Star.
London, England, 1828-05-15 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

The Hon. li. Lindsay and the Misses* Burrell, for their seat in
Hants; Lord Thomas Cecil, from the Burlington Hotel, Old Bur-
-1 lingtnn-street, for Brightou; Colonel Dwyer, from dart, for Ire-
land; Captain and Mrs. Parsons, from Connaught-place, fox thigh-
Pon ; John Taylor, Esq. from Symmons's Hotel (late Jordan's), St.
Jantes's-street, for his seat in Worcestershire; Captain . Wilson,
front the Bath Hotel, for Dover; Mr. and Miss Foreman, from
ditto, for Hams; Captain and Mrs. Storey, from ditto, fur !lath;
Colonel Gordon, -of Cairness, and Captain Leith, from Hadong's
Hotel, to the Continent; Rev. Mr. abd Mrs. and the Misses Fell
from ditto, ott a tour.

THEATRES.

DRURY-LANE.

SHAISPEARIeS Comedy, the Taming of the Shrews,
was revived at this Theatre last night after 'a lapse,'
since it was performed. in its original state, of eighty
years ; and (in conformity with the prevailing fashion)
is now produced as an Opera—the poetry being selected
from the plays, poems, and sonnets of SHAKSPEA RE;2lld
the music proceeding from many sources, adt'p•ed,
adapted, and originated by Alr. BRA HAM and Mr. T.
COOK 6.

There are no less than two and twenty characters in the Taxiing
e the Shrew, so that a great part of the strength of the company
was engaged. WALLACE was the hero, and played excellently,.
excepting perhaps in the scene with the Tailor, where he descended
to grimace. He was in fine spirits, and had the real swathing air
that belongs to the part. The Mrnine was in the hands of Feiner
Arrow—she is one of the best comic singing actresses on-the stage.
—We never saw MLA HAM, too,, quite so good In•this respect, and
the description which he gave, as Hortensia, of the manner In which
late bad broken his head with a lute, drew down several rounds of
applause. liesidei these,' there was HARLICY as Gemini*, always
ridiculous, and never missing the slightest opportunity of giving
effect to the merest word put into his mouth; and Comma, some-
times More than judicious, and always respectable ; while the rest
of the cberacters were assigned to Alias Geese (a good singer),
Baowsix, BLAND, Gaon!, TIMM, BAD-
sour, and many others " too numerous to mention." Altugettler
the play was well got up and well acted.

COVENT—GARDEN.
Last night SHERIDAN'S excellent Comedy of
,the School
for Scandal was performed. The performance was well
received. The most remarkable leature ik it was the
antiquated cut of 'lCastaca's coat, as Charles Surface,
and his altogether very ungenteel appearance in the
fa,hionable libertine. The afterpiece of Ole Inoincibles
met with its usual success.

The Knight of KERRY paired off with Col. HUGHES
on the question of provision for the family of the late Mt. Caroutio.
The Duchess of NORTHUMBERLAND gave a Grand
Concert yesterday evening, at Northumberland House. The preps•
rations on the occasion were of the must splendid description.
Coura olr ALDSRMEN.—The Lord Mayor held a
Court of Aldermen on Tuesday at Guildhall, at which
17 Aldermen, besides his Lordship, attended:" The
statement of the produce of the Orphan's Fund, for the
quarter, ending the sth of April last, was deliveredin,
and the Chamberlain directed to take the proper steps
under the provisions of the Act of Parliament for the
discharge of 15,3001. part of the outstanding debt. The
Inquest of Porisoken Ward made a presentment of the
very great nuisance and obstruction in the public ways
there, which is created by the assembling of persons for
the sale of old clothes and other goods within that ward;
upon which the Court referred it to the Alderman of the
Ward, to give such directions to the City Solicitor as be
shoold-see fit. George Bernard, Esq. surrendered his
office of one of the Common Pleaders, and Edward
tiolbckt Esq. was admitted in his stead.

sociETi FOR PROMOTING THE BUILDING

OF CHURCHES AND CHAPELS.

Yesterday the Anniversary General Alfetitag..of
Society took place, at No: g; PALL.:49teusiltr, et. It was
•excetteJ that the Archbislicip" of Canterfsuiy would
hare
sbeen in the Chair, but, owing to indisposition his
Gr?rerwas iiiiable to attend; •in cosh( quence of which
the Archirj,hop of Yon t piftidect on the occasion. and
was supported by the Bishops of idindon, Durham,
Winchester. thever. Lichfield and. Cocrentry. Carlisle,
Ely,.Bristol, St. David's, Bath and .Wells. and Glow
cetr. Lord Kenyon, Sir I'. Atland, atc. &c.
be CHAIRMAN requested the attention of the Meet-
ing to vie Report, which the. Secretary was about to
read to them. Its contents were as follow;

" The Committee in this, the 'fetal' Report of the
Society's proceedings, have nothing of a new character
to communicate. They have only to congratulate the
public on the steady continuance of the Society in the
same system of well-regulated liberality which was
pursued by it in former years, and•which h s been again
blessed with the same happy results. During the last
year 100 applications for assistance have been received,
and in 70 cases grants have been voted to the amount
0f9,672/. By the aidoof this sum 15,946 additional
sittings will be procured, of which number 13,092 are
to be free and unappropriated.
" The Toble shoo s, that during ten years which have
elapsed since the institution of the Society, it has re•
ceived 935 applications; that in 577 cases it has voted
grams of different magnitudes;
.and.rhat in 88 instances
additions have been made to :the' miginal grants, in
consequence of proposals of increased accomjnodation.
The whole sum voted at different times amounts to

119,9671. It must be ob,erved, however, that the actual
suini Which the Society bas either paid, or pledged itselt
to pay, is only 108.6271. Several grants having been
reliaquiled. nerds it pie,ent no balance remaining
in favour of the Society ; for if all the grants'which
have been voted, and n t f•'rmally rel nquished, shall
be claimed, the whole of the money placed at iti dis-
•pos:tl will have been expended.
" It will be seen that the number of applications re-
ceived in the last year has been exceeded only in two
instances. In the fist year it WAS 145, and in the
sixth 102.

" There is, therefore, every reason to conclude, if any
judgment may be formed from the experience of the
last year, that the number of applications for assistance
will-be increased rather tl,an ditnjrnished. Fail' will
not surely be supposed that in the Churchei now in
being, to which the Society chiefly directs its attention,
that•is necessary to be done for the' further accom-
modation of_the people has been alreadraccomplisbed.
It is but too notorious that the growing population of
many parishes requi:es a proportionate increase of ac-
commodation for numbers who a e now prevented by
want of room, and by that alone, from attending the
Worship of the Established Church: •
" The Parliamentary Grants have done Much to-
wards the building of additional Churches and Chapels
in populous districts. It must, however,. always be
borne in mind that these grants are applicable only to
parishes *here the population amounts to 4,000 persons.
In cases excluded from the benefit of this pfovision, the
Society has contributed to the procuring of a great in.
crease of church room by various means-=by the env
largement of the fabric ; -by rebuilding with enlarge-
ment; the building of galleries ; a new arrange.
went of pews; and in some initances by the erection
of additional places of worship. In these different ways,
it has bten'instrumental in providing accommodation
for 134,680 persons, and in securing out of this num-
ber 116,508 free and unappropriated sittings.
" It appears from the Table, that out of 70 grants
voted during the last year, more than one half had for
their object an increase of accommodation by internal
impraivtment alone, without any enlargement of the
building ; and it appears also that more. accommoda-
tion will be thus procured, and at a less expense, than
in the preceding year. In 1827, the grants amounted to:
9,9051. the sittings to 15 591/. • In 1828, the grants
amount to 9,6724. and the sitting to 15,9461. This
shows how much may be advantageously effected by
-improvements in the internal arrangement; and, the
inconvenient mode in which many of our Churches are
pewed, and the quantity of space that is thud lost, render
it highly desirable that these examples should be fol-
lowed wherever additional sittings are wanted, and can
be obtained in this manner.

" During each year of its existence, the Society has
been instrumental in providing Chinch room; upob an
average, for more than 16,000 persottsa fact which
.speaks for itself, and renders any remarks on the useful-
ness.of the Society wholly supeifluow.. The importance
of religion, of the due observance of the LORD'S Day,
and of a 'regular attenditnce nn public worship, will not
be callid in question by Chi istialts'of aay denomination.
And the Umbers of the Church of England will feel
it to be in the highest degree desirable that her places of
!worship should, as far as may be practicable, afford ac-
commodation to all who are disposed to join in her pule
and,so bfnelit by hn utrd•instructions.

is Considerable approaches have been made towards
the attainment of this impoi tot object, in consequence
of the aid and encouragement which this Society has
thus tar afforded. Its funds are now ezhaitsted; bat the
SAciety still hopes that new means may be provided to
enable it to persevere in the work of piety and benevo-
lence, in which it has been so long and so successfully
-engaged."
The' Billop of DURnAM said; that he rose for the
purpose of proposing that the Repoitshould be printed
anctortukted. It was like most other Reports, he be-
lieved, and contained something of good and something
of beer The good it contained was, that it informed
.them-how ouch bad been accomplished by the Society
since its formation—while, on the other hand, it was
distressing to heat that the funds ef the Society were
entirely tzhoested. They would hear, however, from
his Right Rev. Friend. the Bishop of Lichfield and Co-
ventry, an acconwt of steps that were taking to advance
the interests of the Society.
The Bishop of LICHFIELD and COVENTRY, in second-
ing the Motion, said that the Bishop of Chester and'
himself bad only that morning had a final interview
with one of his Majesty's Ministers on behalf of the
Committee, and it had been settled that a Bill should
be Lrought into Parliament for the purpose of incor-
porating the Society, by which it was thought that a
greater stability would be given to it; the system like-
wise of collecting money by briefs-4 Hear, hear)—
was to be done away with (Applause), as it had long
been found that it operated unfavourably to the in-
terests of the Society. '
The Bishop of CHESTER said, that the point to
which his Right Rev. Friend had just alluded, afforded
him much pleasure, and it had been necessary to ez•
plain it to the Meeting, •as it could not, well be em-
bodied in the Report, owing to the lag interview maul
subject not having taken place till that morning: lit=
steed of the system of briefs, which bid hitberto.bein
practised, it was proposed that the Kirig's letter should`
go round every two or three years; 'and if that letter tris

s• • •

supported from the pnjpit by tba parotWal Clergy, he
had no doubt that the funds raised in this manner
Would be sufficient to enabN the Society to pursue a
cnurse eversmate successful than the most sanguine
would at present antitigatrApplatise). -• • •
The Bish'p of 13RISTOL alluded-to a meeting that
had taken place in ifie capital Of firs ffidcesE, in. aid of
this institutirin,.and eipre4ed his Opinion tbart it would
prove soon to be a powerful auxiliary.
Sir T. ACC AND confessed; that he wa(shd to hear
that the system of briefs was to be done matey Witt. and
that the King's letter was to be'substitu•ed In in place;
for, when the box was brought round to his pew in
Church, he Certi)nly had a sort of feeling about it that
was neither fitting to he place nor the sutject.
Lieutenant General THORNTON suggested tothe Com-
mittee, whether, as the Rubric directed the cnrgrega-
don to kneel at certain parts of the st.rvice, kneeling as
ell as sitting places ought not to be provided?
The usual votes of thanks were then pasied to the
different Officers cif the Society, and-the Meeting se-
parated.

NEW LONDON BRIDGE.

Yesterday a numerous Meeting of the Inhabitants...A . •
the WI! d of Bridge was held in the Vestry Room of Sr.
Magnus's Church, for the purpose of taking into.con-
sideiation what measures it might be most proper .to
adopt in consequence of the plans now in agitation for
'he formation of the approaches to.the New London
Bridge. filr;Alderman GARRATT took the Chain
it..as stated, by several Gentlemen who addreesed
the Meeting, amongst whom were the Chairman, Mr.
Locke, Kr. Thinthill, Mr. Pewtriss, Mr. §aunders, &c.
that the.original Act of Parliamentior building a new
bridge excite:sly laid it down that it. should be built
upon the site of the old One;.4 neat at_ piis'sible. The
Bridge Committee had, however, contemplated a new
line of approach, with, an arch over Thaines•striet, of
feet from the crownt and about four feefof indoor Amite
this, by which means Thames-streei ahcfitt inimeskita
neighbourhood -woup be 23 feet below the level of the
required approaCii, whleh would mike the ptinclPat en.
trance into the first is pie World a;secnitcl fiescola
neum. The projectorsot_tios dew Plan' It wai'donteOdad,
had no precedent to go Opal; for 'neither in the ori,tinal
Act, nor.in i s Act WhiCh'pasiid:last. Sesion to altei
and mead j.h.igrkipal'4ct, Was there anythingo which
could bacoustrned into sinit;Oh of such 'a tine of Owl:
These plans, it cartied into egret, it wis alleged, woOld.
'be a most wanton vialation• of .propertf ; Ind hre in-
' habitahts nf.thi. Ward who might suffer their tied'
and businesi,,woold be informed that theybad no legal
claims for compensation. Resolatkins were then adopted
to the tired, that the proposed 'archway Was:ditectly
contrary.to the jegislittiva enaciment; that the erection
of the arch owe!. Thattas-strek arc:uld vein the traffic
between the bridge ander and 'LowerManias-
street, aqd produce a dets:rioration of 'the %alai Of pro-
perty to an alarthiOg *tent.;* that it would' rot* a
check to improveMents eirrYing on between the Ttiweit,
Custom ;iensi,
.and BlaCkfriats Bridge; and itrattit
would bting upon the neighbourhood.
A Committee was appointed, who received Instrbe-
(ions to 'present Memorials upon the abject's:o the Lords
of the Treasury and the, Court of Common