... give at first any general relief, because there could not be erected more at first than ten or fifteen workhouses. They must guard against these workhouses being overflowed fit the outset—they must gnard against allowing the experiment to fail before it was ...

... because it gave no because it provided no settlement legal right of relief— it gave no relief out of the for the poor—hecause work-house. After some far' ther discussion, the original motion was carried b a majority of 252; the numbers for the motion ng 277—for ...

... labourers; iu Ireland it must applied to the farmers and landlords, England it was of the greatest importance to hold up the workhouse in dread ; in Irelaud, it will tie of the greatest importance hold up the rate in dread. The dread of the rate will effective ...

... poor law committee inquire how far the regulations of the poor law commissioners have been compatible with the inmates of workhouses attending their respective places of worship on the Sabbath day ; and to inquire and report how provision may he made for ...

... believed the noble earl bad not the same opportunity, he had never been a guardian. He (the Bishop of Norwich) had risited the work-houses in his district, and inquiry the inmates he found that they were all satisfied. Lord Wharncliff, in reply, »aid that if ...

... of the poor appropriate part of their funds in the employment able-bodied men public works, instead of forcing them into workhouses. Lord John Rnssell objected to the clause, on the ground that ic sanctioned oat-door relief—a principle which it would le ...

... and compel him compile what his contract hound to fulfil ? The classification law lias been neglected and violated. The workhouse system has been administered with a degree of severity most painful and revolting. The special magistrates have been greatly ...

... father, both, to support the child ; further, that the guardians shall find beer to all the old and infirm people in the workhouse; and to permit their friends and relatives to take into them sundry 11 little comforts. After few words from Earl Hardwicke ...

... (Fitzwilliam.) The Duke of Wellington contended that there could 110 effectual administered to the poor of Ireland if the workhouse system was not established. After a few remarks from several Noble Lords, the House divided— For the amend .rent,. 41 Against ...

... society ten years hence defies calculation or conjecture. Had staid in England ten years he might have been living in a workhouse, and glad live there too. But the comparison does not stop there ; how does it not affect his children Compare the hard tasked ...

... and obtaining the bene'it arising from their labour, he must, in future, devote that monev to the support of idlers in workhouse, and augment the number of applicants for relief in that very work house, by tlie amount of the labourers whom will thus ...

... profit, and labour no remuneration —the home of the artificer desolate, and the warehouse of the pawnbroker is full—the workhouse is crowded, and the manufactory is deserted. ! We have looked on every side, we have searched diligently, in order to find ...