The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-17 00:00:00

CERTIFICATES—Nov. 6.

A. J. Da Costa, Liverpool, merchant—A. Neilson,
Ashford, Kent, draper—J. Ledley, Clarendon-square, chy-
mist—C. S. Leek, Gray's-Inn-lane, wine-merchant—C.
Davis, Charles-street, Soho-square, general-dealer. —E.
Roberts, Regent's-Circus, Piccadilly, coffee-house-keeper
—H. Alexander, Manchester, common-brewer.
P ART NERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

G. Trenchard and 11. Chaffey, Thorncombe, Devon-
shire, clothiers--H. Reynolds and T. W. 8,11, Deal, Kent,
coal- merchants—J• Artnita,e and Co., Kirkwood Mill,
Yorkshire, setibbling millers—S. Kigby and Co., Balton,
Lancashire, spindle-makers—ll. Berry and IL I. Pileher,
Acton Rectory, Worcestershire, proprietors of the British
Fariner's Magazine—R. Healey and Co., Small Bridge,
Lancashire, cotton spinners—D. Hardie and G. Reid,
Manchester, merchants—H. Margcson and Co., Preston,
Lancashire, maitsters—J. Harman and Co., Stork Ez-
c ff:of earthenware—J. and
eCar.We'ilLi.ratrte, Shelton, Stafford-
shire,—J. Billing, jun.,
and W. Billing, Leicester, clothiers—J. Lamb and S.
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Robinson, Netinghurn, lace-manufacturers—J. Lead-
at(r! r
teatter and T. Oates, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, linen-
drarers—J. Settle and Co., Slirffi,Ad, silver-smiths—W.
Taylor and J. B. Giraud, Lombard-street, cating-housc-
keepers.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT AXNIINSTER.-
Tuesday morning about half-past two o'clock, an alarming
fire broke out in some back premises belonging to Air.
Dolmen, fellmonger, whose furniture and stock in trade
were nearly consumed ; and the rapidity of the flames was
so great, that before the engines at rived, the adjoining
houses were in the most imminent danger, the inmates
finding the greatest difficulty to escape with their lives.
We reset to add that seven houses were entirely consumed,
but meat of the property was insured, and no lives were
lost.—Dorset Chronicle.

On Thursday a fine little boy, aged three years
and a half,
.named EPA', whwe parents reside at Belle
Battle-bridge, left home to play in the fields. His
absence was not particularly noticed, but his mother, hav-
ing occasion to look after a pig which had striyed, went
into an adjoining field in which was a pond containing but
very little water, but very muddy. When she reached the
hank, to her horror and surprise, she saw the legs and body
of her child above the water, but the head and neck com-
pletely embedded in the mud. In a state bordering on
phrenzy she dragged him out, but life was quite extinct,
although the extremities were warm. It appeared, from
some turnips being found on the bank, and his having one
in his right hand, that he had been gathering them from
a turnip-field, and in stooping to wash them had over-
: balanced himself and fell head foremost into the mud, to he. e
be became smothered.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND.—There is in the
very centre of this Christian country—viz., at Droitwich
in Worcestershire, a parish (Saint Nicholas) containing a
population of nearly 500 souls, without any place for the
celebration of religious worship, or any Minister to per-
form the rites and dispense the consolations of our holy re-
ligion !! The living is a rectory in the gift of the Crown,
and valued in the Liber Regis at 41. Os. 7,1. per annum ;
but from the smallness of the revenue has had no incum-
bent for time last 150 years. The consequence is that the '
church is in ruins, and the people wandering in the most
deplorable ignorance both in respect to moral and religious
truth. Indeed, to one unacquainted with the manners of
the place, it would seem almost incredible were be to be
told that many of the inhabitants, from never having re-
caived a Christian name in baptism, derive their prienormn
from an accidental form of person, as DUMPY WALLIS ;
or are named after some of the Nobility or Royal Family,
as Lady Ilaavra-, Duke of YORK, ; and by these (Hi-
tinctions alone are they known, and this, too, in the very
centre of
of intellect
l !tE.:mgt.:nil, and in an age remarkable
for the dissemination of religious knowledge, for the erec-
tion and enlargement of places of worship, and for the
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HENLEY, OCT. 10.

(From the Bti4sLire Chn; icle.)

The magnificent wood: in this neighbourhood
re now io 11.eir atitu,to,al livery—" the Vilni-
liited ,hatle of the s;:a,ott.'—alid look singularly
ticautifol.
The quantity of grain pitched in our market to-
lay was a proof of the disposition of farmers to sell,
but the words "shocking Call" and very fiat,"
n!ainly indicated that few buyers were to be found.
With the exception of the teal old wheats, grain of
every deseriptioA experienced a considerable rcduc-
non of last weal's prices.

YOB. THE BERKSHIRE CHRONICLE AND WINDSOR HERALD.
" For the first ,hall be last, and the last first ; for many
ire called, but few chosen."— Old Book.
Sir,—Your Henley correspondent may not, pro-
hably, have furnished you with the following, which
I believe may be relied on t--
A lady of somewhat pecu'iar habits residing at
itemenhatn, some nine or ten months since, engaged
with the daughter of a tradesman of Henley, to be
her housekeeper and companion; a few days since
the lady died, bequeathing to this favourite of Dame
Fortune 15,000/. and her household furniture. There
is another female, however, connected with this lucky
affair, to whom, it seems, the capricious dame did
not vouch,.afe so liberally, for, as the latter female
was first offered the engagement at u salary of 50/.
or 601. per annum, she—rejected it.
MISS FORTUNE.

A waggon-load of apples was sold on the
Quay at Bridgwater, on Saturday last, by a farmer, at a
penny a hatful ; they were all disposed of in less than an

hour !—Bath Herald.

An apple has been grown this year in the
arden of Mr. J. GILBERT, of Pilton, called " the Glory

of the Weht," which measures 15 inches in circumference,
and weighs upwards of 19 ounces. The tree is heavily
laden with fruit, many of which, it is said, are of equal

size with the above.—Bath .Herald.

EXTRAORDINARY APPLE.—On Tuesday an
apple of the kind calk the Broad Eye er Kitchen P.ppin,
of the extvaordinary weight of 111). 3 oz, wai gathered
in the garden of Colonel MADAN, in this city. It mea-
sures lft. 21in. in circumference. The tree from which
it was taken grows upon a rock. Last year it produced
an apple that weighed llb. 2oz.—Lichfield Mercury.

Some of the pits on the banks of the Clyde
have been long famous for the fire-clay, which is dug a'ong
with the seam of coal. It is only to he found in this part
of Scotland ; and such is found to be its superior quality
that, besides being generally used for the furn ices in this
neighbourhood, it is exported to the IJoited States, and
most of the plantations abroad where sugar is manufactured.
The present price is Si. 10s. a thousand.—Glasgow
Chronicle.