The National Register.
London, England, 1821-01-07 00:00:00

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On Monday night the 1.....ti10tt Workhouse, part of
wh:cli has been vatitz..l r,r the use of the Subscribers to
the Fu..d fur the llot selms Poor, wrs opened for the
reccption of the wretched. The Committee had suet
early to tie (lay for the puroose of superintending some
oecessary alterations in the %Vorkliouse fur the Amn-
itmlatior. t:le Homeless.
While tine Committee were employed its the new
arraogemeitts, a al :dication was nude by Mrs. Fry,
who has had a v' v great increase of unfortunates upon
her list, to the i i.,:etors, to permit the adroi-sion of
such females as —ight ;le ilischuged front the prisons
its which she .•ispenses her charities. The application
was accompanied by ass assurai.ce that the Governors,
in granting such a oerinission, would act tip to the
spirit of the Act of Parliament foe the Regulation of
the House. The subject is to undergo • date con-
sideration.
It has been determined by. the Committee, that the
cases of applicants for admission shall undergo the
strictest immediate exa • Atm that can be made, and
that none shall be received who have a distinct legal
claim upon any itarish. The object the Committee
profess is the saving from starvation, or the fatal effects
of an exposure to the cold, those who have no recogni-
zable claim to parochial relief; the existing opinion,
that parishes relieve all, tieing the most dangerous that
cast be entertained; furnishing an adequate apology to
the affluent for withholding the requisite aid, and repre-
seining all beggars as nuisances amid lazy wretches, who
would not apply for relief where law gave them a right
to demand it.
It has not escaped the notice of the benevolent men
who thus " go about doing good," that eases are con-
tiitually occurring in the metropolis different from those
which omenr in the country, and for which a dilferentior
rather an additional mode of relief is necessary; that in
the country, even its large towns, people have a know-
ledge of each other, and distress never rises to that fright-
ful height so often to be seen in perishing sojourners in
the streets of London. . _ .

Menders are to be appointed from the Committee to
scour the markets and pent-houses of the metropolis
nightly, in search of fit objects tOr the notice of the
Committee. Many a young man comes up to London
cull of exioccutitms, and with little or no money, and
that unless he can get immediate employ, he is already
half itilditne—.that toys bred up in London without any
means o. heelihontl, and, its oittn hativens, of dissolute
parents, are iu a still worse condition, and servants out
of place are not notch berer off.
Tl'e remedy this deplorable situation of a great part of
tin utnitikition of Loudon for a time, will be the object
of the S.iciety which is thus rearing its head amongst
the most suoilitite 'munitions that have distinguished
he national character of Britain. 1 t is true that one
hordrethh put of the misery which exists—of the
misery w!ticti is nut to be seen in the streets, but which
lingers through shame, or sickness, er despair, in a
garret, is not known to those who are able aril willing
to relieve it. Utifortdttately the benevoleut and charita-
ble have almost as notch difficulty to break through
forms anti conic at the unt:apvy, and know their real
wants, as the wretched have to come at them.
It is necessary to state, th. t during the period when
shelter was Worded last winter Its the poor in Mr. Hicks's
warehouse, in London Wall, 1,592 persons were relies,.
ern; and that the expense incurred was little mote tban
upon an average, Ds. each individual. The Committee
oh last year ascertained, that there at all times persons
in the inetrolitilis in want of nightly shelter. Several of
the gentlemen who posed that Committee, amongst
whom were Messrs. Gault!, Ware, Stattsfield, and Hyde,
traversed the several districts, and humid the accustomed
haunts ef the miserable deserted by their former occu-
pants. They visited also different watch-houses, and
conversed wish night constables, patrois, and others in
different partsof the tom., who all concurred in opinion
that a vast improvement was discernible in the state of
the streets during the night, since the ope • gof the
Refuge for the Houseless, and the Committee felt them-
selves warranted in asserting, that toe Asylum bath not
only afforded relief to many industrious and deserviug
persons, at a period when their warring' were snore
than usually severe, bust that it had also in no inconsi-
derable degree le:vetted the opportunity for, and the
temptation to, the commission of crime.

MONUMENT TO THE LATE Ktist3.—The commence-
ment of the New Year is to be distinguished by an act
of public justice to the memory of a Sovereign, whose
reign must always be ranked as one of the most eventful
in the British annals, and of whose virtues there is, we
believe, but one opinion among men of all parties and
classes—we mean his late revered Majesty, George 111.
The plan of an appropriate mottuniental giotope, to be
executed in bronze, and erected in some public place, in
commemoration of his Majesty, has been submitted by
an eminent artist to the principal members of the Royal
Family, and several of the Nobility, most distinguished
for their taste in the Fine Arts. It has met with the
MOM flattering approbation, and a Com aaa ittee of Noble.
men and Gentlemen has been formed, with the saner 00
of the highest authority, and tinder the i 1111 l wdiate pa-
trorage of his Royal Highness the Duke of York, to
carry the plan into immediate execution.
Christmas morning, as the Rev. Thomas Hogan,
Parish Priest of New.mstle, was vesting himself in
order to celebrate first Mass, at eight o'clock, and
the Chapel crowded to excess, one of the galleries
suddenly gave way and fell ! The scene of conster-
station which followed can be better conceived than
described—nothing was to be beard but the cries of
those in danger, and the lamentations of others
outside, Coe the safety of their children and friends ;
but by the singular instance of the protecting hand
of Providence not a single individual was seriously
injured.