Star.
London, England, 1824-10-25 00:00:00

ICC LISSA ST IC A L PROMO, lONS.

The Right Hon. Viscount Palmerston has appointed the nev.
Robert Todd, M.A. Rector of North Cave, to be one of his Lord-
ship's Domestic Chaplains.
Monday last, the Hon. Edward Southwell Keppel, Clerk A. M.
was instituted to the Rectory of Quiddenham, in the county of Nor
folk, on the presentation of the Right Hon. William Charles, Ear-
of Albemarle. On the same day, the Rev. Barnard Hanbury, Clerkl
A.M. was instituted to the Vicarage of Bum St. Mary, with the
hamlet of Butes, in Suffolk, on the presentation of Osgood Han-
bury, of iloffield Grange, in the parish of Great Coggeshall, in the
county of Essex, Esq. And on the same day, the Rev. Henry Goggs,
Clerk, A. B. was instituted to the Vicarage of SouthiCreake, in
Norfolk, on the presentation of Henry Guggs, of Whissonsett, in
the said county, Gentleman.

Mr. John Rayner is appointed Master of the Free Grammar
"S:lioul at Pulliam St. Mary the Virgin, by the Governors of
Christ's Hospital, in the room of Mr. Gooderhsm, deceased.

JOHN M`CARTNEY, of HalketleAths, M.D. in Liver-
pool, has been presented, by the Mayor and Common Council, in
the most handsome manner, with the freedom of that Borough, in
testimony of the high sense they entertain of his long and valuable
services in the different charities of that town.

THE REV. ALEXANDER FLETCHER..--At the conclu-
sion of service at Albion Chapel yesterday morning,
Mr. Fletc er addressed his congregation to the follow-
ing effect :—He thought it was time that he should lay
before them and the Religious Public of London, and
likewise his deluded friends in Scptland, a correct and
faithful exposition of facts in addition to what he might
call " his defence." It should be in the press in the
course of the week, and would be published as soon as
possible. There were various kinds of judges who Wet e
bad judges. Some men would hear nothing but what
was favourable to a particular party: they could not
be called just judges. Others would hear only what was
unfavourable: they were as unjust as the former. Others
judged and condemned without inquiry; and others
proceeded upon false premises, and would not consent
to be set right. He regretted that in this great and en-
lightened capital there were individuals to be found
who were anxious to condemn a man without hearing
anything in his favour. He intended to draw up the
papers for publication with great care and attention,
and he the, efore hoped they would undergo a strict scru:
tiny : it would be seen that he had been a faithful his-
torian, even when he considered himself blameable. But
he thought that he should be able to convince his readers
that he was not blameable with respect to most of
the things laid to his charge ; and even if he were (look-
ing at his conduct in the worst point of view), was there
to be no forgiveness? He trusted, however, that he
should succeed in convincing his congregation that he
' had done right, in assuming and maintaining the bold
line of conduct which he had adopted. His enemies
had employed three engines to separate him from his
congregation. The first was a legal action—that had
not succeeded ; the second was ecclesiastical censure,
determined on without evidence in his favour having
been heard—that had not succeeded; the third was the
freedom of the press of England—that would not suc-
ceed, for what had been free to them was also free•to him.

SAVINGS BANKS.—In the Act of Parliament for regu •
lating these useful institutions, is the following clause
prohibiting persons from having funds in more than one
Savings bank, on pain of forfeiting the whole deposit :
" If any person shall at any time after the 20th November, 1924,
have any deposit or funds in more than ene Savings Bank within
the United Kingdom, every such person shall forfeit all right and
title to any deposit in any and every such Savings Bank ; and the
Trustees shall in such case close the account of suck depositor, end
cause the sum so forfeited to be forthwith paid into the Bank of
England or Bank of Ireland, as the case may be, to the account of
the Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt."

We learn that there is now every prospect of a speedy
agreement between France and Hayti. One great dif-
ficulty in the way of it arose out of the demand of a
place of strength in the bland, as a security for the pay-
ment of the indemnification to be agreed on. This
difficulty has been got rid of by the offer of the Haytian
Government to pay the whole sum at once ; and' we
understand that a house in this metropolis has offered
to procure the requisite sum for that purpose.
Thursday night some thieves broke into the house
of Mr. Castle, of fiittingbourne, and stole several hams, cheeses, and
fowls, when they were shortly after pursued by (Richardson) the
constable, and lodged in gaol.

There appears to have been a recent jail delivery of
all the stale jests, which had been by public taste con-
signed to perpetual imprisonment. Now and then, how-
ever, we hear an original, and the following is said to be
such :—A man at an ordinary had eaten so enormously,
that the company were astonished and disgusted with
his gluttony. The Gentleman at the head of the table
ironically prei.:ed him to take another plateful, observing
that he had actually eaten nothing. The gourmand de-
clined taking any more, obseiving that his stomach was
quite gone; upon which an Irishman opposite exclaimed,
" Is it your stomach that's gone, my honey ; sure you
mean the bottom part of it.'
Mr. Lambert= completed his task of going on foot to Swallow-
geld and back, before one o'clock on Saturday morning, eighty
miles in twenty-four lours, fur 200 sovereigns.

WESTMINSTER SESSIONS, OCTOBBtR 2s.

Robert Houseman, a man of respectable appearance,
was indicted for fraudulently obtaining from Mrs: De
Burgh, on thefith of August,-five sovereigns, undir pre-
tence thit he was sent by a.Nr,
The Jury found him Quilik—The CHAIRMAN told
the prisoner it might be mercy to him to send him to
Botany Bay for life.
The Conn, after some consultation, sentenced him to
six months imprisonment, and the CHAIRNIAN very
impressively urged him to leave off such evil practices.