Photographic sketch of a Spitalfields pauper in police court
A long sarcastic plea condemns charity displays while detailing Joseph Lawler, a Spitalfields weaver, who after months of wandering and hunger faces magistrates for leaving the workhouse. The piece argues for humane exceptions to Poor Law practices and critiques fashionable benevolence.
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Joseph Lawler
Dnesday
Spitalfields
Fassonsble
St. Matthew
Bethnal-green
Sudbury
Ian Suffolk
Beccles
Norwich
St. Matthew's
Tonly
Mr. Broughton
Edwin Chadwick
St. John and St. Jude's United District
Royal Simaritan Society
Duke of Wellington
Joseph Lawher
St. John and St. Jude’s United District Royal Samarit Society
St Johns and
St. Judes
Joseph Lawlers
London
Suffolk
15Th Regiment
Manchester
Lawrence Nolan
James Rooney
Dennis Tracey
James Bullock
James Webb
William Thorp
Branchester Guardian
Donald Sage
Inverness Courier
Medical Changes at Guy's and Other Hospitals
Dr Bright resigns as senior physician at Guy's hospital. Dr Addison succeeds him. Dr Barlow and Dr Rees named physicians. Dr Golding Bird becomes assistant physician. At St Thomas's, Mr M Nurdo succeeds the late Mr Tyrrell. Mr Guthrie resigns Westminster surgeoncy. Mr H Thompson resigns and runs for surgeoncy, likely succeeding. Candidates include Mr C Guthrie, Mr B Phillips, Mr Alcock, and Mr Lucas for the assistant surgeoncy, with Mr Guthrie widely expected to win. A large recent rise in governors will influence elections. Mr Guthrie appointed consulting surgeon to the hospital.
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Tus Romax Cathoxic Instituts
Roman Catholic Institute
Freemason’s
Great Queen-street
Lord Camuys
Lord Lovat
Edward Petre
Charles Clifford
Edward Vavasour
P. Howard
M.P
O'Connell
Catholic Institute
Duke of Sussex
Oxford
Regius
Hampden
Oxford University
Westminster Abbey
Catholic Church
University of Oxford
Oxford Chronicle
Tractarians
Virginia Stree
Charles Langdale
O'Neal
E. Vavasour
Addin
E. Petre
W. Sisk
House of Commons
Inverness Courier
Ross
Lochbroom
Free Church
Westminster Hall
Royal Commission On the Fine Arts
Literary Gazette
Straney
Devonport Hill
Exeter
Devonport
Plymouth Times
Rauds
Thomas Webb
Queensquare
Metropolitan Anti-corn Law Association
Messrs. Coutts
Bond
Barat
Blackfriars
Baker
Highstreet
Shadwell
Stephen Gamble
William
Blackfriars Bridge
Thames
St. James's Stairs
Bright
Guy's Hospital
Addison
Barlow
Rees
Golding Bird
St. Thomas's
M'Nurdo
Tyrrell
Guthrie
Westminster Hospital
H. Thompson
C. Guthrie
B. Phillips
Alcock
Lucas
Court of Common Pleas Ejectment Case Before Justice Cresswell
Court records an ejectment dispute involving the son of Sir John Soane, neighbors complaints, and a defendant who paid £25 into court amid a complex sitting. The docket notes an extraordinary eviction of the plaintiff from a Camden Town dwelling with disputed furnishings and a grand jury exchange.
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Prince Albert
Woolwich
Royal
Somerset-house
Earl of Liverpool
Earl of Delaware
Hanover
Kew
Earl of Wilton
Lady Peel
Duke of Beaufort
Earl of Eldon
Lord Kenyon
Charles Wetherell
Bart
Inner Temple
Duke of Wellington
Hampden
John Hampden
Chalgrove Field
Prince Rupert
Oxford and
Wallingford
Warpsgrove Farm
Chalgrave
Lord Nugent
Chalgrove
Buckingham
Oxford
England
Aylesbury
Duke of Bedford
Marquis of
Breadalbane
Earl of Buckinghamshire
Brougham
Den
Great Western Railway
Digner
Gisstonse
M.P
Friends of Purity of
Liberal
Gisborne
Hobhouse
Freeman's Journal
Richard Lalor Sheil
White Hall
Music Hall
Huddersfield
America
Manchester
Bedford Market
Orleans
Merinos
Carver
Newgate
Giltspur Street
Birmingham
Derby
Gloucester
Edinburgh
Glasgow
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Ayr
Greenock
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Selby
Eirapoo
London
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Eastern
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Dublin
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Sheffield
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Greenwich
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Brandling Junction
North Union
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Birkenhead
Preston and Wyre
Wees
Acton
Pinch
Tindal
Court OF Common Pleas
Soaxeé J. Capuch
Justice Cresswell
Humfrey
James
John Soane
Pratt-street
Camden-town
Warren-street
John John Soane
Central Criminal Court
Rospery
Ballantine
Howse
Doane
Fuller
Catherine Williams
John Dignam
Habeas
Horsemongerlane
Grand Jury
Lord Fitzgerald
Pook
Bedford-street
Covent Garden
Laurence
Witness
Sam Laurence
Bicknell
Sergeant Talfourd
Dignum
Clarkson
Serjeant
Talfourd
Baron Gurney
Deatons
Alexander Milne
Woodroffe
Cooke
Pollock
Marlborough Street
Beocixa
George Smith
Ireland
Norfolk
J. Scholefield, Esq
Horsfold
Mendicity Society
Shaw Stuart
Countess of Clare
Lady Cavendish
Lady Ouray
Maltby
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Bingham
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Basinghall-street
Lambeth Street
Sprex
John Catlen
Catlen
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Black Eagle
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Victoria and Albert
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Robert III
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Kent-road
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Blackfriars-Bridge
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