The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-02-28
that $4,000 were killed off by disease,
prcventable by better system Of living.

that $4,000 were killed off by disease,
preventable by better system Of living.
In the manufacturing districts, pre-
vail great desttuton and suffering Man
chester is a city of 100000 inhabitants
T a nutiber about equal to the entire pop
ulation of VII 1t is a manufacturing
city The children arc poorly clad and
fed, md overworkcd from very early
life They have no comforts, no joys,
no hopes. The young men are sad, the
young women disconsolate.
The lecturer next drew a picture Of
the wrctcheduess oft'ose who spend their
days in the coal mines. The loneliness
and delicaoy of women and girls are
prostituted to the vile drudgery Of min
ing. Young boys are doomed to life
Of toll, in those damp aud death-produc-
ing regions. On all fours they haul out
their load from the obliquo veins, amid
water, coal dust aud filth. Their intel
lectual aud moral natures are dwarfed,
aud their condition is burning shame
to those, who possess the power yet re
fusc to better it.
The income Of several peers is s.. 1000
per day, yet the poor are sadly punched
and ovcr.taskcd Nothing is done to
educate the masses, hence their degrada-
ton 100 600 were sentenced to prison
last year in England aud Wales. Their
morals are fearfully neglected The fol
lowing sentence, C d you
seems 20 comprise the extent Of their
theological knowledge The burial fees
in Great Britain are so great, that poo,
man cannot afford to die Hence soci-
cites are formed, to keep funds and rcu-
der aid to its members losing friends.
Recently, two mothers, residing under
the same roof, quarrelel over dead
child, each wanting tho privilege to pre-
sent claim to the society for aid.
But there is one redeeming feature.
Parliament has began to legislatc for
the poor, anlto do something for school
Yet Boston gave more, during the eight
years that he Mr Mauu) was connected
With the State Board Of Education, than
Parliament las ever done; and while
Boston was never governed by sectarian-
ISM Parliament gives no aid TO any out
of the pale Of the Episcopal church
English literature is also undergoing a
change The soverest cuts of Punch
and the hardest filings Of Dckens, ure
levol,ed against the nristocrscy, and in
favor of the poor.
But why present this pic,uref That
We may profit BY its contemplation. And
surely it would seem, that uc arc not put
down as saints in the calendar of nations.
So long as the statos unblushingly rcpu.
date their debts, and our bankers clutch
all moneys left on dcposit, and swear not
to refund, Botany Bay will have a rival
There are, however, three things for US
to do
LIST. Down with every form Of aris,oc-
racy, talents and virtue being tho only
nobility We recognise.
ID. Provide the means of Subsistence
(not subsistence itself to all. There is
sum in addition. To an idle boy add
l2 years and YOU have as result, II
cioNs man.
Sd, Sustain public schools
! If a people elect that true principles
shall guide them anil their chiiircn into
paths Of virtue, they shall sqe peace aud
prosperity. II they take fellowship with
contrary influences, iron necessity will
hold them to tho penalties The above.
gives but meagrc view OF this highly
instructive lecture. SB II.