The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-15 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY lb.

Turn are several portions of the meleopolis
throegh which we never pms without being forcibly
reminded of the quaint old woodente of Noumea
"Davos of Death," with the squalid and grisly
skeletons elbowing the nobleman, the court lady,
or the portly merchant, and piloting them to the
genre yawning at their fest. Wide streets of bosses
with elegant facades ham been opened through
crowded looslities, whose inhabitants, driven from
their old haunts, lave taken refuge is other
labyrinths of narrow streets already over-populated.
The very palace of the Legislature Ands a seething
saes of crime and poverty coming "betwixt
the wind and its nobility." Almost beneath the
shadows of the handsome stop which line Now
Oxford-street the dirty Moab of St. Ohio bide a
population which shrinks from the light of day is
spurts and alleys; and the sleek "JEAN=" of the
fashionable nears inserter and ekes shocked by the,
apparition of a horde of dirty sad ragged *robins
issuing from some outeaf-thrway dos, bidden in the
rest of the noble mansion of which he is one of the
asimated twasismits.

Is the immediate vicinity of the mistoaratio.
looking dwellings whit* are rising rapidly on the
Nor Land estate, in the neighbourhood of Notting.
bill, there exists a spot whit* aspired, dudes
the awful days of the cholera, a melancholy
notoriety. The sanitary Oommiesheses disesured
that in this place, known as the Potter*e, above a
thousand human beings, and a still larger number
of pigs, oa whom they mainly depended Ibr their
sibeistimos, were crowded together in a narrow
epee without any epplimiesa whatever fer health
or personal cleanliness. The assessity for doing
Rowan, was argent, for the twinge emerge was
carrying mourning into the dwelllnp of rich and
poor indissriminately, sad it was impossible to leave
such a focus of peanuts in all its horrors. Ton-
move the accumulation of dub which marroanded the
aufartunate inhabit sots was too prase% es a por-
tion of it was hidden away, a supply of water wee
provided, and the lime brash freely sssd—this was
nearly all that weld then be usomplished. It is true
that the Comalseirmen were authorised to remove the
pigsties, and did remove them t bat the law gave
them no power over the pigs, who remised
polluting the air, the only real gaisses by the open-
tioe, inearanch as it left these at liberty to diversify
their existence by wee extended walks, including
forays into the dwelling-hoesee of their ewers. At
length. however, the urns et cholera pared away
. .

ssad with it the publics fisting is the Potterie—

Drew found sanitary Batters going oa as anal,
and left LAZARUS to lister is has misery sad
squalor ; but the matter has sow satarsd as a sow
Asa.

Os. of the clauses of the new Metropolitan AAA
povides for the appointment of Akers of health ter
the micas districts, and Mr. F. Illogiaicg, en
being elected to fill that past ia the parish of Ben-
misstep, made it his first badness to in-
vestigate the Waal condition of the Fol-
licle*, sad to paint a repot to the Vestry,
gestaining suggestion for the ameliorations which
were most argent. It is highly creditable to the
Mageington Vestry that they not only deputed some
et their members to Mahn this foetid pet-
how, bat lost ao time is eadswearing to carry
eat the rssommeadations of their ollar of health,
and we sager well from this promptitude is
amprolisediag, sad web, up to, the lespartent dads
Intrusted to them. It appears from Mr. GoDIIIIIIIIII%
report that there are 1,147 home. Wiese sod UM
pigs @aggregated within a spies of less this alim
sires. the present amber of pigs being he
the mud average. The dwellings of a bap
proportion of the ishabitsate of this loeslity
are mere howls with shattered roofs sad one
wiedows, the floor is below the level of the external
soil, which has been raised by egeosesive secounala-
time of filth of all kiwis, sad the walls are at all
them partially damp and giving out pestileatial gases,
letsierable to those who have set hen bon among
them, fatal to the health of than who haw.
Another poetise of the isberable population has
seamied old sersvan bodies, removed ia mess miss
Flom their wheels, tato howl; ethers have as other
dwelling this Mans post-amiss iodise, for which a
rest of sizposse per week is paid. In ow el the
egravass eight promo dwell, swag whom a AIM
selleriag from .mill-psi woe battling with death at
the time of Mr. Goagatca's visit is Mara. On
we weeder that the spirit of theme poor matures le
subdued to what it warble in r" that they pest
with threats of personal "Wends say 'Wager who
may appear to be eyeing toe enrinely their admen
or that they oppose any lowbrows with a slate al
things wish* is shortesieg sad embittering**
squalid wigwam, meeting • mortality throe Om
pester than that which prevails elsewhere f Sin
of the people are employed is the
brick-bide sad file-work,, others me 1i gib
biting the wash sad alai with whisk the pigs ere
fed, sad which serves also to sappy the "boiling
toppers," forty-fogy in number. These coppers
are filled with the refuse of slab-hews sad
hotels, sod the garbage of starighter-hosess. their
gooiest§ being afterwards sold to feed the pigs who
tarnish doebtime much of the "dairy-tad pork" of the
metropolis. Asa grooml rule these very objestiemble
animals have it seems no other food then the poirasesst
contests of these "boiling 'open." or the blood and
selected fragments ham slaughter-houses, Ow in a
diseased or putrid oats. Mr. OODZIJCU may well
urge the immediate fumigation of four pig sits-
bliabinents, where the snisesh are all fed oa entrails,
Wool, sad liver."

Wretched so the dwelling" of the inhabitants of
the Potteries aro, their site, so a gensral rule, is still
worse. The soil which surrounds them is impreg-
nated with animal and vegetable matter in various
stages of doosy; pits, from which clay has boas ex-
tweeted for brick•tooking, woo to collect s moo of
liquid filth, which, ander the mummer sun, is a pm-
phial moves of poisonous gases, ',media( the air,
absorbed by the damp walls of the dwelling; and by
ths wits, in ths open tanks sad water.batts : so that
the inhabitants not only breaths at all times a pseti•
I,atial atmosphere, bat it mingles with sad W.
their eery too.. Opse drabs' and hearts ran 'keg
the hooks of whole rows of dwalllesArsauf sad
mama of saner*, sir s& foot he age, Ism the
toil in the portions of tits mad *Wpm. le
emote., from which, us might be eirliedi *dab
diseeese—euh u typhus sad small.pez—are rarely
about.

The water applied to the Mediate set aly be-