The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1853-06-07
English pegrsdstion ana Poverty.

poor. everything that has been hitherto pub
lished. Up to the end Of February IL was as
ceriained that 3,l0o persons. mostly Irishmeh,
in the very heart of the metropolis. lodged
cverv night, $4,000 individuals in 3,7I2 rooms.
The instances enumerated are heart sickenng
In small room in Rosemaryane near the
Tower, fourteen adults were sleeping on the
floor without any partition or regard for decen-
cy. In nm apartment in Church lane, ST. Giles,
not fifteen feet square. were thirty seven wo-
men and children. al huddled together on the
floor. There are thousands of similar cases.
The eastern portion of London comprising
Whitechapcl. Spta6elds, and Mile-end--an
unknown land to all the decent classes-s fill
cd with swarming population Of above 300,-
600 beggars, costermongers. thieves. ragsellers,
Jews and the like. A single court is a fair
example Of this whole district II contains
eight houses of two rooms each. Three hnnd-
red persons-men. women. and children-livo
there. There is only one place of convenience;
and one hydrant. which is serse ed for half an
hour each day Tho condi'ion of this court
may he imagined: it ia too filthy to describe
Decaved matter. sfacnant water, refuse fish,
vegetables, broke, baskets. dead cats. dogs and
rats, are strewrd everyu here around. Tho
prices Of various kinds Of provisions in
these ncighborhoods give forcible notion Of
Tho population. You can purchase for half
penny fish or meat enough for dinner.
In this neighhorhood is Rag Fair II is
worth visit. Thousands of persons are as
sembled in the streets which are so thickly
crowded with mere handzc that il is difficult to
step along without 'reading on heaps Of gowns.
sbawls, bonrcts shoes. and articles of mems
attire. There is 10 conceivable article Of dress
that may not be purchased here. IL is not
without danger that ono even visits the place
at MONDAY. You ere in the midst Of the refuse
Of Of NH 1ola uho oh iaf
employment is to commit depredations upon
property, and whose lives are spent in the mids.
of a sqnalor filth, deprivation and degradation
which the whole world cannot probably paral-
lei. One of the London missionaries says:--
Persons who are accustomed to run no heavy
bills at the shops of fashionable tailors and
milliners, will scarcely believe tho SIMS for
which the poor are able 10 purchase the same
kind ofarticles. ! have recently clothed man
and woman. both decent for the sum Of ninc
shillings. There is great variety of articles
pattern, shape and size. as could he found in
any Diapers shop in London The mother
may go to Rag Fair, with the whole of her ia
mily, both bows and girls-yes. and her hus-
band, too--and for o very few shillings deck
them out from top to toe. havo no doubt that
a man and his wife. and five or six children.
with CT would purchase for themselves an en-
tire change. This NAV appear exsgeration;
but | actually overheard a conversation. in
which two women we're trying TO bargaia for
child's frock; the sum asked for it was ID.
ab R has rsa to g1s Id and hoy parted on
for man and ,pa,,a- Su" vi Clones
10 get married several years after the rient
time: Sc IL.
A full linon-fryntcd shirt. very elegant,
A pair of warm worsted stockings,
A pair of LIGHT colored trousers, o O
A black cloth waistcoat.
A pair of white cotton braces; l
a rair of low shoes, l
A black silk velvet stock, U
A black beaver. hy froned. double breas-
ted poletot coat. lined with silk, @
A cloth CAP. bound with figure band, 0
A pair of black cloth gloves,
3 o
The man had been educated and could speak
no fewer than five languages: by profession he
was nothing however but dust hill raker
The bill delivered for the brides costume is as
follows: ua
A shift,
pair OF stavs,
flannel pe:ticoai.
A black Orleans ditto.
pair of white cotton stockings,
A very good light colored cotton gown. 10
pair OF singic-sord siIppers, "''h spi"s :,
heels.
A double dyed bonnet, including neat
cap,
| A pair of white cotton gloves. o
! A lady's green silk paletot, lined with
or;mso, 0
A silk, trimmed With black, ~
| 3 l
Such is London in ono aspect. Look nt il
! in another. loss than 10000 persons own al.
the land of Ireland and Great Britain. VI
these 40. 900. less than 500 own seven-e'ghts OF
the whole; tho remaining 39.5O0o owning but
one eighth Now thcre is no slavery, icchnl-
challv so called. in Great Britain or Ireland.
but vet these 500, the hereditary rulers of tho
realm. lord il over the whole nation in legal
lied system Of oppression, which. though 1t
does not mako chattels OF 100000. reduces
at least O.0O0. 900. or ono third of tho whole
population, to a state of servilitv. toll debase-
men, abuse. and deprivation Of the rights and
comforts to which humanity is entitled, that
connot be parallelcd in the civilized world
Moro servle and d-basing acts of Difference
fear, subec'ion and slavish submission 20 IRE
sponsible au,horitv-more ill-paid and incos-
, SAINT toil--morc brutal ignorance--are not to
be met with in all our Southern States than
ore produced by this aristocra'ic system in this
bo,s,ed England. Hosts Of children are driv-
en- from parents md homo. the instant their ut
tic hands can toll, never again TO dwell beneath
the parental roof Husbands and wives. par
en,s and children-ten to one as compared with
our slave Sta,es--are forever separated by the
union work house. while parishes, bor"nghs
and baronies are openly bought and sold by
church and state trades in the markets; every
twentieth child born is ilegitmate tens OF tno"s
ands of women toll nt their needles from 10 to "a
q hours Of eyerv day for a bcgenrly rittance. end
thousands of Door creatures exc out a miserable
!. existence on private charity, in church whose
v princely wealth pampers tho younger sons Of
q tho arstocracy.
? And vet there is vast amount dcne 10 mt
y c,te and lessen these evils. which. but thai
q q thew are the legitimate result of the existing