Star.
London, England, 1829-01-05 00:00:00

ST. SAVIOUR'S CHURCH.

Thursday a general Vestry Meeting of the inhabi-
tants of the parish was held for the ; Impose of receiving
the Report cf. the Church RerairingCommittee, or in
ract to determine whether the repairs of th:s ancient
edifice should be stopped; or if they were'to be pro-
ceeded with, and by whim ? The Report of the Com-
mittee differed little from the previous Report, recom
mending that Messrs. Grieve sod Wilkins sh,uld be
alowed to repair the south transect of the aurch,
u. on their proposed tenders of 3,5661. and sta ing that
the pat ish had a clear annual incyme r f 1.50 f 1. avail-
able for the purpose of Church repair.. They advised
that a sufficient somshould be borrowed upon that in.
come to defray the expenses of the repair;.
Mr. C. BARCLAY. M.P. sup! orted the Committee's
Report. Three years ago it had been decided that the
Church stood in need of immediate repairs, and there
could be no doubt that every day's delay rendered it
much worse, and increased the danger. The parish
possessed ample means for restoring the church, with-
out suljecting themselves to any new or oppressive tax.
After the Committee had gone so far as to advertise
for tenders, and that the par:ies who had sent in the
lowest, and had been put to greit trouble and expense,
and moreover led to believe that theirs would be ac-
cepted, he could not conceive the Vestry wonld slight
the labours of the Committee, or longer allow the
church to remain in its present di-graceful condition.
Mr. BLACILIIOII contended tLat the old edifice ought
lobe pulled down, because a new church, adapted to
-the wants of the inhabitants, might be built for 13,0001.
;while the complete repairs of the .eaisting building
-would be Nll2OOOl. Ile moved, as an amendment,
f that an application should be mode to the Bishop of
Wincbesce, had to Parliament, for leave to pull down.
. the old church and build a new one. fin 13.00 a
Mr. WILD contended that the Nortl, transept mood'
snort in need of immediate repair, and without 4s,iolitigl
any object, concluded by moving, as a further ;emelt&
ment, that the repairs should be postponed for a lets;
months..
Mr. HARMS, a Quaker, addressed the Meeting ai
great length, and contended that they ought to do;
nothing with the Church until the line of road for the!
.New London Bridge was-laid down. No one could with
bow the line of road would affect the Church. ,He
inoveJ, as another emendates', that the repairs shoal
Ise postponed until the approaches to tl.e New Loud
. Bridge were determined -upon.
Mr. Blackmore's amendment was put and negatived;
almost unanimously; Mr. Wild withdrew his amend•
Ahem; and Mr. Harriss's amendment was carried-by
coasider4b;e majority.
. .
An Author left a comedy with Focrofforternsal; anti
-on the next visit a lt-d for his judgment on it. with!
'rather an ignorant degree of assurance. " lf you I.4lteti
a little more to the grammar.of it, y yhisik. said Foote,
viouldlte betker." el Tothe.gtammir of it, .Sir!)
mkt' &mould you send sue toschool again'!" "And pint!
fir; rl~tied Foote, verpgravely, a, would that do you.
harat ?"
At the meeting of the Royal A-iatic Society. on
tibtuerd.spaveniag, threeZealanders, brottabkbpy .Captain
erstowto this-country, were-present. Ifbeysttrattett
treat attention. They were sbnostin.a state of nudity,
:11hOir.sa;ive 44114amOte.lat-solinfilit. Much laughter;
row .oenasinaesi Air their .:holditg dip.tbrit hauls turd{
voting with the members, altbon
ef the astute of the proceedings.

PORTSMOUTH, JANDART S.
FROM TIM HAMMERS TILROZAPR.
Extract of a letter dated Simon', B Iy, Cape of Good
Hope, Oct. 29,1828:—" Our new Governor, Sir L wry
Cole, paid a visit to Simon% Town last week, and in-
spected all the public departments and buildings. His
Ricellency has given directions for reducing the huge
size of the latter, erected by Lord Cha . Somerset, and
for their being fined up in as economical a manner as
possible. The public wharf, arid water.works, are to
undergo improvements; the military barracks, which
hive been in ruins for a considerable tinie, ale to be re.
Wirt; and the erection of a light-house, on the rock
Noah's Ark, is contemplated. Had a lighthouse been
planed on the rock ten years ago. many vessels would
h .ve been saved; the Andromache, with the broad
pendant of the late Commodore Nourse„ was musty ;obi
no one occasion. coming in at night, from the abseisce
of a beacon. Sir Lowry Cole has already declared t' at
not an individual holding office under:,,, Gov:rnment
shall be an absentee—that every man shall be at Isis
post. King Chairs, that powerlul savage, has sent in
an Englishman as an Ambassador, to request perenis-1
sion of the Government to trade with the C
individual has been t enty-eight days from For t Natal,
and states that Chaka having quarrelled with the Pura
tuguese, at Delagoa Bay, wishes the Coloniats to take
his ivory in exchange for other wicks. fhia day au
order has been sent to Capt. Ai cheson, of the mounted
Rill Corps, to hold himself in readiness, with a Subal-
tern and twenty men. to proceed direct to Chaka, the'
latter's Ambassador to accompany him. The decision
of the Governor has not tranapited. Chaka had
greatly ridiculed the resents which had Bien sent blob'
by Government and which. among the rest. compri.ed
a qumuty of it.edicine. Chaim. to try its effects, coin.
pelted Captain Kii.g and Lieut. Farewell to take large
osea of it for several days. In many faits of this Co-
lony ti e crops sill totally fail this year. Our wheat
crops last year w• re so plentiful. that a great quan'ity
a as exported to New South Wales. Miurnius, and Rio
Ile Janeiro. This is the first month the lamer is allowed
to bring is his wines of last vintage to market, which
are now selling from SI. to Si. Ws. per leaguer (a ca.k
of 152 old wine gallons). The vessels in Table Bay
are, the Duke r f Bed:oM, U .k, George, Eagl St. Leo.
nard. Elie rbeth, William Parker, Calypso, Lavinia,
Thomas, Madras, Casar, George Canino& Success,
Mary, Rockingham, and Prince de Nedeolanden; and
'in Simon's Dry, his Majebty's ships Undaunted and
ra (vs.!. Commodore Skipsey, in the Maidstone, sailed
for Mauritius on the 2431 September, as a tender. The
MaiJstone is expected soon to return to this port."

The GaLitea, 46 guns, Captain Sir Charles &Wigan
ant. will be paid OF on Wedgies Jay or Tlas Way, and
will be re commissi lard.

The S, bille igate, Commodore Collier, saileJ flow
St. Ilelcna on the 2J of Nivember, atter remoning
there a month, having been amply supplied with beef,
beer, and vegetables, by the Contractor, xi', Soul Solo
mon. On the Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar,
the Commodore gave a splendid ball and supper at the
hotel, to the Ladies and Gentlemen of the bland. The
officert and crew were in excellent health.

1 he Island of Ascension is now so much improved at
its landing place, that the Clinker gun brig was lately
hauled ashore and hove (limn there. The Island fur-
nishes abundance of goats and guinea fowls; but the
latter are destroyed by the wild cats. The rats, with
which the Island was formerly overrun, have nearly all
dialspeared. The Clinker gun brig sent her boats int.)
the river Bimbia, on the 18th August, to look for slave
I vessels; a brigantine that was lying there fired at them,
and hoisted Brazilian cabins. The boats immedi tely
boarded to resent the insult, when a sharp encounter, a
quarter of an hour in duration, took place, which ended
in the turrender of the vessel, her Ca; tain and several
men being killed, seven severely wounded, and thirteen
prisoners. Mr. Coyde, who commanded the boats, and
Inter seamen, were severely wounded, and one man was
killed.

The Ranger, 28, Captain Walpole, and the Nimrod,
20, Captain Radford, sailed this evening on secret ser-
vice; and with one or two exceptions, the whole of the
(inward bound, amounting to nearly eighty vev,el.,
t •king advantage of a fair wind. have sailed for their
respective destinations. The Ranger will eventually
proceed to theiamaica station,and the Nimrod t Curk.
The Shannon, 46, Captain Clement. came into har-
bour on Monday, for the purpose of having a leak
stopped ; her guns having been taken out, she was this
afternoon brought into the dock out of which the
Briton, 46, Honourable Captain Gordon, Al. P. was
taken this morning.
Sir Robert Seppings and Commissioner Tucker have
arrived here this week. for the purpose d surveying t'.e
Shannon.

His Majesty's ship Aurora has been surveyed, and
found unfit (Jr service. The Pyramus has, in conse•
(Owner, been ordered to be fitted out in her r• om.
Previous to the Aurora being paid off at Plymouth
list week, the bbip'a company subscribed hearly frUl. for
4 monument to the memory of their late Captain
(Maxwell), bsother 40 Sir Murray MAI-Well. They also
gave anelegant snuff bos,:to be presented by .the First
•Lirutimant, to Mt. Woodhead, the ship ag.enton show.
their sense of his promptitude in having distt it u eJ op
board, at Peironpett,* sum of salvage moa.ey, P ittiin•a:-
few days after its having been received by him in Lon.'
-don. The officers made a similar present to Captain'
IC. J. Austen, .t.t whom alto they gave a sumptuous'
-dint•er the day tbe•ship was paid.off.
. The Zebra, 18, Commandet Gilberussailed yesterday'
tor Ply moutheto:be .paid off. The Arrow cuter aral
.tived nu Tuesday,and sailed.again to-day. on a cruise;;
and yestei day sailed the Sylvia cutter on a cruise..
The Lord Suffield transport, Lieut. Barber,is fitting]
at Deptford with Ames, for Fernando Po.
. At a Court Mutat lately held in Malka hatlxitte, oil
which Sr Thomas Staines was President, and the Hon
Captain Bridgeman, Captain W. H..Johnstone,_Captai
Martin, and Carnmander .Gilbert were members, tb
,Commander, Officers, and crew of the late Jasper Alpo •
of war were stied for.the lossOl that !mite], at Saar_
Maura. whet Commander Rooke was admonished t
.bens tie careful in.fetute• it was, however, observeN
that the.accident which °Centred no this .qccaslon stool
from. Commander Itricikes,gteat seal in endeavouring
to communicate his .dispatches to the tiovern.r.thai
evening.

Ti C.nneilof,War bds decided-that the ii.fantcy of
ibe R. 141 Guard shall be divided into two corps, one
with. Montle of 66 Old Good; and the other thrt of
.4 Young Guard." In order to bel.,ng. to the Old Guard,
it ismecessany to have foor.years service -at least, and,
the Young Guard is to be composed of .sew recruits:
'No clanger however. will be .made with woven to qui
-officers. It is stated also, that ,theaegintents of Veld
-Infantry-aro to be converted into roginsentaof,the Lino;
and many other important regulitions with reapeq.
'army will shortly be curled into effect.—Paris Paper.

•
FOURTEEN PERSONS DROWNED AT CEYLON:

We are concerned to relate-the melancholy occur-
rence of fourteen persons Wing drowned crosiine." the
ferry over the Maliaville Gangai on their retirn from
Xandy by the Colombo road. on the SO h ult. T,..
Jose concourse of natives assembled in Kandy Irani a.I
pasts of the island, particularly the southern province.,
to behold tie ishibitiois of the sacred relic on the 29,h
ult. and to take part in the religious ceremony ob-1
served on that occasion, rendered it ex,edient for
their ace .mmodation to have additi oval means for
noising the Mahaville (ianga, over whith't event s
oust pass within shout four miles of Ka.icly to reach
that capital, and a flying bridge was 4c,..1 Jingly
corwirucled rga. the purpose. cap,sh'e of caesura jog
over (soul 70 to SO persona, though. As a NatJSUIC At
r caution, not more than 50 or 60 v ere suffered to
pass ono r at the smite time. This fiticleeloS wo ked in
a very satisfactory and secure tunnel- fir too days hot
on the thir , when about 50 or 60 persons were cs 0,-ink.
from Kin ly to the Colombo side of the riser, some
Alarm having been risen that the water was entering
into one ut the cassues on which the r.ft lOturng
ihe bridge was supported, the passengers all rushed to
the opposite side, by which it was irpatediately swamped.
and they stele precipotited into the trettni, then vers
deep and unusually sapid. owing to the heavy rUlai that
had tallest. At this time, however, the be ijge was fir-
tunately within six or seven yards of the landinit
and with the exception of 14 individuals who were
drowned, the rest eithir reached Atmore by their own
czarism:, or were saved by those near at has.d.—Cashier
GaSelte, Jame 7.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

Al A NSION4IOUSg

A °endear n applied to the Logo Ilavos in behalf of certain
named victuallers, who hid purchased a license from the King's
Sergeant Trumpeter. to have nick io their Mum, which be un-
dertook to give in tight of his patent to " blow.teat, and sound all
musical Met mounts." and fur which license he charged two guineas ;
after *mitring the Keane the victuallers were threatened with
penalties for having music in thAr hooves, and the applicant wished
to know from his Lordship whether such penalties could be it►
flirted? The LOU) Maros mid, the Trumpeter's patent was not
worth a straw to any one but himself. The applicant observed,
that the victuallers were hardly dealt with, it was quite a com-
mon practice for the fashionabies at the west end of the tuns in let
mat their boosts ter concerts. where a Palma or a goitres and a
half was charged fur admiedoo. This he considered a grew viola •
that of the Act of Parliament. The Loma Havoc observed, that
if there was on restralet wt .' blowing, beating, and sounding, in
public houses," the practice wuuld certainly become an hatulershie
nuisance.

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