Star.
London, England, 1829-07-03 00:00:00

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ST. ANNE'S SOCIETY SCHOOL.
The annual celebration-16e institution of this bene-
volent Society was held yesterday evening at the London
Tavern; CHA Rita BARCLAY, E•q. in the Chair.
, MOP eaalleit dinner, the usual national toasts
\\were drunk with the usu.l indications of respect.
The CHAIRMAN, in proposing success to the Society,'
dwelt at considerable lenßth, and with much ability, on

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the benefits of the Charity.
The oNjects of the Society will appear more clearly
from the following details, which were circulated in
print through the room:
" The Society was instituted in the year 1709, and bad, for nearly
a century, only a day school in London for educating and clothing
thirty boys and thirty girls.
" About thirty-five years ago, however, a most important addi-
tion was made to the original purposes of be Institution, a country
asylum having then been opened for the entire maintenance and
education of twenty additional boys.
" The Stewards have much pleasure in stating, that, within the
last four years, the number of boys who are wholly provided for in
the country asylum has been increased to fifty-six !
" As a stimulus to exertion, and an encouragement to good con.
duct, ten of the above boys are admitted by merit from the day
school in town; the remainder are elected by the Governors at

large, at the half-yearly general Courts.
" Fifteen girls are also now boarded, lodged, clothed, and edu-
cated, in the town asylum, making altogether seventy-one children,
whom the Society has at present wholly to provide for. Five of
these girls are admitted by merit from the day school, and the rest
by the votes of the governors, in the same manner as the boys.
" The total number of children who are at present participating
in the important advantages of the institution is one hundred and
twenty-six.
" There is no limitation 4p the number who are wholly to be pro.
vided for ; but it will be increased as the funds of the institution
shall be augmented, and as Its asylums shall be adapted to their re-
ception.
" The town asylum, however, will not conveniently accommo-
date more than the fifteen girls who are now enjoying its benefits ;
and, as the lease of the country asylum at Peckham will expire at
Ladyday next, the Governors at large, having been fully con-
vinced 6f the inadequacy of those premises to the present and in-
creasing necessities of the institution, unanimously determined, up-
lift:As of a year ago, on the propriety of providing a new country
asylum, adapted to the reception of girls as well as boys.
" With the unction of a General Court, therefore, a most desir-
able plot of freehold land on the summit of Brixton-hill has re-
cently been purchased for the site of the new building, which cost
11,11721.
" The Committee of Management, in the instructions which they
circulated for the guidance of architects in the furnishing of designs,
limited the estimate of the main building to 5,000 f. which they
were led to believe, from the best authority, is the lowest sum for
which an Asylum suited to the immediate wants of the charity can
be erected. They also required that the designs should be for a
plain and substantial building, and capable of extension when
occasion should require, and the means of the charity become more
adequate."
In the course of the evening the children supported
by the Society paraded the room : their appearance was
clean and neat, and showed most satisfactory signs of
good treatment and good health.
A subscription was then entered into, with a view to
complete the fund necessary for the erection of the
new asylum. A very handsome sum was collected in
the room.

Mr. BHOADHURST, Mr. FITZWILLIAM, and Master
SMITH, delighted the company, which was numerous,
with several excellent songs.

Roman Catholics into the Legislature of this Protestant
empire, appears to have alarmed him into some original
reflection of his own, and aroused in him a deep anxiety,
lest it may be turned to the detriment of the State. But
'thy law 'is passed, the innovation is introduced: the
business is to guard, now, the Constitution—such as it
remains. It is true, also, that the abolitions which the
Noble Marquis advocates, might still encounter—as
they hitherto did—his hereditary hostility, and that his
friendliness to ameliorations has been contingent upon
his terror at one liberal measure. But he has stretched
forth his hand to the Reformers; the writers of this
note are of that class—and they take it, though many
have rejected it. It is no time now to coquet with true
men, and examine too curiously if they exhibit the
criteria of party.

The views which the PROPRIETORS entertain of
domestic government, are liberal : they will never sup-
port measures which tend to abrogate the freedom of
the subject. In like manner, their opinions on foreign
policy will be bottomed on the soundest principles of
liberality; encouraging free trade, and all those inter-
national reciprocities which foster amity, and diminish
the chances of collision.

With regard to the mechanical appearance of the
Paper, arrangements are in progress, which the Pno-
PRIETORS hope will render it worthy of public favour :
and until the completion of these, they look for the
public indulgence.
London, Ist July, 1529.

THE EVENING STAR.