14 OCTOBER 1837, Page 4

At a dinner given to the Chairman of the Guardians

of the Poor iit the Auckland Union, Sir JohnWalsham, the Assistant Commissioner, stated some particulars respecting the working of the Poor-law in the North of England-

" I think you will not be displeased to hear that the promise I held out, ea the formation of the union under my superintendence, has, so far, been fully realized; that in no one stogie union have the collective expenses of the corn. posing townships failed to experience a diminution—generally a very sensible diminution; and this in despite of several untoward events—in despite of s severe winter and spring, during which the price of food materially increased, much sickness existed, and manufacturing distress prevailed in various localities —and in despite, too, of the unavoidable heaviness of the establishment charges in the first two or three quarters. The aggregate expenditure of the twenty- six unions of Northumberland and Durham—which expenditure, wing whole numbers, had averaged 162,000/. during the three years preceding their forma- ,ion, and had amounted to 149,0001. during the last year—will not during de present year teach 120,000/., notwithstanding the somewhat unfavourable auspices under which most of those unions started ; being a reduction, even here, where I was often and often told the force of saving could no further go,' of 30 per cent, as compared with the average expenditure; a reduction, be it likewise remembered, which 1 boldly assert (and for corroboration can appeal to your honoured guest's gratifying and unqualified assurance, and to your own experience) has been everywhere accompanied by the entire absence of any run. due haste to save, merely for the sake of saving, and by increased care and comfort in reference to the aged, the helpless, and the sick. 'The machinery of the Auckland Union is rapidly approaching completion ; its officers are becose ing daily mere conversant with their duties; the Guardians are acquiring ne creasing practical knowledge of the difference in the details of the new or COGe biued system from those of the old or unconnected system of parochial admi- nistration."

Dr. Stanley has been administering the rite of confirmation at se veral places in Suffolk during the past week. The Ipswich Journal, a Conservative paper, says—" The opportunities of familiar intercourse afforded to the clergy by the confirmation have tended most decidedly to efface any unfavourable impression which the affair at the installa- tion dinner had created." At Ipswich the Town- Council resolved to

present an address to his Lordship; but notwithstanding the organ of the clergy expresses the warmest feelings towards the prelate, many.of

the Conservatives refused to join in the compliment. The Sujjolk Chronicle, in noticing the meeting, says—" To the credit of the sacred cause of religion, no political or sectarian prejudices deterred the Dis- senters fro ii paying proper respect to a man so estimable as Dr. Stan- ley is represented to be by all who have had intercourse with lane The Mayor, and several Aldermen who are designated Liberal Chuich- men, were present ; there were also Dissenters of different denomina- tions—the Baptist, Quaker, the Independent, and the Unitarian."

The prebendal stall in the cathedral church of Carlisle, vacant by the decease of Archdeacon Markham, has been presented to the Reve-

rend C. G. V. Harcourt, M. A., Rector of Rothbury.—Standard. [Is not Mr. Harcourt a Tory?] On Thursday week, the parishioners of St. Peter's Church, Derby, rejected a motion for a church-rate.

Newcastle has been placed on the same footing with respect to spoiled stamps as Liverpool and Hull.—Globe. [Why should not every distri- butor of stamps give equal facilities for the exchange of or allowance for spoiled stamps ?)