Footnotes.
[{7}] According to Porter’s Progress of the Nation, London, 1836, vol. i., 1838, vol. ii., 1843, vol. iii. (official data), and other sources chiefly official.
[{20}] Compare on this point my “Outlines for a Critique of Political Economy” in the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher.
[{23}] This applies to the time of sailing vessels. The Thames now is a dreary collection of ugly steamers.—F. E.
[{32}] Times, Oct. 12th, 1843.
[{33}] Quoted by Dr. W. P. Alison, F.R.S.E, Fellow and late President of the Royal College of Physicians, etc. etc. “Observations on the Management of the Poor in Scotland and its Effects on the Health of Great Towns.” Edinburgh, 1840. The author is a religious Tory, brother of the historian, Archibald Alison.
[{35a}] “Report to the Home Secretary from the Poor-Law Commissioners on an Inquiry into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Classes in Great Britain with Appendix.” Presented to both Houses of Parliament in July 1842, 3 vols. Folio.
[{35b}] The Artisan, October, 1842.
[{38}] “Arts and Artisan at Home and Abroad,” by J. C. Symonds, Edinburgh, 1839. The author, as it seems, himself a Scotchman, is a Liberal, and consequently fanatically opposed to every independent movement of working-men. The passages here cited are to be found p. 116 et seq.
[{40a}] It must be borne in mind that these cellars are not mere storing-rooms for rubbish, but dwellings of human beings.