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... volt of the Workhouse,-a very fair, well acted, and humorous burlesque on its predecessor at Covent Garden. Cracsk4ull, the beadle, returning triumphant from battle with a rebellious apple- woman, demands from the master of the workhouse a holiday for ...
... decrease in the number of poor in the various work- houses as compared with last year although the num- berof poor in the workhouses on Christmas-day is not to be taken as the average daily number, the influx being greater at this than any other period ...
... down into the Dead Sea which lies beneath all our vaunted civilization is the Workhouse! And again: I have seldom seen so pretty a sight as that of the Sunday class of workhouse girls, held in a certain dear old house, under the shadow of a cathedral tower; ...
... In a wretched workhouse the contrary prevails: Does Age begin to prattle ?-no man heark'neth to his tales. In a costly palace if the child with a pin Do but chance to prick a finger, straight the doctor is called in; In a wretched workhouse men are left ...
... protracted riots that ever toolt place within the walls of an Irish workhouse broke out in Cork on Sunday last. Two men named Houlahan and Corcoran smuggled a bottle of whisky into the workhouse. The master was informed of what had occurred, and proceeded to ...
... abandoned by its parent. It was removed to St George's workhouse. A few days ago another child was left in the Catholic Chapel, Clarendon equare, Somers town, and is now in St Pancras workhouse. .%By applying a small pocket magnet to a counterfeit iron ...
... by T. R. Macquoid. (Low, Son, and Co.) ANNUAL.-' Cassell's Illustrated Family Almanack, 1862.' PAnIPcLETS.-' The Sick in Workhouses; who they are and how they should be Treated.' A Paper read at the Meeting of the National Association for the Promotion ...
... that she had to support herself with was 1s. Gd. a week; 41b. of bread, and a little tea and sugar, which the Hack- ney Workhouse authorities allowed her every Tuesday.- Charlotte Cheney, landlady of the deceased, stated that the latter often said to ...
... Hamburgh; and Carl Cruse, Principal of a Commercial Academy. (Svo, pp. 319.) Williams and Norgate. MGorTIsLY-' Journal of the Workhouse Visiting Society.'-' The Life-Boat.'-' London Society.'-' Every Boy's Magazine.' (Rout- ledge.) PAMsssnETs.-'A Letter on ...
... Magazine.'-' Bent- ley's Miscellany.'-' The National Magazine.-' Good Words.'-'The Englishwoman's Journal.-' Journal of the Workhouse Visiting Society.'-'La Revue d'Orient.'-' The Family Treasury of Sunday Reading.'-' Orley Farm.' No. II. (Chapman and Hall ...
... he found nearly five thousand examples of every form of disease and starvation, and ample evidence of the fact that the workhouse testin Ireland~is a real test of destitution. Else why had not many of these hundreds applied for food and shelter and ...
... son of a painter, aged three weeks, 'sudden death; starvation ; the mother unable to obtain food for herself.' At the Workhouse, Rotherhithe, on the 25th of April, a labourer, aged forty years, ' diarrhoea (24 hours), hastened by want of the necessaries ...