Star.
London, England, 1820-12-23 00:00:00

CHRISTMAS EVE.

Time was, as on this solemn day—
Salvation's Birth was near,
When silv'ry broke its rising ray,
See Ileav'n's bright Star appear ;
The shout of wona'rin;,,, Seraphs hear :
The llagi view upon their way
To where the humble babe in humbler posture ley !

Happy ye write, ye chsain few,
Who journey'd from afar ;
Happy to all, who copy you,
Who love the Eastern Star;
For Mercy's stream
Is in that beam;
The bolts of it must unbar;
The gloom of night
Before its light
In clouds of darkness rolls afar !

Nail to tit: dawn of 'morrow's light,
To mortals in soft pity gir'n,
Succeeding to the soul's dark night
The briAt effulgence of its Heav'n

Hail to the morn !—'tis ever new;
It comes (I.ur hearts with joy to Ml :
like the pearls of liermon's dew
" Which falls on Siou's fruitful hill 1"

Ball! and may all succeeding years
Confirm me in the faith of love ;
And, *Wiring in this vale of tears,
Bloom once again—bat bloom above!

Reader! the pendulum moves on,
The finger bids thee to relent ;
Time whispers, 'ere his work is done,
" I warn before I strike—Repent!" J. G.

SCHOOLMAST tRt SOCIETY.

'rue Society of Schoolmasters and their friends
dined together yesterday, at the Crown and Anchor
Tavern ; Dr. RUSSELL, the Master of the Charter-
house in the Chair. When the cloth was removed,
The CRAIRMAN said, that in proposing the first
toast that was usually drank at dinners of this kind,
he bad one remark to make. They had met for thee,
purposes of conviviality and charity, and as the in-
trodnction of politics \vizir reference to neither of
those purposes %%cold be beriedcial, he hoped the in- I
trodactian of political topics would be resisted in toto.
As they %%ere a Society of British Schoolmasters, he
hoped they would iiever be deficient in inculcating
attachment to the Constitution, and reverence to the
Monarch. lie proposed the health of the King,
which was drank with three times three.
" The Rcyal Family" was then given with three
times three.
Mr. C. BURNEY, in proposing the health of the
Duke of Cambridge, the Patron of the Society, said,
that they were bound to chink the health of his Royal
Highness, not only on account of the support which
he had given them, but on account of the example
which he had set. Entrusted, as they were, with the
formation of youth, they would not wish better to
perform their duty than by sending brick their pupils
to the parents such children as the Duke was to his
late Majesty.
The health of the Patron of the Society was re-
ceived with the warmest applause.
Mr. C. BURNEY then proposed the health of the
other Royal Benefactor of the Society, the Duke of
Sussex, which was received with warm approbation.
Dr. KELLY proposed the health of the Duke of
Orleans, the Royal Schoolmaster, who (he observed)
bad always been proud that he had once, during the
distressing times of the Revolution of France, had
occasion to support himself for nearly a year by
teaching Mathematics at a College in Switzerland.—
His Royal Highness, who had been heretofore a libe-
ral benefactor of the Society, had not now been for-
getful of it. There was a lithographic print of his.
Royal Highness, which had been made from a pic-
ture, in which he had been represented teaching the
mathematics at that College, of which he had sent
four copies to particular friends in this country—one
of them to this Society—(Applause).
The Print, a lithographic plate of considerable
merit, was shewn to the company. The health of
" The Royal Schoolmaster," was erank with applause.
Mr. WILLIAMS; in an impressive speech, proposed
le The memory of his Royal Highness the Duke
of Kent."
The healths of the Bishops of Hereford and Car-
lisle, and those of the Bishops of London and St. Da-
vid's, were also given, and received with enthusiasm.
The CHAIRMAR, in proposing the toast of " The
Schoolmasters' Society," took occasion to call the at-
tention of ffie company to the claims on their liberality.
He observed, that the funds of the Society consisted
of only £44)00 stock, on *hid' the dividend was £l2O
per annum. The annual donations amounted to nearly
as much, but the b.-dance against the Society, by the
claims upon it, amounted to £ll7, nearly the whole
of the dividend which would accrue during the next
year. To remedy this deficiency he appealed to the
liberality of the subscribers.
The healths of Dr. Parr, Dr. Goodall, Dr. Barrow,
and the Dean of Canterbury (the Vice-Presidents),
were drank, as well as that of Dr.Valpy, of Reading,
the Father of Schoolmasters, who supported the Chair
on the right,' and observed, that he had been at the
bead of a School for. nearly 45 years. Several Sub-
scribers were announced, and the conviviality of the
company waS'continued to a late hour.

It will afford satisfaction to every philanthropist,
to learn that the elementary books on the interroga-
tive system of ritiz -60ns-without-answers, invented
need perfected by SIR RICHARD PHILLIPS, besides
being adopted in more than half the Schools of
Great Britain, haw! been translated into the French,
Italian, Spanish, and German, languages ; and that
several of them have lately been printed in Russia,
under imperial sanction.—Independently of the cer-
tain progress %%Lich pupils cannot fail to make in the
use of those yurks, they recommend themselves by
the preciiou of ti,eir language, their scientific accu-
racy, and Lhcir respect to the best principles of mo-
rality and religion.
Mr. J. elliVitlEtl3, said to be the oldest Provincial
Comedian in the I(in7dom, died last week at Shrews-
bury, on which Stage he had appeared during the last
thirty }cal.. Ills mcrits as an actor were consider-
able, sued in pi tvate hie he was much respected.