... A BALACLAVA HERO. 'ED IN THE WORKHOUSE. ICES OF THE CHARGE. A London Chronicle writer has interviewed a Balaclava hero who is ending his days on a pension of 9d a day in St. Pancras Wo: His name is John Loudon, and with the gallant General Scarlett was ...

... one on Sunday afternoon, and handing it over to the police, who conveyed it to the mortuary at the workhouse. Upon being searched, there was found upon the body a purse containing twopence, a clasp knife, a pipe, and other articles. The braces were missing ...

... BART., M.P. If in this country a pauper died in the workhouse from starvation we should at anyrate hold an inquest on hie body ; and some one would be made responsible. The master of the work-house might prove that when the man had reached the stage of ...

... Claimant was reported on Tuesday to the Guardians of the South Stoneham' Workhouse, as having presented herself with two illegitimate children. She was admitted to the Workhouse. It was reported that the four children of Sir Roger were being educated ...

... TRIUMPHANT CHEEK. The cheekiest thing I ever saw, said the master of a London workhouse to a friend, was the case of a respectable tradesman belonging to Birmingham. He came to London, got into the hands of sharks and found himself without the necessary ...

... RAGGING ! A disgraceful ragging incident is reported from a London workhouse. An applicant for admission to the casual ward was seized by several officers of the institution, rubbed all with soap, and forced to enter a — large receptacle containing ...

... John Bull:—There is a man in Stoke who probably suffers but to smile. Until recently he was earning 12/- a week at the workhouse labour yard, but the eagle eyes of the Revenue officers being upon him, they found that he owned a dog. They therefore asked ...

... been sounded by the announcement of the so-called mysterious disease, which has of late manifested itself in various workhouses and infirmaries, a disease which hitherto appears not only to have caused the very greatest anxiety to the medical officers ...

... written a letter to the Board of Guardians complaining of the conduct of some of the workhouse odicials in regard to th:: interment of a child which had died at the workhouse hospital a few days ago. The writer lutes that a day or two after the decease of ...

... country would have bled and died scrapped—ruthlessly thrown aside; Spurned by those whose homes he helped to save— Reward: the workhouse and • pauper's grave. A. H. ...

... but they may provide by rule for the reduction of the benefits, in case of depression of the funds. If a member is io a workhouse or lunatic asylum at the charge of any Parish Council no sick pay shall he allowed, unless he has a wife or children or some ...

... and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing, and of dying for it. SIR THOMAS MORE ( Utopia.) Passing by the workhouse (pleasantly named, because work cannot be done in it), I saw sitting on wooden benches, in front of their Bastille, some ...