... AN OVERCROWDED WORKHOUSE. Considerable embarrassment has been occasioned the Liverpool Workhouse Committee in consequenoe of the overcrowded state of workhouse. At the meeting of the committee yesterday number of inmates was reported to be 3,125, which ...

... ARTIST IN THE WORKHOUSE. There is present an inmate in the Fusehill (Cumberland) Workhouse who has shown himself endowed with uncommon artistic talent, and whoso powers as painter are being turned to good account by the guardians. After tastefully and ...

... REVOLVERS IN WORKHOUSES. SEQUEL TO A FUNERAL. At the last meeting of the Woclwioh Board of Guardians an inmate named was brought before the house committee on charge of insubordination. Mr. Badoock, assiatant-master, stated that Billings want out to attend ...

... WORKHOUSE EMIGRANTS. telegram from Boston, dated Thursday, says:— The Allan Line steamer Grecian, which has arrived here from Glasgow, via Moville, brought 236 emigrants, who are alleged to have come from the workhouse at bwmeford, county Mayo. The Custom ...

... WORKHOUSE BOYS AS JOCKEYS. brief though animated, discussion occurred the meeting of the Donoaster Guardians Saturday, in consequence of an application from Mr. M'Cormick, of Swinton, to take hid now the workhouse as an apprentice and train him as a jockey ...

... WORKHOUSE OFFICERS AND PAUPERS. At the weekly meeting of the Liverpool Workhouse committee held on Thursday, Mr. P. Smith referred to the case of M'Kenna, who had been cent to prison the previous day for fortnight for assaulting one of tho workhouse officials ...

... A WORKHOUSE STORY. correspondent sends the following story:— If Mr. Hadden i 3 by no means snro that the worst place where a friendless girl may find herself may not be tbe much-abused workhouse, I presume he does not refer to children ; if he does, 1 ...

... A MISMANAGED WORKHOUSE. At Wednesday's meeting of the Holborn Board of Guardians the visiting committee reported that they had gone to the Grays-inn-road Workhouse that day, and found the master absent, the labour-master off day's leave, and the work ...

... CONSUMPTION OF DRINK IN WORKHOUSES. On Tuesday, the weekly meetingof the Macclesfield Board of Guardians, replying to question put Mr. Kirk (Whaley) at the previous meeting, Mr. Neodham (Hurdsfield), the chairman of the house committee, said the consumption ...

... A WORKHOUSE MYSTERY. A man who for the past two years bad been inmate of the Elham (Kent) Workhouse, under the assumed namoof Wilton Loward, has just died suddenly from heart-disease. He was evidently by birth and education a gentleman, aud his conduct ...

... MURDER IN A WORKHOUSE. At the Devizes Union Workhouse, yesterday morning, two paupers quarrelled about their place by the fire. One man, named Gednish, aged 70, took a heated poker from between the bars of the grate and thrust it into tho nock of the ...

... INTOXICATING LIQUORS IN WORKHOUSES. Yesterday, at the weekly meeting of tho Preston Board of Guardians, Mr. Alderman Benson objected, on tae reading of the minutes, to the amount of money required for beer, winea, and spirits, and said that such articles ...