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     that 1. CHARLOTTE-TOWN, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     POLITICflL EXTRJICTS FROJlI 
     
     LflTE PUBLICJITIONS. 
     
     LONDON Summon—Distress if the la- 
     
     bouring classes in England.-Since the 0- 
     
     pening of Parliament, very contradictory 
     
     statements have been made as to the condi- 
     
     tion of the labouring classes in the North- 
     
     ern and Midland counties. Mr. Atwood, 
     
     ofBlrmingham, and Mr. Fielden ofOld- 
     
     ham‘, who must have excellent opportuni- 
     
     ties ofknowing the real condition of the 
     
     population among whom they reside, have 
     
     asserted in the most unqualified manner, 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
          
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
         
     
         
     
         
     
       
     
         
     
         
     
         
     
        
     
         
     
       
     
          
     
        
     
         
     
        
     
        
     
          
     
        
     
         
     
    
   
   
    
     . 'We doubt not that, by the 
     
     revival in trade, which usually takes place 
     
     about this season of the year, the manu- 
     
    
   
   
    
     but when the 
     
     Spring Orders are executed, the distress 
     
     will certainly return ; and two months 
     
     hence, the periodical complaints of want 
     
     of work and reduction of wages will again 
     
     heard. During eight or nine months of 
     
     the year, the sufferings ofthe poorinhabit- 
     
     ints ofour mining and manufacturing dis- 
     
     tricts are intense and unremitting. Now, 
     
     that extreme poverty inevitably tends to 
     
     roduce crime, and that the utmost severi- 
     
     ofthe law is, for the most part, unavail- 
     
     when directed againstflzmishing crim- 
     
     als, will not be denied by any one who 
     
     acquainted with the past history and pre- 
     
     nt state ofIreland. The vice and turbu- 
     
     , are mainly owing to 
     
    
   
   
    
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     The Marquis of \Vest- 
     
     eath indeed, maintains that it is not dis- 
     
     ss, but sheer wickedness, that prompts 
     
     eVVhitefeet to the commission of outra- 
     
     sagainst life and property : but until 
     
     at discerning personage can point out to 
     
     a state ofsociety. on an extended scale, 
     
     ere frequent crimes against property 
     
     ve not invariably been preceded and ac- 
     
     mpanied by intense suffering on the part 
     
     the poor—or where a respect for the 
     
    
   
   
    
     the laboring classes in our osvn country. In 
     
     England, the labor-market is glutted ; and 
     
     except at particular and brief periods, wa- 
     
     ges are much reduced. The working- 
     
     classes are yearly becoming more impo- 
     
     verished ; and consequently less disposed 
     
     to respect the rights of poverty, or dread 
     
     the punishment of crime. The number of 
     
     convictions in England and \Vales, which 
     
     f'orthe seven years ending in 1817 was :55, 
     
     950, and during the next seven years had 
     
     increased to 62,412. duringthe seven years 
     
    
   
   
    
     ending in 1331 rose to the fearful height of 
     
    
   
   
    
     85,257. The amount levied for poor rates 
     
    
   
   
    
     , in England and Wales during the year end- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ing in March 1831, was 8,279,217. If the 
     
     difference in the value of money is taken 
     
     into account, it will be found that this sum 
     
     is larger by some millions than was ever 
     
     levied for the same purposes during the 
     
     worst years of the war. It must be the 
     
     aim and wish of every reflecting, every 
     
     humane man, to apply a remedy to the 
     
     evils which these returns prove to exist. 
     
     Hitherto, however, little has been done, 
     
     except, perhaps, by the diffusion of know- 
     
     ledge. Assnredly we do not mean to de- 
     
     cry the advantages of education ; but still 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     we maintain, that in order to its having a 
     
     due and permanent influence, it must be 
     
     accompanied by an improvement in the 
     
     worldly condition of the'people. Educa- 
     
     tion in England has not had fair play. It 
     
     is proved by the reduction of the wages of 
     
     labor, the augmentation of the poor rates, 
     
     and the enormous sale of cheap publica- 
     
     tions, that poverty and informatiOn have 
     
     gone on increasing together. This state 
     
     of things Mr. Huskisson declared to be 
     
     without a parellel in the history of nations. 
     
     It accounts for the fact, that the diffusion 
     
     of knowledge has not, apparently, caused 
     
     a diminution of crime- A man with the 
     
     fear of starvation before his eyes will not 
     
     be restrained from satisfying his appetite 
     
     by the precepts of morality, or even of re- 
     
     ligion. There are multitudes, moreover, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     who though not driven to this extremity, 
     
     yet nourish a feeling of hostility towards 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
        
     
         
     
        
     
        
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Ws is not a sure indication of worldly 
     
     mfort—we shall take leave to consider 
     
     ' opinion as the result of obstinate preju- 
     
     e, and as evidence of a state of mind 
     
     ich utterly disqualifies him from legis- 
     
     ing beneficially for his native country. 
     
     is not, however, to the state ofIreland, 
     
     at we now wish to direct attention, but 
     
     the fact that one of the main causes of 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ish suffering and crime is at work among 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
     the upper classes of society, which, how- 
     
     ever unreasonable it may be, they are in 
     
     no want of arguments tojustify to them- 
     
     selves. This discontented spirit among the 
     
     labouring population—the natural conse- 
     
     quence of their being under-fed, over- 
     
     worked, and, in their circumstances, over- 
     
     instructed—may lead to dangerous results. 
     
     It may break forth into acts of open vio- 
     
    
   
   
    
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     price of butcher-meat. 
     
    

    
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     that it would interfere witi 
     
    

    
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     annually to this country, b69134, ‘ 
     
     ter, and live stock, to the amount}. . 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     two millions. No doubt, it would have 
     
     that effect ; butif it should gradually it; 
     
     to the conversion of pasture lands into C. 
     
     age in Ireland, and thus create a demand 
     
     forlabour. andinduce more settled habits 
     
     of life among the peasantry, the conse- 
     
     quences would be in a high degree benefi- 
     
     cial both to that country and to England. 
     
     Without exaggerating the advantages 
     
     which would follow the adoption of our 
     
     suggestion, we think it cannot be denied 
     
     that the relief which it would afford the 
     
     laboring classes, would be immediately 
     
     felt. and that it would be attended with 
     
     great ultimate good to the Irish landholders 
     
     and peasantry, against whose interest it 
     
     might at first seem to militate. 
     
    

    
     The Standard has expressed itself glad, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     lence sooner than we anticipate. It must 
     
    
   
   
    
     and we are sincerely sorry, to renounce