2 SEPTEMBER 1837, Page 5

Trinity Church, Ettingshall, was consecrated on Wednesday week, by the

Bishop of Lichfield. The church, schools, and parsonage, have a most peculiar and picturesque effect. All three of the buildings are erected in a very unusual manner : being built over the mines, they are constructed in half timber, black and white, as in the time of Henry the Eighth and Elizabeth, being braced and framed together as firm as 'ship; and we believe the church is the only one in the kingdom of this construction. The church contains 920 sittings, including those for children ; the whole of which are free, except four pews.— Wolver- hampton Chronicle.

The question of granting it Church-rate of 4d. in the pound was carried at Gloucester, last week, by a considerable majority. The Gloucester Journal observes, that of those composing the minority against the rate, a very large proportion were Chnrehmen.

At a meeting of the Churchwardens held in the vestry of the parish.elturch at Leeds, on Alonday, it was resolved, " that an appeal be made to the gentry and the public for the necessary repairs of the church, arid that the occupiers of all the pews be written to, acquaint- ing them with it ; and that the occupiers who not subscribe shall not have their pews cleaned by the servantrrof the parish." A motion for adjourniug the consideration of Church. rates for twelve months was agreed to by a large majority.—Leeds Mercury.

A man named Morgan applied to the Rector of Tiverton to put up the banns for himself to be married to a young woman of that town. The worthy clergyman, recollecting that he had married the man within two years to another woman whom he believed to be then living, charged Morgan with the fact; when he readily confessed it, and said- " But that marriage wasn't good, Sir, 'cause I then had n first wife living, and she be since dead." The fellow's law was good, and he was united to his new bride, after forsaking the second wife.—North Devon Journal.

Great interest is said to have been excited at Bristol, by an action about to be brought by a widow lady in that city, against a lieutenant of a regiment stationed at Devonport, for the seduction of her daughter, a lovely and accomplished girl of nineteen.

On Monday, a fine young woman, named Ann Addison, died sud- denly, after having taken a long walk on the previous evening. On the same day, a post mortem examination of the body took place, when it was found that she had caused a pressure on the lungs and viscera, from lacing her stays tightly to procure a thin waist, which circumstance had caused a predisposition to aerate inflammation. The disease had been brought on by the exertion of the walk, and had terminated fatally. Nottingham Journal.