... abundance and plenty there reigns, That not one able-bodied the workhouse contains. Now the big loaf the mouths of the labourers stops There are not enough inmates to eat up the crops Of the workhouse green meat in its garden that grow. And the Union's accrdingly ...

... think, is a bit of a fool Who knows not the reason why. No longer, heart-brokeu or scowling with hate, To the doors of the workhouse we throng We feel no ill-will to the rich and the great, Nor harbour a thought to do wrong. We read ol revolts, and of rows ...

... private. APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS.—On Thursday last the guardians attended at the workhouse, for the purpose of electing a master and matron, and schoolmistress for the workhouse, and two relieving officers for the Pontypool and Panteague districts. Fourteen ...

... counting house Shocked to count the money Prince Albert's at his pastime,' Shooting hare and coney. Poor Tomktns to the workhouse, His savings robbed of, goes: For down carn ...

... ELECTION of a MASTER and MATRON for the Pontypool Union Workhouse I Tht salary of the Master will be £25, and the Matron £ 20 per annum, with furnished apartments, board, and washing in the Workhouse. A married couple without incumbrance will be preferred ...

... against the parish of Usk, which will a take rate of 2s. in the pound to liquidate. We will now suppose we had to support a workhouse of our own in the town of Usk, without aid from any of the rural parishes which sur- round us, and see how far the sum of ...

... luckily with' out touching any person. Another large piece of the en* gine was propelled through the roof of the Gloucester workhouse; a third was carried a distance of a quarter a mile over streets and and houses, and fell in a gardeOi while a massive iron ...

... BUTTER MILK RICE, CLOTHING, SHOES, COAL, SOAP, CANDLES' SPLIT PEAS, OATMEAL, and other Articles of Consump- tion, for the Workhouse of the said Union and also for supplv- f ins; the several parishes in the said Union with BREAD and j FLOUR, are requested ...

... fluctuated « rf year, but has never exceeded 3,173 in one week.. M sent number on out-door relief is 1,531. The mates of workhouses has been materially less pa-po^ weeks of the past year, than it was in the successive weeks of the present year, showing ...

... meeting was held. Sows AND PIGs.-Two workmen from Pontymoile, on Sunday last, lay down to sleep on some straw, near the workhouse. On awaking they found two large sows lying one on each side of them. POLICE COURT.- SATUltDAY. [Before C. H. WILLIAMS, Esq ...

... period he applied for and obtained parochial aid; and the union-house governor proved finding a silver watch upon him, at the workhouse—He was committed for a month, to the Usk house of correction, and to work hard during that period. Caroline James was charged ...

... in house of corection, and once privately whipped. James and Sarah Toby pleaded guilty to stealing a quilt from the union workhouse, Abergavenny.—14 days each. ABERGAVENNY. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF MONEY, Daniel Kinsey, 22, labourer, was indicted for stealing ...