The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-29 00:00:00

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1.091 t. RELIEF IN THE mrpopous.

The select commi appointed by the House
of 00011•01111 to isquire into the destitution existing is the
nasesopolis, and the mode of administering the Pone-laws,
riennied their investigation on Friday, the Right Hon. 0.
P. Villiers, President of the Poor-law Beard, in the chair.
The other members of the committee present were, Mr.
Bexley. Mr. Kekewick, Mr. Lyall, Mr. Boriveria,Mr.Monek-
ton Milne., Sir W. Jolliet*, Lord R. ONO. Mr. didsr•
roan Sidney.Oolosel Pennant, Yr. timed, Sir J. Aston,
and Lord Fernsoy.
Mr. Bowriog, clerk to the City of London Milos, was
examined in referees, to the duties and salaries of the
medical Ohms of the anion. He expressed a strong opinion
that it would be better to pay them adequate @aeries than
to give them a small rentuamstion sad gnat them the
privilege of charging mirth. He sew great difficulty
In arriving at any general bun upon which the salaries of
medical men should be fixed, as the cirennwtheoss of dif-
tenet localities widely differed. For barium% taciag the
race of Lasieubire and Yorkshire, and of Cornwall—fa the
former cases the duties wotdd be very onerous, while in the
latter they would be comparatively light, coed it would
therefore be unfair to fix the mine salary yin sack owe.
By Sir W. Jolliffe—We have about 890 inmates in our
workhouse. The children are sent to Hsnwell, where they
are mach better off than if they were classified to the ulnae
workhouse. In point of fact the clasailication of children
wanld be little better than rendering them peepers for p.
aeration.. The existence of an able-bodied women's ward
in a workhouse must tend very greatly to barrooms the
severity of the discipline. The women require mach moss
I Arid discipline thee the ma.
By Mr. Yankton Nfines—With regard to children, I
think they ought to be dhseniated as far ea possible from
any idea of pauperises. With that view I would prevent
them from ever appearing at the pay-table to receive the
out-door relief allotted to their perm* Y Mot is geasrally
their first initiation kite the mysteries ef • We
sermon*, children out of the union, tad after they have
served 40 days they become charisaille to the pane I.
which they have been apprestioed, the sthilement bowleg
owed
Girls are generally sent out at 14 years of age,
aced (or years after they leave the district school they
are visited* the chaplain, in order to ascertain bow they
are going on. The guardians set their faces—and, in my-
opinion, very properly—against sending young girls to m 0
liners, or to any description of needlework. We have more
demands for children as apprentices then we have children.
The Chairman—l believe the feet is notorious that there
is a great demand for children!
Witness.-Tun, chiefly for doessekle swim The children
restive aa irlastaial training, cad I believe that an industrial
trsiaing oat of the workhouse is better than one in the
workhouse. No doubt, in many cases the ehikirea of
wipes receive a better education than the children of those
who medribsts tom Ws the poor rates. If the children ars
minatory we lock them up for a few hems. I think that
so harm mime from allowing the bad wawa to mix with
the pot As a general rule we dad that the example set
by the well conducted exercises a good influence over thous
woo se badly deposed There would be much lees &saes
ef mamboing the hadif you placed than all together and
afforded them se opportunity of judging, by the conduct of
others, whet their own ought to be.
By ifr. Lyall—As to placing them in a reformatory Ido
not shish they would go there. I should, however, feel
disposed to remove respectable young girls to some such es-
tablishment as that in Great Ormood.steset, paying the
amount of their maintenance there.

By Mr. Alderman Sidney—Then are oioetyeight parishes
is the Cit♦ of London union, and they are very unequally
feted to the relief of the poor. The highest rates are 6..,
sod ths lowest Gd. - - _ _

Yr. Stockton, churchwarden of St. Pancras, was then
called and risked by the chairman to state the objections
be esbetaised to the control of the Poor•law Board, and
the amendments he would suggest in the law. He said
be objected in the first instance to the power exercised by
the Poor•law Board of dismireing the masters of work.
hewer. Ye his opinion it was • power which ought to be
exercised by the guardians alone. The guardians of St.
Pancras dismissed their officer in 1852, and the Poor-
law Board declined to sanction the dismimal, threatening
the board with a writ of mandamus to compel them to take
him back. After onnsiderable correspondence Sir B. Hall
and Lord Dudley Stuart, the members for the liorrii)ull
promised to take up the matter, and after that the
heard no more horn the central authority, but were allowed
to rest in peace. What the guardians wanted was simply
the powered discharging an officer if they were of opinion
that he did not discharge his duties properly. They had •
local act upon which they relied for the powers they sought
to exercise

The Chairman—Have you had much occasion to dismiss
your officers. Have you•dismissed your chaplain ?
Witness—Yee

The Chairman—Was it upon the ground of his doctrine?
Witness—We thought he was ton Romaniaing in his
tendencies, and as he would not do for us we got rid
of him. We sever dismiss a man from mere caprice. ►nd
not without full inquiry. We bay. also dismissed our me-
dical officer, about two years ego.
The Chairman—l■ there any other point upon which you
think the law ought to be amended?
Witness —Yee ; 1 thir.k the power of surcharge exercised
by the auditors is exercised in a most objectionable manner.
The names of particular persoes who happen to have signed
the cheque duallowed are published to the world as the
names of persons who have misappropriated tho funds of
the parish. The old system of audit was much better than
that now adopted.
The Chairman remarked that the auditor was elected by
the chairman and vice-chairman of the district for which he
acted, and was perfecily iodspeadent of the Poor•law
Board.
The committee then adjourned.

Cavirril6 PALACE—This day (Monday) is the
last for purchasing eve shilling tickets for the Oreat Yee-
Oval performanoe of the Creation " on Wednesday next.
The country choraliata arrive in London to-day and to-
morrow. They aro more than usually numerous on this
occasion, the elite of the Bradford, Birmingham. and other
festivals and cathedrals having been engaged. It may be
safely aMrmed that on no previous occasion his Haydn's
popular oratorio been so magnificently presented as it will
be at Bydenharn as the Ist of May. The oratorio will be
followed by the national anthem, Mdlle. Titania singing the
last verse.

80CIETT or PAINTERS IN WATER COLoollll.—The
private view of the eftyeeveeth maid exhibition of this
moiety took pine ca Saturday, at the OsUery in Pail-mill
Mat, and attracted a distinguished company of the nobility,
eironeinsun, sod eminent persons in literature and art.
Aniciept those present at the private view we waked the
Earl and Countess Grey, the Msrquis of Lansdowne, the
Right Hoe. W. B. Gladstone and Mrs. Oindetosia Lady
Oharlotte Nolen, Earl sod Countess Fitswillises, Via
00024 sad Viscountess Sydney. the Marquis sad Mar.
chime= of Londonderry, Lord Richard reiveslish, Lord
sad Lady Hanker, Lord Lyveden. Lady Louisa Pennant,
Lady Rolle, Sir John Loather, But.. the Si... A. Kin-
gird, M.P., the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of
London, Lichfield, sod Winchester, the Dam of St. Paul's
sad Mrs. Milmas, their Excellencies the Ambassadors of
Anorrias Turkey, Portage' and Lalgima ; the Hoe. Mrs.
Seymour Brabant, Chas. Paget, Y.P. ; the Right Hon.
Lawrence Sullivan, &c.