Year: 1859

From spirited article in the Boston Post treating in rart, of the mock philanthropy of our trans atlantic neighbors, we select portion as follows:

 While one portion of the London Times | (Dec. 31,1 portravs this ontburst of cheap phi | lanthropv at Leeds, another column describes | the scenes hourly to be seen among the tens of thousands of "the abiect and miserable poor'' of the metropolis. There are noless than five communications about the starvation point of | their retchedness-broughto out by vigorous pen which, under the signature of Our Home less Poor" pictured the horrible wretchedness, not in a casual case but in thousands of cases; 1 and unmasked the abominabe cruelty of the oficial dealing with this desttution in the work | houses provided for its relief We quote the | following to prove that even in England there | are pens at work to show up the hvpocritical | philanthropy of such as the Earl of Carlisle, and that if he is desirous to labor in a field of real need, he may find an open one at his own doors:

 "The other day, sir, was in a room where family lived, or rather where they were dying. | The father, on a heap of damp rags, was moan | ing under an attack of rheumatism, which pre- vented him from moving hand or foot. The mother was dying of consumption, and there | were five little children in the room whose ap- l pearance 1 cannot describe, though I wish | could forget it. When saw them they had not tasted food for 4S hours-light or fire was of course, out of the question-and the young est infant, whose face more resembled bats than human beings, was literally dying of starvation They had applied to the workhouse for reef--a loaf or half loaf week, and were told they might be forwarded to the Union of their own parish if they chose but outdoor relief they should not have. The poor woman knew her days were numbered and that the time was fast approaching when she would have to leave her little ones forever, and she clung to them in their misery with all dying mothers love, resolved to perish together rather than enter Union where her children would be ta- ken from her.

 Two or three months ago poor woman who was destitute, and whose child was in the ago. nies of death from want and exposure, applied for admission to London workhouse, and was received. When fairly in, however she was told she could not be allowed to keep her child, though dying, and it was accordingly taken from her by force. She raved and screamed, offered to qult the place, to do anything for the misc rable consolation of watching over her dying child and, as she would not be quiet under her HfFHl pcTeaNeuletl Sile was smut up m the Diack hole for 10 hours, while her infant, born to want aud desttution, sobbed out it's little life alone.

 Some four or five years back all England thrilled to highly co!ored tale of negro mi sery. The tender sensibilites of our great la. dies were aroused by the imaginary sufferings of Uncle Tom, and thus, moved by a romance, they met in solemn conclave and penned ab- surd addresses to the ladies of America. Can all the horrors of slavery produce a worse in- stance of cruelty than have just told--a mDn- strous cruelty perpetrated almost daily through ont England? The cry of the poor, we know, goes up to Heaven; assuredly it is not heard on earth, or something would be done immediately to remove the shame and evil from our land

 Nothing will be efectual till the almost unheard of cruetes of our worlhouse system are ex- posed, and, if not removed, at least abated; and this, believe, can only be accomplished by the establishment of some benevolent association to watch over the interests of the destitute, to right their wrongs, and prosecute the offenders who wantonly and grievousy oppress them.