Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1841-11-30

" every night. (Scnsaion There were
Tour adults, and twelve children. SIX ind.
uduals constituting one family. slept upon a
litter "i straw, huddcd together not Ike hu.
man beings. not even like animals, for their
situation was nothing to be compared with
the comfort of OUT dogs and horses IN Our sta
bcs. lllcar. hear Other four or five slept
on bed Of shaungs, and the remaining FIVE
slept on another miserable bed ~ the apart.
mcnt When they entered. the poor mother
was weeping, her infant was on her knee ~
the last stage Of fatal disease, diving without
ANY medical assistance. Sensation The .
family was entirely destitute, no means OF sub .
sistence, no weekly earnings, no parish relief
(ticar, hear That was one instance We
fear Leods may stand for sample of nearly
every town m The manufacturing districts -
Winter IS rapidly advancing on population
without employment. and without property,
what they had having been parted with, in or
der 10 supply their most pressing wants. It
was stated too, by DR.. Smiles, that the small
grocers were failing and becoming bankrupts
IN large numbers Many were not able TO
pay their debts. This, again, acted on middle
class men IN a higher condition Of life and
he could state, what most of them perhaps
knew, that n large number of the frs, class
tredesmen had recently become bnnkrupts'
the 30ih ult, says
The winter is not vet commenced We, the
general distress throughout the country. has
arrived at such a point, that nothing bnt n
wholesale famine can carry II further. From
Paisley, the accounts ate irghtiul-so fright.
Iul that even Sir Robert Peel, although he
still adhcrcs 10 his os-intereDiIon as Min
ister, declares his readiness To forward prl-
vale subscription for its nmelloratlon as an in
d, idnal. In the Potteres, famine stalks
abroad thousands are starving, and those who
would cruelty attempt TO deudc the sufferer.
into the belief that machinery is The cause of
their distress, may read IN the general dcstiiu-
tlon there, the rciutaton of their foolish false.
hoods. In the Poieries there is no other ma
chine worked but the po,ier's wheel mention
ed IN Scripture in the metropolis we have a
specimen of the general dcs,iiuioh in the
fact that even printers, usually the mos, pros,
porous OF the classes who live by labor are
appealing to private benevolence with the APP
! paling fact that twelve hundred compos,
, tors and pressmen in London are uncmploy-
cd and many of them, with large families, are
actually in a starving state
b The following is an extract from letter
: giving an account of the distress among the
working classes prevailing at Stockport
J All the other trades are equally suffering.
Such is the extreme starvation point to which
they are reduced, that their wives are 10 be
| seen begging from door to door, gathering
} the disgusting ofas that are to be met with
in the streets. Meat and water are luxury
that few can boast Of and as for fire, whole
houses are without spark Last week up
wards Of two hundred fresh men turned out
. for wages. and there is every reason TO fenr
that, ere long, that number will he ffightful,
Increased. The constant cry of the nien is,
Are we to die of starvation, or see our chill
dren fall before our faces from hunger. while
plenty abounds in the land = The situation
OF the females beggars all description naked,
shiverng with cold, and FAINT from hunger,
they are paradng the streets, and imploring
, with Ionrs and applications, assistance for
themselves and their furnishing children
!, After giving some thrilling accounts of the
distress prevailing in Yorkshire, the London
Atlas says:
This Is but sample Of the accounts from
all parts of the country. Manchester, Liver
pool, Birmingham, Paisley, Norwich. Preston,
almost every town in England or Scotland
where the population is dense, has the same
tale to tell. The middle classes cannot as
sist : they are themselves falling into actual
want. Distress such as this must affect the
capitalist as we'll as the laLorer. and il mdst
spread upwards and downwards, until the IN.
termcdiate classes between wealth and labor
are absorbed in the calamity. Meanwhile. the
decrease Of the deposIie nj the Bank Of Eng
lard tell the effect even upon those who stand
removed from all chances Of immediate DIS
tress and while this is going on, bread is
nearly double the price III London which It is
IN Paris; the duty upon imported corn is TWEEN
ty sh'llings and eight pence per quarter; the
papers OF the Government mockingty dent
that distress exists aud SIR Rooer Peel de-
clares that as a Minister he can and Will do
nothing
It IS stated that he greater part Of SIX millions 81
dollars paid by the Chinese iorihe redemption Of Can
ton turns out "a bee bad silver.
No further elections are 10 be held in any