New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-03-29
Labor aad the Poor in England. No.


Tie Investigations OF IRE N-ag- Cb0rti
have been distributed IN three different depart
r,nts each having % own reporters. ard remain
M th-oushcl; separate from the others these
f -h-ee departments are ihs Manufacturing she
. A---1',l-a. I'D The Metropolitan Districts We
F shaG commence o4- condensation 81 the reports
With ,he Metropolitan District, 'or The reason that
in them tde principles Of thc modern incastr'sl
system are more thoroughly applied AID rs resa u
more -I,r.nry apparent The 'aooreS Of tie
country ia their worst degradation, maintain kind
of.er relation with tie land and Is mouopolizers
and thereby escape the extreme Suffering which
weighs lroa city work people While factory opc.
-at.es living under sori & Organization Of Ia.
bar arc nct 50 utterly desroied hy competition.
t-ade and asury, as az their brethren Of the me-
,-2oHs. vho vork ia ISOLATION. or lew together
IN crazy -arrets With D. organization ike 'ha. o.
-rea- factories Do any way O. protect them against
the --aspins cgpiii;y OF employers
Bot these things will b. more fully Illustrated AID
cat reed i1 future articles Meanwhile .et ihc io
oping --sphic description OF London serve as the
Introduction % the series D, from thc CRfsa.e'cs
opening article on the MctrpoItaa DISTRICTS and
IS iaabtess from rhe pen Of VI, HE>w MHHEw.
win has b,i CHARGE of the investigate iu thai he
parmeu,
TIE clty Of Louion within the walls occupies a
space 0f oils $40 acres an 1u' tie huu' fred aad-
NIteth part OF the extent covered ~ The whole
metropolis Nevertheless, d. 5 the parent Of mass
I'D united ami TAR sptcalln- tcuemeuts. strctchin.
from Uammersmth 90 Blackwell from HOLLOWAY
@, CsmberecI \ century ago. according 20 Mat
'sri the metropolis had drawn into It's vortex one
city. and borough. aud ortythrce villages Despite
. vast extent. sal rs increase continues o. be- So
raad that every year further house room has to b.
provided Tor 10000 persons 80 that London in-
c-eascs annually hy the addition of town I'd. con
siderable size AZ nj. times there are ZOO extra
houses 300 fhc course OF erection By the las, return
the metropolis covered An extent OF nearly 5000
acres. and contained upward ot goo BOD houses a.
,uned by 100000 sous. Constituting NOT
.ny Oh, teusest but the busiest hive ihs most
w00irous workshop, and The richest bank ln the
word The mere name of London awakcns n
th1us and trains nd varied elections. Perhaps the
first thou-ht that 70 exctcs 90 fhc mind pants ~ a.
the iocus of modern yization of tue hottest the
most restless activity OF The social clements some
turning b. the West see lt as city ~ palaces
adorned with parks. enuobci with trumphsi
archcs grand statues, and stately monuments
others booking At the East see oniy narrow lanes
and musy counting houses. with tall chimneys
houses with doors and cranes ranged One above
another Yet an think o., it vast bricken mul.
iitutc o strange homogeneous chaos OF wealth and
yant-oi ambition and dospsr-ot the brightest
tharit, aud the darkest crime. whore there are
more houses and more hOuse.ess where there Is
more faas,iu- and more starvation than on any
.thcr spot 'n carih-and All grouped round the one
Giant center the huge black dome with ~ ball OF
.-ud booming through the snake app emblem of the
s0ar.. of riches . aud making ont the capital. no
matter r. M what quarter the traveller may come
Those vlo have only seen London in d. day
time y th rs flood of life pou0us through us artc
.i.s O. It's restless heart know not lu rs grand
st aspect 10 s not ia tlr noise and roar ol the
tatar,rt u. commerce pouring through - streets.
Tor Boo is forest Of ships uor M is vast dccas ard
warehouses that lbs true solemnity is to be- seen
To behold 10 ia - greatest sublmuy, % must be
routsmn.afsd bt might. altar oh, from an cmlueuct
The rob.est prospect 90 the world 70 las been We.
said. d, london viewed from the suburbs on clear
Winters evening. The stars are shining in the
.Ienstus but there - another u.mameut spread
.ut below with IT'S milrHs OF bri -ht ights sltter
Nd. a our iect Line after iinc sparklcs Ike the
trails ielt by mcteor., cutting and crossing one
.uorhrr tl they ao lost n The haze Of the distance
over the whole there hangs lurid cloud. hrrhr 90
% the monster city were 200 names ana "'Nih5 a,ar
.F Ike. The sea hy ncht, made phosphofcsceut by
the n.uI.on creatures dwelling within 10 A, ni2ht
Z i, that the strange anomalies Of London are best
seen. Them as the hum Of uc ceases and Tie
.Lops Isrken and the gauiy gun palaces thrust ont
th.r ragged and squalId crowds 10 pace tho streets
London puts on is most solemn look OF at On
'i. benches o. the ra-hs, 90 tLe inches % thc
l-lde.s and ln the litter 40 tie markets, are hnd
.l..I tnrcther the homeless and the destitute The
.ni. living things that haunt Tine streets are tNe
.., ,yre.rhes who stand shitering ia their hncry,
vaita, % catch the arlnkard as Ire goes shoutln-
Nomewari Here 1u doorstep crouches some
-ho,Iess child, whose lay begging has not brought
3 .rogrb b. purchase 10 even TIE tWopenny BED
hat Is vOInr companions lu bcgsarf nave gone
.o There where the stones are taken np anu
.I'.I hl-h la the road. and the gas streams from a
lei NICE lid the centre ot the Steei IA Tag OF hame
there round the red glowing coke uie are
..-o1ncd a ragged crowd smoking or doing through
lie ulsht beside H. Then. as The streets -ro" blue
sith The coming ight aud the church spires AMI
,b. lunn,.y. ,0ps stand out against the sky with
Sharpness II outline that IS seen on. .n London be
fore it, million frcs cover the town with their pan
II suoke-then come scattering forth the I'M
washed poof some with greasy wallets on Their
baek 20 hunt over ea-h dlrt heap and exc Guy Nit
To-. seen ng refuse bones, or stray rags aud pieces
l' oi iron Others on their way 70 Inrh N0,N
NE gathered NJ the CORNER of the street round the
5f..l last stall and bloWins saucers Of steaming
,ofee drawn from tai tn cans ~iih re Ire shlnlns
ri-1son through tho holes beneath WHIST 4feSly
the little slattern girl with her basket sllng before
her screams watercresses through the sleeping
streets
Yet VINO 70 see the squslor and wretchedness OF
London b. night would believe that . only oi the
London bankers have jared through their clear
ing house a, much as aiae bHHdref and jytyi9n'
qflt0a D,unis sferiing ~ one year, the average
being more than three millions OF money dsIy-o
,he- the oan. Of merely one house ia the city
throughout the year exceed thirty millions Who
could have visited the RO0kery Of - Guess as It
~ .tsd bot lew months back, and have seen tne
lrutterab'e denominations Of this retreat ~ "fstch
.dp.ss this nest OF disease. ~ once the nursery
All s,u,tuary Of yice-Wherl ~ one house alone,
NJ Smirks tells IS y ere hadded together eleven
mon. thirteen women. and thirty chLdren-"hrsc
Ii. man, q, sixty OF tle 01iesg Of The London az
,s-l-i oflen sleep in the same abode ~oo couN
,,ir.es, thl. wsrt % Vretchcduess and yei oeAeYe
fbatthis COUNTRY i The bans Tor the Whole word
as the ate Mr Hothschid called : 10 ~ o. mar
. all transactions ia India la China IN Russia aA1
indeed in every other empire are guided AMI 'e'
Lee 10 Ills country
Isit possible b. Deiieg. hat any man among Is
sboun want a ROOT D. shelter bis head by mght or
a crust u guel rs hunger BY day, when "c md
.hat The amount d, the property insured aga-Ast
ire 4 valued - uore than i've hundred mlIlons
sterling even though according - the returns "a ade
II ia. tres in the metropolis durng 80 saa .-s1
,ortv per cent Of the hogses Amounting 70 Two
-ehs u the whole, were entirely Uninsured " A
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