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    1 HE little threepenny tract , the title of which is given below , ' is small portion of a collection respecting the morals and manners " the working classes , their employers , and the middle classes

    snerally , especially of the metropolis , from the restoration of lharles the Second to the present time . It is now published jjparately , in consequence of the House of Commons having ^ pointed a select committee to inquire respecting the drunkenness " the people . '

    The existence of the' collection , ' here referred to , is a fact which wist give pleasure to all who know the peculiar opportunities and ualifications of the collector for rendering it useful to society , hristopher North laughs at Francis Place for being , or having pen , a tailor ; and when Christopher North does so , he is only ibouring in his vocation . Christopher North thrives bv

    minisfring to the purposes of those who can neither make their own : > ats nor honestly earn wherewith to pay others for making them . o all such persons and their retainers and advocates , Francis 'lace is an obnoxious man . But if there be a legislator , who ould acquire , in a summary way , information on the real conition of the people , for whom he has to make laws ; if there be a

    hilosopher , who would avail himself of a large storehouse of facts y which his speculations may be sustained , demolished ., or lodified ; if there be a philanthropist , who would have the best uidance for the nurture of good intentions into beneficent deeds ; there be a poor man , or a class of men , feeling that they suffer , ut little knowing either the cause or the remedy ; to such there i no abler or better friend than Francis Place . His lowly origin ,

    is years of toil , his well-earned external independence , his conitutional internal independence ; the connexion he has retained ith working people , uncorrupted into patronage ; the respect he &s won from higher classes , untainted by servility ; his keen i ^ acity , his large information , his sturdy character , and his nnci pled philanthropy ; all constitute him one with whom Blackood can do nothing better than jeer at as a tailor , whilst others Terence him as a man : one whose censures on the morals and

    lanners of the middle and lower classes of societv , will be an important contribution to real history ; and one who forms a aiuable portion of the few links that yet hold together the ifferent orders of this classified country in their unhappily proressive alienation .

    In this chapter , from a work which we hope some day to see utire , it is shown ( as the title imports ) that the progress of eduahon has improved the manners of the workmen by the diminu-* Improvement of the Wuikinir People . Drunkenness—Education , By F . ^ ien . * J

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    IMPROVEMENT OF THE WORKING PEOPLE . *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1834, page 625, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2637/page/21/