... healthy male child. It, was under these conditions that the poor creature was tossed about, ]ike a shuttlecock, from one workhouse official to another, and finally allowed to perish of actual destitution. An inquest was held, and the Jury returned the ...

... those expenses, far ke rather less. We have hsd the cholera three es Brent, in the Union Workhouse, and at See expenses at Brent were, I believe, about workhouse about £50; and at Brixhara. figure* ■**» w nurses, £37 19s-the house of refuge there. £22 ...

... could speak from experience of the bad effect of having a high diet in prisons, which tended very much to induce persons in workhouses to commit offences, in order to be sent to prison. It could not be too much impressed on the government, that this system ...

... all the Counties of England to press upon the members of the Government the bearing of the present high prison dietary on workhouse offences particularly, as it served as an attraction to persons to commit offences instead of repressing them. Mr. iSillifant's ...

... policS rrac,%. op Wednesday night. Four young fellows,, senton t~iat night.with a cart-loadfof bread to one of the auxiliary workhouses, had a quarrel on the way, and one of ttheip, namned Ryan, received a viofent blow of a skuliracker, whlich Rendered him ...

... to subsist as they can. Work it is impossible for them to obtain, and nothing is. left but the dread alternative of the workhouse, or the gaol. These, then, are the halcyon days which have followed the introduction of free -trade,-'these'the blessings ...

... police barracks, on Wednesday night. Four young fellows, sent on that night with a cart load of bread to one of the auxiliary workhouses, had a quarrel on the way, and one of them, named Ryan, received a violent blow of a skullcracker, which rendered him at ...

... old men, old womTn £ T' Mercury. M,a Reading Riot Barham Union Workhouse, Suffolk —r ing out of the Military.— A serious case of insubordinatir, among the paupers in this Union Workhouse, situated near Ipswich, took place on Monday. There were altogether ...

... important additional evidence was brought forward. One of tha inmates of the workhouse, Louisa Byles, stated that oa the Friday evening she saw Elizabe h Biggs waiting the workhouse, with from Dr. Cooper to admit her to the poorbouse. , read the words. Admit ...

... and labour, they leave you no alternative but America or the workhouse. While they do this they are exclaiming against the Poor-laws, seeking to exclude the unfortunate paupers from the workhouse, and leaving them to support themselves from door to door ...

... cost of erecting the new gaol, and tbe P has also been called on to pay the quota contributed t*» | erection of the union workhouse. There is still one woollen factory in Tiverton, carried on by our townsmen, Messrs. SheDDard K.* and Tucker. v ...

... Ann Rowsell, a pauper, was committed for six weeks' hard labour by the Rev. W. B. Whitehead, for misbehaviour in the Union Workhouse, by insolence to the matron and schoolmistress.— On Thursday, George Wilhnott, young man, in the employ of Mr. Hill, lace ...