THE GOOD OF LEAVING MISERY TO ITSELF

... hypocrisy But the cost, we hear in toned of despair, will be ug15 a-head. Well, and what then? What is the cost of a pauper? A workhouse pauper, taking an average of men, women, and children, costs somewhere' about 5 a-year. Compare an annuity like that with ...

Fashion and Varieties

... renom WANT.-A poor wooman, nanmed Catherinse Couilars, while being removeud from r Kilerony, co. Loutih, to tire Dunilalk workhouse, expired of exlaustion caused by distress an waant. CAL.AMIrTY AT SEA.-Seven file fishiling smacks, wisose unitedcrews nulmberedl ...

Reviews

... lace, cheap carpets, f cheap fancy work-boxes, cheap Geneva watches, , &c., and they have even tried their hands at cheap ! workhouses (which last experiment, by the way, has . been rather a costly one, the upshot of which is not I yet understood). With increased ...

Reviews

... cheap carpets,e ies cheap fimsy work-boxes, cheap Genevawatches, ' &o., and they have even tried theirhands'at cheap, ie workhouses (which last experiment, by the way, hast bye rather a'costl one, the upshot of whichis not i 311 et understOOd), With 'increased ...

CONCERTS, ETC

... only. TH'RE were twenty paupersenitdotfte NeahWorkhouse, into the 69th Regiment, on, Monday, and fifty out of the Roscrea Workhouse. SERGEANT THOMAS REED, 3d Dragoon Guards, shot himself at Loughborough on Monday, to evade an inqury ntohisaccunts, as defaulter ...

Published: Sunday 03 February 1850
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1268 | Page: 10 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... of the poor, so that able-bodied men. may be, prevented from burtiening the parish-rates, end preserved' independent of workhouse almns and degradation.. An-association, hrvincr so praise- wvorthy an-object, deserves the' stronsgest sutpport, and its ...

DRAMA

... aged 30. The Jury viewed the body, ii which lay at the workhouse, and WAS sadly mutElated. 11 Elizabeth Elmor, nunse in the workhouse infirmary, 27 . deposed that deceased was brought to the workhouse co on the 9th instant, suffering from ?? wounds' wI in ...

LITERATURE

... was most excessive. Her three chil- dren, the eldest of whom, a boy, is about eight years of ' sage, are in the lomerton workhouse. One or two rela. ' tives of the convict have visited her during the week The day fixed for the execution is Monday, the ...

FINE ARTS

... considerately points i ott the household furriture strewn in lotsj auid~t -vhich is a scene of the turf. 'The Clubhouse an4 the Workhouse, by another hand, though painted with delieacy, also belongs to this class; the purpose may be good, but it may fair yi ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851

... now few com- plaints about very heavy poor-rates. The cheapness of food has led to a very considerable dimiuutiou is the workhouse expenditure, and thus to a practical relief of the ratepayers. Ia Sligo union, the commissioners re- fused to sanction a ...

LITERATURE

... has 4one in France, to the introduction of universal suffrage. Whenueverythiog]i ocepndta nehl ftepplto is landed in the workhouses, it is thctnght'everything'will 'be righted, wisdom at once imprinted -on the measures :of Govern- mvent, and' contentment ...

Reviews

... enabled the committee to give good tea and hot buns to 150 aged women, and 200 children, aitd also to all the inmates of the Workhouse. After tile day's sport was over the well-wishers of the parties met at the Feathers and Owen Olyndu-r Inns, f w3sen they ...