Lancashire the gin-palaces are the regular rendezvous for the
abandoned of both sexes, and the places where the lowest grade of
women-of-the-town resort to find customers. It is quite clear that
young men, who once begin to meet their, friends at these places,
cannot long escape the moral degradation of these hot-houses of vice.

"The singular and remarkable difference between the respective
condition of the peasants and operatives of Germany and Switzerland,
and those of England and Ireland, in this respect, is alone
sufficient to prove the singular difference between their respective
social condition.

"The village inn in Germany is quite a different kind of place to the
village inn in England. It is intended and used less for mere
drinking, than, as a place for meeting and conversation; it is, so to
speak, the villagers' club."--Vol. i. 232.

Under such circumstances, we cannot be surprised when told by Mr.
Alison that over the whole kingdom crime increases four times as fast
as the population, and that "in Lancashire population doubles in
thirty years, crime in five years and a half." How, indeed, could it
be otherwise under a system based upon the idea of "keeping labour
down"--one that tends to the consolidation of the land and the
exclusion of men from the work of cultivation, and then excludes them
from the factory, while forcing hundreds of thousands of indigent and
almost starving Irish into England in search of employment? The
process of "eviction" in Ireland has been already described. How the
same work has been, and is being, performed in England is thus stated
by the _Times_:--