When we got here to Burghclere we were again as _hungry_ as hunters. What, then, must be the life of these poor creatures? But is not the state of the country, is not the hellishness of the system, all depicted in this one disgraceful and damning fact, that the magistrates, who settle on what the _labouring poor_ ought to have to live on, ALLOW THEM LESS THAN IS ALLOWED TO FELONS IN THE GAOLS, and allow them _nothing for clothing and fuel, and house-rent_! And yet, while this is notoriously the case, while the main body of the working class in England are fed and clad and even lodged worse than felons, and are daily becoming even worse and worse off, the King is advised to tell the Parliament, and the world, that we are in a state of _unexampled prosperity_, and that this prosperity must be _permanent_, because _all the_ GREAT _interests_ are _prospering_! THE WORKING PEOPLE ARE NOT, THEN, "A _GREAT_ INTEREST"! THEY WILL BE FOUND TO BE ONE, BY-AND-BY. What is to be the _end_ of this? What can be the _end_ of it, but dreadful convulsion? What other can be produced by a system, which allows the _felon_ better food, better clothing, and better lodging than the _honest labourer_? I see that there has been a grand _humanity-meeting_ in Norfolk to assure the Parliament that these humanity-people will _back_ it in any measures that it may adopt for freeing the NEGROES. Mr. Buxton figured here, also Lord Suffield, who appear to have been the two principal actors, or _showers-off_. This same Mr. Buxton opposed the Bill intended to relieve the poor in England by breaking a little into the brewers' monopoly; and as to Lord Suffield, if he really wish to _free slaves_, let him go to Wykham in this county, where he will see some drawing, like horses, gravel to repair the roads for the stock-jobbers and dead-weight and the seat-dealers to ride smoothly on. If he go down a little further, he will see CONVICTS at PRECISELY THE SAME WORK, harnessed in JUST THE SAME WAY; but the convicts he will find hale and ruddy-cheeked, in dresses sufficiently warm, and bawling and singing; while he will find the labourers thin, ragged, shivering, dejected mortals, such as never were seen in any other country upon earth. There is not a negro in the West Indies who has not more to eat in a day, than the average of English labourers have to eat in a week, and of better food too. Colonel Wodehouse and a man of the name of Hoseason (whence came he?) who opposed this humanity-scheme talked of the sums necessary to pay the owners of the slaves. They took special care not to tell the humanity-men _to look at home for slaves to free_. No, no! that would have applied to themselves, as well as to Lord Suffield and humanity Buxton. If it were worth while to _reason_ with these people, one might ask them whether they do not think that _another war_ is likely to relieve them of all these cares, simply by making the colonies transfer