The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-12 00:00:00

TRAFFIC RETURNS.

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THE FIRE AND LOSS or Lire AT GRIENHITHX.-
The inquest ?evading the deaths of a family name
Fleury, consisting of a widow and her two children, aids
servant girl aged 15, who were all burnt to death at Greer
hithe on Christmas-night, was concluded yesterday. Tle
circumstances were of the most distressing character. Th•
only person who escaped WAS the sister of Mrs. Fleury,
who states that all was apparently sale when they went to
bed, and that they were aroused between two and then
by a dense smoke filling the bedrooms. One of the in
mates, Mrs. Kempton, jumped from • window, an:
although much injured escaped with her life; hut fin
rest were suffocated before they could follow her example.
The jury found a verdict of "Accidental Death."
THE COST or LONDON MOD. - if we say that
three millions sterling are spent every year in shoeing the
London population, we shall probably be far within the
mark. If we estimate that to plunge daily throigh
muddy streets, especially for those pedestrians who have
not • sufficient number of pairs of walking shoes to alien
the wet ones to be slowly and thoroughly dried, will
shorten the duration of two-thirds of these articles by
per cent., we shall no doubt, have the assent of unfortc
[ nate experience. That would give us • waste in shoe
leather alone of half a million sterling a year, in conse-
quence of muddy streets. The tailors of London amount
to only two-thirds of the number of the shoemakers. The
outlay incurred in clothing men's legs in trousers
will be only a fourth or a fifth of our tailors'
But then comes the question of skirt.. A hundred
and twenty thousand women enter the City &Ulf,
of whom ninety thousand walk. That is for the CO
alone. Over the whole metropolis we cannot reckon that
less than three-fourths of • million of skirts dilly per-
form, inefficiently, it is true, but still at a ruinous et.
pease, the duties of the scavenger. With the exception of
she contparatively few ladies who drive in their own cu.
riages—and even they can hardly be at all times altorther
exempt—the whole female population of London is sub-
jected to a tax, of which we will not venture to estim.ite
the amount, by the neglect of the streets. Who world
contract to make good the unnecessary destruction of
garments of all kinds by the mud of London for a minim
sterling per annum? If we add the cost of additiond
washing, of the hire of vehbles, of the wear and tear ot
vehicles and of horses, and of medical services rendered
necessary in consequence of colds and worst disorders
caught from wet feet, we shall find that • very Lang
annual sum, not easily calculitad, but amounting, at 11'1
events, to seven places of figures, is annually wasted 14.
the residents of London in consequence of the neglect-
state of the streets.—Builrirr.

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