The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-07 00:00:00

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riar= and Books, required natter " The Coespardet Act
Wt" kept in stock by AU and FLINT, Stationers and Main,
,Fiesaelreet, LC., and Loodon-bridge,

CIOLD OHAINIL-JOHN BROODEN
• to call the attention or the public to the TOM( o!)efis-
VOICZ which be delivers with Gold Owd Chars purebred et
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John Brogdoalooadag tor • hilt renomination ea the
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data
at 1 °Week.

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Tits LTIItRG, HILIVITRINGS AND FIDDLESTRINGA
—ARRAN NA POGUL Marra. D. Bouckault, J. Dram,
H. VandentioN. D. Mon D. Murray, Dayton. canes : Mrs. D.
Baucicault and Mai M. Wm.—And AN AMPLI APOLOGY.

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THE MOUNTZBANI, la whlelt Xr. liebtat will perform the
prior-fps! charades. Hoz dare °pea daily from 11 LW P.

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TES Zs M. THZ VALHI MOTHISR . OR, THE !AUNT
GCLIDIAN. Mr. Z. Leona sod M A. Collier.. Miss D. Cove.
ney.—Proksox - Moor Shallot and his sagacious Dog.
—And MAIM OVlNZA.—Coessionos st hatt-paasti.

HIGH WATII AT LONDON-BALM&
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TO4IIOALOW Meniag, Ob. tax.. —Afternoon. Ob. Rm.

LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 7.

THE cLaaea just added to the Metropolitan
Homeless Poor Act seem well calculated to
secure its efficiency. If it be made the duty of
every police-constable to convey all destitute per-
sons, not charged with any punishable offence, to
the nearest casual ward, and if it be also decided
that " the guardians of every union or parish re-
" ferred to in the Act shall admit without delay,"

it will be surely beyond the power of even paro-
chial obstructiveness to nullify or render inopera-
tive the intentions of the Bill. If, too, it be
settled by Parliament that "guardians shall cause
" to be furnished to every poor person so admitted

" such relief under such conditions ea the Poor-

" law Board, under general order, shall direct,"

we may fairly hope to be rid of the anomalies and
inconsistencies which are the gravest blots on the

present system of administering the law. Nothing
can be more farcical than that an artful tramp

should have the power of varying his diet
and accommodation by applying at different
workhouses within the metropolitan district, that
local boards should exercise the right of reducing

or adding to the quantity of food supplied, or that
the precautions taken against imposture should
by any possibility exclude the really destitute from
relief. By compelling workhouse authorities to
admit every person brought to their doors by a
policeman, we only carry to its legitimate conclu-
sions a law already in existence, but which, from
lax wording, it has been found possible to evade.
Urgent necessity has always entitled an applicant
to be admitted to a workhouse, and the masters of

these establishments are especially cautioned against
refusal in the codified orders and regulations
issued by the Poor-law Board. But it is obvious
that so long as the definition of the words
" urgent necesity " was left to the discretion of

people whose official traditions prompted them to
grant as little relief as possible, so long would
the interests of the pauper be sacrificed to what
were held to be the interests of the parish. What
was wanted was to make refusal impossible in
practice as well as inconsistent with theory ;
and there can be no more effectual mode
of securing this than by declaring it the
duty of the police to clear our archways,
doorsteps, and street corners of all the shivering
ragged wretches congregated there. The necessity
is always sufficiently urgent for this, and in place
of trusting to the obtuse sympathies of local offi-
cials, who are possibly hampered by instructions
received from their immediate superiors, we shall,
when the Bill is carried, have the satisfaction of
knowing that the destitution which begs by look
and gesture rather than by word's will be a matter'
falling within the cognisance of perhaps
the only body of men fully competent
to deal with it. Destitute wanderers must
be either deserving or undeserving, and
in either case we shall have made ample provision
for their needs. Those ineligible for the casual
ward will be fully qualified for the police-station,
and under no conceivable circumstances will they
be permitted to hang piteously about the streets.
And it is noteworthy that the clause proposed on
Wednesday by Mr. Vrmaxse, in the absence of
Lord ROBERT CZCIL, gives to the Poor-law Board
just that degree of authority which, as has
frequently been urged in these columns, is impera-
tively necessary for the efficient working of the
Bill. The withholding of the official certificate, and
the consequent ineligibility of the parish for re-
imbursement out of the common fund, would, it
was at one time argued, secure compliance with
the regulations laid down, and the instructions
issued by the officers of the Crown. Bat when
an argument addressed to the pocket is met by
another and stronger argument of the same cha-
racter—when, in short, the expense and inconve-
nience of altering and improving wards would
exceed any sum likely to be paid back for the
relief of paupers, it has been found in practice that
the threatened withholding of the certificate has
been openly laughed at or quietly ignored. Matters
will be wonderfully simplified, therefore, if a legal
right to compel be substituted for a politic and
sometimes futile appeal to parochial interests, and
the public will doubtless reap the full advantage
of an increased and definite responsibility being
imposed upon the Poor-law Board. When, too,
both the relief and the conditions under which it
is supplied are settled by a general order, there
will necessarily be an end to the present absurd '
distinctions and minute differences in workhouse
rule. Although it was wisely decided years ago
to leave country guardians unfettered in many of
their dietary arrangements, and to so enable them
to provide their paupers with the particular food
most common in their respective districts, it was
certainly never contemplated that the metropo-
litan boards would persistently follow their own