The Express.
London, England, 1865-10-25 00:00:00

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I ) LONDON. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 25.,
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1 ,II Ma. Tons, the parish official who attended the
Marylebone Policecourt on Monday on behalf of
the guardians, has, in his anxiety to throe
discredit upon the Houseless Poor Act, defeatec
the end he had in view. This zealous office:
" was very desirous to state that theactof parliamen•
1 placed the workhouse of his parish iu a ver
curious position." Finding a courteous listener 0
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the magistrate on the bench, he prooeeded:--" W
admitted on Saturday and Sunday nights casual
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" to the number of 300 ;" and subsequently added
" during the past five or six weeks no less the:
1` 600 stone-tickets"—namely, "tickets entitling th
• • 1 casual to earn money by work—have been issue
by Mr. Douglas, the master, to able-bodied tramp:
not one of which has ever been used." Warmin
with his subject, Mr. Tubbs remarked that fo:
merly oakum was given to the casuals to pick, be
I that their number less now so great,and their condui
so bad, that "we can't give it them to do ;" and I
clench the business Mr. Tubbs said, "we seem I
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vagrants roamed about with impunity." Finally th,
i the average number of casuals admitted into ti
I : Marylebone workhouse lately has been betwee
800 and 900 a week.
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el As the blessings of competitive examination ha'
• not yet extended to appointments made under foe
governments, there is no great harm in an assist&
, overseer supposing that in Queen Elizabeth's day,
when able-bodied vagrants were whipped at tl
cart's tail the first time they were caught beggin
branded the second, and executed the third—"th
roamed about with impunity." Mr. Tubbs'aofience
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of a much more serious character, as we pros
to show. The Poor-law Board was as startl
as the public at the picture publicly drawn by ti
pariah officer, and at the request of the Preside
Mr. H. B. Farnall made an official inquiry into I
alleged facts a few hours after their publicath
We made it our duty to accompany the Poor-1
1 . inspector to Marylebone Workhouse yesterday, i
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found Mr. Tubbe's statistics to be worth
much as his history. The largest number
casuals ever admitted in any one week
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752, instead of an average of 800 or 9
and of these more than 100 were not cast
II; • proper, but belonged to the parish of Maryleb
il, itself. Instead of the " over 300 "of Saturday 1
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Sunday nights, something like 250 would be ne:
the mark, while the assertion that " no less t
600 stone-tickets have been issued by Mr. Dougl
is wholly and absolutely untrue. We have ,
• Douglas's own assurance that he shas ins
1 no such tickets ; and we may dismiss
evidence of Mr. Tubbs with the remark that i
1 had been expressly designed to prejudice the pn
mind against a measure which is notoriously
popular in the parish whose servant he is, the •
statements in it could not have been more i
niously devised.
i ( I Still, the broad fact remains that the numbe
applicants for shelter, and the number of pe
, who refuse to work and who tear up their clot
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visit of yesterday was meant to grapple with the
culty implied. A few simple questions showe .
1 that the provisions of the Act and the instruc
of the Poor-law Board are not carried out. '1
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is not sufficient accommodation in the casual e
of the workhouse, and no attempt is made t
force the labour or other tests upon a great
ber of the able-bodied men housed. The women
all a prescribed amount of work to perform ;
a portion of the men are sheltered and fed wi
I being even aaked to do any. Add to this tha
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distinguishing garment formerly given to an
tearing up Lis clothes has given plea' to a
1 which may be moth-eaten and comfortless, but'
has not " workhouse " stamped indelibly on i
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the other one, and the increase in clothes-ts
and the decrease in work will be both readily 11
1 stood. In abort, at Marylebone, as in some
! parishes, the compulsory sheltering of the hot
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merits praise for his management of unprof
ter materials. Before the present month he had r
admission to all applicants who came after the
intshoear
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ewo,ipartnohdfieemdstl
workhouse,e
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1 ,il, • wards were full. But the stringent cimule
by Mr. Villiers to all masters of workhows
. the public representations of Mr. Farnall, eta
I s ened Mr. Douglas in his determinati
do his utmost to obey the law, and since
October male applicants have had shelter 11134
1 given them, even when it has been impos
I furnish beds. In consideration of the
accommodation received they have not bee:
4 upon to work : the news has spread, the v
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have joyfully accepted the conditions, 1
result is Mr. Tubb's wail about augmentec
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hers. The Marylebone guardians have onl;
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selves to thank for the increase, and the HI
Poor Bill rallies from the aspersions inn
cast upon it in a manner which will be tit°
satisfactory to all real well-wishers of the h
poor. It cannot be too often stated th
destitute person is now legally enti
1.1 food and shelter on application at a wo
1 1 door. Without a uniformly enforced labc
with insnflicient accommodation, and wit
rently little inclination to support the we
I 11 master in his laudable efforts to keep the
I parochial authorities of Marylebone sus
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