The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-16 00:00:00

THE
MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.

WARRINGTON, lIIARez,IS.
A considerable portion of the town of Warrington
is bony supplied with water, is andrained, and Ice dwellings
—those of the poor and working dame um particularly—
ere damp and ill mutilated. Fenn, and all the scourges
consequent upon sash a state of thin" have at times made
sad havoc with the population. One would suppose that the
men who should attempt to lift the poorer masses from such
• state of sallying and depredation would be welcomed
almost as angels. At two periods, yet fresh within the
memory of all claws, mortality was exceedingly rife within
the dwellings of the poor. One was when famine drove teat
of Ireland such hordes of starving creatures to setk relief is
this country. Great number. of them took op a temporary
resting place in Warriagton,and the wistaria and fever which
overcrowded lodging-houses, at best but badly drained and
ventilated, engendered, often swept those who sought for
sa:cour and those who tendered it, to a common grave.
Then nuns another visitant—the cholera ; and tainted and
impute water in the wells from whence the poor drew their
supplies, added to the horrors of that plague. la both
these periods, to the credit of the- richer elms
of the Inhabitants, be it said, sympathy and as-
stetter* were not withheld, or bestowed with • nig-
gard hand by many, upon their poorer and sneering
neighbours. Taking a lesson bees so much bitter experience,
when pestilence half • emend time expelled, a portion
of the more respectable inhabilismes, sided by the thoughtful
and educsted of the worlds/ dostos, assekt to guard against
the tutu» by improviag the eanieney Mato of the town.
They nieseriaised the tows oranallM take step kir the
introduction of the Health of Towne Act, but the council,
unwilling to take upon itself the responsibility of such
• proceeding without the general sanction, sought the
sporoval of a pati:ic meeting. A meeting of the eatepayen
was regularly convened, and being held at mid-day was
open to all classes. The proposition was fully explained and
fairly laid before the pople. They approved of the course,
and some months have pained over the town, during which
surveys hays been made and estimates given of the expense
of • good sewerage. In the meantime, some parties have
seen ht to cavil at the mode adopted of gathering the sense
of the ratepayers. They alleged that the meeting being
held in the day time working men could not attend, and
the mayor has seen tit to call the meeting of last night, to
reconsider the matter.

The consequence has been the reversal of the wise decision
to which the previous meeting had coon ; but a lees reflec-
tive, more uedeliberative assemblage, was perhaps never con.
gregated anywhere. The speakers on both sides of the
question acquitted themselves very ably, and the exhibition
of talent on the platform, apart from the motives by which
they might be actuated, was such as a town like tlue might
be proud of. The mayor (Benj. Pierpoint, Esq ) presided.
and by his side was the late mayor, Wm. Allcard, Req.
Amongst other of the leaeling townsmen prseent were the
Hon. and Rev. Home Powys (the rector), the Rev. Mr.
Rostock, Peter Ryland', Esq., John Allen, Esq., Rev. I'. P.
Carpenter, and several of the aldermen of the borough and
members of the town council.

The question was pat to the vote about eleven o'clock, and
an immense majority decided for remainick# in filth sad
wretchedness. Thus has ended the attempt to introduce
any Warringtoe a measure which would probably be one of
the greatest blessings to the poorer class or cottager, (who
hate been made the principal instruments in rejecting it),
a measure which is unquestionably mach required, and which,
could it find a tongue, might ay with Cot " I shall
be loved when I am lack'.l,"—as baked it artursdly will be
when poverty and pestilence again stalk kand-in-hand
through the town, as they have toe shag dons in times past.