Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-09-04
" Every minute dies a man,
Fvnrv minnie one Is born

iuch as warehouses and hospitals, was
1881. 1t is really shocking to think,
and deep stigma on the people,-or on
the artificial arrangements of society by
which so much poverty is perpetuated-
that nearly one person out of five who
died last year closed his days under
roof provided by law or public charity
1t is calculated 500 people are drowned
in the Thames every year. In the first
week of the present year there were five
deaths from intemperance alone. How
much wretchedness lies in these two facts!
from the deaths from actual intemper-
ance bear but small proportion to the
deaths induced by the immoderate use OF
intoxicating liquors and of the 500
drowned, by far the largest class, we
have every reason to believe, are of the
number of whom Hood WROTE
MAD with life's history,
Glad to deaths mystery
Swift to be hurled
Anywhere, anywhere
Out of the world!''
A meeting has Just been held of the
unemployed, chiefly the carpenters, brick
layers, and bricklayers' laborers, Of the
metropolis, in which it was stated that
their number-though very probably
there may be some exaggeration here
is $4,000. If these men are married
and have families, we get a further idea
of the deep distress in this wealthy and
luxurious capital,-this capital where the
gold of Australia, the jewels of Golcon-
da, the silks and spices Of the East,
come for sale, and are lavished as freely
on the most questionable purp oses and
! persons as on the noblest specimens of
humanity, and the most glorious objects
for which men care to live. Then think
of the inmates of the lunatic asylums
and the poorhouses, and the hospitals, in
most cases sent there as the result Of
their own ignorance or imprudence. Add
to these our prison population, and oul
criminal classes, and our prostitutes-anC
what picture we get of the Night Side
, of London, of the classes whose existence
is a reproach or a curse. In London
: one man in every nine belongs to tn,
criminal class.
According to the last reports, ther,
| were in London $4,000 Migrants ad
mitted in one year into the casual ward
of the warehouses.
r Here we have always in our midst
+ 10Y burglars
10 housebreakerS.
e SO highway robbers.
y 773 pick-pockets.
: 1867 sneaksmen or common thieves.
!, IL horse-stealers.
e al dog-stealers.
= 3 forgers.
i % coiners.
" 317 utterers of base coins.
IS al swindlers.
v 1872 cheats.
,s 343 receivers of stolen goods.
n 2768 habitual rioters.
as 1905 Migrants.
so begging-letter writers.
st Sc bearers of begging letters.
It 6301 prostitutes.
in Besides 40 not otherwise describe
n making altogether total of $1,000 Ct
20 minals known to the police. These pc
ds sons are known to make away with "a:
us 600 per annum the prison populate
H. at any particular time is 5000, costil
W for the year 100000. Our juven
he thieves cost US $500 apiece.
id Again, let us look at the classes who
nd labors and occupations and modes of i
are inconsistent with health, or not ia
is. orable to any great development of mo-
Ill principle. Almost 10000 are engag
Is in Sunday trading; the number of rs
ed ged children is nearly 10000; the nu
Irn Der of families living in one room is E:
DO mated as high as 100000. 1t appei
he from report from Mr.. Goderich, off
zen of health in the parish of Kensingt
90 that in a place called the Potteries, thu
les are ,147 human beings, and 1,041 p
rlv congregated within a space of less IL
of nine acres, the present number of p
f a being below the usual average. ]
Is. dwellings of large. proportion of
ery inhabitants of this locality are m
the novels with shattered roofs and ungIa
btv windows, the floor is below the leve
for the external soil, which has been raj
rlv by excessive accumulations of filth
av- all kinds, and the walls are at all til
the partially damp and giving out pestilen
inc gases, intolerable to those who have
reat been born among them, fatal to th
less who have. Another portion of the
-, A.. cradle Dopulation has converted