The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-07-19


writes 10 the government member Of the place where
| the vacancy occurs, and he bestows the situatoa
on one who has voted sor him, or whose friends
have done No quest ms Of honesty or fitness
are asked. This is The reason such frightful dis
honesty exists in such departments as the post Of
fee for instance. and which dishonesty requires .
whole staff of officials in each department. who are
handsomely paid to detect. BY peculiar refine
ment department Is kept down as much
| as possible, so that the value Of Q member Of
Parliament patronage might not be deprecated In
value. Thus, in the post Office department for ex-
ample, no letter carrier become clerk and no
| clerk can become postmaster, and regular sys-
tenn of Egyptian castles Is thus established. This
] bribery by patronage Ia the real secret why no
person can be convicted and punished 10 England
! for bribery in Parliamentary elections by money.
| The most Wholesale and daring bribery Is proved
ofteDtimes to exist. before the House OF Commons,
but the bribers openly laugh at the house when de-
tected. They know that the government is guilty
Of the same offence. The opposition candidate and
members bride with money, and the government
candidates and members bride by patronage. The
patronage Is bestowed after the eection that is all
the difference.
The Attorney General Is at the head OF the Eng
lish BAR The present one, Sir Alexander Cockburo,
is gay bachelor, and is looked upon as be sigged
Don Juan. Whatever he has done formerly, he does
not now
scorn delights, and live laborious days.
Formerly, an English bariister used to consider
his duty to his client as paramount obligation,
even above the claims Of truth and humanity.
Some years ago Charles Phillips, protege OF the
great Curran, and who is how q Commissioner Of
BaDkrnpts. was engaged to defend Courviedier,
Swiss vslet, VINO murdered Lord William Russell.
Couvsiedier confessed to Ups before the trial
that be was the murderer yet nis counsel endeavor
innocence, and to fasten the guilt upon two poor
Innocent maid servants who gave evidence on the
trial. Times are now, 1t appears, changed. The
t4.HU in no # Enc ,ol;t
cal excitement, it Is said, runs high. The
courts of justice have had to interfere in
consequence Of this excitement. Yet 1t has been
!ouDdinvariably that the Attorney Generals oppo-
nents have been beaten owing, it ia insinuated to
the barristers employed by those opponents having
had valuable government briefs supplied to them
by the Attorney General before during tho trials.
So much for the honor and honesty Of the English
bar.
Infanticde is as prevalent in England as II is in
some savage countries. A woman has just murder
to one Of the Royal children, and has turned out o
dunkard and an adulteress. The lives Of handreds,
II not thousands, OF children in England are insured
in death clubs, and nearly all these children die
early. Ostensibly their lives insured to enable
their parents to bury them decently, il it please
God to take them, as the phrase goes /; but it is
proved that the real object OF insurance is to enable
the hideous wretches Of parents to make profit
able trade of murder. These children are killed by
neglect or slow poison. Poverty Is, no doubt the
cause of this fearful depravity.
The English working classes are kept in the low
est state Of degradation by being paid badly, to
able England to preserve her manufacturing supre-
macy and sell cheap goods. Some excuse however,
can almost be found for infanticide in England
owing to the miserable destiny that Of servitude Of
the children of the poorer classes particularly the
female children. Female scvitude here, in the fami-
lies of the inferior classes is the yilest slavery that
can be imagined. The English maid of all work, is
damning blot upon English morals and humanity.
The female drudge in the family of the English pet
ty tradesman, or lodging house keeper, where there
is large family Of children, or coarse minded and
upstart dodgers, works harder, and is subjected to
vler insults and degradation than the slaves Of the
ancient world. Tens Of thousands of these poor
drudges seek refuge in prostitution.
English society is rotten to the core. No matter
how prosperous the country H. race OF heots always
exists for the wealth is absorbed by the capitalists
and for want Of room the lower order Of workers
are ground down. But even amongst q
better class of persons the misery and oppression
that exists are frightful. Thousands of girls who
are ten0erly brought up are apprenticed to dress
makers and milners to the arstocracy, in order TO
enable them TO get better living than by domestic
servitude. These poor creatures are kept night
and day in miserable workrooms, where they are
half starved, In order that they may enable vulgar
mistresses, with their husbands, to live in extrava
gance and sensuatty.
Another feature Of Euglish society is the brutality
Of husbands Of the lower order to their wives. A
law has inst been passed especially ~ prevent this,
but il has been Intellectual. Engshmen are not
lees kindhearted perhaps than other men, but the
| masters
pendent of them, the difficulty they have in getting
a living, sours their tempers. Their homes, like
wise, cannot be comfortable, where wages are low
and competition for labor great, and the conse.
quence OF all this is that the strong man wreaks his
iui.atcd temper and excited passions ON the weak
woman.
English society IL much altered from what It was.
II you go into country church You will see what
used to De the bold peasantry, coantrys pride,
tercourse between the squire and the peasant has
long since ceased. Still the aristocracy hate the
middle classes more than they do the lower ORDERS
because the former ape their manners and approach
them in power; and thus all classes are isolated
from each other. There Is a. much pride, exclu-
siyeness and hatred among the trades people, diff.
ferng from one another In the possession Of Income,
of an English town, as there Is between the aris-
tocracy, middle classes and lower orders. Nothing
in England IL thought of but wealth. Even rank Is
| almost subservient to it. Neither worthy conduct
OF talent Is thought OF In comparison with money:
EDglishmen. The jeweiler win not associate with
the draper and tho latter turns up his at the
shoemaker and taller. Snobbery reigns supreme in
old England. The success Of the Sydenham Crys-
company arc about TO create life subscriptions by
which they expect to raise at once half million
pounds sterling.
The rise in the price of paper Is alarming the
English journalists; several proprietors have been
obliged to raise the price Of their journals. The
advance IN paper is owing to the scircty Of cotton
rags. Cotton Is now not so much worn as formerly
and owing to the spread Of education paper Is
required The proprietors of the Times have offered
5000 to whoever will invent substitute for rags
/ in the making Of paper. 1t ID expected that the
rise in the price Of paper, and the number of un.
stamped newspapers published, will drive the Chan
celor Of the Exchequer to abolish the penny stamp
on English newspapers.
Our Hong Kong Correspondence.
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