... village constable, and the latter for throwing his two illegitimate children into a canal after a refusal to admit them to the workhouse. A seamen named Hugh Murphy murdered his wife at Liverpool, and then committed suicide. He had been out of work for some ...

... of view. There are no means! of ascertaining how many of them have swelled the ranks of the unemployed. or added to our workhouse popidafon. What is certain is that large numbers are tieing , admitted to Great Britain who timed be re- I fused admission ...

... him. With characteristic hardihood he has invented a new phrase to travesty the alternative Unionist policy. Back to the workhouse I it runs, and his Parliamentary supporters, who were almost ready to sacrifice him when the Insurance Act caused the loss ...

... kindliness of strangers to help 'him along; though already lie has spent one night in the police station and an other in the workhouse. SIR HERBERT TREE. ON SCOUTS. Writing to a contemporary Sir Herbert Tree says:—Of all the movements which are in progress ...

... reason, pay that impost. But eventful g I. baby found on the doorstep of one of the houses. It was at once seat to the workhouse, where the authorities received it with simnel. enthusiastic fervour, which explained next quarter when there came along ...

... watering. My view is that it ought not to be sold for human consumption at all. It is filling the lunatic asylums and the workhouses. _ Mr Walter iemss-examinlngi—ls It a fact that In Elgin, the very centre of the pot stills, there are more prosecutions ...

... impossible. Another generous proposal is that which seeks to remove certain poor law grievances. With the concentration of workhouses, and a better classification of inmates a very desirable change will be effected in the present state cf matters. Agricultural ...

... Oh ! how they sigh for the heather hills and bonnie ' wuds ! ' And if they dont like the poorhouse, why they may have the workhouse ! There is a cool boldness about the scheme which temps one to aak respectfully whether a general battue and the extermination ...

... from the war permanently disabled was held in the Oak Hall, Edinburgh. Instead of housing these soldiers in institutions or workhouses, the proposal is to provide houses and workshops en the garden city principle, where the conditions of home life will prevail ...

... every case • large and continuous profit has been recorded from the year's working. Now, if such labour as is available in work-houses, prisons and lunatic asylums can he made regularly tto provide a large part of its own subsistence and yield a revenue in ...

... omission of a clause which gave a magistrate power to send a person convicted of cruelty to a child to an inebriate home or workhouse, if he was satisfied that the offence was due to habitat , drunkenness. The retention of the clause was supported by Sir ...

... just as foolish. Instead of finding better employment elsewhere, these emplace d workers go to swell our slums and fill our workhouses, and add to the dangerous army of the unemployed. Millions of our skilled artisans have emigrated to foreign countries—where ...