... WORKHOUSE GRUEL. Six paupers, inmates of thelVest London Union workhouse, were charged with creating a disturbance, threatening to break the governor's head, and refusing to take their breakfast gruel, pronouncing.it uneatable. A specimen of the gruel ...

... WORKHOUSE RIOT. A serious riot occurred in the i F ernio-y workhouse on Wednesday, which had its origin n the master, Mr. Curtin, having been discharged by the .guardians. The paupers rose en masse as he was leaving the house, forcibly dragged him back ...

... land with workhouses. The Limerick board ot guardian* have resolved to petition parliament, praying that the Poor Law Act may be amended, so to enable boards of guardian* to take large tracts of lend, whereon able-bodied panper* could sm ployed. Thi* ...

... LONDON WORKHOUSE, It not being known on Monday that the Refuge for the Houseless had been opened for the shelter of those who had not the means of procuring a lodging, few presented themselves for admission at the Workhouse. On Tuesday, boweVet', placards ...

... KENSINGTON WORKHOUSE. TO BOTCHERS. BAKERS, CHEBSEMONGERS, Ac. Ac TENDERS FOR CONTRACTS. Kensington, March. 1812. THE Trustees of the Poor of the Parish of Keniington will meet at the Workhouse on TUBS. DAY, the *7th Day March, 1832, at Ten o'Clock precisely ...

... CONVEYANCE OF WORKHOUSES. A BILL to facilitate the Conveyance of Workhouses, and other property of Parishes, and of Incorporations or Unions of Parishes In England and Wales. The Preamble states that there are certain legal difficulties attending the ...

... MORTALITY THE WORKHOUSES. I have obtained returns of the mortality in the workhouses of Ireland tor the last two weeks of January. For the week ending January ii‘J, the number receiving relief was 108,500 ; the deaths were 1,405. For the week ending January ...

... WORKHOUSE CRUELTY. The authorities of the City of London Union have been paraded. at'the police-office of late in a manner that will not add greatly to their reputation for humanity. The poor and the starving wretches who are compelled to apply to them ...

... the consolidation of the workhouse establishments, Yon know very well that it lias been clearly proved to you that Mile-end seriouslv injured the union; that this hamlet has to pay, in only two items, about a-year in workhouse rent and salaries more than ...

... WORKHOUSE CONTRACTS. St. Mary, Rotherhithc, Sept. 29, 1832. Churchwardens, Overseers of the Poor, A- and House Committee, will meet at their Workbouse, Thursday, the 4th day of October next, at ten o’clock in tbs forenoon precisely, receive PROPOSALS ...

... Mr. W. Evens, who for six een years past has been the master of the Stonebouse workhouse. —William Horswell stated:—l have been in the East Stonebouse workhouse four limes altogether. I was in very bad state of health when I last went in. The treatment ...

... UNION WORKHOUSES. A considerable sensation has been created within the last few days in the town of Croydon in consequence of certain facts that have transpired in reference to the treatment of a casual pauper in the Union Workhouse at that place. The ...