7 DECEMBER 1867, Page 2

The Farnham investigation is proceeding, but the only fact it

now brings out is the extreme feeling of some of the Guardians against "petting paupers." Several of them declared the tramp wards, which are shameful overcrowded hutches, as good as they ought to have, and objected to board the children's rooms because, at home, they would only have tiles. One witness said the infirmary accommodation was as good as that in barracks, and all assented to the idea that the Workhouse standard should be lower than that of the lowest ratepayers. The end of this kind of argument will be that the Householders will relieve all houses under 15/. a year of rat/es—which will not be pleasant to Guardians.