The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-23 00:00:00

TRAFFIC RETURNS.

RAILWAYS M
Miles hrei, Total. Total,
WWI molter' anodise IS6I le6o
Week ending Feb. 10. L L A: /I
London, Tilbury, & South-
end Extension
Royal Danish — 607 436
Week ending Feb. IL
I. Aunt. & Lomhardo.ilen.
(South Aust. Line)
(Lombardo Line 1
Week ending Feb. 15.
Cork and Toughs!
Week ending Feb. 17.
Caledonian

Id 166

nOt SAG min 13,851 11,616

THR LAWS OP SETTLEMENT AND CHARGEABILITY
or THE Yong—Last evening the adjourned meeting of
guardiaos and directors of the poor for conference on the
laws of settlement and chargeability of the poor, as affect-
ing their condition, and their dwellings, was held at the
London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill, to receive the report of
the deputation who waited on the Home Secretary on the
first day of the present session of parliament, and to con-
sider what steps should be taken in the matter. In the
unavoidable absence of Alderman Sidney, M.P., Mr.
Harvey, the chairmen of the West London Union,
presided. The chairmen said that the Home Secretary ex-
pressed to the deputation his opinion that great benefit
would result from the entire abolition of the present laws
of settlement and chargeability of the poor, and the
present meeting was to consider what was best to be
done in regard to this very important question.
Mr. Potter moved a resolution expressing the satisfaction of
the meeting with the sentiments of the Home Secretary as far
as they related to the present nature of the laws of settle-
ment mid removal of the poor, but that in their opinion to
abolish the laws of settlement and removal, without adopt-
ins more equal system of rating over an extended army
would be injurious and unjust to the already overtaxed and
pauperized parishes, where alone the poor can find dwellings
within the reach of their means. Mr. Warwick, vice-chair-
man of the City of London Unioe, seconded the resolution,
' which was after some discussion agreed to. A petition to
the House of Commons, praying that the matter might re-
ceive the serious and immediate attention of the legislature,
and that measures might he introduced to relieve the present
' evils and inequalities, was agreed to, and a vote of thanks
to the chairman closed the proceedings.
RELIEF TO THE SUFFEREIG4 IN THI LATE GALES.
—The committee of the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society, at
their weekly sittings on Friday (yesterday), at the Hibernia-
chambers, London-bridge, sent relief to 124 widows and
orphans and 153 shipwrecked seamen who had lost their
clothes in the late gale, amounting to 624/. ; on Friday last
7251., to 85 widows and orphans and 234 shipwrecked sea-
men, and the preceding Friday 5771. The secretary re-
ported that further applications for relief from
all parts of the United Kingdom were to be
expected, as the agents were not in full pos-
session of the cases of the widows and families of
the stamen Iced at sea during the late storms. He also drew
attention to the banker's peas-book, which showed that
there were nut funds to meet the relief ordered for to-day,
and that there were heavy bills to be paid for travelling ex-
penses and clothing for shipwrecked men from various parte
of the coast, and no funds. It was resolved that the
secretary do continue to press on the public the claims of
the widow and the orphan and distressed shipwrecked men.
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