... AN IRISH WORKHOUSE. On the 20th inst. a poor man of the name of John Tobin committed suicide by cutting his throat in the Kanturk Workhouse hospital, where he was being treated for disease of the heart. The deed was done with a bit of broken glass, with ...

... TOBACCO IN THE WORKHOUSE. The following ode to a tobacco-pipe was written by one Isaac Hawkins Browne, born in 1705, died 1760, and is now dedicated, without permission, to Mr. R. Cory, who objects to the use of tobacco as savouring too much of luxury ...

... THE CARDIFF WORKHOUSE. THE writer of the letter to Malvolio in Shake- speare's comedy tells him that some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. This is equally true of wisdom some are born wise, some ac- quire ...

... TOBACCO AND SNUFF IN THE WORKHOUSE. THE proceedings of the Guardians on Saturday last were enlivened by tobacco and snuff! Not that the potent, grave, and reverend signiorswho com- prise the Board indulged in the pipe of peace, and dipped into box or ...

... JJEATH BEFORE THE WORKHOUSE. On the 11th inst., Mr. S. F. Langham, the West- minster deputy coroner, held an inquest at St. George's Hospital on the body of Harriet Greville, the wife of a silversmith. Her husband had been separated from her for some ...

... THE ST. PANCRAS WORKHOUSE INFIRMARY* On the 8th inst., Dr. Lankester held an inquest at the Bull's Head Inn. Tottenham-couit-road. on the body of Michael Murphy, aged thirty-two, who had died in the infirmary of St. Pancras workhouse. The friends of ...

... Luke's Workhouse. The deceased was the daughter of a bootmaker and his wife, living at X 0, 10, Wake- field-place. The father was paralysed, and the mother had a bad leg. They and their children became destitute, and they had to go into the workhouse. According ...

... CARDIFF UNION. WORKHOUSE ENLARGEMENT. IVrOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the TIME -L1 for sending in PLANS, &c., of the proposed Altera- tions at the Union Workhouse is EXTENDED to the 1st January, 1870. By order, W. P. STEPHENSON, Clerk. Dated 22nd September ...

... seventh time, charged with being found on the premises of the Cardiff Workhouse for an unlawful purpose, on Wednesday night. The defendant attempted to obtain admission to the Workhouse about 12 o'clock, but failing to do so he annoyed the inmates by singing ...

... Bartholomew's Hospital, but the surgeon there told him to take her to the workhouse, and he then removed her to the Shoreditch union. Martha Dack, paid nurse at the workhouse, stated that the deceased said to her, I have had no food for three days, and ...

... of our workhouses without the aid of his inspectors. Late on the night of the 10th inst. he paid a visit to St. Marylebone workhouse, t*nd the aid of his inspectors. Late on the night of the 10th inst. he paid a visit to St. Marylebone workhouse, :-nd ...

... bed, and went upstairs. The next morning he found the deceased dying for want of food, and took him to the workhouse. Dr. A. M. Champneys, workhouse surgeon, said that on the 8th inst. he was called to see the deceased, who gave his name as James Whelan ...