"On coming to Spanish Point, I found an enormous building, once called the Atlantic Hotel, converted in to an auxiliary union workhouse. It is an emblem of what is everywhere going on-- the change from productive industry, to destructive pauperism, the cessation of hope and enterprize, and the spreading of apathy and despair. . .

I send you herewith a Sketch of Driving for Rent. It may serve to vary a little the miseries I have to portray."

Illustrated London News,December 29, 1849.