... roast beef and most delicious plum pudding, together with a good quantity of excellent ale. Mr Hughes, the master of the workhouse, and Mr Bones, of the National School, waited upon the grateful guests ; Mr .J. Buller Olandwr ; Mr Jones, MithUe School ...

... Manchester new workhouse, aecommodation was provided for 300 chronic cases of lunacy, and the arrangements had been approved b the visiting justices. Many such cases had actual ly been transferred from the county asylum to the new workhouse, and the number ...

... other beneficial results, what mast be the effect of spending three times that amount in filling our gaols, and asylums, and workhouses ? It was so vast a sum of money that they could not comprehend it. Again, coal was a very important put of the trade of ...

... complainant with not supporting his wife. Mr Hughes said—l produce a tertitieste from Mr Morris, the master of the Union Workhouse, at Caeraws, to show that Mary Alderson has been chargeable to this parish from a sv.,k last Saturday. Mary Alderson was ...

... struggle,brought it to a 'tend. Distress in Elpitallield.— Within the last few days the demands for relief at the various union workhouses at the East end of the metropolis have been unusually numerous on account of the increased distress among the weavers of ...

... go to look could I get something to maintain my children. I called at the Union, and the Chairman told me to stay in the Workhouse, and that the relieving officer would look to my family. I then left the room, and soon after Mr. Rees Danes, the relieving ...

... D., was elected, there being no opposition. A woman, eighty-four years of age, named Evans, died suddenly in the Chester workhouse, on Wednesday from heart disease, the immediate cause of death being strong excitement from a quarrel with another inmate ...

... restore animation for two hours, returning consciousness was perceived, and the woman was ultimately removed to the Strood workhouse, when she said that her name was Bell, that she had come from the United States to visit her father in Glasgow, and was ...

... fo t r w o h n e e n men n th i e n fl u re ard pos ia i n ti s on ot Co t o h pe e r want to get their children into the workhouse, the guardians invariably take them, and accept in payment, stride towards their support. In some instances they have charge ...

... Thursday list; and, to receive this, arrangements were made by the leaders of the disaffected for a grand procession to the workhouse on that day. About nine o'clock on Thursday morning the men from whom the requests had come marched to the other points where ...

... DOLGELLEY. Free.—Oa the morning of the 31st ult., about two o'clock, a hay bin, near the workhouse, the property of Mr Edward Walker, containing a quantity of hay belonging to Miss Roberts, Lion Hotel, was discovered to be on fire, The roof very soon ...

... Jebb.—Anne Hopley was brought up on a warrant and apprehended by P.O. Bynnen, charged by Mr J. P. Pritchard, master of the workhouse, with having deserted her illegitimate child and leaving it chargeable to the parish of of Ellesmere. She was severely r ...