The Mysteries of the Court of London, Vol. 5 — page 58: what you’re looking at

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THE MYSTERIRS OF THE COURT. , 45 tations built in the midst of a ‘pertest swamp of | enveloped in almost utter gloom; and as by the mud. Suchis Agar Town even tothe present day, | viry natureof ite fow and nerrow a from —the little improvements above alluded to aparis: | thesutrounding thoroughfares it stood in the posi- ing from the formation.of the railway, being oon: | tion of a sort of festzess, it necessarily affordéd a fined to h ta springing pp.of' of o! ne cottages of a bet- most convenient asylum for any offender agsinet ter dese nes, | the law to whom the police might be giving chase dotted shout how and | there, ot vantete dkrow | in that part of-London-at the time. Suppose, for the squalor and wretchedneas df the eairrepa niet, exanipie,-& thiot or other malefactor, disturbed in dwollings into a bolder snd mon paicken pg relief. his. batty dations" any where within » small dis- From all that bas just beet ad, the'r Will | tango: pee r Town, be able to comprehend that: elgt ago, ‘bee | , es _ fore the formation ofethe railw ¥ in yr vie eed Fa ca Agar Town must bare been ‘one of the lowent, | most miserable, and likewies toast dangerous. =A oeretalae geld wi: bvadl Revlog reached a place _ gions within the seokmtinpiion. of Londdn.:.1¢. Sane woth ass eavbtanry was indeed the refuge of pauperisme-the hiding-' _ an epee Gioughé fat the police place of crime—the '& ) yexmperndl; a | nevae made inentplops: 4 ih sone ‘Town, becauso squalor—and therefore: oné..of thi ‘wool: on impression woul » What we hotbeds of demoyalization, dis Nise end. pro~ | have m y byt ding remarks, is fligacy that coul be found in the motropola. Ons | ha ) me ¢ situation and tho taining but very few shopa, and thoge syeh an are | dofle-natare:of tha: er only to be seen in the poorest neighbourfloods, | tagesjor ab all: Agar Town chiefly consisted of lodging-hénses, |: offenders, where the avarice of landlords or tit pater of. F Rondon a the tenants led tothe grouplig toge ap ireat { OF-demory scone cpap py boned | n@:. place, ¥ : —oF | into the smallestimeginable.compass, Throughout | terntd fi ay of and cogasion the whole region the. size of the rooms averades | Bet: foontof the. ssistenes and: the vherebout of abont ten or twelve fest aquare; ind at the time | thess-oheap dramatic represeité (itr ‘haps; just atthe moment whengn andi F-mnostdleadluteand profligate. eecrivt j dnclading of which we ave writl ‘four whos five beds, 'to bg occupied by as many. different ‘families, wep. crowded Into cash room, These beds, cousisting - boynand girls of even a ver fender aire, were en- only of a wretched floak. ‘tiattreps and A tanks 3 joying he dose madtdete that nraed the plot of black with grime, were 10 ‘go close to each | some: térvible tagedy or-devoiiting: in. rapt ad- other as sibost to touch, “Thue it wight be said malention ‘tho Spsane sentings of § bapjo-looking that the whole flooring of each. room was cavered | ¢ seotly AMamlet; the door. would . burst over with bedding as straw is littered down: {a s | open, &: poses of police rash tp, and thé whole as- stable haem there botirtetigio poparat append rer , aemblage : FP Reco nese bd Sraertely comprising persons “o xe Cages, | maasoned thanearadt: ,to we duch huddle together beyond the + vonafhlity 0 of any re |: penaltios & the: sg Das then wisdom might choose gard for modesty or devency. . The | ware horrible ite inlet ert tke these werd not.the systefh prevails to s great extent in Azar Town at | only cecisions the myrmidons of the law the present dey: butat the time of which we are} would vidke an ‘irraption into.Ager,Town. -Now writing, ere the of railway workmen in: | and then: thay: recejved information thaf some of troduced eome little clviliging fimprovermdnta inte | those chemical expenimontalista tormed ‘illicit dis- the place, that berding Re atest of whole Saml- lors ” were g « private still ine secluded lies waa carried to a frig ‘nook of thet isolated Fegion,--fot which commerce In the year 1644. ‘Ager Town was ke 8 morass indeed the whole hovel j with the convenience of wherothe néxious weeds and poleonous plants bad: | the. canal ‘and’ barges thereon, was well adapted. attained to the {ulneys of sheir rank growth, It | ere dn:the. stone the night, when the atill was then swarmfag with: human. the: |: was in full: TERROR, 1 the abru Invasion of tho sour; the ‘onfeasts, and. the rejected a lh olay | paling svat 4 startle aniuwtal entalists it was ane ng ota eg d appeore gn Plorenbld, the. geting ‘grodest: . yond the reach gented:. Ne'| would be: poidlebated, xi G taey:ppetivel ves sent chara Ge eeaeinras [tea mapieene SS tora: os wh e eA ng ake thale ? vexotane for: a period: Itc fia: his: while qi peeted: in ‘thes etran; . ri | He ire A foyer a were: = aking pos Ia the in every. respect was i feolated. aps Of utter be oy his specially described, beri An Ys anid ok si hi ir Maxbisof Lotidon |. mp wes Agar Town i tho you 1644: such too civilization, : 16 Was. ove’ ol Chose ‘ceiponie | y |i pen for slong. time previous—but af that | pn Ke ee ir: Spor twas fa the very height of ite POG. RRR: W Habe hlaus glory. And the full. blow of ite pesti~ pr sts uhlists a :? : weap ee mere, - at thecorner of ‘ong of the : ped ‘Ape ateete, «it Unqrongh uppeved thorot | pings of any: i Gaines only. by a couple of rows of agualid ov a: ‘ing: Neltations could be denomfn ‘pore os ¥ | coche "| ‘| elb--sfood. @ publio-house bearing 1 rr ing fron bests ago ly: Fe the game where Sap . a a . r COMIC OOO© SS (CO)