... POETRY IN A WORKHOUSE. In a sketch of the life of Grace Dickinson, with which the chaplain of the Halifax workhouse bas prefixed a collection of ber poems, the writer thus describes the novel manner in which the poetry was transcribed :—* It was not until ...

... generally of a routine character. We give some particulars as to the state of the parish : —Paapers on J: roll, 118 ; in the workhouse, 35 ; lunatic asylum, 8; belongiug to other parishes, but paid by Bathgate, 2¢; paid by other parishes for poor belonging ...

... tens of thousands yet unbornthere he was, upwards of sixty years of age, a cripple for life, with a gaol o» a workhouse—no, there were no workhouses then in Seotland ; I wish there had ever been—but with a more fearful prospect of destitution and starvation ...

... AN IRISH SCHOOLMISTRESS. Weminthohbitolbudh’oltho management and good order of the North fi: Union Workhouse and contrasting it with the South. g:!:. theh Roman Cnholithh-pl.un,xfi Rev. Mr n, has come out quite une , without notice tothe party oouue%. with ...

... spent whole nights, from sheer inability to pay for a bed. He had applied in his extremity for admission to almoss evev workhouse in London, but without gaining. Oa Wednesdni_night he sought a night'’s shelter in the Refuge in Field Lane, but not baving ...

... and made a complaint to me that she had been ill-treated. Hannah Bird, single woman, deposed that she was an inmate of the workhouse on the 2&1;‘0!:. and l_eft;: the company of a strange woman. en (continu timeu)fi got outside, the lady said, ‘‘Oh, here is ...

... dry bread. He used to crave for two ounces of meat, but she could not let him haveit. She bad two ears ago applied to the workhouse authorities for re{ief, but they could only take deceased into the house, and as deceased would not go in, for he had a horror ...

... 751 ; females, 4204 ; total, 19,955. Of this number, 646 or 32 per cent. were brought up in workhouse or district echools, The 646 prisoners were in workhouse or district schools for various periods, ranging from one day to five years and upwards ; thus—22 ...

... des'itute diseased conditiom, was also discharged with a caution, ou the understandivg that he would be handed over to the workhouse authorities to be sent on to Coventry. The trustees of the fund of £150,000 which Mr Peabody, the American merchant, presented ...

... was succeeded by a deluge of rain, which can only be compared to a waterspout, The Willow Catholic Chapel and the Union Workhouse were wrapped in a complete sheet of water, and most of the Koues were partially unroofed by the violence of the wind. The ...

... plam-pudding for the Lancashire operatives, which has been prepared at the Marylebone Workhouse by the London Society of United Cooks, will be escorted from the Workhouse to the city by a Volunteer batd, and after being there exhibited, wiil be forwarded ...

... at a public dinner, of roast beef and plam pudding, in the Market Hall. The whole of the inmates of the Donecaster Union Workhouse ‘are to partake of a similar fare; the ...