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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 107, 7 May 1868, Page 2

The President of the United States, Andrew Johnson, who in his youth worked as a journeyman tailor, has sent the sum of fifty dollars as his contribution to the Operative Tailors' Emigration Society in London, with best wishes for its object. Many of the world's great ones have risen from humble circumstances. George Abbot, an Archbishop of Canterbury, was the son of a cloth worker. "The poet Akenside was a butcher ; Sir Kichard Arkwright a barber ; the celebrated Dr. Armstrong, at the age of eighteen, was a clerk in an earthenware establishment ;- Dr. Brown served his time as a weaver ; Dr. Faraday was a bookbinder j and Dr. Franklin a journeyman-printer. Thomas Gainsborough; the great English landscape-painter, was entirely self-taught; the founder of Guy's Hospital was the eon of a lighterman ; and the philosopher Halle, of a soap-boiler. John Hnnter, the celebrated anatomist, was bred a carpenter; Samuel Johnson was the son of a poor bookseller, and Ben Johnson was a bricklayer. Dr. Kitto was a bricklayer's boy, and Sir Thomas Lawrence, late President of the Royal Academy, was the sou of a publican. Every one knows that Stephenson was a common, miner ; while Drs. Jeremy and John Taylor, and Wordsworth, the late poet-laureate, were all three barbers' boys. In fact, there is a splendid galaxy of names of those who, by the exercise of their own talent and industry, have risen to lofty .and commanding positions. Among them must be reckoned many of the best of England's Chancellors. What a suspicious monster the man must have been who first invented a lock; but what a trusting creature the woman who first allowed a latch-key.