American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-09-26

while such scenes as these occur, that no slave
can exist.
=" In England and Wales the deaths in 1888
were 2S2, $40, excluding deaths by violence, by
suicide, or other causes, which the Parliament
airy and parish papers do not specify. In 1888
the deaths amounted TO twenty zone per thou
sand Most of them had taken place in
swampy and unwholesome localities Mr.. Gill
| bert, one of the Poor Law inquirers, stated
that he found the open drains and sewers had
been the cause of malaria, and consequently
of death. In this rich and beautiful country
the poor often live in mud cottages with little
or no roof, and with floors Of absolute mud
GA Mr.. Fox, a medical officer, says that the
poor were badly fed, badly clothed and conse-
| quentiy dirty. Il have he remarks often
seen the springs bursting through the mud
floors of some of the cottages, and little chan
nels cut from the centres, under the doorways
to carry off the water whilst the door has been
| removed from its hinges for the children to put
their feet on in making buttons. The local
gentry and parochial authorities ought to in
terfere in these cases, which very sensibly and
quickly take 80 many of the poor off our hands
In one cottage, consisting Of only one room
measuring eighteen feet by ten and a half feet
high, one third was partitioned off BY rough
boards, and in this small space were three beds,
and six persons sleeping in them, and the CON
sequence was that typhus fever did its work,
relieving the parish of ali further expense than
that OF paying for their funerals. In q family
OF SIX persons, taken with the fatal disease of
typhus, the doctor found the mud floor of this
cottage was at least one foot below the lane 1t
| consisted of but one room, the ladder in the
middle leading to platform where the patient
slept, and from this platform a boy, in fit of
delirium, threw himself on the ground and was
killed.
| The report says, that the cottages in which
the typhus fever broke out in Flitwck, and to
which the dreadful disease was exclusively con.
fined, were of the most wretched description
Of course neither the Queen nor her husband,
or their children, run any risk of catching typus
fever in the spacious, well-ventilated rooms of
Windsor Castle, but the villages do not escape
this terrible malady. In such towns as Stat
ford, for instance, the poverty and filth Of the
cottages are described almost beyond credibility,
and diseases ensue from these causes. The
very splendid entertainments given to the King
of the French cost more than would be required
for benefting q vast number of small towns
which are every year the toci of fever. In one
| case five sisters were attacked with fever, from
malaria arising from an uncovered drain, and
they all died. In Liverpool, from thirty five to
forty thousand persons live in cellars, always
damp and low, generally unpaved, and devoid
of sewers or drainage. Throughout Northum-
berland the case is the same The cottages
are most wretched and it does not seem that
the local gentry have done much, or any thing,
to remedy the evil. In one town the people were
discovered to be in such wretchedness that thir-
ty-tive thousand persons were supplied with
beds and bedding by voluntary subscription.
The sufferings of the unfed and almost un-
clothed poor in winter nights, for want of bed
ding, must be excessive.
In Manchester, with all its wealth, nine
thousand one hundred and seventy y-nine fa2ai-
lies are living in cellars and some of these of
the worst description possibe-worse than the
dust holes and coal cellars Of London houses
These people are not only the sufferers from all
the evils of cellars undrained, without floors
and nearly dark but they are built below the
level of the river and the wretched inhabit-
ants, on an extraordinarily high tide, are
aroused from their sleep, and are obliged to fly
for their lives. Such is the state of this rich
and happy kingdom. The Queen, in showing
her guest the magnifcence of Windsor Castle
and buckingham Palace, and of the adjacent
neighborhood, should have let him see the other
side Of the picture, so that he might go back to
France with fair impression Of the general
condition of all classes but he must otherwise
| think that England is the Ell Dorado of the
world, surprising in splendor even what is de-
scrlbed In fairy tales, where all is composed of
gold, diamonds, pearls, and precious stones,
worked in the most fanciful forms. Manches-
ter and Stafford, with their immediate vicnities
are superintended by bodies of missionaries
One of these missionaries reports that he had
met with many who had not meal in two days
Another missionary states the case of an ex-
hausted man who, getting days labor, was so
overworked that, on reaching his wife and fami-
ly, he fell apparently dead. How the poor
can go so long without food or firing must as
tonish all persons. The contrast between fami-
lies living in wet cellars, always without fuel,
and often without food, must be incredible to
those who enjoy only the gorgeous splendors of
such palace as Windsor Castle. There must
always be sad discrepancy between the rich
and the poor, but the difference ought not to be
increased artifciay, as it is in the case of the
Queen. Now that every newspaper makes n |
great boast Of the wonderful wealth displayed |
before the French visiters, they might as well
look on the other side, and as winter ap-
proaches, and its commencement is rather Sc
we're, benevolence might avoid splendors, and |
give all that it spare to the relief of the
poor"