The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-10 00:00:00

ST. PANCRAS NEW RELIEb' OFFICES.

The new relief office and dispensary (which is in'
teresting from being the first erected under the pro'
visions of the new act, and with the special aP'
proval of the Poor Law Board, and also the &Di
if a series of four intended to be erected in the
parish, of St. Pancras), is situated in the midst of 11
poor population in Compton-place, one of a series
of courts enclosed by the houses in Compton-streets
dilater-street, and Leigh-street. Access is (lb;
tamed through archways in Compton street and
Bunter-street. The Compton-street entrance being
nearest to the dispensary has been re-paved 14
_he vestry, and a cart-road formed to enable
trovisions, fuel, &c., to be carted to the doors.
Yery strong wrought-iron railings and gates
guard the outer doors, and divide the applicants
for relief into two streams, facilitating adint"
iistration in times of pressure. The buildings
ire very compactly arranged, and the rooms are all
Mn the ground floor. The site is of the form of the
letter L, the long arm of which has a double series
.if rooms, and the short arm a single series, chietif
iccupied by the porter's apartments. Immediatclf
)pposite the principal entrance and hall is the
general waiting room, the superficial area of which
is upwards of 600 square feet, and is lit by ay
cinuous lantern skylights in the open roof. The
;lazed side panels of the lanterns are hung on pivots
%rid are made to simultaneously open and close for
ventilation. It is heated by a large open fire-stove
surrounded by warm air chambers, through whic",
,:he fresh air is made to pass. At the north en l°l
the room are exit doors leading to separate well e
mud women's latrines, &c., and to the fuel store.
Ou the east side are a series of doors admitting
,o the committee room and to the doctor's consult'
gig rooms. At the south end is the entrance t,
the dispensary and relieving officer's room, brew
"
oow, &c. Adjoining the dispensary, and entered
,lily from it, is a drug room fitted with small range'
ink, and shelves. Adjoining the relief office, and
ntered only from it, is a store room, coustructed
io as to answer the purpose of a strong room also'
-separate conveniences are provided for the officers
ind porters, the passage leading to the porter's roan:
orm au exit from the relief office without necessi
ating a return to the waiting room or entrance
iall. When there are few applicants for relief there
will be no necessity to use this passage, as aPP/1,
;ants can leave by the chief entrance hall door;
passing the bread room on their way, and without
re-entering the waiting room. There is an external
exit door from the committee room to allow Of s.P,
plicants being passed out after their examination
without returning to the general waiting room'
All the rooms are very lofty, being open to the
roof and the underside of the rafters ceiled, 0
separate ventilating lantern skylights to each. lilt
side walls are nowhere less than 12 feet in heighil
from the floor. All the fire-places are fitted 10
Welch's patent ventilating stoves, which acin/3
hio
of fresh air from without being passed through t`',o
warm air chamber at the back of each into the
rooms through bit-or-miss ventilators over
chimney-pieces. All the passages are paved IV;
tone or tiles, and the rooms have wood fincr„
ander which a current of air is continat"
passing.
The buildings are very substantially built, -
the best materials and workmanship. No 101/,),

has been expended in useless ornamentation of tivi
kind ; and though the works are of the plail3e°„/
character, the proportions and light and airiness:r
the room's, with the agreeable grey tone of col°o
employed for distempering the walls, produo it
very cheerful appearance, and much enhances tlie

apparent value.
The contract was taken by Messrs. Scrivener and
White at the sum of £1,341, and some credit is 'll,
to the architect, Mr. E. C. Robins, of 16, S°lltoo
ampton-street, Strand, inasmuch as there were of
extras in the contract, if we except about giallo
reparations to old walls surrounding the site. 'her
architect's original estimate was £1,350. Altoge id
the arrangements are most creditable to all partocl
concerned in their origination, settlement, t)
realisation.—Marylcbone Mercury.

DESTRUCTION OF CROPS.—Heavy rains on Fr
probably
duringbably damped railway slopes, but the past vf,eici‘;
ti
fromconsiderable addition was made to the casualties re37l-trifejmfires from sparks falling from engines on the ";
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Northern and Great Eastern Railways. In the neigh °
b°
Manca, on the Great Eastern Railway, five hood of
to
15 acres
were burnt in afield occupied by Mr. Skelton ;
of wheat were also burnt at Wimblingten,
Lea b 9
joiningm parish. The stubble in a wheat field occuP"-due
Mr. S. Harvey, of Northorpe, on the Bourn and 110eilA-10t
linehow however,
the Great Northern, was burnt ; the damage!: 1
aivniCnognsbiedeenrable,
carted.the greaterEight poarr ti:ifuettlitecreio:o.if
in thevfiere'ldwahs
wheat were burnt on the farm of Mr. J. ThorePs°l3',:t, oti
Sibsey (Great Northern.) A field of wheat was bui,..-,01)
thed east side of Little Steeping Station (Great 14°r tl-a
i.nagmabgaerleeystiamnadte:ad
fittetld.£lo6fo.
barley
ye or ten acres a Pr:00
in the sviat,ll°-gs ei‘
burnt on the farms of Messrs. Fenn, at Ardleig°7
(Great Eastern). Two acres of barley but acplo
farm of Mr. Elsey, at Diss, Norfolk (Great East Kittle'
quantity of barley was burnt on the farm of Sif
sea Dighton, of Godmauchester (Groat Northerl oval
acres of grass were burnt on the farm of Mr-
St. Neot's (Great Northern). Some outbuildi
"
ish
a hay stack were destroyed at Belton, Suffolk
Eastern). roof)
CONSERVATIVE DEMONSTRATION AT LIVSI' f
—On Saturday afternoon the members awl frit:o,ls ° the
Liverpool Conservative Working Men's Association, 10.1;,
number of nearly 2,000, held a picnic in Einowsloy-P.i4
They had a largo marquee, a tea, and afterwards d°lsn;ioy,
and other sports. In the evening they walked to .101 as
hall, and in answer to repeated calls the Ei.rl of
norilao,
his countess appeared, and bowel thoiracknowleilg 6:400
t was unierstood that the park was lout for the ot-I—Li'ovo
n the express condition that the picnic should imt de‘.o,,,
nto a political demonstration. A number of speecliel:rioy,
olitical 113,10
ever, wore made, one of which at least, that of
Air•
barrister, of London, had a very strongp rid by 1
At the Wesleyan Conference on
Fr,, tbl,,
es
statistics of the pr sent state of the connexion I
11tcbor
country were published. It appears that the toast otal
,)C
of members is 342,380, being au increase on
the