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CHAPTER VL 



The People at Liverpool Poverty Merchants Shopkeepers Women 

 Soldiers Children Donkeys and Dray Horses. 



|" HAVE mentioned the most general features of the town, 

 -*- which, at first sight, on landing in Europe from New York, 

 strike me as peculiar. Having given you its still life, you will 

 wish me to people it, 



After we had wandered for about an hour through the streets 

 the first afternoon we were ashore, I remarked that we had not 

 yet seen a single nicely dressed man, hardly one that in America 

 would have been described as " of respectable appearance." We 

 were astonished to observe with what an unmingled stream of 

 poverty the streets were swollen, and J. remarked that if what 

 we had seen was a fair indication of the general condition of the 

 masses here, he should hardly feel justified in dissuading them 

 from using violent and anarchical means to bring down to them- 

 selves a share of the opportunities and comforts of those " higher 

 classes " that seem to be so utterly separated from them. There 

 are a great many Irish in Liverpool, but the most that we had 

 thus far seen evidently were English, yet not English as we have 

 known them. Instead of the stout, full-faced John Bulls, we had 

 noticed but few who were not thin, meagre, and pale. There 



