... at the workhouse gate. When at length the group is broken, By tihe invite churlish spoken, On one ear it falls too late; Death bas cut her suff'rimgs short all, She has sought another portal, Leaving all of her that's mortal Lying at the workhouse gate ...

... WORKUTOUSES. The BerntondseY guardians made further inquiry ?? into the circumstances atedin sending of two nirls from the workhouse dressed only in canvas fronths, with the words Bed wity drorkhouse rinted on them in large ters.o twerso letters were ...

... her children being without shoes, the workhouse authorities' had supplied new ones when she would insist upon leaving the house, Mr. Barker observed that'there was not the slight- est blame attached to the'workhouse authorities; in fact, it had been the ...

... Gray's-inn-road workhouse was again re- ferred to.-Mr. Goode said it was not so much the fault of the cooking that.the Irish'stew was complained of, but on ac- couutof the stinking meatandrotten pota. tdesused.-lfr. Nunn said he, visited the workhouse last week ...

... donor for the little inmates of workhouses and hospitals. AU Londoners will feel the happier for knowing that Santa Claus svill go the round of the siek wards of the infirmary and the hosnital, the dormitories of the workhouse and the orphanage, and that ...

... these, sir, are the men who, with unblushing effrontery, have declared the St Paucras workhouse, under its present system of management, as being the model workhouse of the kingdom. Should the truth of these statements be doubted, I have only to say that ...

... that witness walked with him to the workhouse. On the way there he fell from exhaustion. Witness instantly called as- sistance, a stretcher was sent for, and the man, who was then dying, was carried to the workhouse in- firsmary. He said that he was dying ...

... aacd had a boy to fetch his food. On being asked if lie would not be better iii the workhouse, deceased exclastined, No, for God's sale do not take me to the workhouse, for I shall die of starva- .tion there. He said he had 7s. a week to keep hihself ...

... the people, las been follo3welup by a close, odreful, and uiprepudic9d taquiry into the actual condition of metroplitan Workhouse infirmaries. We beseech al pesh wh are sceptical about the alleged ill-treatment of the poor, and hold thatour pooerlaw ...

... by Lady Meath; for providing pleasant occupation for the aged 'and -infirm- inmates of workhouses and infirmaries. It has been in operation in Padding. ton workhouse since 1886, when Lady Meath gave a grant ot 301. to 'start the wor- Owing to the generosity ...

... extend to Scotland or Ireland. LAYING TEE FIRST STONE OF THE NEw FULHAM WORKHOUSE BY THE BISHOP OF LoNDoN.-On MOOt- day afternoon, the ceremony of layipg the first stone of the new workhouse of the Fulhame union, which com- prises the parishes of Fulham and ...

... to the relieving officerthey wereoffered the workhouse. Now that seemed to him to be contrary to law, but re- lieving officers in the district of the coumt seemed to be given to sending people to the workhouse, spend- iisg the ratepayers' money; whereas ...