... Mr. Gregwood remarked that the proceedings at the workhouse in connec- tion with the insurance of paupers were frequently scandalous. It sras Utated thatif a census of insured people in the workhouse were taken the public would he aisounded at the result ...

... work, even in the workhouse, when they have long passed the allotted span of threc-score years and ten; but this is not the idea of the Leicester Guardians. Henry Vaun, an old soldier with a pension of miuepence a day, entered the workhouse at the age of ...

... GUESTS AT A WORKHOUSE. The idea of a workhouse being turned into a hotel sounds droll, but this has happened at Holbeach, where, owing to the scarcity of cheap lodging. house accommodation the master has been receiving paying guests at the workhouse, a fee ...

... at the workhouse gates spent the nightin a cohmwnt lodging. house himself; the whole of Sunday in a further wutile search d hut it was not until a fwil fortnight had gone by, during wvhich he paidgfor hrs wife's aldnairue' keep in the workhouse, that he ...

... yours, PROOIUES61VE. A WEALTiZY CoSTEut5IoNGn5I.-A Lanibeth-walk costermonger has entered the lunatic wird of the La ubeth Workhouse. On admission he was found to have upon him 155 sovereigns. The wife, who says the money is hers, has made application to ...

... little boy of five, in a miniature Chinese dress, with a pigtail and pair of boxing-gloves, was taken to the Hampsteadc workhouse yesterday morning. He had been representing a Chinese 'Boxer in a local carnival on Thursdav and got lost. His matnma ...

... to inform Guardians that aged deserving persons should not, unr&ss in exceptional (circumstances, be urged to enter the workhouse at all, but should lave outdoor rejief granted to them, and that the outdoor relief should he adequate in amount, which they ...

... who were working near, were severely scalded by the steam which escaped. Shuttleworth has since died. SOLDIERS' WIVES IN WORKHOUSES. MR.. BRODRICK ASKS FOR PARTICULARS. Mr. T. Healy, M.P., has sent to the Irish Daily Independent correspon- dence that has ...

... EPSOM WORKHOUSE. Lord Roaebe-ry has this week entertained the .nmatea of the Epsom Workhouse in celebration 'I of the relic' of Lp-dysmithl. Onl the daty that the uc'xs of the rellief arrivedi hi-, lordihip telegraphed ~othe mmster of the workhouse impressing ...

... ihsgistr~te, amused at the perform, i ance, allowed the ventriloquist to be dis- F charged, on his promising to go into the workhouse. ...

... The convict lellor's crime was due to the low life holed. Ee had been refused admission for his two children-in tlol- beck workhouse, 'and he afterwards threw them into the canal atE Holbeck. While a petition for a reprieve was being got ready Mellor confested ...

... Boa al that Dr. Need- . ham, an inspector under the Commisners in Lunacy, had recently visited the wards of the Hampstead Workhouse, in which lunaties are tem poraly detained pending their removal to an aeylum. The inspector tound that W mean of mechanical ...