2 NOVEMBER 1956, Page 20

Tim Opectator

NOVEMBER 5, 1831

ENERGETIC MEASURES.—On Saturday last, a couple of workhouse boys were sent, by order, of one of the dignitaries of the Church, round the town of Dereham with a mop and pail, to wash from the walls the ominous words "Reform", "Pay no tithes", "Down with the Bishops". (We do not know what farther steps are meditated, but one mop, one pail, and two whole boys, against the people of England, indicate something very serious.]