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balance this flourishing state , are sufficiently accounted for by sacrifices for the general improvement . The revenue returns attest on a gigantic scale , tbe prosperity of the country , and the merits of the Free-trade policy . We must not forget , however , that , as we are having a general election , without the co-operation of the people , so this prosperity is accompanied by an annual flight of 300 , 000 persons or more , to escape from the clutches of inevitable
poverty , while the country sustains so vast a burden of pauperism , that , as it has been calculated , on very sufficient grounds , 3 , 000 , 000 of persons come within the gift of relief during each year . There is popular representation without a people , immense prosperity with inevitable and gigantic pauperism ; neither side of the shield can be denied . So , also , the commerce which is flourishing under the principle , " to buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest , " is , at the same time , developing a diseased appetite to eat up itself . The Da ? icct , which has been pursuing its analyses of articles used as food , has been exposing the state of a popular condiment , and gives the following results : —
" That out of the twenty-eight samples of Cayenne pepper subjected to analysis , twenty-four were adulterated ; that out of the above number four only were genuine ; that out of tbe twenty-four adulterated samples , tw enty-two contained mineral colouring matter ; that red lead , often in large and poisonous quantities , was present in thirteen samples ; that Venetian red , red ochre , brick dust , or some other analogous ferruginous ear ths were contained in seven samples ; that cinnabar , Vermillion , or sulphuret of mercury , was detected in one sample ; that six of the samples consisted of a
mixture of ground rice , turmeric , and Cayenne , coloured with cither red lead or a red ferruginous earth ; that six samples contained large quantities of salt , sometimes alone , but more frequently combined with rice and a . red ferruginous earth or with red lead ; that one of the samples _w-as adulterated with a large quantity of the husk of white mustard seed ; that two contained rice only , coloured with red lead or a ferruginous earth . As is well known , red lead and vermillion , or sulphuret of mercury , are highly deleterious substances , both being characterised by the very peculiar circumstance that they are . not , like the majority of other compounds , when received into the system , at once eliminated therefrom , but remain in the body for a
considerable time , gradually accumulating , until at length they occasion the peculiar symptoms which distinguish their presence in large amount . Thus , however small the dose taken from day to day , the constitution is yet liable , by tho repetition of the dose , to be at length brought under the influence of the poison , and to become seriously affected . But the quantity of red lead and mercury introduced into the system in adulterated Cayenne pepper is by no means inconsiderable , since it commonly forms a large portion of the article . Some idea of the amount of these substances frequently present may be formed from the fact that in a pinch tit cayenne , moistened antl diffused over a white plate , or a piece of glass , tbey may be distinctly seen by the eye alone . "
A man may not only " eat a peek of dirt before he dies , " but if he patronize fhe coffee formerly analyzed by the Lancet , lie may fulfil that function within a few months , giving to the word dirt its most literal and nasty interpretation . If ho indulges in " the juice that makes the Briton bold , " in the modern version , sold under the principle " to buy in the cheapest , " Ac ., lie will deaden his sense fo the deglutition of the filth iu fhe cofl ' ee , by the habitual taking of narcotics and other physios . Now it , appears , should his
digestive _powei'H Hag under burdens and operations ho e . _xhauHtive , and should he week reeonr . se fo that celebrated stomachic stimulant , cayenne , he will be but painting his inside with the vermillion oxide of mercury , heaping a lodgment of red lead , and otherwise accumulating those causes of depression which would make hini . seel ; the stomachic all the more . Anil if , Jit last , he rush to the diymiMfs , _tis the Taunt might explain to him , lor more direct stomachics , he will be put' oil with fictitious drims that have no virtue .
The people who commit those crimes tire not only vendors _, but consumers , antl this blind worship of the idol Cheapness , is perhaps the most extraordinary devotion fo si Social . Juggermiuf ever exhibited . Where si man is si . vendor for one thing , he is si . purchaser for a hundred ; where he cheats once , lie is cbesifed si hundred times . lie connives with his neighbours in a . system by which each is fo cheat sill fhe vent , and
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all are to _cfreat each . To keep up that system he pretends to breakfast on coffee when the stuff winch fumes in the silver coffee-pot is but the refuse of the stable-yard or the grave-yard . He pretends to spice his dinner with the stomachic condiment , of the glowing and fragrant West Indies , while he does but . paint his mutton with the poison which adorns the handle of his little son ' s sword , and which he forbids that infant to suck . Ho washes it down with narcotics and
other drugs ; and having swallowed drugs and poison in bulk , as food , he goes to the druggist and buys food , or plaster of Paris , or some other inert substance , in very neat little bottles , and neat little folds of paper , and pretends to be taking physic : he pretends , because it is a way he has , of buying the things which he pretends to receive , but does not receive , " in the cheapest market . " As vendor , he carries his devotion so
far that he will not stop short of poisoning , and as purchaser , he consents to be poisoned ; he is the Thug and the victim in one ! ' And the class which is thus intelligently developing our commerce is the staple of those towns which are henceforth " to govern the country . " Are the most intelligent and influential portion of the class specially selected as trustees for the parliamentary suffrage P
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SCHOOLS FOE WOMEN . How much good may be done if we only set ourselves directly to do it . " Come , " Shelley would say , when anything was proposed for the benefit of his fellow creatures , " let us begin . " Hundreds , thousands , millions , may be made happier , ¦ within the course of a few weeks , if those w ho know what the word " education" means , would but begin it at once , at their own doors , where
they may . We have an example before us . We take a little pamphlet written by" Sarah Crompton , " entitled " Evening Schools for the Education of Women , " and bearing this motto , " The education of woman is the education of man and woman begun in the right place . " * This pamphlet proposes a plan to teach to women that which they ought to know , in order to be happy and the cause of happiness to others , even iu the most humble condition .
In the progress of civilization , as it is in England , woman has become , for large portions of our state , no more than a marketable commodity , si part of fhe vast factory machine , not only because patient woman is si cheaper _smimal than man , but because she _hsis been found peculiarly adapted to a nice performance of a variety of processes in tins finishing of the lighter _msichine products . Thus , during the week , thousands of females sire working together in our factories , sind sire so closely _sissocisited , that each sind sill sire
subjected to whatever influences , be they good or bsid " , _msiy be exercised over them . Society hsis provided no institutions for women to sifford them the facilities _fhsif mechanics' institutions oiler to fhe _sirtissin . Crsunped in towns , yet _uncultivsited by _eduesil ion , the woman hsis lost the inborn guidance of nature , without acquiring that of knowledge . One _laol would suffice fo show fhe frightful extent of this perversion . She poisons her children—with tilth , with " soothing syrups , " with drugs to _snsiteh the burial allowance )
We are happy to note fhsif the subject hsis received special attention in the town of _lliriuingham , in which resides the loftiest religious spirit wedded to the sweefes _^ influence fluit can shed fhe light of goodness o \\ the home of the humble and degraded , " milking si sunshine in fhsif shady place . " Less than live _yesirs since si party ol ener . _oel io Isnlies _obtsiineil the loan of si room in ; i
merchant ' s establishment , sind I here Commenced sin evening school , with counters fo / desks , aud packing-cases lor _siffings . Single women sind married , some of f hem mothers of large families , were there _Isiughf to read , wrile , sind keep ; iccoiiuls , sun I to _insike _sintl repair their sipimrel . I n this room Ihey _reinsiinetl six nionl hs , _fesiching ; the number of the applicants _lluct usiting above and below thirty . Tbey bad lo combat fhe prejudices of I Inil , pauperism of Ihe soul we call ignorance , fhe hardened opposition fo discipline which si , life without hope or ( day mistakes foi freedom , sind ninny other difficult _ies , sill of which they overciune . They next , occupied a room lent fhcni by Messrs . Osier , ( lie makers of the celebrated crystal ! fountain , si ml . wert > furnished by ¦ : A penny pnin plilel , published by Mr . . loliu Timlin , ul the Town Hull I _' niilin _^ -o / lice _, in _Hiriiiiii _^ biiiii .
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those gentlemen with desks and benches : subsequently and at present , the tuition is carried on in the school-room of a neighbouring chapel , three evenings in the week . Another school is opened elsewhere , and others are about to be formed . One paid superintendent is engaged , and one paid teacher . The system of paying assistants is earnestly desired by all tliose who have had practical experience in this experiment .
The fair pioneers who have had the sole management of this school , make it a great point that female influence be especially preserved , as they believe it alone capable of affecting the desired end . There has been no hauteur on the part of the teachers towards the taught ; no vexatious questioning as to unblemished character The school was opened for the moral redemption of all "who lacked the means rather than the
desire to become better members of society . The pupils have been trained to love improvement ; whether in their Bible instruction , or in a dictation lesson , there is a settled earnestness displayed by all ; and an organized system of mutual assistance is now at work amongst them . Sincere attachments have sprung up between the givers and the recipients of these blessings ; and husbands , wives , mothers , and children , do appreciate the boon which has been thus conferred , from first to' last , under a code of morals
eminently calculated to insure success in such an undertaking . Now these schools may be founded elsewhere , and most likely will be founded ; but they may be founded in larger numbers than any yet contemplated . There is no reason why admirable women , like Sarah Crompton ' s friends , should not establish such schools in Manchester , Glasgow , Edinburgh , Bristol , Liverpool , in the score of towns which compose London , and in all the centres
of population scattered so thickly over the United Kingdom . There is no reason why the leaven of enlightened intelligence , re-awakened affections , domestic sympathies , healthy social intercourse , should not be at once imparted to the abandoned outcasts of these populous towns ; within six months the good seed would ripen into a full harvest of beneficent operations , and so many thousands of our bewildered countrywomen be converted from the desolate parents of forlorn children , to the hopeful mothers of hopeful generations .
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Till ] _AUSTRALIAN PLUTUS . Gold ! The Americans sind Australians are full of the w ord _, and what is more , they are filling their pockets , or rather their carts , with the thing . You _tsike a , piece of gold ore from _Csilifornisi into your hsind ; it looks like si lump of rock crystal , of a slightly _tsiwney colour , like crystsilized dogskin _gloves—certsiinly without , any _srppearsince of gold fo the uninitiated eye . You
sire fold thsit it will give " two shillings in tho pound . " A very pretty species of _nsifive bankruptcy ! _Bresik thsit bank ,, and it yields you a handsome dividend , without _suiy debt foregoing . Another piece , of gritty texture , _slrisited with purplish si site colour sind yellow , looks not unlike si piece of _ssindsfone from _Ilsimpsfesid _hesifh : thsit will bring three shillings in the pound weight . Such are the rocks of California—rocks which it
would be si p leasure fo split upon . Ibis is for regular mining ; but there is better fbsin fhsif : the lucky adventurer shall lind fhe gold in _gresit lumps . Australia beats even California .: the ore rises in mountains , sind _fhechiy is ho rj-cdi sit _lhillsirsit , thsit two fin dishes of it , sibouf twenty inches iu ilisnnefor , yielded , _ssiys . 1 j _ieufeiiiinf-Clovernor Lnfrobe , " no less than eight pounds "weight of pure gold . " The siceounls from Australia represent all society as _disorgsuiized—biwyers , officials , shopmen , labourers , clerks ,
policemen , Holdiers , and sailors , all oil' lot he " diggins . " Discreef men were alarmed ; but Ihey began to see that aflairs iiinsf soon right themselves ; very shortly _sillsiirs did follow that sagacious conclusion , and _begsin to right themselves ; but ( he discovery of so much wealth sit . _lirsf gave fhe A list _rsilians "qitile a I urn . " The " community
fell , like a boy with his first birthday ten-pound note in his pocket , hardly able fo fell w _hsif to do with if , how fo keep il , safe , or how fo conlronl . the portentous vicissitudes which such si . possession implies . Could we not baye Isiughf them in this country ? How many things might wo do if we . had sonic of fhe Australian dross horoP Think of if , for e . _xsijjiple , at Ji time of a general election : how
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Leader (1850-1860), July 10, 1852, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10071852/page/16/
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