Star.
London, England, 1831-01-05 00:00:00

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the mothers and the children too. may have memories
ender the headed" Families " that we see that which is
of oar attendee. Observe, that eight shillings a week i. t..
a day labourer in the village. And. you see, it is only when
more than four children that the family is allowed anything ,
" Levi Cook," for Instance, has gee children. and be receives
lowenee foe ose child. " Joseph White" has sight children, and he
receives allowance for four. Thtte are three widows under this
head; but, it is where then is a man, the father of the family, that
we ought to look with attention; and hare we find, that nothing se all is
allowed to a family of a man a wife and four children, beyond the bare
e•week • a wag« ; and this is even worse than the allowance which I
_treated with that of the hospital patients and convicted felons; for
lama I 'Mona the family to coasist ofs man, his wife and 3 children.
If I am told, that the farmers, that the occupiers of houses and land, are
ew Pax that they cannot do more for their wretched work-people and
neighbours ; thee, I mower and say. What a selfish, what a dastardly
wretch is be, who ls not ready to do all he can to change this disgrace.
ful, this horrible state of Wisp !
But, at any rate. is the salary of the " Assistant Overse.r- ne-
cessary ? Cannot that be dispensed with ? Ilust be have as teach a,
an the widows, or asl the old men ? And, his salary, together situ
the cbsrge_he pridegand other his various terms, will come to
at 11161111Thos p to all the widows and old men too !
Why not, dew, is without him,tard double the allowance to these
pot old warm, oe poor old men, who have spent their
atectieth in mike amp be the parish ? I went to see with my own
ore some of the " pariah beans," as they are called ; that is to sat •
tMe phew whore the Wort vestry put the per people into to Lee.
Never did my eyes bin alight on such scan:. of wretchedness ! There
was ow place about has feet long and Id wile, in which I found the
wife of km Haas, which, when all w?te st home, had to contain
alumni ptisefast and foto which. I nuleirtily &care, I would not put
19 sirs, Vigil billed with straw. Another place was shown me
Waldosa's daughter; &anther by Thomas C..rey's wife.
bon sad that in hole., too, was di,. floor in both these
plasm. broken, and the hole. stuffed with tags, or covered
With 101110 bits of bawd. Great opentnies in the wall.. parts of which
wore fallen down, owd the places stopped with hottl'e. and straw. The
thatch rotten, the chimneys leanire, then doles but bits of doors, the
sleeping holes shocking both to sight and smell : and, indeed, ev,:ry
thingseerning to say, " These are the abodes to' wretcheelness, which.
to be believed possible, must be peen and felt ; these are the abodes of
the descendants of those =angst whom beef, pork mutton„ and veal
were the food of the poorer sou ; to this are come, at last, the descend-
ants of those common people of England, who Favescue tells us, were
clothed throughout in' ood woollens, whose bedding, and other furniture
in their houses, were of wool, and that in great wore, and who were
well provided with all sorts of household goods- every one having all
things that conduce to make life easy and happy !"

! But, it 1t..;
moot worthy r)
the wages fer
,hen there are
Atilt at all.
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