The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-09 00:00:00

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

The death of the Rev. Francis Smith, M. A:, renders
vacant the livings of Tarrant Rawston and Tarrant
Rushton, near Blaudford, Dorset. Both livings are
rectories, in the patronage of Sir J. W. Smith—the
former is worth 1201., and the latter about 2201. per
annum.
A communion service has been presented to th© Rev.
4. T. Gollibrand by the oongrogation of the parish
Church of Norton Fitz warren, on the occasion of the
Rev. Gentleman's relinquishing his pastoral duties and
the assistant curacy of that parish.— Taunton Journal.
The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland has appointed the
Rev. William Studdert Kennedy, curate of Ballymena,
and son of the Dean of Clonfert, to the incumbency of
the united parishes of St. Dolough's and Belgriffin,
diocese of Dublin.
On Sunday last the Very Rev. W. B. Disney was duly
installed, or, according to the technical phraseology,
read himself in," as Dean of Armagh, in the cathedral
of that city.

NATIONAL REFORM AsBOCIATION.---We learn from
a circular recently issued by Sir Joshua Walmsley, M.P.,
the president of the National Parliamentary Reform Associa-
tion, that the council have resolved to convene a general
conference of Reformers, to assemble in London from all parts
of the kingdom, on the meeting of Parliament. The objects
Bought in convening this conference are—that the introduc-
tion of a Ministerial measure of Parliamentary reform should
e a matter of certainty ; that there should be such a mani-
festation of public opinion as shall cause that measure to be
radical and complete • and that means should be taken to
insure its success, and to obviate the necessity for further
Nitation. We understand that the invitations of the council
,to attend this conference have been most extensively circu-
lated, and that, by the arrangements in progress, the
opibinns of all classes will be represented. The answers
already received are uniformly favourable ; and it
has been well observed by one of the most
Zealous friends of reform, that " a delegation from
NATIONAL CONFERENCE upon a subject in which the
ulhole country is interested' must be strictly in harmony with
Itussellian notions of deputational etiquette." We think that
the Council of the National Reform Association have done
Well in convening a general conference of Reformers in Lon-
don; and we confidently trust that every city, parliamentary
borough, and town in the kingdom will send their represen-
tatives: to this truly national assembly. Such a response is
moat justly due to the council of an association which, in the
language of Mr. Cobden, has "kept burning the lamp of Re-
form, and trimmed it at a time when it was very likely to have
been neglected by the great body of the people," and it cannot
be doubted that the country at large will, with one assent,
attend to the call of a body of men who during a long season
of apathy and indifference have, in three years, held nearly
600 meetings, and published upwards of 2b0,030 addresses,
tracts, and other papers. By these energetic means, the
principles of the Association have been disseminated far and
wide, and that those principles are founded in truth, justice,
and sound policy, is proved by the gratifying fact that at
every meeting which has been held under the auspices of the
Association resolutions have been unanimously passed in
their support.

FIRE AT A. LICENSED VICTUALLERS.—Wednesday
morning, at a few minutes before one o'clock, a fire of a seri-
ous character occurred in the premises known as the Globe
and Pigeons Tavern, No. 14, H street, Shadwell, occupied
by Mr. W. Lowman. It was ditr'co-voered. by one of the neigh-
bours, who in passing the house, a
hlisssrueitnugrnfrehmomteh,opbear-r
per-
ceived a dense volume of black smoke
second or two at the
'window. The man having listened for a
door, heard sufficient to satisfy himself thatc
atoes, but
the place was on
fire, for the woodwork of the bar was cracking,Not a mo-
ment longer was therefore lost in arousing
before they were sensible of the great danger
titoineenl
were exposed, the liquors became ignited, on which
ah
It:they
sheet of flame rushed round the bar, and seized upon the huge
Parlour. '1 hrec engines of the London Establishment were
Promptly on the spot, and a plentiful supply of water having
been furnished by the East London Company's mains, the
firemen set to work, and finally- succeeded in extinguishing
the flames, but not until the most valuable portion of the
contents within the lower part of the building were consumed,
and_s the upper part seriously damaged. The origin of the lire
L unknown. Fortunate!y• Mr. Lowman was insured in the
Monarch fire-office, and the premises in the Royal Exchange,
CAPTURE OF A GANG OF BURGLARS AND SCICIDE
Or THE PROSECUTOR.—Four young men, who from their
Position were supposed to be t; have been
etable persons,
_,
arrested at Plymouth, charged
andwith having committed
several burglaries in that townneighbourhood; three of
them brothers—sons of Mr. Pearse,who keeps a shop for
the sale of cheap publications in Marlborough-street, Devon-
Port, and who are apprentices respectively to
blacksmith, a
,Printer, and a cabinet-maker, and cane they
siding in Devonport, named Perry, but who loitasantatilor,.adlsdo
Seth his parents for some time past, but has lived resided
e.
aristcneerlaatterly with some till .er living in Stonehouse. Thein
fee° were examined betore.t he magistrates on Saturday
of ,When the evidence taken paced beyond a doubt the fact
haa being concerned in several of the burglaries which
last been en committed in Plymouth and Devonport during th
alr, we've months One of the principal witnesses was ae
vh •R. Ito •
ose „a . w, a jeweller, carrying on business in the town,
largel avlntsee were broken into a short time ago, and a
"t trieViatity
, of jewellery stolen. He proved that a number
of his kale foun , . the" .
151, 4 tito,k (I in prisoners' possession had formed part
.11,, eta, 1 at the time of the rubbery. Mr. Row, however,
he d • • fh' t '
of ,„;
.eat,, ecr e in cons,quence o t e promn part
he aVlts ,e;,' on toe aka in the prosecution, and aide pression
A ece.;,atitteulequently ensued, under the pressure cf which
ioseep,r, i'n suicide on Monday last, by shooting himself.
a, V re quest Was he;(1, and a verdict of " Temporary
rra, reed.
P t "kt u ne, _ t
bond (.•',f 'and I`l,lllW BRIDGE.—The papers tell us that
stand thatntehw a:(141
are to be bound together in the new
!tanner „ae ois,Slegant bridge. And we further under-
briaaa :,°Kered tr, "cP of London has, in the handsomest
Dino—' "'uesa. - Preside at
id up()tt the ceremony of. opening the
the -
b °ld namely' that this most wise and Christian-like pro-
aasaepand reercendouble toll shall not (as at pr sent, on
4 half, VerY pro ary structure) be levied on Sundays. The
Is thelnnY on 13:r.1Y asks (or might ask), " Wherefore take
ezetort%nnot the _',‘,.k (I,ays, and exact double on the seventh?
d,,,,
onfe?,) in
,_
o\aourst Sabbath-breaking (namela-, that of
"Jilt ;aa'l,:::, nday halfpence instead of the working-
the I'REss'az
re will , .. ATiosT OF LEWES.—We understand that
tion. f "c two ia • •
kr, 13°I. this hero rotectionist candidates at the next elec-
oVil, the ugh— I •
name a, Mr. D. y th
e barrister. —Brighton GLe,tte.e magistrate, and