... qr. was about the highest lie tacts have operated npon the employment of the poor, and, consequence, we understand our workhouse has about 70 less inmates than at the corrcspondim; period last year think it is hut fair, to infer from the foregoing remarks ...

... adoption of the .Report, wliich was a-reed to. , The monthly report of the Master of the Workhouse and Infirmary stated tliat the number of inmates the Workhouse were. Men 81—Women 108 —Boys 76—total 342. Decrease 4—Burials 3. Cost, of maintenance since ...

... there-were thirty; he showed them to Mr. Thompson at-tho workhouse the day after, the desk was in small chamber. George Thompson deposed, he was superintendent of the weaving shop the workhouse, he received on the 12th Sept. last cotton cops from Manchester ...

... effects, scanty wages, and dear bread, wide-spread pauperism and oppressively unequal taxes, the necessary cruel ties of the workhouse and the fires of the incendiary are but a portion of the bitter fruits of thraldom, to which they are subjected. If be said ...

... should recommend aB lovers of music and of the cause of philanthropy, to join its ranks THE WORKHOUSE SCHOOL. The yearly examination of the children the Workhouse, took place Wednesday Afternoon that bunding, the presence of the Lord Bishop of the Diocese ...

... which has been taken by the Magistrates, and which she adheres to the tale she told to the woman. She is lodged at the workhouse, where she wdl be taken care of until her evidence required. ** We understand that a man from Aylsham, reading in the newspapers ...

... famished, desperate man, ragged wretch I! And how, nnd when, and where can, I feed, and lodge, and lie. And I muse tbe Workhouse go, If better muy not be: Aye, if, indeed: The No! The Gaol!—tbe Gaol for me! There shall I get tbe larger crust. The warmer ...

... morning, was fined 10s. Edward Hewit a pauper was committed for one month, for an assault on the porter (Mr. Hunt) of the workhouse. Edward Hanby a butcher, was ordered to pay 10s. 6d. costs, for using abusive language to person named Clark. John Pratt ...

... been revoked. The motion was then agreed to. Captain PECHELL. moving for a return, ordered last session, of all the union workhouses, under the Poor Law Amendment Act. in which the paupers were employed in grinding or crushing bones means of mills or other ...

... more hopeless, unless some means can be suggested for their support. The average cost of the poor who are maintained the workhouse, something more than two shillings Er head, and this where every thing done a scale and supplied principally by contract ...

... ds and thousands out of employment. Was this happens, it often does this city, the last resort of the operatives is the workhouse. Of to persons, from year to year, in weekly receipt of outdoor relief, three-fourths arc weavers; among whom £300 and upwards ...

... increase of 2d., and the necessity for that rise must be well known to some of them, wbo, before they got on the world, were workhouse boys, militia men, grocers* porters, &c, and must have felt the privations which now punish the poor weaver. hope that in ...