... appear to be a practice altogether to be commended that guardians an board-days should regale themselves with dinner from the workhouse stores; or that the parish moneys should be expended in the purchase of beer wherewith to wash the roasts and boils down ...

... magis• trato, martyred to his country—had to sell her own gowns and her husband's small clothes to keep her friiini the workhouse, We say nothing of Tammany Ilall and the New York Corporation. We 5h..11 nut urge the peril of keeping the dispenser of the ...

... bodief of the two children were discovered • dreadfully mutilated, and they were removed to St Pancras Workhouse. Dr Joseph Hill, surgeon of the workhouse, stated that he examined the children, who appear, of the same age. Their uses were cut off and the ...

... few fac which ought to trouble the ghost of the late Sir Cornewall Lewis. They have discovered that there resides in the Workhouse of that town a woman named Mary Jane I lall, who completed her 100th birthday in July last. Her husband died in 1851, aged ...

... at the Oldham workhouse. It appears th a t oa the 25th of May, a man named itichardson, a painter by trade, aged 36 years, was admitted to the male imbecile ward. Ile had beeu drinking excessively or cane time, and was lent to the workhouse when suffering ...

... shrewd enough in some i things, but rather bewildered at what was being i done with him. lie thought he was going to some workhouse. He told me where he came . from, and said that he had expected letters. I made him more comfortable in mind, and gave him ...

... charged with deserting her infant ohild, in the parish of tit. Thomas, viz, leaving the said child at the Haverfordwest Union Workhouse door, on the 12th instant. The defendant was ordered to be imprisoned for two calendar mouths with hard labour. ...

... theirmotlier had administered poison with intent to murder. !laving been discovered before death ensued and removed to the workhouse, and remedies administered which proved successful. The wonan was committed fur trial charged with the attempt to murder ...

... a recent meeting of the Birmingham board of guardians, a tailor in the town having applied to hare all or r •haa in the work-house apprenticed to him, a question arose as to whether the ►oy was a Protestant or a Itoman Catholic. It appeared that the lad ...

... court by the Chief Constable, Air Slum lle stated that since the woman was last before the court she had been removed to the workhouse, after having been exatinued by a surgeon. She was attended by Mr Smallinam, who had that morning informed him she was quite ...

... committee rppointid at the previous board, report no the subject of Mr. Mathias's reeignatinn u medical i.fficer of the Workhouse, burd should be sdjourned until the feling Ssiurrliy. In consequence of this, a number it guardians usembled at the °face ...

... do, and who would not thank the worthy doctor for telling them they were weak, emaciated, poor mortals lit uuly for the workhouse. Will the worthy Doctor tell me whether he sera in the towu he has chosen as his home, that saddest of sights, i.e., tile ...