... of aged and infirm paupers. A good deal that is odious and repulsive is attached to the vary name workhouse; but I feel convinced that until workhouses are adopted, the condition of the really helpless poor will continue to be miserable: Where such i ...

... Letters to the Editor. THE WORK-HOUSE SYSTEM.— SEPARATION OF HUSBANDS AND WIVES. observe that recently a very serious dis- cussion took place in your town, as to the propriety of erecting a work-house. he subject is very im- portant as respects the social ...

... ETT Y. TRANSLATION FROM BERANGER. THE GUARDIAN ANGEL. CRIPPLED old w retch in the workhouse who lay hia Good Anzel one day ; in a &me from all about me. For what I thank you I never could tell. te to you, ‘Some straw in a corner, the of my birth, “Your ...

... gratuitous attendance at the workhouse—ol tie town Mission who have also for years, and with the ut- most regularity, visi ted aud addressed the paupers —and of the Sunday school teachers who have taught the children in the workhouse ou the Lord’s-day. The ...

... of the Brown- low Hill Workhouse on the 2d of November last year. About three weeks after that date the defendant was engaged at the establishment as a clerk of the works upon a new wing that was beir erected at the workhouse. He soon made the plainti ...

... diminish the tion of the workhouse test would t not a little of it ia to be ascribed to avariciousness rather than want. of the Highlands, as it is Sons would support their fathers rather than that should go to the workhouse, were such the alternative ...

... the workhouse at Holloway, which gave rise to an animated discnssi-m, con. sequent upon a report presented by the Rev. W. Temple, the chaplain of the workhouse, which had reference to the singing of Messrs Moody and Sankey’s hymns at the workhouse. At ...

... poor relieved in the workhouses during the year 1847 was 420,499, and continued to increase until 1849, when it was 999,207. In 1850 the number of poor relieved within the workhouses fell to 789,191. The number deaths the workhouses during 1847 was 68,449 ...

... Barker brought forward a quantity of statistics to show, first, that their workhouse was spending an excessive and unnecessary amount of alcoholic ; and, second, that those workhouses which allowed the paupers the largest aggregate con sumption of alcoholic ...

... because they are universally given in workhouses and gaols ; that it is contrary to the Constitution to tax those who are not re- presented for necessaries. Whatever things are universally given im work-houses coffce are and yaols are necessaries ; ...

... tho Cork workhouse, were plundered by a large mob of country labourers. Tho city of Cork was Friday much disturbed by a body of food rioters, consisting of nearly thousand persons. It was said that their first intention was to attack tho workhouse and seize ...

... on of these gentlemen was that the woman should be taken hack to the workhouse. Mr Bebbington, however, refused to comply with the order of the Court, and returned to the workhouse without the woman. An hour or two afterwardsthere being no accommodation ...