The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-01-03 00:00:00

POOR CATHOLIC CHILDREN.

A respectable society, composed of persons of various
religious persuasions, denominated " The Sons of Erin,"
has been for some time established for the most charitable
of purposes, at the house of Mr. Charles Cummings, the
sign of the Sugar Loaf, King-street, Dewy lane. Each
membe► pays the sum of sixpence per week, or say other
sum be may think tit ; they meet at *even o'cligek oat Sunday
evening, and lake the chair in rotation, and all busiuess is
over by ten ; the society is composed of mechanics and la.
hourisig persons, whose object is to raise a fund fur the sup.
port of a school, kept by • master of their own choosing,
Mr. Smith, 14, klasgrurn-street, Bloomsbury, for the educating
and partly clothing indigent Catholic children, who otherwise
would become pests of society, from having nothing to do
but idleing in the streeto, their parents being mostly out of em-
ploy this winter. The funds for this benevolent institution
are so low, that they are not sufficient to pay even the
master, laying aside Soiling any article of clothing, and
without the aetiologies of the more opulent it is feared the
whole object will fail. The Rev. Mr. Sevi►e, at the Catholic
Chapel, Duke-street, lineulu'e Ina-held* ; Mr. Cummings,
at the Sugar Loaf; ■nd Mr. Smith, the schoolmaster, have
charitably offered to receive any trifling donation that
might be offered towards the support of this truly praise.
worthy iuotitutigni.

IVe lament to hear, that the Cashier of the Navy
at Chatham yesterday put a period to his eairteuce
by a pistol.—( Evening Paper.)
A clerk, confidentially employed in a respect-
able commercial house in the City, lately absconded
with property belonging to his employers. moonlit-
int; to between three and four thousand pounds.
He has been traced to Havre-de-Grace, and there
apprelieutled; hot the constituted authorities olject
to giving him up, as, by the French law, they have
the power of confining him for five years in prison
for travelling under a false name. When taken,
about '25/. was found upon his person; and the
lady who accompanied linn, we understand his
wife, had jewellery to the amount of 100/. about
h-r. She is under the surveillance of the police,
and he is committed io prison. He had been living
since July lase, with the female that accompanied
hint. in the first style of fashion, and is reported to
have since married her.

CANTERBURY, JANUARY I.—The lands conti-
guous to the river Stour have, fur several days past,
iveen inundated to • considerable exteaat, hut we
do not hear that any serious injury or iuconve-
niesice has been sustained the►eby.
A leiter (rum Exeter, dated January f, says,
" The effects of the late ireineudous weather have
been more or less felt in every town and village
throughout the kingdom. Perhaps this city has
suffered less than must other places, •s no iustarice
of material damage has come within our know-
ledge. fir the lower part of the road between Top-
sham-bridge and the Limi-kilos, on the way to Ex-
mouth, the water was Si one time five feet deep. Five
houses at Starcrosa were, on Friday last, washed,
with all their furniture, into the sea, and boats were
calling about the street., taking people from their
windows. Several of the Gentlemen's houses in
hr vicinity were so surrounded by water as to lore.
vent ingress Or egress. G•eut damage has hero
.lone oil the siraud at Sianiouth, particularly at the
York Hotel."

Excepting the great flood of 1809, the oldest in-
habitants do not recollect the waters to have been
so high pith,' in the Cam or the Ouse for many
seam Ott Tuesday the low embaukmente of the
College grovrs were overflowed, mid the grounds
on the west Link of the river mamboed ; and the
channel of the riser being narrow, tie waters rushed
down with frightful impetuosity. All communica-
tion was cut off with Graidclsester and the adjacent
villages. At Feostituton so deep was the flood, that
the Ilanitinwhitt mail was obliged to he conveyed
in a bout about two toilet. The Wtsbech and
other op coaches have discharged their passengers
at St. Ives, who have beets conveyed to Fensiusiton
in basis, and thence forwarded to Cambridge in
post•chrisrs. Considerable damage has inevitably
b•.,4 sustained by the buildings and other property
si:tiate near the rivers.—(Cambridge Paper.)
Durnig the last year the number of prisoners
commited fruits Marlborough-st►eet Police-office,
and take., in the csinonily of MARSDEN, the pole,,
to their ',Leer of rooti,oinesst, &r. luve aowittoeti
male d Impale ; the whole of them fur
Itlimits a d misdetutai