The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-29 00:00:00

~~.

AAIIKBOAT BIEBVICES.—During the storms of ject of another official investilifienT-Iffid "
the met year the RWoml Lifeboat Inetaotiob. by MM.' want the Poor-law Boa/4s to
boat and other mem, *Distributed to the marina of 707 persona
tram dirt/4m it wrecks on our coasts. The institution also ex- do" was a guardian's insolent rernltiree uegl
=es ..21,374 In the same period on It. lifeboat establishments.
dition to granting 11_4950 for rewards for inLinti Ifs inhumanity
and being proved and commented on.
iba laiostion
*annoy az.rot"- • BureTy-,w-heri other "reforins in the administration.
sa=s„.
the
In enable th
lbem insians.Bolllt.V4 pcol, tile poor-law in the met,ropplis are suggested, the
shamed Shutxteptional privileges conferred
attar. Wee • by local alto rfi opt, bOsaifyred iispal)e
inquity
We have had a public confession of -powerlessness
from the President of the Poor-law Board, and
public exposures without number of the degrading
results of not "wanting sanction for what we do ;"
and it becomes curious to ask bow many evils as
flagrant have yet to be dragged to light. Meanwhile,
we reoord, with a eatisfaction which is modified by
the knowledge that nearly three times the proper
number had been crammed into the old dens the
night before, that we aaw at Clerkenwell Workhouse
yesterday a pile of rugs just purchased for the new
ward', and received a most positive assurance that
the latter would be fit for use ins few days.
As, from the form of the question put the other
night in the house, it would seem that some mis-
apprehension has arisen as to the present housing of
casuals here, it may be well to say that men and
women are kept in separate vaults or lofts, and that
it has never been stated in this journal that they
were locked up together.

SPECTACLES are NECESSARY
WHEN the Eyes water, are misty, or fatigued
after read&
WHEN the print blends, and the letters appear
to be double
WHEN more light than formerly is requisite—
S the Pi. .
candle
W is placed between the eyes
H and the book;
WHENobjects must be held further off to be
seen more dearly :
WHEN much difficulty is found in threading a
Beadle.
The above are premonitory signs of decayingsitq, and bulimia
UM an optician abed be consulted without de W. Brea long
and extensive pruritic, Messrs, Thome Harms andd flan are fully
competent to advise or all matters pertaining to the reenedi..ag
defective sight. They skilfully adapt lenses. perfectly is.., at
tlx requisite power, sad likewise they Judiciously soled a lOW
tack frame of tits form meat becoming to the tem. TIMMS
HAKIM wed BON, opticians to the loyal Ifamlly. opposite the
British linemen Loudest (their only itouset, eatebildwed
11110. Cantles— go travellers or sputa.

TIIRTLX, TURTLE, fitIRTLE.
Mew, n& . sod Invalid PURPLY SOUPS always toady,
at ST. JAYINTERWEL ALL. RYAIENT-STILIEtr,
tor. PICOADELLY.
DONALD. Proprie

LONDON must have a SUPPER and MUSIC
ROOK for Gentlemen.—Remember, we watt for pew at
'EVANS." attar the Theatre&

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIB DAY.)

Eke •rsttesti.

ens eXEILOAS rt. 111•118.
No pane oan deny, the Times observes, that of
the two, the sobers) of a Fenian raid upon Cando, which I
Ise supeneded that of Irish emencipstioa, if the less ro-
mantics, is the more feasible, and there is just enough
'method in the melees to prepare us for the news that
sornothicg &weed ',spouting hes been done. linfotta.
nately, otle lest telegraphic despatches only carry us '
up to, and not beyond, the 17th of March, but
they ecevey the most satiefaotory proof of energy
ca the pert of the government and people of Canada.
At the goo time, it mast not be disguised that even a
teincarary rumen on the Lionise side might inflict serious
Seery on the prLy nos mil exoits a filibustering spirit in
the mulatto* cf the aeighbouriag states. To cheek Iles
we mug rely ehiedy on the good faith of the United States
government. Filibustering of say kind is popular with
certain chase at New York, sod there is still
a lingering wish to see Br:t'sh oommeres sumac:
is its tors for the injury done by the Alabama ;
but the Pieter nevertheless fools person led that Paganism
will receive smithsr material aid nor moral support from
the American nation as a whole. They are much too
•irewd to dein the annosa is of Canal until Canada
Moult shall ask for it. When that time comes, if it ever
doss cease, no moistures will be offered by the mother
mushy, and notbini can be more I.lsely to defer it than a
Fenian invasion, with the prospect of Canada becoming
" New Ireland."
The Herald takes the arrival of Stephens in Patis to be
roe a maitre of certainty, and expects from his early
appearance is Americo, the roconoitiation of hostile Ponies
booties, and the argiog on of the immediate invasion of
Caned'. The sucoesefol escape of this man is, perhaps,
unexampled is our criminal history, sod can only be com-
pared in beastillsed and daring to that of the Pretender
from Scotland, alter his norm:a egg attempt to regain
the throes of his ancestors, and the Herald cannot amount
he his stomas otherwis th en by supposing that it is &Uri.
bailable to other gags than supineness or stupidity on the
part of those employed to recap are him. The whig go-
vernment, by not having struck a blow before, is responsible
for everything.
Is the existing state of Anterloin feeling towards Eng-
! lend, the Post stinks the utmost we e .n seas: is that the
11 Cabinet of Washington wit look to the integrity of the
k ' law. If thsy wlll do 'hat the Canadians will find it easy
to dispose mummer ly of those who cross the border to
l attack Ass. Probably is the %Vale of Swecay's invasion
) of Canada the Americans wal be foremost in disclaiming
r the stupidity and shatnelemere d the outrage.

TO COILIJOIPOWDIXTS.
aftwolltweambe Wooded tor " Ito lona lbowlig
, mut be et the 01100, 10„ boavoitroliest. by Two
iti=k as tie dby of pobboados.

HA
OS SATURDAY. VIZ OVIVIMFHOUTX. *MA Baa-
lbek Compton, Cblypandale, and W. Vann ; KW Snowdon
and Ittin Ifelty I/ann.-6J' AND 00X. Warn. Eneknon
and Compton.—And TSB WOLF AND ZS LAMB.

NUNCIOS'S.
TEI *MM. A GHOST 11l SPITE OF HOICSILF.—Pter
which i EDI erasers Sr LONDON. Yeti rising. T. SIAM,
D. Marry, Shots, sad VIllas: Mrs. H. Nankin. sad
Buse* aid 1L Rodigurs.

BRITANNIA.
TILTS wimp( THE HAILSEiT HOER—RIes Rama Nee,
ddira—Hagar H. Sanders. -THE SCOTTISH MIT. Mr.
James Anderson and Was S. Mlles.-With WHIRS SHALL I
DINE!

HIGH RAT= AT LONDON-211IIKIL
TO DAT -. *AVM. A. te5.....A/Inewash lb. ISt
To4poisow-• Manls& lb. Ka-- AS .. INA 11.1.

LONDON, THURSDAY. MARCH 29.

Atsrworow the horrible evils of the Olerkeawsll
casual wards have intensified rather than diminished

Mace we commented on them kat, there seem a

prospect of a better system being inaugurated. On
Tuesday night eighty people were crammed into
lofts, cellars, and closets, having nominal accommo-
dation fee thirty ; and though the police inspected

these wretched places between one and two yes-
terday morning, when they were at their fullest,
and have inspected them In like fashion for some
nights past, no change has been effected, and no
improvement introduced. Indeed, beyond "re-
porting" to Scotland-yard, and the authorities
there "reporting" in their turn to the Poor-
law Board, that the Clerkenwell wards are
shamefully inefficient ; that naked man are
to be seen there nightly, sweltering in each
other's arms ; that the stench is poisonous ;

the supervision nil; and that neither barred
doors nor darkness are wanting to make the
disgusting scene complete—it is difficult to know
what steps the police inspection is likely to result
10. BRIGHT AND THI REFORM BILL.
in. All these facts have, as our readers Deanaleg Mr. Bright sa the mart distinguished of the
are aware, been already laid before the public, variable stars of the political atmosphere, the Times !bedsit
the Poor-law Board, and the House of Commons. iustrectivete contrast his speech a fortnight ago in the House
Yesterday morning the superintendent on duty of COMM3IIB and that delivered at Manchester en Tuesday,
was followed by four gentlemen, who saw for them- with the fats letter to his coastituesta. Where diversity
selves the horrors so frequently denounced ; and aftiviatr:fromir tlahePacla:lebee;ll4oaar
whillf.°legt: aiss bethePisame tther;;ng6tpohiumr
as the guardians had been discussing a few hours forth e set deogemau„ before an eager and sympathising
previously the premises they have taken, the fittings mood, and nothing can be more 'Weak more offensive,
to be supplied, and the superintendence it will be 4er more nojuet. Some among hie hearers os Tuesday, the
necessary to enforce; as sleeping rugs are bought risen donb'e sot, wino usable to believe that all the
and bedsteads ordered, it is to be hoped that It will rest if the world w.s involv. d In a " dirty conspiracy "
be soon possible to describe the Clerkenwell casual sad
as Mr.
aß.ight con
miaded wiesayeendieffeet to r
ead esat .epee thoughe
wards without rousing at the same time the sicken- Tie sentismat of the Timer, and o' the genuine liberals of
in g sense of shame and indignation which their whom Lord Gr)svenor it thi. instance the spokesman, is
shortcomings have spread throughout the country, fa favour of the en'anohisemtmt of classes not now on the
But this concession to public decency, which has register, but they feel, and as one has attempted to oon-
been so tardily made—this bare acknowledgment of indict them, that tie government bill would reader a
a joint responsibility in a common duty which altiat
Nomember can be settlementin of reform
moreoed difficult
coafidthaneence.
ver
has been denied or evaded for so long—. se the geeeroment ass, for, and the Tiers is
must not blind us to the fact that a small parochial sere of the ultimate resalt, even though Sir Wit.
expenditure each week would have saved the parish Hem Hatt meekly aben ions his own opinion in deference
of Clerkenwell its merited disgrace and obloquy, to the first breath of &ant from a constituent, and Mr.
and would preserve it at this moment from the Oliphant dealer.' he is se' id almost before an explains-
guilt of continuing in evil. It was proposed not tifioapasails given The
eiTneheee d.seadistne:estewhw,,ith man
are na of
a
accustomed
a ago by one of its guardians, that all casual to put thy' hard t, the tlnigh ore moment and with.
paupers claiming shelter after the workhouse wards draw it the
were full should be sent to a common lodging- The Daily Nese of by no mans wood de itself with Mr.
house, a is done elsewhere. It was not thought Blight's 4.-..onsidered r,eo ntseadaion, which has celled
sufficient to meet this proposition with a derisive forth some deserved rebuke, ihss Palianieet-strest should
howl. The guardian proposing it was authorite- bee_alla:tur tome:l:rum.=
ers Th so e
aolabswitrailase
etional to the
ill told that the proceeding suggested would be
Dill is in the nastatesman-lke fear of men whose porition
illegal, and his motion was not even put or character makes them hasp ibis of looking calmly at
from the chair. If, therefore, any bitch occurs in the present end oomposully into tie (sYnro, and, though
the preparation and completion of the house now our unrepresented countrymen must have lost the spirit of
hired, if it in its turn should prove inadequate to Mogllshense If they tit t not relent the vile slander uttered
the claims upon it, the old evils will be continued against them, it is not by aimless gatherings in our
with all their old and shameless force. It is im- thibilrm4"'
time same ara that :liweLeahenebe v
dwe't os indicate therneseeel wee:.
dAitt
portant to remember this, because whatever the orders as proof of the sa.).s`action of the people are not
guardians may have done within the last few days) entitled to hold up their bands in horror when the un-
it seems certain that they are still profoundly igno- represented are told that their mere appearance would
rant of their duty. Were this not so, they would teach a lesson. It is sot for them who exult in their
not continue to allow a single person to be plaoed mastery steltetretcothei at a
the ms-lees is oalia of the
gercbiodprivilele
in their wards, for whom sleeping room cannot be
topowpreorf
ctol be sho
The Doily oari'a
him no liking forph ysthal
ese
found. It is worse than puerile, it is wicked
nom 'runs. It has always endeavoured to lead the
to talk of its being " illegal " to hire beds in unrepresented to expect the realisatioa of their hopes from
a common lodging-house, because that lodging.. the confidence and right feeling of the middle classes ; and
house is beyond the limits of Clerkenwell pariah, although the character which ter. Bight has to broadly
ascribed to the House of Commons at largo is a:served by a
It is true the guardians would not, under any cir-
cumstances, be repaid out of the common fund for large
vaindeimmbeer or
ndiaietts seem
ieo be a
will
;re, ivtaisLtill believes that a sprit
mote y so expended, for the simple reason tbat the
In another art cis the Daily New gives the reasons why
regular wards of their workhouse have been con- it &clime to subscribe to the complaints of uncharitable
sistently condemned by the metropolitan inspector. misjiriginent which some sensitive spirits prefer 'pleat
and his certificate of fitness is necessary before such the shockingly "illiberal liberals who deny the name of
repayment can be authorised. But there has been , reformers toehtheas oppinen
friends,tfs of
h the Reform and who
nothing to prevent the parish bearing the cost until rsfase
na to
ouraof the Matra!partt ey
Vpvseirnseems"whosnd
arealdoing.alle
wards were obtained and certified ; and it isdifficult to they can to break up the one and defeat the other. They
believe that some of the Clerkenwell ratepayers have either machisen their party or ere unfaithful to it
would not have preferred this course. Unfor- and to the principle on which it is based. Under one or'
tunately, the guardians are virtually independent other of these censures ail the professing liberals who have
of the ratepayers ; for they are all elected from and encouraged or may support Lord Grosvenor's amendment
by the vestry, and for life, and may snap their dalait
of The amendemhreht fieendethfeault withwetp=estly.theoseet
fingers at their own parish, as well as at the public eneepanoe must be left to the discretion of the
and the Poor-law Board. This is another of the executive, and tiro. notodously such malcontents as
anomalous privileges conferred by the local act Mr. Lowe, Mr. Houma, Mr. Laing, and Lord Elcho
under which this unmanageable parish is governed ;1 abject primarily either t any extension of the franchise or
and its operation may be inferred from facts ;to the pernoidtr exteasioss proposed by the government,
within our knowledge, which prove the wishes of
tlittieil an
as anyprobability, desire l
yether disturbance 'not settlementther.a ee "
of 1832
a large body of the Clerkenwell ratePayerl• and j The inconsistency of thosewho on the reform queries.
thcee of the Clerkenwell board, to be in diametrical follow ma Disraeli while claiming to be members of the
opposition. St. Pancras is another parish which party of which Mr. Gladstone is the leader, is palpable to
enjoys the privileges of a local ant, and the lengths the dullest appeshession. To the Daily New the " liberds"
to which the guardians of these specially endowed who OPP:so the government bill, mad would alter
Omura think it safe to go was aptly illustrated in ear rePrimabii" "stein by the
rePfsmaisti"
the cool justification reported yesterday. The a classes is the isms, redo of their numbers,
sad who would endeavour *satisfy working men by giving
wretched infant who was found half-slarred, and ; them a voice in parliament sad sothieg beside—such
then while still alive laid out as dead, was the sub- people are less liberal on the Tristram of the suffrage than