Christmas Pauper Fare in the Metropolis 1,661 paupers listed
The report details Christmas day provisions in London workhouses, listing inmates by institution, current totals, and year over year changes. Meals include roast beef or pork, plum pudding, potatoes, porter, tea, sugar, and occasional extras. Increases and declines across St Marylebone, St Pancras, St Giles, Lambeth, Norwood, St Luke's, St James's, Hackney, Bermondsey, Bloomsbury, and other unions are recorded, with notes on ages, farmed-out children, and holiday provisions.
Christmas Day Poor Relief Provisions Across London Unions
A London report details meal allowances for inmates at multiple unions. At Aubin's asylum Norwood 500 adults and 250 children fed. Strand Union inmates 647, with children farmed out at Tooting. St James Clerkenwell 560, with children fed at guardian discretion. St Sepulchre without 84 men 30 women 40 children plus diet. City of London union 1,200 paupers fed at Peckham and Stepney. Overall, over 80,000 received staple fare of roast beef plum-pudding vegetables and porter on Christmas day.
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Bishopsgete
Aubin’s Asylum
Norwood
Strand Union
Tooting
St. James's
Clerkenwell
St. Sepulchre Without
C ;Ity
London
Christmas charity and misfortune in 19th century England
Reports from English cities recount festive generosity and hardship: Lord Chief Justice receives gifts of cloth and sugar at Christmas. Bank of England distributes 400 pounds to four parishes for the poor. Guy's hospital serves roast beef and pudding while other hospitals stick to ordinary diets. Sheppey union faces quarrels over workhouse meals. a bell ringing feat at Christchurch marks a scholarly society achievement. a coroner probes a suicide by laudanum. a mysterious arsenic parcel prompts a large reward. a failed mining school offer ends amid regret. and a Manchester Zoo incident details a keeper attacked by a leopard with fatal consequences for the animal.
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Courts of Justice
England
Court of Queen's Bench
Blackwell-hall
Bank of England
St. Michael’s
Cornhill
St. Bartholomew’s
Bartholomew-lane
St. Mildred’s
Poultry
St. Margaret's
Sueprey Union
Board of Guardians of the
Sheppey Union
Sheerness
Poor Law Commissioners
Christchurch
Blackfriars
Peel
Holt
C. Browne
Richard Bourke
Bailey
Royal Accademician
Sydney
Wakler
Earl Cathcart
Munster-street
Regent’s Park
Mia
Sarah Hemery
Mary’ Cridge
Mary’ Cridge, of No
Hereford-street
Fitzroy-square
Mary Biden
George Hines
Charlotte Street
Bedford-square
Porsey
Nottingham
Belle Sauvage
Ludgate Hill
Hitchins
Tun Corxise Mines
Sir C. Lemon
Manchester Zoological Gardens
William Harvey
Harvey
Loan Societies Caution to the Poor
Attention to the booming metropolis loan societies reveals how they operate. Small tradesmen pool surplus, form societies with shares, and lend to borrowers at high costs. Operations are run from public houses or offices with secretaries and directors, charging multiple fees and frequent penalties, yielding heavy profits while evading proper regulation.
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Tower Hamlets
J. Tidd Pratt
City Police Arrangements in 1840 Set to 542 Men
A city police letter to the guildhall on December 16 1840 argues for expanding the force from 500 to 542 including inspectors sergeants and constables. It cites new localities London bridge Blackfriars bridge and Smithfield market duties plus Central Criminal Court attendance as reasons. A reserve force is proposed with detailed staffing and costs totaling 30571 pounds 8 shillings.
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Guildhall
Court of Common Council
London-bridge
Blackfriarsbridge
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Smithfield Market
Blackfriars
Smithfield
Police Committee of Aldermen, &c
D. W. Hanvey
Police Committee
The Ball and the Court of Justice Echoing Beneath
A narrator recalls attending a first ball beside a palace and prisons. Joyous music hid a grim memory of a man condemned to death, heard by his mother’s scream as guards restrained her while the court pronounced the sentence. The contrast between merriment above and fate below haunts the memory.
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Salle-De-Bal
Court of Justice
Dedalus and Icarus by Canova Define a Youthful Ornament
A youthful Canova sculpture titled Dedalus and Icarus stands as a striking ornament in a collection. The writer notes it shows Canova's genius but remains inferior to his mature works and comments on the butterlike texture of his flesh in marble, a peculiarity often debated by critics.
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Canova
Dedalus
Icarus
Venice
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