The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-25 00:00:00

PARISH CARS OP THE AGED SICK POOR.

A correspondent, dating Monday last, write.. :
Yesterday afternoon, in the parish church hibotley,
Suffolk, the Rev. Mr. Hibbs, the clergyman who is tem-
porarily officiating for the rector, directed attention in hie
sermon to the inadequacy of parochial miltance in the case
of the aged sick poor. The preacher stated that be was
about to bury a . .r man aged 73, who had been incapa-
citated for la during the last eight months,
and was utterly dependent on the parish. Enter-
taining an invincible antipathy to the confinement
of the union workhonee, the had accepted
the alternative et the outdoor relief of two loaves
of bread, and Iftempenee weekly. Or shilling of tide
nary el oranot was paid for his lodgiag, the poor man
having sous time deem lost his wife, and haviog so
Mathes ebb sod trQyg to receive him into their family.
The result ens the en—bow body sad soul might beet
be kept together en two loaves of broad sad three pence per
week. The neighbours ars 1 epinios that the poor man'sdeath was, to my the Weak aoat• by west of l
notuishmeet. The pedal dooter's cerliacate states e=
bronchitis was the primary, and typhoid the emedary.
arse of death. Dry brad to mt. and Rimers°, Pee week
to pay for whatever else besides lodging earth he wanted,
this was the parish IMOVIIIIOII. This poor man had always
contrived by some mane to pay into a benefit society ; but
the club has now failed, or. at all events, stopped payment.
The importance of the above came at the present moment
is men in its bearing upon the questions now being dis-
armed before the parliamentary commutes appointed to in-
quire into the working of the New Poor.law,
Whether out-door relief as at preesut given to the aged
and sick poor be adequate. 2. Whether the general repog-
MUT to in-dour relict be justifiable.
Ti. poverty of this poor rose's relations may be best
leant from the fact that the services of no female could
be procured for the lest neceemary offices—the laying out
et the body. he. These fneetioeariat could not be induced
to incur the risk of belag mremusented. Had not some
charitably disposed indivldeel of the nine sex as the de-
ceased volunteered his worrites, the body might have been
deposited in the cella just as it lay whoa the spirit de.
parted. Ti. doomed, however, bore as inemaithable
ehanieter. and was a communicant at the parish church.
Mr. Hibbs Mated in this discourse that, for twenty years
pest, he had constantly been necemmiteted to call attention
to the cruel eppremiou of the poor, of the aged poor, too,
she, Irving ministered to their wealthy neighbours' con•
resines, sad augmented their gains, are then no longer
oared for.

KlNcerroir Row itso Cum.—The eight-oared race
el this club finished yesterday, the follow' being the
result :—This Cuttaia's Crew, 1; the Fire. t's Crew,
0. The
blitcut Crew-1, Hornig ; La* ;
W. Hein • ;4, Windham, •Es R. Bainbridge ; 6,
8f0.1164 Gibbets • beasts (stroke) ; F. Walks
(ocanwals). The Fios.Prealisst's Orew-1, Holt ; 2, Reid ;
3. Percival ; 4, Heathfisid ;6. Preedy ;6, Cobb ; Leek ;
Deno (strolur);11. Frainds (waunrain). The race was from the
Waterworks at Dittos $o aloft to the at Hunks's,
and was wagered by a large and faski os party. They
dashed away at a rapid prior, level, sad so rowed for 200 or
300 yards, when the Captain's crew west away with the
lead, and, gradually increasing ik wee by three lengths.
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nom torpidity at Ike Um .—Asdrer tee, KA, 7.31..3.,
Dr. gamy, Dr. Sharised. Dr. Campbell, Dr. Wane,. Pastel Is
this, at 14 lid., , to4l. M. ; ei., 11s. 110, tark
34 b.. bra 01 contras. 40 .—Derry Du Darn and Co., 77. Resod.
street, [Amass . Fondant and area : ars at 40, Orscarbureh.
street . 1, Clisapeld• ; SS and 130, Oziord.rtreet ; DR, /90, 430,
sod 434 Woad ; sad amens sad charsida.