The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1826-10-11 (London, England)

AWFUL DEATE.—WhiIe the Rev. Mr. Brandon was preaching on Sunday last, in Finnar Church, tear Bundoran, and just as he bad uttered the worth, •• Let him that s!andeth take heed lest he fall," he was observed to sink down in the pulpit, and in an instant he was dead ! It is said that he had been ill for same time previous to this awful visitation.—Dublen Evening Pest. . .  As the grave-digger was ope ring a grave in Carluke church-yard last week, the body of a black woman was dug out of it, which had lain there for more than forty years ; and, strange as it may appear, the skin possessed the natural colour ; the body was plump, as the person hail been in life ; under the akin it was perfectly white with fat. She died in full habit of body, arid was interred in a very wet grave. It is natural to cuppose that the great quantity of fat which it contained Intl preserved it for such a great length of time. Be this as it may, many opinions have been given as to the cause of this strange ---Gheiree Journal. 'loaner, Occetaexce.—On Friday af:ernnon, a man named William Timpson, residing in Park-street, in this town, presented !Unwell at the prison, and stated that he had murdered his wife. From his decisive manner, and upon further inquiries, the officers were induced to proCeeel to his residence, where, upon opening the door, they found the report but too strictly verified, es the poor woman lay in The kitchen with bar head nearly severed from her body. A large clasp knife, with which 'rimpsen stated lee had committed the act, lay in the room. Lpon being quevioned on the suhject, he said that he bad no ennmty towards'his wife, and could not account for he hav;na. been ac:uatcd to commit so dreadful a crime.— Birmingham Journal. Two fellows arc travelling from town to town, under pretence of getting signatures to pe itions to be presented to Parliament. The first is for presenting the hawking of books, pamphlets, &c.; the secmd, the hawking of linen and linen-drapery ; and the third, for confining the sale cf beer, soda water, ginger beer, &c. to licensed publicans. Their plan is to leave a printed petition at the houses of individuals who carry on the above trades ; and, on calling for it, pretend to he agents from some society in London, and, producing a skin of parchment, exert their eloquence to obtain a signature, for which they charge eighteen-pence, or as much more as they judge their dupe can be defrauded of, under the pretence of paying the expenses of obtaining the Act of Revilement, by which all the benefits mentioned in the petitions ate to be secured to the humble petitioners. As the publ;cans' petition prays for a monopoly of the sale of ginger beer, pop, and soda water, to be secured to licensed victuallers, articles of the manufacture of which the aforesaid victuallers can know ye:y little, we should have thought the thing too gross to have deceived any one; but as we find they were pretty successful in picking up eighteen-pences, even in this town, we think it necessary to caution the public in ocher places, against being so impaed 0n...--licading /If ereury.