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Show APPENDIX TO NOTES. 281 pie in England, nnd thn.t the r idiculous f\Spcct of tho pseudo-philanthropy, which melts into tears over romn.nce, while it shuts its eyes and illLrdens its heart to the misery that lies weltering nt its own door, ~~~f~~~ int~c 8~~i~f~e e:~~~r~!·i~e~:l~~c::~~,;~~~i·~~f~·;~~di~~~~~r~0 r~~~ pitulntcd in the course of wlmt follows in the Chronicle . . 'l'hey form a Cil.tnlogue of honid brutalities too painful to quote. '\Vc will givo n. few of the London cdit01·'s comments. " • Here then-including Mr. Fitzroy's list-arc more thnn twenty instances, occurring within two months, in London nlone, of tho most foul o.nd stwago attacks committed mostly by men, on women and defenceless children. 'l'he old chivalry of common life, which heltl ~L~~: h~v~i~~~lch;~n~u~~n!n;~: ~~~u:~o~~~~~8n'~0 ,~ire e;!i~c~iai,::~ from the la.w of England that measure of protection which is freely 8'~~~1~~;~;'\b~03iffi~ul:1 t~x~ssign a special cause for this frightful 1:11;"'1,:;\t~~c 0~1;:t0 t~t,';~'~'~;, c~;'~;~c;;;,roJo~~cs~;cw~ai~~~. itc~~;·ar~i; assaults and murder, may iu numberless instances bo traced back to the miserable lodgings of the London poor, and to the moral disadvantages arising from the absence of those cheeks which society imposes. A London artisan, early nnd la.te at his work, is uninfluenced by social opinion-he has no neighbours-and thus, in tho midst of a. crowded population, he may relapse into n. state akin to that of tho solitary nnd tl~e s:~vago.' "Stafford House, it is rcasonnhlc to think, should keep quiet for n. while, at least on the subject of Uncle 'l'om. Afier tho well-fed Duchess ha.s lachrymated her prettiest m-er the pn.ges of 1\Irs. Stowe, let her mako a real step, with literal shoes and stockings, into one of these stern re:Liitics-:-' the miscrnlJlo lodgings of the London poor'nod remember that London is Iter home, :~nd not ours. 'Vhen that is set to right, lot the JJuchess aud her tender-hearted associates re-commence their denunciations of American slavery; but not till then." Sometime since, I cut from nn English newspaper nn article headed, "History and Politics. Centralization and Local Self-Government." 'l'hc name 11.11d date of the paper I did not presene, n.nd have forgotten, but it could, perhaps, be asccrtnined by the following description :-'l'he columns arc a qun.rter of an inch narrower than those of tJ1o London Guardian. On the te\•erse of the sido containing tho o.bo\·c-mentioncd article, is the following:-" Ln.w 1ntclligcnce. Ad- ~\~~~~~c c~~~~~vi~~ ~~~.~~~L!t;t ~l;h1~:~e;~~~~~ . s~\'J~8~~~~~.ud B~}~~~ William Lionel Felix_ 'l'ullcmachc.-Lord Iiunting-r's [part. of tho ~~t ~~~~~~ep~s fsu~~~~{·i~~n~:ul~~:f·~ld:~ t~~nP~f'~11r~t~l~r\h~~ ~11~~:~: At the foot of the next column, is a paragraph on tho "Uai~mys Abandonment Bill.''- ! give the ~~bovc as a clue to tho name and dato cf the papor.-In the column last mention('d1 is tho following:- 36 ¥* |