Some startling revelations as to the condition under which the poor live in I.ondon were made the other day at the Southwark Police Court. Mr Henry Thomas, Sanitary Inspector of Ber mondsey, applied to Mr Slade, the presid ing magistrate, for an order under the provisions of the ‘27th section of the Sanitary Act of lfcSHtj, for the removal to the public mortuary of the dead body of a man named Wiu. Aruell, then lying at No. 30, Suffolk place, Bermondsey. He stated that the man died on the 2nd instant, and the corpse had been ** waked” by the family, consisting of the widow, a grown-up son, and two younger children, all of whom resided and had their meals in the same room with the dead man. The room was a small and ill-ventilated one, and was not over clean, and the corpse of tha deceased was lying on the bed tincolfined. Mr c-lade made the order asked for. Mr Thomas then asked for a further order on *he relieving officer of the parish for tha immediate interment of the body, and this was also grantud. Canon Liddon, preaching at St. Paul's recently, said :—“ Til# London season is approaching and a bevy of mothers, like generals on » campaign, will complain of no fatigue if they can only marry their daughters, not to high-souled and generous men, but to those who have a fortune. There will also be a group of young men, who, having lived a life of dissipatiou, are thinking of settling down. They will look for a girl, not with graces of character which will make her husband and children happy, but with one possessed of a dowry which will enable him to keep tip a large establishment. Thus the most sacred of all human relationships, both for time and eternity, is prostituted to the brutal level of an affair of cash, and is quickly followed by months of misery, which, af'er seething in private, are paraded to the world amid the shame aud degradation of the Divorce Court.
