... and employment every department industry, have swelled the public revenue, and comparatively set open tho doors of the workhouses and prisons. (Hear.) In the summer of 1842, which closed the last period of the dear years, we saw every large manufacturing ...

... committee, to inquire into the administration of the poor-laws the Andover Union, and into the management of the union workhouse. Mr. Christie—On the motion of Mr. Etwall, for a select committee, to inquire into the administration of the poor-law in ...

... Bray, crossing the Great Western Railway, near Maidenhead, over Bine Hill Maidenhead Follv, doubling thence hv the Union Workhouse, nearly to where tile deer took to the Thames, swimming over the river, and landing in Bucks at Taplow mill. The hounds were ...

... produce infection in the house. The Chairman - thought that probably might have been the case. Mr. Porter (governor of the workhouse) said, when Madden was brought to the house he was in dreadful state as any human being could possibly be. Mr. Bvtt, the ...

... are ascertained to be lost this item. The only attempt to 3 manufacture a coarse description of cotton stuffs was made the workhouse at Diocletian's baths, and the arsenal of 1 galley slaves at Cicita Vecchia. The paupers preferred beg- 1 ging, and the only ...

... of persons who had become poor from no their own part, in a position where they would allowance cither in or out of the workhouse, ana a P~ apartment where the latter was the case.—The one a resolution, accepted, Mr. John Williams putting name at once ...

... God will reward you all for it; so good night, and God bless you all. I am years of age. My dear little angels send to the workhouse. I cannot live this world since I lost my dear wife.—Robert Taylor. It appears that ever since the death of the unfortunate ...

... rose to the surface again, when he seized her by the hair, and by that means saved her; and he then conveyed her to the workhouse, where her clothing having been dried, he afterwards took her to the station-house. When the defendant was placed at the ...

... been adopted. Men are sent about town, dressed in white frocks, upon which are inscribed in large legible characters, such workhouse clo'.hes are branded with, the things to be sold, their prices, and the houses where they are sold. Even the Ant, Bee, and ...

... building of the workhouse. It wai almost unanimously resolved to petition both houses of parliament to stop the appropriation the parish funds, by the Poor-law Commissioners and the guardians of the poor, to the building of a new workhouse. A petition was ...

... painful, the place being inhabited entirely bv the poor, many were immediately *o the necessity of seeking shelter in the workhouse Cier»* iwelli. the parish authorities having given g neral fir the immediate admission of such had been renired Some children ...

... and Mr. Blake, the relieviug officers, who reside the City-road, neither of whom was at home. He afterwards called at the workhouse, and a«ked if they would send chair for his wife, wliich he was told could not be done without an order from the surgeon ...