Meetings have been held both in Nottingham and in Derby
to ad- dress the railway proprietors to put an end to Sunday travelling. At present the carriages only 3111 in the nerrning. and in the evening of Sunday, and not between the hours of ten and six.
Mrs. Ann Kyrewond, late of Droitwieh. has by her will left the sum of 704. to the Worcester Diocesan Church-building. Society.
3 EL C. Bathurst, of Sydney Park, has seal the tonnitieent sum of 1,0o0/. towards endowing the new church at Cinderfmsl, in the Forest of ISean— 11'th-erste,. Journal.
Mr. Longley. Churchwarden of Longley. was condemned in costs for ringing the ehurch-bells in opposition to the will of the Reverend J. I Ianiel, Rector, Such was the penchant of 3I r. Longley for peals of bells, that he obtained entrance to the belfry by a false hey.— Western Leminary.
Stoke Hall has been purchased by the Duke of Devonshire ; and rumour states that it is now undergoing repairs and alterations prepa- ratory to its being occupied by Mrs. Cavendish, the mother of the Earl of Burliegton.--I),slellIqp,.11)., A dog belonging to a gentleman at Oswe,try was lost at Liverpool some time ago. its master offered a reward for its recovery, without Si Soe time ono' he received a letter fm ro a friend in Nety York, vim knew the dog well in England, that the (hug had arrived at his house, immediately recognized him, and had become exceedingly comfortable in the society of his old master's friend.—Shrecesbury Chronicle.
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