... widow of Capt. W. H. Bernard and cousin of Lad Longmore and the late Admiral King llll(. has been admitted to the Ampthill Workhouse destitute. She has been living at Apsley Guise, Bedfordslire, and the Guardians have decided to communicate with her relatives ...

... - d. ] ne el hours lator request tha T K T A T e words were a d proceed im- mediately to the workhouse and bnpli:: the child. Father Kelly celebrated his jubilee as priest in charge of the Hoxton mission almost simultaneously with his eightieth birthday ...

... given some interesting particulars of how work is attracling men out of our workhouses. At Fulham pinety out of 1,200 men have obtained work. At Woolwich fifty have left the workhouse and got employment, principally at the Arsenal and Dockyard. An old-age ...

... National Health. A More seriously, Brian Groat, on stage throughout almost all of the dozen scenes, sustained the role of the workhouse kid of thirteen most commendably when it is gquestionable if he is himself of that age. Why go on to dispense accolades to ...

... by Charles Dickens will _haoaols on March A= in the first episode the characters will be : \l+ Bumble the workhouse beadle; Mr Sower: rtaker; Fagin, a thief; Jack * Artful Dodger,” a thief ) wother young thief, the Artfu +'s friend; Bill Svkes. the most ...

... good &mg. why do we live in houses of our own, and not live together in @ great union workhouse? Indeed, in many parts of England “ the Union '’ is the name for a workhouse, and anticipating entering a union would be understood by one's neighbours as looking ...

... through universal tempersoce, & reduction in rates that must now be levied for the upkeep of police forces, lumatic asylums, workhouses and reformatories throughout the land. By following the ** No-Licence '’ campaign prayerfully and intelligently, and by ...

... whereas, he could live at home much cheaper and be of a little use towards his own home, instead of beintg a 4 nuisance to the workhouse boards in the south, which will be the only places of residence on such an income. 1f seamen north of Aberdeen are not entitled ...

... A FINE SPIRIT. A rerrin has reached me addressed from a certain ' work-house.” Its writer tells me that he was once an actor who played in many famous theatres. e % Now the fortunes of the world bave turned against bim: his material resources have all ...

... Commissioners by the police authority concerned. Similar instructions are beizg issued to the labour masters at ihe various workhouses throughout the countr Both the police and the poor-law authorities have lately relied on the posscssion of an insurance ...

... where you have no slums for humanity to rot in, a land where you have two-thirds of its prison cells un‘rty, a land with its workhouses vanished, a land with its children well fed, well clothed, well sheltered, well trained, with their merry laughter n'n{ing ...

... been such excellent training that he was inclined to wish that his sons might have the same experience, I reminded him that workhouses were full of.dpeoplo who had been through the mill and had not survived as he had. The worlkl was full of failures whom ...