At a meeting of the Directors and Guardians of the
Poor for Marylebone parish, yesterday, was read an order from the Poor-law Commissioners, of which this is the pith-
" That the following parishes, that is to say, the parish of St. George, Hanover Square, St. James's, Westminster, St. Mary Abbot's, Kensington, St. Luke, Chel- sea, St. Margaret, and St. John the Evangelist, Westminster, St. Martin-in-the- Fields, St. Marylebone, and Paddington, which said several parishes are respec- tively situated within the district of the Metropolitan Police, shall be composed into a district, to be termed The North-western -Metropolitan Asylum District,' for the purpose of providing and managing one or more asylum or asylums for the temporary relief and setting to work therein of destitute honseless poor per- sons, who are not charged with any offence, and who may apply for relief or ix- come chargeable to the poor-rates within any of the parishes above mentioned."
After an animated discussion, the Guardians present unanimously re- solved that they would rather all resign, than carry out an order thus ex- tending the objectionable practice of forming large unions; the declaration to that effect to be formally made at a future special meeting.
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