Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-07-01


and furniture large portion of the unentalled es
tales in Durham goes 10 one of his daughters ms
Grace it is said had IL 100000, about SG,oooo 600
the 3! per cent. consols, besides plate and Jewery
10 the value Of fl00,000.'
ain the paper we find the death OF The MARQUIS
of Hartford announced, with the remark that he d'eo
worth - 900 900 nr upwards OF S9,0OO,OO0
CHOW let US view the reverse side of the picture
We extract the following from the first paper at hand
as recent report. The stated are accompanied
BY others of like character and are doubt true re-
presentations of thousands Of in ngand, Scot
land, and Ireland:
"Iet MS peep into the report Of the POOR law commits
soners that may the better understand this new doc
irne, which The humanity of Great Britain is about TO
cnrraft on the law of natloIs.
ssThese commissioners visited The poor IN their bodes
of wrechedness and the following few OF the iacts
selected from their report:
"sOne witness says. Il am counted good laborer,
and when there is employment to be had, am seldom
idle am idle for about three
months in the year. average. In the beginning
of the summer was idle for three weeks, day after
another. | had no provision. sold every article in
nv house rather than let my wife 90 out you may be
sure we ale the price Of them sparngly at last sold
the pot had to boil my potatoes, ard walked out oil
the door myself, my wife and six children We went
off where we not known, and begged
"Anolier says q would engage to work at home
every day in the year for eight pounds, without food
or support of any kind.
generally milk with their potatoes, says MILK,
Sir ] soemny declare, before my neighbors here,
tina, have been lying in my bed, having blister after
bl scr on me, and did not drink quart of milk but
cat potatoes and salt herrngs and had no drink but
cold water great many of us would pray the al.
mighty take OIL it would lie better for us than 10
live in our poverty and need
Here, have sample of the effects OF 'proective
policy, and of unequal laws in England. We see the
pririirgcd far rolling in riches wrung from the hard
earning OF the manY-we see them gl'itering IN
Jewels and eas,ing off of gold and silver plate, while
the poor seat potatoes aud salt behring's" And yet,
with all these things before them, the Hhig members
OF Congress- at this very time, striving TO fix this
system the American people.
Yes, at this very moment, they have bill before
Congress establish, and make permanent the pro-
teeve system this country. II is a remarkable fact
too that they doing this at the very time when the
British Government has abandoned it a source of
misery and suffering among her own people The late
arrivals from England bring The intelligence that the
ministry have submitted TO Parliament plan 10 reduce
the duties all articles of foreign manufacture down
10 90 per cent nd vaorem-the precise amount agreed
upon in the "Compromse act Of lS33 While they
are doing this, the fhies Of Congress striving TO
raise our taxes up TO the British standard previous to
this move of the ministry Thus the British COM
ing down 10 our rates and Wings rising up to
the British rates. Strange and extraordinary state of
things.