... are well brought up for less than £12 per annum each, ' whereas in English workhouses they cost about £15, and in District Schools from £13 to '£30 each. Mr Peek the workhouse as being the last home of the drunkard whose drunkenness has brought him ...

... can prefer the Gaol before the Workhouse, yet such is the melancholy fact. Many inmate, have better scenes! and many of them, no doubt, with repul-ive feelings, must now make content With their fortune's tit, and Workhouse Tare and clothes. .Necessity has ...

... INQUEST AT THE WORKHOUSE. Mr Moore, borough coroner, held an inquest at the Warwick Workhouse, on Wedn esd jay afternoon, rela- tive to the death of James King, sixty, which occurred after his admission into the Union hospital, on Monday night last.—Mr ...

... WORKHOUSE REF ORM. Cotemporaneous with the Reform Bill in 1832, the question of the Relief of the Poor cropped up at a time when the question was very little understood, ] and after 25 years of legislative tinkering, the | Refermed Parliament of 1869 ...

... WORKHOUSE ENTERTAINMENTS. On Wednesday evening; had the privilege and pleasure of being present at the last of those pleasantest of evenings, as Lord Leigh has on some occasions spoken of in an evening in the Board Room of the Warwick Union, when an ...

... THE WORKHOUSES OF WARWICKSHIRE. In twentieth annual report of the Poor-law Board for 1867-68, which has jost been issued, the following is given tbe daily average nnmber of children attending tbe schools the Union Workhouses Warwickshire during the half-year ...

... note to Mr Bone, the relieving officer, for an order. The girl whom she sent with the note returned with a ticket for the Workhouse, together with a message that she was to send her there at once. When witness went to the deceased, and told her of it. she ...

... INQUEST AT THE WORKHOUSE. On Saturday afternoon last an inque-t was held in the Board Room at the Workhouse bein wre Mr Moore, the coroner, on view of the body of George Randall a labourer, 51 years of age, who died the previou W edne=day from injuries ...

... FESTIVITIES AT THE WARWICK WORKHOUSE. The Vicar of St. Nicholas, Warwick, who is Chaplain at the Warwick Workhouse, gave his annual treat to the inmates of that institution on Wednesday evening, and the festivities were carried out with that amount of ...

... APPALLING WORKHOUSE TRAGEDY. About two o'clock on Monday morning a fire broke out in the Liverpool workhouse, and before it nib extinguished a large number lives were lost—princiindly infant—and the church adjoining the building was completely gutted ...

... ENTERTAINMENT AT THE WARWICK WORKHOUSE. The annual tea party and entertainment to the inmate* of the Warwiek Union Workhou9e organised bv the Chaplain (the Rev. T. Rivington), and subscribed for large number of friends in Leamington, Warwick, and the ...

... OPENING OF THE WORKHOUSE CHAPEL.' The new Chapel for the use off the inmates at the Warwick Union Workhouse, was formally opened on Thursday. The project of building chapel was first suggested by the late Chaplain (the Rev. G. W. Voysey), mainly through ...