The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-23 00:00:00

DWELLINGS OP THE POOR VC BETHNAL-

GREEN AND SHORSDITCH.
Yesterday evening a public meeting was held in
Holton-hall, Highetreet, Hostas (a new building, which
was opened on this °oxides, bar the first time la public
proposal,. to take into consideration the present state of
the dwelling; the moral, social, sad physical degradation
of the poor io these neglected pariahs, and the best means
to alleviate the same. Mr. 'WIWI CBUII49IIANZ took the
&sir. Letters were read m the Rm. Dr. Gilson, rector
of Bethnal-green ; the Rev. R. Paters% rooter of SSW.
fields; and the Rev. S. H. M'Gill, excusing themselves
from attendance, but expressing sympathy with the object
of the mistier.
The CHLIIIIIAN said be bad made many efforts to call the
attention of the public to the sad sedition of the dwellings
of the poor. He suggested to Mr. Charles Decks; wheel
they were getting out '• Oliver Twist," that they should go
up Shire-lane, in order to give in that work • deecriptioe of
that miserable locality. That was one object that he had
in bringing out "Oliver Twist," because Bill Sykes and all
the other low characters in that book were his.
It was a strange thing that in this metropolis,
where there was so much wealth, the dwellings
of many of the poor should be so wretched. In coa-
sidering this subject, however, the proper yours was to
trace the evil to its source, and, in his opinion, the drinking
habits of the population was the great cause of the
wretchedness of their dwellings. When some of the
building in Shire-lane were polled down a gentleman cams
to him and said those Malibu" were unfit for human
deellin s, and he said to him, " You will not find a
Ilr living there; if you can, I will give you a
guinea a head for all you can find there." At the end of
a week his friend came to him again sod said he could not
Sod no, teetotaller who lived in the dwellings referred to.
Mr. Mortimer had • sebum for improving these dwellings.
It might be said that Mr. Mortimer brought forward the
seisms with a view to his own profit. Well, perhes he
• did ; but what did that matter, if the dwellings of the poor
were improved and made more like what they ought to be?
Mr. Thomas O'Biuxer, late secretary of the government of
Siena Leone, moved the first resolution—" That this meat-
ier is of opinion that the overcrowding in dwellings of the
parishes of Bethnal green and Sboreditcb, along with such
attendant evils as diastase, intemperance, uochastity, and
infanticide, constitutes the crying evil of the day, and de-
mands the immediate attentiuu of every philanthropic and
Christian mind."

W.RI-Junfros, Fellow of the Roeal lastitute of
Architects, seconded the resolution, which wee unanimously
agreed to. . .

'Dr. Moon, of Bethnal-green, who was recently dismissed
by the board of guardians, and who was received with up-
roam= &poison., next addressed the meeting. He said he
believed he had not auoiremy among the poor, for he had
long laboured among them. He bad of tee retuned home quite
sick and without appetite after having sees the distress and
misery of the poor, which might be removed by a little
consideration on this part of the rich. If they would
have the poor man sober and industrious, and the wife tidy
and modeet,they must not have the family living in one roots.
What wonder was it, whom all that was required to be
done in a family had to be dome is a room, that the mac,
deprived of his comforts at home, should seek them at the
publio.boture? A. they all Irises, this overcrowding was
the greet source of diem.* in most of the tenement. °cm.
pied by the poor. There wee so proper place for keeping
the water required for the family ; it was ordinarily kept
in a tub in the one room the family lived in end slipt
and as water absorbed the impurity of the sorronedieg at-
mosphere, the water which wee kept in the room from the Sa-
turday to the Monday was ungt for use, and positively .
The loos! authorities might do: uch if they did
duty. He knew of one ot —Hullybush—
where there had bees no brush cod no MIMS
used to purify the place for twenty yeara He moved—
" That this meeting is of opinion that among the measures
most calculated to remedy this deplorable state of thiegs,
the oreatioe of commodious, well-ventilsitird dwellings, lot at
rentals within the means of the humbler classes, sad the
sulatitutios of less immoral but equally entertaining amuse-
ments for those which uufortueakly now form the almost
only staple remeation offered, have en important claim on
the attention of the beeeeoleet public.*
Mr. H. M. HAVLEII secoodal, and Mr. J. R. TAILOR sup-
ported the motion, whisk was adopted.
Pictorial repreeeetotinee of the dwellings of the poor as
they me sad as proposed to be by Mr. Mortimer'. duo were
then exhibited by mese. of the wash haters sod the lime
light, after whisk and after one er tine ether speakers had
addressed the teestios the relegation wesepreed to.

Csrmarthen Bay are fib inst., the day on which the
THE NAIL OF Oe(Ltal.3 itt ORASHIAL-1•0 earthquake was felt in the conntr7 :—" From a bass ex.
annual prize shosiling of the 3rd North York Volunteers feeding soma thrive or four miles in the directi bro
nco Ammtk
was clued*. WeilkeedaY. upon the rugs in Castle Howard ' Castle immense PlOOlll of water, of dark brow lour,
Park. The Berl of who arrived oa • short if kadieg earth in slution. seemed ro he pushed fur.
from Irebuxi at the end of last week, was prima, at the ward in the farm of a n0n.,0 of course surrounded by water
coateet for a 12 &eau silver cup, presented by Yr. of • eaten colour. As they came in contact the water was
Thomas Prelim, are Halton. The ruble earl, although the throws pp a height of fast, the agitation extending
weather was the wane pemikie, took up hie old position el re"( the .bole edge of the pbeeemenon. It steadily
marker, and remat•ed throughout the 'um" Cat Out• advanced in the same form towards bileokstose, and than
Copperduraits (Mahon), Captain Woraley (Hoviigh•m). mina miles to sea, when we ceased to observe it. Some
Captors Ord (Easthorps), Mr. King Harman (1,10M11• treads in 'muting themselves with Bolan were not • little
ham), sod Mr. W. Preston (Bitrytieups.house), were pre- eluded by the strange sight. When the coloured water
"at is his tomellowl'e teat, sag • wo7„ ,largo Coe' overtook the boat they found that the point of dislike
Emily, considering the weather, was Plasma VP. ballroom the solouriag wee maintained throughout the depth
The renal MeWS to Laid Chatak_ as the el the water; the boat was violently pitched about. mid
8°44. seemed to give additiow lowa to those the water thrown completely over it. Either side of the
present, who heartily cheered his lordeldp. was perfectly calm. and the water p
kiens
ChaTerial. Patrick. thinu Ott. iro DAT...-• a bake( moles samethlag Übe what would he vases as
Tataanaz, Oct. 22.-.Adedmines cis paymeat, 2.11 N; itatte isiaiones shoal of maolumel. It wee observed int at t
by mars ammo. 1,204 ; betel, 3.797. 11 a.m."

[TWOPENCE

THE AZT. H. W. BRICKER LED THE NONOON-

4biliflif—iiEs-a-sli:

Yesterday evening the Bev. Henry Ward Beecher
was entertained at • wont, and presented with an address
by the students of five of the Nonoonformiet waive
in end .twat Lon!lorty. t►e Indaftifdrad.sali•P•

of St. Jake*mood and Rocliney, the Counter of Hunt-
inpkai's College at Cheshust, the Baptist College,
Regent's.prirk, and the Presbyterian Theologkal
Queen'euquare. The place of meeting me the ladependent
College, known an New Collage, St. John's-wood. sad the
somber of students assembled was about 250. After tea
and coffee had been served, the company repaired to the
spacious library, and oa Mr. Beecher's entrance, SOOOOl-
- by Dr. Raßey, Dr. Spume, Dr. Tomkina, Rev. T.
Binum, Rev. A. Raleigh, Her. Jinxes &ranee, Profeswom
Newth and Nenner, the Her. Hilaby Jame, and some other
gentlemen, he was greeted with loud and prolonged lip-
Osamu
The Rev. Roan= HALM, D.D., president of New Col-
lege, who took the chair, said be wan sure it afforded all
peemat the higbart patification and delight to receive in
their midst from the other side of the Atlantis such a man
as the Rev. Henry Ward Bowsher—(loud cheer)—not tab.
se the son of Dr. Beecher, whose writiop were well known
in this eonntry, and greatly valued, or as the brother of
Mrs. Stowe, the talented author of that remarkable book.
" Coda Tones Cabin," but also and chiefly as a man who
was himself both well knows and esteemed in Great Britain
es
a writer, a preacher, and a platform orator, and one who
had modeled most important service to the cause of buxom
freedom in America long before the existing war broke out.
An address was thee presested to Mr. Beecher by Mr.
Imes. center student of New College, which, aeeey other
'lldnets, said :—" We reeognisere in you one who has Med
Ids heat amnia sad lie ra abffities with which God has
mimwed you to the male of civil and religious freedom,
sad the maul sod social elevation of the degraded sad op-
During the whole course of your public life you
vs ever indignantly swedes:sad the monstrous in and
verse of slavery, and maintsined with all your eloqueace
and at much coot the common rights and heritage of hum*.
aity. And our earnest hope is that you may soon see Cho
reward of your labour in the abolition of the social
dißine-
ticae of colour, and in the renewed prosperity of the Ame-
rican republic."
TM address was signed by the maim student ef sack col-
lege at behalf of the whole body.
Yr. BIZCHIB, in his reply, which was &Lunt entirely of a
tidisteus character, disclaimed the ides of having suffered
Lear, olmervine that he lad never looted for therimardi of
=ma and public favour on amount of anything he had

EXTRAORDINARY BURGLARY AT MILI-XRD.—DlEr-
ins the last few days the vicinity of ffide-end has been in a
state of considerable excitemeot is consequence of *dating
burglary an the premises of Mr. John Widlake Griffith,
watchmaker and jeweller, 15, Wentworth-place,
toad, which has no doubt bees conunited by some *spurt
czackamen," and although the premises ere situated is
the public high road, and Dearly opposite the district
polies-atation, no eine to the perpetrators has been at
present obtained. It appears that the premises contained •
great amount of property, and adjoiDed the Golden Eagle
Tavern and pleairore gargles.. Mr. Griffith left the shop
sod contents well secured, beck and hoot, clout
11 o'clock, with a lane shop dog lying od the floor in front
of the imitator uus and retired to rest with his family.
About 6 o'clock on Tuesday morning be was aroused by •
led lining the bell of the front door. The boy was in
the serum of Mr. Ford, pipe maker, who Occupied the
pemres at the back of Mr. Grifilth's shop, which place
Is reached by a narrow passage, withal is protected by
an outer dour, secured nightly. The lad called his at.
Motion to an aperture on the side of the passage
through which the burglars bad entered, by cutting away
pieces of double panelling, by the means of a machine
similar to a cenlrehit. There were thirty-two holes bored
round the piers of wood which had been removed, and
the opining was sufficiently large to admit of an adult per-
, son passing through. He then discovered a small oil lamp,
a crowbar, and the boring end of the oentrebit, which were
lying moo the floor of the shop. Upon making further
search be foam; a great Dumber of gold and silver watches,
gold guard chants, gold rings brooches, gold pins, sod other
property, to the amount of 356 f., had been removed. The
articles bad been takes from the front window sad • nese
is the shop, sad from the fact of there being property left
behind is the wiudow ad round the shop, to the amount GI
several Moored pounds, it is clear that the burglars must
have been disturbed. Jam over where the thieves
gained admission thine was a dial, which had stopped at •
quarter put 3 o'clock in the morning, and just at that mo-
ment Mr. Griffith awoke and got up from his bed, but
unfortunately he did not go dowastairs into the shop. The
police of the K divisioo were made acquainted with the rob.
bury, and upon an inspection of the beck premises a rope
ladder was found haagiog from the side wall of the garden
of the Golden Eagle Tavern, over which the didniquents
I must have climbed, and no doubt they returned by the same
means, as neither of the doors was found unfastened. Mr.
Griffith found Lis dog in • state of insensibility, siod there is
no doubt that the poor animal bad been drugged by the
burglars in some strange way.
BURGLARY AT WOOLWICH.—The residence of
Commodore Sir Frederick Nicolsou, superintendent of
Woolwich dockyard, won broken into on Tueslay night by
burglars, who entered by the stable-yard (usually left ones
to a late hour) sad through the scullery window. The
burglars, after taking several articles of value, it is be-
breed, made their escape by the front door, which was un.
barred. Until recently is sentry had been posted day and
night at the entriace of the comulodore's home. Forte.
nately • packet of lank notes, to the value of 751., lying is
a deek, from which gold and silver wore abstracted, escaped
their notice.

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FORBIDDING MARRIAOR BANS.—At St. Andrew's
Church, Stratton, Cornwall, on Sunday last, bans of mar-
riage had been published for the third time, when a tall
middle-aged woman rue from her seat, and is ea audible
voice said, " I forbid the bens." She wss requested to enter
the vestry sifter service, and it wu then discovered that she
wee the Lend fide wife of the proposed bridegroom.
THE STRIKE IN THE NAIL TRAWL—TB. "spike"
and " thousand" milers in the districts of Cowley, Sedgley,
Coppice, Lower Gornal, Upper Gornal, still remain on
strike for the price list of wages. and as a very large num-
ber of both own, women, and children of these places are
engaged in getting up some sort or other of the nails com-
ing under these two descriptions it will his teen that a large
part of the people bay* the tedious occupation of nothing
to do. The spike" or hundred (hundredweight); nailer'
are studios out for k return to what they call price list of
wages." They have lately been working for !rd. per cwt.
less thee that list, hutgot after a short strike 3d. more, and
they now demand the remaining 6d. The "thousand" sailers,
being those makers who.. nails are determinable by a tboa•
wadi)! certain size* weighing %certain weight, are Wilda( ho
recover two shillings in the pound which has been deducted
from their wages for some short time. Past strikes end
the present one show that it takes but a very abort time to
exhaust the saviup or "little capital" of the best of the
sailers, hence the halfUnirved condition of many of them
now, after*, short a strike, is scarcely wondered at by the
other inhabitants. Some of them go a begging, others
resort to other manna to get fed. *bile others almost go
tinted. The sufferings from hunger during these strikes are
always great, and ■t the present tin,■ it i■ none the lees so.
On Wednesday, )ir. F. A. Homer, w.ll•known around this
district fee. his labours 11 love, sod fur his efforts, con-
tinually being made for the good et the working man, pro-
vided, at his own expense, a very large number of loaves,
and distributed one to each in the Sedgley district. These
prewete were gratefully received and acknowledged, and
many of t►em began devouring it immediately they bed got
it.-zl3/ rainy/am Doillr Pooh.. . .

Between 400 and WO pitmen employed at the
collieries of Messrs. 3. Lore and Co., is the neighbourhood
of Durham, have "struck" week. The clues of dusiffection
is the alleged refusal, by the masters, to station a weightnau
oa the pit•heep, and some of the more active leader. is the
movement bars been taken into enstotiv. The ease, how.
(War, has been adjourned, to 'said° the woleoutent workmen
to marshal evidence for their defence,

THE FAENCIt VINTAGE OF 13i3.—The Rrrue
or Eamonaie Runde cams up ise follows the accounts which
it ham received es the subyeet of the vintage is different
=of the country :—*. The South has been io general
red. le the ll.rault there is both quantity and quality,
better than for the last tee years. In the Gard the guilty
will be excellent but the quantity ant so greet u could be
wished ; the same may be said of the Rouasillon. to the
Audi, the productive bas bees exceptional. and the
Narboones are of soperier quality. la the Beau-
, jolais and the Lyonnais the wines will be good and aimed-
eat. Thus of Upper Barguody sod of the lifaconnais will
be everything that me be desired but, oufortautele,
fears are entertaiued that such will not be the ciaa
Lower Burgundy : the Chablis in particular have been
almost entirely dertroyrd by the bail. to the Al., the
vine flown ere in every respect well satisfied, and in the
IMr• the vintage flu been floe. The DrOnie will, perhaps,
he deficient in quantity. but the quality will be excel-
lest. In the Maul* and particularly in the Meese, the
did sot aeries at completeimatulity. Champague
paper
n favoured. and the expectation is that its wipe will
be excellent The produce of the Bordellos will be lees
than is *oilman' PAM particularly for white wises, bat
the ordinary wines are in good comditiou. In the Charente
the vioe-growen are not diseatisfied, but thus of the
Cherendmlsferieere fear that the fruit bed sot been
quite ripe. The same defect is met with in the Loiret
sad is the vineyards of Beengeocy, sod the wines of thou
Twee may therefore be rather inferior in quality. In the
neighbourhood of Paris, and particularly at Sureetnie, the
vintage has Leen satisfactory. It Savoy the Mae-growers
have a large quantity, and will do well to preserve their
wise, for it wall perhaps he a lees time before they get soy
iso good. An may be sees, the good aommuits prevail over
the bad, and it opposes that the vintage of 11163 will be
superior ho that of 1862."

ALFRED WEB
Mrß MILES,
Everybody knows . MILES.
11.1210V1t0 from Bondatreet to 73. BKOI tK sT Err. Wu:over.
squats. In lelO. The IM. TROUSERS ,origiouted 11. Mut lu all
the New Patterns for N inter...better than et er
ERCIAL NOTICE TO 0101.ENIEN.
A. W. mILIN begs moat respectfully to :announce that his
stock the various departments of his establishment is now
replete for Over-coats. estings. Bedford Cords, and scarlet
waterproof Moth for hunting. The woolalycal Black and Blue
Frock ("mink lOU. • choice of FO pieces of Indestructible oaded
West of Eusal Cloths. LNTABLLSEED 1841. Only address.

ghe erpreos.

COVINT-OAIDEN.

Ton gramma, ?COWER. Messrs. W. W.
Weir, H. Cowl. A. Coot, and W. Hurlson : Misses Louisa sad
Bum Pyso. •Couductor Mr. A. Mallow —Commence at &