Star.
London, England, 1813-12-25 00:00:00

UNJVERSJTT INTELLIGENCE.

OITORD. Mennen 21.—His Royal Highness the Prince
{cot has beets graciously pleased to appoint the Rev. Edward
blares, M A. late. Fellow of Merton Coßeget-and Rector of Bid-
deaden, ICOPt4 us Proles orship of Modern History,
vacant by. of the Rev. Dr. B.eke, Dean of Bristol.
Last week, Archer Ryland, Esq. Scholar of St. John's College,
was admitted Law Fellow o. that Society.
Wednesday last, Mr. James Wonky was admitted Scholar of
New College.
Thursday the Rev. Charles Posthumus Be!grave, M. A. of
Lincoln College, was admitted Fellow of that Society.

ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS.
The Rev. George Mingay, B. A. Is appointed to the Rectory
of Kenna, Cambridgeshire.
'1 be Rev. J. Coltinan, M.A. to the perpetual Curacy of the
Collegiate Church of St. Juhu, of Beverley, vacant by the death
of the late Rev.'. Jackson.
The Rev. R. Pennell, to be Chaplain to the Britislstactory at
Oporto.
The Rev. Mr. Jeaffreson, Rector of Tonstall and Ikea, Suffolk,
to be domestic Chaplain to the Marquis of Hertford.
Tho Rev. Mr. Chester,'Minor Canon of the Cathedral of Ely,
h:ts beeu instituted by the Bishop of London to the valaable
Rectory of Rettendon, Essex, void by the resignation of the last
incumbent. _ _

The Rev. George Wilkins, of Hadleigh, has been instituted
by the Archbishop of York, to the living of Densington cum
INSorhouse, in ;he County of Nottingham, on the presentation
ail the Right Hon. the Earl Manners: •

We are informed, that the large group of spots
which we stated to have passed near the centre of the
sun's disk on the l9th ult. re-appeared again near
the sun's Gtstern limb on the 10th inst. when they
presented the appearance of a group of six or seven
small spots, followed at the interval of about one di.
git, by a very large spot just entering on the tun's
disk, whose diameter (judging without a microscope
to measure it) appeared to be nearly equal to 1-30th
of the' un's diameter, and consequently equal to' more
than seven-times the diameter of the earth: The hr-
tuitions matter composing the sun's atmosphere seem-
Ed on the 10th inst. to have been dissip-ited, or nearly
dissolved, to a considerable- extent round these spots,
which caused the appearance of an immense declivity.
all around them, and nearly exposed to view the
thickness of the luminous incrustation surroultdirT
the dark centre nucleus of the sun. This appearance
seems to render it probable that the cause producing
these spots may resemble the cause which dissolves
the white chiuds that in summer frequently hang in
rite earth's atmosphere. The apparent extent of this
group of 'spots, when they passed the centre of tfe
sun's disk on the 29th ult, was pta bably a little more
than one seventh of the sun's diameter, and its breadth
about one-third of its length ; its length must there-
fore have been equal to about thirty times, and it::
breadth equal to about ten times thy diameter of the
oarth.

By a letter from one of the crew of the brig Cen-
titrion, MONCUR., of Aberdeen, from I'ictou to Leith,
with timber, intelligence has been received of the
total loss of that vessel, on the Haskir Rocks, near
the island of North Uist, one of the Hebrides. The
crew are happily saved.

Au Irish recruit has been apprehended at Penzance,
charged with the mauler of the old seaman employed
at the signal-house on that station : part of the de-
ceased's property was found on the prisoner
however, den►es all participation himself in the inhu-
um deed, but says he knows who are the murderers.
The Coroner's Jury have found a verdict of Wilful
Murder against this man, and he has been committed
to Asodmin Gaul.