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Show PilOFLlGACY OF L JKDO.X. A London clergyman, the Rev. Mr. JIackouchie, head of the Ritualistic movement, gives a dreadful account of the profligacy existing in the British metropolis. Speaking of his own parish, he says: "it is no exaggeration exaggera-tion lor me to state that I am surrounded sur-rounded by eight thousand prostitutes and thieves; the remainder is made up of the poorest class of venders of fish and vegetables, a good sprinkling of Irish, and numbers of Italians and other foreigners. Young and old, male and female, cat, drink and sleep together to-gether indiscriminately, in places so filthy that a farmer would consider them unfit for pigf." His hearer inquired if the dwellings of the people were not under the surveillance sur-veillance of the police. The parson said : "No; I look upon this dreadful dread-ful system of living as at tho bottom of nearly all tho evils in our social so-cial system; from it spring all the other evils by which wo arc alllicted, but the government seems unwilling or unable to assist us in putting it down. 1 1 "I could not describe to you," says tbo same reverend gentlemen, "the scenes of horror which might bo constantly con-stantly witnessed from our own win dow, and nothing short of a cry of murder brings tho police to our aid. So long as decency and order reign in the great thoroughfares they seem to care nothing for the deeds of darkness which are perpetrated in open day in these back slums. "Tho other day I was compelled to witness acts of dreadful brutality. I sent for tho officers, who seemed to treat the matter very coolly, and wheu 1 expostulated with them for permitting permit-ting such acts of horror and humanity, they actually told mo that it'scrved us' right, and that we ought to have known better than to build a church and schools in so 'low a neighborhood.' A state of affairs such as this preceded tho first revolution of Franco in ITS'), aud much of the brutality of this a ruse from the ccglcct with which the suffering suffer-ing of tho poor had been previously treated." The New York Slur adds to the above: The upper classes meanwhile arc reveling in wealth and luxury almost al-most incredible. The quocn, with the fortune of id5,0u0,000 which sho had amassed, is the only one who exhibits exhib-its any sign of thrift or economy. The prince of Wales is head and shoulder, in debt, and the duke of Hamilton and Newcastle, with many of the othci leading nublcs, arc involved in bank ruptcy by their extravagance, while tht authorities vie with them in hhowint utter indifference to the condition o the i'oor. |