AN INSIDE VIEW.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 934, 2 March 1872, Page 3

AN INSIDE VIEW.

An article in " Erasers Magazine," of this month, has some startling revelations, warning society that the condition of the working-classes in England is as bad and dangerous as it well can be—a condition, which, if it cannot be amended, must be taken as telling of a nation rotting to a fall. JNot more than one in twenty of the working-classes, he insists, have always a sufficiency of food and clothing, and a decent and healthy home. Indeed, the home-life of avast number is a life tnat puts decency and morality, as well as physical health, out of the ques«on. Other facts and revolting social evils are given, which we do not think m to lay before our readers, but which «7 out loudly for investigation and reionn. Commenting on this article, we London correspondent of the

' Boston Daily Advertiser" says : ' The writer might go on to say that no less a number than 977,700 persons were, in the course of last year, on the books of the guardians of the poor, amounting to nearly one in twenty of the entire population of England. In Scotland it would appear that one in every twenty-three has at some time in the year found a way to the parish loaf; whilst, in honorable distinction to the sister countries Ireland has but one pauper returned in every seventyfour of her population.