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STATISTICS OF I,AROR

The better to, illustrate the benefits aris-
ing from "civil and religious liberty" we pub
lsh the following, clipped some time back
from and old paper. 1t will teach content
ment, and furnish at home for the next polt-
ical speaker.
In England the reward of the laboring
man varies. The stocking weavers of Not.
tingham work from ID to l6 hours per day,
and receive from four to FIVE shillings stcr-
ling per week. Of course they can indulge
in no luxuries, and are compelled to subsist
almost exclusively on bread and water, or
on potatoes and salt.
In ireland, the average wages of day
laborer, ranges from nine an half to eleven
cents per day. The food Of these oppressed
beings is principally milk and potatoes, vari-
cd occasionally, as one Of them touchinnIv
remarks, by ''potatoes and milk"
In Austria the land is held principally bv
the arstocracy. The peasants are compelled
to labour for the landed proprietors except
on the Sabbath. bondage, the most stuI;i-
lying, is the condition OF the poor.
In Hungary the land, as Austria, is own
cd by the mobiles. Laborers arc compelled
to keep in repair all the bridges and high
ways, are liable at all times to have the
soldiers quartered upon them; and compelled
to decimate the produce of their scanty TIL
lage to the church, and one ninth to the lord
Of whom they hold.
In Sweden, the law regulates the dress of
the laborer. The food OF this class consists
OF hard bread, dried fish, without cruel, and
without meat. Truly here,
'Hard is the fate Of the laboring poor"
The, Scotch are comparatively a favored
people; yet among them, not to enumcrate
many other vexations, meat is, except on
Sundays. all unusual luxury.
IN Poland cabbngc and potatoes supply the
food Of the ordinary workmen. POVERTY
among this class is universal. Sometimes
though by no means commonly, they partake
OF black bread and soup, or butter or meat.
One who had travelled extensively in this
country, and was close observer of things
remarks:
81 have journeyea in every direction, and
nave never seen wheaton loaf to the east
ward OF the Rhine, in any part of Northern
Germany, Poland or Denmark"
In Norway, the ordinary food of the labor.
ing classes is bread and Cruel. These are
prepared from oat meal, with a mixture of
dried fish occasionally Meat is rarely seen
on the tables Of the pcasantry, and is regard
ed as luxury.
In France; it is said that seven and a half
millions Of the population never eat wheat or
Whcaten bread! Their subsistence is chiefly
buckwhcat. and ches,nuts, rye, barley and a
few potatoes. The wages paid to common
day lahorer in France, amount annually to
about S37 SO for male, and SlS rs for a
female. And yet with all this, the taxes up
on them amount to nearly or quite one filth
the meet product Of their years toll.
In Denmark, the condition of the under
classes is that Of bondage. Their state is
emphatically that of the ancient predial
slaves during the feudal ages, and they are
bought and sold with the soil on which they
labor and pass their lives.
In Russia the condition Of the peasantry
or laboring classes, is even more complete
and hnmilating than in Denmark Ali the
land Is in possession of the mobiles, and with
it are transferred the inhabitants whenever it
is sold.
traveller remarks that great majority
of the laborers," ,"Have only cottage, one por-
ton of which is occupied by the family, the
other appropriated to domestic animals. Few
if any, lnve beds-but sleep upon bare
boards. or upon parts Of immense stoves by
which their house are warmed. Their food
consists of black bread, cabbage, and other
vegetables, without the addition of butter"