The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-07-09 00:00:00

FASIIIONAIILE INTELLIGENCE.

The Countess Ventlam gave a grand rout on Thursday evening.
at her house in Grosvenor.square, which was both numerously and
&shin:l4l4y attended.
Lady Copley gave a splendid ball and supper nn Thursday even.
tog. its her house in tieorge-street, lizumver-liguare, which was
attended by upwards of 200 of the hunt ton.
Lady Raleigh's rout on Thursday evening, in Upper Grosvenor-
street,
,was very fashionably attended.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury had a grand
flintier patty yesterday, at their house in Hanover-square ; in
the evening her Ladyship entertained a large circle of tashion-
shies.

The Marquis rind 31archionessa of Linos:limn gave an elegant
entertainment on Thursday to Lord and lady Ellenburough, Lord
and Lady Ponrunby, Earl Clare, Lord (litilcn, Lord Put-
cheater, Lord Lyntsloch, the lion. Mr. and Mrs. Agar Ellis, 31r.
Brougham, and Mr. Denman, at Lanstlo e n 'louse, Berkeley.
square.
The Earl of Lonadule erterained the Lord Chancellor and a
distinguished party at dinner yesterday, at his house in Charles.
street, Berkeley-square.
J. Searlett, Esq. 31.1'. had a large party at dinner yesterday,
at his house in New.stteet, Spring-gardens.
Mrs. Mellish entertained a large circle of fashionable* yesterday
evening, nt her house in Arlingturnatrect.
Lord and Lady Wilton and family have left town for Lanca-
shire.

Mr. and Mrs. Thornhill and family left town yesterday for their
seat, lliddlearrorli Hall, Norfoils.
Jr. and .31rs. Hutton and family arrived yesterday at Jordon's
Hotel, St. Jaines's•strfet, from a tour.

Gec:rge Silveriopp, L'•q. left town yesterday, for Switzerland.
Arrivals at Kirkham's Isinel, Lower Brook-street :—Mr. and
Mrs. Howard Galion and family, from Birmingham; Mr. and Mra.
Farrea, from their scat in Warwsckshire. Departures and
alts. Milos and family, fur thelrenlomi Mr. and airs. Mason,
for Boulogne ; J. Purcell, Esq. for flogcor.
Mr. and Mrs. !stead and family, haveJeft town for thcir seat in
Northamptonshire.
Sir Win. Parker, Bart. has arrived at Fenton's hotel. St.
Jame's-place. from his seat, Milford ►lail, Suffolk —l)lmi-cures :
Colonel Wooluston, for his seat in Suffolk; B. Lestsr, Esq. .31. P.
for Pool ; Houghton, Esq. for the Continent.
Arrivals at Nerot's hotel, Cliffs rd-street:—The Hon.
liams and Ladies ; the Bee. Dr. Walker. and Mrs. and Miss
Walker ; Colonel G. W. Hughes ; and E. F. Daniels, E.:q. De-
partures :—Lady Falkner and family, for Paris ; ;sirs. Gcsmings
and Ladies, for Poole Hall ; Dr. Branch, and ;Sirs. and Miss
Br4ilCll, for ditto.

Yesterday morning, about twelve o'clock, the Cabinet
Ministers assembled at the Secretary of State's Office for
Foreitn Affairs, in Downing-street. Among thep were,
the Earls of Liverpool, Harrowby, Westmorland, and
Bathurst; Mr. Secretary Peel, Mr. Secretary Canning, •
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Viscount Melville, Mr.
Wynn, Lord Bexley, &c. The Cabinet sat in &Macre:
thin till past two o'clock.
A special Board of the Lords of the Treasury was held
yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, at the Treasury
Chambers, at which the Earl of Liverpool, the Chan-
cellor of the Ex.hequer, Lord Granville Somerset, and the
whole of' the Lords of the Treasury. were present. Their
Lordships separated soon after five o'clock.
The Duke of York transacted military business with the
King yesterday.
Yesterday afternoon, about three o'clock, the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duchess of Gloucester,
and Prince Leopold, went on hoard a King's barge
from Whitehall-stain, and proceeded down the river, and
inspected the tunnel making under the river. Sir William
Davison and Baroness Ahlfeldt attended the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge. The Royal party returned to
Whitehall-stairs about half-past five o'clock.
Prince thtorge and Princess Augusta, of Cambridge, at-
tended by their Governess, Mrs. Page, took an airing yes-
terday afternoon in Hyde Palk, and promenaded inKen-
sington-gardens.
Yesterday the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester visited
the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
The Ring and Queen of ll'irumburg arrived on the
30th ult. at Stuttgard, on their return from Paris.

On Thursday the Earl and Countess of Jersey enter•
tained the Duke and Dachess of Cambridge, Prince Lea-
pold, and a select party at dinner, at their residence in
Berkeley-square.
• The Earl of Westmorland gave a grand dinner yester-
day, at his nisidence in Grosvenor-square.
The Opera Der Friesehutz was brought out at Bor-
deaux on the 30th of June. It was received with enthu-
siastic success.

A wag upon seciag the name of ":11r. Ledger, con-
ductor of the Albion Library," in the list of Deaths, ob-
served, " Ah ! poor fellow his day-Imoi..'s closed, and he's
posted I suppose to his long account." By no means im-
probable, said another, seeing he was engaged in book-
keeping. all his life!
(in Thursday last, came on the Election of Governors,.
and on Friday, the Election of Dirt eters, of the Royal Ex-
change Assurance, when William Vaughan, DN. was
chosen Governor, Pascoe Grenfell, Esq. I. P. Sub-Governor,
and Thomas Bainbridge, Esq. Deputy-Governor, and the
following Gentlemen Directors, viz.:—
George Penrken Barclay, Esq. 'The lion. John Thornton •
*Edward Brosne, Esq. Leslie .Melville
Henry Cazenove, Erq. William Tooke Robinson. Esq.
John Deacon, EN. William Sampson, Esq. .
John Ede, Esq. Joho Slegg, Esq.
^I Scott,

,
Samuel Fennirg. Isq. Samuel Scott, J q M.P.
Thomas Fully Easter, Esq. I • %Vil;tari So'tau, Eaq.
James Gibson, Esq. Isaac Sully, Esq.
Bartholomew Jet Robert Thorley, Esq.
(Jeorge Gerard de Llochepied John ram Timins, Esq.
Larpent, Esq. Thomas Tooke, Esq.
Edward Lee, Esq. •Octaeius Wigram, Esq.
Sir John W. Lubbock, Bart. John Woolmore, Esq.
Those marked • were not in the last Direction.
The criticism en female beauty in our paper of yesterday
was extracted from the New Monthly Magazine, and not,
as was said by mistake, from the Monthly.
TIIIM Deem. ON TUESDAY kAST.—The gentleman (Col.
R.) who received the ball of his antagonist on Tuesday,
still remains at the Red Lion, Highgate. lie was yester-
day visited by Mr. Branshy Cooper, nephew of Sir Astley
Cooper, but we believe the ball is not yet extracted, and
that he remains in some danger. Mr. Snow, the surgeon
who first saw him, is in constant attendance upon him,
and was with him at a late hour last night. Ilia own
friends and domestics attend him. The place where the
parties met was in Highgate Wood, between the old turn-
pike on the new road and the Wellington, at a spot cele-
brated for pigeon-shecting matches.

plimisrlinorte SoCIArI, ST. GEORGE'S
FIELDS.

Yesterday there was a performance tt: .iiereii music in the chapel
of this Institution, under the aide direction of a numerous Cora.
mittee of Gentlemen.
This Society, as is gsnerally known, is intended as an asylum
for the children of convicted felon.. it ril.o extends its protection
Ito boys who, r.thin the age; of nine and twelve, %timid hate be.
come the early tielims of crime. The 11' nevolent intention of the
institution is by taking charge of boys of this age whose depravity
has brought them thus early to the bar of offended justice, and to
rescue them from future ignominy. With this view the cultivation
of their minds is sedulously attended to.
The organ in the Chapel of this Institution has been lately
erected bytiray, and is a very superior instrument of a tine and power,
ful tone. Sir tieorge Smart presided for the vocal pieces. but we
apprehend the instrumental performances were tinder the direction
of Air. 31`31 tirdie, the organist of the chapel. 'rile hest executed of
the instrumental pieces were. " Ye Sons of I►rael," and •• come
Gentle Spring." This last, arranged as it duet by sir. G. C. Sale,
and performed by that Gentleman and 31r. Blackhourn, was ex.
tremely beautiful. Air. Vaughan gave. • Comfort Ye At y People"
a nil great effect. In the word's, •• tier warfare is accomplished:*
lie appeared to conceive the whole gra•tdeur of the passage. •• Lem
Remember David," by the same gentleman. watisnmething inferior
ta the last. SiriGeorge Smart's accompaniment to this air ~:ruck
us as particularly fine, and worthy of this exquisite conception of
Handers genius.
We have never beard Miss Goodall with so much pleasure as iu
the stanza in Solomon : _

•• What, though I trace each herb and fba'e
Th driblzs the mow. • g dew;
Did I not own .lehorah's power
Dow rain were all I knew!"

In the la;tfine,Witellitfir;t orcurred, she sunk int, a gratic
terse, full of pathos. and evincing the most petfect conception it
' tile beautiful thought.
It appeared to us that the voice is rot heard to full advantage in
this chapel; it seemed to fall whit a dead flatness. which we riii
rot exptct in sn small a space. To this we'are willing to tricrit.c
the effect of Mr. Phillips's Recitative and Air from Judas Mu.
cabana, which we should otherwise confider a failure. Even Pita
Stephens, in her first sung. " With verdure clad," fell short of our
expectations; but ellen she began " I know that my Redeemer
'leech," it was impossible to criticise ; every ear was fettered—the
place, the occasion, and the gentle solemnity of the singer, were in
holy unison ; we have never heard an Air given with such en.
afflicted delicacy—the effect of MUM(' could go no further.
A quartet from Dr. eirotch's sliar, •• Im star-left Chiefs,"
by Miss Stephens, Messrs. Tettail, Vanglian. and Phillips, struck
us as ineffective. We were never great admirers of the Piece

1 he vocal performance closed with that most beautiful of Ker .'s
e,mreption.—we had almost said, that most beautiful of a:I An.
theme_ Hear my prayer,•' and we may saf.:ly say we have never
been fortunate enough to hear it an thoroughly understood, or s.,
sv ecly wng, as by hiss Stephens and Miss Goodall on tl:
occa%ion.

The whole performance was solemn and effective. well worthy Lf
the place and the numerous and !ft Itionablc assemblage present.

TIIE LONDON UNIVERSITY.

A Proapectus of the plan of the, above Institution is in
circulation. The object of the Institution is stated to be
1 to bring the means of a complete scientific and literary
leducation home to the doors of the inhabitants of the me-
tropolis, so that they may be enabled to educate their sons
at a very moderate expense, and under their own imme-
diate and constant superintendence. It is known that a
young man cannot be maintained and instructed at Oxford
or Cambridge under 2001. or 230/. a year, while the ex-
penses of many very far exceed this sum ; and the vaca-
tions last about five months in the year. The whole ex-
rense of education at the London University will not ex-
ceed 2.1/. or 30/. a year °, including the SUMS paid to the
i general fund ; and there will not he more than ten weeks
lof vacation in the year.
A suitable piece of ground for the buildings and walks,
• and i❑ a central situation, is now in treaty for ; and it is
expected that the structure will be completed in August,
182 G, and the classes opened in October following. A
fortnight's vacation will be allowed at Christmas and
Easter, and six weeks from the middle of August to the end
of September.
The money being raised by shares and contributions,
each holder of a 100/. share will receive interest on the
same, at a rate not exceeding ruur per cent., payable half-
' yearly, and be entitled to send one student to the Uni-
versity. The shares will be transferable by sale and be-
quest; and they will descend to the holder's representa-
tives in case of intestacy. The money due oar them will
he paid by instalments, as it may he required : but it is
calculated that only two-thirds will be called for; and the
remaining 33 per cent. will be coasidered as a fund of re-
serve, in ease of any extension of the plan, or other un-
favourable exigencies. No person can hold more than ten
shares. Er.ch contributor of .Su/. will have all the privi-
leges of shareholders during his life, except that of receiy.
ing interest, and transfering his rights.
The interest will be paid out of the revenues of the In-
stitution, and the yearly produce of the sums received
from time to time beyond what is required for current ex-
pt•lses.
• This supposas a Student to attend tivo or six of the general
classes; bat the medical education is necessarily more experiatre,
from the costs of the anatomical department.

Ily the arrival of the licia in the Clyde, a file of Bar-
b:l(l°es papers to the 2.'Alt of May has been received.
They are principally filled with the proceedings of the
Legislature, the Clergy, and the people, to carry into effect
the diffusion of religious knowledge after the forms of the
Established Church, by erecting a new church. So strong
is the feeling, that the Wesleyan Clergyman sent out to
replace Mr. Shrewsbury, declined to land, and bad pro-
ceeded to St. Vincent's, intending from thence to return to
England. The most anxious desire is evinced by all classes
to attend, and to get their slaves to attend, the Established
Church. The Bishop and the Established Clergy are
welconn tl with enthusiasm on all cecasions wherever they
go, not only in Barbadovs, but in all the Windward Islands
where his Lordship had been. lie had also proceeded. to
visit the Leeward Islands, in the Eden, Captain Lawrence,
accompanied by the Rcv. Mr. finder and Mr. Coleridge.
A letter front Marseilles states, that a vessel had arriv d
there from Alexandria with four of her clew dead of the
plagua, which, at the tier• of her sai kig, raged in that
city with greater intensity than could be remembered by
the oldest inhabitant ! In consequence of this alarming
information, the meat rigorous quarantine has been esta-
blished at Marseilles.

The Nurembcrg Correspotuklit, on the authority of
leter from Havre, states that negotiations have been re-
sinned between the Governments of France and Ilayti,
throttoli the Medium of a private agent from the President
Boyer, tvLicli it is expected will terminate in a recognition
of the intlepmdence of the island. The same letter men-
tions that meetings of merchants have taken place at
Havre, Nantes, Bordeaux, and other French sea-ports. to
take into consideration the existing commercial relations
between France and the New States of South America. Air
anxious wish was manifested in these deliberations that the
French Government might speedily be induced to igtitate
the policy of England. It scents to be expected that such
will be the result; and a hope is expre;sed that, at all
events, commercial agents will at once be sent out to watch
over the interests of the French t:•aders to Colombia,
Mexico, and Buenos Ayres.
In order to prevent the accidents which so frequently
occur to boats proceeding through London Btidge, Capt.
Isaac Shaw, of the Royal Navy, proposes, to place two
buoys, one on each side of the bridge, at about SO yards
distance from it, or farther if necessary. " I would dun,"
says he, " conduct from one buoy to another a small mope,
leading exactly through the centre of one of the small
arches.. The boats would then only have to come to the
buoy, take in the rope, and pull themselves through the
arch by it, until they came to such a distance on the other
side, as that their oars would have a •greater effect in pro-
pelling the boat, than the strength of the current would
have in the opposite direction."
Dananret. tetnn.—Yesterday evening, about half.
Past eight o'clock, the neighbourhood of Cnldbath-fields was
thrown two e.untusion by the following melaniboly catastrophe :
A mail of the name of Godfrey, about fifty years of age, and who
fernerly was an officer of Mary-la-bonne police-office, contrived
to effect an entrance, by the back-way, into a shut.up public house.
the sign cf the Apple tree, the corner of Great Warner-street, and
puffing the muzzle of a loaded pistol into his mouth, literally
blew the left side of his face to atoms ; indeed, such wan the hornd
spectacle that presented itself, that same time elapsed beret the
unfortunate man multi be recognised. It appears, thnt about three
leech., ago, the deceased was conveying a prisonrr, named William
Thompson, to Coldbath-fields prison, and having nearly reached
the place of destination, was prevailed 01 by the prisoner to allow
him to take some refreshment before placing him in the custody of
the Governor of thet prison, when Thompson ran out of the boar.
and although closely I;ursited, succeeded in effecting his escape., in
consequence of which, Gtaltrey ass removed from his sitnauen.
The deceased had since been observed in a desponding state, and.
watching an opportunity ot• entering the houre whence arose the
cause of Iris distress, there terminatail an existence which had be-
come a burden to Idm.