... inquire iato the truth of a report respecting the master of the work-house having refused a poor man to aee his wife when- iaid upon her death-bed. The parties were both inmates of the workhouse. 'The man's name is William Dogget, once a man in respectable ...

... none a helping thought can gain. But the sot who booses hardest, the pot-house porch before, May mock, Work finds the workhouse, and so sloth can do no more 1 My temper's not the sweetest, and it wasn't from the first, Yet ?? seemed to love me dearer ...

... soup first had it, next the overseer llowe'er it be it is not here at home, For please you, gem'men, 'tis the workhouse comb!' 'The workhouse conb ?? all -cried, ' oh, 'tie too true I Oh! overseer, what will become of you I ' lRa, fetch a doctor-stoma ...

... they stated that, except some alteration were l fmade in the workhouses, they would close them. Mr. Reap l presided. In July, Mr. Manwaring, the poor-law inspector, I reported the workhouses to the Poor-law Board, as having i sno receiving wards, and without ...

... mystery, is introduced upon the scene t as groaning under the brutal tyranny of inhuman c taskmasters, the matron of the workhouse and her E husband, and his extraordinary adventures arise out 1 of his resolute and courageous endeavours, inu conjunction ...

... performance of their contracts, and to deliver at the workhouse the articles contracted for, free of expense to the guardians.—By order, ALEX. BUTLER ROWLEY, Union Clerk. Board Room, Union Workhouse, Hulme, 10th Sept., 1847. BY COMMAND OF THE POSTMAST ...

... Por Law Corn- nissiners directed that the paupers. . who may now or hereafter be received mud maintained in the workhouse or workhouses of the said Union, shall, dingl the period of their residence therein, be fed, d tlean maintined, with the food, and ...

... indebted for the fact that the Ballymena Workhouse has been self-supporting foe so long a period? To this-that the guardians have looked their duties honestly and manfully in the face-have resolved that their workhouse shall not be the recep- tacle of insolent ...

... again did honour to the occasion. The enjoyment which on Tuesday extended to every grade of social life permeated even our workhouses, gaols, and barrack- rooms, in all of which the venerated old English fare gladdened the hearts of the grateful recipients ...

... were 13 patients this week, as against 17 last week; and in the Workhouse School there were 266 children, of whom 36 were receiving industrial training. The matron of the Mill-road Workhouse Hospital reported that there were 335 patients in that insti- ...

... dining- hall at the Hull Workhouse Was tastefully decorated withl evergreens, and nearly 500 children and inmiates sat ,iwvll to an unlimited supply of beef and plum pudding. The Mayor (Aldernan R1loberts), the go. 'esis r of the workhouse (A ldernsau Fountain) ...

... weklsyer1,9; - e jeupers admitted into the tvorklouse, 24; discharged, te .1; rernmmdgli in workhouse, 733; corresponding week last a x year, 772 chsidran in the workhouse schools, 175; the e ditto boarded out,.40; vagrants relieved ill worleleousa lob; e c ...