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Tie Poor Of EEin6urg. Mr.. Bryant, the DO.
Ct in letter dated Edinburg, scotland, saws:
On Saturday evening found myself at the
market which is just then held in High street and
the Netherbow, just as you enter the Canon gate,
and where the old wooden eligy OF John Knox,
with staring black eyes freshly painted every
year, stands in its pulpit, and still seems preach,
ing to the crowd Hhher throng Of sickIy-
looking, dirty people, bringing with them their
unhealthy children, had crawled from the narrow
wynds or alleys on each side of the street. We
entered several of the wynds and passed down one
OF them, between houses of vast height story pill
ed upon story, till we came to the deep holows of
Cowgate Children were swarming in the wav,
all of them bred in shat close and impure atmos-
phere, of a siekly appearance, and theaspect of
premature age in some of them which were car.
ried in arms, was absolutely frighlful. "HeEe
IS misery" said a Scotch gentleman, who was my
conductor. l asked him how large a properties
Of the people of Edinburg belonged TO. that
wretched and squalid class which saw before
me? More than one half was his reply. I
will not vouch for the accuracy of his statistics


Ofcourse his estimate was but a conjecture"