The Archbishop of Canterbury has refused to take any measures
towards inflicting ecclesiastical censure on the Reverend Mr. Stunner of Hayes.
Two line-of-battle ships, of 74 guns each, are ordered to be built at Chatham, to be called the Mars and the Majestic. —Kentish Gazette.
Shocks of an earthquake were felt at Manchester, Bury, and other places in Lancashire, on Tuesday morning.
At the Loughborough Petty Sessions, on the 6th instant, John Farmer was sentenced to three months' hard labour in prison, for neglecting his work, and striking his master, William Johnson, a farmer of Quorndon. From the somewhat contradictory evidence it would seem, that the pri- soner's offence was by no means serious, and the punishment out- rageously severe. The Justices were the Reverend J. Dudley and Mr. C. 31. Phillips.
n. Q.••••••1,....- log* on •".a hold on the hotly cf t man who was killed at one of the shafts belonging to the Manchester and 1,.led6 Ram way, at Summit, near Rochdale. It appeared that the deceased was lonting down the snaft at the precise time they were blasting below, and his head was hit ^'n•• binwn off. A verdict of "Accidental Death!' was returned.—Halifitx Guardian.
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