... down into the Dead Sea which lies beneath all our vaunted civilization is the Workhouse! And again: I have seldom seen so pretty a sight as that of the Sunday class of workhouse girls, held in a certain dear old house, under the shadow of a cathedral tower; ...

... protracted riots that ever toolt place within the walls of an Irish workhouse broke out in Cork on Sunday last. Two men named Houlahan and Corcoran smuggled a bottle of whisky into the workhouse. The master was informed of what had occurred, and proceeded to ...

... abandoned by its parent. It was removed to St George's workhouse. A few days ago another child was left in the Catholic Chapel, Clarendon equare, Somers town, and is now in St Pancras workhouse. .%By applying a small pocket magnet to a counterfeit iron ...

... by T. R. Macquoid. (Low, Son, and Co.) ANNUAL.-' Cassell's Illustrated Family Almanack, 1862.' PAnIPcLETS.-' The Sick in Workhouses; who they are and how they should be Treated.' A Paper read at the Meeting of the National Association for the Promotion ...

... that she had to support herself with was 1s. Gd. a week; 41b. of bread, and a little tea and sugar, which the Hack- ney Workhouse authorities allowed her every Tuesday.- Charlotte Cheney, landlady of the deceased, stated that the latter often said to ...

... Hamburgh; and Carl Cruse, Principal of a Commercial Academy. (Svo, pp. 319.) Williams and Norgate. MGorTIsLY-' Journal of the Workhouse Visiting Society.'-' The Life-Boat.'-' London Society.'-' Every Boy's Magazine.' (Rout- ledge.) PAMsssnETs.-'A Letter on ...

... Magazine.'-' Bent- ley's Miscellany.'-' The National Magazine.-' Good Words.'-'The Englishwoman's Journal.-' Journal of the Workhouse Visiting Society.'-'La Revue d'Orient.'-' The Family Treasury of Sunday Reading.'-' Orley Farm.' No. II. (Chapman and Hall ...

... he found nearly five thousand examples of every form of disease and starvation, and ample evidence of the fact that the workhouse testin Ireland~is a real test of destitution. Else why had not many of these hundreds applied for food and shelter and ...

... son of a painter, aged three weeks, 'sudden death; starvation ; the mother unable to obtain food for herself.' At the Workhouse, Rotherhithe, on the 25th of April, a labourer, aged forty years, ' diarrhoea (24 hours), hastened by want of the necessaries ...

... Nimmo.) MONTELY.-' Routledge's Illustrated Natural History.' By the Rev. J. G. Wood, M.A., ?? &c. Part ?? Journal of the Workhouse Visiting Society.' No. 14. PAM1'HLETS.-'The Civil War in America; or the Slave- holder's Conspiracy.' An Address by the Rev ...

... say that this crop shows a groat deficiency as compared with its state last year, for, upon inquiring the numbers in the workhouses, I anm happy to find that in the last week thore were 17,771 fewer than in rho same week in August, 1355, and there are ...

... couxt aub fas loul On Wednesday afternoon last her Majesty visited the Isle of Wight Union Workhouse, near Parkhurst, accompanied by Princess Louise, and attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole and Lieutenant.General Seymour. Her Majesty as received ...