All these, however, like the feelings and affections of the manacled slave, were as completely overlooked by those who turned them adrift, as if in possessing such feelings, they had invaded a right which belonged only to their betters, and which,the same betters, by the way, seldom exercise either in such strength or purity as those whom they despise and oppress.

Aged men we met, bent, with years, and weighed down still more by that houseless sorrow, which is found accompanying them along the highways of life:--through its rugged solitudes and its dreariest paths--in the storm and in the tempest--wherever they go--in want, nakedness, and destitution--still at their side is that houseless sorrow--pouring into their memories and their hearts the conviction, which is most terrible to old age, that it has no home here but the grave--no pillow on which to forget its cares but the dust.

The sight of these wretched old men, turned out from, the little holdings that sheltered their helplessness, to beg a morsel, through utter charity, in the decrepitude of life, was enough to make a man wish that he had never been born to witness such a wanton abuse of that power which was entrusted to man for the purpose of diffusing happiness instead of misery.

All these were known to Raymond, who, as far as he could, gave me their brief and unfortunate history.

That which showed us, however, the heartless evils of the-clearance system in its immediate operation upon the poorer classes, was the groups of squalid females who traversed the country, accompanied by their pale and sickly looking children, all in a state of mendicancy, and wofully destitute of clothing.