The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1857-05-20
A PICTURE OF LONDON.

We recently alluded 10 the des,itutiou and
misery which prevail among the poor Of Lon
don, and especially TO the crowded and un.
healthy manner in which some Of them are
compelled 10 live, in narrow alleys and damp
cellars. One instance. was. mentioned, in
which 4s men, 70 women, and SO children
resided in 81 rooms. The London Times has
taken up the subject, with view 10 arouse
The authorities TO the necessity Of some sys-
tenn of reform, and concludes bold and
strong article with this language:
sis thers no moral from this contrast? ls
the modern Dives guilless because he runs
away, and the modern Lazarus 10 be left
alone because he hides in corner his mis-
cry and his sin Yet there is no city in the
wo,ls like ,hesCi,y-df LoIsioAfor its relisions
and it's charities. There is no English city
SO well churched, so well clergyed, so well
bishoped, so we'll tithed, SO we'll rated, so
we'll clarified, so well armed with all the,
staff of long established pieiy and ostentaiious
benevolence, Poverty, disease and crime in
this city are The material out of which whole
classes are enriched. We have Unions TO
relieve them, hospitals 10 cure them, and
clergy TO convert them. So well secured are
the higher Influences that when parish dis
appears its church remains, and, if there be
no flock TO 1.-THE. the very soil and bricks
maintain the pastor. There is no city in the
whole world in which the aggregate expeu-
d!ure for all public purposes,--ior govern.
inent, for police, for charles, for schools, for
churches, for clergy, for infrmaries and dis.
pensaries, comes a, all near that of the city
of London. Yet the result is the existence
and even the fresh growth, in The heart OF
this metropolis, and within the favored Dor.
ders Of the City, oil these physical and moral
plague nests. In the whole world, far away
from the preaching of missionaries, there is
no such utter bruiishress, such groveIng aud
wallowing, as is discovered in the Ward of
Bishopsgate.' Dives is indeed wise in his
generation 10 fly o. nights from such foul
proximity. When Lazarus had done his
days work and betakes himself 10 his stye he
is very unwholesome brute. Where he,
his companions, and bis cubs feed and litter,
the. dirt ferments, and the very air is eaven.
omed. DR.. Leiheby has analysed II and
found that Il has lost its share of iife-giving
power, and that il is charged, not only with
more than it's share Of sluggish elements but
also with the vapors Of death, and the prinoi.
pie Of putretac;ion. Nature, which kindly
dissipates this horrid efiuvium aud raises il
from the lair where tis generated, difiuses
il 10 the dwelling Of the tradesman aud the
daily resort of The merchant They are made
fearfuy aware Of the present pest they hear
with alarm The advance Of fever; they inves-
tigale its source, and find out sink Of crime.
Such is the parable of our own city and our
own times. II, as we believe, the case 10
worse, and the contrast more fagrant, than
in the sacred page, the lesson is al least as
plain and as fearful Certainly there ought
MOTTO be such stale Of things. Its existence
is not only an evil, il is crime and the
the crime Is shared by all who can do any
thing 20 abae il, and leave that undone.n