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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 20, 1855
Page
10
January item ridicules a figure called Hancock amid playful flattery by the Weekly Chronicle while a serious discussion follows about pauper relief. The piece condemns metropolitan relieving officers for harsh treatment of the hungry and houseless, detailing how law and magistrates fail to protect the poor.
A verbose Clerkenwell court tale frames Frederick Man as a benevolent impresario who swindles under the guise of aiding the poor. His second plea for funds to cover an execution leads to a public payoff, while critics mock moral uplift schemes and propose a national benevolence insurance idea featuring Man as actuary.
A pointed critique of Union weakness and slaveholders during the Civil War era argues that slaveowners are united only by flogging and that the South could tempt Russia into joining the conflict. The piece laments Republican rigidity, praises Britain for standing with liberty, and imagines American volunteers viewing Sebastopol, warning against Yankee support for despotism.
The writer urges that paupers seeking relief are claimants not beggars and condemns officials who hinder relief. They vow to provide aid directly if necessary, resist being shuttled between workhouse and court, and warn that funds must be used for their intended purpose or risk legal support for the pauper’s rights.
An anecdote recalls Napoleon I impatient for rapid answers. a subordinate, momentarily forgetting a tool, misleads the ruler with a ready twenty five metre figure. The scene ends as the grotto is never measured. Fog lingers at the Crystal Palace while Assyrian palace and sphinxes offer summer calm. Kossuth’s speech was printed before delivery.
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