The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-01-30 00:00:00

NEIV COLLEGE AND GRAMMAR SCHOOL

AT ST. BEEs,
AND LIBRADY AND .11AWNE SCDOI,I;

AT WHaEIIAVEN.

Saturday se'nnight the Agent of the Earl of
Lonsdale gave the Rev. W. Ainger, B.D. posses-
slots of the noble structure fitted up on2ler Mr.
Peile'i Nuperinteiadenee, in the chancel of St. Bees
Abbey, IV hitehaven.
This portion of that venerable pile had Into with-
out a roof for upwards of :.!00 year.; but the walls
were found substantial, and the Bishop of the Dio-
cese having intimated to the Earl of Lon:Mule, who
is patron of the extensive parish of Si. Bees, that it
would essentially serve the Established Church, if
the costly education at one of the English Culver-
sities could he avoided, and the gentlemen, in-
tended fur a clerical life, receive it nearer home—
Ins Lordship, with his accustomed liberality,
medistrly acquiesced • in the plan suggested, and,
at his own expense, finished one of the tioldest
structures rut academical studies, which this ur any
adjacent county can boast:
The ornamental parts, and particularly the High
Altar, which, previous to the Reformation, embel-
lished the spot dedicated to, and formerly employed
in, the service and worship of Almighty God (al d
now devoted to the students intended fur the rm.
testant Church), have been preserved ; and the tout
elm:N*lde of the edifice, as completed, presents a
display of great taste, elegance, and convemetice,
combined with an almost wriest:ramble reverential
awe, which tier:mulattoes our walk in the paths
trodden by the religious characters, who were, by
their avocations in ages past, allotted to spend their
time in this piglet', and who, no doubt, would say
of it and its inirposts, however modified—es/0 pea..
palm. _

The Clerical Establishment of St. Bees will, in
all probability, advance the interests of the Free
Grammar School there, under the care of the Rev.
Thomas Bradley, A.M. and which bus recently
been repaired, at a soy conbiderable expense, by
the Earl of Lansdale.

In addition to his Lordship's munificence, be.
stowed upon thy Institutions at Si. Bees, we have
also to notice that a most commodious room has,
in the last year, been erected by the Earl of Lou*.
dale, for the accfontitodation of the sitbscilbers to
the 11'hitehuvesi Library ; the Magistrates having re-
quested the use of the rooms formerly appropriated
for the purposes of the Lihrary, as an improvement
to the Public Office, and gencral butioess of the
town.

The Marine School in this place, endowed by
Mr. Piper, on condition that a School House should
be provided, is •in a tut of forwardness; the
extensive with a plot of ground for the
use of that establishment. having been given by
the Earl of Lon dale.

Friday morning, at four o'clock, a Professional Gentleman
of Dublin. gimlet WWI to be ii.. Inn hArrassed eireomstaares,
plangent into the Utley, at the badge where the
road c 1111111 l eins s ; and the I itle 1)6112' un the return, and the
rie.r ~.oniderably suadleal by the late pain, he was carried
almig by Ilc violent, ler all the other Ininkes, 600 n the
one alluded In, passing among the (al=i■ where the new
bridge is buildoot, as also those of file temporary wooden
b. Witt., until In• came to Carlisle Bridge. Here he was taken
nip I.y the men of the Carlitigford oyster boats, apparently
amt carried to the Dahlias General Dispensary,
where. by the prompt attemhtsiee of Snrevon Kevin, lend
Alr. Jl•('.rrlhy, the Apothecary of the Institution, be wan
.pii.kly en .toned tu life, and in scone time after !Hought
home to lien distressed wife and children, after being more
than an hour iu the water, and carried to Ilse distance of
above a mile.

At the tile of the Rev. G. Lrartirs' Effects, et
Itoydail Parsonage, Grunre's Liiagrephient History
of tnglaud. and N'oble's Continuation, 7 Vo:b• i:-
twinned with upwards of 2,600 portraits, forming
altogether 23 vols. was sold to Sir C. KEM P. of Gis.
sing, for 1971. A collection of minerals, &c. coo-
tained in a glass case, with Live compartments,
sufficiently large to cover the side of a to eee . were
bought by Alajor Muou, of Dealings, at 81/.
Wednesday a very handsome large silver cup
was presented to Mr. JOHN HOLLIDA Y, Marshal of
Oxford University, by the present Proctors and 13
other Gentlemen who have served that office, us a
mark of their approbation of the manner in which
he has fulfilled the ditties of his situation for a pe-
riod of upwards of 20 years.
Tuesday last, at a Criminal Court, held at
Castletown, in the bile of Man, a young woman
called bogey, was capitally indicted for yheep..
stealing ; but being far advanced in a state of preg-
nancy, it is supposed she will not be put upon her
trial till the period of her pregnancy shrill have
expired. Her sister, who was apprehended at the
same time with her, has made her escape.
We have heard of a parricide committed by a
young man, late a soldier iii the 141111 lise 1.1,§ rice,
ti; his father, in the neighbourhood of Gilder-
stone. In is paroxysm of passion, lie struck the old
man several blows, which deprived hint of life. The
murderer escaped, but we have heard a report that
, lie was Entisid two or three days ufterwards, hanging
in Fernley-wood, having thus became his own exe-
cutioner.—(C'orlisk Jumrnal.)
At the Sessions at Lewes, Nary I. 'plaid:, for ten-
dering its payment two lit shillings, she
haring at the same time 150 others of the same de-
ecription, was re-committed fur a year, and to find
sureties fur her good behaviour for two years more.
QUARTER SESSIONIL.— The In • ess at the various
Quarter Sessions, both judicial and criminal, ex-
ceeded all precedent. The number of offenders
presents a melancholy evidence of the demoralized
state of the poorer orders, which, however, it is but
charitable chiefly to place to account of the want
of employment, and other distresses so generally
felt within the two last years. At almost every Sc!.
sions the trials of poachers have been unusually
p eeeeee itt east. At the West Sussex Sessions, five 4.e
this class of offenders were sentenced to transporta-
tion for seven years ; at Blandford, three were
convicted and imprisoned ; at Winchester, three
transported ; and at Berks sod Waraick, two
transported at each place. There were mote than
200 prisoners on the calendar for Somerset. At
Northampton. where the calendar was likewise the
heaviest ever known, Earl SpENcER presided, mak-
ing it SO years during which that highly respected I
Nubleuisu had sat as Clialtinan.