Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1842-07-05
stare them IN the face:

No butter no milk no meat; no red behring's
no clothing; no medicine for the chillreliy no
roots or shoes; M provision put by for thel mes
when the husband may be unable to work from
sickness or accident; and yet the twelve shillngs
are GONE Yes, gone And in what? In in
sufficient food for the body
We visited lately fifty of such cases. There
are 100000 more to be looked to, and 100000
more beyond them. So here is a population-and
in England too, and in some of our best districts
existing on bread and potatoes, with no meat beer
or milk, from the years end-but two ounces of
tea and pound of moist sugar for husband and
wife and four children for whole week and this
normal state is viewed, not only without horror,
but even with sort Of complacency, by those
who enqured, Is there any thing neao?"
"There are five grand popular divisions of Lon
don THE WEST END" which consists of nu.
merous handsome squares and streets, occupied by
the town houses ofthe nobility and gentry, and
the most fashionable shops 1t is the great arena
of wealth, folly and splendid sin. The parks,
gardens squares and streets ofthls part ftho town
probably exceed everything else of the kind
throughout the world. "THE CRY" includes
the central and most ancient division of the me-
tropols 1t was once surrounded by a strong wall
which was defended by fifteen towers and bastions
OF Roman masonry. 1t is the emporium of COM
merce and of business of every description, and is
occupied by shops, warehouses, public Offices and
the houses of tradesmen and others connected with
them. "THE EAST END" bears no greater re-
sembiance to the West End than desertto green
field. Its inhabitants are devoted to commerce. to
ship building, and to every collateral branch con-
nected with merchandise Some portions of it
embrace vast amount of extreme poverty and
Wretchedness
SOUTHWARK" and the whole of the southern
bank of the Thames, from Deptford to Lambeth,
bears some resemblance to the "East End" of the
town, being occupied principally by persons en-.
gagged in commercial affairs But in one respect
1t differs from every other part of London; it
abounds with numerous manufactures; iron foun-
dries, glasShouses, soapboiling and dye houses
shot and hat manufactures and many other sim
liar establishments. 1t is chiefly occupied by
workmen and others ofthe lower classes. 'sWEsr-
MINISTER contains the palace, the Abbey. the
parks, the houses of Parliament, the courts of JUS
uce, and the various offices connected with gov
ernment Says Leigh, in his work on London
wlhe increase IN the size and population of the
British metropolis within a few years is truly
amazing, 1t is no unusual event to meet in soci
ETY. persons who recollect those portions of what
must now be called the metropolis when thew
were nothing but fields or swamrs" There are
some parts of London which have grown as rap
idly as our own cities at the West
IheIe are TWO grahd arteries Whlch run thro'
the metropolis from east to west The most south
ern Of these, .forthe greater part of the way, is
within quarter of a mile of the Thames 1t
commences at St Jamess Palace in Pail Mall,
and is continued through the Strand, Fleet-sreet,
st PauIs, Watling-sreet, Cannon-street and East
Cheap to the Tower. The northern line COM
mences at Bayswater, and passes through Oxford
street, Holborn, Skinner Newgate Cheapside.
Cornhill, Leadenhall, and White Chapel, to Mile
End, distance Of about seven miles and the en-
tire course is more density populated than any por-
uon OF New York These great avenues run
nearly parallel to each other, and in no part Of
London can stranger be far distant from one OF