The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-09-03 00:00:00

raUIIIALL.

The sermon at Vauxhall terminated last night with its'
usual brilliancy and eclat. In " saying farewell" to their
friends and the " British Nation," the proprietors of this
far-famed spot, which snore than half realises our imagin-
ings of fairy land, have alWayst exerted themselves to the
utmost by a " good finish to mown the whole," and after
iiteVekgEggeat and. merited soecesu, it rim not to be ea-
t rails labours would have been relaxed. The'
promise contained in the programme naturally attracted
an immense concourse of visiters, for wieise amusement
every novelty of the season was again prodticed, in a grand
Usiets gala, which combintd the splendour of many fetes.
The quadrangle was surrounded by the various mottoes of
variegated lamps, and the appropriate addition of " We
respectfully say farewell," was particularly brilliant, On
the conclusion of the second act of the Concert, the follow-
addrestwas delivered by Mr. Taylor :
LAMS' atvo GiltTLEMEN—l'his evening brings us to the
close of the fourth year since these gardens have been the property
d the prevent propritters, and I am desired by them to make their
soost respectful seknowkdgments fur the unbounded liberality with
'Pia you have honoured them.
The gracious patronage of hi. Majesty, and the presence this
mason et several inembers.of his illustrious family, of moat of the
dirioguiahed nobility, and of tile British natioo, are flattering cir-
wsmstances, for which the proprietors are trolly proud and grateful ;
sod while their constant aim has been to cherish and deserve your
generous support, they trust they may be permitted to ford that their
endeavours to promote your amusement, as well as their arrange-
ments with respect to refreshments, wine, &c. have been generally
seccessful.
The improvements meditated foe the ensuing season in every
&pampa' will, they hope, prove their anxiety to increase the
biesicularity of Vauxhall.
sod Gentlemen--Fur the proprietr•rs, and every person of
the t, I am deputed to make their united and heartfelt
ask te, and to bid you, respectfully, farewell
We cannot say iiirewell to Vauxhall Gardens, without
congratulating the proprietors on the successful termina-
tion of their labours. Throughout the whole season,
which, in common with the public, we regret is necessarily
so limited, the greatest order has been preserved, and we
believe there has seldom been fewer instances of improper
conduct. Every attempt at uproar (so frequent in places
where pleasure is the chief object) has been immediately
suppressed; and the greatest attention has been invariably
paid to the comforts as well as to the amusements of the
sinters. We are bound to notice in terms of more titan
ordinate praise, the attentive conduct of Mr. Simpson, to
whom the public are mainly indebted for those minor im-
provements, without which, after all, the most delightful
scenes lose half their effect.

The return of the Duke and Duchess of Clarence from
their continental trip may be soon expected. The Royal
Sovereign yacht, Captain Sir Wm. Hoste, sails from Dept-
ford to Antwerp in a few days, for the conveyance of their
Royal Highnesses.
Batumi of a letter, dated Frankfort, August 24 :—" We
*sped hat Mt Majesty the Queen Dowager of Wirtem-
burg, who is swing to pay a visit to her Royal Highness
the Landgrsvine of Hesse Homburg, her sister, and to
the Duke of Cambridge, her brother. We also expect his
Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine. After
several meetings the Diet has adjourned till December.
Baron de Munich, the President, is gone to Vienna.
During his absence his place will be supplied by M. de
Pfeff-d, the Minister of Bavaria. Baron Nayler, the Prus-
sian Minister, will not go to Bnlin till after the Princess
Royal of Prussia hu passed through here on her return
from Ems."

The Duke of Saxe Weimar left town yesterday for the
Springs, Niagara. &c. During his short stay here he re-
ceived the hospitality, among others, of the Mayor, Mr.
Otis. the lady of the late General Humphreys, Mr. Ritchie,
and Mr. N. Amory, at his delightful seat in Watertown.
He appeared much pleased with our city, vicinity, and in-
habitants, and has left lasting impressions of his courteous
manners and exalted character.—Barlow Poprr, Aag. G.
The Earl of Liverpool arrived at Deal from Caltir on
Thursday afternoon, in one of his Majesty's steam packets,',
and landed at Wilmer Castle.

On Tuesday last the Lord Chancellor passed through
Wimborne on the road to his seat at Encombe. - We are
happy to say that his Lordship appeared in excellent health
end spirits.
BANE or IRELAND, AND PROVINCIAL. BANKING
Co .—ln reference to a paragraph which appeared
an the different newspapers, relative to the latter Company
haring, at Clonmel, protested the notes of the Bank of
Ireland for refusing to pay them in gold, when com-
manded ; also to a paragraph purporting to explain the
!natter in the Mercuntile Aden lig., of Monday, copeed
into a cotemperary yesterday, we have heard and believe
the following to he the real fact :—An agent of the Pro-
vincial Bank applied at die Branch Office of the Bank of
Ireland, at Clonrnel, and there demanded payment, in
gold, of a certain sem of -Bank of Ireland notes. 1V hen
the applicant war requested to say " whether he demanded
it as a matter of right, of a matter of rosette r the ap-
plicant replied, " as a muter Of, right," when be was in-
formed by the agent of. the Bank of Ireland, that as a
'natter of right request would net be complied with.
Upon this answer we- understand that •the notes were
ro:eited. We cannot but think that it was highly cre-
ilitable to the Bank of Ireland thus to affOrd the earliest
opportunity ati a legal decision on this sobject..—Dublin
31,,riting Courier.
The editor of an American-Paper, the Sakm Observer,
thus apologises to hie readers for the absence of original
:trucks during the late hot weather :—" The-only apology
we can offer for the absence of originakarticles in this day 3
PaPrr. is the excessive heat 'of the weather, which has
actually dried up chi ink in ottr stands, and reduced us to
such IL state of lassitude as prevents us from ascertaining
whether the wit in our brains has not shared the same
fate."

WHAT NeXT !—We have heard of eggs, lying upon a
slate in the sun, being roasted during the recent hot wea-
ther, and the fish in the Rhode-Island ponds, and Penn-
s!!vania river., being boiled fit ' for the table, but that is
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hotlaing in couiparison with the effects of the fleet at Her-
kimer. The Antereaa of that place states, that in two
gardens in that Village apples were plucked from the trees,
last week, with one side of them roasted hylhe :an, almost
l° a Pulp.-Xru• Ycrk AdvPrtiser.
Ayr stet? IN PROV rM es'ra.—The vulgar opinion that.
Pcnosylv knia bas been backward in the great work of im-
Protement, is a vulgar error. Even the much-abused, the
much-calumniated, city of Philadelphia has, within the
cane of the last fifteen years, expended no less than ye-
'Lt: million dollars in facilitating intercourse between town
`I.! country. This city, which is so frequently, but so un-
- Istlt. accused of want of public spirit and of enterprise,
La.s clone more in this way than all her sister cities but
I°.raiet. Itas done even more than any State in the
save one. And if we add to the sums expended by
t!te aIY dale advanced by the State Government and by
ennury parts of the State, the total will belt° large,
Ilitt a doubt may be raised whether any member of the
American Confederacy his been more liberal than Penn-
ania in its diabtusementa.—l'hiludeiplia Gazette.