MINOR-MISERY OF LONDON.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8004, 24 October 1887, Page 4

MINOR-MISERY OF LONDON.

Very few are aware of,- the misery that exists in London except- tnoae-who- havo t) consort with others . tcUa ( are in its midst. A writer "in rone t of "]ihe London newspapers describes^wha't he saw when makins: an, ; inspection; one J night. Jle^ writes: — " It was a little, child. It lay in t^o gutter .of- -.that narrow there, where any passing cub,- or yonder fruitladen dray might, without blame' to the driver, have crushed its' life out., it \viib so light in ray hand as I picked it up, that for a moment 1 wondered i whether it* was indeed a- living thing. Had^it learned at bo aarly'an'age to suffer' and bb'Btill?i It seemed so, for it made. 'no cry. Not an' abandoned babe, moreover ; ' for there coiled up asleep in a doorway, lay its mother. The child haii,i dropped from her relaxing arms, , and hn \ volled into tho kennel. In tho. Strand, vow of, nil traffic, snvo o£ the walking lepers, of. tUe Btreet, insolent grown since, a piqued police cnrliulß<nt>t their BO>repu!sive a«erossionß. • Our new instructions 'jiils us leave Uu-in alone,' says tt constable to me;" ' and v£rS' glatt we nro to be rolievecf of", tlio : trouble of chivv»yim( them nbout.' Tli^re :is" Unit danger in nppl}iug the r t elniko ',\H p\il!oyrari'i T -that Ho',to"\Vhom,'yqu ftirbul ovuv zefil will sink'in Wnipletoinadtioii.^ * ~{f In every doorway of tho^side-s^eets'of the thorougbfar r e_§infrle,ii)l^ery lias taken refuse. Misery; r f \fi; f coflip^uy, .is .here in Trafal»aV : sV«aVeV^ ! Vcdrioii3Bi4HYJn,d,ee^},, tliisJ^nnVsljsjgUt^aiJU l^-^^ was all dark, \vith~a~~corrchantr m"ob~ o"f homeless vasitibondß taki&g their rest on the stones. Now a|l ,th^i<v much blnck-coatedmiaery was'tUere. Such was he wliq Rres^ntJy^^ellß^aeulie^^as^a,,.^^ clerk, and wlfo^jto .juefge^fro." 1 lii^Aohguej and 'manner, may. i ind^e,eci,'biivo, J qn.c i ß.done clerkly work." His/pillftw: ifi^a Daily Tele graph. This., pagpr 7 bedjing : affords a curioug study' Mqst-Ji^ve<auchi' furniture' to theirTeßting-placeß,and as t-wTilk routirf' I take notice what papera'aref'toost' iO'ii&i; The Echo pilldws m'os^ot 1 those wha;ar% L iri; rags. Black-coafed nfise'ryjAkeS iKjbed tingß from the Gon^er^ativS'p resß? 'Ohe'ia'a* Btarving^nd^ ho^ele^^outca^, but onaree,. pects the ins til v t iqns, o f on,a'aco i u ; n.try t .^ at. hundred sleepers,, meu'^qn'd' w.adjeD^jrjqrj miscudusly side, byj Bide,, I, .cdrint iq^Ke! shadows of the finest hotel's in -the : w0.?1J.. High up- on his column stands over all-one who spoke once ofrrEngland and-' her 'ex-' pectation. That four hundrefti'mea'and women and their children should thiiß- be flung on the pavement— Btarving, "abandoned, in the very heart und centre of the 1 luxury o£ the world- :::^wBo has failed in his duty ? ' Ear o.ff gleams, the Jight-tifgh' iVp that tells us .tb'a't the people, oE-^Englaml aro even no\y- ; being ,oare3 ,for."'r Her Majesty's Commons areat \vor,k,i and provision is being nafidß the;oomtnonweulth. It is a BorrybeaCOD, seenifeom a sorry sea. , •!.. •" ;• > } As the day dawns 'we^wbacKUtf Trafalgar-square, where the silent-reveille of a cold vind has awakened the 'sleejSersY Some are sitting staring at world';, others are occupied over their sad ioiletr: a woman there with a needle 'and' Jtbrea'-f ;' a man here with ,a tfy^jh - br u ?h an 4 tliei water of the. fountain— it .ia^my-^ex-'City clerk. To what another" day. qre - y thesq: arising? As, I stand oft : Weatmrnßter Bridge the thoughtoftbatline comesi to me which speaks of the lying still' of. all this mighty heart;-- Lie still, '"the" 'war only bedded and well-fed.' ''As for ' thV' "pth 7 e¥ ?' Weirfor them ' t ' X(1 . . '„,;"' StiU there clings,' ';' "' ., The old question :' Will, not God do right !