The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1841-12-11
From the Vicksburg Wing
Great distress among the English Opera
tiVes.

the English operatives brought by re-
cent arrivals from that country, are APP
palling beyond description. Those
brought by the Caledonia exceed any
heretofore received, and exhibit scenes
of woe and wretchedness at the contem-
plation Of which the heart sickens. Il
is said that in Leeds alone there are 90
900 individuals who are living on ia
pence, or about tioenty cents each per
,ceek' And yet this is the county of
which the Duke of Wellington said sthere
was no real distress for want Of food -
If scenes such as the following account
exhibits, do not afford "reaI suffering
we trust in God the miserable wretches
may never know what 'real suforing'
is.
"The cases Of DISTRESS" said DR..
Smiles, editor Of the Leeds Times, "of
extreme distress, that had come under
his notice that morning, had narrowed
up his very soul. (Hear, hear.) There
was one case which he would mention.
He had noted down the name, and he
was sure, if any doubt existed, individu-
ais might satisfy themselves as to the cor
rectness of the statements. At the end
of Brooke street there was small cell
lar dwelling, nine feet by twelve, into
which they were introduced by the emu
merator. The dwelling was so consid-
erably beneatkthe street that only half
the window was above it. 1t was a
damp, disagreeable, ill-lighted, ill-aired
den. (Hear, hear.) In that apartment
they found three families, consisting of
sixteen individuals--nine who slept in it
every night (Sensation.) There were
four adults and. l2 children. Six indi
yiduas, constituting one family, slept
upon litter of straw, hudded together,
not like human beings, not even ike an
imals, for their situation was nothing to
be compared with the CO nfort Of our
dogs and horses in our stables. (Hear,
hear.) Other four or five slept on bed
of shavings, and the remaining five slept
on another miserable bed in the apart.
ment. When they entered, the poor
mother was weeping; her infant was on
her knee in the last stage of fatal dis
ease, dying without any medical assis
lance. (Sensation.) The family were
/ entirely destitute, no means of subsis
lance, no weekly earnings, no parish re
lief. (Hear, hear?) That was one in
stance" We fear Leeds may stand fo
a sample Of nearly every town in tht
manufacturing districts. Winter is IA
pidly advancing on population withou
employ ment,and without property; wha
they had, having been parted with in or
) der to supply their most pressing wants
1t was stated, too, by Dr.. Smiles, tina
sthe small grocers were failing and be
; coming bankrupts in large numbers Ma
ny were unable opay their debts. iThi
, again, acted on middle class men in
higher condition of life; and he coul
state, what most of them perhaps knew
that large number of the first elias
. tradesmen had recently become bank
a rupts.
4 This picture fearful and startling as
E is, is but sample of the suffering
the operatives all over England. Th
t Liverpool Mail of the 30th Octobel
9 holds the following frightful language
''The winter is not yet commence
n yet the general distress, throughout II
/ country, has arrived at such poin
/ that nothing but wholesale famine ca
d carryit further. From Paisley, the a
n counts are frighfuI--so frightlul that e
r. en- Sir Robert Peel, although he still a
). heres to his non-intervention as mini
e ter, declares his readine SIS to forwa
II private subscription for its anchor
If ton as an individual In the potteric
famine stalks abroad, thousands a
starving; and those who would cruel
. attempt to delude the sufferers into t
at belief that machinery is the cause
"a their distress may read, in the genel
- destitution there, the refutation of the
n foolish ia lseLoods. In the potteries the
le is no other machine worked but the p
ter's wheel mentioned in Scripture.
70 the metropolis we have a specimen
is