The Express.
London, England, 1857-04-22 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL

more than 60,000 inhabitants; but in the East and
West London Unions, less than 100,0001. ontal has
to maintain the destitution Aunt vaong a
Mon of nearly 100,000 inhabitant& St. 114 d 3
Bread-street, in the City, PaltotafrOar
the
ever; in St. Nicholas Oleve,, oin the ,do
rates are Bs. in the pound on•ft-e rateable . of
the 61 houses which constitute the parish.
Assuredly such inequality of taxation as this re-
quires some valid reason to justify it ; and yet it is
isig kikoit to die over any such tenon. When a
man's servant Isms his strength by age or infirmity,
the parson win amployed him is the person rr.orally
bound to relies, Ma. The place where he happens to
r wide is a mere anident. It neither adds to nor takes
awayfrosathereseins' ibilityofthemaskr. Whyshoald
ail Simi we amen apply in a wider sphere ? Mer-
ano% .1111161011.11.• country gentlemen, farmers,
and *VIM% waifs is oocu',rations which demand
the preamearvase mem te. human beings. The law
declares net when these %lumen beings are worn out
they *hall TS alatilka tc, support. Who is tosupport
them? Sorely thaw. who (as it were) called them
into existence, or '',,t all events need up their best
cure". New.rtheless, such is not the English
law. A Poor man may have worked all his days
in one plat* , and may have gone to reside in another
Place. 1)4 place of his residence is that upon which
he has'* claim. Nay, the district in which the poor
man floes his daily work may be increasing in value
from hour to hour by that very work ; the ground
w.ay be so valuable that the poor are driven off to
some distant suburb—and yet this very district of
increasing wealth may at the same time be getting tv.-
lieved mare and more boor the burden of the poor rate.
Of this singular result London is perhaps the most
marvellous instance. The population of the City,
which had gradually decreased between 1821 sad
1841, has still further decreased between 1841 al
1861; whilst the rateable value of the prerlaty
has rapidly increased. At the same time am-
ployaseat in the City is much greater new
then it was thirty, twenty, or even ten years
ego; the demand for mere labourers has in-
creased as the resident population has diminished,

and a large proportion of the working population is
now domiciled in the suburbs. Thus the
City of London, whilst it increases its wealth
by the employment of additional labour,
refuses to bear those btirdens which every employer
of labour ought to brar—the support of the peens*
destitute. The richer parishes have no pleas la
which the poor can reside, and hence those of ths
working classes who, from sickness or age, or want
of employment, are likely to have to demand relief
oat of the poor rates of the parish in which they re-
side, are mainly found lodging in the poor parishes.
The effect of this system is pernicious to the
last degree. Those who possess land in parishes
where the poor rate is small will not suffer any in-
ferior houses to be built lest the rates may
be inconveniently increased. The poor labourer is
therefore separated by cruel distances from the place
of his daily toil. His strength and time are ex-
hausted in a tedious journey from the place of his
residence to the place of his work. The gulf
which is already fixed between the employing
and the employed classes is rendered, if it can
be so, more impassable. The labouring poor,
in their anxiety to get as near as they can
to their workshops (as it were), are content to
huddle together, in utter contempt of all comfort,
and even decency, and to pay exorbitant rents for
wretched lodgings. In short, this fatal system gore
far to promote and to generate those terrible scenes
of which Dr. Lrruxer has lately drawn so graphic
a picture.
As we have urged before, if we cannot relieve
poverty, we can at least repeal these laws whiehinter-
fere with the comfort of the poor labourer. There can
be no doubt that the present law by which the poor
are made chargeable to the parish where they reside,
and not to the parish where they work, greatly ag-
gravates the difficulties inherent in the case. The
only remedy is to equalise the poor rate throughout
the metropolis. There is no reason whatever
why one pariah in the City should pay
Ks., and another parish nothing at all.
London is in fact one ; and each separate district is
essentially connected with every other district.
Therefore the whole metropolis ought to be charged
equally. It has indeed been said that this scheme is
objectionable because it is the first step towards a
national poor rate. Well, and if a national poor
rate would extirpate injustice and °premien,
analogous; to what we have been describing,
throughout the country, why not? But the objec-
tion is irrelevant. A national poor rate may or
may not be expedient; it may or may not be prac-
ticable. It seems to as clear that an equal metro-
politan rate is both expedient and practicable. And
in our attempt to remedy the local metropolitan
abase, we may hit upon the means of eradicating a
pervading national abuse. What the aristocratic
parishes of the metropolis have effected in the way
of relegating their poor, and the charge of support-
, ing them, to less wealthy and less fashionable
parishes, is being done by landlords throughout the
country, by palling down cottages and driving their
labourere to reside in towns and villages remote
from the locality of their toils. It is, in short,
impossible to say that there is any principle
in the present system ; and most assuredly the
consequences which result from it, and which are
every'day becoming more serious, are proof sufficient
that if there is any principle in the present system
it must be an erroneous one.

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and I,ba Printer Regal. The U.S. Bashing BM end Cep-
tain lie Plat mere in attendance. The Prism Villa to the
British Mass= in the afternoon, attended by his Equerty to
Welting, end also paid • that to the Duchess et Olcay.agsr,
The Prisons Royal sad the Prisms Alice, serried by
Lady Canine Berri gten sod the DIY el WW Jar, ~at to
1 Lambeth Palms in the ellaineen.

The Mew at ms boa soceasied tho Duchess 01
Wenn:gam as the Lady la Wallin to koe Meyeaty.
Hui.. Mortimer Baektille WrA has eigiseed Camel
the Hos. A. N. Hood is hY duties as the Orocat in Wailing
to the Quota.

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bfauday, and rensdned yeKeetiay In a stets of languor and
ereekule- Bar Royal *Highness 4 ins precarious state.
Prince Albert end the. Duke of Candridge and the Primus
of Ilohenlohe Lang•mburg visited the Royal Duchess at
Gloucester House, Perk-lance
The Hereditary Grand Duchies of Meeklusborgh &relit&
accompanied by her mu, Prince Adolphus, arrived in Loa-
don yesterday morning, from the Continent. Hut Royal
Highness went to the residuum of the Duchess of Cam-
bridge, in St. hrears's Palace, sad dined with her brother,
the Dehe of Canalidge, in the evening. The Hereditary
tied Duchess Or words left town for the raddmsce of the
Dub= V. Catskill" at Hew.

Illinure, from Honduras, had a interview with
Usseetrry Lsboothers, yesterday, at the Colonial-41os
I.lllllpkille were received from the Governors of the North
temerkes Pmeinom at the Colonialoeloe, yesterday.

Thin anweing the following bulletin was iusued:
Gloucester Hours, April 22, 1862, 8 am.
°lst loyal Alsittuess the Dueller of Gloucester had
mime slop fa the early poet of the eight, but has ,room
beim* awlowsmed is her breathing.
(Sipa) "Paulsen HARICINP, M.D.
"ROBERT PZIOOIOI4, M.D."