... volt of the Workhouse,-a very fair, well acted, and humorous burlesque on its predecessor at Covent Garden. Cracsk4ull, the beadle, returning triumphant from battle with a rebellious apple- woman, demands from the master of the workhouse a holiday for ...

... decrease in the number of poor in the various work- houses as compared with last year although the num- berof poor in the workhouses on Christmas-day is not to be taken as the average daily number, the influx being greater at this than any other period ...

... In a wretched workhouse the contrary prevails: Does Age begin to prattle ?-no man heark'neth to his tales. In a costly palace if the child with a pin Do but chance to prick a finger, straight the doctor is called in; In a wretched workhouse men are left ...

... The paupers of Kensington are very lucky, it would seem, in having such a fine house for their use as hlr Allon has built. Workhouses and prisons indeed malte great dmands on architectural design just now. Club-houses, too, are evidestly a subject for c ...

... with the fumnes from whicls a death's head rises. Otlier sigli- ticant hints abound, showing that the direct road to tile workhouse, the ai, lird the gibbet, is through the gin-shop,-a road which, whatever our virluous lehislators may have thlought when ...

... on things as they are, extremely unlike the luxurious imaginations of this writer's ordinary state of mind. Such is the Workhouse Song on Meat. day, the Convict's Farewell, and the Leveller. It would seem that when Barry Cornwall leaves the world of fancy ...

... those classes of society that can least afford refinement or disguise. Oliver Twist is the history of a child born in a workhouse and brought up by the parish overseers. The account of his mother's death is a masterly piece of the tragedy of common life-full ...

... taverns or public- houses; and thus, while endeavouring to invest his little savings, to protect his old age from want or the workhouse, tempted the provident poor man to form a habit of sottish drunkenness, which was utterly incompatible with the very object ...

... devolved upon herself, Mrs. Bell flattered herself that she had managed very cleverly. One day, when she was going to the workhouse for her allowance, her husband accompanied her part of the way. Widow Pine was before them in the street, stepping feebly ...

... rebuked, and forcibly dis- missed the presncee of these well-fed servants of the State, ietired to his sad qtarters in the workhouse! But Suliiorz's docunments, ?? to this Admiralty Clerk, were illegitilmate. Let the .eader judge by the iollowing faithful ...

... set of princes and courtiers, and everv petty viliage its Mr. Sub.Collector of Taxes, and its Mr. Deputy Inspector of the Workhouse ?- Tile piece was excellently performed throughout, though the characters, as they had no traits difficult of depict- mient ...

... history, and be more worthy of the great ability with which this history is written. Bemarks oft the Application qf the Workhouse System; with other Modks of Belief to the Irish Poor. By an Assistant Com- missioner. London. Ridgways. Who the Assista ...