In the published list of game certificates for the county
of Derby, there are twenty-two names with Reverend attached to them ; and in the Yorkshire list there are ninety-one !
The Bishop of Exeter held a visitation at Liskeard on Tuesday sennight. The sermon was preached by the Reverend Charles Atmore Ogilvie (the son of a Methodist preacher), Vicar of Duloe ; and was in perfect keeping with the charge afterwards delivered by the Bishop, the reverend gentleman maintaining that the ministers of the Established Church, as the successors of the Apostles, possess plenary authority to forgive sins.—Falmouth Packet.
The Duke of Norfolk's improvements in the vicinity of Arundel Castle are still progressing. Mitchell Grove, which his Grace purchased of Mr. Walker, of chariuteering celebrity, for the sum of 180,0001., carries the Duke's land to Little Hampton, where the Earl of Surry is now building his house.
The Staffordshire Agricultural Association has been dissolved for want of support.-1Voleerhampton Chronicle.
Official notice has been received that the Naval College at Portsmouth is to be discontinued from Christmas next. —Rochester Gazette.
So violent was the gale at Brighton, on Saturday, that several "flies" were literally blown down on the Cliffs. The Chain Pier, as usual, withstood the swell—Brighton Gazette.
The race-ball at Lincoln, on Friday night, which formerly. was pretty well attended, was not honoured with the presence of a single individual except the door-keepers, &e.—Boston Herald.
At Herne Bay, on Monday, Mrs. Thwaites, the widow of the wealthy Fenchurch Street grocer, laid the first stone of a tower, on which a clock is to be erected. Mrs. Thwaites is to make the Herne Bay people a present of both tower and clock, which will cost 4000/. There was a grand dinner and an exhibition of fireworks on the occasion.
Mrs. Barnard, the wife of the eminent banker of Cornbill, of the firm of Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co., was accidentally drowned on Wednesday last, off Harwich harbour, by the upsetting of a sailingboat. Mr. Barnard and the man conducting the boat were saved with difficulty.
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