New-York tribune., 1841-11-26
POVERTY IN CITIES.
Learning-The Professions.


We have preached ourselves hoarse in en'reating
The mass of young men Of our day not to covet
what is called an education, not to crowd into
The professions but, above all, to resist that in
sane craving for cisy life by which the happiness
.f 90 many rs shipwrecEed. The following ex-
tract from The World of London, contiuuou.
ESSAY running through the last Blackwood, is so
pertinent and wildly just that we entreai for it
general attention Although calculated for the
meridian of London, it will answer for this and
the adjoining States Let j, he heard and needed.
Ed. Tribune.
The ovsrnowing of London life, the surplus
multitude, the pushed-of population, meets you
at every turn, and affords YOU the most striking
intarces of the tenacity with which men cling to
London, as to life. Euter the Paror of any re-
spectacle tavern in the evening, You will there
find men of capital and responsibility Out of bust
ness Ending, probably, that competition Is too
strong to enable them TO struggle against men OF
larger means than themselves that the times
are bad or business the decline yet, although
the world is open to these men, and though in
some one or other of our colonies fortune might
readily be made upon their capital, or, al all
events, an ample subsistence secured yet you see
they Will rather lead the miserable lives of fire.
quenters Of coiiee-room, hugging their pipes and
potts. than consent to quit London. Indeed, few
quit London without regret; the fortunate and
happy look back with fond remembrance upon the
scenes of their happiness and good fortune; the
unfortunate know place where they can with
the same ease avert that worst and most debaslng
consequence of misfortune, the affected pity and
sincere contempt of friends the ambitious man
looks on London as his proper sphere, and regards
leaving it in the light OF gong into exile; the
man of business considers his quitting London a
confession of his incaPacty to make his way there
the man of pleasure can discover no other place
where the pryng eyes of his sem-d!e neishbors
are not upon him; all men, TOO, look to London
as the great lottery in which there many
prizes, and each is willing to iattcr himself that
one day or other Of the prizes may tall 10 his
share there is, in short, strange unreasoning
fascination about the place, which is the root and
origin OF the excessive competition we have been
at the pains shortly 10 illustrate by the preceding
examples Among the lower walks Of life, the
Intensity OF the competitive principle is as appa-
rent in the higher; every house of call has lis
room full OF poor hungry expectants of toll; every
rooScry has its swarInS of unemployed creatures,
wandering abeut looking for work, and supported
oy the charity of those degree less helpless
than themselves
La AZ - wien We descend 10 llt PROFESSIONS
that competition becomes most deSpcrats, ard pro-
duces most fatal results; we say desc end to the
professions. for what is profession (per SCI in
the competition of London life. but a passport to
poverty, and probably starvauonl Contemplate
the myriads at the bar, or coming to the bar; in
the church. or coming the church; STUDYING the
profession of physic, or already dubbed Nj. D. {:
regard the redundant OF educated Young
men and women, we beg pardon, young gentlemen
and ladies, tenderly brought up to the fashionable
employment of doing nothing, doubly helpless and
imbecile from the very refinement OF mind supe
rior education is calculated TO produce.
This class abouuds in London, and q more m
fortunate Sc, of wretches do not exist-the news
papers show US emphatically what they come TO al
last. Take the following sap-hazard from the
Times:
"0NE SHILLING An HoUR.-Mornng Cover
ness-A lady daily engaged in tuition. has her morn
ing hours a, present unoccupied and wishes to de
vote them 10 private family. Her course o! IN
stracon comprises hiStory geography. roth The use
ct tie go6eS, icrttins. arithmetic French. ItaiiGR,
zpasfc, dancing. tocer painting. The highest re.
ferences be afforded. Single lessons given in
any of the above studies.-Add.ess postpaid TO
B. B., at Mr. t. Goodhughs, fancy staticner, "a
Lams'. Conduit.street, Founding
God help thee, poor thing thine is indeed
melancholy lot Yet sach it is, thine is the
10, of thousands lie, US pause a moment-let
imagination have the reiu--yes why, when we