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- 111 R. OWEN'S PLAN. • Yesterday the adjourned Meeting on Mr. Owen's Plan for employing and uniting the people of Ire land, was held-at the City of London Tavern. Mr. OwEN,took the Chair at one o'clock, and pro ceeded to address the company. The same reasons, he said, which had induced him to fill the Chair on Tuesday, applied with equal force on the present oc casion. In pursuing a measure which involved so many important considerations in its consequences, he could not desire any of his more distinguished ft icnds to give it their support until it was fairly placed before the Public in such a manner as to enable them to form an accurate judgment of it, both in its detail and extent=-in its principle and practice. Personal favour and friendship for the individual could be of little service to the cause which he had undertaken. He was directly opposed to what ap peared to him the errors of all past ages. He must in consequence be opposed by the atorld ; and in that case, if his cause rested not upon' a rock, which the united piejudices of mankind could not shake , of chat avail would be the support of a few hundred i of thousand friends? Popularity and fame were with him mere sounds, inconvenient, to listen to while men I remained in the world, and, in his mind , of no pos -1 sible value when they were removed out of it.— That no one might misunderstand what the business of the day was, lie would state that it was to consider a plan, n hich after much study and reflection, and ' 1 more than 30• years of extensive experiment, he re commended to be adopted for the relief of the work ing classes, and of society generally ; and more par ticularly from having lately spent nearly eight months in Ireland, for the purpose of investigating its situa tion, he recommended it to be immediately applied upon a large scale to that country, as the only means which could now be adopted with any hopes of suc cess, to give productive employment to the people ? and to relieve them from the evils arising from tei. gious dissensions, by removing the cause from which they all originated, and which, while it should be al lowed to remain, must continue to generate them. In order to prevent misconception, he would shortly restate the principles and arrangements of his plan. Ile submitted-Ist; That the character of man is chiefly formed by the circumstances in which he may be placed, and principally and essentially by the geo graphical circumstances of his birth. 2d, That it is therefore most to be desired that those who direct the affairs of mankind should be well informed respect ing the influence which those circumstances which they have the power to remove or replace, have over the well-being and happiness of their fellow-creatures. 3d, That one of the most unfavourable-circumstances that has ever influenced the conduct of mankind, is the notion that any individual can have merit or de merit for the particular opinions given to him. 4th, That the first step requisite to produce real virtue in society, is to withdraw that error from the human mind : and as every fact that has ever been known to to the human rate proves it to be an error, it will be true wisdom now to reject it. sth, That by its rejection the means would be immediately in our power to with draw all anger and irritation from society, and to intro duce peace, real charity and kindness throughout the world. 6th, That the chief obstacle would also be thus removed, to the combination in practice of all those circumstances which are best calculated to improve the character 'of all individuals, and are most fa vourable to the creation and enjoyment -of wealth. 7th, That the arrangements which are proposed, have been specially devised with the view to exclude what ever the past has proved to be injurious, and to in clude whatever experience has demonstrated to be beneficial. Bth, That, in consequence, it becomes necessary that the opponents of this plan should chew in what respect these practical measures are likely to fail in any of the important objects referred to. He had now also to add, that although it appeared to him to be erroneous in principle, and highly perni cious in practice, to attribute merit or to attach de merit to the opinions of individuals when the will had no power whatever in the formation of those opi nions, yet be could not regard all opinions as of equal value : he must estimate them according . to their truth or falsehood, or their consistency or inconsis tency with each other, and with all those facts with which experience had made us acquainted. It was, therefore, the opinions solely, of which he approved or disapproved : he did not condemn the individuals who had been mane to entertain them; for those he could feel only affection or compassion. And far. flier, that as the mere opinions of men could have no influence whatever upon matters of eternity, no man or set of men could, by saying that there was or that there was not a future state, establish the one or the other proposition. Nor did he think, according to the principles which he had ad vanced, that one particle more of merit or demerit belonged to the individual, whether he adopt the one or the other. To his own principles he attri buted no more merit or demerit than he did to those of other men. As a human being whose will had no power over his opinions, he could only state, with reference to this subject, that the facts impressed upon his mind compelled him to state, that after death men would eternally exist, but in what state or form he was unable, from want of additional facts, to do more than conjecture; but sure he was, that if the SUPREME RULER of the Universe were infinitely wise, powerful, and just, not one individual would exist under eternal punishment; nor was it necessary, as it appeared to him, that those intellects which had been made weak and irrational, should any longer be frightened with such an error. The time was near when the world would no longer be governed by un certain precept, but by unerring practice; and not by fear, but by love. This declaration having been made, that the world might not uselessly dispute about any supposed speculative opinions of his, which were of no more rear Value than those of any other man possessing equal experience, he would proceed to the regular business of the day, not with a desire to gain a victory over any individual or party, but with a sincere and honest intention to elicit truth, and to benefit his suffering fellow-creatures. He con cluded by stating that he had been advised to with draw the Resolutions that he )fad moved on the for suer day, and substitute en more immediately applicable to a practical r su it . He concluded by r moving the following Reso utions: 1. That, as it has now been stated by ah experienced, disin terested individual, that he hat devised new anangements, by which 1000 persons, including the usual armee of all ages, can •' . • produce by their labour, properly directed, sullicient to main = tarn themselves in cornfort,and to support two thousand ntore-- this Meeting recommends to his Majestp's Government to ad vance nut of any funds at their disposal for the employnsent bf the poor, an adequate sum or sums of money, at nor 4 per cent. interest, for the purpose of trying one experiment in Rng. land, Scotland. and Irelaud, but more especially In the latter country, on the plan proposed by Mr. Owen. upon cendition that the payment of intereat and the repayment of principol shall be se cured on the lands to be purchased,and the buildings to be erected, for the purpose of carrying such experiments into execution. 2. That his Grace the Duke of Lanster, General Sir John Doyle, and John Smith, Esq. M.P. be requested to submit the above application to his Majesty's Government. s. That a Committee be appointed to report the result of this application to the Public. 4. That the above Nobleman and Gentlemen, with the Sub scribers to the Loan for instituting the experiment at Mother well, he the Committee, with power to add to their number, and that eve im a quorum. Mr. OWEN said, that before he sat down he Wished to call the attention of the Meeting to a note which he had that morning received front an anonymous correspondent. The note contained several questions which he was requested to answer. The most import ant of these questions was one, the object of which was to ascertain whether the result of the experiment which he had tried at New Lanark had been satisfac tory, with respect to profit. It certainly was not cus tomary for manufacturers to disclose the amount of their profits, but he had no hesitation to state gene rally, that during the 24 years that the establish• mein at Lanark had existed, it had been so pro. sperotii, that after paying five per cent. half-yearly on the capital, there had uniformly been a fair li beral profit left to all the partners. He, perhaps, could not give a stronger proof of the correctness of this statement than by assuring the meeting that his partners, who of course were well acquainted with everything relating to the establishment, would have no objection to purchase his share, besides giving him a bonus for selling out. It was also material that the Meeting should be informed, that during the period that the establishment at New Lanark had been so prosperous, the workmen had laboured only 11 hours per day, whilst in other manufactories they had been compelled to work 14, 15, and in some in stances 16 hours per day—(Applause). The worthy Gentleman was about to sit down, when a note was handed to him from the body of the Meeting; after having read which, he continued his address. He was extremely happy that the note had been sent him, became it afforded him an opportunity of giving an explanation to the circumstance to which it referred —namely, a Report of the Committee for examining Schools, which had been read in the presbytery of La nark, •and which accused him of having prohibited the use of the Scriptures in the school belonging to his Society at Lanark. That fact was quite unfounded. From the commencement of the school at New La nark, the Scriptures had been regularly read in it, and he had never entertained the most distant idea of excluding them from the establishment—(4-1 plane). He wished to be clearly understood on this point. He did not refrain from withdrawing the Scriptures, because he was of opinion that they ought to be read in the school, but because the parents of the children wished them to be perused by them, and he thought that parents should be allowed to bring up their children as they pleased. His own convic tion was, that the Scriptures were not the book to put into the hands of young people. But a respect for the consciences of others prevented him from in terfering on the subject. A Gentleman named WALKER wished to know whether Mr. Owen objected to the use of machinery? Mr. Owan replied in the negative. Mr. MuDIE expressed his warm approbation of Mr. Owen's views. _ _ Mr. EVANS thought that joint stock communities, such as Mr. Owen wished to establish, could not le gally exist, unless they obtained from Parliament a corporate character, giving them power to sue and to be sued. Mr. Owen observed, that the objection which had been started by the Gentleman who spoke last had been fully considered, and it was ascertained that there were many ways in which the difficulty which he anticipated might be obviated. Mr. Rovrcaort and Mr. Bowie spoke in support of the Resolutions, and Mr. WILLS opposed them. Mr. GOURLAY merely rose for the purpose of en tering his protest, in the name of the paupers and la bourers of England, against the abominable triflings of the Meeting. After a few words from Mr. Owner, the Resolu tions were carried almost unanimously, only one per son holding up his hand against them. After passing a vote of thanks to Mr. Owen, the Meeting separated. DR.JOHNSON'aCOrraIt-notrae,BoLT-COURT, FLEET.. 1 aragEr.—The Public are respectfully informed, that Hotel-accommodation, on Boarding-house Teems, and Coffee-house cOnvenience at Bating-house charges, are there offered, by Wu. JACICSON, free Vintner, from late Walker's Hotel, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars. STRIPPIiTO Or CH I LDREN.—iesterday, two female children, one five and a half and the other four years of age, daughters of Mr. Williams, .St. John-street road, were decoyed away from their father's door by a young woman, under pretence of going to -buy cherries and gooseberries for them : a painter who was at work at an opposite house saw them, and sus pecting her intention, he followed unperceived; she took them to Northampton-square, and turned into a court in Smith -street, where sbe began to strip them ; the painter then pounced upon her, took her into cus tody, and gave her in charge to Jourdan the con stable, who searched her, and found several pawn brokers duplicates, for necklaces, beads, children's frocks, Ste. in her pocket, all of winch had been pledged on the two preceding days, and are suspected to have been stolen from chddren ; she was taken to the Police Office, Hatton•Garden, for examination, when she gave her name Jane Bane. Mr. Williams, the father of the' children attended, and stated thatl many children in the neighbourhood bad been lately robbed of their pelisses, hats, handkerchiefs, frocks, and necklaces. The prisoner was remanded till Wed nesday, to give time to make further inquiry. A melancholy accident happened at North Carlton, near Lincoln, a few days ago. A boy, about ten years of age, was employed to frighten birds from some turnip-seed, by pulling a string which was at-, cached to a long rope, having some bells upon it : it is supposed that the youth had incautiously twisted the string about hii neck, and in that state had slipped down the bank on which he stood, and thereby suf fered strangulation. • IM! NNW WATERFORD ASSIZES. Wednesday, the 22d altimo, immediately . after the LORD CHIEF JOSTICR had taken his seat, Henry De• lap, a police constable stationed at Tramore, was ar raigned, in the usual terms, for the murder of Bar tholomew Magratb, on the 1 4.thof April, at his house near Annstown, by shooting him through the head. The case proved in evidence may be thus summa rily stated :-.The deceased and others had cut and collected, on the strand at•Annstown, or Benvoy, a quantity of sea-weed for manure. The proprietor of the land (Matthew Power, Esq. of Dunhill Lodge), conceiving that it was a violation of his own exclusive right, took possession oldie sea-weed so collected.— His carts, when in the act of carrying it away, were stopped by the country people, and the manure rescued. Informations, in consequence of this rescue, were sworn against the deceased and two others, before Henry Sargent, Esq. a Magistrate for the county, residing in Waterford, who thereupon issued his warrant for their apprehension, and, with Power, the complainant, went to the police station at Tramore, to direct Mr. Hely, the Gentleman commanding the police there, to send a party to execute the warrant. It was then arranged, that the party should go out for this purpose at three o'clock the next morning; but subsequently, at nine or ten o'clock the same evening, Mr. Power, alone, called on Mr. Hely, and prevailed on him, by certain tepresentations, to let the party go out that night. According to the testimony of the latter Gentle man, about three or four o'clock in the morning, the party came back, when Delap came to witness, told him that they had demanded entrance at one of the men's houses in the King's name—that it was not granted—that they endeavoured to force open the door—that the man got out of a window, and at tempted to escape—that he called out to him in the King's name to stop; and that, as lie did not do so, and seeing him likely to escape, he (Delap) fi red at, and killed - him. Witness could not say he had se lected Delap, as he had called on him in the regular routine of duty; but considered him the fittest man that he could have employed, from long observation of his steadiness and good conduct. The CHIEF Jusrma, in summing up,- entered at length into the circumstances which, in escape, dis tinguish murder from justifiable homicide, and gene rally stated, that in the case of flight, there might be a sufficient justification for firing at the fagitive, pro vided there were no other means of apprehending him. The Learned Judge, in the course of this charge, severely animadverted on the conduct of Mr. Power; and, after considerable hesitation, the Jur! , returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The Crime Junior, after formally addressing the prisoner in the way of caution as to his futureconduct, thus proceeded I cannot, however, allow this trial to close, without again making a few observations on the conduct of some of the persons concerned in this transaction. I have already noticed the share which Mr. Power had in producing the melan choly occurrence ; I must now say, that it would have 'been much fitter that he' should have been placed at that bar than you. tcan conceive nathing more deplorable than that Gentlemen, in vindica tion of their real or supposed civil rights, should resort to such rigorous and u nw art antable proceedings against men in the humbler classes of society. lam quite convinced that this vindictive and overbearing spirit has been. oue of the principal causes of the turbulent and lawless proceedings which disturb so large a portion of some of the neighbouring collu des ; and I cannot feel surprise that it should pro duce such consequences. If persons in the higher ranks of society will lord it over their inferiors with a strong hand—if, in the assertion of their own rights, they trample upon public justice, or convert the laws, which should afford equal pro tection to rich and poor, into instruments of in justice and oppression towards the weak and power less—is it not in vain to hope that the common peo ple• will feel for them either respect or affection, or that they will refrain from endeavouring to procure for themselves by violence, that redress which the conduct of their superiors teaches them to believe is not otherwise to be obtained ? I would fain hope, however, that the circumstances of this melancholy case, coupled with those of a civil action tried-in this Court on the first day of these Assizes, will produce some effect in putting an end to these petty oppres sions—l trust that they will long be remembered by the Gentlemen of this county, and that they will im press upon their minds a lesson never to be forgotten ; and I sincerely hope that it may never again he the duty of any Judge to denounce from this Bench such mischievous proceedings as have been developed in these instances." ItTe HA/IBOUR.—The important cause between the Commissioners of . Rye Harbour and the Commis sioners of Sewers, lame on to be tried, as an issue from the Court of Chancery, at the Croydon Assizes, just ended. It lasted no less than three days, and the Court was crowded, so great was the interest excited with regard to the result, on 'ccount of the immense property throughout the country that will be affected by the decision. It Was tried before Mr. Baron GRAHAM and a Special Jury, whose verdict was as follows:-.. ,, The Jurors are of opinion that the sluice as at present erected and used is a nuisance, but would not be so, if such alterations are made as would ad mit a greater flux and reflux of the water, and re move the impediments to the 'passage of vessels oc casioned by the present position of the transom beam." The Judge refused to accept the verdict in that shape, but the Jury would not alter it. The decision is consi dered favourable to theComanissioners of the Harbour. EXECUTION ON JAN 2 GRIFTIN.—BRRWICK, JUL, 26.—This day the sentence of the law was carried into execution. The unhappy woman (convicted of having murdered her husband), was brooghtfrom the jail about three o'clock, in a cart, seated on a chair .covered with black cloth. She was decently dressed 1 in black, and seemed much composed, and even pre pared to meet her awful fate. On arriving at the place of execution, she ascended the scaffold (which 'was erected a little way out of Bersiick, where the roads separate) wittra firm step. After which she stood for a few minutes in an attitude of supplica tion, and then dropped her glove as a signal, when the executioner, who had arrived from Edinburgh on the preceding evening, instantly launched her into eternity. As an execution had not taken place in Berwick for a very long period, an immense con course of people were attracted from all quarters. FIAIITESITV INTELLIGENCE. ECCLESIASTICAL ntostoTto)ss. The Rev. Francis Bedford, M.A. Rector of D-lchford, has been presented to the valuable Living of South Ormsby, with Ketsby, Calceby, and Driby, annexed, in the county of Lincoln. The Bishop of Lincoln has conferred upon the Rev. Edol.rd Edwards, M.A. of Huntingdon, the Ftehend or Canonry ,c Lei-,;hton Bromswold, in the Cathedral Church of Lincoln, v.:. cant by the death of the Rev. Thomas Cowper. • The Rev. Henry Rycroft, M.A. has been collated to the carage of Mumby, in Lincolnshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. George Hogarth, and in the gift of the Bishop of Lincoln. The Rev. George Glover, \I. A. has been collated by the Bi shop of Norwich to the Archdeaconry of SodLury, vacated by the death of Archdeacon Gooch. The Rev. Robert Zathurst, M.A. is appointed Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, by the Bishop of Norwioi, and Official of the Archdeaconry of Suffolk, by Archdeacon Berners. The Lord Bishop of Hereford has been pleated to appoint the Reverend Frederick Twisleton ' S. C. I. Fellow of New C c l. lege, Oxford, to be one of his Lordship's dom:eic ettayiatns. The Rev. W. blolineux . M. A. and Perpetual Tneumbent ef the Curacies of Acton and Bednall, Staffordshire has been prer sented to the valuable Vicarage of Sheriff Fiala:Shropshire. Rev. John Symonds, to the Rectory of Wilco:, Wilts. The Rev. Nicholas Form has been appointed Ilomtn Gstll6: Ile Parish Priest of Lismore, in the room of the Very Arr. Orr Garrett Connolly, translated to Dungarvan. The accident of the overturning the Royal Sove reign coach, near Leamington, by which _Mr. ATTER- - BURY and the coachman were killed, was attended by several extraordinary circumstances, which, in a lect enlightened age, might be regat dcd as the warnings of PROVIDENCE. On the Sunday preceding, Mr. At rEanony preached a particularly impressive Sermon in the Church of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford, of which he was Vicar: his text was from the 38th Chapter of Isaiah, v. " le Set Mine henesc in order : for thou shalt die, and not livc." It appears, moreover, that the box seat had been taken at. Leamington by ano ther passenger, who chose to walk forwards out of the town; but Mr. ATTERBURY, who had ordered his place to be booked at Birmingham, conceiving him self entitled to the priority of choice, removed the coat spread'on the box, and seated himself in the fa vourite place. When the coach ore, took the other gentleman, a dispute naturally ensued on the sub ject, in which words ran high—both contending for the seat of death to within a few yards of the fatal spot. This fact was ment;oned in Oxford by the gen tleman himself. who had claimed the box from the unfortunate sufferer. It is said that a carter on the toad observed that the wheel was coming off, and hallooed to the coachman, but he was not heard. BIRTHS. Wednesday, at Thornton Heath, near Croydon, the wife of Joseph Reid, Esq. of a son. At Usdoo, county of Tyrone, the Lady of the Hon. Andrew Godfrey Stuart, of a son. The Lady of Captain Douglas, R.N. of a son. MARRIED. Rev. W. P. Bagshaw, of Poleshill, to Anne, daughter of the late Rev. J. Sutton, Vicar of Weekley, Northamptonshire. Thursday, at Warminster, George Harvey Goodwin, Esq. of Queen's College, to F.mily, second daughter of the Rev. Dr. Rowlandson, Vicar of Warminster. At Raheny Church, the Hon. and Rev. George Gore, Dela of Killala, and Rector of Raheny, to Mrs. Isaac, widow of the late Thomas Banbury Isaac, of Hollywood House, in the coun:y of Down, Esq. Thursday sennight, at Killinick Church, Sir Garrett NevWe, to Elfrida, youngest daughter of Joshua Nunn, Esq. of St. Mar i garet's, county of Wexford. July 29, at Hambleden, the Rev. Philip Nicholas Shank worth, D.D. Warden of New College, Oxford, to Emma Mar tha, second daughter of the late George Welch, Esq. of High Leek, Lsneashire, July 20, at Peterhead, Mr. Ogilvie Will, Postmaster, to Mai% garet, eldest daughter of George Gordon, Esq. of Auchleuchrim ITET3 - . Tuesday, in consequence ofbeing thrown from a gig, Mr. Steward, for many years a respectable builder in Plymouth. At the Rectory of Kiltallagh, county of Kerry, of fever, is her loth year, Catherine Georgiana, daughter of the Rev. lobe Murphy. . At sea, on his passage from Sunderland to America, en baud the Wev;tley, Capt. Anderson, Mr. Win. Elstots,. of Arbor wearmouth, aged 21. Wednesday se'nnight„ at Annan, Mr. Adam Rope, RDAS teacher in the Academy there. Of the yellow fever, after a few days illness, the Rev. Harry Palmer, second Chaplain of the Colony of Sierra Leone. June 10, at New Milford, near Hackensack, New Jivwy,. Mr. Robert Ogillsy, and Mrs. Mary Ann Ogilby, bis wife. Sie had been long confined by a painful and lingering illness, while a Ridden attack of bilious fever summoned him from time m eternity. He survived her but ten minutes, and one grave rr calved at the same time the remains of both. Tuesday, at Dumfries, after a short illness, Mr. Joseph Son. printer, English-street, in the 29th year of his age. His wink disposition, and uniform rectitude of conduct, combined MA cheerful and unaffected goodness of heart, greatly endeared Ids to an ettenuve circle of acquaintance- and the recollection et his virtues will be l ong an d f on dly cherished in the watery If his deeply afflicted relatives and sorrowing friends. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL ARK E Ttalle Beef 44.1 to 3s 4d Vaal 14441414 1 0i Mutton.. ...... 2s 41 to 3s 4d Perk Ys, Wto II Si Lamb - Sts ltd to is Od. PRICE OF CANDLES--From TillowCistridier — TW Candles, per doz. Ss 6d—Moulds, 10$ 04; 1 14 -Per dPI I P allowed for ready money. - *ICET, AUGUST 1- - -4...el au d 471. Qd. to (So 44 COAL INA Newcastle 375. Od. to Us. COUNTRY MARRRTS. Ozvono ' JULY 26.—Wheat 7s. 9d. a bushel • Mt Field a half-peck loaf (household) 18.4 d. 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