The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1841-12-29
From the National Gazette
STARVATION.

The following advertisement which appears IN inc
London papers, exhibits the appalling distress oil ,he
manufacturing districts Let the American Ieauei
picture to himself this of eieren thousand n'a'
beings in one town subssting on such Pi'eanoe 40
lrss cents each day. and he may wei, DC sluseu ~
reading the never ceasng TRADES OF 'he TINES anu
Others of the British Press on the e's Oh our Demo
cratic form of Government
"subscriptons for the Distressed Manufacturers
If Paisley and ighborhood.-Chairman OF the
Committee-Robert Johnson, ns4, 20 Ma.,Rs s'Iee'
don and Middesex Riches-court, Lime street James
Iowndes Esq, Waiting street, Secretaries. Sec
retaries-William Dallas, Esq, % Austnfriars; Da-
yid Forret, Esq, Friday street.
Amount of subscriptions advertised a2,95I ii b
The Committee beg to call attention to the fact
that at present 1897 persons receive relief from The
Paisley Committee at penny iarthing to three half
pence each daily, or 9427 l2s 9sd per week"
This dreadful state of affairs is not confined TO the
town of Paisley but appears to extend throughout the
kingdom. We published, but day or two since, an
account Of the starvation at Bolton, which had be-
come so general that cant term of cianned, mean
ing starved 10 DEATH used by the poor people. we
annex few items on the subject, which we find
in the Spectator of the 9th ultmo, just received
A meeting of Chartists was held at Bolton on the
18th TO consider the state of the country The iol-
lowing resolutions all passed unanimously
u'Tbat the distress in the country is unparalleled
in severity and duration Manufacturers not
ceying profits for their outlay shopkeepers and men
in business are fast Fastening to bankruptcy meche
nics artisans and aborers of every description are
but partially employees labor rs not receiving
lust remuneration and the whole country is suffer
ing through the vicious and unjust legislation Of
corrupt House of Commons, an irresponsible House
of Lords and an extrayagant Government,
"That this meeting is of opinion that this state OF
things is contrary TO all Just law and calls aloud for
that change that would make this country peaceful
and prosperous, and its inhabitants happy; and are
of opinion that they ought to avail themselves OF
every constitutional right to bring about desirable
an object
.sThat this meeting is of opinion that the Peoples
Charter would confer upon them this power and give
them these Just and constitutional rights and there
fore determine to petition the House OF Commons to
make the same the law of the land"
A petition for the Peoples Charter was adopted.
Mr. Parkinson who seconded the first resolution, re-
ferred to the panic of 1926 and said that it bore
comparison to the depression now existing. He call
ed the people in the room to testify to the unver
sal distress by desiring every one who not
ceiving sufficient supply OF the necessaries of life to
hold up his hand. Almost every hand was raised in
response MIR. Parkinson Observed that if any doubt
ed the facts thus sgnifed, he believed each was ready
to take the douber to his home and give him proof.
His hearers cried out, 'We will"
correspondent of the Globe describes the state of
Nottingham:
Hundreds are starving on straw beds, without
food, fire. or coverings and these are people who would
work if they could get it. Each day. parties of men,
with starvation in their looks and dressed in absolute
rags have been parading the Gown in PROFESSIONS OF
two, three, and four hundred, carrying board,
which printed in large etters-'distessed and out
Of work Other parties to the number OF thirty or
forty drag carts loaded with sand through the streets,
and beg from door to door. The relief list at the
Union WoIkhouse contains 5000 recipients. The
house itself has 900 inmates crammed within it walls
Besides those receiving parish relief, upwards
of 5000 are starving. Distress and gaunt misery
haunt the whole town. Trade Is dead !; not single
master employs full hands
Meetings to devise measures Of relief going
A few DAYS apo, the belman Of Bradford was en-
ployed in crying 'houses to let at eighteen p nee
week. part ofthe town which has been considered
the most densey populated" The houses IN this part
consist mostly of cottages inhabited, while trad was
good by workmen who found employment in the
neighborng factories, but who during the depression
of trade have been obliged to quit. Had there bee
flee trade in corn there is little doubt not only that
the present cottages would have been occupied, but
also that there would have been demand for more.
At the time of the late census there CSC houses
unoccnpied in Bradford being about one in eleven
and the number, we fear, is increasing Leeds Mer'
curry *e..&
At the oldham Petty Sessions, on Monday last,
eghtyseven persons of the poorer class of ratepay
ers were summoned for recovery of arrears of poor
rates. The parties required to pay by install
ments There at are present upwards OF 500 empty
houses in the borough of Odham-Preston Chronscle.
n correspondence puulisileu III VIC IoIuol papers
excited much discussion, 1t was between the Duke
of Wellington and deputation, who had come four
hundred miles from Paisley to London, to seek relief
from the Government for their starving towns-men.
The committee twice applied TO the Duke for an in
terview, which he twice denied, and TO a third appli
cation he returned no answer While the represen-
tations of the peoples dstresses not permitted to
reach the officers of Government, we find them bust
ed in increasing the public burdens will appear by
the following item which we take from the London
he birth nj a Prince s made the
of promoting, and of course increasing the pay of
nearly thousand officers of the Army and Navy.
The Atlas says:
The brevet in honor of the birth of his Royal
Highness, the Duke of Cornwall, is as liberal as the
most sanguine expectations of the services could have
anticipated 1t promotes 9S5 officers in the Army
and Navy, including those of the army OF India; and
by the retirements it will induce, and the consequent
promotions, will affect larger body of the defenders
of their country than any similar document Of recent
date"
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