... RELIGION AT THE LIVERPOOL WORKHOUSE. At a meeting of the Liverpool Select Vestry on Tuesday, a letter was read from Mr Digby Smith, relinquishing motion of. which he had given notion', and which was to the effect that a Roman Catholic chaplain should ...

... induced the girl Cosgrove and another girl, named Mary Mason, to escape from the workhouse on the pretext that he would obtain for them situations in York. They scaled the workhouse wall at about eight o'clock at night, end met the prisoner at Rainton Bridge ...

... A JAPANESE WORKHOUSE. The building itself, a shabby looking Exectare, hidden from the pao•ers-by by a lofty wooden fence, ( learnt had been built sumo years previoni.y, but had only recently been occupied by its present imitates. The name by which it ...

... LOVE IN A WORKHOUSE, Some time ago, it may be remembered, a painter who through illness had become an inmate of the Runcorn Workhouse, on his recovery requested the consent of the guardians to his marriage with another inmate—a widow with four children ...

... LOVE IN A WORKHOUSE. At a meeting of the Warrington Board of Guardians last week, the Clerk said he hail received a letter trout a man who was an inmate of the workhouse stating that it was his intention to marry another inmate. The man had been • law ...

... MURDEROUS AFFRAY AT A WORKHOUSE. On Saturday evening a murderous attack was made at the Coleahill Workhouse, near Coventry. upon the master, fir John Dawe, by two inmates named William Henry Baton and Lewis Coleman. The men were found wrecking a greenhouse ...

... - : A WORKHOUSE COURTSHIP. THE OF THE IRISH • aerie ems •iintship and contemplated eastrimemy between two inmates of the ma le In was brought under notes the Stakesley Guardians at their ordinary meeting on bowie Saturday. WT. Smith said that a yeoman ...

... tramp ward of the Preston Union Workhouse, 'at Pulwood. Next morning, previous to leaving the place, she chanced to say, in the presence of a woman named Manley and her children, who were also located at the workhouse, that five years ago she lost at ...

... point to the conchriou, that the workhouse would be au effective check to voluntary pauperism. and would put an cud to nearly all the worst of our present poordaw system. Not the rigor.rus application of the workhouse test mutt in many cases allow and ...

... rogue end vegabond, whowants an order for Durham Jail rather than the workhouse. goes about and boasts that he has the better of the guardians, and will go in and out of the workhouse just he chooses. He gets in on a plea of being ill, and is sent to the ...

... applied at the hospital door of the workhouse of that town for admission. lie had a ticket signed in due form by the relieving officer, and, of course, ho thought in his simplicity—for be had never applied at the workhouse gate before—that that was a sufficient ...

... poverty in a workhouse. Indeed, in this country, poverty is evidently a crime rather than a misfortune. But without further animadverting on the tiomforts of a prison, we will at turn our attention to a ease which shows the misery of • workhouse, and brings ...