The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-26 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 26, 1861.

No. 4,588.]

WEEKLY STEAM COMMUNICATION to
NY.W Yolk.—The LlS'S:Jimmy SULK, awl
PMILADLLI'II attLAM ill PA .Y Isteni asapalealisi
Sob MI powered Irue *Taw +tam Alm calks& alesammissas
to embark paaarnigers and despslcbes, as Mims
'ILYA LY &031 LI EMPMOL Ills KZW YORE
KANo:110.1. Wedsrdsy. Nay 1.
rrY e4rswlsy. May &
RUIN MI WU. M debt .dry, May IS.
As 4 earry •...eedang Wednesday.
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MACIT. U. l WUltsahaerasi, I.

THE GENERAL LIFE and FIRE
CpyPANY.

16•661.1 k. bud Iq7.
Waspnwrtr.l Acts of Par
62, K 166 Wultham.streal, Looks.
Capital —A1,006,0611.

The iiiretton hive nrdlie
I. That the A\\ I AL GENERAL MEETING of Um Proprie-
tor, will he held et Twelve ado. k precisely, ea SATL IRDAV. the
11th day of May asst, at tin tense 44 the company. RC king
street. In the lay of London.
T. That at such fleetlnu the rnprietors who then hold Ten or
Men !Mares which they hate possessed '4l Calendar Months,
may ahead and vole.
1 That Three lareciors-the Rata lino C P. Villiers M.P.,
name Challis, Bea Alliermsn. and John Lamm, EN -retire
by Maims and Thom,. tt t hnllts, fret.. Auditor, all of whom,
for •s reppottotmclit, will he proposed.
Itirtairhie
any Prostrletors 41441) quelitted who shall be *teams
heneiminst Candelatt • for any 41 these saltation& must give
villain moire of tin Ir fluent nnu, at lho alike, to the 'secretary,
M Ina ten .lal. pro Vii•II•ly to the tine or such
by order 44 Um Weenies.
AVM PS laGl. 111t411,43 PRICE. Seendery.
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UUODC4 les to tall the attention el the pohlM to the
POKY d IX VOWS which they dellm with Gold Gerd
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mob most paapsal. Ameapar's Golds to tin Verbal* and
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M the use of ROWLAND, xAcassAa OlL—This ele•
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and hakes It beautifully sulk pUoMp. sud gbh, In the
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Gina( AWAY to NERVOI7B 81777ZRZR13.
telteMs Di. EDITH has Just published • TRH EDITION al Ids
•••14 lie IMITATE MEDICAL MEND al=
••114••• al N 1111.41. Ogbilaly. for et Dowry.
p.••-boo. an swept at • direeled
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•••••obwarent. Taviawik Nero. Ir4A M.C.

lasuit l'Amnrs Rum Ann,. —The total
anaust nailed by lbo Lord Mayor is eid ef the Indian
lambs Pend is pearly 64.11001. Ameept the 'mount'
received yesterday were :—Collected in the Ward of Queen.
blebs, per Mr. Alderman Rose, 101/. 4a. Collected at Win.
chaster, VIOL ; Members 3( the household of the Emperor
of the Preach, per Mrs. Shaw, 24/. 10s. The mail which
leaves today for Bombay will take out at least 40,0001. from
the Mansice.hoese.

Tee PzerearovioNs I.r Brout.—A meeting on the
scilicet el the newt severe persecution el pprroottcsse4taaato in
Spas is to be held at Mt. James's Hall nest ursday. Sir
It. Peel, the Hos. Locke King, Hos. A. Kinnaink Sir S.
Mortar Pete, Mr. Edward Baines, and Mr. T. Bexley, have
promised to end the FAA of Hlakesbary to take the
chair. Some Wimmer facts wit be elated. The Spanish
priests have mently hew* alarmed at the propels of
se=alpeteelpies to that country, and have endeavoured
ami imprkesinest to check the spread of the light
the Siniplawes. In consequence of tide persecution,
twelve preseas were in a short time seised awl hoprioned
Itmesimo sad Oneede. Go boom* of their religion ;
mew Mien ieve did to Gibralter, is order to be under
theepreessille ed Dritieh law. Although met of the priso-
ner love hese retried, there are two, meted Hassel
Neiman* and Jost Albania, who are still sauteed, and
will be brought to trial ; *ad two others have very moody
bees cast iato prima It is known that 400 Spasiards have
embraced the prolortsat faith, cad these angora have created
inters Meyer is many parts of Spain, where motestants
have still to brave the honor of the Inquisitios. The
Spanish law &elan' that " there is bat use religion pro-
found n—the Ris apaioams cothehre—red so other form of
menhir is Isierelod."
It is reported that step; will soon be taken to
char the mead fee the site of the new government offices,
sad with this view satires hate just bow served on all the
shopkeepers cm that side of Cherisomseee Westminster
Misfile( apse Dowsing street. Her lirsiestry wellheown
" rearming mart" and
games she* eked. spay of the shops in in COW"'

THE CONDITION OF THE LONDON POOR.
--4---

In pursuance of a requisition, signed by upwards
of AO gent:einen, including clergy, guardians of the poor,
churchwardens, overseers, merchants, traders, and others
connected with the metropolis, addressed to the Lord
Mayor, his lordship convened a public meeting, which was
bald iu the Council Chamber, Guildhall, yesterday, far the
purpose of considering the causes of the late distressed con-
dition of the London poor, and whether an extension of the
area of chargeability and the ognalimation of the poor rate
would not be the best mesas of providing for the relief of
such distress in future.

The Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR presided. The meet-
ing was numerously sal influentially attended, sad a
those most we noticed Sir James Duke, M.P7r.
Lewd, M.P., Mr. Alderman Sidney, M.P., Mr. Locks,
M.P., Mr. Aims, Y.P. the Bev. Dr. Hugh ARM the
key. Mr. ; Mr. Powsaff, Mahler° of the Middle-
sex Magistrates ; Hr. Greaham±High Bailiff of Southwark ;
Mr. Bodkin, the Aristaat J for the county of Mid-
dlesex, and Mr. Alderman M
The LORD MAYOR, in opening the proceedings, said that
he had called the meeting in pursuance o( a requisition most
numerously and respectably signed, and expressed a=
that all person' present would assist him in order ho ob
a fair hearing for the various gmulfers.
Mr. Alderman SIDSZT moved the fellewing resolution :
" That this meeting bemoan with deep regret thatduring the
late severe winter many thousands of the labouring papule,
tion of the metropolis were dependent for support on fun&
adminUtered chiefly by the clergy and magistrates, instead
of receiving assietensi from the legally-amiseitatad
Mies established for the relief of the poor, and is there-
fore of opix.ioe that the defeats ol the law require wpm-
violas sad sammemet"

The Rev. HUGH Aunt!, in seconding the resolution, said
he was satisfied that if the booed of guardians in this coun-
try were allowed to raise a rate in alit or to raise the moss-
sary funds, they would apply them to the very best of their
ability. The question which they had to outdoor and
decide was whether the east and west was ormstituted as
one metropolis, and whether the City of Lesion ought to
be oos in all things. The men who lived smith and east of
the metropolis were all working men, sad to the richest
chases would accrue the grestest evil mien something
was dose in this matter. Never was there • time
when the feeling. of the working chases were sore in ta-
us of maintaining order and the honour of the country
and upholding her dignity as • nation amongst the greatest
la the world. (Cheers.) He besought those present care-
to consider this question, and to arrive at a just cion-
clon oa its aseit•
Mr. flinter, • guardian of the City of London Unice, said
b• bed to move an amendmeot to the reaolutioa. He was
no advocate of the centralising system. (Hear, bear.) Ho
would tell them a secret—
A Voics—Go home and tell your mother. (Oreat
laughter.)
Xr. SIBLEY proceeded to say that if the parish he repro-
seated were absorbed into the City of London, he would
call that centralisation. If they took the whole country
sad placed it in one pariah he would call that oestralhation.
nose.) In 1843 that euphonious patlenesa, Lord
araajbaroHlaughter)--dad provided • panacea for a poor
law. He would tell than that if they submitted to the
centralisation system they would create a Oaf of officers
with it 11131•1100 powers. ((Cries of " Question," and "Shut
up.") That was the (milieu. (Hear.) There were gentlemen
at Somerest-house with salaries amounting to 30,000 L a year.
Theg were the masters of the guard Sos. (Arnica "Ands good
job. too," sod laughter)—and no guardian could call Maul!
a gentlemen if he Sid such masters as the Poor-law Board.
(Oh, oh) He most may that there was something to complain
of, but his his oa the opposite side hadlsese the nog
way to cum the eviL He Ulkived centralisation was the
greatest cume to the Lad. itiacupt the names of those
who led Sped the requiltioa there were assay who bed
sever taken the slightest Interest in the curdle= of the
poor. d OHIO Or "Oh, oh," and "None) The re-
Ill? 41 whisk proposed—Oat-mud uproar sad repeated
MN of "aiuns")—would not relieve the poor, but would
open the door to the Poor-law Commissions., end this each
a Sate of things would arise se had arisen in FM" and thee
we should require such another ruler over as.
At this stage of the promedlop the tumult was so gnat
that Mr. Sibley was compelled to rename his mat.
Mr. Poem thou roes to address the roestiag amidst loud
call, for hia name.

Yr. Porra—t(y name is Potter.
A Vows—Are you bricklayer Potty} (Loud lawslatsr.)
Mr. Porraa—No. (Applause.) I wee chairmen of the
Week Loudon Erotica unttiill ten days age. (A Vales: "Year
fellow.") (luergh•er.) Ile then west ea to rAy liable 000
seisms the voekhouee Met wen applied to every able.
bodied proper mm or wow, aid he would he glad
when this humid test wee swept of our ilahatedieek, far to
apply it wee to Millet a misery, sad to do a Weems wren
We poor. (Oh.) For four years the board of garmilsna.
of which be was a member had studiouslzont.
and in the . very hoe of the Peer-law
during the winter months, carried eat • system =lisi
without that MM. (Oh.) He found that in the onion of
lisithaallgreest, 2,000 persons had been relieved during
the frost to the amount of 51 per week. (Loud cries of
" Shame," " No, no," sad wear.)
A pawn in the body' of the wastiag here rose, sod with
shenteriaa voice laid. I protest spurt this endeavour at
'Mr& end 1 trust We p
ower will take notice of it. (Cheers.)
Yr. Pow= said that our of the parish of SR
James, Westminster, they bad during the severe winter
applied to the Poor-law Board to roles the test, sad the
Poor-law Board, to their lasting disgrace, ranee,' their mon-
ths. (Confusion.) He stood there to state these facts in
broad daylight, and he opposed all attempts at neutralisa-
tion.

TM repobetion was then put nod carried with two dia-
leatienta.

Ler do, 111. P., said that the arguments which had
beseadvanosd apiast the first resolution might have been
mon IltAttlPtiattl7applied to that which he bad now to
move, for there scald be ao dispute that great distress had
this white" prevailed in the metropolis. Little success had
attended those who had in late year* invited the attention
of parliament to this subject, but there were downs of
members who were now convinced of the necessity for some
alteration. He regretted that Lord Derby, who had taken
scourge in reference to certain railways, and had thus
brought the subject before the public, had not earlier
turned his attention to the matter, and that it was only on
• question connected with certain proposed railways that
the great truth had bunion Lard Derby's mind that for
the purposes of speculation the poor were removed from the
richer parishes to the poorer. He would prove that
since Regent-street bad been built the beams of the poor
had been taken down by act of parliament, and other
houses were raised, but those houses thus raised were not
dwelhogs for the poor. (Hese, hear.) When Victoria-
street was built no less than 2,000 poor people had been
driven out of their dwellings. (Hear, hear.) They had
been necessarily driven to the other side of the water—to
Lambeth and Southwark. But if parliament placed poor
people in such • position, parliament was bound to set it
right. If legislation had crested the evil, legislation could
cure it. Hear, hear.) With respect to the set.
tlement of the poor acquired by service be thought it might
he fast as regarded the country parishes, but the law in
this respect praised most unjustly on the metropolitan
parishes. (Hear, hear.) He would be met by the argil.
meet, es be had been root before, that the poor man paid
lass rent is a poor perish than he would in the richer parish.
(Hear, haul_ But with respect to the richer parishes the
poor man paid no rent there at all, for there was no place
for hiss. (Load cheers.) House property was like every-
thing else, it was a question of supply end demand. (Hear.)
He would now state a awe in reference to the litigation
shout paupers which bad occurred at the Surrey Session,
when be practised there. It was • dispute be-
tween the pariah of Newcastle and on. of the me-
tropolitaa parishes about • man seventy-five years
old. The case was brought an at Reigate, and wituemes
were brought up all the way from Newcastle. How the
matter was now decided be did not know, bat a case was
submitted to the Court of Queen's Bench. (Laughter.)
That case was argued in the Court of Queen's Bench, and
after &transmit it was sent down to Reigate for a rehearing.
(Renewed laughter.) The costs amounted to 3001., ad'
everybody said that the poor old man of 75 might have been
kept by this sum for the rest of his days in perfect affluence.
(Great laughter.) Thus were parches so wedded to
that " beautiful parochial system," as Mr. Sotharon
Finnan had in the House of Commons called
it— that antique parochial system which his friend be-
hid him (Mr. Deputy Lott) might now call it. (Laughter
and Implosion.) He proposed a resolution to the effect
embodied in the views he had expressed, awl recommending
the adoption of petitions to parliament on the subject.
Dr. GIORGIC ROSS seconded the resolution, sad said that
when he bad endeavoured years ago to awaken public at-
tention to this subject he had always been met with the
sourer, " Why Rom, don't try to bring the poor into the
City, we went the poor-houses pulled down and warehouse*
erected." (Hear, hear, and cries of "Shame.") He m-
Wailts parochial system as doomed, and said that the
ialeale" ef the country were in favour of that con-
demsotioo. (Cheers.)
Kr. POIMALL, the chairman of the Middlesex magis-
trates, said be did sot quit* understand the resolution,
although it acknowledged a principle that those who con-
tributed to the wealth of the country should in their de-
crepitude be supported by the country at large. He be-
lieved that the equalestioa of the poor raw would meet
; the ord. We wanted to acknowledge the principle that the
poor man was a charge on the country, as were our army
and navy. (Cheers.)
Mr. Deputy LOTT' then moved the following amendment :
—" That this meeting views the equalisation of the poor
rates with distrust, inasmuch ea it will necessarily lead to a
national rate for the relief of the poor, which system of
chargeability would ultimately lead to recklemoess and
extravagance in the management of the poor, to an exten-
. sive system of vagrancy and roving, and would tend to
weakest the interest which men take in local affairs, and

thus destroy one of the best safeguards of the freedom of
the country. That it would work most disadvantageously
to the poor themselves, by causing a discontinuance of the
parochial system, which for a period of upwards of 200
years his worked so beneficially, and which would, if dis-
solved, weaken, if not altogether extinguish, reciprocity of
belie, between the rich and the poor,
_introduce a system of
cen*Wisevi administration, equally dinadvantogeous to the
iltiePsrer and to the deserving poor." He said that he
should probably not find many supporters, as meshed been
taken to lame rod tickets, admitting the friends of equalisa-
tion. (Loud cries of " No, no," and cheers.)
A G nen "ir AN here interposed, and said—That is not true.
lUproar.) wan admitted to the platform, and I had no ticket.
(
Mr. Deputy Lon. said be had been told by a gentleman
behind him to speak the truth. He defied any one to say
be bed not done so, and the conduct of the person to whom
be applied was not gentlemanlike. (Applause.)
Mr. G. BROOIII seconded the amendment, observing that
M the plan proposed wine adopted it would lead to national
rating, and that would be a national injustice, for it would
destroy the last link which bound the poor to their parishes.
He repudiated the statement made by the learned gentle.
man (Mr. Locke), although counsel had a license for toogue—
=—that be was in the slightest degree personally
in parochial legislation.
Dr. Haim, chairman of the West London Union, and
Dr. AMARAL supported the resolution.
At the moment when the einolution and amendment were
about to be put,
A person in the body of the chamber interposed, and
said I have spoken on this subject for years "
There were loud calls of "Name, name ;" and the indi-
vidual in question said, "My name is Owen—limanel
Owes—l am the Hyde-park lecturer," on which annesinee-
utibeenfnaion grew worn confounded, and is the midst of
of *cis Mr. Owen enured the edfoursinest of the
'Dieting, stating that tie was that the resolution
should be thoroughly Weig and debated.
The LORD Maros—The notice of Mr. Owes is not se

Mr. Owns—l hope, my lord, you won't decide that.
Will you put my remintion! Tos sure Nom patlimaa la
the mom will second it. (Laughter.)
The LORD ItATOR--Al no gentleman seem& It I mud
pot tf.
The original resolution and amendment were then put,
when the former was carried, only two permits holding up
their hands against it.
On the motion of the Rev. J. WOOL a vote of thanbn
was pained to the benevolent persons who bed contributed
to the relief of the poor dialog the whiter, when so much •
destitution prevailed.
air J. DVS; M.P., then moved • vote of thanks to the
Lord Mayor, and said that in his place in parliament he
would endeavour to give effect to the views expreeeed by
his fellow•citisem. (Hear, bear.)
Mr. WARWICK R•001/1104 ibe resolution, which miscarried
by acclamation.
His LORMUP, in returning thanks for the kind manner
in whisk he bad been received on this important question,
mid that if there should be, as be Plated there would In:
logialsboa as the matter, he would give it his best sup-
port. (Cheers.)
The premed*, then terminated.

THE ASYLUM IPOR IDIOTS.

The subscribers and friends of this lent
Mad their spring election and annual meeting y at
the Loads Tavern, Mr. Aide' man and • ABMS in
the chair. The large room of the tavern was tilled, a con-
eidenible portion of the meeting consisting of ladles, who
mimed great interest in the proceedings.
The Eineantent read the report of the board of ma-
nagement for the past year. The report stated thatilm num-
ber of pupils, including the election of the day, would stand
at 334, and the family, with the attendant' and staff gam
rally, amounted to more than 400 persons. Durkee the year
the board Lad received in bequests the amount of 3,9101.
At the anniversary dinner of last year, when Lord Stanley
filled the chair, the sum of 2,0001. was realised. A gentle-
men had offered 1001. if nine other pathos's would give tit*
was. This had been done, sad 1,0001. had welted to the
society. The report, after alluding to this death of their
treasurer, Sir G. Carroll, who had left them a legacy of
5001., concluded by osegratidating the mberribers on the
success of the asylum.
Dr. Down, the medical Meer of the asylum, then reed
his fees which it enplaned Mist is the number of
patinas IMu was an bermes ever the previous year. Than
were aestmat 314 inteMes, of whom 317 were realm, and
97 ferealr, is the asylum at Redwood, 71 having bees
admired isa the last annual meeting. The general hula
of the bemeges was naterkabl good, the 'nodality having
bass sussillsely am% not lie enmity of the
Imams WI year. The report went us to diseribe several
of the maul raissplcmigs fires amongst W fame.., of a very
fatolootiog eater*. These erns w9l with the
and will prove ex as showing
:ttr' great good can be 71= by and proper
treatment even amongst the most onfintenate of mankind.
The reading of the report we received with great applause.
The lizourrent then read the balenewheet for the year,
which showed the total receipts to be 21,9371. lls. 111, the
expenditure, 20,561/. 13a. 7d. ; leaving a balance in hand of
1,3751 13e. 4d.