... Poor in the Workhouses. ] Is there no nerve or sense of responsibility left in British Ministers or members of the House of Commons ? Day after day the most shocking revela. tions are made of the cruelties perpetrated in the London workhouses and hospitals ...

... The Pleasantest of the Workhouses, A.-f. Old Woman's Experience. ['* He had gone among tie men. anI they said that were perfectly comfortable, as did also the women in fact, one woman, who bad been the round of all the workhousea, said she liked to visit ...

... FIRE AT A WORKHOUSE. A fire broke out at the Nottingham Union Workhouse this morning. At one time fears were entertained of the safety of the inmates, but the efforts made on their behalf proved suc- cessful. By the exertions of the Fire Brigade the principal ...

... ROW AT A WORKHOUSE. At Salisbury, on Tuesday, seven able-bodied paupers were committed for trial for having broken 700 panes of glass, and committed other damage to beds and bedding, besides threatening and violently assaulting a porter, and killing a ...

... ROMAN CATHOLICS IN WORKHOUSES* In pursuance of a recommendation made to the Roman catholic body m the London district, by Cardinal Wise° ufh 'fi? rrS LenteJ? Pastoral, a memorial is being signed to both Houses of the Legislature on the grievlncls of Jxoman ...

... AN IRISH WORKHOUSE SCANDAL. A report disclosing a. shocking state ef things was, on Saturday, presented by a committee to the Portumna Guardians. The women's dormi- tory and nursery of the workhouse were described as being in a filthy condition. The hospital ...

... Sick Wards in Workhouses. The Rotherhithe inquiry adds one more to the ac- cumulated proofs of the incapacity of guardians to act as hospital managers, and of the unfitness of workhouse masters to rule infirmaries. The beating of patients, their washing ...

... THE CHESTER WORKHOUSE SCANDAL. At the last meeting of the Chester Board of Guardians a letter was read from the Local Government Board respecting a pauper named Kirkham, who died from exposure to the cold, and at the inquest some severe remarks were made ...

... MURDER IN A WORKHOUSE. An inmate of the South Dublin Union Work- house, named Margaret Johnstone, aged 55 years, was killed on Saturday evening in a quarrel which occurred between herself and another inmate, named Anne Taylor, about the same age as the ...

... A MODEL WORKHOUSE. Mr Hewit, the master of the workhouse at Newcastlo-on-Tyne, contends that if workhouses were properly managed they could be rendered self-supporting and he has gone far, in the case of the establishment which he manages, to make good ...

... A WORKHOUSE VIRAGO. A stout, healthy-looking young woman was charged at the Marylebone Police-court with the following brutal assault:— Mr. Tubbs, assistant overseer of the Marylebone Workhouse, said that the prisoner was an inmate of the workhouse. On ...

... REVOLT AT PRESTON WORKHOUSE. Last week, before the county magistrates, at Preston, Thomas Farror and Richard Gerrard were charged with murderously assaulting the master and clerk of Preston Union Workhouse. The prisoners were insubordinate and incited ...