... THE WORKHOUSE. At a meeting of the Hoard of Guardians, the chairman, Henry Leah, Esq. proposed, that on the occasion of the Queen’s Marriage the inmates of the Union Workhouses shonld regaled such way as would enable them partakers in the festivities ...

... of the Workhouse, had been re -subjected to their collective wisdom at late meetings. The resolution alluded to excluded Dissenting ministers from officiating in the workhouse, and transferred that duty to the Vicar of the parish. Whether or not the ...

... THE PROPOSED NEW WORKHOUSE To the Editor qf the Bradford Observer. Dear Sir,— l hope you will allow me a corner in your paper of this week, in explanation of my report to the guardians respect- ing the proposed union workhouse, especially as you have ...

... INSTRUCTION AT THE WORKHOUSE. We have been requested by a respected member of the religious denomination most nearly affected by the recent decision of the Board of Guardians, with respect to the religious instruction of the inmates of the workhouse, to insert ...

... better acrommonation for in-door pauper, in the Union workhouse and how admirably Horton House was adapted to supply a ?_f __ J Wh . _' ?? * H « contrasted the comparative ?? . ?? W ' th 8 eW Workhouse, and concluded with a proS that if the latter course ...

... towards the workhouse, so as to protect it from any attack, and the whole body of special con- stables and other civil officers were also despatched to the same place. Before, however, the civil or military force could reach the workhouse the rioters ...

... visit union workhouses, in order to judge by personal examination whether these places were the actual dens of oppression and misery which they were repre»ented to be. One day, while in Londoo, I took the opportunity to visit the large workhouse of the Battersea ...

... they would build a new workhouse, and if they did not do it, they would make them do so. Mr. Alderson saw the necessity for a new workhouse or some better accommodation for the paupers, for they were stoved up in the present workhouse in a very improper man- ...

... Temperance Con- vention is necessarily postponed. New* Workhouse. — We have been solicited by an inmate of the Idle workhouse (what an appropriate designation !) to advocate the erection of a new workhouse for the Bradford union ; a matter about which we must ...

... for the management of workhouses, require that on ad- mission into a workhouse, each pauper should be called on to de- clare to what denomination of Christians be or she belongs — that on application to the master of the workhouse he should have the means ...

... in the workhouse : bow people were to* understand such statements he could not tell. Booth, the master of the Idle workhouse, was here asked how the suggestion of Mr. Clements was delivered, with refe- rence to the collection of Idle workhouse; and he ...

... not know where the inmates of the workhouses came from, when the workhouse masters re- ported every week whence they had received any new inmates (hear, hear). Mr. Isaac Wood said that, in his opinion, the workhouse was the best part of the new poor law ...