New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-01-29
HE T r [ B IN E 5.
society, Aristocracy and General Misery
In England.
Correspondence Of The Tribune.

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English King t-Cr me n England
Bank JGiLuTeS and frauds.
DEAR SIR: Much to my relief | have got out
If London, and am now in the workshop Of
the world" as the 4" Brummagers" delight to
call their dirty but wealthy borough. The prl-
yate buildings in this place can lay but small
pretensions to beauty-being mostly low, dingy,
and illy built. The streets are mostly narrow
and but tolerably we'll paved. Some of the pub
lie edfces are chaste and even splendid The
Town Hall, capable Of accommodating $500
persons, and the Grammar school, would not
suffer in comparison with many Of the best
has population of near 200, O00-rnost Of whom
are engaged in the manufactures and wretched
enough in general are their condtions-atbough
wearing "an Eden.hue" when compared with
those of many in other manufacturing districts
The most striking feature of English socialism
is-Beggary. Go where you will-rags and
prayers for aid disgust your eye and arrest your
steps Yet the land is rich-aye, rich to surfeit.
The wall of the starving man does sometimes
arouse the wealthy middle class mantle gentle
man and the nobleman. But few dare to look
into the cause Of Wo-few dare to disturb the
mammoth social machinery-controllcd as it is
and constructed as it has been-by the civil and
ecclesiastical Devil Giants of Great Britain
With Lochie they would find soIace in the
veil
They would deaien their sight,
And hide with d mantle the phGntoas OF fright
But the horrible cry still surges up-and they
attempt to alleviate the present, by donations to
the poor fund-erections Of hospitals, &c. &c.
A mad man once proposed to the Neapoiitans to
quench the fires of their volcano by steam-hy-
draulics verify these better English classes" arc
but a little more sane than the lunatic. 1t is cs-
tinated that last year, " over one million were
relieved: > and still misery abounded" Who will
wonder at this dreadful state into which we see
the masses plunged? Could any thing else be
expected when we see clergy pocketlng mil
hons-an army of pensioners eating the gllded
bread of idlcness-a policeman well PAID an
TACT, SOLDIER, nearly ut eUery tenth doors
Corn Laws which enormously the peoples
principal articles offood-the Queen rolling IN state
through the country for the purpose Of obtaining
from Parliamenta grant ostensiby to cover her ey-
penses of travel-but in reality fund to relieve
her from Bankruptcy thousands of acres ly-
ing idle because it does not suit the Arlstocratic
landowner to put them into cultivation sys-
tern of employment which makes every large
renter, freebooter, and manufacturer perfect
tyrant-an army whose bayonets glitter around
the world, and to cap ALL national debt con-
tracted by the Internal Brunswick Dynasty, which
is too great for any liquidation but that OF the
Regulators. If England was not the most un-
happy, the most hopeless country IN the world,
she would indeed be standing miracle mira
Gle showing how far the Devil could fight and
still be compelled to succumb to Nature. AS 1t
is. the Bishops, the Aristocracy (the Queen, poor
thing, is but an expensive 7aobody) and the Devil
have certainly gained the victory, whose wreath
is wet with the blood Of some millions of men,
women and children either dead-or alive, and
trying occasionally, to catch u little OF Gods
sweet, fresh air in this English Pandemonum
fostering and blazing and bowling around me.
caught glimpse of Prince Albert and his
wife as they rode through the main street OF Lei
ccster. The Prince is very genteel, and rather
handsome, young man, He was plainly but ele-
gantly dressed, and bowed quite gracefully to the
crowds which pressed around the state carriage.
The Queen is parsonage who if untitled, would
never command the least observation. She IS
neither homely nor pretty. Her Majesty was
also attred plainly. And The soldiers marched
steadily and the noblemen's vehicles followed the
Royal coach, and the people strained their eyes
out Of the sockets to see Brunswick and
Coburg and the mob-Gsd help them gave
some cheers that seemed I" to stick in the throat"
The fact is there was small enthusiasm. Majesty
however made the most fit. There sat monarch
of England-the head of the most powerful the
most naughty the most tyrannical, the most
heartless, Aristocracv in the world My eye
glanced back through the History OF England
the Kings and the Queens of olden time sat up
Ter moment in their tombs and bore witness to
the beauty of the Dpine Right. LIST; Egbert
naming " England"-2d EthelwoIf introducing
titkes-3d Ethelbald and Ethelbert-the for
mer dying of prohigacy-the latter governing as
weIlas King-cr can--4th; Ethelred, who prayed
yalorousIy while his soldiers fought-5th; AL
fred, commonly called TAE GRENr-6th; Ed
ward, occupied mostly in quelling instructions
18th; Athelstan, who did better, as he built
ships and opened warehouses--Sth Edmund,
stabbed by a robber and principally known by
the manner of his death-9th; Edred, who en-
poycd Dunstan renowned as the puller of the
Devils nose) to keep his worthless conscience
10th; Edwy, who got into hot water for marry