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THE EXETER CITY SESSIONS

... the was the against ba ? t0 ficd their bi There also an individual charged with committing an assault on the master of the Work-house ; here it would be their dunto inquire whether the prisoner had offered violenee— o menacing attitudes, or attempting to ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 1831
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 522 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DEVON EPIPHANY SESSION

... charged the expense on the couuty. Indeed, it had been proved before the Committee of Accounts, that the master of the Workhouse at Plymouth derived the whole, or the greater part, of his salary from the profits arising out of the conveyance of vagrants ...

Published: Thursday 13 January 1831
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 7073 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BERKSHIRE REFORM MEETING

... unty, 2 voter, @shoe- | maker in a certain parish, refused to vo te for him, for he should lose the eustom of the parish workhouse—the bal- lot would remedy all thi . (Cheers.) The learned gen- tleman then pointed out the mode b ballot might be practised ...

Published: Thursday 27 January 1831
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1650 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CONVICTION of an ATTORNEY for POACHING

... ; after this, said he should like a dozen penny pics, which he ate seven, when he gave it up. He is panper in Haslingden workhouse and when he rose the following mornin he wanted to repeat the dose. It computed that the whole weighed 32 or 531 bs.—Bolton ...

Published: Thursday 03 February 1831
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1467 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

POLICE

... and six months old. illiams, one of the beadles of Marv-le-bone, stated that the prisoner applied at the board room of the workhouse for relief tliatraoming, and was told that she should passed, pleased, to her settlement in Ireland. The young woman declined ...

Published: Thursday 19 May 1831
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 611 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

& ing.—3,600 millions spent in a century : 800 milions of remaining. debt ; 30 millions of interest ; annual

... ;- houses, mo >; industry mort- gaged ; brokers and wnbrokers full; bankers poor ; trade without profit; ders insolvent ; workhouses full : out poor .starving; gaels.:twice entarged, Yet full; criminals inereased- ten-fold; farms eniargé smal farms guished ...

Published: Thursday 02 June 1831
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 226 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Charge to Poison Jury.-1„ of last, »tatem-iii appeared in the Newspapers of an Attempt made some or persons ..

... occurrence took place in Poole-streef, Birmingham :— voting named Hannah Blyth' residing with her p.ireuts. nearly opposite the workhouse* Litchfield-strei t, having obtained permission out, was accompanied her acknowledged suitor, young man named F;i'tow«, carpenter ...

Published: Thursday 14 July 1831
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1979 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

TO THE EDITOR THE NORTH DEVON JOURNAL. Sir, I beg to ask X.Q. Z. how out Sunday Vestries illegal, when

... bullock, the Scottish breed, broke loose fram a pound the Cherry Tree, Bowling-green.lane, Cierkeuwrll, and rau into the workhouse, knocked down the west gate, and tossed Mrs. Robiani, a matronly Italian lady, but happily without doing her injury. A female ...

Published: Thursday 04 August 1831
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1884 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

The inquiry which has been going on at Bath for some days respecting the sanity of .Mr. Clemer.t, closed on

... after languishing in great misery with her children, died of a broken heart, and the children are now inmates ofStepnev workhouse. Within the hist few days, however, a communication has reached a friend of Keight's. from him, from which it appears that ...

Published: Thursday 15 September 1831
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 830 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE CORONATION DAY IN BARNSTAPLE

... would be better pleased with the money, to provide dinners for themselves, it was distributed amongst them. he poor at the workhouse had a good dinner provided for them, in the committee room, and each had with it a pint of beer. There was a good display ...

Published: Thursday 15 September 1831
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2835 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

We are induced to insert the following, set off against the re-action gentlemen, those who belong the (fork ..

... houses mortgaged, industry mortgaged—brokers and pawnbrokers full—hankers poor—trade without profit, traders insolvent—workhouse full out poor starving. (Jaois twice enlarged, yet full. Ciiminals increased ten fold— farms enlarged—small farm- exting ...

Published: Thursday 10 November 1831
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 284 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CORNWALL

... consequence of the unkind treatment she here experienced, application was made to the Overseers and Vestry for admission to the workhouse, but this was not granted. A day or two afterwards, early in the evening, the poor girl was taken in labour, but the uufeeling ...

Published: Thursday 08 December 1831
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 648 | Page: 3 | Tags: none