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soon are able to assimilate their outward appearance to 

 that of others, however ragged and dirty they may have 

 been at the beginning. Mr. Redman, a visiting overseer of 

 the poor of the township of Manchester, after stating that 

 the example of the Irish does not operate to any extent 

 on the English, proceeds to remark, that ' he would ra- 

 ther say, if anything, that the influence of English on 

 the sensible part of the Irish has been to improve them : 

 the Irish have gained more in the improvement of their 

 habits than the English have lost by their association with 

 them. I have observed/ he continues, e in Mr. Braidley^s 

 Sunday-school, where about 2000 children regularly attend, 

 that the Irish children, who are dirty and ill- clad at first, 

 after some time improve, and are Jost in the crowd ; and 

 we never find English children descend to the level from 

 which the Irish have come : the Irish rise, the English 

 never fall. I was for nineteen years in a responsible si- 

 tuation in Mr. Murray's mill, and had the taking-in and 

 giving-out of the work. When I was there, I observed 

 that the Irish improved by associating with the work- 

 people : they became a by-word, and were scouted at if 

 thev did not clean themselves and behave like others/ 



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" ( I do think/ says Dr. Scott (the Roman Catholic 

 bishop at Glasgow), ( there is a difference between those 

 who come from Ireland and the children of Irish born in 

 this country ; those brought up from their infancy in 

 Glasgow appear to be much more tidy and cleanly in their 

 dress and persons than those of the same class of life who 

 are grown up before they come from Ireland to this coun- 

 try. I have known several instances of parents returning 

 to Ireland in their old age, from a desire of being buried 

 at home, and taking with them their children reared in 



