Star.
London, England, 1824-04-26 00:00:00

ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS.

Wednesday, the Rev. Charles Carr, Fellow of University Col-
lege, Oxford, was instituted to the Rectory of Fleadhourn Worthy,
vacant by the death of the Rev. F. Allen. The Living is in the
gift of that Society.
The Rev. Charles Henry Lutwidge, B.A. of St. John's College,
Cambridge, has been collated to the Vicarage of Othery, Somer-
setshire, on the presentation of the Bishop of Bath and Wells.
The Duke of Portland has presented the Rev. George Smytl'e
to the second charge of the Laigh Church of Kilmarnock, which
had become vacant by the translation of Mr. Stirling to the Church
of (...:alsten.
His Majesty has appointed Mr. John Thomson, Preacher of the
Gospel, assistant and successor to his father, the Rev. Anirew
Thomson, Minister of Balmerino.
'lll,- Rev. William Simson, assistant to Dr. 11PCialloch, of Dair-
sie, has been elected Minister of the Chapel of Ease, Leith. Wynd,
in the parish of Canongate.
The Presbytery of Linlithgow have ordained the Rev. Graham
Mitchell, A. M. Minister of that Church and Parish.
The Rev. the Presbytery of Kincardine O'Neil nitt at Coul, on
Wednesday the 31st ult. when the Rev. William Campbell was or.
dained and admitted Minister of thxt I'arish, vacant by the death
of the Rev. A. Brown.
Rev. Edward Brown, M.A. and Student of Christ Church, has
been presented to the Rectory of Sheering, in the county of Essex.
Rev. Charles Wheeler, M. A. of Clitist Church, is appointed
Chaplain of Merton College, in the room of the Rev. William
Shatter, resigned.
Tuesday, at a very full meeting of the 'Town Council, the Rev.
Patrick M 4 Farlane, Minister of Polmont, was unanimously elected
Minister of St. John's Church and Parish in Glasgow, vacant. by
the translation of the Rev. Dr. Chalmers.

DESTRUCTIVE AND ALARMING Fr RE.—About four
o'clock yesterday morning, an alarming clic broke out
in the premises of Mr. Smith, a bookbinder, in Albion-
buildings, Bartho:omew-close, and which, but ter the
promptitude of the fire•engines, must have been most
destructive to the whole neighbourhood. Mr. Smith
carried on a large business as a bookbinder, and conse-
qnently his workshop and other premises were very ex-
tensive. The fire broke out in the shop, and from the
combustible nature of the property and buildings, coin-
municated in a few minutes to thy back part of the va-
luable premises of Messrs. Merle and Co. (late Cox and
Merle), gold and silver refiners, in Cox-court, Little
Britain, as well as to the property of Mr. Pezoe, tl:e
ar-
chitect, immediately a.fjoining, both of which have been
severely damaged. Mr. Smith's own house .ind 14e-
mises are reduced to a heap of ruins, and the pro:.eity,
to a large amount., in books, completely demolished.—
The fire then communicated to the houses of Mr. Ship-
ton (an industrious ticket•norter), and Mr. Ward, in
Albion-buildingF, and in a short time they were wholly
destroyed, without the inmates being enabled to save
anything beyond their night-clothes. The wife of Mr.
Shipton was only put to bed of her eighth child en
Good Friday, and it was with difficulty that she and
her young family escaped n ith their lives ; and so pe-
rilous was the situation of Shipton himself, in rescuing
his family, that many drops of lead melted and fell on
his head while engaged in this parental duty.