Mr. Hawley, an Assistant Poor-law Commissioner, has issued an order,
prohibiting even the smallest donation to paupers in the Cheshire Westharn Union Workhouse, from their friends or relations. There appears to be no sufficient reason for thus aggravating the severity of workhouse discipline. It would be easy to prevent the admission of spirits, or any thing improper for the inmates ; but under this regula- tion the most innocent presents are prohibited.
We perceive that several of the country papers, noticing the death of Mr. R. Childs of Bungay, call the deceased " of Anti. Church-rate notoriety,"—mistaking him for Mr. John Childs, who we trust will live long to aid the cause of Reform in Bungay and elsewhere.
The Tyne Mercury states that the Berwick and KEW Warder has been printed on stamps with the distinctive die of the Newcastle Journal.
Earl Fitzwilliam is at the present moment most liberally assisting in the building and enlarging no fewer than six churches in this neigh- bourhood,—viz. a subscription of 500/. towards the erection of a church at Thorpe; a liberal sum for a new church at Kimberworth ; 5004 in aid of the rebuilding of Rawmarsh Church ; and the entire cost of en- larging the churches of Tinsley, Wentworth, and Tankersley, for the accommodation of the poor in their respective parishes. In addition to this munificence towards the Church, we may add, that within the last few years his Lordship and his revered and venerable father have expended many thousands of pounds in the erection of the churches of Swinton, Iloyland, and Greasbrough.—Doncaster Gazette.
We are sorry to have to record another dreadful accident upon the
London and Birmingham Railway, in the vicinity of Cayton, near Northampton. A man engaged upon one of the waggon.trains e as thrown across the train, and almost the-whole train passed over his body before the motion could be checked. It is needless to say that the poor fellow was killed upon the spot.—Northampton Herald.
Property in jewels, bank-notes, and gold, worth 1,2001., was stolen last week from Bowen Hall, the seat of Sir Thomas Stanley, in Cheshire. A discharged female servant is in custody on suspicion of being the thief.
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