The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-09-10
Sketches from the foreign papers rece,0sS az
the Linton" office BY the drrsoal q tne
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Conp,r,os OF THE PooR IN EsGLAND.-ln
the United States, we know nothing Of poverty
as il exists in England, with all her boosted pros
peri,y. To read the English papers, one would
almost suppose that there were but two classes Of
people in the kingdom--the very rich and voup-
tuous, and the very poor and miserable.
The three following extracts, (he first of which is
from new publication by the celebrated MoCul-
loch on "The Literature of Political Economy,
do more to inform the readers of the "Unon" Of the
condition Of the laboring millions in "merrie Eng
land, ;" than multiplied columns from our own pen;
and we therefore present them.
Mr.. M'Culloch's views on the pauperism of
Scotland may be gathered from his structures on the
pamphlets Of Dr. Chalmers, and his notice of the
tract of DIR. Alison. ofthe latter he says:
"This tract, written by an accomplished phys-
cian brother TO the historian Of the revolutionary
war, has had very powerful influence Il UNI
yelled stale of things Of which most people in the
upper and middle classes Of society had no idea,
and showed that the really necessitous poor were
reduced, through the ultra parsimony of the kirk
sessions, and the inadequate means provided for
their support in most of the great Scotch towns, to
state of destitution and suffering disgraceful to
civilized and Christian country. This shameful
neglect of the rights and duties Of humanity has,
however, brought frightful retrbuon along with it;
and fever raiher should say, pestence, origna-
ting in the abodes Of wretchedness, periodically
destructive all classes ofthe
inhabitants Of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Paisley,
&c. In Glasgow, the rate of mortality rose in 1882
TO the enormous amount of in 2L7 and in 1887 to
/ in 24.63 of tho populations; and IN the old town OF
Edinburgh, the population of which is not exposed
TO the privations occasioned by sudden changes in
the channels Of trade, the mortality is still greater
Surely such state Of things calls loudly for the in
reference of the legislature. People of property in
Scotland and the majority Of the clergy, have
long felt, or affected to feel horror of assessments
for the support of the poor. BUT selfish, Unbound
ed prejudice of this sort, should not be allowed to
fill the land with restitution and typhus. What
ever enthusiasts may say, the voluntary system is
not resource on which reliance can be placed in
matters of this sort. II is well enough, by way of
supplement to the bounty of the state but the in
terests Of humanity imperatvely require that while
waste and idlencss prevented effectua provision
be made for the prompt and adequate relief of the
really necessitous And this might be done with
out making any change on the principle of the ex-
listing Scotch system, which we should be the first
TO deprecate, by organizing means, through an APP
peal to the sherfs, or otherwise, for compelling the
krk-sessions and landlords TO make something like
sufficient allowance to the destitute poor"
. GAME.--Colonel Potter Macqueen the tory mem
Der for the county of Bedford in the year $780, pub
lshed pamphlet in the same year, entitled
"Thoughts and Suggestions on the Present State Of
; the Country" and although written fifteen years
ago, the following passage il srkingly applicable to
the game laws at this time. He says: 81 have made
il practice of late years to attend our prisons at
certain periods, and have generally examined the
prisoners short time previous the assizes; and
will add facts which forcibly struck in the
course of this experience. In January, 1899, there
were Sc prisoners for trial in Bedford Jail, of whom
76 were abe-bodied men, in the prime of life, and
chiefly of general good character who were driven
TO crime by sheer want, and would have been val
liable subjects, had they been placed in situation
where by the exercise Of their health and strength
they could have earned a subsistence. There were
in this number eighteen poachers awaiting trial fol
the capital offence ofusing in selfdefence, when
attacked by gamekeepers; of these eighteen men
one only was not parish pauper, and he was thu
agent of the London pouterers, who, passing under
a the apparent vocation of rat-catcher, paid these
poor creatures more in night than they could OBJ
tain from the overseer for weeks labor. | con
versed with each of these men singy, and made
minutes of their mode of life. The two first viii
mention are the two brothers, the Llleys, in custo
dy under charge of firing on and wounding
keeper, who endeavored to apprehend them willis
poaching.t They We're two remarkably fine youn,
men, and very respectfully connected; the elder 2
q M asEl lei Speast Waa anxious
obtain work offered myself in all directions, bu
without success; if | went to distance, was told
TO go back to my parish; and when did so, was
allowed-whaf Why, for myself, my babes. and
wife in a condition requiring more than common
support, and unable to labor, was allowed IN. a
week Tor all, FOR which was expected to work on
the roads from light dark, and 10 pay three gum
cas- year for the hovel which sheltered u.s. The
other brother, aged %, received 3d. per day. These
two men were hanged at the spring assizes OF the
others, ten were single men, their ages VARYING from
~ TO ~ Many had never been in jail before, and
were considered of good character; six of them
were on the roads al Cd per day; two could not OBJ
tain even this pittance; had been refused relief
on the ground that he had previously obtained a
profitable piece of ob-work; and one had subsisted
on Is 3D. during the fortnight before he joined the
gang IN question. OF five married men, two with
wife and two children, received U.s.; two with wife
and one child 6s.; and one with wife and four small
children, 1ls.''
From correspondent to the Scotsman.
DEATH FROM sTARvATIoN.--Y Yesterday Mr. WAX
ley, M. r., coroner, held an inquest al the Crown
Inn, on the Harrow-road, at Harlesden-green, on
the body OF Richard Osborne, aged seventy-six
years, who was found dead in barn on the proper
ty of Mr.. r. Tubbs, county magistrate, short
distance from the above inn. From the evidence
gone into, it appeared that the deceased who was
haymaker, had been wandering about that neigh
borhood for heightened period, apparently in an
Ill state of health, and living how he could not bav
ing applied for parochal relief On the morning of
Monday last, he was discovered quite dead, about
nall past four O'Clock, in the barn in question near
the London and Birmingham railway. The body
presented melancholy appearance being quite
emaciated and covered with vermn some of which
appeared TO have eaten into the skin, and deceased
appeared 70 have rubbed himself with some ONT
ment for the purpose of killing them. The coroner
remarked that such cases were now Of such frequent
recurrence, that they scarcely excited any surprise
Verdict, .'found deadn
The FRENCH IN ALcIERs-From the following
extract from the London Times of late date, it an.
pears that the French government are about to recall
Marshal Bugeaud from the command he has lately
d'sgraced oy the hendish massacre Of 600 Arabs in
obedience to the plan of operations laid down for
his guidance by his government, as indirectly ac-
knowledged by the French Minister of War in re-
cent debate in the chambers. The circumstances
connected with the case render it beyond doubt that