The distress in London, particularly in Deptford, Greenwich, and Poplar,
is so great that the Bishop has asked the public for aid, the Mansion House Cholera Committee has been re-established, the clergy are all begging for subscriptions, and the rates are rising till a petition is talked of praying for equalization. In Poplar the guardians are giving out-door relief to 8,319 persons, in Bethnal Green the rates have risen to 8s., and 20,000 dock labourers alone are out of employ. It was stated by the secretary to their association, at a meeting presided over by Lord Towns- hend, that the usual wages of this class were Gs. 4d. a week, so that they can save nothing. Subscriptions amounting to 1,2001. a day are being sent to the Lord Mayor's Fund, but a rate in aid of the exhausted parishes, to be laid on the whole of London, is urgently required. At Deptford there was a bread riot on Wed- nesday, during which some shops were pillaged, the work, as we are carefully informed, of " roughs," who had been refused relief. Very likely ; roughs being people with a distinct prejudice against starving to death, either because the relieving officer happens to be ill, or because their application for leave to live is made after hours.
