... a day. Mr McWhannell : What do you mean by saying that he said he would have to go back to the workhouse? Witness : I know he has been in the workhouse, but I do not want to say anything more about that. I told him he might get on in the work- house ...

... being lorceil to live in one room— the immorality that must result from such a condition of things, tbe hardships of the workhouse system, separating husband and wife; and the heathenism and idolatry of a large class of the people. Mr Thompson's address ...

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... of the workhouse test has become geuerally adopted in England, so haa the pauperism of the country declined. It has decreased by nearly 38,000 in one year, and of these 6,632 were able-bodied, showing conclusively that residence in the workhouse is so ...

... subject of workhouse management, his lordship advocated a reform which should protect those who lapsed into poverty from no fault of their own, as distinguished from the habitually lazy. He advocated a reform which would secure the services as workhouse masters ...

... that of a bay horse which may sometimes he seen drawing a coal cart, sometimes int the shafts of a Eublic conveyance— the workhouse hearse. The owe is violently lame in the right fore-limb, and it certainly is aaddening to watch the progression of thia ...

... PAUPER’S IRISH ESTATE. The claim of the old man William Day, an inmate of the Greenwish Workhouse to a property worth £lO,OOO in the town of Carlow, Ireland, scemg likely to prove successiul, The « Daily Express representative in Carlow interviewed Mr ...

... boarding obtaining so much in Ireland, the tendency is that workhouses are not so much required; and the question has been more than once mooted, in one Union at least, whether an adjoining workhouse should not be closed up altogether, and the two Unions amalga- ...

... He was taken home, nearly a mile away, per- ; tw y *!f nC^! clo l vs * It transpired in the evidence tbat the Milnthorpe workhouse doctor, a man i named Uarden, ordered the removal of the dying ^J 1 £_ .*• Ke ? daJ seven miles away, •nd that was done ...

... A Roman altar and coins have been unearthed by workmen at Newcastle-on- lyne. vote taken among inmates of Barnet (Herts) Workhouse to whether they required night-shirts resulted saying and only eight saying yes- . „ . . There are 1,300 bowls clubs and ...

... following lines cannot fail ta prove an irresistible •■ plea, when it is known that they were written within the wall? of a workhouse ii.tirni wy in I. , ndon by m • lderly ii..,i confined to his bel by hopeless ' illness, winch bus deprived him of ibe use ...

... througbout the year. It will thus be seen that this institution performs all the most important functions of the English workhouse, bnt with this difference, that in the former the relief being voluntary, the recipients are treated with kindness and b ...