The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1844-12-06

! all further expense tnan that ol paving 10
their funerals. In family OF six persons
taken with the fatal disease of typhus, .h'
doctor found the mudnoor of this co,tag,
was at least one foot below the lane. |
consisted of but one room, The ladder il
the middle leading TO platform whcr,
the patients slept, and from this platform
boy in fit of delirium threw himself OF
the ground and was killed..
The Repor! says, that the cottages il
which the typhus fever broke out in Fit
wick, and to which the dreadful disease
was almost exclusively confined, were o
the most wretched description. OF course
neither the Queen nor her husband OF
their children, run any risk of catching
typhus fever in the spacious, well ventil
aled rooms of Windsor Castle, but the vii
lagos do not escape this terrible maIady
In such towns as Stafford, for instance,
the poverty and filth Of the cottages are
described almost beyond credibIly, and
diseases ensue from these causes. The
very splendid entertainments given 10 the
King of the French cost more than would
be required for heneiling a vast number
Of small towns, which are every year the
f0ci Of fever. In one case five sisters
were attacked with fever, from the mala-
ria arising from an uncovered drain, and
they all died. In Liverpool from thirty
five 10 forty thousand persons live in cell
lars, always damp and low, generally un-
paved, and devoid of sewers or drainage
Throughout Northumberland the case
is the same. The cottages are most
wretched, and ii does not seem that the
local gentry have done much, or anything,
to remedy the evil. In one town the peo-
pie were discovered 10 be in such wretch
edness that thirty-ive thousand persons
were supplied with beds and bedding by
voluntary subscription. Tie suflerings
Of the unled and almost uncloihed poor
in winter nights, for want of bedding,
must be excessive Manchester, with
all its wealth, nine thousand one hundred
and seventy.nine families are living in
cellars, and some of these of the worst
description possibe--worse than the dust
holes and coal cellars of London houses.
These people are not only the sufferers
from all the evils OF cellars undrained,
without floors, and nearly dark but they
are built below the level Of the river, and
the wretched inhabitants, on an extraor-
binary high tide, are reused from their
sleep, and are obliged to fly for their lives,
Such is the state of this rich and happy
kingdom. The Queen, in showing her
guest the magniicence of Windsor Cas-
tie and Buckingham Palace, and Of the
adjacent neighborhood, should have lie,
him see the other side of the picture, so
that he might 60 back to France with
fair impression Of the general condition of
all classes; bu! he must otherwise think
that England is the FL Dorado of the
world, surprising in splendors even W hat
is described in fairy tales, where all is
of gold, diamonds, pearls and
precious stones, worked in the most fan
c(ul forms. Manchester and Stafford with
their immediate vicinites, are supcrinten-
led by bodies Of missionaries. One of
hose Missionaries reports that he had
met with many who had not had meal
in two days. Another Missionary states
The case Of an exhausted mar who, get.
ting days labor was SO overworked
that, on reaching his wife and family, he
fell, apparently dead. How the poor can
go so long without food or firing must as
lonsh all persons. The contrast between
families living in wet cellars. always with
out fuel, and often without food, mus, be
TO those who enjoy only the
gorgeous splendors of such a palace as
Castle. There must always be
a sad discrepancy between the rich and
poor, but the difference ought not to be
artificially, as it is in the case
of the Queen. Now that every newspa-
per makes great boast Of the wonderful
wealth displayed before the French vis-
tors, they might as well look on the 9th.
er side, and as winter approaches, and its
commencement is rather severe, benevo-
Ience might avoid splendors, and give all
that it can spare to the relief of the poor.
Bird Market IN Rome. bird
market of Rome is held in the enyirops
of the rotunda, formerly the Pantheon.-
astonished me more than the
quantity of birds which were daily expo
sed for sale during the season; | could
often count above four hundred thrushes
and blackbirds, and often hundred robin
red breasts in one quarter of il; with
twice as many larks, and other small birds
in vast profusion. In the course of one
day, seventeen thousand qualls have pass.
ed the custom house these pretty yer.