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Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Dec 27, 1840

Page

3

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.

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.

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.

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.

City-police Office Guildhall Court of Common Council London-bridge Blackfriarsbridge Central Criminal Court 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.

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.

Canova Dedalus Icarus Venice

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