THE DEPRESSION IN ENGLAND.
The following instructive commentary upon' the distress prevailing in England is taken from the " Home News " just to hand. " The agricultural and com-mercial-.depression now prevailing in England- may be said to have resolved itself into a fight of Charity against Starvation/ Never was misery more severe, or' helplessness more complete ; never was the hand of the bountiful more liberal, or the organisation for the relief of suffering m(>re conscientiously developed. If the existing distress is not as widespread as that created by the cotton famine 20 years ago, it is in many quarters as deep. In every town from th« East-end of London, throughout the Midlands, to far North of the- Tweed, thousands and thousands of families are huddled in furnitureless rooms,; hungry, cold, and hopeless. On the: Clyde, on' Tyneside, at J arrow, at Gateshead, at Aberdeen, at Glasgow, at Sunderland, and at a hundred other oentres .of industry, men with large families to support, have been unable to get work now for nearly twelve months, and- it says much for the thrift of the working ( class.es that many hive, until quite recently,, staved off the hour when an appeal to charity became inevitable, solely by their hard-earned savings. .What the condition of the country would be at this moment but for its charitable organisations it is impossible to conceive. At places like Jarrow thousands of children are fed and families relieved out of the funds of the local committee; in Newcastle £1000 a month goes in relief; in Sunderland over £7000 has been raised for similar purposes. And Ihese are only a few instances of the noble efforts which charity is making to withstand the starvation of 1 the masses.
Burlington township, in New York State, is overrun with rats of a bright grey colour and immense size, which have done'thousands of dollars' worth of d >mage during the, past season to the grain crop's. These' destructive creatures are believed to be the product of a single pair of Norway rats, that escaped from their oage a fe^yeWago.' 1
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1122, 25 February 1885, Page 3
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345THE DEPRESSION IN ENGLAND. Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1122, 25 February 1885, Page 3
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