... WATERLOO AND THE WORKHOUSE. The Rev. W. Sanders, chaplain to the Woodstock Union, sends the following narrative to the Times;- There cannot be many men now living who were present at Waterloo, and in these days, when every other man is a soldier of some ...

... WORKHOUSE BRUTALITIES. With respect to the details of workhouse management, but little improvement appears have taken place during quarter of a century. The rejiort of the recent inquest on the man Hustler, who died in the Stepney Union, aii most takes ...

... WORKHOUSE CHILDREN. The lot of the workhouse child is not ofteu a happy one. It has famished to novelists more thau ono of the most pathetic embodiments of youthful wretchedness that English fiction contains, and there is but too great reason to believe ...

... THE NEW WORKHOUSE. minute of the Su-racks' Committee was then reed; stating that Mr Salmond had given in a finished plan of the new workhonse, made up according to the instructions of the committee, which was unanimously approved and recommended for the ...

... EXPLOSION IN A WORKHOUSE. Two violent explosions occurred in the day-room and receiving ward of the Wrexham Workhouse yesterday. Although damage was done to the rooms, only four men were injured. If the day-room had been occupied, however, the result ...

... WORKHOUSE SLAUGHTER. The deaths in St Pancras workhouse and infirm are so numerous, and the disclosures which are w at the inquests of the gross neglect and ment which characterise the administration of affairs of that establishment are so uniform in ...

... THE FARNHAM WORKHOUSE. The Daily News, reviewing the evidence at the Earnham Workhouse inquiry, say* that under the present system of control the most glaring cruelties seem to be fostered and sanctioned by the people paid to prevent , them. SOUTH LE ...

... WORKHOUSE SICK-ROOMS. The President of the Local Government Board has appointed from among the officers of the department a committee on the subject of housing tho sick poor in workhouses, of Mr. Grant Lawson, M.P. (Pathan! • I•try Secretary), Mr. W. ...

... WORKHOUSE RAT PLAGUE. Something lake a panic has been areated the nurses patient& at Aston Infirmary by a pingo.) of arts. During the removal of a quantity of debris in the yard of the institution, & rat warren was uncovered, and the rodents in thousands ...

... A WORKHOUSE ROMAN! At the Greenwich Board of Guardians on Friday quite a romantic incident occurred. A few weeks ago a half-starved, ragged little girl, about two years of age, was a litter of shavings at 41 Hales Street, Deptford, with her mother (a ...

... RIOT IN ri WORKHOUSE, The question of diet caused some disturbance on Tuesday evening amongst the female inmates of the Lambeth Workhouse, which resulted in four of the ringleaders being given into custody. It appears that for some time past a fish dinner ...

... A WORKHOUSE O! LERS. Certain Poor Law Guardians, it expedient to the number of vagrant fiddlers, who on the occa- sion of births, deaths, marriages, races, fairs, ‘‘sta tions,” and Sanday boosings, make , advertised the for teachers of the violin and ...