The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-10-02 00:00:00

CIIELTENHAM,SE T. 29.

A solemn gloom was thrown over the amusements of
this fashionable place yesterday afternoon, by the decease
of the Rev. Charles .hrvis, the Rector of the parish, which
took ;lace between two and three o'clock in the afternoon.
Mr. J. had been our Rector about twenty years, and was
universally esteemed. _

Mr. Thompson. of the Montpellier Spa, postponed the
promenade and hall in consequence, which was to hare
commenced at eight o'clock in the evening at his Spa, and
caused the following notice to be printed, and sent round to
the difl•rent hotels, inns, bosnling-houses, lodging.
houses, &c., and also distributed in all pans of the town.

" Cheltenham.
" In consequence of the lamented death of the Rev. Charles
Jervis, 51r. l'iaroin Thompson begs to inform the residents and
sinkers of Clieltenh.im iti4 the ball intended to be given at the
51ont1ellier Rotund., ,his eveningdis postponed.
" bunchy, Sept. t.. 3."
Notwithstanding this, numbers of carriages, full of com.
pany, came at the accustomtil hour, not having heard of its
pottponenoent, owing to the extensive size of the town.

The account of the health of the Duke of York, on Sa.
turday and yesterday, was very gratifying. His Royal
lliglin:.ss's health is in a more favourable state at present
than at any period since his indisposition.
The Duke of Sussex paid a visit to his Royal Brodur
yesterday, at the residence of the Duke of Ruuand, in Ar.
lington-street. The Duke of York took an airing yester.
day for about two hours. Sir Henry Ilalford, Dr. Mac.
Michael, Mr. Macgrigor, and Mr. Simpson, paid visits to
the Royal Duke yesterday. His Royal Highness was en.
gaged on Saturday morning transacting business with his
Military Secretary and other official gentlemen, after which
his Royal Highness took his daily airing.
Sir Frederick Adam, the Lord High Commissioner of
the lonian Islands. left town on Saturday for Cirencester,
on a visit to Earl Bathurst, his Majesty's Secretary of State
for Colonial Affairs.

On Friday evening Sir Frederick Paget, Aid-de-Camp
to Sir F. Adam, left town with despatches for the lonian

On Saturday the Fellows of the Roval College of Phy-
sicians dined together at their new College in Pall-mall
East. Sir Henry Halford, the President, was in the Chair.
Mr. Eyl, I'age to the Duke of Cambridge for upwards
of twenty years, died at Hanover, a short time ago, at an
ar!vaticiA age.

A very c7alsoling circumstan' e to the friends of religion
took place on the 'etth September, at St. Chamont (Loire)
in the large and fine church of Notre-Dame; two young
English persons, brother and sister, the one aged 20 and
the other tsi, publicly abjured, in the pre-ence of a great
crowd of people, the errors of the sect called Anabaptists,
in which they had the misfortune to be educated. They
were bapt.zAl with all the pomp which the Church pre-
scribes for the baptism of adults, and at a mass of an acti, n
of thanks, which was celebrated, they joined with a piety
that edified and drew tears from all those who assisted on
the solemn occasiol.

The inhahitan•s of Trowbridge are about to apply to
the London Committee for further assistance
Four thousand persons are now dependent on the pari-h in
that town ; and unless something eff.•ctual and speedy is
done, no one can foresee the Ti sub. The market-place on
Wednesday (being the day for paving the paupers) exhi-
bited groups of men, who used to support their families ;n
comfort, ready and eager to labour, but.thcre was no one to
hire them.—Bash Hcrald.

PC BLIC DISTRESS ix KISS.% EE.—Pursuant to a public
notice, issued ry It'. Newman, Esq. Sovereign of Kinsale,
a meeting was held in that town yesterday, to consider the
state of the 1 res•nt distress, and devise the bast mins of
relieving it. Front what we could gather, the sense of the
meeting scone d to h. , that the distress required tore than
temporary relit f, and many benevolent gentlemen exprassed
their willingness to tax themselves in an annual sum for
the support of the destitute and unemployed poor. 'flue
meeting was adjourned. We wait the result of that ad-
journment ere we publish these proceedings.—Cork Swah-
e-ru Rep Her.
A small sloop was brought in here on Tuesday last,
which had been seized by the preventive boat, at (Ape.
She was apparently laden with faggots, and the Master said
was bound to Weymouth, but suspicion being excited, she
was searched, and under the faggots was found a quantity
of the newly-invented machinery far making lace, which she
was in the act of conveying to France. The vessel and
machinery vv, re of course stopped, and will be condemotd.
—Son!bwnp!oa
A large boat built at Arthurstown, IVexford, has lately
plied cu the river with wheels worked by two men at a
windlass She malo s very great way, and, has some adsa•t-
tages over both steam and row-vessels.—Laneast. r rup,r.
On Tuesday, part of a human skeleton, including die
head, an arm, and sonic ribs, was found, in an erect pos-
ture, by William Barker, a well-sinker, when digging mar
Nee bac':-door of Mr. Carrett, farmer, of Martieet. at a
depth of about i les.t. The teeth were retrurkably per-
fect. No other parts of the body were discovered. Front
the appearances of the surrounding earth, it is co. jecturel
to have been in that situation uuwards of a century.
Rost s Y.—A meeting which was announced to take place
at our Town-hall, on Thursday next, to petition against any
alteration in the Corn Laws, was postponed sine die, un
Tuesday, by hand bills. It is generally supposed that the
fate of the meeting at Andover prevented this meeting.

EXPLOSION OF A PRIVATE STlLL.—Saturday morning,
shout nine o'clock, the neighbourhood of Shoreditch and
Curtain-raid were thrown into great consternation sad
slim by a violent report, which proceeded from a sma:l
house nearly at the corner of the Shoreditch end et
Leonard-street. Upon inquiry, it turned out that the
noise alluded to proceeded from the explosion of a pri-
vate still, and in a few minutes after the explosion the
lower part of the premixes were discovered to lie on fire.
The inmates of the house lost no time in making their
escape; two children were lowered down, and then the
wife and husband immediately jumped out. All of them
reached the street without any injury, the neighbours a,-
slating with the greatest promptitude and a::xiety, and of-
fering them an asylum in their own houses. They,
however, took' advantage of the confusion; and knowing
the consequences of their detention, made an immediate
re treat, leaving all their goods and chattels to the mercy of
the Excise officers, who soon after arrived, and adopted the
usual plan of .ieizure. he fire was soon extinguished by
the aid of several engines, which arrived on the spot.
Upon examining the premises, the re nains of a still vete
found in a concealed part of the ground-floor, at the back
of the house. It was completely blown to pieces, and some
portions of the frame and brick-work of the window near
which it was placed were thrown to a distance of '23 fret,
into a neighbouring garden. There was not a single pane
of glass in the whole house (a six-roomed house, with
windows on the staircase) left whole. It was difficult to
ascertain what liquid had been distilled, but, from the
smell, it had every appearance of gin ; awl it is supposed
that it boiled over, and thus took light. The name of the
people is Asher, and they have been remarkable for their
secrecy and privacy during the time they have resided in
the house, a period of about two months. Some of the
neighbours did not even know their names. The confu-
sion which the shock created was in some cases somewhat
laughable. One of the adjoining houses is a baker's, the
proprietor of which, who was himself forced against the
wall, was for some time in doubt which lie should be most
frightened at, the violence of the noise, or the dancing of
his well-arranged loaves; and it being Saturday, he hail
an additional quantity, which boldly quitted their stations
on the shelves, and heaped themselves in glorious Wl'
fusion on the Boor.