... NIGHT IN A WORKHOUSE.' I 'acrrosa there are very few who have not read 'Life is a Workhouse,' either as a whole or in ea. cerpts. Whoever has done so, will remember a certain aged worthy who, a pauper fu rMll t acted et casual wardsman, and who rejoiced ...

... MATCH MAKING AT A WORKHOUSE. The Holbeach (Lincolnshire) Board of Guardians, who have been placed in a dilemma owing to the wholesale resignation of their officers, have, gays a correspondent, just been acting the part of matchmaki rs, with considerable ...

... for absconding with the workhouse clothes. She had been °entitled in the workhouse, but her child died in consequence as she alleged, of insufficient diet allowed her. By the advice of a lady guardian she obtained a day's leave to visit her mother, and being ...

... WORKHOUSE DOOMED. FIVE NEW METHODS OF ASSISTANCE. PERETAPB the most comprehensive and important schemes ever promulgated in this country for dealing with the great problems of pauperism and unemployment are those embodied in the Majority and Minority ...

... the Marquis of Ely, near New Ross, in County Wexford, Ireland, have taken up their quarters In New Ross Workhouse. Thel made their way to the workhouse on Diode, In waggonettes, and were escorted by a boll of over three hundred mounted horsemen, accompanied ...

... institution, the condition of the patients in the country workhouses would still remain unimproved. May I venture to suggest that it would be more easy to accept the existing machinery of the workhouses and reform it in such manner as shall really meet the ...

... statement for the purpose of obtaining parish relief. On the 15th inst., the prisoner made application for admission to the workhouse at Paddington, and represented that he was the vicar of Mevagissey, St Austelle, Cornwall, but that he was on six months' ...

... done so. In Cincinnati, a great centre of the brewing industry, there was one of the biggest workhouses in the world, but since Canada had gone dry, the workhouse had had to be closed for the lack of inmates. ...

... latest berth which has been filled for the first time” lady. It seems that lady has been appointed chemical assistant at the workhouse infirmary of Paddington. The lady in question is Bachelor of Medicine ! The berth is one which is ordinarily filled by a ...

... as homelieeper. —Apply, W. G. MAITLAND, I,ongside. NIV AN TED MAN at May Term,to work pair of homes, capable of all farm work—house and perquisites siren.--Apply, No. 9, Obsery er Office. ...

... THE IRISH DISTRESS. At Carrickmacross workhouse, County Monaghan yesterday afternoon about five hundred outdoor relief cases had been delt with. A deputation of three hundred ratepayers assembled and protested against out-doer relief, stating they were ...

... commisseration. As will be remembered she was committed by the Clerkenwell magistrate for a mouth's hard labour for detaining workhouse clothes, and the guardians of St Pancras came to a resolution, after considering thb facts, to request the remission of tle ...