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Title: Punch
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870 Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887 Taylor, Tom, 1817-1880 Brooks, Shirley, 1816-1874 Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), 1836-1917 Seaman, Owen, 1861-1936
Subjects: English wit and humor English wit and humor, Pictorial
Publisher: (London) : (Punch Publications Ltd., etc.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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oria Park Improvement Bill. Not a word more, there- ! fore, Mr. Punch, about it! Or, suppose you set about a report that it j has been dropped,? Upon my word, Sir, I havent received a single sixpence from theG*s Light and Coke Company, or any other Company. 1 haventreally. Upon my honour, I havent. Sir, I solemnly declare I am anentirely disinterested party; and so, confiding in the impartiality with \ which yon always give both sides a hearing, beg to subscribe myself,your old acquaintance, AuM Altj5KAM pARTEM.,, Waste Paper.—Diplomatic Notes. Printed by Joseph Smith, of No. 24, Holford Square, In the Parish of St. JaTies, Clerkeowell, in the County of Mlddlesen, at the Printing Offices of Messrs. Bradbury, Evans, ft Co., Lombard Stree*.in the Precinct of Whttelnsrs, in the City of Loid)n,and Published by hi ro at No. 85, Fleet Street, in the Parish of St. Bride, City at London.—Satvbdit, June 16,1866. June 23, 1866.) PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 259 THE MODEL UNION WORKHOUSE.
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HERE was truth in certain words of Wobdsworthsrelative to The Old Cumberland Beggar. Awish expressed by the Poet on behalf of the oldbeggar was :— May never House, misnamed of Industry,Make him a captive ! The old Poor-house never was a house of indus-try, nor has the Union Workhouse hitherto deservedany better to be so called. Oakum-picking,cracking stones, and bone-crushing, are not in-dustrial employments but penal tasks, designedto plague paupers, not to occupy them, to makethem uncomfortable rather than useful, to answer,in short, the same purpose as that of the general system of discipline which, prescribes for the inmates of workhouses a coarser andscantier diet than that awarded to convicted felons in gaol. _ , The exertions, however, of Mr. Ernest Hart, and other benevolent persons, have brought about the commencement of a general Work-house Reform. Among the members of some Boards of Guardians a few have been inspired in a measure with common humanity, and theexhortations

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