ness" the souls of millions into whose wretched hearts the very iron of despotism has been driven. But could we behold the tears of wretchedness that have drenched their pillows-seen only by God-the limbs that have rotted in dungeon chains-the "withered forms, that in Botany Bay have been doomed to perpetual exile from their country for offences against arbitrary and unjust laws "-could we see the parting scenes upon the shores of England where thousands of these poor wretches have been torn from their wives and children amidst their entreaties to be suffered to go with their husbands and fathers!—could we see them go and commit crimes that they might be condemned to the same now joyous fate-could we hear the cries of hungry and oppressed generations of the poor-could we glance but for once on that dark scroll of tyranny and wrong perpetrated in England, that will be unfolded in the great day of final assize-what tears could we find worthy of being shed over such a spectacle? "But this eternal blazon cannot be to ears of flesh and blood."

And while this deep wail of sorrow and suffering, that we can even now hear coming up through the vale of ages, was falling on the ears of successive races of nobles, hierarchs, and kings, where were "the successors of the apostles," the ministers of Jesus Christ, paid by the state ?-Collecting tithes !

To the man who will suffer himself to think of

such weighty matters as these, while his heart beats one hundred times, what mystery is there, that in England, where all this wrong has been perpetrated, all this suffering endured, "gaunt millions with their hungry faces are now standing up to ask, as in forest roarings, these washed upper classes, after long, unrelieved centuries, these questions. How have ye treated us? How have ye taught us-fed us-while we toiled for you? The answer can be read in flames over the midnight summer-sky-this is the feeding— the leading we have had of you—EMPTINESS OF POCKET, OF HEAD, AND OF HEART!"

BOOK THE THIRD.

EMBRACING A VIEW OF THE PRESENT CONDITION OF THE BRITISH PEOPLE AND THE BURDENS WHICH OPPRESS THEM.

In the sense Adam Smith uses the word poor, "living from hand to mouth," nine tenths of the English people are poor.Edinburg Review, Oct. 1841.

In the road which the English labourer must travel, the Poorhouse is the last stage on the way to the grave.—Quarterly Review, No. 29.

There is a mighty evil connected with the condition of the working classes in this country, which has to be met, exposed, and overcome.-Westminster Review, Jan. 1842.

The men of England are treated by the landed interest worse than their dogs and horses, which are fed in proportion to their toil.-Mr. Cobden's speech in Parliament, Feb. 22, 1842.

Under the present Corn Law, aided by the Poor Law, which is expressly intended to beat down the standard of comfort, and so degrade the labourer, the bulk of the working classes, both in the agricultural and manufacturing districts, are reduced on ordinary occasions to the lowest stage of existence, and a bad season is a sentence of death to many of the suffering poor.London Sun, Nov. 17, 1841.

The Corn Law is the master infamy of the world-the landlord's curse on the poor man's industry. There is, however, no hope of relief for the people, unless in a Reform of the Reform Act, so that the working classes may be represented in Parliament. Mr. Wakley's speech in Parliament, Feb. 18, 1842.