The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-09-13

weeks had applied for aid to the workhouse +;
had even a policeman to lock him up, that he
might obtain a nights lodging. He was SEN
fenced to fourteen days Imprisonment. In the
Gloucester Wagon works the men are reduced
four shillings a week and compelled TO work ten
hours a day. In Burnley the workhouse is full,
and the applications for relief have increased fifty
per cent. In Berwick county people attack
butchers Wagons and vans carrying provisions
to obtain food. Houses have been entered for
the SAM purpose. Think of burglars breaking
into houses for bread In Northampton the
other day the number of applications for pauper
relief were two-thirds in excess of ordinary times
over fifteen hundred Of an increase in one week.
The great majority of these - says the journal
from which l am quoting, 8 ablebodled men,
who said they had been out of work many weeks,
and their wives and children were starving at
home" In Marylebone district, a few minutes
walk from the Langham Hotel, near the great es-
tates of the Russells, the Grosvenors, and the
Cecils, William Sullivan died the other day. The
doctor said at the inquest that the cause of death
was starvation. William was the son of a labor
er, and his father could not earn food for him.
The coroner who sat at the inquest was a practi-
cal man. He advised the father and the mother
to apply to the workhouse and get some
food, else they would not be able to do any work.
DISTRESS IN THE PROVINCES.
This story comes from all over EDgland. In
Manchester times are worse than during the cot
ton famine. The distress of the laborer means
distress in other circles. If poor men cannot buy
articles, small shopkeepers cannot sell them. and
so trade is at an end. All the money goes for
food, and the manifold industries outside of the
sale of food are at a standstill. As for luxuries,
such as books, the trade is dead. A book dealer
told me that bis trade was at an end. Ofcourse,
if people will not buy books, publishers will not
make them, and the printers suffer. So the cir
Gle of distress goes around and around. Men
and women of energy and benevolence are doing
all in their power to remedy the suffering. The
Queen has sent 200 dollars to one fund. Here
is the official manner of announcing her charity
90 The Queen, Notwithstanding the deep sorrow
which has fallen on her, has noticed your appeal
In behalf of the suffering poor of London, and
has commanded me to send the enclosed cheque
as her contribution for the alienation of distress in
the metropolis" The Queen, God bless her
How she never ceases to think of her subjects
But if she gave a whole years salary as Queen,
and lived on her income, it would not be too
large a contribution.
"LoRD, LORD, HAVE MERCY"
10 the meantime we hear strange voices, talk
ing as you have not heard Englishmen talk in
this generation at least. Here are some lines of
verses | clip from a radical paper. The capitals
are as | find them
The curse of God sweeps DER the land,
Lord. Lord, have mercy!
We die, and feel no helping hand,
oh. Lord have mercyl
oh, Lord, have mercy
Enwrap us, as in triple night,
Lord, Lord, have mercy
The great are throned on seats of gold,
Lord, Lord have mercyl
The starving poor are bought and sold,
oh, Lord, have mercy
The swollen rich Cypress and slay,
oh, Lord, have mercy
While Millions curse the light of day,
Lord, Lord, have mercy!
The Mothers weep in want and woe,
Lord, Lord, have mercy
The newborn Babe brings joy no more, |
oh, Lord, have mercyi
Disease, Starvation, Crime and Fraud,
Oh, Lord, have mercyl
Bear on their wings Thy curse, oh, God,
Lord, Lord, have mercy
REVOLUTION =
This is a voice in poetry. L know these lines
are Z" incendiary ~ and are not taken from a
very respectable paper, but they are one of the
voices you hear now in England. Here is anoth-
er voice in prose the capitals being also as 1 find
them These arrrsts,'' referring to what Bis
marck is doing to save society, will end in no
result advantageous to the Despotisms; though
for a time, no doubt, it may seem SO.
TION in Europe is growing stronger and strong
er every day. The millions are gradually
brought to such a state of slavery and starvation
that it is impossible to endure this sad condI-
Revolution, and in capital letters, too Is not
that an ominous word to be heard in England,
and at a time when her flag has won new glories
in far India, and when the nations heart should
throb not only with patriotic feryor, but with all
the blessed memories of this hallowed and gra-
cious time? Yes, truly if folks had only bread for
themselves and for their children.-N. Y. Her
aids London Letter.