The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-01-05
PRICE ONE CENT

countesses, and all whom they can muster. afI
their days. But what pen can paint the mise
ries Of this unhappy counuy-made so be-
cause its strength has been drained to feed the
incomes that support their gilded coaches and
Iuxuriant living. The record of staI vation-
letting minor troubles go-has been appalling.
Take very recent period. In one week The
deaths from starvation were, in the small
towns Of Mayo 19; Kilbury and Raioo 60;
Leitrim IS; Castelar, IS; and so the record
goes or, in county after county. A British
witness shall tell the story of British wrong:
Commander Caffin went through large dis
tricts. !" In no he use that ] entered was cot to
be found the dead and the dying" ain the
village OF Skulls three-fourths of the inhabi-
tants you meet carry the tale Of woe in their
features and persons, as they are reduced to
mere skeletons" But to 60 more TO D articu-
lara. Young man was fouid in q dying
state, without one to attend him. The sister
and brothers lay dead quite close to him in the
the brothers, two, for three days. The sick
man was the only survivor of a large family.
The father and children died from waut.r-
To 60 from details to generals; what fearful
statement is the record that tells of the doc.
trine of millions of the population OF Ireland
when these distressing scenes occurl Now
has word been heard from this duchess of
Sutherland, and her train of mobiles, when this
was going on? Why have these impudent in.
termedlers not had philanthropy enough TO
labor to remove the causes of such calami.
ty as this +? a
Again: in society thus characterized by
dark shades, at which humanity weeps. how il
it with the incomes of these du hesses and
countesses2 We hpve before US the sickenpg
annals OF period of Distress in England:
when it wa filled with bitter discomfort and
bold rioting when the laboring classes, in one
| of the periodical paroxisms Of trade were pa-
rading by thousands under the terrible banner
OF BREAD OR BLOOD, and when British batta-
lions were obliged to shoot them down to sup
| port the British sysrem of law and ORDER
| How then Jared the husbands of these duch-
| esses and countesses? We have before us, also,
| British enumeration of British incomes at
| that time. The duke of Northumberland, with
landed estate of seven hundred thousand
dollars revenue heads the list. The duke of
| Dtvonshire comes next, with sac hundred thou-
sand dollars income, The duke of Rutland,
with fre hundred thousand dollars. And 60
the list runs. Who does not know how spien-
| did the Bishops revenues are? ? And who docs
not know that let distress havoc with human
life as it may, the rents, the tithes, the taxes
| that make u all these incomes mYst be col
lected. Here, still from British authority, is a
short, signihc. Mt, damning record of what oc-
| SuitCu III toCohty Al pcffOu Oh distress
"At Taunton, Somerset, no less than sac hun
! dred eschequer sorits haze been issued for
the seizure cf peoples goods for the non pay
nent of taEes. And so it is all oper the cou,s-
try." Who does not know how thousands
uTon thousands Of British acres are kept snly
for shooting grounds, while the people who
live about them see their children die OF hun
ger. Now how much, at such times, do these
dukes and duchesses subtract from these mag
ni6cent incomes to alleviate The distress there
is about theml Do they give one banquet
less? Do they turn one OF their diamonds into
coin, and distribute il to their distressed neigh.
bors7 Can they better use modicum of these
vast revenues than to appropriate it to remove
the things that disgrace not only England but
Christian civilization? Suppose these duch-
esses and countesses look at this matter in this
light and as they profess regard for "gos.
per- teachings, and seem to have heard of !" the
rights and requirements Of this nineteenth
century" suppose they ask seriously what a
practical application of christianity and prac-
teal recognition Of these rights really demandss
| Philanthropic objects here are numerous
| These duchesses srould know that this distress
| is regarded as a direct consequence Of their
| monopolies and privileges. What in this case
supports British aristocracy, starves the chill.
dren Of labor. II,