
manufacturing pixies f. r some weeks past. Gov
eminent at length convinced by the represen-
tations from The Northern manufactures, and from
their own Observations, that subscriptions are
quite inadequate for relief.
a Bolton paper states, that Eve mills suspend
ed operations at the end of last week IN that town
alone. by which 1000 workmen were added TO the
mulutuees out OF employment. Bound up iogeth-
er, IS the Interests OF the and the workmen
are, 1t Is impossible afford any relief 10 the lat
Ter without improving the condition Of the former. |
Where tens and hundreds Of thousands of work
men are out of employment, private charity must
tail TO afford adequate relief 1t may, indeed by |
showing to the poor that the higher classes syin-
pdihlse IN their dIstresses, to excite kindness
among the different ranks; but without more ex- /
lensiye relief, this feeling will be insufficient 10