The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1879-01-26
DISTRESS IN ENGLAND.

Affairs are going very badly in England
So badly that Earl Derby, in a speech al
Liverpool, on Thursdsy-last, said that he
regarded the future as being extremely
thought and tudy, he could suggest nc
remedy but Wholesale emigration to Amer
ica and Australia.
Ill fares the land the leading statesune en-
of which can give no better advice to it's
people than to get out of it. Rats desert q
| ship when it ie so rotten that it's next voy-
| age will be its last; but tho owners of a
| vessel do not advertise, as q rule, that their
craft is in such condition that che cannot
carry with safety all those already em-
barked in her.
The vast emigration from ireland to the
duced good results TO both countriea. A
great emigration from Englsnd to the
United States might now relieve England
to some extent for few years. Bat the
causes of her present trouble would not be
removed by such thinning out of her
population They lie too deeply, and are
too radical.
Every year the countries that have been
England's best customers, and have paid
her the most money manufacture more for
themselves, and buy less from her. The
United Statse, lately her most valuable
customer, not only greatly and steadily
diminishes its purchases of English goods.
but pushes her aside in the markets If
other countries, and takes away her trade
from her. This process seems certain to go
on, and if il does there are very evil days
in store for Eoglsnd,
The time has been when Eu uGlishmen, in |
the sight of immense wealth and super |
abundant plenty, have submitted quietly |
to being starved. 1t is probable that they |
will do so no longer. There may be soon |
terrible scenes witnessed in Eogland. Tue J
working people are becoming very keenly |
alive to two facts:
lat. A very large portion of the land in
England and Scotland is owed by few
mobiles and wealthy commoners who devote
for game parks and pleasure grounds,
thousAude of acres of which might be cul-
tivated as farms.
2. The Established Church, out of that
portion of the property which once belong
I'd to the Church of God aud to His poor,
pays enormous sums of money to it's false
bishops and other ignitaries--sums large
if properly capitalized and al
to relieve all the distress now
existing in the land.
A Pecnar journal in Terre Haute, Indi-
1na, thus draws what it calls "Two living
pictures :"
ON of God"
Here they are
London, Norember 90. 1576.-"Appalling dis. I
ress and destitution among the mechanics J
nd laborers of Shelf 3td. II lndreds exist in G
without clothing or furniture, all C
aving been soid or pawned to procure food. C
hey are without fuel and dependent upon the C
harity of the neighbors."
In writing of the poor of England, Professor
trk, of Edinburg, says:
"There are 20, 900 souls in the east end of O
ondon who must emigrate speedily perish. n
the vast hives of industry in Lancashire n
lere greater number who must also emi v
rate or die " tl
Now look on this picture s
at is easier for a camel to go through the
70 of needle than for 9 rich man to enter the =
ug ugdom of heaven" -
Here they are also: el
10 Archbishop OF Canterbury salary ct
.s76, ,Oo0 per year al
oLl,ishoI, oF Work "a