The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-08-21 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY' INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD. AUG. 19.
Lately was married, at Kiiravock Comte, Como R. Innea, Esq.
H.A. of Balliol College, to Isabella, eldest daughter of Hugh
Rose, Esq. of Kilravock.
A fcw days since was married, Edward Dawson Legh, Esq. of
the ;Biddle Temple, and formerly of Brasennoae College, to Csthc.
rine, eldest daughter of Sir Christopher Robinson, his Sloleaty'a
Advocate-General.

in Sunday last died, aged 83, the Rev. Rd. Grant, M.A.for-
merly a Student of Christ Church. and for 86 years Vicar of
Blackbuunon, in this county, which Vicarage is in the gift of the
Than and Chapter of Christ Church. He was also Vicar of
Shunted 31ountlitchett, and Hector of Wenningtun, in the county
of Essex.

The I.:•rd Bishop of Salisbury holds his Primary Visitation at
St. Helen's, Abingdon, on Monday next. His Lordship intends
confirming at the Caine place on Tuesday.
The Lard Bishop of Salisbury will hold an Ordination on Sun-
day, the 24th day of September next.
The Lord Bishop of Bath and %Vella intends to hold an Ordina-
tion at Wells, on Sunday, the 8 h of October next.

ECCLESIASTICAL PRO:110 !lONS.
Rev. Mr. Deresford bu been instituted, by authority of the
Lord Ilish, p of Cloyne, to the valuable Living of Inniacarra,
vacant by the resi•mation of his father, the Hon. and Rev. Geo. De
La Poer &Tedford.

Rev. C. Arnold, B.A. to the Rector) of Wakevly, Northamp-
tonshire. Patron, the Marquis of Exeter.
Rev. Dr. Wrench, of 1 trinity Bell, Cambridge, and Rector of
Sunning, Kent, has been elected MiniNter of the Chopelry of
Blakeney, Gloucestershire, vacant by the death of the Venerable
Archdeacon Sandiford.

Reverend Abercromby Gordon, to the College Church in Aber.
d • I.

The Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry has presented the Rev.
W. E. Cohi well, Rector of St. Mary's, Stafford, to the Vicarage
of High (Alley, in the same county, vacant by the death of the Dean
of Chester.

DREADFUL FIRE, AND TWO LIVES LOST.

About twelve o'clock on Saturday night, an alarming fire broke
out in the house of 31r. Parker, of No-10,Wilmington-square,Spa-
fields, whose lady kept a boarding-school for young ladies. It
would appear that all the family, including Mr. and Mrs. Parker,
had retired to rest before the tire broke out, as it was with the ut-
most difficulty that any of them were pre.erved, even in their night
clothes. from destruction. Mrs. l'arker and the servants escaped
at the front door, while several of the young ladies were rescued
from death by 31r. Parker, a backgammon table maker, living in
Merlin-place, who, at the risk of his life, saved four of them by
taking them out of the first and second floor windows, and was
courageously proceeding to the attic story, through fire and smoke,
to save a child live years old, but in this attempt he had nearly
perished, for he WI down from sidll•sation, and was carried out of
the Mantes in a state of stupefaction.
Mr. Parker, the proprietor of the houpe,was seen actively engaged
in assisting to preserve the lives of his family ; but it is lamentable
to state, that in his praiseworthy endeavours to accomplish so de-
sirable an end he lost his own life, and so late., tire o'clock yester-
day the body of Mr. Parker was not found. Indeed it would seem,
from the state of the ruins, that up to that hour no endeavours had
been made to find either the body of Mr. Parker, or that of the
Mile girl who was asleep in the attic story, and who is also missing.
:t has been ascertainci, ;tat the lire broke Out in the kitchen
t supplytchesn;atid
such 111111 the rapidity of the flames, that, hut fur thel;
of water, and the active assistance of the neighbours and two parish
engines, the adjoining houses must have been also destroyed before
the arrival of the firemen with the Assurance Office engines.
There was not a single article of property or furniture preserved
front the flames.

Accounts from Blackburn are favourable. Business
wears a better aspect generally; more confidence and wore
goals putting out.
Mtancei.ove EBCAPE.—On Saturday afternoon, as the
Mercury coach, travelling between London and Glouces-
ter, was leaving Oxford, at one o'clock, after having
changed horses in that city, by some accident one of the
linch-pins fell out of an axle-tree, and the coach was in-
stantly thrown on its broadside. All the outside passengers
were precipitated to the ground ; but, owing to the very
moderate pace at which the coach was proceeding, no one
of them sustained any injury beyond a scratch or two.
There is no blame to be attached to Mr. Howell, the driver,
' we understand; and the circumstance happened entirely
from one of those accidents which sometimes occur after
the greatest pains to render everything secure have been
taken. A violent jolt upon the stones is supposed to have
loosened the pin.

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