We have received several communwations on the subject of the
very disgraceful conduct of a el.egymaim in a neighbouring comity, in the diocese of Winchester. The name of the clergyman has been furnished to us, but, Mr obvious reasons, we decline to publish it. The clergy- elan wits charged on oath with an attempt to violate one of his maid- servants, afterwards took indecent freedoms with the daughter of a clergyman, and again made a violent assault to commit rape on the wife of a clergyman. The Bishop of Winchester has, it is said, had the evidence in aill the cases laid before him ; but he refuses to strip him, of his gown, and only forbids his preaching the scene of his offences. The clergyman so implicated is said to he a distinguished
evangelical preacher.—Morning Chronicle. [ Bunk r, the Bishop's Secretary, states, in a letter to the Chronicle, that the Bishop can do no more than he has done, legally, until the guilt of the party is pretroLl
A fire broke out in Windsor on :Monday night, in the shop of Mr: Ford, a grocer. It was some time before a supply of water could be obtained, and not belbre the house end shop of Ford had been burnt to the ground, and the adjoining ones much injured. Ford, his wife, ebild, maid-se:vent, and a shoptilan, saved their lives with difficulty; while three young men, who also served in the shop, were but ied in the The steeple of Headley Church, near Farnham, was destroyed by fire on Aseensiorsday, owiug to some children being allowed to have some lighted straw upon the roof.
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