Societies however of a moral and religious cast, are numerous, active and flourishing. Various associations exist for promoting temperance, for colonizing the free people of color, for aiding missionaries, for the distribution of the Bible and religious tracts, and for various other objects of a similar character. The encouragement also which is given to Sabbath schools is extensive and beneficial. The means of religious instruction are very considerable, and probably in due proportion to the wants of the city. The _Episcopalians_ have 3 churches or houses of worship;--the _Presbyterians_ 2, the _Baptists_ 3, the _Methodists_ 3, the _Roman Catholics_ 1, and this last congregation are now constructing a new and elegant building, which will probably rival any in the city for the style of its architecture. The _Baptist Seceders_ or followers of Alexander Campbell, have 1 place of worship,--the _Unitarians_ and _Quakers_ 1 each,--and the _Jews_ a handsome Synagogue in a retired and handsome situation. The _Monumental Church_, one of the three belonging to the Episcopalians, and of which the venerable Bishop of Eastern Virginia has long been the Rector,--has acquired a melancholy celebrity from the circumstance that it occupies the site of the _Richmond Theatre_, which was destroyed by fire in December 1811; on which tragical occasion the Governor of the Commonwealth, and 70 or 80 respectable persons of both sexes perished miserably in the flames. Long will that mournful event be remembered by those who survived or witnessed its horrors!--Either from the deep impressions which it produced or from other causes,--the taste for theatrical exhibitions has not kept pace with the increase of wealth and population. The commodious Theatre which succeeded the old one,--which is placed in a far more eligible situation, and is of much safer construction, is only occasionally patronized, when the appearance of some attractive star, or celebrated performer, is announced.