The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-18

There is a sensation in town larger than
a mans hand.''
'.~. EDINBURG.
Tenement-House Life-Shocking Condition of
the Pauper Population.
Correspondence New York Graphic.
''You've beautiful town. said to
a prominent citizen Of literary procliv-
tiles, who was hurrying out of town
to escape from the Albert Memorial
cele bration.
''Aye, beautiful enough he replied,
''if you look on the outside, but it's a
whited sepulchre and nothing else.
There is deal of wickedness hidden
away
81 thought you Scotch were highly
moral people, I rejoined.
''And so we are. It's the Irish that
come over here and make mischief
How the Scotch hate their Celtic
neighbors There is no love thrown
away upon the English. The conquer
ed are not in the habit of wasting
much affection ON their conquerors,
and nothing enrages a Scotchman more
than to be taken for an Englishman !;
but he remembers that Scotland gave
England King, and that the Queen of
Great Britain passes most of her time
in the Highlands, booming Ministers
and dispatch-agents thirty-six hours
Of hard railroad travel in order to OBJ.
tain an audience with the head of the
Government.
l did not dream the feeling Of ma
tionality was SO strong until faced it,
yet it pales into nothingness when
compared with the intense animosity
towards the Irish.
DESTROYS of learning whether the
vice Of Edinburg was due to a foreign
element, l made inquiries, and had
placed in my hands a phamphlet pub
lished in 1869 by the well-known book
sellers, Edmonston & Doughlas, and
written by the author of ''The English.
woman in America Therein [ learn
ed a different story. The writer had
visited the worst slums of London,
Quebec, New York, and other towns
in both Europe and America, and SOL
EMMY declares that there are stata of
minery and moral degradation under
the shadow Of St. Giles crown and
within sight of John Knox's house
more concentrated and unbroken than
are to be met elsewhere. In this
opinion the Rev. R. Mcguire. Rector
Of St. James, Clerkenwell. concurs.
Here, the very score of vicious
wretchedness is the High street, with
Holyrood Palace at one end, and the
high-hangjng, picturesque Castle at
the other; with the courts of law, the
Parliament House, the City Chamber,
the assembly halls of the Established
and Free Churches, the Cathedral, and
other prominent buildings studded
down the whole of it's length. When
the Old Town constituted the principal
part of Edinburg, High street was the
most aristocratic quarter. Now it is
called the Via Dolorosa. Yet it is still
by necessity of position, a great thor
oughfare, through which Royalty or
it's representative must needs pass.
:'Of all the dark and desolate places of
the earth, the Old Town is about the
darkest and most desolate, writes the
Rev. Mr.. Mcguire.
From report made on the condition
Of the poorer classes in Edinburg, is.
sued in 1868, learn that the popula-
ton Of a village is crammed into the
six or seven stories of one house.
These tenements are dark, dirty, and
are never repaired. They are without
gas, OF water-pipes, or sinks, or tenn
porary receptacle for ashes. The only
entrance to them is by one long, dark,
stone stair, and they return the enor-
nous profits to their humane owners
of from 40 to 60 per cent. One roof
covers population Of 240, 248, or 200
persons, living in frightful dens, un-
ventilated, and often without direct
light l3,209 families, comprising not
only the vicious and abject, but large
numbers of the poorer laboring classes,
live in single rooms, and of these sim
gle rooms, 1880 are inhabited by from
six to sixteen persons. According to
the preceding census, 100 of these
shelters were reported to be without
windows, and 900 were damp, dark
cellars. In this vile way are housed
1000 persons, or more than one-third
of the population of the wonderfully
beautiful town of Edinburgh.
Facts are stubborn-stubborn as
John Knox, opposite whose house is
the well which supplies High street
with water. Under the house Of the
great reformer is a whisky shop; and
those who see how difficult of access is
the we'll, and what slaves it makes of
feeble or delicate women, Can hardly
wonder that large percentage of the
population should take more kindly to
whisky than wafer ssTt is imnOSSih1n