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Fascinating! Keep them coming. Don't you just love the eloquence?
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A most readable thread My Lady .................... I trust that there be more to come ?
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RIOTS AND DISTRESSES OF THE COUNTRY
Gentleman’s Magazine
May 1826
Owing to the unparalleled stagnation of trade, and the consequent want of employment in the manufacturing districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire, the greatest distress has for some time prevailed, and apprehensions were long entertained of some serious disturbance. It appears that on the rejection of Mr. Whitmore’s Motion for repealing the corn law, all hopes of amelioration were abandoned.
The unemployment and starving workmen were driven to despair, and they broke out in open riot. Reports of an intended rising had been previously circulated at Blackburn; and on the 24th of April, accounts were received from Accrington, and its vicinity, that a mob, consisting of several thousand men had marched, some armed with pikes and others bludgeons, and a part even with firearms, into the village, and proceeded to the factory of Messrs. Sykes. A party of the First Dragoon Guards, stationed at Blackburn, were immediately despatched; and the met the mob proceeding in the direction of Blackburn; but having no one with them competent to give the necessary orders, they were obliged to let them pass. On arriving at the place of their destination, they found the mob had entered the factory, and entirely destroyed all the power – looms, but had not injured any other property.
8 MURDERS IN 21 DAYS
Gentleman’s Magazine
July 1826
VAN DIEMAN’S LAND.
Van Diemen’s Land papers are full of details of atrocities by the bush-rangers (escaped convicts). The most horrible wretch among them, Jefferies, has been taken: he had committed eight murders in twenty one days; one of them on an infant.
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A SOOTY PATRONAGE
Morning Herald
October 28 1825
Astley’s and Coburg Theatres, it seems, are the only ones which admit chimney- sweepers in their working dress; in consequence of which, it is said that those places are sometimes honoured with this kind of sooty patronage to the extent of forty or fifty a night.
Fag Ash Note : Just to remind peeps...these newspaper clippings are taken from an out of print book called News from the Past 1805-1887 which is in my possession. They are not c&p from the internet :-)
Thanks Kitty as long as peeps like them I will continue to add.
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Fascinating reading Susan........thank you.
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STREET KEEPERS
Sunday Times,
March 25 1832
The race of Street - Keepers, with their gold-laced coats and hats, are about to be extinguished in their last strong hold – the City. They are to be suspended by a new police force, which is to patrol the streets by day only, to be regulated on the model of the country police. A hundred men have been chosen, and measured for their suits of blue.
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LION AND DOG FIGHTING
Sunday Monitor,
July 31 1825
On Friday, Wheeler, the agent of the Society for the prevention of Cruelty to Animals, waited upon the Lord Mayor to request, in the name of that society, and also at the desire of several individuals of high respectability, not connected with it except in humanity, that his Lordship would prevent Wombwell, the owner of the lion which was to be baited at Warwick, from having any place in Bartholomew fair.Wheeler said that if his Lordship interfered in this manner, the cruel and disgraceful exhibition intended to be made, would be effectually checked, and several poor animals saved from great agony and death.
He had gone to Warwick to endeavour to prevent the fight between the lion Nero and the six dogs, by procuring magisterial interference, but his application for mercy proved in-effectual. That scene of cruelty was over ; but as if the feeling part of the public were not sufficiently shocked and disgusted, the owner of Nero determined to have another exhibition of the same kind, and had matched another noble lion, which he had called “ Wallace, “ in like manner, to be torn at by trained dogs of the most ferocious description.
The Lord Mayor said, he had no power to interfere in the case. He had no authority, which he should take care to use upon the proper occasion.
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CORRESPONDING CARDS
Carlsruche Gazette
Reprinted in the Times
January 10 1871
POSTAL-CARDS
Corresponding cards are visibly extending. Besides Germany and Austria-Hungary, where they originated, they have already been introduced into Demark, France, Great Britain, Holland, Portugal, Roumania, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, and the United States. They are about to be adopted in Belgium and Italy.
MATRIMONIAL EXPENSES
Times, November 8 1833
Sir, - Being a stranger in London, and having occasion to visit Doctor’s Commons a few days ago to obtain a marriage – licence, I was immediately attacked by a cad wearing a white apron, who asked me if I wanted a proctor, and upon my answering in the affirmative he took me to one in the back street, who charged me with 3l. 13. 6d., besides 5s. for the clerk, and upon my mentioning the circumstances to a friend, he told me at once that that I had been imposed upon, and charged 1l. 6s. more than any respectable professional man would have charged me, which sum appears goes into some cad’s pocket.
Now, finding I cannot get any redress unless I proceed against this black sheep of his profession in the Ecclesiastical Court, and being obliged to leave town to-morrow, I thought my best plan would be to warn the public against such gross impositions through the medium of your widely circulated journal.
EMMIGRATION FOR PAUPERS
Spectator, April 24 1869
Lord Houghton, on Friday week “ventilated” a very important subject in the Lords. He wishes, in presence of the rapid growth of pauperism, the Government should aid emigration to the colonies, or at all events should appoint a commission to inquire into the subject.
His speech was an able resume of the well-known facts that while labour is redundant here, there are countries where it is scarce; but he failed to anticipate the crushing objections instantly made to the scheme; such as those that Lord Granville, who asked how aid could be granted to English emigrants and refused to Irish, whose friends now paid for them, but who would clutch at any Government money; or how the Colonies were to be induced to take paupers of whom we want to be rid? Or that of Lord Carnarvon, that labour in England was rather locally congested than redundant? Or that of Lord Grey, that if Australia wanted labour, Australia would aid emigration much more effectually than we could.
The truth is, this scheme of aided emigration for paupers is like transportation, an effort to rid, at others’ cost of our own responsibilities. We must extinguish pauperism, not export paupers, and the way we do this is to establish compulsory education throughout the kingdom. Till the people know something, they will neither emigrate nor save.
Fag Ash Lil
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