... petitioners remark that the effecting A union is not compulsory. On turning to clause 20, the margi- nal note of which is I Workhouses may be united by the Commissioners,' I find it enacted that - it shall be lawful i for the said Commissioners, a nd when ...

... dians of this Union unanimously elected the Rev. John |c Edge Daniel, M. A. (vicar of Weybread), chaplain to the a Union Workhouse, at Laxfield. Mr. W. Elliston, of this town, and Mr. G. Meadows, of Bealings, were, on Wednesday last, admitted Members of ...

... burdened with large families, whose only resource, in any casualty, (not arising from sickness in the head of a family,) is the workhouse: the lawas it is noween- forced, operating in such a manner, that an able.bodied man, of the best character, may, by a, ...

... the workhouse or workhouses of the said Union, shall cause two or more copies of this our order, and of tie said Schedule, printed in a legible manner, and in a large type, to be hung up in the most public places of such workhouse, or workhouses, and ...

... and particularly by absconding therelfonia 2nd inst. (leaving her three children) uwitbouit the la,, the master of the Workhouse, and adjudged to be ih * soned in Ipswich Gaul, to hard labour for 14 daUo. Filch, of Woodbridge, mariner, in the ?? if tI ...

... evidence, imprisonment, which be endured Thi at iseed also poor-law guardian on the recommendation oafrns the prise Verily, the workhouse may prove eligible l ac ?? holding- of ribbonslodgesB.Lomerjrk StandaPrdees fhe .THE NEW PRISONS BILL. A meeting of the friends ...

... applied to their miserable and conteplitpible pittance, which was doled out to them for their labour ? Look, too, at the workhouse. How was it that parties were sustained there at tih nublic cx. panse, who were occupied in making up goods sent in from ...

... thousands outof em- ployment. When this happens, as it often does, in this city, the last resort of the operatives is the workhouse. Of 2000 to 2500persons, from year to year, in weekly receipt of outdoor reliefithre-fourths are wveavers; among wvhom .£ ...

... less and leas able to resist, they' had for their share of the accumulated wealth of the country the prospect of the union workhouse whenever they were out of employment, the destruction of their little homncs,,the sale of their fur. -niture, their own ...

... enthusiastic cheers.) Are yon prepared to face any man who may be your land- 1 lord, and bids you vote yourselves into the workhouse? t I(Shouts of ,Yes, yees.) Then if You aire true, and if with I Syou are also true the rest of the farmers of England ...

... tolthemselves. (Hear.) He believed their feeling was rather to sink half the wages than send the poor to the union, and that the workhouse test, which was, in fact, the mini. mum of wages in this county, was so severe that the poor man would not abide by it. (Hear ...

... under circumstances which it would be indelicate to describe, but which can only take place under such circumstances in a workhouse. 'Ihe whole of the parties arrested were conveyed to the receiving-house, which they estered amidst the most tu- mnultuous ...