Star.
London, England, 1827-02-21 00:00:00

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30, STRAND. London;
And sold in every Town in the Kingdom.
LIQUID in Bottles 6d. 10d. 18d. and 18d. each.
Also PASTE BLACKING, in Pots, 6d. I2d. and led. each.
4 44! Ont Pot of Paste is equal to Poor is. Bottles of Liquid.

Kr Ask fur WARREN!. Blacking,.

Sie,—Many of the Reactive of your raper having
been led to take a considerable interest in the establish-
ment of a Humane Society in France, as recently formed
at Boulogne, at the suggestion and by the exertions of
some of the most respectable of the British residents at
that Pest, it will doubtless ►e a subject of added grati-
fication to them to find that a most satisfactory Report
of their proceedings has now been laid before the
public. In this important statement every credit, as
well as the distinguished sucems which has attended
the Institution (having necessarily many difficulties
from its novelty to encounter, especially in a country
where every establishment must be under the sanction
and submitted to the approval of the Government) are
ascribed to the characteristic humanity of the English.
And to those of them with whom the project origi-
gin-tied, and by whose unwearying and unabated exer-
tions it has been brought to its present active operation,
it must afford a proud recompense to find their object
not only completely accomplished, but as effectually
successful in its results—for, during the last year, it
seems, that bathing season at Boulogne was the first
in the memory of any one that has passed without the
loss of a single life!
To the admirable system this Society has introduced,
as art auxiliary to the plan of the Parent Establishment
in England, viz. of employing guardians during the
entire season to remain in attendance from sun-rise to
sun-set every day on the coast, superintending the
bathers—warning them of danger, and rescuing them
from it when incurred—is this happy change, under a
beneficent PROVIDIINCI4 to be ascribed. For in the
preceding year not less than six lives were lost, and a'
number rarely less had been annually victims to in-
cautious bathing on a coast, known like that of Bou-
logne, to be peculiarly full of risk. To the numerous
school establishments also settled there, the services
of this Society must have been of incalculable benefit ;
and claiming, as it has no doubt received, their most
cordial co-operation aad support from the effective se-
curity afforded those youths by the' especial attention
the coast guardians (Surveillantt de Mer) are directed
to pay to them in particular, and also to their distant
friends, not unaware of the heart rending calamities
that have to oken occurred on the shores of Boulogne,
it must be a no less consolation to know that their chil-
dren are so watched and protected, affording them in
common with the inhabitants of the place a grateful
hope, so feelingly adverted to in this Report, that "the
bathing season will henceforth no longer be as it has
been hitherto to such numbers, a fatal epoch of mourn-
ing and consternation!" Yours, truly,
HU MANUS.

N.B. Each of the Surveillant) alluded to in the Report, are fur-
nished with a medal to distinguish them, and having a pike stuck
in the sands supporting a plate with the words in large letters,
" SalmiAnus des kens& Mar," both to mark the situation where
they are, and to serve as a rallying signal (or mutual assistance
when called for.

The lake in Frogmore Gardens pre'ents a gay ap-
pearance at this season ot intense frost; her Royal High-
ness the Prince's Augusta ha•iug kindly allowed the
admission of Gentlemen to skate, and of respectable
company to witness this delightful ezercise.
Sunday afternoon a &re broke out on the premises of
Mr. Ramdell, corn chandler, in Kate-street, Newing-
ton, which, notwithstanding the efforts ot numerous
rrsons, assisted by two parish engines, were reduced to
a heap of ruins.