The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1845-02-20
sUFFERING IN ENGLAND.

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fering condition of the immense masses of
the hopeless poor in England. We learn
from an English paper that a public meeting
of the inhabitants Of Leeds, was held a few
weeks before the sailing of the last steamer,
TO investigate the condition of the unemploy-
ed poor-and a report carefully drawn up
from detailed accounts, was read TO the
meeting. The extent of restitution, as re-
presented in this report, is indeed frightiul.
1t appears that there are twenty thousand
individuals in Leeds who are living on liz
pence a week each-about twenty cents!-
The report said
The most narrowing descriptions were CIV
en- by some of the visitors of the scenes they
had witnessed. s'Fhe cases of DISTRESS says
DIR. Smiles (editor of the Leeds Times) 'ol
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 parlic ularly MENTION
He had noted down the name, and he was
sure, if any doubts existed, individuals might
satisfy themselves as to the correctness of
the statements. AT the end OF Brooke street
there was a small cellar dwelling, nine feet
by twelve into which they were introduced
by the enumerator.
The dwelling was so considerably beneath
the street that only half of the window was
above it. 1t was a damp, disagreeable, Ill
lighted, iIl-aired den. Hear, hear. In
that apartment they found three families,
consisting of sixteen individuals, nine who
slept in it every night. Sensation. There
we're four adults, and twelve children. Six
individuals constituting one family, slept up
on a litter OF straw, Euddled together not ike
human beings, not even like animals, for their
situation was nothing to be compared TO the
comfort of our dogs and horses in our stables,
Hear, hear. Other four or five slept on a
bed OF shavings, and the remaining five slept
on another miserable bed in the apartment.
t When they entered, the poor mother was
weeping, her infant was on her knee in the
last stage Of a fatal disease, dying without
any medical assistance. [Sensation.l The
family were entirely destitute, no means oil
subsistence. no weekly earnings. no parish
relief. Hear hear That was one instance.
We fear Leeds may stand fora sample oil
nearly every town in the manufacturing dis
, tricts. Winter is rapidly advancing on a
population without employment, and without
property, what they had having been
? parted with in order to supply their
most pressing wants. 1t was stated
too, by DIR. Smiles, that she small gro.
GERS were failing and becoming bankrupts in
a large numbers. Many were not able to pay
e their debts. This, again, acted on middle
class men in a higher condition of life; and
r he could state, what most of them perhaps
S knew, that a large number of the first class
! tradesinen have recently become bankrupts.
Another paper, the Liverpool Mercury o
! the 30th ult., says:
5 "The winter is not get commenced, yer
h the general distress throughout the countr,
o has arrived at such a point, that nothing bu
a wholesale famine can carry it further
From Paisley the accounts are frightful-se
n frightful that even Sir Robert Peel, although
d he still adheres to his non.intervention as
a Minister, declares his readiness 10 forward
e private subscription for lis amelioration as al
e individual. In the Potteries. famine stalk.
d abroad; thousands are starving; and thost
n who would cruelly attempt to delude ih,
s. sufferers into the belief that machinery is tn,
cause of their distress, may read in the gen
|: eral desiitution there, the refutafion Of thei
foolish falsehood. In the Poiteries, there
a no other machine worked but the potter
wheel mentioned in Scripture. In the me
+ tropolis we have a Specimen of the genera
le destitution in the fact that~eyen printers, US
le ually the most prosperous of the classes VIII
live by labor, are appealing to private benev
%olence, with the appalling fact that twelv
re hundred compositors and pressnlen are nn
o. employed, and many of them with large fam
ID lies, are actually IN a starving state.'
r The following is al extract from a lette
W giving an account of the distress among til
working classes, prevailing at Stockport.
"Ail the other trades are equally suffering
'e Such is the extreme starvation point 10 whicI
they are reduced, that their wives are 10 b.
re seen begging from door to door, or g%atherin,
4 the disgusting offals that are to be met wit
in the streets. Meat and water are a luxur
&c which few can boast of, and as for fire, who'll
as houses are without a spark. Last week up
o. wards of two hundred freshmen turned GU
10 for wages; and there is every reason TO fea
that, ere long, that number will be frighdalT
increased. The constant cry of men isl
m Are we to die of starvation, or see our chi
70, dren fall before our faces from hunger, Will
,e plenty abOundS in The landP The s%iluatio
of the female begears all description-naL
ed, sbiVering with cold, and faint from hun
ger, they are parading the streets, and i'm
W ploring with tears and supplications, assisf
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