The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-01-17
DAILY CRESCENT.
Poverty of London.

We find occasionally, in corner of a London
newspaper a little paragraph OF statistics, which
reveal to us horrible pictures OF social restitution
and misery.
tributed from one soup kitchen in London, l37 ,5Sl
rations of soup and bread Among the recipients
of this charity were three cIergymen, four surgeons
Two retired officers, three surveyors, twenty-seveh
clerks, eleven school-masters five actors, seventy
nine sliopmen, seven thousand FIVE hundred ana
twelve artisans, etc, etc.
All this in q city where bishops live in state with
incomes of morelhan hundred thousand dollars a
year--wicre millions Of the peoples hard earnings
are swallowed up by idle droDes and state pension,
ers, where wealth riots in luxury, and what would
s1siain n thousand families is wasted by one.
VIVA. a sight for the angelsl What a spectacle for
demons The few surrounded by blaze Of splen-
dor and luxury, while misery and starvation are
forever pressing upon the multitude !.
Yet the ignorant multitude live and bear it.
Their parsons preach patience and humility, and
they drown their agones in beer and gin or smother
Them with tobacco and opium. Lying in this stu
pefaction Of beer and bigotry, they are trampled
upon by the upper classes, and have scarcely
the sense to know, much less the spirit to demand
or the strength TO struggle for their rights. Ii is
difficuli 10 conceive of be'Otted, tyrantrid
den, presi-rilden race An Englishman, stagger-
ing under such church establishment, such ma
ii6naI debt, and such government, should never
talk Of intelligence, much less of freedom. " Free
born Engshman .''-why the Russian serf is a
king to him
There is only one sense in which man can be
called freedom Englishnian He is born free to
starve. He is free TO pay tithes, to be robbed of
his last penny by taxation, to worship the aristoc-
racy, and sing !" God save the Queen when his
children are saved from starvation by begging from
soup kitchens the crumbs that fall from the rich
mans table. These are the fruits Of British civili
zaton, British legislation, and that superine arti
Gle, British Christianity
British philanthropy turns slaves into vagabonds
and beggars in the West Indies and South Africa,
and then supplies their place by the experimental
murder N a few thousand Coolies. Next, it estab-
fishes lines of steamers 10 carry free laborers from
the coast of Africa, for the twentyone years appren
ticeship, and sends missionaries TO be eaten up by
savages, while cergymen, schoomasers and aril-
sans at home are kept from starvation by charitable
soup kitchens. Does any body wonder at schemes
of communism and the division of proper
ty pr its destruction IN. Y. Sunday Dispatch.
TIE METROPOLIS IN FORMER DAYs.-During
the reign of George the streets of London were
infested with robbers, that ladies and gentlemen
going TO an evening party, had to he accompanied
by armed servants, who preceded and followed
their sedans In ITO, highwayman stopped "a
poor man near the metropolis, and finding that he
had only ls 4d., discharged pistol at him, the ball
breaking his arm, TO warn him, the footpad said,
against coming out with SO little money about him.
About that time, 1901 reward was offered for the
apprehension of each robber. This made Jonathan
Wild's fortune, who arrested large number, in
Guiding genteman's valet and others, whose sta
ton in society removed all suspicion of their having
been connected with the regular gang of burglars
with whom they were leagued.