SOME THINGS TO LOOK BACK UPON.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 26, 1 September 1911, Page 3

SOME THINGS TO LOOK BACK UPON.

In 1828 Lord Shaftesbury found that the lunatics in Bedlam were . chained to their straw beds and left from Saturday to Monday without attendance, and with only bread and water within their reach, while the keepers were enjoying themselves. In" 1770 a girl was hanged in England for receiving a piece of woollen stuff f from a man who had stolen.it. In 1789' a woman was burnt at the* stake.for coining. ' In 1820 the dead bodies of the OatoStreet conspirators were beheaded, in front of Prison, and the Westminster schoolboys had a special holiday to enable, them to ; see the sight. „, _ Last century a woman died in th« county gaol at Exeter after 45 years' imprisonment for a debt of £19. In last century a tax was levied on the number of windows. one had in his house. It was called the Window Tax. - -■ ■-- ■ When Queen Victoria became engaged to ..Prince Albert, she - wished him to be made King Consort by Act of Parliament, and urged her wish upmiy the Prime Minister, Lord. Melbourne. At first that sagacious man simply evaded' 'the point, but wheu her Majesty insisted on a categorical answer, "I thought it my duty to be very plain with her. * I said, 'For God's sake, let's hear ■no more of it, • ma'am; for if you once get the English people into the way of making. kings, you will get them into the way, of unmaking them." '"'-,■