The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-08-10 00:00:00

SOUTHAMPTON, Avon: 8.

On Friday evening, the 24th ult. the Right Re►.
the Lord Bishop of SALIM/VP landed at Jersey,
under a salute from Elizabeth Castle. The next
day lie received congratulatory•visits from the Dean
and Clergy, the Lieutenant-Bailiff, the Lieutenant-
Governor and Staff, and the States of the Island.
On Sunday the Bishop and suite went to Sr.
flelier's Charch. where they heard an impressive
NIA eloquent discourse by the Reve►end Doctor
DUPRE, the Dean ; and in the afternoon his
Lordship's Chaplain preached to the soldiers and
English residents. The Bishop confirmed on
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday fo!-
lowing, in the four parish churches of St. Hillier's,
St. Saviour's, St. Lawrence, and St. Peter's, and
about 4,000 persons underwent that ceremony.
During his stay, the Bishop dined with the Gover-
nor, the Dean, the Lieutenant-Bailiff,- and some
of the principal inhabitants; and on Monday
the 27th, immediately after the confirmation at
St. Hilier'a, his Lordship gave a sumptuous dinner
to the Dean and Clergy, and the Constituted Au-
thorities of the Island. He admired very much the
natural beauties ■nd picturesque and enchanting
scenery of the Island, together with the cleanliness
and deportment of the inhabitants. This is the
first Christian Bishop that ever visited these Islands
since they have been under the Diocese of Win-
chester ; and it is to be hoped that other Bishops
will hereafter follow so laudable an example. His
Lordship left Jersey on Saturday the Ist insta,it
for Sark, where he intended to hold a confirma•
firm, as well as at Alderney, and be re-landed
at Weymouth, by the Tiber frigate, Capt. DACREt.

A Gentleman w ho left St. John's, Newfoundland,
the sth July, states that this valuable Colony is
making • rapid prayer's to prosperity. The Cod
Fishery he represents as most abundant, end. the
Seal Fishery has already produced perhaps beyond
all precedent. Phenix-like, St. John's is rising
with new and improsed splendour from the ashes
of three conflagrations. The increased breadth of
the streets, the solidity of the new building mate-
rials, and other improvements of a cautionary nature
will make. fires much less frequent and intirittely less
destructive. By the commencement of next fall,
not a house will be missed from St. John's. There
is, of course, great demand for building tradesmen ;
most of those who had passed over from Europe
in expectation of employment, had, in despair of
such promising times, departed for America.
Harvest will be general in this part of Scotland
by the begiimiug 01 September. The crop will not
only be extremely productive in respect of grain,
but the quantity and quality of straw will more
than make up for the deficiency of hay. In esery
respect the crop will be unusually fine; and there
is no doubt that the prices of grain will fall consi-
derably. Potatoes are both luxuriant and early,
and cannot fail to be cheap, unless the great demand
for butcher'. meat should make them be used largely
in feeding cattle.—(Glasgow Chronicle.)

The Cq:ctte of Saturday night contains the ap-
pointment of DANIEL MACINTOSH, Esq. to be his
Majesty's Consul for the State of New Hampshire,
iii the district of Maine. There is also an offer of
u reward of 51001. for the discovery of the person
who mu►dered the gator-keeper of JAMES TESSIER,
Esq. of Woodcot, part of Epsom, Surrey, on Sun-
day last.

SACRILEGE.-013 Thursday night Lief, Of early
on Friday morning, the pari►h church of Tottenham
High Cross, Middlesex, was broken into, and
rubbed of the communion plate, two silver dishes,
two silver flaggons (gilt), weighing shim; forty-six
ounces and ten drachms each, the gift of the late
Ditches of SOMERSET to the church; n plateau, stud
six silver plates, the gift of Virtm.ism Hott;E, E•ci.
to the church.

On Tuesday Julie Lewes was eneestted, in the
Gout of the gaol, near Salisbury, fur a burglary
in the house of MARY Stevens, of Broad Chalk.
Ile died a penitent, but almost a despairing
one. He said, the day before he suffered,
" Nly situ are too great fur forgiveness—rhe Lord
CMS ornever rece►ve such a guilty wretch as I am."
Ile most steadfastly denied to the lest that he
was the man sworn to at the trial ; but stated, that
he was in the house at the time, and shared with
a►other the ;Ones*, and acknowledged the justness
of Ins sentence.

Three fellow,. calling themselves ll'. H. Davis,
R. Fry. and /morel liolmyetd, were apprenended
at Exeter. nn Monday last, for tattooing forgvd
notes on die Exeter Ctiy 13 ~,k. ihvir lottgitigs
erre found bre.wero 400 Wank 1 d
not's. which they hod just knit off. the pier.
prras, ike. The discovery. vrzis mom timely, for it
Larne m.% Fair week. no doubt a crest num-
ber them would Ii ive I I their way into en-
pre a !mu of the gang who were
eitir)ing on a similar trade is %Yalta and Bristol.

ro THE RAMA OP rin "mama PRESS.

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8111—plininritig ifi pm Police Report dif this day, &state.
mein of three hams namod Jolla Shce, Pntrieh Ryan, and
-- baler, all aged 14, having been examined at Marl-
borough-street, whose parents infortiled flue Magistrate that
they behineed to the Rt. Planck School, I take this °ppm to.
oily of enutsidaeliair that litotes/nit. In Ore teat plate,
the roles of the St. Patrick Soot forbid the her. either to
',beep remising'', light nt the theatres or in the all-eels, and
begging of all 'descriptions, in addltitia to a recommenda-
tion, partiralarly enjoined' to the parents on the achnisakie
of their children, that they will I:crp them at home as welch
its passable after school' hues, and on no account sober
then' in be out after It world have hewn intpurcsible
fur •ueli an occurrence, at the one alluded to, to tette Owe
without my knowledge; es the Achim Aeeretary tor the arhotil
deportment, a weekly report is made to me of the taunt of
absence of say boy daring the week, which reports are laid
ly nie before the motility meeting of the Rot-Committee.
Had the reporter called at the school-loney is Lleasi-street,
Sohn, for the peirpone of tocertaisiing the tenth of the state-
meet, he would have found by examination of the roll-
book, which is always open to the inepertioss of lintels
that there was bait one Patrick Ryan and bast two Dwyerf in
the athool—ail three of whom are madam, and "'caviar
attendants, and that vat axe of than And been absent any
day this or lad weellt; that they, were all three under twelve
pears orator, and that there was so boy of the tutor of John
Shea in the school.

1 am, with great teepee,
Your very obedient servant,
Angina 7, 1818, THOMAS 811111.PHY.
19, Howland-street.

JEANNE D'ARC.

We extract the following from a Pari. Riper
W The project is entertained of repairing the ancient habi-
tation of Jeanne d'Are, taking, at the 'owe time, every pre-
caution to preserve untouched whatever was in her 0011 use,
or can recall the recollection of her. The bas-relief pLieed
over the door in the street, and which revolutionary vandal-
ism so greatly degraded, sill obtain a Culaplele reatora.
lion. A conrt, 'encloaed by an iron-railing, well he randy
in front of the house, sod will present its its re the
statue of the heroine. The rite animals that for a long tow
occupied her very chamber, arc shoot to disappear; a mean
stable will be converted into a venerated apartment ; thic
armoury of Jeanne d'Are, which now cutout ns the utensils
of a table, wilt be restored to a noble use. The stone of the
kitchen, which mired for the operations of hutiae-keeping
under the hands of the young girl. will become 'a precious
object, through the renown of the heroine. At sa lat er.perind
wilt doubtless be executed what the eycesaiie eitpenite will
prevent being done at preseut. The bridge on the Meuse
will be displaced,. in order to be re-remoulded itisuch
manner that one of its beads shall lace she edifice. Ihe
rear of the house wilt be rebuilt fur the residence of the
keeper.
Jeanne d'Arc Pet not from Vasiconlenra in 1449, to seek
King Charles VII. This sots the town that furnished her
with money, dress, and an escort for her journey. The Bth
of May of the same year she compelled the English to raise
theater of Orleans ; in 1804 the inhAttants erected a statue
to her by way of replacing that which they owed to the
(gratitude of their fathers, overthrown by the Khania of the
RevolutiOn, and every year, on the Nth of May, they cele-
brate at Orleans the fete of their illustrious tibrratrix. At
Compeigae, Rosen, and Toni, monuments have celebrated
the memory of this extraordinary girl. A sobseription aat
present opened by some' French ladies, who wish to raise a
statue to her.