The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-25 00:00:00

THE POOR-LAW BOARD'S PROHIBITORY
ORDER. •

A large deputation, emanating from a meeting held in
Manchester on the 25th of October last, had an inter-
view by appointment with Sir John Trollope at the Poor-
law-office yesterday, the 24th of November, for
the purpose of requesting the total and immediate revo-
cation of the Prohibitory Order issued by the Poor-law
Board on the 25th of August last, on the ground, " that
it can only be carried out through the sacrifice of all
discretion and humanity by boards of guardians, and the
surrender of all right of control or opinion by the rate-
payers." The deputation represented unions containing
upwards of 2,000,000 of population.
Sir John Trollope replied at considerable length to the
observations of the deputation, and commenced by thank-
ing them for the courteous and candid manner in which
they had stated their objections, and asked the deputation
to give the Poor-law Board the same credit as to the
motives by which they were actuated as the members
of the deputation claimed for themselves. He called the
attention of the deputation to the fact that there are up-
wards of 600 unions in England and Wales under their
superintendence, and that this order is already in opera-
tion in 500 of them, and that, therefore, this order was
not anything new, and that in these 500 unions the order
was found to vork beneficially both to the rate-payer
and rate receiver; that one great object of the order was
to teach the poor habits of self-dependence, and that they
might, learn to join benefit 'clubs and lay up small sums
of money in savings' banks, in order to provide against
temporary depression and other unforeseen casualties.
That'Article 1, the Poor-law Board would be not unwil-
ling to relax in cases 'of hardshipsf; and, as to Article
t 5,
Sir John Trollope spoke at some length, and referrede:
the abuses existing, prior to the Poor-law Amendment
Act, at
Act, of giving relief in aid of wages ; h_
subject that had frequently been discusstedathil
very
man a
Parlia-
ment ; and that it was very hard to make
little better off than the person relieved
ems, in
the
in answer to
support of the latter. Sir John Tr? P
irlap°raeCticable, stated
observations as to Article 6 being
that the Poor-law Board did not_intend the setting up
of pauper labour against indeeperonduegnhttlaibnotuor,coormtpheattittihone
former should in any way he b
with the latter ; and that th ir opinion was that it would
he more satisfactory to
ltebre poor man, as well as to the
s.hould be employed and not
Bratpayer, that the. forn
eat the bread of idleness , and that. the most suitable
would be the sweeping of streets and
employment
the preparing of materials _ for repairs of roads. Sir
John Trollope also further explained that Article 10
was intended to bring the Poor-law Board and boirds of
uardians into more harmonious working, and to provide
g
for particular hardships that might arise under the other
articles. Tha:, the Poor-law Board were always ready
to hear and consider applications of all kinds, and that
they always listened and attended to all complaints.
That the complaint of the lowest pauper would not be
unattended to, and that their door was always open.
In answer to a question from Mr. Cobbett, M.P.,
Sir John Trollope assured the deputation that boards
of guardians should be beldharmless to the present time,
and that instructions should be given to the auditors ac-
cordingly.

And at the conclusion Sir John Trollope promised
that a written reply should be forwarded to the deputa-
tion in the course of a few days. _