Star.
London, England, 1826-07-05 00:00:00

VAUXHALL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

SIR -Your Paper being alike the vehicle of useful as
well as amusing information, I take leave to submit a
few transient observations on the attractions of Vauxhall
'Gardens.- The New Concert fLciont is certainly a very
great improvement, as it attracts to its magic circle a
class of individuals who had almost deserted this sylvan
scene. Thii was fully apparent on Friday evening last ;
for all the grace, fashion, and rank, which remain in the
Metropolis,Wid spontaneously, and as it were by sym-
pathetic attraction, congregat!cl in these Gardens. The
gaiety of 4rauxhall was interwoven with the classic ele-
gance and refinement of Old- Ranelagh. The musical
attractions exceed all praise ; and the trifling additional
charge for very superior accommodation is forgotten in
the perfect round of amusement offered for our enjoy-
ment. The immense area of the Pit of this truly superb
room is. filled with seats for visitors, who will do well
to attend at the earliest hour of admission, to secure
thpir comforts.
Apollnib Lyre was happily blended with the joys of
B •cchns, and the jolly old god's rougher ebullitions were
evidently chastened by the soothing charms of music !
The admission to the pit of this room is included in the
4.. paid at the entrance door, and there are elegant
1% 'les at 2s. each person ; also select boxes for family
c.rcle, at one guinea each. The company appeared
mote than satisfied, and were surprised at the immense
expens., incurred by the Proprietors; wh•,, douhtless, re-
posed wi h confidence on the liberal spirit of remunera-
tion ever evinced by a British Public.
-
The fairy land intioduced to my memory the beauti-
fu. lines of a once favourite poetess (Anna Seward) now
no more:

Oh ! come not here ye proud, whose breasts inlaid
Th' insatiate wish of glory or of gold !
Ohl come not here, whose branded foreheads wear
The eternal frown of envy or of care! .
For you no Dryads twine the fragrant bower.—
For you her sparkling urn no Naiad pours !
timeen by you light' graces skim the green.
And hovering Cupids aim their shafts unseen!
fiat Trion ! whose mind the well-attemper'd ray
Of tore and beauty light to purer day :
Whose finer sense each soft vibration owns,
Mutt and unfeeling to discordant tones !"
At the time the mind was eleveed by the sublime
feelings, it unconsciously rbverted to days " lang sync,"
when the simple notes hf poor Bland, and the enliven-
in4 strains of the veteran Dignism, &c. added to the
gaiety. of the scene. Indeed, I could not avoid regretting
the kols ski. the Cascade—the Miller's Cot—and other
emblem:L*4 rustic life. Tnese feelings were, perhaps,
blendediveith'llic reclUection of a more juvexile and
jocund season of lite.
. *. •
, I mo, Sir, your obedient servant,
Judy 4,1524. • VERAX.

.KASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

—The Nitres' Rsterhsefgave a grand ball and supper on Monday
evening, it her residence in Chandoa street, Cavendish square.
iplcssetd suite of drawing rooms were fitted up with unique
taste, and were most hrillianly illuminated. The ball commenced
Vent h.fipast ten o'clock. The sapper was announced soon after
tiro olcisteLi it was prepared In the three grand dining paridura
andcondsted of every delicacy. There were present nearly VIC;
of the brillotart, including :,11 the remaining and distinguished fash-
ionable, in town.

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The Ladies Fitzpatrick gave an elegant ball and supper yester-
day evenine' at their house in Grosvenor plate, which was very
faddonahly attended.
The Marquis of Salisbury entertained a distinguished party at
dinner yesterday, at bis house in Hanover square.
Lady I.:honor Lowther entertitned-a Urge party of fashionable.
nn Nlord•iittening; at her house in Bruton street.
The dhike of Bedford bad a distinguished party at dinner yester-
day, at bithouse in St. James's.square.
Lord Berwick had a dinner-party yesterday, at his house in
Dryanstons square.
The Countess of Dartmouth left town yesterday, for her seat at
Blackheath.

The F.ari and Countess of Sefton and the Ladies Molyneux left
town yesterday. for their seat in Berks.
It. B. Philipps, Esq. M.P. has arrived at his bout is Spring
Gardens, from his seat in Wales.
The Honourable Thomas Grenville left town yesterday, for
Dropmore.
S.r Robert Buxton, Dart. left town yesterday, for his seat,
Shadwell Labe, Norfolk.
The Earl and Countess 6f Hopetoun have left the St. James's
Vote!. Jerityn street, for Scotland.
Arrivals at Feritesn's Nevi lintel, St. James's street—General
Flit' *hero, from Brighton; Major Preston. from Bath. Depar-
ture—Captain Duncan, on a tour.
Mrs. and Nags Fortlhows bare arrived at the St. James's lintel,
Jermyn street. from l'aris.
Arrivals at the Bruns% ick lintel, Jermyn street—Sir Ttoger
and Lady Sophia Gresley; Mrs General Gregory, from India, by
the Mary Anne; Mr Jackson, 14th Reginient, and Mrs Jackson
and family, from India, by dirt,,. Departures—Monsieur Pridi-
urea!, for Norfolk ; Rorke, 1.1. q. fur Ireland ; Charles
Lutterotb, Esq. and family, for Bristol.

/§law ?WILMA mots. The following interesting
'Works arms just publkhed,by Mr. Cot.saan, New Burlington-street : 1
viz.—Gaston de Illondeville and St. Alban's Abbey. Romances,
by the late 3ltv. Radcliffe, Four Vols.—The Lives of the Right
Hon. Francis North, Baron Guildford, Lord Keeper of the Great
Seal under King Charles 11. and King James 11. of the Hon. Sir
Dudley North, Commissioner of the Treasury, and the Hon. Dr.
John Nont, Clerk of the Closet to King Charles 11. by the Hon.
Roger North, Three Vols.—The Politlial Primer; or, rtoad to
Public Honours, One Vol.—Narrative of the' Four Tears aid-
dunce of an English Family in France, with an account of the
Author's Conversion to the Catholic Faith—The German Novelists,
with Critical and Biographical Notices, by Thomas Roarer, Esq.
Four Iffographical Sketches of British Characters
deceased, since the Accession of George IV. Two Vole—Rejects d
Articles, One Vol.—Landor's Imaginary Conversations of literary
Men and Statesmen, Two Vols—Odes and Addresses to Great
Penplt, One Vol.—Memoirs of the Prince do Pinntbarey, Two
Vols—s Adventures of a Sergeant in the French Army, by Him-
self, One Vol.—and Memoirs of the Count de Segur, Vol. 11.
comprising the Account of his Residence at the Court of Russia.
FIRE ON THE RIVER THAMIEL—Last evening. abi-ut
halt past six o'clock, a fire broke out in the Waterloo
Dock, on the Surrey side of the River Thames, which
spread the utmost alarm throughout the decks in the
neighbourhood, in consequence of the imminent danger
in which avast number of loaded craft were placed.—
The fire originated through the very culpable conduct
rf an individual who was pitching the side of a craf
hich was lying next the?atty, of Leigh. The laves
was loaded with straw, intended for this day's market,
and caught fire by aeme sparks from the burning reeds
used in pitching the next barge igniting the straw.—
The greatest activity was displayed by the watermen
and lightermen in the neighbourhood to extinguish the
flames, which for some time spread with great rapidity.
—The tackle of the Patty was soon destroyed, and we
lament to state that one man was killed, and two were
injured by the falling of the mast. The banks of the
river, north and south, were in a few minutes lined with
thousands of persons. More than half an hour elapsed
before an engine arrived ; but through the exertions of
the workmen on the spot, by throwing buckets of water
on the straw, the flames were subdued, in a great degree,
and eventually extinguished by the engines.