... the wholesale system of evicting tenantry from their holdings now prevailing in Ireland. The relief afforded by the union workhouses was altogether inadequate for this wide-spread distress. It was requisite, therefore, that Government should promote the ...

... time. The three deceased children were taken ill at Happisburgh, where their granufather resided. Witness was sick in the workhouse last summer. Thought his wife might be taken ill from the smell of a sick house. Never heard his father-in-law was in the ...

... half in misery and starvation. You know very well, said the orator, that you are now obliged to erect atelier *, or workhouses, order to feed and give work to your preU nded agricultural population. It was immediately after such a specch as this ...

... Union considered in four phases : in relation to the method of administering relief; the manner which tho workhouse was kept; the dietary of the workhouse and the mode in which the books of the Union were kept. The enormous amount of abuses found to prevail ...

... Wed-7th; w.d Thursday, Bth, »t the Horns Tavern, Kennington-common ; Monday, 12th, Tuesday, 13th, and Wednesday, 14th, at the Workhouse Committee-room, Russellstreet, Bermondsey. ...

... occurrence shall not again take place. BERKSHIRE. Cheap Tailoring.—Two men were recently adr.itted at night into St. Mary's Workhouse, in Reading; and upon the master going the following morning into the room ia which they slept, they were both found denuded ...

... Cooper for not having the attention of the directors to what he considered objectionable ia the state and management of the workhouse, namely, that ob his complaint the manner in which the female inmates washed themselves, the mxster told him he had better ...

... than had ever ben polled by any Conservative candidate at previous elections. Manchester and Salford Workhouses. The guardians of b th these workhouses kept up the good old practice of treating the paupers to (Juristmas dinner, of wh'ch r beef and plum-puddiug ...

... Saturday last, was discovered floating in the river, Bermondsey-wall, by a waterman named ~7~ ' _° conveyed it ashore to the workhouse, wher3 a in watch, a purse containing money, and bunch 'J* were found upon his person. The body was in a wm ,tate > and on ...

... measures necessary to be taken in consequence of the virtual closing of the workhouse. The guardians had come to the resolution that it would be unsafe to admit more paupers to the workhouse, that building, which was calculated to accommodate 3,500, containing ...

... —Before Mr. Mills, at the Elephant and Castle, St. Pincras-road, on the body of Richard W. Ward, aged 22, lite inmate of the workhouse. The deceased, who was subject to epileptic fits, slept in a ward with 11 other paupers. On Tuesday night he had four fits ...

... Tralee'; and in Armagh, at Lurgan Workhouse, the mortality from the same cause is alarming; and private letter from Ballinrobe, Mayo, which I have seen to day, announces the death by fever of the master of the workhouse there, and the clerk of the union; ...