New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-08-17
Pauperisnis
FROM the Daily NewE.

From the Daily News.
The French poor.law commission seat by toe
Pans ministry to report on English pauperism has
Just published document OF more than ordinary
interest; i is & report OF the financial results OF
/ the Poor law Amendment Act The report Is
brought down 70 the close Of lsl9. Ire lait was a
favorable year in many respects. Provisions Of
I ali kince were cheaper than II preceding yeas
| Wheat FOX instance, which had averaged 10 the
previous years, SO, 50 and Ga shilngs was then
selling al 40 shi lngs the quarter. Mes, sailed
I provisions, butter, and cheese, were al equally
/ low the notifications il the tariff having per
mitted their admission free, or at nOmnsl duties
The neceGsa,lee Of life were thuE much easier .
command IN this period. On the other hand, t5e
country was at the same time recovering fro the
| terrible depression 10 which the crisis OF I.lj bad
/ left H. The Continent also was s,iu suffering from
the ELECTS o. the excitement and changes Of 1913,
I & Circumstance which must have tended d the al.
yA1tsge OF Engl;sh industry It's statistics thus
thow great increase Of xPorts FOR the year 1919.
Thus there existed concurrence o. favorable cir
/ cumStan ces-prOvEioLs cheap, losses regailed,
! employment more abundant sach are the general
/ facts which distinguish si9 from anterior years.
From these considerations il should follow that
great dlmnution OF paupersm ought to be ex-
bite in the poor law report for SAP. Cns. which
we find stated s, however far inferior % what We
might have expected. Thus for Eng and and
" aes ireland not being incaded ia tue ropJrE)
We see that the sum appropriated to the relief Of
the poor amounted 70 lij millions (trancsl Ger
iaiDy if We com pare this sum with tie exPendi.
ture Of lc4s discover reduction OF ten millions.
But ISIS vas az exceedingly bad year. What
strikes IS that in 1872 in the midst Of the favor
able circumstances We have noticed, the eXpsndl-
ture hss exceeded the average OF 1914, 1885, aud
1896, the average Of which vss 70 millions I.is
"a m 1884 that The great revolution was effected in
tie Eugish poor law system. la & previous srti
Gle we have exhibited the different phases Of this
legislation from the days Of Henry VII lathe be-
ginning pubic relief was meaGured By the wAns
OF the applicant Then in consequence OF the aoIse
10 which the best Institutions are liable, the law
wss made ard spilled in such spirit thIt i! tend
&C 10 increase peuPersm instead Of diminishing it
snd 200 millions were not sufficient ior tas annual
relief Of the INDECENT. a Committee Of the House
Of Commons reported or this subject ~ lO.lOTs;
From the progress Of the evil hitherto there is
reason 10 believe that unless sn eticsci0us remedy
can te found and applied, the expenditure for the
relief OF the poor viii so OF Increasing Until. the
POOR rate viii absorb the revenue Of tle estates
which they are levied: AID tbs. the consequent
abandonment o. agriculture, and the destruction OF
accumulated property viii lead ~ the subyeFsiOu
Of that happy condition OF society which has so
long chsrtcter led Great Britain. At this cry Of
alarm opinion wss excited and passing from one
excess 10 another, Parliament enacted the hardest
and most restrictive conditions FOR the adminis.ra.
tiCn Of poor law relief This new system received
iis con petOn il 1891. ln the frat years OF its
operation considerable saving was effected, and
it was thought that this would become still greater
az the new measure got more thoroughly into work.
The new system, however, has now been In opera
ton fifteen years, and 70 day We may be permitted
70 express an opinion upon the result, without be
ing considered rash Bat The great saving which
was promised is nowhere to be found. England
has bad the odium Of rgor 10 the treatment Of her
poor without the compensation ofproat.
49, Fha "a kNa
circunsis1ces OF lsi9, the expenditure has been
l45 Millions while IN 1884, 1885 and 1886, the
average was only 40 millions Such a result is by
10 means satisfactory. The same doc1men. in
forms Us thAt the hTss Of July, 1872 the number
OF poor in receip. OF relief VAS about million that
ia 10 say, ore psuper In forty Of the whole popula
ton. This is TOO great proportion in oo1ntry
where there are so many resources, and where
commerce manufactures and emplOyments offer so
many opening 70 human activity. But IN Ireland
il il still worse. There, PsuPer legislation oPer
stes il such manner that one third Of the popu1-
ton is crushed beneath q load Of taxation that the
ether two thirds may lot be efG 70 perish Of hunger
Ii 10 nsihematicaly demonstrated that those who
can pay the enormous amount Of taxes which is re-
CURED Of them are each day approaching the abyss
OF pauperism, and before long, follow one another
TO its depths. The eight millions u Irish vii thas
be cast upon the charity Of EDgsnd-of England,
vhose ear is already so deRfto the cry OF her own
poor.
AIRIII ASCENT oS HoRsEBACK-At the Lam
heath st Police Office on Thursday Mr. Thomas
,ppied 70 the sitting Magistrate. Nr. Norton, 10 !
prevent the proposed ascent Of Mr.. Green from the
RoyL GndeLI, VGaxhAl, on horseback. Nc. |
Thomas conteAded that the act Of taking up the |
horse was act Of cruelty, and inssnced Il. PO.te
vim. recent ascent in Paris when q, q certain ALI
,ude blood flowed coPiOusly from the mouth and !
nostris OF the animal. Mr. Green said that were |
he 10 ascend twice a. high a. be ever did, 1t woa.d |
not be felt confident occasion the slightest dlh- |
culry ia TIE breathing OF the horse. Mr. Norton |
though, such exhibitions could never possibly serve
sny oseful purpose, and that they were altogether |
orno,ed 70 tue b itsh feeling and TO hunsaity- |
re recommended the proprietor OF Nsaxhal to |
,,b,ti,u,e wooden horse for live animal.
The papers make jest Of Mr. Green, who it |
seems went up on vre'ched hssle pony fastened |
inside the car.
FRANCE.