Star.
London, England, 1827-02-12 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK MISgIONAtit ffOefth. I
Thursday evening a Meeting of the Members of thet.
Southwark Auxiliary Missionary Society,wm held in
Union-street Chapel, fur the purpose of receiving the
Reports of their effort, for the last year, and entering
!into further subscriptions in aid of their fonds. Charles
Hobhouse, Esq. in the Chair. The Rev. Henry Nat,,
thirty years in the Sou:h Seas, the Rev. Dr. Phillips,.
from South Africa,and several other Minionvie., spoke
at considerable length on the success attending their
efforts in diffusing the light of the Gospel among the
Newhall* in the several countries where their labours
bad beep directed, and gave a very animated descrip-
tion of the benefits resulting to the before untutored
Wage, particularly insuncing the cases of wnmen re-
claimed from the horrid practice of infanticide. An
aged Caffre, on hearing the word of GOD esplainsd to
him, drew his sheepskin around his head, and fell pros-
trate in adoration of the to him unknown GOD. The
several speeches were extremely well received by the'
gratified Assembly, and, at the conclusion, Resolutions
were entered into to return thanks to the Parent
io-
ciety. and the other Branches, for their united efforts in
the cimmon cause, and their best feelings to the lAN*.
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man for presiding on the present occasion. • -

NICE CALCULATION.

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The Oyu/mares quotes a work published 60 years
Ago by an old ?Tempter. bearing the following title:
The Drogak Time Piece, or Period Molitor,
being a calculatinA et the length of time every act takes
in yellowing, in all the acting plays at the Theatres
loyal if Droy.lane, Covent-garden, and Haymarket,
ribald from repeated observations. By J. Brown-
smith, Prompter to the Theatre Royal in the Haymar-
ket, London. Printed for J. Alinan, in Piccadilly."
This account is taken in 1767; and the acting of
plays seems to have been rather more rapidly got
through as that time thah it is at present.
The Merry runs V Irusdesr, far feetanee,- was gas over In less
then so bear sad a Ulf.
Maser Wrms or Wrezros.—Act Id in speaklng,llo min.; Apt
IL min.; Act 111. 29 min.; Act IV. 13 Oda.; AM V. I *b.
.+Wbole play 1 bear 943 minutes. . .
Lees fee Lae was longer. - • I
Lon eon Lova.t-A.ct I. is speaking, Ite min.; AO
Ant 111. 19 min.; Act. IV. 35 oda.; Act V. U calm—
pley two hours 16 minutes.
omeauss.--Act I. in speaking, SO into. ; Act IL 19=It
lII.' 34 mfr. ; Aet IV. so dn.; Aft V. 50
two boars SI Wavers
No allowance is made in these totals for
music, in the delays between the acts ; nsusic,e7Pvhowl
scour,, being accounted for separately.
_ The reasons given by the author for his publication
me no less ingenious than the book itself. ,
" Recourse being had to this book, any Nobleman,
Goodman, itc. who may hot carriages or &carols is
waiting, or appointments to no* at any particular
lsowr, may at all times (within a few minutes) be.
.0*
Need sidle time as punctually as if minuted by theta
watches, only by allowing for incidental entertaiMikents
between the acts, such as songs, dances, Sic-
" The utility of this piece is manifold, as it will (if
Aaly attended to) prevent their .cattle from catching
,b; waiting so long at the doors of the play.
IMMO salad weather, a circumstance heretofore Nur
• a It, will also be a means of their orients styles pt
home, till within a very little of their tin* of attelM&l
anal, instead of assembling in public-houses, or bow
of ill fame, to the destruction of heir morale. payer
ties, and constitutions. . .
" Huy other advantages nsay be derived from It qv* boot-
dela so the purchaser, sad, in all probability, some P 111 sec
et
present aware of."

Monday night a soldier of the 10th Foot was fired at
on his posts in the town of Kilfinan. by one of three
men, and wounded severely in the arm. The assassin
escaped, but the arm of the soldier bas been amputated.
The son of Mr. Rayner, a respectable farmer, at.
Yeldbam, about fourteen years of age, on Monday last,
received the contents of a fowling-piece in his arm. the
effect of accident, by which the limb was so dreadfully
shattered as to render amputation necessary.
Last week a Sheriff r in Ayr, who holds also au
official situation in the burgh, had received instructs,
to imprison a brother officer for a small debt. Th•
latter. heariag of the lamella' to imprison him, and
conceiving that society is preferable so solituderobtainad
possession of a writ against the other, and resolved
to have his company in his imprisonment. On arrivit
at the gaol, the first mentioned officer went through his
duty of lodging the unfortunate debtor in the hands of
the jailor ; but no sooner was this done, than the latter
drew out his credentials, and repeated the ceremony
Leotards him, by making'his friend and brotherefficer
his companion in his confinement, to his no small sur-
prise and dismay.
Thursday afternoon, as Atkinson, the new informer,
and 'his Worthy witnesses, were quitting Queen-square
Police-office, where they had been laying informations
against sereill Licensed Victuallers, they were attacked
by a vac/ drawn eggs, anti other ensiles, ahltongh
under the protection of the Police, who were enable to,
guard them from the fiery of the mob. The witnesses
(Hams and Woods took to their heels; and, after being
covered with filth. made their escape. Atkinson was
taken into the Hoop and Grapes public house, to shelter
himself from the indignation of the snob that had col-
lected. In about half an hour, he left the house, with
several officers, who at first kept Abe populace at bay,
but they still followed to watch an opportunity. At
Vauxhall-bridge. they got hold of him, and he had a
narrow escape of his life ; every article of clothing ht
had on was torn to pieces. Such was his condition,
when he was at last got into the Lambeth watch.honse,
and takes to his own lodgings, in Vitae-street, West-
minster, about twelve o'clock.

FitibiCH VALENTINIM.--Mtnage, in his Etymologi-
cal Dictionary, has accounted for the term "Valentine.'
by stating that Madame Royale, deo& r of Henry the
Fourth of France, having built a palace near Turin,
which in honour of the Sault, then in high esteem, she
called the Valentine, at the first entertainment which
she gave in it, was pleased to order that the Ladies
should receive their lovers for the year by lots, reserv-
ing to herself the privilege of being independent of
chance, and of choosing her own partner. At the tuiti-
ons balls which this gallant Princess gave during the
year, it was directed-that each Lady should receive a
nosegay from her lover, and that, at every tourism:rent,
the Knight's trappings For his horse should be furnished
by his allotted mistress, :with this Proersorthat the prize
obtained should be hers. This-custom, says Menage,
occasioned the parties to be called " Valettings.
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