ABSTRACT
Sir—Among other benefits arising from the interesting war now waging at the Cape, is the occupying the vacant wards in the workhouses with soldiers’ wives and children. As a guardian of the Bedminster Union, I met a strong young woman, with a child in her arms, at the workhouse gate on Tuesday last. On asking her who she was, she replied “that she was the wife of a soldier belonging to the 43d Light Infantry; that she was not allowed to go with the regiment just embarked at Cork for the Cape; and in consequence was seeking admittance into the Bedminster workhouse.”
