Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-02-10

Best price, CuHHot nope tnat the IuOItC
will be induced to regard very profoundly
either the lesson or the teacher.-Ertract
from Grcely's Address.
SUFFERING IN ENGLAND.
1t is mex: to impossible for the people Of
this country, TO form any opinion of the
suffering condition Of the immense masses
of the hopeless poor in England We
learn from an English paper, that public
meeting Of the inhabitants of Leeds, was
held few weeks before the sailing Of the
last steamer, to investigate the condition OF
the unemployed poor-and report care
fully drawn up from detailed accounts was
read TO the meeting. The extent Of des,i
tuition. as represented in this report, is in
deed frightful. 1t appears that there are
twenty thousand individuals in Leeds who
are LIKING. on, Ll&pence a. week each-about
twenty cents! The report said /:
The most narrowing descriptions were
given by some of the visitors Of the scenes
they had witnessed. The cases OF dis
tress,' says DR.. Smiles (ediler oc the Leeds
Times,) of extreme distress, that had
come under his notice that morning, had
narrowed up his very soul. (Hear, hear.)
There was one case which he would parti-
cularly mention. He had noted down the
name, and he was sure, if any doubts exis-
ted, individuals mi ght satisfy themselves as
to the correctness oil the statements. AT
the end of Brooke street there was small
cellar dwelling, nine feet by twelve, into
which they were introduced by the enums-
rator.
The dwelling was SO conside rably be-
meath the street. that only half Of the
window was above it. 1t was damp,
disagreeable, ill-lgh,ed, ill-aired den.-
Hear, hear) In that apartment they
found three families, consisting Of sixteen
individuals, nine who slept in it every night.
(Sensation.) There were four adults, andt
twelve children. Six individuals consttu-
ting one family, slept upon litter Of straw,
huddlcd together not like human beings,
not even like animals, for their situation,
was nothing to be compared 10 the comfort
OF our dogs and horses in our stables
(Hear, hear.) Other four or five slept on
q bed Of shavings, and the remaining five
slept on another miserable bed in the apart
ment. When they entered, the poor wo-
!
knee in the last stage Of fatal disease,
dying without any me deal assistance
(Sensaton. The family we're entirely
destitute, no means Of subsistence, no week
ly earnings, no parish relief. (IIear, hear.)
That was one instance We fear Leeds
may stand for a sample Of nearly every
town in the manufacturing districts. Win
ter is rapidly advancing on population
without employment, and without property,
what they had having been parted with TO
supply their most pressing wants. 1t wa.
stated, too, By DR.. Smiles, that the small
grocers were failing. and. becoming bank
rupts in large numbers. Many were moi
able to pay their debts This, again, acted
on middle class men in higher condition
Of life and he could state, what mos, Of
them perhaps knew, that large number
of the first class Of ,radesmeh had recently
become bankrupts.
Another paper, the Liverpool Mercury
Of the 30th ult., says:
1.-The winter is not We: commenced, yet
the general distress throughout the country
has arrived at such point. that nothing
but a wholesale famine can carry i; further.
From Paisley the accounts are t'righiful,-
so frightful that even Sir Robert Peel, al
though he still adheres 10 his non-in,erven-
ton as Min ster, declares his readiness to
forward private subscription for its anne
Iteration as an individual. In The Potteries,
famine stalks abroad; thousands are starv-
ing; and those who would cruelty attempt
10 delude the sufferers into the belief that
machinery is the cause of their distress,
may read in the general desttuiion :here,
the refEtation Of their foolish falschood. -
In the Potteries there is no other machine
worked but the potter's wheel mentioned
in Scripture. In the metropolis we have a
specimen OF the general restitution in lhs
fact that even printers, usually the most
prosperous Of the classes who live by labor,
are appealing to the private benevolence,
with the appalling fac, that twelve hundred
composiiors and pressmen are unemployed.
and many Of them with large families are
actually in a starving state"
\ The following is an extract from q letter
giving an accoun, Of the distress among
the working classes, prevailing at Stock
port:
"All the other trades are equally suffer
ing. Such is the extreme starvation point
10 which they are reduced, that their wives
are TO be seen begging from door to door.
or gathering the disgusting offals that are
to be met with in the streets. Meat and
water are luxury which few can boast Of,
and as for fire, whole houses are without
a spark. Last week upwards OF two hum
dred fresh men turned out for wages, and
there is every reason TO fear that. ere long,
that number will be frightfully increased.
The constant cry Of the men is 'Are we
TO die oil starvation, or see our children fall
before our faces from hunger. while plenty
abounds in the landr The situation OF
the females beggara all description-nake ed,
shIvering with cold, and faint from hunger,
they are paradng the streets, and implor-
ing with tears and applications, assistance
for themselves and their furnishing chill
dren."