The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-26 00:00:00

ST. NAITLXIIOVIL

Population at last census, 161,609 ; total of in-
door poor, 2,341 (last Christmas, 2,100). In the work-
house, 1,881, viz., men, 685; women, 1,0;;:i ; children,
141 ; children at schools nt Southall, 460 ; number of out-
door poor, 6,434 (last year, 5,634). Ratio of paupers to
population, 1 in 25 ; last year, 1 in 28. Christmas-day
fare for each inmate :-11b. plum pudding, 4b. roast beer,
vegetables, 1 pint of porter, and tobacco and snuff for tho
adults, cad fruit, with Christmas tree and other enter-
tainments, for the children. Ingredients of the Maryle-
booe workhouse pudding, 457ths. ; suet,
356115.; raisins, 2801b5.; currants, %tabs.; sugar, 1781ba ;
950 eggs ; milk, 13 (cations ; ale, 13 gallons ; mixed poll,
301Iss. ; spice and ginger, 191bs, ; gross weight, about
2,00011 e. Contract price of some of the leading articles of
provisions : —Meat, 4s. Bd. per stone of Sibs. ; flour, per
sack, 455. 9a. ; potatoes, 98e. per ton ; tea, la 71b. ; sugar,
325. per cwt. Last year:—Mot, 4a. Sd. ; flour, 385. I.d. ;
potatoes, 74;5. ; tea, IS. :kl.; sugar, 3•23. Mr. Douglas,
the master, remarks with reference to Mr. Hardy 's
Metropolis Poor Act that its effects have as yet been
scarcely felt. With the exception of meat provisions
are dearer, and with a large increase of poor
generally, and the dearnos of dour, 4;c., the rates he
fears must be raised all over the metropolis. He also
mentions as a singular fact that whilst the casual poor are
on the increase in other parts of London in Marylebone
there had been a wonderful decrease, and one night the
female casual ward was quite empty. Increase in in-door
poor 181, in out-door poor 798 ; total increase 979.

ST. PANCRAS.
Area 2,716 acres, population 220,000. This parish was
the first in the metropolis in which Mr. Hardy's Metro-
polis Poor Act was brought into operation, and there is no
doubt its tendency will be to produce an enormous increase
in the rates. The guardians have purchased a site for an
infirmary at Highgate for 500 inmates, at a cost of 4,3001.
Thirty-seven :acres of land have also been purchased at
LsavesdenWoodside, near Watford, at a cost of 4,0001., for
the erection of schools for 700 children, for whom tempo-
rary accommodation is being provided at Plaistow. A
wonderful saving has been effected in the workhouse
stores without reducing the food of the poor. Inmates of
workhouse, 2,097 Hart year, 2,064) ; men, 735 ; women,
1,6a9 ; children, 273 ; and 343 children at schools at Han-
well. Christmas fare : 240 stones of beef, divided, '.lb.
cooked and free from bone, to each adult ; 11b. plum
pudding, and 1 pint of porter each adult ; children in pro-
portion. Ingredients of St. Pancras plum pudding :
NOlbs. flour, 651ba. suet, 3•_'olbs. raisins, 3201ba. currants,
30th.. orange, 20th.. lemon, and 141ba. citron peel, 31bs.
of spice, 15 gallons of milk, and 1,60t1 eggs ; gross weight
of pudding, about 2,3001 be. Contract prices for beef and
mutton, 4s. 51. ; potatoes, ss. per owt. ; flour, 49e. 6d. per
sack. Last year, meat, ss. 2.1. ; potatoes, 4s. 641.; flour.
9d. Out-door poor, 6,320 (last year, 6,795) ; decrease,
476.