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Show APPENDIX '£0 NOTES . 265 nnd your prayers to OoJ, for the removal of England's shame from the Christi:m world.'" 2. P!Jysicnl Condition. Fr01n the Londo1t Guardian of Jan. 10, 1853. (1.) Tur,: Poon AND Tnt: PoJ.ICE. "The report of Cnpt. Hay, one of t.he Commissioners of the l\Ietropolitnn Police, on the operation of tho Common J .. odging-house Act, i.~:~t b~;~d~ s\~tt~h~f ~~i0~~!~;' r~~c~et~~~ ~: t\~~c h~'L~t~'L0ti~~p~~~n~~~jc1~}8 ti~!n~0~f;Jhf1;~~[{y p~~r t~;~~~~~~~~;~gl~~nti~~~a\~~ ~~~~e 0~cct:~ s~~~G~ct~~~ wretched details were thus published by nuthority. Have any of us C\'Cr asked ourselves whnt becomes at night of those destitute crcnturcs who prowl about the thoroughfares of London and our other great towns, who rise in the morning without the certainty of a meal during the day,-who exist partly by petty pilfering, and whom not even the efficiency of the modern 8ystem of police has hitherto appeared perceptibly to n.ffcct. If we wi~:~h to sec how n. portion of our fcllow·beiugs i~~~~;~di~0~· r~;id ~l~~~~~ b1~~S~:~tr'~\1~s~0~1t ~;:~ ~~~:. ~~1~l!a~i~~~t;i~~~~1J~~~ tion of even the smallest current of air is rendered impossible, nrc to bo found se,·enty or eighty persons huddled together, several ft~milics in a ~~~~~~\~;; ~!.\~ ~~;. ~~~~~~~~~i, 0~~~ 1 g;o\~1 ~ ti!~~~~~S.e~~! d~'L ~~ \7 tet~·,.J /J~es~i t~ !~C:f the most orcliun.ry appliances of clcccncy. Not to dwell on these disgusting d<'tnils any Iunger, let us p:-~ss on to another feature of tho report. We nrc tolcllhat great good has alreRdy been effccted,-that the inspecting policc-scJ·g~'Rnts walk several hundred miles every week in the performance of their Jutics, n.nd that by their exertions, aided by the CO·opcration of the magistracy, numbers of these dens have been cleaned out :tnd whitc-washe<l, a.nd the owners compellc<l to obey the law b.Y limiting the numbers of their lodgers. So far as it goat:~ this is well enough. It must l.tc an unspeakable Ulcssing to the better part of a neighbourhood to get these hotbeds of filth, and its accompanying typhus and smnll pox, put in some sort of order; but how came such n state of tbings ever to nri~e n.t all, and may we not bo quenching the evil in one p:u·t to reappear with increased malignity in another? "We nsk- ancl we should like the n.ttcntion of those to whom the ndministrntion of the Common J.odgi ng:-housc .Act i1:1 intrusted, to tum their attention to tho point-how much of the evil is of comp:u·atively recent da.tc, and whctli C't· it is not in great mensure clearly attributa- !~~~:o"~:;~ncn.~e~~~Oixf~:.1:!~~~r11c~~ ~,:./:<\~~ii~~~~c~~~~~~.tl:~~~S~il~~o?ri:~~r~~~ in Westminster projcctod- vn.st improvements unJoubtcdly to the 8urrounding propeny-it was asked hy ou1·:;eh•cs, in common with some of our conteznpoml"ics, whether any one had con~:~idcrcd for nn inst:-.nt the iucvitaLl~ fate of tile people thus turnvd iuto the streets. 34 X |