The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-09-22 00:00:00

THE CHURCH.

The Lord Bishop of Winchester has collated the Rey.
Rich. Pretyman, Canon Residentiary of Lincoln, his Lord-
ship's youngest son, to the sinecure Rectory of Elinplon
Wroughton, Wilts, vacant by the death of the Rev. Ed-
mund Ferrer,.

On Thursday last the Hon. and Rev. A. A. Tumour
was instituted to the Vicarage of Besthorpe, in the county
of Norfolk, on the presentation of the Right Hon. the Earl
of Win tenon.

Mr. R. Arrowsinith, but no relation to the celebrated
pigeon shot of that name, backed himself' or 50 sovereigns,
to kill thirty head of game in three hours, on Tuesday,
over the old Compton manor, beginning near Wader Mill,
Herts. In the first hour Mr. A. bagged seven birds and
two hares with a single barrelled gun ; In the second hour
eleven birds and a hare, and in the third hour ten birds
and three hares: total S.L. Five misses took place in the
match.

The sporting race of forty miles, between Captain Leth.
bridge and Mr. R. Robinson, for one hundred sovereigns,
will take place this day, the latter receiving two miles.
A gentlemau of the name of Holdsworth bets the Captain
501.

A similar accident to that which occurred last week in
Portsmouth, happened about two years since in the Ply-
mouth yard: A bridge at the end of the South or Basin Dock
gave way, though, from the few persons passing, two only
were drowned. The bodies of these unfortunate persons
were taken up by Mr. Smith, clerk of the works, who de-
manded in the dirritagobell.
A youth of the name of Pewsey, In crossing Oxford-
street, in his way to Hyde Park yesterday, was kicked in
the abdomen by a horse which a groom, mounted, was
leading, and he was killed upon the spot. He was an ap-
prentice in Green-street, Oxford-street.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday week a Mr. and
Mrs. Phillips and their child, who reside in Wirrall, in
Cheshire, and had been on a visit in Wales, a young man
named Davies, and two other persons, left Mostyu, near
Holywell, in a small boat, with the intention of crossing
the estuary of the Dee to Hoylake, on the opposite shore of
Cheshire. They had proceeded a mile or two on their
course, when, a gale of wind suddenly coining on, the boat
was upset, and the passengers met with a watery grave.
The catastrophe was observed from the high lands near
Mostyn, but there was no possibility of affording the
slightest assistance.—Gore's Liverpool Advertiser.
FATAL. ACCIDENT..--A young man named NPLaughlin,
a currier, belonging to this town, having on Monday last
gone out to amuse himself with a gun, shot a wild fowl at
Grinan Lough. 'f he bird fell in the water, at the distance
of about twenty yards from the shore, on which Mr.
BPLaughlin, who was an excellent swimmer, stript off his
clothes, and swam to where it lay, amongst docks and
other weeds. Here he stuck fast in the mud and
weeds ' • he called for help, but although, as we are informed,
several country people were looking on, not one of them
had the courage or humanity to attempt his relief. He
struggled for a few minutes against his impending fate, hut
alas! in vain. Nature could sustain hint no longer, and
the water passed over his body. His wife, to whom he
had been married exactly a fortnight, was sitting on an
adjacent hill, waiting his return. She saw his danger, and
with all a wife's anxiety and alarm, flew to the water side ;
but, 0 pitiable sight ! she arrived only in time to witness
the last expiring struggle of her husband. Her distress
and agony may be imagined, but cannot be described. The
deceased was in his 22d year, and bore an excellent cha-
racter.—Newry TelegrapA.
ALARMING FIRE.—Ablt two o'clock yesterday morning
la fire of a most destructive appearance broke out in the
house of Messrs. Kay and Co. linen-drapers, No. 13,
King-street, Covent-garden, which almost instantaneously
communicated to the house No. 11, occupied by Mr.
Downes, a woollen-draper, and threatened destruction to
the adjoining buildings. The fire must bare broken out
in the back part of the house, for at all times the back
part of the houses on fire looking *to the church-yard
I burnt with greater fury than they did in King-street.
The difficulty of getting water, although plentiful, to the
rear of the burning houses through Covent-garden Church-
yard was such that in a short time the backs of the
houses fell into the church-yard. At the same time the
top of the house No. 12, occupied by a tailor, caught
fire, and it was distressing to hear the cries of the
females from the WA windows. After their own pre-
servation, property o, every description was thrown indis-
criminately from the back windows into the church-yard,
where a great number of persons got in by forcing the iron
gates facing the western cull of the church. The rear of
the printing-office of Mr. Harjette, of No. 0, Bedford-
street, looking into the church-yard, wns in great danger at
one time; but, fortunately, from the strong party wall be-
tween Mr. Downes's house and No. 13, occupied by Mr.
Nutting, a button-manufacturer, which screened that part
lof the printing-office, these valuable premises were pre-
served without any injury. On this occasion the supply of
water was plentiful, and the firemen, as usual, were most
active in the performance of their arduous duties. At one
time we saw ten engines playing upon the burning houses
in King-street, and two snore, under every difficulty, were
at work in the churelt-yard. We did not bear of any acci-
dent during the calamity.
A cCIDIta T.—On Saturday morning, as one of the West-
minster Dairy Company's carts was Im:ceding on its way to-
wards St. John's-wood farm, with s boy mimed tletrge An-
drews, about eleven years of ags, riding Ott the shafts, the horse,
, which, was blind, wanted to turn up the wrung rout, which the boy
endeavoured to present, and in so doing, the horse got Close up to
the corner of a brick wall. The boy, to save himself from die
apparent danger of bring crushed against the wall, jumped off the
shafts, when the ridge hook caught and drove through his hat into
his head. lie fell down, and the wheels passing over his head,
fractured his skull in so dreadful a manner as to cause hie imme.
diste death. It appears, on inquiry, that the foreman of the Coin.
pony had ordered a man of the name of %k'eetttm to take the
cart to St. John's-wood Farm, to be repaired ; and instead of so
doing, he had seta the unfortunate boy, who was not in the em-
ploy of the Company. The horse ran a tinier erne in general, twit
bad been er. the lam ter year.