The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-02-19
prsrrruTioN IN ENGLAND.

We hear good deal of complaint OF hard
| times in our own country, and various causes
are assigned for it by politicians as may best
serve the purposes Of their party projects.
We give below glimpse of the distress pre-
vailng amongst the lsboring classes in Eng
land, which can hardly, We should think, be
attributed either to the expansion or eontrac.
ton Of the currency in this country;
FROM the London Daily News, Jan 25.l
Yesterday at noon, the utmost excitement
prevailed among the trsdesmen and residents
Of these towns, and business was almost en-
tirely suspended, consequent upon the large
number of men patrolling the streets, and
making attacks upon the contents of differ
ent shops. The first alarming symptoms of
riot manifested themselves late the previous
great number of tickets for bread we're dis
tributed from the relieving officers house,
and in the evening the premises we're sur
rounded by some hundreds Of people seeking
relief 1t was then announced that no more
tickets could be issued, a. there was no more
bread to be obtained. After waiting some
time longer a simultaneous rush took place,
but it then being the usual time for most of
the trsdesmen closing the mob which collected
were baffied to some extent in that which they
resolved upon. One bakers shop, however.
was completely sacked. Proceeding along
the high street, Deptford, the crowd came to
the shop of another baker, and we're about
making . forcible entry, when the proprietor
called upon them to desist from destroying
his property, promising them that he would
give them the whole of the bread he had re-
manning unsold.
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were thrown out at the door. and seeing they
had got all that was obtainabie, the crowd
marched EDWARDS towards the Broadway,
where an attack was made upon the shop Of
another baker, the windows were broken, and
a small quantity OF bread which happened to
be at hand was carried of. An extra num-
Der Of police had been on duty in the town
during the evening, but these we're wholly in
sufficient 10 prevent the mischief, and it was
not until the arrival Of Mr.. Waterford. Su-
perintendent, and a body of mounted police
and Others on foot, under the command of
Inspectors King and Ebbs, that order was re-
stored.
From the London Times, January 2e.l
In part Of South Hackney, with a popu-
lation of between 5000 and 5000, living in
the district Of London Fields, most of whom
are dock laborers, shoe. binders and coster-
mongers there is said to be great privation
That part of the neighborhood isalways poor,
but tn poverty has been much aggravated of
late BY the loss of work and the severity of
the weather. There are 500 families known
to be destitute at present. Mile End Old
Town mas population of $4,000, nearly the
whole OF which are Of the working class.
One third Of them are destitute, and nearly
the whole of the population are in q state Of
dependence. From the closing Of the docks
and other causes the distress was represented
as appalling The poor rate last year was S.
in the pound. 1t was stated BY delegation
from that part of the Lambeth, chiefly Dor
dering upon the river from Waterloo to Lam
beth bridges, that of population of 81. 1000.
about four-fiiths are out Of work, and that
about 1000 were in distress, chiefly from "a !.
want of employment at Maudsley's, the ces
sstion OF large contracts and other causes.
lFrom the Pail Mall Gazette, Jan. ae.l
A correspondent supplies US with the fol-
lowing description of the state of THINGS Al
the East End of London:
For two days have trAversed the IsIe of
Dogs, and have made il my business TO in.
quire into the misery which prevails there. r
am informed, without permitting myself TO
believe it, that 20, 600 skilled vorknen and
laborers were employed little while since in
the various shipbuilding yards, while it i
now doubtful whether 4, 900 find the means
Of earning their daily bread there.
saw the Island under the guidance of DR.
Sargent, one Of the good Ssmaritans of the
sSt. Luke's Relief Fund" gentleman Who
is intimately and painfully acquainted with
the desttution and misery caused by the
almost utter stagnation of labor. Before
visiting the sufferers at their homes, the
doctor suggested that should 70 and look 4
one OF the largest establishments on thu
island, and he forthwith took me to the Mil.
wall Iron Works, There was introduced "a
the resident manager, whom found seated
In wilderness OF an Office, making an effort
to alleviate the distress about him. Crowds
OF furnishing lsborers. with their wives ana
Children, surrounded the entrance oates.
anxiously expectant of the basin of soun--
prepared possibly in some rustine old ship,s
caldron; and on the stairs and along the pss.
| sages We passed patient groups waiting for
the small relief that might be afforded them.
These works were formerly alive with the
labor of from 1900 to 1000 men; nov il 4
like the frame without the picture. We
crunch over the waste of frozen snow. and
ma Ourselves, ~ it were, in forest Of dead
pines; They are the scaholdings that sur-
round each empty dock, where there Wa l;fs
and noise enough at one time, while Ne hear
nothing but the sound of our own voices In
the huge sheds and shops miles OF shaN
ceased TO reyolve; perfect network of ma
cninery Is frozen into inactivity. This = !
picture OF but one yard out Of many on the
Island, and those 6rms that ass stiil q work
are struggling along skort-hsa
And nov let me tell ron What NV II The
ZONES Ct those Who once peopled these y,sjs
VI W shs feeble women. the VOC berone chill
~ = saeR .Rmc, Who move alowIy through
~ e1ness shs bleak s.stssiy wind rpe1{na
hard gaze OF want which belonss to haif ~
people We nst-I she'll aa1snE = de.e,;.
fion. In short, there 4 scorcelv 3 49,
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