The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-19 00:00:00

THE HOMELESS POOR.

How our streets are to be relieved of the famish-
ing, helpless creatures, who cower under archways,
or shiver upon doorsteps throughout the long and
bitter nights, is a problem yet to be solved. The re-
gulations recently issued, and upon which we have
moat of us congratulated ourselves, do not, after
all, meet the difficulty. Admirable in design, and
unassailable in theory, they are yet inadequate as
a remedy for the evils they propose to abrogate.
That all wanderers shall be taken in on application,
shall be housed for the night, and, after or before
a Spartan meal, be made to perform a specified task
prior to their departure in the morning, would be
an excellent rule if its observance could be strictly
enforced. But unhappily this is, under existing
circumstances, impossible, and unless large district
wards be created to meet the nightly demand for
shelter, the coming winter will be but a repetition
of its predecessors, and we shall be again shocked
and startled by numbers of our fellow-creatures
first starving and then perishing in our streets.
That the casual wards of our workhouses are
already filled to overflowing—that hundreds of
beseeching applicants are perforce sent empty
away upon every night in the week—and that
it is as little possible to squeeze in more paupers
into the already overcrowded wards as it is to put
a quart of liquid into a pint measure, a plain state-
ment of the proceedings at one of our principal
parish workhouses two evenings since will go to
prove. In that portion of Cwstle-street, Leicester-
square, which has a barrack and a workhouse on
either hand, where there is no thoroughfare for
vehicles, and where the southern end terminates in
a broad ;Lagged pathway running at the back of the
National Gallery and the buildings occupied by the
Royal Academy, sixty-three people were waiting at
a quarter to 8 last Tuesday evening. They were
clustered on the several door-steps to the left, they
were ranged against the side and opposite walls,
and they crowded round the workhouse door of St.
Martin's-in-the-Fields waiting for that door to open
and " the casuals " (themselves) to be taken in.
Men and boys, women and girls, all ragged, all
miserable, hungry and forlorn, they differed in
' everything but wretchedness, were of varying ages,
opposite antecedents, and widely different de-
meanour. There is but accommodation for thirty-
two people in the casual wards of this workhouse,
and it was pitiable to note the eagerness and
' anxiety of the faces in the little crowd when at
8 o'clock the master proceeded to select from their
number occupants for the vacant beds. Plaintive
cries of " I've never been here before, sir ; " " I've
walked about all day, sir ; " and " h, sir, do take
me in, sir," were uttered, but in low, respectful
accents, as the waster (Mr. George Heslop) picked
out sixteen men and twelve women, which, with
two women and two children who had been ad-
mitted at au earlier hour, made up the number be
was able to Louse. The door was then closed
upon some thirty poor creatures, whose disappoint.
went was intense and bitter, but who, hoping
!against hope, still lingered in the vicinity of the
workhouse, on the chance of some of their more
fortunate competitors being, after all, rejected, or
that from other causes extra room might be found.
This night was merely a repetition of a scene
enacted on every evening throughout the year, and
the master's painful duty of selection is always
perfortued on the principle of giving the preference
to complete strangers. The wailing voices of the
rejected ones outside formed a sad accompaniment
to the shuffling feet, the harsh hacking coughs, and
the heavy wheezy respiration of those within,
who range themselves shoulder to shoulder along
the passage, as if uu parade. We laugh at Sir John
Falstaff 's ragged army in the play ; but when Mouldy,
Snadow, and Feeble stand actually before us; when
we see neglect, starvation, and disease typified
in their ragged figures and wasted frames ; wheu
we know that their excluded brethren need rest and
shelter to the full as much as themselves--the spec-
, tacle is sad enough, and gains in colouring from its
being a ghastly parody ou a review of troops. The
master of the workhouse, seated iu a small room to
the right of the passage, then receives these poor
creatures one by one, and with infinitely more of
kind delicacy and considerate forbearance than are
conventionally attributed to the representative
official, proceeds to elicit their name and age, their
calling, parish, and last sleeping place.
J. C., aged 48, and siuglc, a wiry Lard-looking
little man' who limps us one foot and touches
his forehead with a courtesy which is quaint but
not uncouth, slept iu Dartford workhouse last
night, has walked from Dartford to-day, has
" Woken a few stones.' for his livelihood, and is
now looking out for any jobadd
that may turn up.
These particulars are bristly noted by the master,
and J. C. retires to the ward, secure of his shelter
for the night. Similar particulars are given by the
other "casuals,- who come in and retire in rota-
tion.

B. R., aged 41, and married, but whose wife is
"with her friends,- professes to be a carpel ter,
and to Lave expected a job to-day, but Las no
tools, has not had any work for two or three weeks,
and Las lived and slept "how Le could." Next
comes a dirty dishevelled figure, whose matted
grey hair, coarse unkempt whiskers and beard,
frowsy dirty face and dress, make Lim realise one's
notion of a wild man of the woods. This is J. D.,
who looks 54.), but says he is only 36 ; is "nu thrade
at all ;" " belongs to Ireland ;" was eleven years a
soldier in the 94th, but " claimed wee discharge
two years ago, whin I little thought I'd Le going
about like this." And so with is military "left-
about-face " which proved the truth of our half his
story, J. D. makes way for J. H., single, aged 34,
who is a fair-bearded, fresh-faced wan, with au irre-
solute blue eye aud vacillating mouth, which seem to
mark Lim as one downed to go to the wall in the
struggle we call life. Nervously beating his cloth
cap against Lis side, lie tells us that he, too, is au old
soldier ; that lie served iu the Mauritius and at the
Cape of Good Hope, but claimed his discharge be-
cause if be Lad re-enlisted he would Lave been
mulct fire years of his pension time. He had been
lately employed iu grinding white lead at some oil •
and colour works, but Lis health had broken duwu,
and he had been homeless, as we saw Lim, fur
weeks. A. H., single, aged 27, was of a very dit- •
ferent type to the mate preceding him ; with a scar
on, or malformation of, the mouth, something like
a hare-lip, and a fierce, hungry eye, which ranged
up and down the little room like that of an un-
tamable animal who has been caged : Le answered
savagely, shortly, and (uo doubt) falsely, that he'd •
" never been in a workhouse until last night," and
that "he was looking for work." W. (~ single),
aged 21, seemed a helpless boor, who "Lad tried
to go for a soldier, but had been refused ;" while J.
S., single, aged 39, a foundry labourer, from Graves-
end, was civil and intelligent, and said, with ap-
parent truth, that he'd been looking all day fur
work. Iu C. T., single, aged 32, we saw a smart,
• bright-faced wan, whose nautical blue woollen shirt
stood Lim in the stead of coat and waistcoat, and I
who was on his way to Rochester to seek employ- I
meat as a brickmaker. He, too, was an old
soldier, and Lad served in the 2nd brigade of
Artillery until discharged, on account of ill-health,
with a pension of lid. a day for the first twelve
mouths after his discharge. lie was the least de-
plorable of the men we saw, and was obviously
speaking the truth. Not so E. J., aged 27, single,
who was of the tramp genus, and who war branded
with such au idle, worthless, lying look, that his •
profession of being "a ropemaker by trade" seemed
palpably apocryphal. G. M., aged 32, whose
wife and two children bad also been shel-
tered for the night, was a poor, wretched
creature, whose " bits of things " had all been sold
duriug au illness of fourteen weeks' duration, and
whose attack of rheumatic fever bad left him as
weak and tremulous as it Lad rendered Lim unlit
for the work Le avowedly sought—that of a brick-

layer's labourer. J. W., • boy of eighteen, who
I had been apprenticed to a baker, but who had not
served his time, was an uneasy shambling lad,
whose hands nervously twitched at his dress while
under examination, whose eye sought the ceiling,
or the ground, or anywhere rather than the face
of his interlocutor, and whose expression was half
shame-faced, and half impudent, as if it only needed
time to ripen the evil within, and develop him
into a full blown felon. W. C., aged 49, single,
was another rope-maker, who complained of the
slackness of trade, and who promised to try " Ber-
mondsey, Shadwell, and Limehouse" for employ-
ment on the morrow. J. T., aged 18, a civil, but
rather stupid boy, was a boot-maker, who " bad
served part of his time ;" while J. M., single, aged
50, was a characteristic specimen of the Irish
tramp. He wore what had been a double
caped drab frieze coat, and parried all ques-
tions as to the money he had sent home to
buy the pig with in no unskilful fashion,
and with a twinkle of the eye and a half
smile, that showed the national love of fun to rise
triumphant over houselessness, hunger, and
fatigue. W. F., aged 34, single, was now a market
gardener, but had been " brought up to music,"
and had played the clarionet about one of the
Channel Islands, until his health compelled him first
to substitute for it the piccolo, and finally to discon-
tinue playing altogether. He was a tall, thin,
narrow-chested man, whose bright eyes and hol-
low but flushed cheeks spoke of consumption quite
as significantly as did his long attenuated fingers
and his harassing cough. But the most character-
istic of the people we saw was J. 8., aged 29, who
had never done a turn of work for himself, and
whose temperament strongly reminded us of Mr.
Robert Stubbs, in Thackeray's " Fatal Boots."
The misfortunes of the last-named worthy com-
menced before be was born, by the extravagance of
Lis parents robbing Lim of his property, and Mr.
J. B. seemed to have been equally unfortunate.
His dead father's wickedly expensive experiments
for the improvement of safety valves had wasted
the substance which should have been his, and his
mother now said " she was unable to help him
out of her allowance of 12s. 6d. a week."
Until three or four years ago, J. B.
had lived at home ; but since that time he had been
helped by a friend, who now " had turned against
him, and was an enemy." He bad never been
brought up to any trade, and the only thing he
could do, or had tried to do, was a little map co-
louriug. That the ex-friend who was " now an
enemy" should have "a house in the country, with
carriages and servants and two bulldogs" (the last
item being named as if it were a conclusive testi-
mony to the heartlessness of wealth), and that
J. B. should be in his present plight, was put for-
ward as a proof of the way the world went
" against him ;" and after replying to a hint from
the master as to the duty of work with—" It's the
duty of rich relations to help poor ones, and he a
clergyman and a magistrate as well," this hulking,
idle vagabond shambled oft to Lis bed.
The ages of the female paupers ranged from twenty '
to sixty. There were servants of all work from
" county Cork," one of whom had slept on a stair-
case for twelve nights, and whose late mistress had
refused her a character " because of a few words we
had;" and another who had "kept company with the
soldiers," and so fallen on the streets. There was a
woman of 32, who had formerly been barmaid at a
public-house in the neighbourhood, who was now
" unfortunate," and who said with a feeble toss of
the head, which accorded but ill with her tearful
eyes and quivering mouth, that "she wasn't tired
of it yet ;' and a pretty fair-haired girl of 20, who
had been " mistress of a house of her own in Pim-
lico, and paid 651. a year rent" within the twelve-
month, but whose old gilt-buttoned yachting jacket
with its pinned-up holes and shabby scanty drape-
ries, told their sad story of misfortune and neglect.
She bad left home with a gentleman, had lived with
him in their own house, and been very happy. She
was extravagant then, and bad all she wanted, but
he died, and she'd now pawned her things and sold
the fifty-two tickets for 31. She'd stayed in lodgings
and at a friend's, but had fallen lower and lower until
she had come to this. She was now footsore and weary
with walking the streets ;and concluding her pathetic
little history with a curtsey, she limped painfully to
the ward. There was a decent, cleanly woman, of
32, whose husband, a brasscutter, had deserted her
and enlisted, and who, she found on inquiry at the
War-office, had deserted the army in its turn. She
came from "Dublin, in Ireland," had lived fifteen
months iu one place, and had now a four months'
character from another ; but she'd tried for a situ-
ation in vain, had been to the register Aims fruit-
lessly, had no friends, and after being out for
three nights had ventured to apply for relief bare.
There were well-spoken, almost ladylike, middle-
aged women, who did laundry work ; others who
made waistcoats, or bound boots—one servant out
of a situation, the cause of whose dismissal was
faltered unwillingly out, and who was now within
a week of her coutineweut—suid needlewomeu and
poor widows, who work at anything they can get.
lu every instance misery seemed at its deepest—the
clothes were ragged and wretchedly insufficient, and
the poor creatures before us, whether men or women,
were with one or two striking exceptions grateful,
civil, and uucomplaining. By a few minutes after nine
o'clock they had all answered the questions put to
them and retired. Up a staircase and out of a
door on the first floor of the workhouse, and we are
iu a spacious yard, the pavement of which is on •
level with the second windows of Hemming's-row,
and other Louses iu the neighbourhood. This was
formerly the burying-ground of St. Martin's, and
the difference of level between it and the adjacent
streets can thus be readily accounted for. The
female casual ward is to the right, and many of
the beds are already occupied, while other of the
poor women are crouching near the fire, or with
borrowed needle and thread are endeavouring to
give the semblance of decency to their tattered
rags. " Oh. quite full, sir," answers the work-
house attendant, adding with a fluent readiness
which reminded one not pleasantly of the oft
quoted insect on the leaf, "indeed there's been too
'lmlay let in already, and I've had to put them three
in a bed." Crossing the yard we descend some steps,
and next see all the men we have first heard ques-
tioned. There is no conversation ; they are
too tired and miserable for that. Everyone is in
bed, and the snores of several show them to be
already asleep. The beds or couches are in fact
large trays, and are divided from each other by a
narrow ledge of,woud. There is of course no un-
dressiog, and each weary figure in the crowded
room has the rug-like counterpane tightly wrapped
round it, as if to revel as deeply as possible in the
blessed warmth. The man who, never having
worked for his living, declares the world "against
him" because a distant relation won't support him
in idleness iooke up as we enter, as if he would
repeat his request that we should write on his behalf
to the " friend" who " keeps two bull dogs, and is
DOD an enemy ;" but we leave the room, and in a few
minutes are iu Castle-street again, with the same
cold, bright gaslight gleaming from the barrack
wiLdows, the same busy air at the flaring gin-shop
at the corner, and some poor houseleaa wretches
seen shivering on the pavement, and huddled on the
steps. It is curious, moreover, to note the family
likeness which exists between these and the ones i
you have left inside. There are girls and men in
the Forchway of Archbishop Tenison's school who
might nave given the answers you have noted to
the questions you have beard, much as if indivi-
duality were destroyed by exposure: and want, and
as if nights spent in the street left this uniform I
brand upon every face. It is by this time nearly
ten o'clock, and here and ou the steps at the back of
the National Gallery, twenty-three of these people
are stationed. Au hour later their number has
been reduced by seven, and at twelve o'clock there
are but thirteen. These, however, are without
money, and have no hope of changing their situation'

or obtaining shelter. The workhouse is, as we
know, crammed, and the law providing house-room
for all destitute applicants necessarily inoperative.
Probably, there is not one out of the forty work-
, houses in the metropolitan poor-law district which is
not at this hour equally full, as most of these
poor people know by bitter experience. The guar-
dians of St. Martin's are about to transfer the
female casual ward from one aide of the yard to the
other, but this will not increase the accommodation
at their disposal. All their available space is occu-
pied ; it is difficult to say how they can extend their
system of relief on their present ground, and it is
notorious that many of our other workhouses are
equally crowded. Meanwhile winter is upon us,
and though it is a curious fact that from the torpor
induced by exposure or other causes, the colder the
night the fewer the applications for shelter, it is
all important that the new regulations for the relief
of our homeless poor should not be rendered nuga-
tory through insufficient machinery. We cannot
afford to have another crop of deaths in the streets,
and it may be asked, in default of other sugges-
tions, whether some out of the long line of railway
arches now lying empty and useless in our poorest
and most crowded metropolitan distncts could not
be cheaply utilised for the nightly reception of such ,
men, women, and children as have been necessarily
excluded from the crowded workhouses, and must
otherwise find their resting-place on the cold pave-
ment, with, perhaps, the biting atmosphere for
their winding-sheet.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

SHREWSBURY MEETING.-.-FRIDAY.

The weather on Mr. Frail's extra day was most uopropi-
Mous, and the curd, though crowded with events, was
coition more than •'leather dapping," and the numerous
races simply afforded the means for gambling. The betting
enclosure was, however, not nearly so largely patro-
nised as oa the preceding days. The sport requiring no
comments, we simply append the following return :

MATat.-1.00, h ft. 5 fct!loug

Lord Bateman's Queen of 11.1irops, by King Of Trumps—
Catheruia Parr, 5 yrs, bet ill, iJ. Grlnialuw, I
Mr. W. Morris's Antidote, a yrs, tot 91b 'Fordham, 2
Betting : 6 to 4 oa Queen of Trumps, who woo by throe
lengths.
A HANDICAP PLAT, of 30 sovs., for two and three year
olds. Straight run in.
Mr. Price's !Millet, by Trumpeter—Loo, 2 yrs. bat 121 b
;Ilearmeld,
Mr. Bruce's Sister Mary, 2 yrs, Dit IMb
Mr. Payne's Volatile, 2 yrs, eat Dritustnia)
Governor also ran.
_ . _

Betting : Even on Volatefe, and 6to 4 apt Whet. Won
by two lengths ; the sane between second and thud. The
wiener was bought in for 80 pietas.
THE NUBSEIT HAbroicAr AVM Of 30 eo•s. About
ball a mile._

Captain Machete Hope, by Trumpeter—Pandora, fist
Yordham) 1
Mr. 1. Dawson's Bella, Set gib
3.larouis of flutings Pantaloon, Mt bib M,ns, S
The following Mao ran —Viola, Spain, Gil Btu, and I. rad ohm
Batting: sto 4 on Fravoitna, 4 to 1 apt Pantaloon, 100
to 15 agst Bella, Sto 1 sot Rope, and 10 to 1 rigs% any
other. Woe by a length ; • bead between second and
third.

THE LOUDON HANDICAP Oi 5 PM melt, with 50 added.
One mile.

Mr. Naylor's Quarantine, by Newtoluster—Cadence,
est (canted gist 11u, Sayers. 1
Mr. K. ftrayley's Ibex, 4 yrs. Get 101 b
Mr. Ashley s gulcluand, 4 yrs 0.141. ;Herbert; -3

_ _
Lady *lila also ran.
Betting : Even on Quarantine, 5 to 2 each apt Ibex and
Quiolciand, and 5 to 1 (at first 5 to 4) apt Lady Hylda.
A HANDICAP Switr.Pirrarse of 5 soya. each, for all ape.
About 3 (wimp.
Mr. U.AngallinsttscbS, by Saunterer—LAVlcUme, 2 yrs, lit
I M orrisj 1
Mr. T. Stevens's Faith, 3 yrs, gat 101 b OW) us
Mr. S. Tbellusson's Foxholes, 2 yrs. bit 4lb J. Orinislisai S
She following also ran ,—ltiondells, lady Warwick, and Salliet.
Betting : 7 to 4 on Attachr, 11 to 2 agst Lady Warwick,
8 to 1 apt F.:bolas, and 100 to 8 apt Sallie. Won by two
leogthe ; a Deck between mood and third.

THc WALTIN HANDICAP of 5 son, etch ; gentlemen
riders; jockeys 51b sun. Three-quarters of a rule.
Mr. liodgmazia Mawkshaw, by Gerona, dl Vergy— h our.
=hal, S yrs, Pat 131 b
Mr. T. Conolly's Warrior, 3 yrs, Plat . ;Captain Tow uele)
338. 8 118.48 Armour.% 3 Yr., leaf fl/b 'Mr. T. Speiw, 3
The following alio nua Welland, Overatoue, and La ly
Warwick. _ _ _

Betting : 6 to 5 apt Hawkahaw, 9 to 4 agst Warrior, and
100 to 15 apt Overstate. Woe by two lengths ; a bad third.
Overstate did not pass the post.
A SELLING SWEZYSTAIX3 of 3 .on. each, with 20 added.
Half a mile.
Mr. T. Conollys %Vila Thyme, by Fandango—lconntala
Flour, 3 yrs. ist J Grinishavr,
Mr.llinioe's sister Mary, 2 yra, bst rlopp; 2
Mr. J. Usys Lord Itousld, . bra, ... . Hearthel.E S
The followmg also Ira:—Tragedy, Governor, Orzoliound,
Toddy, and Antoinette.
_ _

ft...tiros :^to 1 it Wild Thyme, sto 1 opt Lord Ro-
nald. sod 2t) to 1 ogst say other.

Tex WibNSTATCur of 50 ion. Throo-viartns of a

Paine'sOverstune, by Teddlngton—lose. a )rs, Istalb
(.1. °ritualism
Lord Batemana Queen of Trumps. S yra, Sot alb L..atro
Tbelluavn a Beeper, 6 yrs, tit 'Foram) $
Inaappotuttnaut and Lady Abner' also ran.
Betting :sto 4 at Overstona, 3to 1 apt limper. 4
to 1 ages tbisseo of Trumps, 9 to 2 apt Lady Abbess, and
Bto 1 apt Disappointment. Won by a length ; a bad
third.

A HANDICAP PLATS 0(.23 soya. Fin farlol4ll.

Mr. Wright @ hurrah, by Newminster—Jovial; yrs.
B,t 121 b [Agnes) I
Lord ttestmorelsods Usher, 3 yrs, Bst 61b .. i Morns
Mr. W. Morns's Armadillo, 3 ye'. 7st 91b, we. weighed
for by Lynch, bat the horse bolted, and threw his rid.,
before getting to the post.
Betting opened at 5 to 2 on Armadillo, bat closed at 4 to
lon Usher. Woo by a length.
Tus_Ncascav HANDICAP of 40 soya Seven furlongs.

Yr. G. Angell's Loonlle, by asset—Supple Jack's .lam,
wt alb Merl.); 1
Yr. Giuhileds Ganouchy, 7st :lb • .:sy, .
Captain Mulleins Connection, Sat 71b ' Fordhate, 3
The following also ran : Lad: Flumes, Princess Usguntr,
and Naples.

Betting : 5 to 1 apt Lady Florence, 5 to 2 apt Leoville,
and 5 to 1 each apt Princees Dogma and Connection.
A HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES Of 3 sore. each, with 20
added ; halt -a-mile.
Mr. S. TheUussou's Llesper, by Hesperus—Fistians, t yrs,
Pat Inlb ,Fordhan; 1
Mr. Barber's Loy Bohan, 3 yrs. est IMb
.Idortim 2
Mr A. Ileathcotes lialornock, S ye,, tlat nib ... J. smith; 3
The following also ran : Attraction, Welland, Gipsy Girl, Da-
mucus, and Fusboles. _ .

apt Lady Bohan, 7 to 2 apt Attraetioe.
5 to 1 apt Hooper, 100 to 15 apt Gipsy aud 10 to 1
apt Halornock.
BETTING ON THE WATERLOO :COI:VINO, CEP.
160 v to 45 apt Mr. Thompsou's uomundloo t
lud to ti 3lr. Blundell's noininsUou ;t)

CHERTSEY AUTUMN STEEPLECHASES.
Tin Wosuarr PLATE. About two miles sad a half.
Age et M Age et lh
Iron4ldes ..... .... 6 11 10 The Don
Zodiac
!frau% ood ,h b .. . 11 3 Polly Hopkins lO 11
blr Hobby ll 1 Waite 6 10 3
Ballycaney
Eight of Other Hall 11 0 Irish Hoy 4 10 u
Surb ton
311herton 6 10 3 The Lee 4 10 0
Ned of the Hi 115.... 10 6
THE SCERET AND MIDDLE6EI OPEN HANDICAP 317.6PLE-
CHASE. About three mules and a halt.
Age et lb Age it lb
Ironsldes
Serious 4144
Zodiac 6 11 4 t 8144 or Evens ,h b... a 10 0
Ascot
Yaller Gal
Ileansood klt b, .. . 11 6 %sdof the lOUs lO u
be,rher hb; 11 2
Weights published Noe. 17, at 10 a.m.

Tag LONGSUR-11•LL STERPLBCIIASZ.—The stallr•
side have decided that M 1 Desperandum is entitled to the
stakes, having been prevented (row grinning by the rider of
Bowmen, who came is first.

Corm- OF QUISEY'S BRIM—MICHAELMAS TERM,
28TH vicroau, Nov. 18.—This court will, on Saturday
the 26th. Monday the 28th, and Tuesday the MI days of
November instant, hold sittings, and will proceed in din.
posing of the eases in the crown and special papers, and ■ny
other mitten then pending ; and will also hold a sitting on
Tuesday, the 13th dsy of December next, for the purpose
of giving judjesests only.
ROYAL tcss HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-ERN-ROAD.—The
number of patients relieved at this hospital dating the week
eliding 12th November was 3,042, of which 996 were new
mesa . _

Pintrzer Hzemit RENTORED, without medicine
inconvealesco, or expense by Du liarry's delicious Resident
Arabian rood, which saves nfty times its cost In other rroadlea
and cores the stomach, osrvss, lungs, liver, and lodestones of all
olirook or recent Macedon. 40.000 cars annually of dyspepsia
(indigestion), constipation, diarrhea cough, coassimption, sat-
ing, usbility In old or you Du Harry and Ca. No. 77, V.ement.
street, London, W. In tins, llh.. 2a. AL 121 b. tin, si all
VOWS sad chsisdata.--(Admetiminant I

THE UNITY BANK FRALVM.

Yesterday having been appointed for the further
inquiry into the charges against Mr. Terry, the late
manager of the London and Middlesex Bank, and of the
Unity Bank, which was afterwards merged into that esti-
blishment, and Mr. Burch, the secretary, of having pub-
lished a false and fraudulent balance-sheet, and having by
this and other prvoeedinp been the means of defrauding
the shareholders to the extent of 140,0001„ the ggrreeaatest
interest_ appeared to be exhibited to hear the • Ira
The Le rd Mayor took his seat on the bench in the justice
room of the Mansion-house shortly after ce• o'clock, and
the prisoners, for whom bail had been refueled and who,
pending the inquiry, have been committed to Newgate,
were shortly afterwards placed at the bar.
The prosecution was conducted by Mr. C. Lewis, on
behalf of the liquidators of the hoodoo and Middlesex
Bank. Mr. Sleigh., the barrister, instructed by Mr. Watson,
appeared on behalf of Mr. Terry; and Mr. Metcalfe, the
barrister, instructed by Mr. Wontner, jun., appeared for
Mr. Burch.

It may be as well to state that the defeodants were
charged with misdemeanor, under a clause ietroduoed into
the Fraudulent Trustees Act, after the discovery of the
enormous frauds in connection with the Royal British Bank,
which enacts that soy person standing in the position of
manager, director, secretary, or in any other way connected
with a bank, or other public body of the like description,
who shall knowingly and wilfully, and with intent to defraud.
publish any false statements in relation to such establish.
ment, with the intent to deceive the shareholders or other
persons interested, shall be guilty of the offence above
mentioned, and be subject, at the discretion of the count,
to be seotenced to five years penal servitude, or to be no-
priaounijwith or without hard labour, u may be directed
by the court, for the smog of two years.
Mr. Oswald B. Howell, the accountant, was recalled and
further examined. He mid that there appeared to be a
customer of the bank named Buoyard, who wan indebted to
it for overdue acceptances sod other matters to the amount
of 4,900/., but this sum did not appear to be stated in the
list of overdue bills that was submitted to the director'.
A book was kept to which all such bills ought to have been
eutered, and the entries were made either by Mr. Terry or
Mr. Burch, but no entry of this sum appeared in the book.
There was another customer, named Lowenthal. He ap-
peared to have been in the habit of discouutiog largely with
the bank, and most of his bills were accepted by a person
named ("onside'. A number of them bills appeared to have
been stopped from presentation when they became doe.
This appeared to have been done by Mr. Terry. Lowenthal
was formerly a customer of the Unity Bask.
Mr. Sleigh submitted that this evidence was quite
irrelevant.

M. Lewis said that what be proposed to prove, in addi-
tion to the fact that had bees deposed to, was that, with
the knowledge by Mr. Terry that Lowenthal was largely in-
debted to the Unity Bank upon overdue acceptances, he
had al.owed him to open au account with the Loudon mid
Middlesex Beak, and had discounted largely for him, and
nude • false statement to the director,, upon the subject.
Mr. Howell then reed an extract from the board minute
book, which was to the effect that Mr. Terry had been
called upon to explain to the directors the circumstances
connected with the account of Mr. Lowenthal, and that he
admitted baying deceived the directors, and that be had
been induced to give Lowenthal further accommodation
with • view to rodeoe the amount of his liability to the
bank. He also asserted that be had reduced it by this
means from 7,1/001. to :1,000/., and he believed that in time
the whole amount would be laud. and he at the same time
admitted that what he had dose was without the authority
of the directors. It was a mistake, he said, no doubt, that
he should have taken this course, but he thought he wee
justified, as be hoped as the result to get the whole of the
money that was due from Lowenthal repaid to the bank.
The witness then stated that there was another customer
of the bank, named Sterne, and at the time the balance-
sheet that was the subject of the present inquiry was made
out by the defendants he owed the bank 41601. Part of
this sum consisted of a dishonoured cheque for 1.0951.
This cheque was dishonoured in December, 1861, and it re-
mained in the custody of the bank until it stopped in
August, 1862, and in the balanceaheet of June, 1862, this
dishonoured cheque was made to appear as part of the
wets of the bank. and was included in the total of assets
represented to be in existence at that date, the amount
being 38.716/. Between the 30th of June. when this
balance.sheet was published, and the stoppage of the bank,
31r. Sterns overdrew his account to the amount of 8141.
Mss, the detective, was here called upon to produce a
number of cheques, and Mr. Lewis proposed to ask the
accountant some questions respecting them.
Mr. Sleigh wished to know what cheques they were that
were proposed to be given in evidence.
Mr. Lewis said they were cheques drawn by the de-
fendant, Terry, upon the Unity Bank, where he kept an
account.

Mr. Sleigh rid it smeared to him that they had nothing
to do with Mr. Tern's private amount at the Unity Bank.
Ile could not see rites was the object of going into such
evidence.

Mr. Lewis mid that his object was to show the dealings
between the parties, and how tines large sums of money
were disposed of.
The Lord Mayor said he should hear the evidence.
This having been glean, it waa proposed to adjourn the ease.
and Mr. Sleigh said he Loped his lordship bed cossideredfthe
question of bail, upon which he had addressed him upon
the last examination.

The Lord Mayor said that he had considered the matter,
and taking into consideration the long period over which
the inquiry would extend, be was willing to accept bail,
but the bail that he would require would be two good
sureties in I,UWI. each for each of the defendants, and their
own recognisance* in 2,01.10/.
_ _

Mr. Macelle said that on the pert of his client be was
eery glad him lordship had agreed to accept bail, its be wan
prepared with • complete answer to the charge, and would
be prepared to fully establish the innocence of Mr. Butch,
both morally sod legally.
Mr. Lewis required notice of bail, and the defendants
were remanded formally until this day (Saturday), when the
bail will be tendered, and theme will then stand remanded
until Monday week.

CRYsTAL PALAcE.—The general meeting of the
company will be held, u usual, on Wednesday, December
14. The directors have resolved on recommending the
proprietors to declare • dividend of 2 per cent. (2a. per
share) on the ordinary stock for the year ending October U.
THE ♦LLEGED ENLISTMENT FOE THE FEDERAL
ARET.—It is understood that the corporate officials in
Liverpool have received from the Home•oSloe an intimation
th►t the government intends to proceed legally in the case
of the supposed kidnapping of men and eniregemeet of others
to go out in the Unmet Western to New York, for the pur-
pose of enlisting in the Federal army, It was not, however,
determined yesterday what the course of proceeding in the
first instance should be. The Town Clerk was in communi-
cation with the Home Secretery, but it was not disclosed,
up to a late hour in the afternoon, whether soy definite in-
struction had been received. The Great Western was still
detained in the river, and the important witnesses were re.
cuired to keep themselves in communication with the
police. A large number of women, from Dublin and else-
where, arrived in Liverpool yesterday, in @carob of their
husbands, whom they wished to dissuade from proceeding
in the vessel. Several of them went on board, but
upon their return declared that their husbands, who b►d
oonsented to return to shore with them, had been forcibly
prevented from doing so. The only important addition ti
the facts of the case, in its legal aspect, is the statement of
' one of the young men from Loodoo, who were promised
commissions, that the first question asked him was whether
he knew his drill well (he having on his nile-cap at the
time), and that there was at least one witness to the offer of
commissions, who can be produced. Late yesterday after.
4000 a telegram was received by Mr. Hull (of Hull. Stone.
and Fletcher, solicitors), from Sir George Grey, directing
him to send up to the Home-office the cfiidevits of the ten
London men still 'email:nog in Liverpool. Ten affidavits
made by men from Ashton were sent previously. The local
authorities have determined to leave the case in the hands
of the government, as it is a national matter. The weather
was too bed to allow the police to board the Crest Western
yesterday.

COLLISION ON THE NORTH EASTT.RR RAILWAY.-
On Wednesday afternoon, as a train of coal laden vraggooe
numbering ferty4ive was deecesding the incline of Hes-
Won Bank, on the North Eastern Railway, about four
tui!es from Hartlepool, with a wire-rope attached, the rope
broke and the waggons went towards Hartlepool with
frightful velocity, gaining more and more speed as they
programed. On the mine line was a train of laden waggons
with an 'NODS at its head staodiog at the coke depot at
the heed of Victoria Docks, and the engruernan (Walter
.lames), observing the waggons, when about a mile off,
coming on the same line without an eogine, put on full
steam end went forward with the intention of reversing the
steam prior to meeting them, in order that he might break
the " way." He fouud, however, that the velocity of the
train was such that when he had only proceeded a few verde
it was necessary to reverse the steam and jump off the
engine to secure his own safety. The steam of his engine
had hardly begun to invert the locomotive when a collision
took place. The engine was sadly broken in at the fore
part, and ten or a dozes waggons of the runaway train
were hurled up into the air, sad snuishixi into innumerable
fragments, the contents being scattered about in all direc-
tions, while fur a few momenta the vicinity wee envelope.'
in a cloud of coal dust. Oa its subsiding it was found that
about a dolma waives were a perfect wreck, and several
others were more or lees injured. The line throughout the
whole extent of the two trains was strews with coal, and
some delay was oocaaioeed before traffic was resumed. The
&eote, it is computed, will amount to PWI. or 300/.
Newcestk CAroxicle.

A MOIL LT; Noy. S. —APPOINTMENTS. AN.
siotaot Eogiooor W. A. M. Vtvyao, to the ludas. Bid-
shims& C. B. Palmer. so tbo Eiger.

to eFrovvso.

CORIZE.,PONDENTs.

Ica far The ' Landon Evening
T ipt.r, too,t he .tt the .)fllce. 10, lionteriv,treet, by Two
o'do:k on the day nhhcation.