The Express.
London, England, 1858-12-27 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1858.

CIJUSTRAB DAY AND THI POOR

Amidst the general festivity of Christmas Day
the Inmates of Me metropolitan warkhoues and unions were
sot forgotten. Upwards of 10,000 uses, women, and children,
Inmates of those enatilsiuesats, were tarnished with •
plentiful dinner ef reset bed, plompadding, end vegetable%
and aa allegiance of pewter. In ealleim, Me seed men bad
gifts ot snuff tied lobsters, end the women minims of snuff
sad bee, widlee the MMus were supplies with fruit and
Wm. In ems pentthes the dimmnes wee mom Mani
ohms ; the meow quentity allowed to fedi enema penes
wee Sc.. of mot, ill& of bread, I lb. of poMMe, Boa. of
podding, and a pint of porter. In some, small same of main
were Mien in lino of the presents of muff end tehnore. In
all, the gni:dtans used every effort to give some omfort to
these who hod the misfortune, on that usnallyjoyone oxisden,
to be the inmates of the metropolitan pauper ealekilleinneate.
Tun Hot &mesa Pooe.—The whole of the poer moms
who had been &bettered in the West London Refuge were
permitted to roma is the eetablishinent during the day, mob
person being famished, in addition to the usual alkmanee,
with a sabstantid Cetmee meal. At the other metropoll-
tan refuges, the Boys' Refuge, in Great Queen-street, LM-
coan'e-isua, and the Girls' Refuge, in Broad-strem, St.
subetantial meals et bed and pudding wee pro-
vided ; se also at the Refuge for lICANGLINS Shoeblecks, in
Whitechapd.
PUBLIC 800 P KITCHRIDE—SeveraI hundred poor moms
wen fernielied with substantial meals of toast, soup,
and breed, at the North Leaden, Hem-yard, Windmill-
, men, Haymarket, the Spite/Ude, and Medved, the latter
being established by the benevolence of Lord Kinnaird for
the relief of the suffering ooalwhippers. In additleu to those
id at each establishmmt, SCOW hundred. of meals wen
taken away by poor families. More than 9,000 perms were
thus provided with their Christmas meal.
PAROCHIAL AND RAOOLD SCHOOLA—The whole of the
diadem belonging to the St. Clement Dame pariah echoola
were regaled with • sigusptuone dinner of reset bad end plum-
podding, fn the Vestry-hoes*, Pickett-oms, Strand • us
wan also 200 &dares of the Clare Market Barred SobLeile,
the ten Wag supplied by Mr. Carr, of the King's Heed.
TM children belonging to the other parishes were also simi-
larly cared for end the rigged schools whose fonds per-
mitted the outlay.
. . . .

Si. Bartholomew a, St. Thomas's, Guy's.,
Weamhuter, Charing Crow, Kluree College, Votvervity,
Middlesex, Alm y* a, and the London Hospitals, all the
patients whoee stets permitted had an allowance of beef
end pudding, with other little indulgences.
Ourenwlt Go+l.lTAL.—Christioss-day being 000 of the
festival, observed in Greenwich Hospital, the in-pensioners,
numbering 2,300 veterans, were mustered before Admiral Sir
J. A. Gordon, 0.C.8., and Rear-Admiral Sir W. F. Carrel,
K.C.8., Lismateat-Govemor, sad, having attended divine
.service, they momeded to the dinhur-hall, where • substantial
Meow of mast bed and plum pellet awaited them. This
was is addition to the nemi &saw of mums sad soap, sad
es* WI ws. awaited with $ quart ef strong ale, sad them
who used esteem were served with an ample allowed*.
ROYAL. NATAL GOZOOL, boy* at-
lashed ut the ewer sad lower aelseols who were not absent
ea leave Wive regaied with roast beef and plum pudding, and
after dieser Named themselves with venom games in the
spacious ball..
Panto:ie.—By the Madam of the sheriffs the poor debtors
In Whitecroesi-.treat ad GIME'. Bench Prisons had ea extra
allowance of Christmas cheer. The uohappy inmates at the
criminel prisons hod no allowance be)oad the ordinary deify
prison bra.
GIFTS or CHRINITIAS-spa.-011 CbFWIIIIII-STII the sa-
lami gifts to the poor were distributed in their respective
perishes by the several clergymen, wanted by the church.
wardede wed overseers, and the gifts of bar Majesty and the
Prime Caron were given to the poor inhabitanta d Wiadau
tad its vicinity. At Kew, by direction of the Dashes. of
Cambridge sod the Duke of Cambridge, melt poor
heady was supplied with the materiels for a sub-
Pedal dinner Of rood beef and ;
tee. eager, and • quantity of •warm Cillanag and
blankets were slot distributed. At Smashup,' dr Doane
of Kent'. gide, coosistiag of dened, blealiae, was alb-
lag, fuel, and provide:as, was dYYlbred swept Ito poor
in the district. In do rtryel pile/ st It, Made's-in-the-
Yields each poor Spey was sapplial within' MIL of main
and bread, mad, and potatoes, is pipportima M Ib sember
in family. In the Wards* amid pardons perish at Limbed',
the incumbent. of the several distrlota, malbaild by the
churchwardens, visited and 'edema the muds of as pose of
their respective coarregations. Mr. Atkiamm_ Om Pre
alas distributed. The Leans' Visiting a St.
George, Southwark, Xemiagtes. dt. Maryiebears, sod Bt.
Pumas distributed numerose gifts in
mad fuel to the pars their respective diatois"witaa...Tellitt
sad parochial oel,,res threachota lb, Clay war laialdlyabla
la their stardoms to oohs,* that poorer miglithoom at rich
hake sawn: sad tuel Gad potatoes woes liltually &ate-
Wind kin de City kaki's'.

DININUCTI9II F2ll.—On Saturday iierthig,ll
between the been et two aod How o'clock, • dedereetior ere
bombe ear is the prewime of Mr. Frairccel, reekwewet, War-
, wiek-street, Geiere, resoluoi hie wrier Is. of pro-
' wry, awl einem Yid esosequeoces to emend "mono The
ire was Let dherreemi by lie pollee earls *co beei, who
lost is time is &log the rowel skim, wed mhos eir fur
Ile Ire weep" wi posply arrived, Mewl by be Loa-
, des Pb. Bilged* =glow. Mier were ieweldeohe rebels of
the imams were =tie weribie et their leepeadle, dosser,
bat ee powerful wee the heat ead awoke Now r huals hid
ea she kerb Miro; with dliwlep she wee eziricered, wed
cisme/ ie the lemital, ohms she sew rendes hi s &wee-
nee oesdielea hem the extewelve loieriee she Iwo westeleard.
A geed awyoy ef weir Whig obsessed, the cashier low*
am wadi, bid ihe Ike wee sot extborsiebed the bore
wee deeiveyed, sod the edlorialse oresiow, Nee. 29, 10, sod
IL Wawa, to H. J. and D. Moon, tailors, sad No. SS, to
Mr. Cberies Denaldenn, Maw, wen considerably domed
•by bed wear. The ewe el the ere ie voluwaro,