While poor-rates were increasing beyond all precedent, their trade was only one-half, or one-third, or even one-tenth what it had been three years before.

In that neighborhood, a gentleman, who had retired from business in 1833, leaving a property worth L60,000 to his sons, and who had, early in the distress, become security for them, was showing the works for the benefit of the creditors, at a salary of L1 a week.
In families where the father had hitherto earned L2 per week, and laid by a portion weekly, and where all was now gone but the sacks of shavings they slept on, exertions were made to get 'blue milk' for children to moisten their oatmeal with; but soon they could have it only on alternate days; and soon water must do.

At Leeds the pauper stone-heap amounted to 150,000 tons; and the guardians offered the paupers 6s.

per week for doing nothing, rather than 7s.6d.per week for stone-breaking.

The millwrights and other trades were offering a premium on emigration, to induce their hands to go away.