The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-08-26 00:00:00

THE ANDOVER UNION.

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The following followirg horrible disclosures have been mov en-
tire to the state of this union. Through the instrongje
talitv of Mr. Hugh Monday, notice of the affair g'sgora-
by Mr. Wakley in the Hous.e of Commons, arid hs:'anf,‘ re-
missioner sent down by Sir James Graham.
port w full confirmatory of the facts. Mr. '"rcired
of the male paupers himself, and el

the following tarts :
" Are you in the habit of cruAbiug bones in thishoti'l

The answer was—" We sr-. ~i eon'
"Can you tell anything." they were then asl,'"'„ver.
cerning the report going about the town. that the
engaged in bone crushing have been in the habit of,e,„ be
what portions of flesh or gristle and marrow that frog"
found on or in them ?" n 01,0
" Oh. yes," was the general reply; e;ght of the te
admitt, d that they had frequently partaken of the /Wit
seous substances, because their hutiget ass so l'eeii wen
they could not. keep tram doing so. The other °- off
denied baying done so, but said they had seen their c:
parlous eating what they bad de.scribed, and their
meats were quite true. was the

you anxious to get these bones

question.
" We ar

ready to fight over them," they replied

youfight-over them ?" et
" No, we never did, exactly ; we manage in
of way. As soon as .ne sees a good bone which i fiiidc
served by the rest, he contrives to steal it awaY 'lO
to
it till he gets an opportunity to eat it." - g 0
Being asked if they had any bones hidden then,
to the
of the men answered in the affirmative, and re
he
!
" ashy," a place in which ashes were deposited+ °ld. ani
they took two bones. which Mr. Munday exa'T'irie Oa°
found that they stank dreadfully, directing the eaten
the waster to the fact. lkir
A. 0 (‘
At the next meeting of the board of guari,l9 the fo-
ol- ti, ci
Monday • • ' _ gate notice of a motion on the subject 1 the rife
lowing meeting, when he proposed a resolution ''
to
ach. s!'
that the Poor Law Commissioners should be Tr olrIL.:
quainted with these circumstances, and that the I"'
should he solicited as to what steps ought to bed „,iii`''
the guardians. This resolotion, however, WII9 ji,s,
on a division of the members of the board .f. gil';` Sot''`
The result was that Mr. Monday, through "11,,Fol':,
ley, brought the subject before the House Of (3:::, , V'
and a commissioner, as before ►tated was Fent d..ajoi
the close of the session prevented anv motion belt's,
;troth
lob,

bt
on the report. us'
The whole eubject will no d-uht be again brone go'
fore Parliament. At present there is an investigat.!`tojet
for having imprrtperlv deptived sevet4l Of
ing on in reference to severed apparently ,`:11,6,0u'e,,i
charges against the master of the Andover v,.°' ;cl, k-
the s'
otter inmates of their due allowance of food, EL"^

FASHIONABLE PROFUSION DURING THE 11.00 i':
.—At this period it was the fashion to plat' toot 1
b°"'d i'Yr,,rryds of fruit and sweetmeats• so huge. „title
was impossible to see people at opposite etici6 of
_t_liveiitr t
In some houses the doers were made higher, i" ~ 00.
admit the wramids of fruit, as a century or fo• :o:et
they had been heightened that the lediPs roiglac"li?ritie
head-dresses through unseathe d. '' Pyramids9o.:6 riff
is the usual tr rut in describieg desserts thexi,' pn-hc I‘,/,l'
pole records of one u ost aristocratic _fist', g'vjj ill' '-
Chudleigh (Duchess of Kinysti),r), that ori a •t•
boards, and e ven on the chaits, v%ere FY-I.6"'..'it,i' I.
troughs of strawberries arid
—cherries
thought she was kept by

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