... COMMITTEE. (From the Metropulitail.) WORKHOUSES ASI) KKL1E1'. The following Table io extracted from the evidence of Mr. John Ballaru e — ILUNT MATTHEW, BF.THNAL OREEN. An Account of the Number of Poor in the Workhouse I of this Parish, and likewise the ...

... Whatever may be the result, it is clear that the Government, unlilie some of the KING'S poor sub- jects, will not die in the workhouse or by the road- side for want of employment. They have chalked out for themselves a quantity of work which will keep the ...

... persons in the town were collected around the wretched woman, and a person named Godfrce, the master of the Paro- chial Workhouse, having appeared as auctioneer, he in a most ludicrous manner, after adverting to her qualifications, put her up to the best ...

... plaining of distress, and stating that they could only obtain from Is. 2d. to Is. 6d. per week for their labour. At the workhouse at Birmingham, he believed they were very ill paid, but they gave the paupers 3s. ad. per week. The hon. Member also presented ...

... disfigured that scarcely any vestige of a human being remained distinguishable about them. They were conveyed to St. Giles's workhouse, and have since been identified .as those of a family occupying the front room on the eecond floor, consisting of a man and ...

... which money is wanted, for the more effectual operation of the law or if even our money were taken to build an infirmary, a workhouse, or alms houses for the poor, or any other thing which was uscfuias well as creditable to the town, we should conceive that ...

... day,and their being so employed was a great hav ,,0 the parishioners, who otherwise would tre e.hadto support them in the workhouse. Re- oj-^g0 went and economy, however, appear to be the ha r the day, for within the few last days, orders f0r.e een sent ...

... left healthy and happy among his children in his own hay-fields, a lone surviving pauper, a tottering; paralytic, under the workhouse wall; the laughing girl, grown into the laded wife of many troubles; the wife, from the prime of life, passed into decrepid ...

... to 54s. per cwt.—Ibid. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday last, Henry ^Ppersley, a boy about ten years of age, an inmate of the workhouse of Newnham was burnt to death by his clothes taking fire.-lhid, AFFECTING AND SINGULAR CASE OF SUDDEN DEATH.—We last week ...

... Lords shall be next proposed to them. Meanwhile, they must see also, that they have no chance of ultimately escaping -the workhouse, but from the dismissal of the Whig Cabinet. The Whigs confess the disposition to destroy the agricul- tural interests, but ...

... whom old age, infirmity, misfortune or destitu- tion may have driven to that last asylum of human wretchedness, the Parish workhouse? Arc these fine philanthropists, these restless seekers after perfectibility, prepared to extir- pate, in all its practical ...

... Commission, about to be presented to par. liametit: 1. No work to be given out of the workhouse after a certain day to be hereafter named. 2. The regulation of workhouses under one uniform and responsible authority. 3. A central board. 4.. The board to ...