WINCHESTER SATURDAY, MARCH 29.

WINCHESTER, SATURDAY, MARCH 29. The Rev. William Mairis, B. A. Chaplain to his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, has been instituted, by the Lord Bishop of Salisbury, to the Rectory of St. Peter’s, in Wallingford, Berks. On Tuesday died, universally respected, at Twyford, in the 18th year of his age, Mr. John Cordery. He bore a long illness with perfect resignation a truly Christian fortitude. On Monday last died, at Ringwood, Mr. Thomas Brown, much regretted. Tuesday died, at the same place, Mrs. Scutt, relict of Mr. Samuel Scutt, many years an eminent common brewer there. In the course of the week, the 6th regiment of Dragoon Guards marched through this city on their route from Exeter to the Sussex coasts. John Pill, aged 33, convicted of highway robbery at the late Assizes for Wiltshire, was executed on the drop in Salisbury gaol on Tuesday. The culprit was a native of Tetbury, in Gloucestershire, where he has left a father, and a wife and four children. He was by trade a shoemaker. The robbery for which he suffered was committed between Tetbury and Malmesbury. The prosecutor, Thomas Robins, a tradesman of the latter place, was returning home, late in the evening, from Tetbury, not far from which place, without previously perceiving any person near, he received a violent blow on the head, which stunned him for some time, though he did not lose his seat. On recovering himself he observed the prisoner had hold of his horse’s bridle, and had a large stick in his hand, while another man was rifling his pockets. They took from him three guineas and two one-pound notes. Pill was taken the next day at Tetbury fair. Before and at his trial he appeared very hardened, but after condemnation he seemed to have a more proper sense of his situation. He remained a very short time on the scaffold, and was executed about twelve o’clock.—This offender was an extremely bad character—he had been imprisoned two years in Gloucester gaol for house-breaking, and was afterwards tried for horse-stealing in the same county, and acquitted. On his discharge from gaol he was impressed, and sent aboard a tender at Bristol; but he found means to escape.