The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-07-24

Whenever an unusually large and fine horse of this
breed is produced in the country he IS sent TO the
London market; and remarkable animals they are,
ola height and stature almost elephantine--large-
limbed, slow-paced, shaggy-footed, sweeping the
ground with their fetlocks each huge foot armed
with shoe weighing from FIVE to six pounds. One
of these strong creatures is harnessed to street.
cleaning machine, which consists of brushes turn
ing over a cylinder, and sweepinghhe dust of the
streets into kind of box. Whether II be wet or
dry dust, or mud the work is thoroughly perform
ed Il is all drawn into The receptacle provided for
it, and the huge horse stalks backward and forward
along the street. until it almost as clean draw
ing room.
/ called the other day on friend, an American,
who told me- that he had that morning spoken with
his landlady about her careessness in leaving the
shutters of her lower rooms Enclosed during the
night. She answered that she never took the trou-
BILE to close them; that secure was the city from
ordinary burgaries, under the arrangements OF the
new police, that it was not worth the trouble. The
windows of the parlor next TO my sleeping-room
open on rather low balcony over the street door,
and they are unprovided with any fastenngs, which
in New York we should think great piece of neg
ligence. Indeed, l am told that these night robbie
ries longer practlsed, except when the thief
is assisted by accessory in the house All class
es of the people appear to be satisfied with the
new police The officers are men of respectable APP
pearance and respectful manners. II lose my
way, or stand in need of any local information, |
apply to person in the uniform of police officer.
They are sometimes more stupid in regard to these
matters than there is any occasion for but it is one
of the duties of these officers assist strangers with
local information.
Begging is repressed by the new police regula-
tons, and want skulks in holes and corners, and
prefers its petitions where it cannot be overheard by
men armed with the authority of the law. There is
a great deal of famine in London, said friend to
me the other day. but the police regulations drive 1t
out of sight. As was going through Oxford street
lately, saw elderly man, of small stature, poor
y dressed, with mahogany complexion, walking
slowly before me- As passed him, he said in my
ear, with hollow voice, 81 am starving to death
with hunger" and these words and that hollow
voice sounded in my ear all day.
Walking on Hampstead heath, day or two
since, with an English friend, we were accosted by
two laborers, who were sitting on bank, and who
said that they had come to that neighborhood in
search Of employment in ay-making, but had not
been able to get either work food. My friend
appeared to distrust their story. But in the
ing as we were walking home, we passed a compa-
ny of some four or five laborers in frocks, with
biudgeons in their hands, who asked us for some
thing to eat. "You see how it is, gentlemen," said
one Of them, ''we are strong; we have come for
work. and nobody will hire us; we have had moth
most menacng; and the Englishmsn who was with
u.s. referred to ii several times afterwards, with
expression of anxiety and alarm.
hear it often remarked here that the difference
of condition between the poorer and the richer
classes becomes greater every day; and what the
end will be, the wises pretend not to foresee.