... are alarming as respects the rapid progress of destitution and the consequent mortality among the poor. In the Koscommon workhouse fever raging, and one district the deaths are said to ' average 20 a-day. latest BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. LONDON' COKN-EXCHANGE ...

... of the a resolution authorising | issue of a sum not exceeding oo,oou/. from tl»e Consolidated Fund, for the enaction of workhouses in Ireland, was agreed to. Several hills were advanced stage, and the liousc adjourned. ...

... of the English Poor Law, the workhouse test. If there be ablebodied men who will not work, and yet will cry for relief , send them into the house. If they will not go, treat them with stringent severity. If the workhouse is already fall, or infected, ...

... union, in the last twelve months, 2,000 houses have been levelled. There are 4,100 paupers at present in the several union workhouses of Limerick, a number never hitherto approached. A Sign the Times.— Twenty-six hunting establishments have been given up ...

... cholera were reported the Board of Health Whitechapel, 1; hi'nsiugton Workhouse, 1 fatal; Wandsworth, 5; East and West Reedham, Norfolk, 11, 1 fatal; Wakefield, 1; Howden, Union Workhouse,!!; Edinburgh, 4; Glasgow, 50 19 fatal; Selkirk, I; Old Monkland, 2ii ...

... which contained some valuable works Irish history, has realised about £5OO. There are 8,000 paupers on the out-door and work-house relief in Skibbereen. A barge, corn laden, was attacked on the Shannon a few nights since, and property to the value of ...

... Crouch, erctrufroctTy Sprtngbank, thrre are 1000 children under Qentkmen, —Mrs Ma y . uears of in;*', has been rein the Cork Workhouse there ofCogan Street, MveTe £tk,oatic ven years of age. u f 1.0r.i Edwin j duced to a state J ming h „ c Ktl , rr ,entatwn ...

... through the assistance of the press, adopting the title of Small Beer Poets” rather think we libel the liquor, f.r in our workhouse advertisement, the clause which refers to the beer stipulates that it shall small, brisk, and clear* qualities which the ...

... must eventually increase his own burdens, and had indigence been always taught that there was wage for industry and the workhouse for idleness, does anybody believe that Ireland and Irishmen would have been such as the assaflants of the Poor Law represent ...

... necessary for its efficient operation, ( was submitted to the general committee, which met on Wednesday in the City Charity Workhouse. The report, after some amendments, was adopted as the report the sommittee. and ordered to printed and circulated iu terms ...

... some dogs the day before from another corpse, after they had devoured the bead ami neck, ami destroyed the entire body. The workhouse burial ground is Mr Lloyd’s farm, from which they were rooted; but there can no blame attached to the vice-guardians, who ...

... aide suggestions made the gentlemen appointed by the poor-law commissioners to inquire into the condition the metropolitan workhouses, with reference to Cholera:— hope! That cheerful companion of toil, which renders labour light and smooths the weary pillow ...