The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-07 00:00:00

DISTRESS IN POPLAR.

TO ?Hi IDITOR OF THZ

Ste,—At a meeting, held this morning, of the
elergy labouring in Poplar, the Isle of Dogs, including
Millwall and Cubitt Town, and South Bromley, with the
view of further considering the distress arising from the
late and present slackness of the ship-building trade, from
which Vie district with which they are connected specially
suffers, and the best means of alleviating it, it was,
among other things, decided with reference to a statement
which hid appeared in the Times of the 29th tilt., in an
advertisement headed East London Mission and Relief
Committee ; • committee, be it observed, which is in no
way connected with the Eat End Central Committee,
through which sue& large sums were distributed last
winter ; and with reference to other like intimations
which had been implied in several late appeals to the
public benevolence, to the effect that no "parochial
machinery" exists capable of ascertaining the amount of
distress prevailing, or distributing relief carefully and
impartially to the needy and deserving in the East of
London, that a letter be written with • view to its
appearanoe in the public journals, and to be signed by
all the clergy of the before-mentioned district of
Poplar, &c., stating that the above assertion or
insinuation is not true with regard to the
district with which they are connected ; that they
an provided with "parochial machinery," such as district
visitors, mission women, bible women, scripture readers,
and the like, amply sufficient to enable them to investigate
fully the amount of distress, and to inquire into its cases;
that they are prepared to distribute relief so fe. as means
are swirled them carefully and impartially ; that they
an ready, and have proved themselves to be ready, to dis-
tribute such relief according to the rule of the Metropolitan
District Visiting and Relief Society, which requires that
no i:istinction should be made on account of creed or re-
ligious belief with respect to relief so afforded ; that they
are prepared to do this chiefly through unpaid district
visitors to the people at their own homes, and that they
will be thankful to distribute in this way any means of
relief that may be entrusted to them, whether in the shape
M blanket., clothing, food, or coal, or of money that may
be concerted into tickets for such noes, or be available
for the support or establishment of soup-kitchens, kc
As the best mode of carrying out this decision we beg to
send you thus a copy of the above resolution, and a
statement of the circumstances under which it was made.
—We are, de.,

T. W. Nowv.m., rector of Poplar ; Wm. JOHN
CAPAHN. incumbent Christ Church, Isle of
Dogs; BONZE? J. ELLIOTT, incumbent of St.
Stephen's, Poplar; JOHN F. Kin°, incumbent
of St. Matthias, Poplar; li. C. VAUGHAN.
citrate, Poplar ; R. 11. Fans-, curate of Poplar ;
J. IlzwLerr, missionary curate of St. Luke's,
Millwall ; EDWARD BRAT, mission curate, St.
Saviour's, Poplar; Plume H. PERCT, mission
curate, St. Mary's, Poplar; WILLIAM CAR-
PENTER, London Diocesan Home Missionary,
St. Paul's Mission District, Cubitt-town ;
GEORGE A. "H. How, St. Gabriel's Mission,
Bromley ; R. A. HANCOCK, curate of Christ
Church, Isle of Dogs; T. Geoe.Ge DEERR,
curate of St. Michael's, Bromley ; CHARLES B.
GIMON, missionary curate, St. Luke's, Isle
of Dogs.
Poplar, Dee. 3.

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