The Bee-Hive. — 1871-01-21 (London, England)

PRICE ONE PENNY.  had paid fourpenoe daily for his lodgings, and who, his landlady said, could have had nothing to eat for days, was found a few days since dead in his garret, clothed with scanty rags, and presenting all the appearanoe of emaciation and death from starvation.  A woman clothed in unwomanly rags is refused admission at a workhouse, and goes home to die of pulmonary disease and starvation. The shameful evils of our present system of out-door relief, that system of murder which English society has organised, has also boon illustrated within _tho last few days at an inquest held by Dr. Hardwick°, the deputy coroner, on the body of a woman of 62, who was found dead in a garret in Jerusalem-court, Clorkenwell. This poor wretch, the evidence says, was found lying stretched on the floor perfectly naked and quite dead. The remains of a bed lay on the floor in a corner of the room. with a portion of a pillow, but no covering whatever, while the remaining furniture consisted of a ricketty table and throe seatleis chairs. Hero is a picture for the pencil of an artist to be contrasted with the bloated luxury of the palaces and comfortable homes of th 4 titled wealthy and money-grubbing classes of this great metropolis. This poor creature had been the assistant 'of a laundress as long as she could keep any clothes together, whioh were found to be only a few old rags covered with vermin, her employer having for the last few months been compelled to dispense with her services for fear of losing her work. Well may Dr. Hardwick° say, in stuniuing up the ovidonoe, that this was one of the most deplaable cases that had come under his notibe, while ho added that, "in spite of the sympathy displayed towards the suffering Parisians, ho believed that London contained more starving poor at the present moment." Loth, indeed, would any Englishman bo to stop the course of charity in any reasonable channel, and I would oven hope that that fooling which has displayed itself in England towards the French and Gorman combatants  in the roar of the battlefields, and the starved  and ruined peasantry of Franco may be art omen of a larger feeling of brotherhood which  may induce the peoples of every country in Europe to combine in one grand future attempt to prevent rather than to assuage the horrors of war. It is more than probable, however, that we are looking too much abroad, and too little to the condition of those around us ; for had these fearful events not occurred I believe England would have been stirred from one cud to the other to provide a sound and eompre hensive system of emigration for large bodies of the working classes. That distress has not decreased is tooeidelit) and thousands who have borne and re bearing it have retired, and are daily departing to " that bourne from which no traveller returns."  It is (dearly proved that emigration is the only fitting and sufficient remedy for the relief of our pauperised community, and that in transporting the dense labour power which is not required here to lands where the fruitful earth is waiting to be tilled, we should be both benefiting our colonies and doing a service to the whole home population. The private or the combined efforts of individuals have Neu proved insufficient to cope with this groat question. The Government at the beginning of last f-ession, with ofbeitil &anipfroid,- took poolled the idoa of taxing tho country for tho removal of any part or its redundant