THE TROUBLE OF ENGLAND.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3365, 4 October 1879, Page 4

THE TROUBLE OF ENGLAND.

The Paris correspondent of the New York Tribune ha 3 been favored with an interview by M. Gambetta, who laid great stress in bis conversation, on the troubles which he fears are in store for England owing to the aggregation of her people in a few centres. He said: —" Some of her present ills were due to universal causes; others to the over development of manufacturing cities, whiflh' degraded population, and placed national wealth on an unsteady basis. Agricultural Italy must ever, in the lone run, havo the advantage over trafficking Carthage. In one way Free Trade was the source of evil to England that Protection would be to the United States, and the British colonies. It brought too much blood into grimy cities, where the smoke of the mill shuts out the light of Heaven from the operative. Without Heaven's light, continued in his emphatic manner Gam* betta, the workman is a brute. To fiud a glimpse of the idea towards what every human being instinctively aspires, he squanders his wages in gin. Oh, yes, without sunlight and the blue sky there is no invention, no skill, no sociability to be found among the labouring poor, j lie tidy, thrifty, artistic Fleming becomes at Mons and Lille a besotted animal. Manufactures carried to a sreat extent killed the Moors in Spain. He should bo sorry that they had killed England, for ho had good reasons for loving her. In the United States the Labouring Party is another outcome of big cities and overstimulated manufactories, 'All I want,' said the ex-Dictator, ' public instruction to do in France is to enable the peasant to appreciate the felicities of au agricultural life, and to lend him the aid of science in cultivating hia field.' Gambetta spoke with kindness of Grery, but lamented his contracted ideao of European affairs. England's foreign perplexities, he said, were traceable to the blind policy of Gladstone and his Manchester colleagues. They kept back Italy and Austria from helping France."