_The Curfew Bell_ (Vol. vi., p. 53.).--
"During the last 700 years, the curfew bell has been regularly tolled
in the town of Sandwich: but now it is said it is to be discontinued,
in consequence of the corporation funds being at so low an ebb as not
to allow of the payment of the paltry sum of some 4l. or 5l. per
annum."--_Kentish Observer._