The Express.
London, England, 1865-11-10 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 10.

gig Court.

Ms. J. Witassers, the relieving officer of the
City of London Union, may be grateful for what
some people will call the mistaken leniency of
the Poor-law Board. Smut' Thane, a pauper
chargeable to the Union of which Mr. WILLILMA
is the parochial representative, applied last month
for admission to its workhouse, being then ex-
hausted from fatigue and want of food. She had,
at the time of her application, walked from
latluim, a distance of eight miles from London-'
bridge. She is almost blind, had two yowls
children with her, and was well known to Mr.
Wni.tsms, from having been a frequent recipient
of parish relief. The case was urgent, sad
the duty imperative. Neither antecedents, nor
personal dislike, nor momentary irritation,
can be accepted as valid pleats for withholding from
this pauper what the law declares to be her right.
Mr. NI/miasma thought differently. He—knowing,
be it always remembered, that she was chargeable
to the Union he serves—quibbled as to her last
resting place, urged the necessity of " making
" inquiries," and the interview between pauper
and "reliever" ended in the former being forcibly
ejected from the latter's room. Saw! Tsrary
next applied to the LORD MAYOR, who
seeing the urgency of her case, at once relegated
her to the officer legally bound to provide her with
relief. Her second application being endorsed by
the chief magistrate, an order for admission was
vouchsafed ; but Mr. WiLmaus thought tit to
write across it, "A most disreputable woman."
These circumstances having been brought before
the Poor-law Board, an inquiry was held, which
resulted in the official letter of yesterday. The
prevailing tone of this communication is one of
mild debility. It is plain that the duty of the re-
lieving officer was to relieve. He knew the woman
as a previous inmate of the workhouse. He saw
her to be miserable and destitute, be heard her
statement as to having trudged eight weary miles
with two helpless children at her heels, and on bar
beseeching shelter and bread he offered her a atone
in the shape of inquiries. She, terrified at the
prospect of delay, expostulated, probably in
somewhat rough language, and it was only in
obedience to the LORD Mermen mandate that she
obtained relief and shelter. Had she been lees I
persistent and energetic, she might with her two'
children have slept in the streets, or become a
burden upon the casual wards of a neighbouring
parish.
Mr. Wir.mists was plainly guilty of a flagrant
breach of duty. He so seriously mistook his
functions as to suppose be had a right to adjudi-
cate upon character, and to refuse relief to a
parishioner in obvious distress. Compelled to
grant the succour he had first improperly denied,
he so qualified his order for admission as
to make entrance to the workhouse penal. For
all this the Poor-law Board has only
suck comment as might be passed upon a naughty
boy by his nurse. " You erred in post-
" ponies the order ; and writing on the order of
" admission that she was a disreputable woman
" was an improper course to adopt, and ought not
"to be repeated." Such is the scathing criticism
of the authorities at Whitehall. It might interest
the public to know to what extent a parish official
may violate the law without endangering his posi-
tion ; and how far cruelty may be carried
with impunity. WiLmems wilfully refused food
and shelter when food and shelter was a right,
and we are held he " erred ;" yet it is certain that
if SARAH Tausvr or either of her children had
died of exhaustion, this relieving officer might
have been properly arraigned upon a charge for
which " error " is not the name.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 9.

The Queen, with Princess Louise, and attended
by the Mereltiouess of Ely, drove out this morning.
The Frioce and Prinesee Louis of Hesse weot to London:
the Beens..s Schenck and Baron de Babenan were in at•
tendsooe.
Prioress 80b.,0p attended by the Hon. Bra. Wellesley
and Colonel H. Possonby, also west to London.
To-day is the anniversary of the birthday el the Winos
of Wales.
The Sight Hon. E. Cardwell arrived at the Castle last
evenirg, and had the hooore of dining with bar Majesty sad
the Royal Family.

ROYAL ENGLIBII OPERA, COVINT-OARDIN.—Their
Royal Righoesras Princess Louis of Remy, Prisons Rama.
arid Prises Louis of Hems. with their smite is ettemilanco,
honoured the performance of the Africeins with their pre-
seam lest ..mist.
The Duke of Cambridge will leave Sandringham
for tows today se tomorrow.