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Show 276 A 1' 1' END I X., T 0 N 0 T E S • Wl1111cver tl1C tool to ply, w/t~~:~~:c~e :i,~~~;yn;~:'a~~d wo to him Who docs their p~y begrudge. , Who every lft'Ckly score Docks labor's little mite, ]3cstows on the poor nt the_ temple-door, nut robbed them ovcr-mght. Tho very shilling he hoped to save, As hcnlth nnd morals fnil, . ShnlJ visit me in tho New nu.stllc, The spital or tho gnol!' (j As the last ominous word ceased ringing, the cnndlc-wick suddenly dropped into the neck of the stone bottle, and all was da.rkncs~:~ aud .silcnc; * * * * "The vision is dispelled-the fiction is gone-but a fact and n. figure rc~~1 S~~10 time Rincc, n. strong inward impulse moved me to p[lint tho destitution of an ovcrtaskcd class of females, wl~o wor_k, WO!·~·- wo1·~, for wages :tlmost nominal. But deplorable ~fl IS then· condttJOn, 111 the low deep, there is, it seems, n._ lower still:-below that ~luomy •ulf n. darker region of hmnan mlfler,v:-beneath that )lliJ'gatory a £ell-resounding with more doleful wnJ!mgs ~ntl a ~haqwr outct·ythe voice of f:uni~hing wrctch_Ps, pleadmg mml,Y fur work ! \rork! work !-imploring ns a blesfl lllg, what wns laH.l upon man as ~~ curse-the laUor that wrings 1mcnt from the IJrow, and Lread from th;, ~~I~ mnltor of conscience, that wail touches me not. As my works testify, I am of the working- clnss ~~~):se lf, n_nd in my lnnnblc !<phero furni sh employme nt for JJ~:tny hand~. melu<_lm J:; papeJ·-mak('r..,, dntught:.:mcn, enp;r:wers, comp_o~tlor:-:, r':cf.l~m ~ n, lnru.kr1';, ful,_l~ri'l,.,.'ll;d stitchers-aut! eritics-:tll r ecClnng a. f:ur d:ty s \l'agP8 fur a !atr Jay~ work. 1\ly gains c(lm,cqncntl,Y aru limited-not nf'arly s_o f'llOr~nuus ns haYe been realized upon sl nrtt'l, ::;lop<l, shawl:<, &('_.-cunously dl~s· trating how n. man or woman migh t be' ctoihc;.i \nth curses ns With a garment! 1\ly fortnne may b~ C~l.ll'CSI"ed .w:tlwut n long- row of tho8c ciphers-those O'a ~t once _slgH ih.ean_t of JlUnd1·cds ?f tlwu~anJs ofJ)Ount.ls, and as many eJacubt10ns of p:nn an_d Ronow /]"(:Ill der~:'ml· cnt shl\'OS. 1\ly wealth might all Lr hoarded, 1f I wero m1~cr~y, ltl a gallipot or n. tin suufi'-ho_x. _My g;HillC!l8, r .Jaced edg-e to cdgr, lll:.tcad of exte nding from tho 1\lll!orws to ~oldeu ~qu:ne, would L:1rcly J·cach from home to Bread Street. l\fy r1elJes would hnrJly nllow me :troll in them, 0\'('U if tnrncJ into the new corr?r mill'S. But tiJCll, tlmnk God! no rcr,roach l.:iings _to my coi n_. .N.o tl'a_rs or I!Jood c!o_;;_tlto meshoR, no 1air, plucked m d ~:-pcratJOn, IS l:mttcd ":nh the sdk of my lean purse. No consutnpttnl bCtlmsl!·ctos can pomt at _me her bony furctingcr, nnd sny, 'For thcc, sewing i1t forum paupaM, I nm lJCCOme tltia living skeluton !' or !Jo!d up to me l1CI' !ataiJJeetllc, as one through the eye of whieh ti1e fer iptural camel must pass ere I APPENDIX TO NOTES. 277 may hope to enter heave n. No withered work-woman, shaking at. me her dripp!ng suicidal locks, can cry, in n. piercing voice,' For thee, and for S IX poor pence, 1 embroidered e ighty flowers on this vcil'Iiterally n vcd of tear_s. No fami shing laborer, his joints racked with toil, holds out to me 1n the palm of his Lroa.d, hard hand, BCrcn misorablc s hill in~s, null mu~tcrs, 'For these, and n parish loaf, for six long days, from dawn ttl ] dusk, through hot and cold, tlH·ou,.,.h wet nnd dry, 1 tilled thy land!' :My short sleeps nrc peacefu l ; my /~ream.~ untrouiJled. No ghastly phantoms with reproachful faces, and to ilencc more terrible thau speech, haunt my quiet pillow. No victims of slow mu1·dcr, ushered by tbe avenging fi ends, Lesct my couch, and make awful appointments with me to meet at the Divine bar on the da>: of judgment. No deformed human c reatu res-men, women, and children, smirched black as n e~roc~. trnn siigu rcd suddenly, as dolllona of tho pit, clutch at my heels to Urng me down, down, down, an un· fltthomablo shaft, into a gn.pi ng 'l'nrtarus. And if l:lO illOtimes in wakin,.,. \isions 1 t;ce ~hrongs of little faces, with featu res preteJ·naturaiiJ sh:u·p, and wnnkled Lrows, and d ull, seared orbs-grouped with pitying clu~ters of the young-eyed c!Jembim-not fur me, thank 1lem·e11! diJ. those c rippled child1·en become prematurely old; ar1tl prccociuu.sly empumtc, like so much steam power, the 'Jew uf their you~h. ' ''.For me, then, tlmt U1,lcful cry from the starving uncmplr,y('d, ha<J no extl'iusic h!Jrror; no pec uliar pang, beyond that sympathetic Olte, which mu.st atfect tho species in general." In proof (if proof is needed,) of what is said abO\'(', "]i'athrr~, with more children than shi llirtg!'l per week," rend the fullowin~ from tlw London Guardian of' .Fcb. Oth, J853, and recollect that a Khillin_!!;, z-tf't'ling, is less than tii"Cnty.five cents, n.nJ that out of thi.~ pittanct~ UJe1·c nrc" nine mouths to feed, big ~~nd littlc-n.nd nine baeks to cluthe"and fuel to purchase, and rent to P:-1)'• besidcs.-:l.nd thrn .sny. i ::~ it to Lc wondered at, that the men u dcchucU to split the diiiCt·1·nco ?" (5.) "1'he effects of emi~1·a.tion arc being shown in a general demand for higl1er wages; tho cm·peuters and join ers of the city of ll1·istol hare publicly addressed a ci1·cular to their cmployeJ·>:~ gencmlly, in which they solicit nn admnce of Gd. per day on their prescut rate of wages. 'l'he 8hip,nights of D:wcnport hare memori.d i:-;ed the Government for lUI increase; but the mo.st determined demaud ha~ been made by the lal;orers of Suuth Wilt~hit·e. At .Bal'funl, Codfonl, and E'omnt, they have str uck for an admncc of two shilling~,-lhat is, from seven shi llings t-o nine; and a. settlement on 1-'rida.y crcni u ~. 'I' he farmers r esist; tho peat~ants go UJr nino shilling~ or nolhing. On Monday, nearly two lnmJrcd la Lorcrs Butr~..:bcd from fanu to farm st.'l.ti ng th eir case, and bcltal"ing with propriety and good sense. Tho Uevcrcnd l\fr. Waldegrarc, Yicar of Barfunl, was c:dleU in tu mediate; and he propof!~d to split the dill'crcnce, llJ·ging tho men t1• nccrpt a. uniform rate of eight shillings a.-week. The men declined.'' y |