The Sun.
London, England, 1831-07-18 00:00:00

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

The Rev. S. Hall, 8.D., to the Rectory of Middleto❑
Cheney, Northamptonshire, vacant by the death of the
Rev. Ralph Churton; patrons, the Principal and Scholars
of Brasenose College, Oxford.
The Rev. George Woods, M.A., of Wadham College,
and Curate of Stoughton, has been instituted by the Lord
Bishop of Chester to the Rectory of Singleton, with the
Vicarage of West Dean united. Patron, the Duke of
Richmond.

The Lord Bishop of St. David's has appointed the Rev.
I'. R. Wolcome to be Rural Dean of the Deanery of
Castlemartin, vice the Rev. C. Philipps, resigned.
The Lord Bishop of Winchester has presented the Rev.
W. Dusautoy, M.A., Minister of St. John's Chapel, Port..
sea, to the Rectory of Exton, void by the decease of the
Rev. John Baynes.
The Rev. George Goodden, 13. A. late of Jesus College,
Cambridge, has been instituted by the Lord Bishop of
Bath and Wells to the Rectory of North Barrow,
Somer-
setshire, on the presentation of Edward Berkeley Port-
man, 'Esq.
The Rev. W. H. Drage, M. A- of Emmanuel College,
Cambridge, to a Minor Canonry in Rochester Cathedral.
The Rev. E. Ventris, M.A. of St. Peter's College,
Cambridge, to the Chaplaincy of the county gaol, in the
room of the Rev. 11. Pearce, M.A. _ _

The Rev. George Pearse to the Vicarage of Henh
Suffolk, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. C. R.
; also to the Rectory of St. Saviour, and to the
Perpetual Curacy of St. Martin at Oak, both in Norwich;
patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Norwich ; the Hon.
and Rev. Edward Pellew, to the Perpetual Curacy of Great
Yarmouth ; potions, the Dean and Chapter of Norwich.
The Rev. Thomas Clowes, to the New Church or Cha-
pel of St. Mary, of Southtown, Suffolk.
The R,v. James Hoste, A.V. to the Rectory of Ingol-
disthorpe, in Norfolk.
George Wallace, Esq. B.A. of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, N the Second Mastership of the King's School,
Canterbury.
he B. G. Ward, M.A. of Trinity College, Cam.
bridge, Rector of Hope Bagot, Salop, has been appointed
Chaplain to the East India Company on the Bengal esta-
blishment.

The Albion coach, from Birmingham to
Chester, and its passengers, had a most providential escape
on Wednesday. When the storm was at its height in the
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coachman was so electrified that the whip and reins
dropped from his hands, and it was some moments bane
he recovered his self-possesion. The trunk of the tree
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DREADFUL THUNDER STORM.—On Sun-
day last a portion of Berkshire, Oxfordshire, anti Glou-
cestershire, was visited by a tremendous storm of thunder
and lightning, hail, and rain. In the neighbourhood of
Oxford, Reading, Newbnry, Farringdon, Cirencester,
Vantage, f4c., the rain and hail fell tremendously, and
did great damage to the crops ; the ears of wheat were in
,navy instances cut off, and the kids stripped from the
beans. At Henley two sheep were killed ; and through
the whole district over which the storm passed it was
greater than is remembered on any former occasion. At
Oxford the lightning struck one of the pinnacles of the tower
of Magdalen College, and injured it so much that it must
be immediately taken down. The fluid burnt the roof of
the College near the river, and a part of the stone-work
fell to the ground; when taken up it emitted a strong
sulphurous smell. The house of Mr. Juts' PatArEa, of
Litcomb, near `'Vantage, was struck by lightning. Mr,
PALmEtt's five children and two maid servant?, and Mr.
JoriN BENNETT, druggist, of \Vantage, were standing at
the moment in a passage through which the bell-wires
passed, and were all struck to the ground, but happily
without serious injury, though one of the servants' shoes
was almost burnt to tinder. At Highworth the electric
fluid entered the roof of a cottage, shattered a bedstead,
and threw a child that the mother had just laid in bed on
the flour, but unhurt ; the mother's face was scorched.
As Mr. KINEER'S servant, of the Lee, near Cricklade,
was taking a horse to fetch his master from church, he
got under a tree for shelter, and had not been there long
before the tree Is as struck by lightning, and refit to the
bottom, and he and horse were both killed. The injury
to hot houses from the hail was very considerable. The
damage at Buscot-park, near Reading, was upwards of one
hundred and fifty pounds.