30 MARCH 1929, Page 12

A Hundred Years Ago We have a tale of misery

to tell which we are sure will awake universal commiseration from one end of the country to the other. We have, only yesterday, penetrated the back lanes of Bethnal. green, and have personally come into contact with thousands of starving families. We have seen distress in the cotton districts-- we have seen weavers in rags in Manchester and Glasgow—we have seen a noisy mob of men in a state of pauperism, exhibiting their emaciated bodies and their naked bones to the view of the public ; but we solemnly declare before God we never saw one-tenth of the wretchedness which we saw yesterday in Spitalfields.—Morning Journal, Saturday.