Year: 1862

ing with cold. | went out and got them
each penny loaf. and it would have done
your soul good to have seen their eyes
brighten up when | handed it to them,
for it was the first they had tasted that
day. l looked at the rest of the crowd
some were dirty, some half naked-the
sight was truly painful but not so bad,
| was told by my guide, as might be seen
in other parts of the city. We looked
around to see where they would sleep, and
was told that the bare boards was the on
ly place they would have. Think for one.
moment of l4O persons huddled together
in room 20 by 40, all to sleep on the
floor, dirty and ragged, and then be told
that there were sights by far more pain
ful in other parts Of the city.


From there passed into the female
department, which was crowded with fe-
males of all ages and classes, some nurs-
ing babies, others lying on the floor. 40
of them had no shoes. There was one
old lady who had four small children
SAID that she was from Cork and came to
Dublin in quest of work. Young girls
from seventeen up, who would pass as the
bellies of Stowe if they were there and
cleanly dressed milliners, dress-makers,
school teachers, servants,--all classes were
represented How would such a sight
look IN Vermont.


l have only to look upon the street and
see women barefootcd and bare-legged up
to their knees and nothing to cover their
bodies except thin calico dress which
had been thrown away by some one.


All this is in the midst of oppulencc
and wealth, but it is in few mems hands,
Lord Durby owncs one half a county in
Ireland. as large as Washington county,
Vt. 1t is land conGsica:ed by Oliver
Cromwell. He has no more right to hold
it than have.


The distress in England is worse than
in Ireland In one county in England
there are three hundred and fifty thous-
and poor, who have not penny and can
not get anything to do. The poor of this
country can never be relieved but by a
revolution, which can never be successful
lly brought about but by the sword. | am
confident that the bloody scenes of l79S
and '49 will soon be enacted again upon
the Green Isle. They failed in '98 for
the want of good leaders, and it was
the same in '48; and | fear that any rev.
olution without the aid of some foreign
power would only end in the same inhu-
man and bloody scenes. When the rev.
olurion does come in Ireland, Gas it must
soon) there is an element in the lower
classes that is calculated to make the
scene bloody affair,--a war of exter.
limitation between the Protestants and
Catholics. The political agitation which
we have in America is comparatively cold
and quiet as compared with the religious
lagitation in England and Ireland. The
Catholics complain, and think justly
for being taxed to support the Church Of
England, and have to support their owl
church, and half that Of the Established
Church. | cannot blame the Catholics
but they would do the same thing could
they get chance But neither party
have one liberal idea. They are old su
perstitions, and contracted into the mar
rowest compass. Whatever their minis
ters tell them, they swallow, as we would
a sirloin steak.


| There is great agitation in relation tc
Rome and Italy. The Catholics denounct
Garibaldi in the most strong terms. They
swear that the Pope shall live forever
| was present at the great riot at Bir
kenhead England--was stopping with ar
American, The riot was caused by a lit
erary society attempting to discuss reso
luton, whether it was best to sympathis'
with Garibaldi, in his confinement, OF
not. The discussion was to take place in {
church, very near the place where wa'
stopping The Catholics collected il
large numbers in order to prevent the dis
cussion. Stones were thrown into Tho
church, and general mob was the eresul
in which it was estimated that there wer'
over forty thousand men and women en-