... soldier contrived to extract a few weekly pence are dried up, and in the majority of cases his wife is thrown back upon the workhouse. Iler little children are as stones round her neck when she seeks for place domestic servant, so that the history of a soldier's ...

... Ireland. The Roman Catholic chaplain of the Galway workhouse has a salary of £100 year, while that the chaplain is only £25. The bank of Ireland has raised the rate of interest on all bills to four and a half per cent. distinction is now made between ...

... determined by the Poor-law officials that out-door relief should not be given to the women, but they should be sent into the workhouse. That is a perversion of the purpose for which the house should be used. It should be employed as a test to distinguish between ...

... it Christie Tob*c:o—'.372 lbs—John Watson Brandy—lo 32 galls—James Stratton Whisky—3/8-10 , Hazgart Brothers Go TO BONDED WORKHOUSE. Tea—7s chests—J ...

... in the previous Acts. Now, one of these works was the repair of the Old Hospital, with the view of converting it into a workhouse. Instead of progress being made, the Hospital was in ruins, and a large portion pulled down for the public safety. One of ...

... with their stone floors, seem cold and meanly fitted, and the whole interior more reminds the visitor of a barrack or cheap workhouse than tolerably well endowed college, and one for the erection and maintenance of which the nation subscribed nearly £160 ...

... represent the extent t ...

... going ten.intless out of cultivation, of landlords reduced to poverty, and farmers consorting with their ploughmen in the workhouse'. Foreign corn and foreign cattle were to come in floods and droves, and at such prices, that it would no longer be worth ...

... the difficulty of recruiting was suggested by the Times some years ago, viz.—the training of children brought up in the workhouses and charity schools to the art of war. It was contended that the country had the fullest claim to the services of these ...

... to be enforced, will. The answer of our censors is that the faith we have in self-government is ridiculous, as the London Workhouses and other abused institutions show, and the inference is that we should trust more to an intelligent bureaucracy. This may ...

... London Union by one of the police as being destitute and in want home. She had been taken in at the City of London Union Workhouse on Saturday, and kept there till Monday morning, when they sent her out, and she was brought to the West London Union. Bowring ...

... medical aid 1 could possib ly procure till my means were run out, and with a sad heart I was compelled to cyme into the workhouse hospital where lam now. I had been in here IS months, and my legs gradually got worse, I began to think they would never ...