The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-28 00:00:00

THE CITY POOR.

It is believed that an attempt will be shortly made to
obtain publicity for the proceedings by the Guardians
at the Poor of the City of London ; and we arc given
to understand that many of the Guardians themselves,
who have been chosen to the office in consequence not
only of their experience and humanity, but because
they are men in circumstances which place them be-
loud the influence of sordid motives, are favourable to
the proposal to throw open the doors of their committee-
towns to persons authorised to attend from the press.
Many have been surprised at the (comparatively
with other parts of the metropolis) great number of
PDor to be seen in the City parishes. The cause as-
signed by the intelligent officers who are most conver-
sant, from the distressing nature of their duties, with
the subkret of the enormous prevalence of pauperism,
is, that settlement by servitude has, in the City, added
10 the general amount of distress experienced all over
England. Previously to the passing of the new Poor-
W Bill, a twelvemonths' living and service on the pre-
)ll)ises ga,de a settlement, and the number of servants, por-
sbopmen, employed in the shops and warehouses,
In the city swelled up the number of persons dependent
upon parochial bounty, to an enormous bulk. The
abolition of the settlement regulation has thrown a heavy
weight upon the shoulders of the City Guardians, who
however, instead of casting it off, arc making the most
Porerfol efforts to check the further extension of the
!vil• The Guardians of the City Union, whose proceed-
ings we shall in a short time particularly detail, have
fdlt for the children of the poor, and looked forward to
the best effects from the education now given through
their benevolent exertions to the youthful masses under
their Patm nape and superintendence. They consider
tue difThzulties under which numbers of the rate.
payers 'labour to support and educate their families, and
theY entertain the still prevailing opinion that
15'o` arty may ultimately overwhelm families, deser.v-
-g of a better fate, and that it would be in-
Iturnan, as well as unwise, to inflict upon the unfortu-
11?ute the penalties to which criminals are not subjected
toe greater degree.
There is reason to believe, judging from the exer-
tions of the guardians of the City of London, however,
That a workhouse will, before many months have elapsed,
13e established fur the employment of the idle and des-
titute ; that an asylum contemporaneous with it, will be
t!lt'ed worthy of this great City, and that such a cliv-
mifleaCion shall be made that those who have suffered
irom. inevitable calamity, will find a retreat in their old
5Re, without being obliged to associate with persons who
e once inferior to them in every respect.

'iler Majesty the Queen has fotwarded, through
Blt Henry Wheatley, the sum of 501. towards the erection
141'0111ton church, Lancaster.
"nig GENERAL ASSEMBLY'S HALL.—The
!excavations for this building, on the Castle Hill, are now
it, progress. Government and the Town Council have
Itlhitea to find the funds for its erection ; and the site, which
nas been acquired from the Improvements Commiisioners,
'a very nearly the most elevated ground in Edinburgh ; so
that the building, and its noble Gothic spire, 250 feet high,
'will be one of the most striking and commanding objects in
the city. The building will be in the Gothic style, and is
ae placed that its front looks down the High-street, with
nee side to the Castle Hill, and one to the New Ap-
Preach. The spire, also, is erected in a direct line with
Hanover-street ; and thus, immediately on turning
into Brandon-place, at Canonmills, this noble object
will become visible, towering up to a height fully equal
to the hignest point of the Castle, and seen all the way
up to the Old Town. The Hall is to be fitted up pretty
nearly on the model of the House of Commons,
The space allotted for the house is fitted to accommo-
date 400 ; and there are separate accommodations for mi-
nisters sot members, for licentiates and students of Divinity,
and for the public, all of which have their entries sepa-
rately from each other, and separately front the house, into
Which last members alone, aid parties and their counsel
4-11c1 agents, will have admission. The Moderator's
chair, slightly elevated at the head of the room, is
at the upper end of the Clerk's table; and the un-
seemly box and platform in which they sat, and %%his+
so long incommoded the house, will be finetty ba-
nished. The bar wiil be at the lower end of the room ;
d the comfort of the members in their long sittings will
be consulted in two important ways,—lst, by a system of
Po ft cushioning throughout, and, 2d, by a system of
beating and ventilation executed upon the most approved
scientific principles. The Lord High Commissioner'a
eemmodations at the cast end of the Hall will be eecellent.
Ilia throne, on a platform a little elevated above the Mode.
rstor,stands in the centre, within a compartment fur iteelf,
and on either side of this arc large aecomerrelationt for diF-
theuished strangers on the one han..l, ted:on tlee 'ettele, for
members of the fourth estate, tbO genttetten of the
press,
The acclivity on which the bnihkilig stands affo•ets
the means of another important relvantage. It it tbil,
that
.Under the Assembly Hall there will he
room nearly sixty feet long, adapted in the 'most !perfect
manner for Synod and Presbyterial anti ototherrneet•ing, .
and
there will be a variety of correatittee or lilsery rooms.
It is one part of the arranga:ment, that the Hall, when
A_ie.
Grequired t for eeclo"...restical eetirt purposes, is to be
4 as one of th' city churches. This will be easily Sc.
eernplished b-
.y converting the throne into a pulpit, and
Q„,
" gtoP' open central area of the Hall with pews. Mr.
2 pie Graham is the architect.—Ethe,b„yi,
hDR. PUSEY.—This divine, whose tlor.".rines we
ave frequently adverted to, preached
H • at Jlristol yesterday,
e ts sojourning at Clifton.
MARK.7e-T, DEC. 24.---001
• BRISTOL SUGAR
Sugar market has remained .u,t and inective. A few sales
have been effected at
di • •
spostnen to still further decline,lbut there is no
esnsider
'eurchase largely, even at what might be
•
..rd cheap terms on the day.
OuBLIN.—At half-past four o'clock on Friday
wetting a fire broke out in Grafton-street, Dublin, on the
Premises of the Messrs. Fannin and Co., booksellers. The
establishment of Mr. Fannin was totally destroyed. Other
"'uses wore injured. An explosion of gas, it is con-
Ettured, caused the fire.
The Countess of pinto and Ladv Fanny Elliot
'Wised at the Admiralty last week from Scotland, but will
remain in town only a few days longer, before returning to
Mint° House, Roxburghshire, with the Noble Earl. The
flee 44/
om stes season the week before the
%et a to wpm Jur
of Parliament. "'
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