... on Friday last, with an excellent and substantial dinner, our worthy Mayor, Thomas Brown, Esq. The inmates of the union workhouse enjoyed excellent dinner of beef and plum pudding on Christ nas-day. On new year's day. a Ball tookplacein the Assembly-rooms ...

... —three chddren of 5, 7,, and 11 years of age respectively. Their poverty proved beyond possibility of doubt for have lived on workhouse fare three long days: they have tried to evade the incarceration demanded by public justice, and sure found guilty of ...

... with chilling effect upon those wise men of Gothan, who complain one week that the spiritual interests of the poor in the Workhouse are not sufficiently attended to, and who, on another, interfere to prevent a Clergyman ministering to those self same n ...

... which is now a magistrate, and in which he served the office of high sheriff six or seven years ago, inmate of the union workhouse a town through which his equipage had recently been an object of ad rat ion amongst many of the poor, now his companions ...

... ji-iim Committee required. the* cue of Clergymen another rule obtains. Where the Workhouse i» placed under the care of the Rector of the Parish, his consent, and his only is required—and no Incumbent or Curate any place whatever, can, strictly speaking- ...

... well known that they were compelled circumstances, and the power of the Poor-law to go to the expense of constructing a new Workhouse. That was the expense to which Mr. Jamea had alluded ; and he was as much interested in the saving of the public money as ...

... population of Bideford alone is about 6,000, and that in the number of deaths registered are comprised those occurring the workhouse, where the dis eased and feeble, the old and worn out, are gathered together, and where a high rate of mortality is supposed ...

... Lancaster, the Governor of the Workhouse, as to the conduct of a number of the inmates of the house. These complaints served to place, in a striking aspect, the utter want of the means of proper classification in the Workhouse, and the ill consequences which ...

... juror in si county, which is now magistrate, and in which served the high •heritf six or years ago, is imusite of the T'nion W'orkhouse in town through which Lis equipage had rac jutly been object of admiration amongst of tl:c poor, now his conipsinions in ...

... like shuttlecock, from one workhouse official to another, and finally allowed to perish cf actual destitution. On cross-examination Ann Biggs, stated that it was her brother George who went with the deceased to the workhouse the Friday evening, George ...

... 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 ...

... required by the Poor Law Comnissioners to have a new workhouse, and probably a chajiaiu and house surgeon. The Board had recently removed all his scruples on this head, by their resolution to build a new workhouse near Ham Gate. felt satisfied, if thiswere carried ...