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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1763, 27 August 1874, Page 3

" Enlightened Englishmen" — DeSCKIBED BY THEMSELVES.—ThoSB who read English papers are continua'ly told about the wretchedness and depravity of tho "low ] risii." Let iis see how the low English compare with them. In an article entitled "The Vilest Specimens of Humanity," a correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, describing the" roughs of Lancashire, says :—" To, my mind the Lancashire rough of theßolton and Blackburn districts is the vilest specimen of humanity on the face of tho earth; indeed, he would disgrace the lowest order of animals, and I think a cannibal or an A^hanteeis a perfect gentleman compared to one of them. The villains never seem to think that kicking with the sort of clogs on they wear, is not one whit better than fighting with iron gloves or! armed with spikes; and I dare say even they would admit that this was too much of a pood thing. There is nothing in the shape of bodily suffering so repulsive to my mind as the blows given by these vile brutes by their clogs,, and I should infinitely prefer a bullet through my head to undergoing the treatment to which they often subject each other, and even their poor wives." ■ ;