... Guilty. Mr T. Allen prosecuted. The prisoner was not de- fended. William Jeffreys: I am the master of the Haverfordwest Union Workhouse. In the month of October last Mrs Llewellin, of Havefordwest, was under contract to supply the Union with culm. The assistant ...

... dismissed. Martha Jones applied to the bench under the following circumstances: She stated she bad been in the Pembroke Workhouse since Wednesday, and she wished to ask the bench what she should do in order to compel her husband to support her. She produced ...

... Walthew, deputy coroner, on the body of a cbild named Margaret Jackson, aged one year and three months, who died in the workhouse of St.. George's-in-the-East. on Monday last, from the effects of starvation and habitual neglect. The mother of the deceased ...

... IN THE SERPENTINE.—Mr Bedford, coroner for Westminster, instituted an investi- gation at the board-room of Saint George's Workhouse on Friday evening, touching the death of a Frenchman named Blanchet, aged twenty-two, residing at 11, Con- duit Street. It ...

... near Saatzig, where some years ago a virgin commenced prophesying with great success, until the Government sent her to the workhouse. FOURTEEN HORSES Bum-T TO DEATH.—Late on Thursday evening the 22nd instant, a fire broke out at Frindsbury, near the city ...

... child was found dead Sunderlaad Times. SUICIDE AT THE LIVERPOOL WORKHOUSR —Margaret Williams, an inmate of the Liverpool workhouse, de- stroyed her life on Thursday by precipitating herself from a window iour stories high. Since her admission (on fflie ...

... been dropped upon some doorstep and had per- ished, or that it bad been rescued from death only to become the inmate of a workhouse. Brett's primary in- quiries were directed to that point; but he soon found it to be fallacious. He then directed his attention ...

... Defendant said he was unable to pay, on which a distress warrant was at once ordered to be issued. EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE AT A WORKHOUSE EIGHTY Boys SALIVATED: ONE DEAD.-An extra- ordinary occurrence has been brought to light at an inquiry at the Preston House ...

... happened at the Brighton Parish Industrial School, Warren Farm, near Brighton. The water supply of the schools and of the new workhouse, recently built on the race hill, is drawn from an artesian well, one of the deepest in the world the shaft of which is within ...

... days. HAVERFORDWEST UNION WORKHOUSE.—On the 14th instant, Mary Jane Phelps, an old offender, was brought before the Mayor, H. P. Goode, Esq., at the Police Office, charged with misconduct in the Haverfordwest Union Workhouse. Mr Carter, the master of ...

... have done so much for improving the health of our soldiers in bar- racks, and something is being done for our sick poor in workhouses, we think it would be well for churchwar- dens and others to direct attention to the ventilation of churches. Of course ...

... aged 52 years. The deceased was a dock labourer, but for a long time past he had had no work to do. His ab- horrpnee of the workhouse was such that, although starving, he refused to have relief with the condition that he should become an indoor pauper. He ...