The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1865-10-10

THE CRowpEp POPULATION ur ES-
aLAND.-The eoadlti9n ot ihe Englsa
pva.Antry Is horrible enough. A. many
as Ten years ago, DIR. Kay Published 4
volume on the social conditions Of The En
glish people which disclosed some terrible
iaci, as to the osefcrOwding Of the lower
classes in the cottages aud hUu IN the
manufacturing districts. has story Of lv-
ing in lhis brHish way Sas = sad one. Il
was but little else than statistics, but they
made England stare, and aroused Englrsh
philahlhropisls aud legislators TO aa effort
10 arrest the evil. The social condition oi
a people whose f,milivs were crowded 10,
grvtler ia one small Ioon, where the faith
CT, the mother, The grown up children aud
their husbands or wives, and tue little
oues ali cat aud sleep together, presented
sone Starting features VI vice alld physl-
cal dvbasernsnt.
The ianiiiy, according TO the great
French pulIosopher Agusle COmlv, ls the
untt OF the human race, Neither man
alone nor .omau alone Is the nucleus Tor
socivt, aid ior goSernmenl, but both unit
ell m ins faulty wnh is scion dependrn-
del.eies. What nucleus aud heart Tor
social lrtue aud legislative wisdom, must
inaI De, when debauchery Of the most re-
vodin. chal aeter Is n direel result VI their
daily mode ol lie. Ii Is true that these
"iamilies have no franchise and cannot
very well bring any Influence to bear on
legislation; bat what they Diget strive at
ter and attain TO, had they only chance
10 obtain ihe suffrage, viii not be known
until John Bright AID the Liberal party
obtain the control.
But the Developments OF MIR. Kay, ar
reused people and parhment aud the En-
gI,sll model Cottage net was one of the
results but that requires only 2j0 cubic
feet TO each person, when PRISON inspec-
tors demand $40, and hospitals 1000 lret.
Mr. Charles l.. Brace, formerly OF Hart.
lord, Is now investing Engish social re-
forms and gives in The New York Times
some specimens Of them. lie collects his
facts plln cipaiiy { ON II reporl laid before
Pai lament by Dr.. II. j. Hunter. The
usual houSehUi e iabllshment IN England
Tor man and his vile and three children,
is room ~ by II leet, and 4 leel 6 inch.
high. or l56 cubic leeI Tor zach In Bed.
iordsnIre, cut Oi $50 houses visited, "a
had but one bedroom, aud ~ ihese "a we're
lodged 264 adults and 2l0 children. In
one, Tor instance, were live adults aud no
! children; IN another were seven adults
and six children. SoHc OF the ROOMS
could not have provided more than Sky
cubic lpeI TO each person.
lie decribesavne OF the cottages as fol-
lows; lis plaster wall leaned aud bulged
very much like lady dress IN u cuitsey.
One gable end Was convex, the ONE con-
cave aud on this unfortunately stood lie
cninney, which was "a curved tupe of clay
and wood resembling an elephants trunk.
Oi another he says: The lower nine inch
Is oi The door having gone, through sheer
rOttenness, Jew bricks !" ere lu.thlously
drawn ara nst IL from Within after shut
ting, and Ott VI mating huRS against II
from the inside. Onc haii o. the wiedow
Here without furniture, huddlrd three ad
ults and hive cbldrrii. The aiults, II
should be remembered, are OF different
sexes; III one.case one man slept IN the
room wIlh six woinen. Through num-
ber OF cottages The allowance of air was 10
each pei son as II lie were "shut up through
the night IN box iuur feet, though Of
course .iIere was muc1 u lnienlIonhl ven.
tIiaIion."
In Cs'ubridg~shIre he speaks OF cots,
where daughter Of fisgbteyn two elder
brothers, i've ciudren. d. Il married pair
lived and ~ oi4er. with Ike proper
lloh. In HInAtoa, III nut, lei AT thirty
,wo ceuis week, tin Le was but one win
dow and hee slept nIne persons {; in ar
other with an undivided bedroom, there
slept eight, u whom two slept in the ktcli.
en-; IA another, woman slept with her
father, her child and her husbands broth
er.
In Bienlleimare houses let at 20 cents a
weeN-in one 'the bedroom had no WIN
dow, no fireplace, no door nor hole, except
that IN he floor by winch il was entered.
A man lived there with two grown up
daughters aud growing son father and
son slept on the bedstead, the girls on tIit,
floor.
These responsiveness fearful condition,
as regards ''the binds" of England, show
mg more immoral and unhealthy crowd.
ing Of persons in one room than can be
found even in many Of the towns. Cases
OF shocking incest of iodiscriminate inter-
course, and early de6auchery, are the re.
suit. Here in these packed rural cottages
are born the unhappy ileglimaie child
rem who are cast apon the parish here
the unfortunate prostitutes are first initia
ted /; here crimes which offend the instincts
Of all others are developed in most ufirn
sive forms. The CONDITION Of the houses
Of The English binds is the greatest dis
grace en- modern British civilization
We have nothing in America that sp-
pruaches il, unless possibly the mode Of
Itte OF the lowest Of ihe slaves ia former
years. and witli ilIrm we have never beard
hat crimes Vi incest were rife.
I
POSSIBLE NEws FROM SIR JoHS I
PARTr.-1he mystery sur 4
the long hidd~a isle of the daf- :
ng Arctic explorer, Sir Joln Franklin, .