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stand with other cities who cannot boast
the same means and facilities of purifca-
ton
London, too, is very seldom visited with
IeontlasratiOrs. Indeed, the same may be
said OF Paris and other great cities of Eu-
/ rope. did not hear ala alarm Of fire dur
ing my absence | have heard some one
remark, that during a residence of fifteen
months IN London, he never witnessed a
/ fire nor heard an alarm Of fire This ex-
emptlon arises from two CAUSES more
substantial and perfect style of building
and more thorough precautions \ fire in
/ New ork Is the frequent holiday of FIRE
mea- quietly expected, and undergone as
belonging to the necessary course of events
We have the best freman in the world
but 1t must be acknowledged that they are
made such by discipline which cost US
dear. 1t Is hardly worth while to burn
down our houses to make good firemen
| There IS one evil under which we do
not yet greatly suffer, which in London is
enormous-and that is pauperism. What
we have Is chiefly imported III London
1t is a native growth. La a report made
to the House of Commons some years
since, it was shown upon evidence that
in the parish of st. Giles-the principal
resort of beggary-theTe were two houses
which were frequented by more than two
hundred persons, formed into a club of
professional beggars; that children were
regularly let out by the day, the sum paid
for deformed children amounting some
times to four shillings a day and that 4
regular school was kept for instructing
children in the arts of beggary. The
number of professional beggars in and
about London has been reckoned as high
as fifteen thousand, the larger proportion of
whom are Irish
Pauperism IN London arises from NOR
al depravity more than from necessity
This appears from facts like those above
named from the number of gin shops,
or palaces, as they are called, and other
places Of vicious resorts, and from the
number of drunkards taken into Gus tody
by the police. In one year, of more than
seventy thousand taken into custody. more
than thirty thousand were drunk
went one evening In company with a
friend, into Spitalsfelds to visit the gin
palaces. Upon approaching, we easily
distinguished them by their splendid illu-
mlnatlon. TheinteriOr presented elegant
arrangements, and an imposing array of
taps whence the rich beer was continu
ally flowing, and of decanters filed with
tempting liquors. Around we're gathered
men. women, and children, presenting a
most squalid, vicious, and horrid appear
aucc They were in different stages of
lnebriatIon. | shall never forget the look
of a thick setw0man, past middle age
her eye was more that OF a tiger in its
dull, habitual savageness. than Of human
being. She was once, perhaps, bright
eyed, laughing Innocent little girl The
ruin wrought here seemed absolute aud ir-
rctrleyable We went into several Of
them without molestation One proprie-
tor asked us if we wanted any thing up
on our replying that we came merely to
see the palaces, nothing more was said to
Us. The police were everywhere in the
neighborhood Aud these houses are Ii.
ccnscd Must governments be guilty ever
lastingly of the foley Of punishing crime
instead Of preventing it 2 The money
spent here was either the wages Of vice or
of honest labor; the greater proportion,
undoubtedly, the latter. The existence
Of these shops, therefore, is both temp
tatlon to procure money by dishonest
'A~''f '-'A "a ''-''NiAiS ISSblAShDS III liC
homes Of the laboring classes.
Perhaps, ere we expatiate upon tbs
evils Of an over grown population, VIC
ought to inquire for the remedies Of pau
perism induced by vice Could education
and the influences of religion be extend
ed TO the wretched multitudes, these
scenes might be abated The legislation
and charity which vainly endeayor to make
provision for poverty, would accomplish
more by endeavoring to remove it's caus.
es. Prisons poor houses. and hospitals,
are signs that ruin is accomplished
Their multiplication may be an indication
of an efficient judiciary and sympathsing
beneyolence, but it is also a mournful in
dication of the want of the preventive in
huences of education and religion
Schools for children, and the gospel
preached to the poor-haye these been
tried yet to their full capablity of affecting
the condition of the people Despair not
until these have failed-N York Q1lar-
teriy-fr0Ds an unpublished scork.