... of matters the adoption of the Poor-house test. Ireland, relief is given almost wholly in workhouses. In Scotland, only one in twenty our paupers are workhouses; in Ireland, out of fifty-three thousand paupers, not thousand were receiving out-door relief ...

... Ji,n ‘ a amen£ ted, was considered, and ordered for tldrd reading.—Adjourned. Thursday, June 27, WORKHOUSES. Lord asked whether the authorities of Workhouses are not bound by the law to admit all times all persons who app'y them for admission and if the ...

... —The C/are Jomr*al, alfoding to the flight the peasantry from that quarter, remark- that, but two brief years back, the workhouse* were Ailed repletion, whereas now they are almost literally de>«rte(l. save old people and young chi dren. who are incapable ...

... and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing, and of dying for it. SIR THOMAS MORE ( Utopia.) Passing by the workhouse (pleasantly named, because work cannot be done in it), I saw sitting on wooden benches, in front of their Bastille, some ...

... WHISKY IN HOSPITALS. Mach of the whisky suppli.d in workhouse and other hospitals is very new, and is often largely composed of patent still whisky or sileut spirit. We perceive that Messrs W. A A. Gabe: bare entered into an arrangement with Mr John ...

... Mass.—On Christmas morning, at Castlebar, the Kev. James Loft us, while the act of celebrating mass in the chapel of the workhouse of that town, dropped dead at the foot the altar. Death from Glanders.—The Mayo Constitution states that another revolting ...

... e members, bat was finally adopted with four dissentients. CHILD MURDER. At adjourned inquest yesterday at tbs Mile End Workhouse, respecting the death of the newly born female child ot Florence Lovitt, single woman, residing Skidmore Street, Mile End ...

... orders, power should be given to committing magistrates to send them either to a reformatory, or to the foundling ward of workhouse. Mr BRUCE pointed out the difficulty of dealing with question of this kind, and remarked that if Mr had himself brought in ...

... Henry Shadforth. aged 17, an apprentice from the Tynemouth workhouse. Altogether between 30 and 40 lives have been lost from Grimsby fishing vessels this month, including about a dozen workhouse boy apprentices. ...

... house*, chiefly Canadian. A Oas.sr,—The Kilkenny Modernt-* of Tueada* nates that a female pauper died Monday •n the Kilkenny workhouse, and when preparing her for latenaent, one of her hands was ohaenred sliot closely on her breast, wtueb. when opened, wan ...

... come into the workhouse here, he said that their workhouse* in England they wor only paying yard for dresses that we’ve got to pay lOd. a yard for. Now. 1 want to know. Sir, what Lord Dundhrury pays for women’s dresses at bis workhouse? titter.) Ask Lord ...

... Clarke's Blood Mixtare on ms. I tors had mrfSTiSd mrmssns were ton oat. and with sad toud I was omnoeUedts come into the workhouse hospital, when I now am. 1 tod toon in tow 18 months, sad lore arodnallT dot worse. beoan think they would nererget tetter ...