... FLOGGING WORKHOUSE GIRLS. The Poor Law Commissioners have thought proper, we learn, in consequence of the late scandalous disclosures respecting the flogging master of the Hoo Union to draw up certain l'or the directing of masters of workhouses in their ...

... t :reed to the proposition, observing it would make a pital workhouse by and bye, and he hoped to have pleasure to see the girls spinning, cottom-yarm, e boys making it into nets. We regret that in king notes on that day, it escaped us to take •wn Mr ...

... betore a Coroner's Jury sitting on the body of a person who had died in the workhouse, and during her evidence a juryman chanced to ask her,— _ How are you used in the workhouse ? The witness replied, very well ; adding, after a pause, but I work very ...

... months. Proseat weiv.ht 9 stone 21b. Fed principally isn water gruel. idea been separated from his wife and childrert It) the workhouse, and occasionally placed in solitary coi , fl:tu ! merit for complaining - of hunger. Etriploynzent, breaking stones. _ ...

... to desert her child. She had applied at the workhouse fey relief, and it was proposed to pass her to Ireland, but she refused the offer ; and at length laid down her wretched infant at the door of the workhouse, and salked away. I love my child, said ...

... to those who might profit by its spectacle. remedy this de . feet, it has been proposed, so Punch is informed, to build workhouses of glass. This device is ingenious ; but glass is expensive. The poor-tales would be SW• fully augmented ; and, besides ...

... into Hemming's:row, where they were greeted by the old women in St. Martin's workhouse,. Groups of women in the streets seemed to share the spirit of din ladies in the workhouse. Continuing their course, at the corner of Green-street, Leicester-square, ...

... of destitution was assumed, or at • 'east brought into general operation ; submission namely, to imprisonment within the workhouse imprisoninunt often of a most aggravating nature. The severity of this test in particular cases cau only he tolerated upon ...

... PAUPERISM IN ENGLAND. In the Chelmsford Union workhouse are 30 paupers, of whom 111 are children from three to fifteen years of age, who are so great a burthen and incumbrance to the Poor-law Commissioners and others concerned, that they are actually ...

... arose from that disease. The persons who died were two men and a child, and the wives of the men have been sent to Limehouse workhouse. The place where the supposed malady broke out, Well-alley, is a very miserable dirty spot, where ten or twelve persons live ...

... waistcoats—and five or six others in the bundle under Vis arm, all rough=dried, and marked with the words ,Chelinsferd Workhouse. The prisoner gave his name Jelin Mitchel;; and, in an answer to questions Put 0 him . , by. the magistrate, Said he found ...

... is a tact that excessive drinking is the principal .canie of our parochial expenses. Of 143 inmates of a London paiiels workhouse, 105 had beers reduced to that 'state by internperance. It is a fact that more than one-half cf the madness BOTTIe of the ...