Mobile register and journal., 1841-12-09


 The Prince, We understand, arrived here this morning, and yisied the Navy Yard, where he was received with all due atention.-lN. \. Advertiser 20th ult.
 From the London otho Boston Courier
 London, Nov.3, 15il.-Three months ago con sidered that the distress then sweeping through the land was al it's height, hut was mistaken For quarter of century neither Englshmen, Scotchmcn, nor Irishmcn have endured such extreme prlfatlons as they now endure, and is doubtful Il the worst has even vet come. With every mail the most heart rendng accounts arc received, and Dy every success sye mail they appear to grow still more heaft rena ing were go to give you these accounts, as oic'- ally reported, they would not be believed, and yet they rapidly and so well authenticaled' mat they must be true. Meetings are held all over Inc country for the purpose of deyaing some means Tor the relief of the suffering thousands but ther meet ngs do but little good-there is "somrthing rotten m Denmark '' and the whole system of the present go- vernment must be revolutionzed before the great mass of the people obtain relief from their present almost nsupporiablc suferings. Fe~ persons m America can realize the present awful condition oi the great of the population in this kinsdom ana therefore it is that shall attempt to place before my country men some account of this deplorabe and dsgraceiui state of suffering among the people.
 The Morning Post acknowledges that there IS too much truth in the repeated statements of the condi- ton of the people, for it says Git were idle to deny that there many alarming symptoms m the sociai condition or II IS to enormous mass of people whose means of existence are scanry and precarious, and who have thrown oil all restraint of for that which IS placed above them." There are always numerous poor per- sons in the streets oLondon who never fail to accost every well dressed individual, and beg for small Dittanco, but never before have seen such large number of this class in every part of the metropolis These miserable looking creatures are at every corn CT and in every street, they follow after every gentle man. and supplcate and utter blessings for the sake of half-penny They look in truly wretchcd con- dition-liow they subsist is n mystery. The Dspatch has excellent remarks upon the condition oi the country and the peope-it says,-
 "A foreigner, from certain class Of OFT public proceedings ahd documents, might imagine that Great Britain and Ireland constituted the Paradise of Paradises. They might argue that our country was exuberanty rich, totally devoid of wretchedness, and that our DvInes and wise men had brought all insi- tutions penal intellectu and benevolent, 10 such state of absolute perecton that the whole nation bursting with irresistible zeal 10 make all the rest of tho world as happy as itself Great Britain does admit foreign corn, because the people are fed to surfeit, and food is drug amongst them. She sub scribes immensely for dispensing religion all over the civilized and uciyilzed world, and for sending mis- sionaries in every extreme of the earth to impart truth, and to import books, she being in plethora of truth, and saturated with books of every port The yrtiious Great Britain never troubles Foreign States or countries in Asia or Africa, about prisons 
 destitute of crime and perfect in morality that her delicate mind is not susceptible of even suspicion that any other countries need such subjects to be mentioned amongst them. The foreigner who from public proceeding and documents might fairly draw such conclusions, on coming amongst would disco yer that with all our immense wealth, we have more of stad misery, starving wretchedness, and writh- ing distress amongst greater numbers and in more extreme degree than any other nation in the world that institutions are in negecteda and imperfect statc producing the crimes and miseries they were attended prevent or relieye-hat corn is moi a,l- miited merely sustain Aristoci scy by the suierings of the poor-lhat far frem having any religious truth to dispense to others, have than for ourselves, for the uncertainty of what it is, puts and keeps us in perpetual state of dscord and bad icclings-tat instead ofhaying n superuity of books wc have vast part of the popalation that would be glad of them could they only read and write; and 10 the morals, crimes and punshmenis, in q most deplorabe state with respect to all of them- British beneyoence sadly erratic-a worthless gabond-for whilst it roves every where, it neg lects all it's objects al home."
 The following observations upon this subject, from the Atias will give more correct Idea of the pre- vailing distress.
 The winter is not commenced, yet the general dis tress throughout the country has arrived at such a point that nothing but a wholesale famine carry it further
 From Paisley tho accounts are frghtfll-so fright ful that even Sir Robert Peel, although he still ad- heres to his nOn-ineryention minister, declares his readiness to forward private subscription fer it's amelioration an individual.
 In the potteries famine stalks abroad thousands are starving! and those who would cruelty attempt to deude the sufferers into the belief that machinery is the of their distress, may read in the general Restitution there practical refuaon of their foolish falsehood In the potteries there is other machine worked but the potter's wheel mentioned in Scrip ture.
 In inc ,no,ro,ol,s ,,o h, yo snoc,., of tho Restitution in the fact that printers, usually the prosperous of the classes who live by labor are appealing to private benevolence, with the appalling fact that twelve hundred compositors and pressmen in London unemployed, and many of them with large families, are actually in starving state.
 In Leeds there are l9,236 individuals who are living eieuen pence arthag per Week eachi-and al public meeting of the inhabitants of that town among other narrowing details of human misery, the following account was given by one of the speakers
 'The cases of distress,' says Dr. Smiles, sof ex- treme distress, that had come under his notice that morning, had narrowed up his very soul. There was one case he would particularly mention. He had no- ted down the name, and he was sure, if any doubt existed, individuals might satisfy themselves as to the correctness of the statements At the end of Brook street there small cellar dwelling nine feet by twelve, into which they were introduced by the emu merator. The dwelling was SO considerably beneath the street that only half the window was above it. IL a damp, dsagreeable, ill-lighed, i'll aired den. In that apartment they found three families, consist. ing of sixteen individuals, nine who slept in it ever, night. There were four adults and twelve children Six indvduals, constituting one family, slept upon
 litter of straw, huddled together not like human be- ngs, not even like animals, for their situations was not to be compared with the comfort of our dogs and horses in our stables. Other four or five slept on bed of shavings, and the remaining five slept on ano- ther miserable bed in the apartment. When they en. tered, the poor mother was weeping, her infant was on her knee in the last stage of fatal dscase dying without any medical assistance. The family was en- trey destitute, no means of subsistence, no weekly earnings, parish relief. This was one instance
 This is but sample of the accounts from all parts of the country. Manchester, Birmingham, Paisley, Norwich, Preston-almost every town in England oI Scotland where the population is dense has the same tale to tell The middle classes cannot assist: the, are themselves falling into actual want. Distress such this must affect the capitalist as we'll as the laborer and, il must spread upwards and downwards until all the intermediate classes between wealth and labor are absorbed in the calamity
 FINAEcIERs SEETENcED.-The Philadelphia fnancers, Hassinger and Wright, were sentenced on Thursday-the former three years imprisonment in the pententary, and the latter to four months in the county prison, each to pay a nominal fine The