... Strand, on tuesday, the 10th day of November next, proceed to ELECT a fit and proper person to be GATEKEEPER or PORTER to the Workhouse. Candidates must be active able- bodied men, unmarried, and not exceeding-forty years of age. Their personal attendance at ...

... stage. A FeRaEoLDcon-The tutalsums expended in the purchase of land, the erection of the buildings, and the fittings-up of workhouses (under the act 4 and 5 William TV., c. 76) up to Michaelmas, 1840, amount to .,598,694. During the years ending lady-dsv ...

... the principle that relief should, as far as possible be confined to the workholse. bitt bold. on the con trary, that the workhouse should never be tmtda condition swbere it cao safely Ie dispensed with, for I cminot think that ire are justiflied in lightly ...

... operate most harshly upon a labourer willing to work, but who can get no employment. He, sitis his family, ]s doomed to a workhouse, in order to test his real destitution at a great cost to his parish; and there he must remain, until pennvless he leaves ...

... In ?? so situated, it is neither sight nor practicable to put in force tho mais principle of the new lasv, and make the workhouse the test ot destitu. tion and the chief instrunment of relief. In communities so fitted for self-government and accustonsed ...

... ing-ith want, she and her infant had no other resource fron lbs hegrro~rs of starvation but suicide, or a return to the workhouse, iii which, according to her own account, she had already been extposed to cruelties that overcame the pleadings of maternal ...

... mind hut that of the heartless doctor, that it wouldhave been more charit- able to have sent him to the infirmary of the workhouse., than to send him adrift on chance. The Lendon University Hospital is in bad repute among the, people, and there is an ...

... Unions in England and Wales comprised, in March last, no less than 13,803 parishes. There were 108,898 paupers relieved in workhouses in the year. P. H, S. (Stratford)-The O'Connell tribute for the past year has nut yet been announced; it is said that ihe ...

... (Newgate-market)-l. Yes. 2. Courts-martial have been held on board East Indiamen. F. B.-The poor in general consider a workhouse and a prison as syno- nymus. Poverty therefore begets desperation, and desperation crime. R. S.-The inspector had a right ...

... at the hous ofMr.M'Giesn twn ler, wichhe left about nine O'clock, 'and was accompanied by Mr. Glissan us far &s the union w~orkhouse, wherehea bid him good night,~ end the un- fornan'ato man proceede~d on his way alone, fie Was waylaid in a, longisbane ...

... 'Thames Tunnel, 2850,500 was advanced, no portion of whirl; had been repaid. It also appears that for building and enlarging workhouses, and for emigration under the Poor Law Amendment Acts, 9l,734,700 had been ad- vanced, of which sum 152,660 14s. 6d. remained ...

... notorious to need our insisting upon it in this place. 'Tie fact stands out in broad daylight; he who runs may see it; the workhouse, the gaol, abounds with evidences of its reality. ...