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 ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. 



[JAN. 



Rev. B. King, to be domestic chaplain to Lord 

 Crewe. Rev. C. Green, to the Rectory of Burgh 

 Ca>tle, Suffolk. Rev. W. H. Shelfnrd, to the 

 Rectory of Preston, Suffolk. Rev. C.J.Myers, 

 to the Vicarage of Flintliam, Notts. Rev. W. 

 Fletcher, to the Perpetual Curacy of Charsfield, 

 Suffolk. Rev. P. D. Foulkes, to the Vicarage of 

 Shebbcar, Devon. Rev. R. L. A. Roberts, to the 

 Rectory of Llangwyfan, in the Isle of Clwyd, 

 Rev. J. T. Watson, to the Vicarage of West- 

 Wratting, Cambridge. Rev. G. Preston, to the 



Vicarage of Christ Chuivh, with Rectory of St. 

 Leonard, Foster-lane, London Rev. J. Allpoit, 

 to be Minister of St. James's Chapel, Ashted, Bir- 

 mingham. Rev..C. F. Rroughtoii, to the Vicarage 

 of Uttoxetfr. Rev. S. Raymond, to the Rectory 

 of Swindon. Rev. F. H. Brickenden, to the Rec- 

 tory of Winford, Somersetshire Rev. R. Grape, 

 to the Rectory of Hoggeston, Bucks. Rev. J. 

 West, to be Chaplain to the Radclitfe Infirmary, 

 Oxford. 



POLITICAL APPOINTMENT. 



Bails Amherst and Howe to be Lords of His Majesty's bedchamber. 



CHRONOLOGY, MARRIAGES, DEATHS, ETC. 



CHRONOLOGY. 



December 3. Old Bailey sessions commenced. 



Smithfield market commenced opening on a 

 Thursday, in addition to its former open days, by 

 order of the Lord Mayor. 



7. Parliament prorogued to the 4th of February, 

 when the members are oidered to assemble for 

 the dispatch of business. 



8. Sessions ended at the OH Bailey, when 10 

 convicts received sentence of death, nearly 90 

 were transported, and several imprisoned. 



The Court of King's Bench granted a rule to 

 stay proceedings against an inhabitant of St. 

 Georges's, Camberwell, for refusing to pay the 

 rates imposed by the Select Vestry of that parish 

 for repairing a new church ; four rates of .780 

 each for repairs to a church built only four years ! 



10. The 31st annual adjudication for prizes held 

 by the Smithfield Club Cattle Shew ; the metro- 

 polis never boasted of a greater number of first- 

 rate agriculturists being present, nor was there 

 ever a finer display of the effects of breeding in 

 the cattle department. 



13. The new church at Camberwell crowded to 

 excess, to witness a parishioner do penance, for 

 calling a married woman by an improper epi- 

 thet !!! 



* The officiating clergyman, after he had con- 

 cluded his sermon, approached the vestry. The 

 pressure of the crowd to obtain a sight of the 

 proceedings in the vestry, where it was then un- 

 derstood the recantation was to be made, led to 

 great noise and confusion, and a scene was ex- 

 hibited very unbecoming the sacred character of 

 the building. At length the party offending made 

 hie apearance, attired in a white covering. He 

 was attended by four friends on either side, and 

 while the clergyman read the form of recantation 

 laid down by the ecclesiastical law, he bowed in 

 affirmation of the several points in it, and the 

 ceremony terminated. The party then left the 

 vestry-room by the small door, to the manifest 

 disappointment of several hundred persons who 

 were assembled outside the church, in hopes of 

 seeing this legacy of Popish mummery performed 

 in a frotfitant church in the nineteenth cen- 

 tury !!! 



15. A meeting of agriculturists was held at the 

 York Hotel, H. B. Curteis, esq., chairman, to 

 adopt measures lor the repeal of the malt and beer 

 duties, when it was resolved to petition Parlia- 

 ment for a total repeal of the duties on malt and 

 beer.* 



Dec. 21, Messrs. Gutch, Fisher, and Alexander, 

 tried for publishing a libel in the Morning Jour^ 

 nal on the Lord Chancellor, and found guilty. 



-2. The same gentlemen tried for a librl, in 

 the Morning Journal, on His Majesty, and on 

 his Government, and declarod guiltv of the Jibel 

 on His Majesty, but not on His Majesty's Govern- 

 ment ; they were besides recommended to the 

 mercy of the court, on account of the feeling of 

 excitement arising out of the agitated state of the 

 times. 



Same day, the same gentlemen were found 

 guilty of publishing, in the Morning Journal, a 

 libel on the King and Legislature. 



23. Messrs. Marsden, Isaacson, and Alexander, 

 tried for publishing a libel, in the Morning Jour- 

 nal, on the King and the Legislature, and found 

 guilty. 



Same day, Mr. Ball was found guilty of pub- 

 lishing a libel against the Lord Chancellor in the 

 Atlas, but recommended to the mercy of the 

 Court.f 



* Lord Teynham joined in the object of the 

 meeting, and said, " He had traversed whole 

 parishes and districts, and entered the cottages of 

 the labourer and artisan in every direction, in 

 order to make himself master, personally, of the 

 subject. He was truly sorry to say, that so de- 

 plorable was the state of distress in which that 

 class was plunged, that no language could ade- 

 quately describe his feelings at beholding it. 

 Every person acquainted with the country was 

 aware that at the present moment there was a 

 less consumption of malt by probably two-thirds, 

 than there was in 17/3. This was a striking 

 proof of the distress of the labouring classes," &c. 



f All these trials took place in the Court of 

 King's Bench, before Lord Chief Justice Teii 

 terden. 



