The Sun. — London, England, 1842-05-19 00:00:00

ruiP SUN', LONDON, Til UR SD.A.Y EVIWING, MAY 19, 1842, CELEBRATION OF THE BiltTll- DAY U!•' I.:.(ydEuT oWi•:N, AT 11, , . 11 I.kN rATI-1 OE THE R .‘"l' 1 SCK;LE Y. AT clt • %V 001), HANTS.. 1, b.! yct. ,Viry =CIIO3I ' i 111 if if ILtU:! Sys- 1 1 ,1ild also be F , i - ipPi•i(ir 11 lir. 1:1.. , ::! , !Lc> .•11(1 pm lee of the business in whieli . they ire to t.,:e a part, Jr to lead in the. instruction of others ; in order that ill the affairs of the Society may exhibit the like su ?eriority over the old world in practice ; that the sys tem possesses in principle. If we thus proceed for a short period, it will become palpable to all that the eld world has been hitherto.in the shell of ignorance ; that it has scarcely vet made a speck of perforation to idmit a ray of knowledge within, to dispel some of 'he wild conjectures of a crude imagination at work in darkness, before the true light of science, to be ob s•ained only from long experience, could enter. The world Pies hitherto existed within an atmosphere of Irror and falsehood—it is now to be born again, and :a enter upon a new life of truth. The results of this change will appear miraculous to the members of the Ad world; and they will stand astounded when they 'tall witness them. The varied. madness of party ;pirit, of religious fury, of political wars, and of corn nercial contests, will then appear in all their hideous !orms, in their naked characters; and men will won ler that they could have been kept in the shell of ignorance so long, and held in the bondage of so much ;111sehood and misery. Some parties have supposed -hat the new world could not support itself in con zest with the old. Do these parties understand the subject about which they thus hastily express such in opinion ? Do they know what old society , is, or what the new will be ? Are they at all conscious of the incalculable waste and mis-application of capi tal, time, skill, and labour in every department of the business of life, in old society ? Are they in any degree aware of the extraordinary economy which the new system will exhibit, by a direct application of the eapital, skill, and labour of society to produce the most valuable wealth, and to distribute it in the most advantageous manner—to form a superior character for all men and women, and to govern them according, to the laws of their nature ? Are they aware that by this change there will he, in the common language of commerce, a saving of full seventy-five per cent. be tween the two systems in favour of the new ; besides that, the old possesses a large proportion of inferior wealth, while in the new all will be superior qualities ? Can these parties, in their present state, expand their minds to a new condition of human affairs, when it will be ascertained, beyond the shadow of doubt, that all the professions with all their present expenditures may be gradually most beneficially superseded—that other measures may be adopted to terminate any ne cessity for standing armies or warlike navies, and yet, that every country shall be far better protected from enemies than anylas ever been, or can be, under the irrational system in which all are now so miserably in volved? Have these parties ever estimated the immense loss to society arising from a division of interests, com pared with an union of interests—from individual and national competitions and contests—from the present System of wasting valuable materials to produce in ferior articles and fabrics—from the grossly erroneous systems of training and educating the human race, physically, mentally, morally, and practically—from the wasteful, most injurious, and demoralizing system of distributing the expensively-created inferior wealth, with which society is so unwisely deluged—from governing the population of the world by force and fraud—and from carrying on all the affairs of life, and the whole intercourse of society under a system of error, which compels to universal falsehood ? Those who cannot comprehend these matters, and perceive the erroneous difference between the expense, waste, and useless extravagance of the present system, com pared with the wise economy in every department of life in the new, can have no clear or comprehensive views of society, nor be vet prepared to take an active part in the general affairs of a rational system for forming the character, and employing, and govern ing mankind. But rejoice with me, my friends ; the day has at length arrived when the whole truth re specting man may lie openly declared to the world, and when measures may be introduced in accordance with it which shall compel future generations to be ! come, from their births, superior beings, and to en joy a rational and, therefore, most happy state of ex istence, essentially improving and advancing, without retrogression, through every succeeding generation. All now required is, that we be true to ourselves and to the magnificent and glorious cause which we have undertaken to emancipate the human race from the thraldom and bondage of the force, fraud, and universal deception by which alone the world has hitherto been governed. The utmost unanimity has hitherto pervaded the pro ceedings of the Congress, and from the increase in the vigour of the Society, and union of action which has taken place during the past year ; and the progress which has been made in the improvement of the So ciety's property, and in the erection of buildings upon it, the prospects of future progress are most pro mising. A system of unity, too, has been adopted throughout the general and local government, and proceedings of the Society, which has greatly in creased the efficiency of its operations. THE DINNER. The tables were laid on the beautiful lawn in front of the new building, called " Harmony Hall," and at ;3 p.m. about 100 members and friends sat down to dinner. A band of music was in attendance. After dinner the President, desiring to dispense with the usual mere personal compliments passed upon such ' occasions, proceeded to propose a series of sntinnents. He commenced by observin g — It has long been my intention that this should not be an ordinary day, and those who have narrowly in • spected the north end of the new buildings will have discovered some letters upon it; they are " C. of M.," which means the. commencement of the Millenium, which has begun to-day ;, and as in the Millenium the language of truth will alone be spoken, we must 'ommence now in that spirit. I have now to propose ller Majesty—his Royal Highness Prince Albert —with all the memhers of the Royal Family ; . and may her Majesty's reign be long and happy in pro portion as she cordially assists to improve the cux- RICTER and CONDITION of all her subjects, as justice requires, without partiality to any class, sect, or party, throughout her Majesty's extended dominions." It :3 usual on these occasions (continued Mr. Owen) to be complimentary, without. there .being any mean ing in those compliments, but I hope we shall hence 'orth adhere to the language only which best ex- . :messes our thoughts and feelings. The toast was received standing, and with musical honours. Mr. OWEN, again rising, said, the next toast I have to submit to you is—" The Governments of the world ; May they soon be relieved from :he bondage of the priesthood, and perceive the advantages to be obtained by, and, secured to, all parties by the abandonment of the old, ignorant, system of governing by force and fraud, which have nfiicted such enormous evils upon society ; and may hey be induced to adopt the rational system of truth Ind justice, based on the fact that the character of man is formed for him ; a system which will en iure to all,—knowledge, permanent - prosperity, and . lapviness." the next toast the Climn.)tAN proposed was— The national deliberative assemblies of all those ottntries which call themselves civilized ; and may heir future deliberations be based on the knowledge lerived from facts, and be productive of the truth ind happine ,, s which • such knowledge .can alone give ! - .,0 the inhabitants of any country; and .May they cease to be influenced by local prejudices, supersti : - 'Lions, or interests, but may their sole objects become the prosperity, well-being, and happiness of allnaticnis." ThiS toast having been drank, The CI !AIRMAN said, I will next propose to you. -L- The Army and Navy ; and may they soon lx mployed to produce peace, plenty, and harmony hroughout society, instead of being directed to min , - ler and plunder the people of distant countries." En submitting this toast the Chairman said : Ile armies and the navies of the world are at the yesent moment under the best training to form Coni nunities in the shortest possible time, and I hope the dme is not far distant when the governments having :he direction of those armies and navies, will direct ;hem to produce the plenty and the harmony to which se have referred. It will he their interest to do so, oid I hope that the population of all those countries will speedily induce them to feel that it is their duty, Ind will be for' their advantage so to employ them. (Hear, and cheers.) Mr. FLEMING observed, that since the year 1830 the standing armies of Europe had cost 2,000,000,0001. sterling. The thought would naturally arise —had that efficient organization and ample sum been applied in the manner proposed. by their Chairman, what improvement might not have been.effected in the con dition of society at the present time ?. The next toast the CIINIRMAN proposed was—" The World Priesthood of the ; and . may they speedily be placed under circumstances to enable them to discover 'that it is their interest to abandon all domination over the human mind, and to acquire and teach useful knowledge, instead of useless and most injurious superstitions." The CHAIRMAN said, as a friend near him had just asked for a glass of water, it appeared to him a good opportunity to state their belief that the greatest evils of past society had arisen . from intemperance_ (Hear, hear)—from intemperance in eating and drink ing. We are (said he) doing all we can to introduce a system of temperance in all things, well knowingthat the point of perfection in human existence will be obtained only when we shall be trained to exercise all our appetites and feelings temperately, and when they shall all be exercised, and none be dormant. We should have had wine, perhaps, upon the table to-day, but if we are to preach temperance to our branches, and to all the members of those branches, we deem it unjust, impolitic, •and erroneous for us to show a contrary example to that which we teach. — (Hear.) He, therefore, trusted that the guests who had come from a distance, awl who had been in the On the 14th day .a May, being the anniversary of the birth-day of Raised Owen, on which he com pleted kis 7 1st year, a dinner and ball were given at Queenwood, near Stockbridge, Hants. the festival WAS attended by members and friends of the Socialists' Society , from all parts of the United Kingdom, in addition to the Dele gates from the branches of the S o ciety, as sembled in Congress, whose sittings commenced on -Monday, the 9th day of May. ThiS Congress is the first that has been held on the Society's estate, and the seventh annual Congress of the Society. It was opened by Mr. Owen, the President of the Society, in the splendid and extensive new building lately erect-ad, on which occasion he delivered the Following address to the Delegates : Friends - and Associates,—A new era commences this day in the history of the wsrld. The old System, base:l oe error, which has continually produced false hco 1, fraud, and force, and by which alone the affairs ofenankind have been to this period governed, is now to be superseded by the commencement of a new system hissed on truth, which will produce, as it gradually advances, peace, charity, and love; and by which alone the character 'of man will he formed from his birth, an ultimately the population of the world will be governed. It is this change from a universal system of falsehood to a universal system of truth, which can alone produce the long-expected and ar dently-desired period of happiness to the human race, which has been predicted under the name of the Millenium, but now better named the Rational Fy item of Society. here, in this place, atethis period,. is the seed of truth to be sown, from which in due season Will arise this Rational System, which will establish, in practice,. the peace, charity, and love, that will for ever insure union, an advance of knpsvledge, arta a continued increase of happiness to tlfe human race. . Here, upon this estate , are all . the a pp liances necessary, when duly combined and properly directed in action, to commence the Millennium, or form the nucleus of a Rational System of Society ee-- a system which shall rapidly, by its manifest superiority over the e xistin g irrational system, spread through all the nations of the world. We have met to unite these applianees, to form this nucleus, to prepare for this Millennium ; that the Rational System may immediately commence, and with the least loss of time spread from this favoured district, through all lands, and among all people, until • ignorance, disunion, poverty, crime, and misery, shall he unknown, and the inhabitants of the earth shall become, and remain, RA.TIONAL BEINGS; exhibiting knowledge, union, charity, peace, and love in all their conduct. You are come to see these appliances, to learn their value, to estimate their power, and to aid. in preparing this nucleus of a new world, and commencement of the Millennium. You have the greatest task to perform that men have ever yet accomplished. You have to undergo a regeneration of mind, manners, and con duct, in order that you may be born again into a new world of truth, in which all things must be made consistent, and all be taught to think, to feel e and to act, rationally. Those who are not prepared for this change, can be of no service in'tke great cause which the Society has undertaken ; and the aid of those who cannot now assist to advance this cause, can, be of no • use at this stage of the Society's proceedings. To understand what you are about to undertake, you have to abandon all old notions, mariners, language, and conduct—to acquire a new spirit, new mind, new feelings, and a new mode of applying all your powers. In fact,. it becomes necessary that the dark glass, through which alone you have hitherto seen all things, should be now withdrawn, that you may be permitted, for the first time, to see the extent of the errors in which all have hitherto been involved, and the only possible means by which -you and the inha bitants of the earth can be enabled to escape from them. The chief business of this Congress will be, then, to ascertain these errors, the causes of them, and their permanent remedies ; and to proceed vigorously to work to apply those remedies to practice. These errors, fortunately for the world, have now been dis covered ; they are ignorance of human nature ; the right mode of forming the human character ; and of creating a rational state of society. The per manent remedies are—to promulgate a knowledge of human nature ; to give a superior character to all the people ; and to create for them a Rational Sys tem of Society. It will he the business of this Congress to devise the means to enable the Society to acquire a knowledge of human nature _show to give a superior character to the people— and how to create a Rational System of Society, in order that the nucleus of it may be immediately con menced in this place. 'to commence this new state of existence there must be the means to produce food, permanently by the parties who are to form the nucleus. There must he land, with the kind of soil, water, and climate, proper for the purpose. These are secure on the farms now in, or to come into, our possession. There must he dwelling e to accommodate these parties ; such dwel lings arc fir advanced or in preparation. The land must 'be laill out to unite the means of high cultivation and beauty of scenery., 'This has already been done to some extent, or is in preparation. The parties who corn= 'thence the nucleus must have peculiar qualities fitted fur the important task which they will have to per form. They must, have habits, minds, and manners capable of being speedily formed into members of a eaT o rmal School, that they may be easily taught them safes, and .trained soon to teach others. They must have activity of mind and body ; and judgment and experience to usi:lerstand the thoughts and feelings formed for the various' classes in old society, and to know how, without unnecesearily hurting these feel ings, or ignorantly opposing these errors and preju - diees, to assist, gradually, to chan g e these evils of the old system into r ational thoughts, feelings, and con duct. In fact, they must he individuals selected with care from each class, who shall he the hest prepared to to assist in forming the nucleus, or Normal School of the Rational System of Society. And the success of your Tolerations here will entirely depend upon the Judi dieious choice and selection of these . individuals who will have a task to perform never yet executed by men and women. They must, abandon, at once, at th? vulgar, notions- of aristocracy and democracy. Mer or women imbued with either of these old' notions o' an old irrational world are not yet prepared for arational . state of soeiety. Witness the amount of nonsense which these parties. talk in both houses of Par . liament, and the state to which both parties have :aided to reduce the minds, morals, and condition, o: the population 'of these Islands. 'They . must also hi prepared to abandon all the errors of superstition miising from the supposition that man is bad hy na ture—forisis himself physically, mentally, and morally to be what he is—that he can believe or disbelieve lore or hate, like or dislike, at his pleasure—or that any one , can have merit or de.nerit, or deserve re ward or punishment from man, for any of these instincts of human natuse or inherent qualities liamanity. They must he enabled steadily and cal ml' to olaarve the present ignorance and prejudice of oh soeiety, to pity those who are now afflicted wit) tha.m, and to do as little harm to them, and as mud go:el, as our onward progress to the speedy attain ment of the, superiority . and .happiness of the new state of society will admit. As man has been, is now, -.. :and ever must be, the creature of his surrounding - circumstances ; and as the character of the children who cure to be trained in this nucleus, is as much as under imperfect circumstances is practicable—to entith them to the name of rational beings; they must be, to the greatest extent possible, surrounded by in dividuals, in every department, who can,by their lan guage, manner, and conduct' exhibit examples before then' of that which it is desirable they should acquire. ,it iro true there will be some difficulty in obtainin ,, tulen and women with these qualifications from any o the existing classes, now or for some time to come hut great care must be taken to obtain the nearest sipproximatio to the qualifications required for th( beliefit of the n children, and the speedy success of ow ulterior measures ; yet, as children must be brought up with the least delay in the principle, look, and lan cage of truth, those who form fhissiiigular nucleus for ' the new World, about to commence 1)4- our proceedings. on all occa,sions, the language „mast be prepared to sp eak, ssf tiuth or of nature, i ns t e ad of the present language ,of falsehood, opposed to nature, and in accordance with man's imaginary n otions of free - wi l l , by whieli all endeavuur to deceive all. Without the adoption of this rational practice, society can never be made t • • become virtuous, superior, rational, or happy. Tlk ae saties i , therefore, who are to form th is nucleus, if it is to be successful, must possess in , inds of sufficient - goodness, and power, and tact, to, hear all their de " fits spoken of- as though they , were the defects of Other parties, and to speak to their associates of their alefeeSs, in language of mildness, kindness, and sin cerity, a ni,nevet of blame; but always with the view to assist the rties to overcome those qualities which tend to make ttein less beloved, and therefore less useful in assisting speedily to change this old immoral world into 's, terrestrial paradise, for the benefit of all its inhabitants of every clime and colour. Until this practice shall commence in all sincerity, and shall, obtain as the unvar y ing habit of the members of the n ucleus, and in order .to exhibit.in practice the innu • m ei •ftl:le, nay, endless lismefits to be derived from it, the advantages of the RATiO'NAI O SYSTEM OF SOCIETY must re •main unknown and misunderstood, and virtue. as will be a senseless and useless term, to cover a ssorance and folly of those wh o have been hith t e he rt.: 77 tra ined 501ec1.,7 in error, under the name of wisdom and a Rational Sys temyen-or action, goodness. t the nucleus to create .. iftieehood, in look, word, of Society, must be altogeatetAlbandoned. No real progress in be' ma& without this essentialchange in .system can . , • in the fundamental principle and practice of society, and those, who are not papered to commence this practice on tile knowledge Of the principle on which . . ..i i.c wine, w , eild ex. , :use the exchz.::.);-) l that their convictions and feelings are instincts of thei. of it for t te, - e,k,otts fstate.l, but any partic - • - e liature, and which they mast have, a progress will welcome to a, much water as they. please:L-0.4'1 , 0i • ~E , m ade which will astonish all. I will conclude by ter and cheers.) -- saying, may , it be speedily and universally adopted, The next• toast proposed by the Cuaramax was l i and may society determine soon to well form e ver y ::The Legal and Medical Professions ; m ay the I man and every woman physically, mentally, morally, 1 people soon discover the error in whic h the y are and p ractically. This is all we want of society, and, founded—the injury which they suffer from them ; and my friends, society can do this , and do it effectually ; it may every one of these now worn-out and worse than ' has all the means, and all the appliances that useless trades, be speedily placed in a condition to can be required at this moment to regenerate the effect more good to society, and themselves to derive world. from it much more respect, prosperity, and happi- The next toast proposed by the CHAIRMAN was—" The ness." Mr. Owen then said, I -hold it, my friends, Members of the Congress of 1842 ; and may they prepare that all the professions are mere professions :that they the way to remove from society ignorance, poverty, and are based upon an error which pervades all of t hem, division ; and ma y their spirit of charity, kindness, and and which error prevents them from doing that good forbearance be adopted by all other deliberative assem to society, which I hope will now be effected in a short blies." I have before stated that I have scarcely ever time. If the capital which is expended in teaching before met with anything of a more cheering descrip young people these professions of insincerity, mystery, tion, or that is more soothing to my spirit—if indeed and deception, were employed to give occupation to my mind required any soothing—than to have sat in those individuals who are now unemployed, and those this Congress and . heard the very important mea parties themselves were better employed than they sures brought forward and discussed in the manner now are, the wealth a the world would be increased that they have been, and I believe that up to this time to an enormous extent ; the sincerity of the world every one of the resolutions have been passed unani would be greatly increased, and the general happi- mously ; nor have I seen, in a single instance, an indi ness would be increased also. I hope, therefore, that cation of anything that could be construed into a these systems of mystery and deception will come to manifestation of the bad spirit of the old world. Go a speedy termination. en, my friends, in this cause—complete your unity, and The CHAIRMAN next gave-'—" The true cultivation you will triumph over all the opposition that can of all the human faculties; and may society soon be brought against you. Your success is certain; make arrangements for the due exercise of all of there is nothing that has been required for them at the proper period of life ; and may some time past, except the unity which nature, well trained and highly cultivated •in has been so beautifully and . so admirably each individual, be our future guide to knowledge commenced on this occasion. May it pervade all your and happiness, instead of the far worse than useless future proceedings in this Congress. May your sitting teaching and preaching ,of the priesthood of the terminate in the same spirit, and may each Delegate world." , again convey it to each branch , and may they spread This having been responded to, it through the several districts, until it shall pervade The CHAIRMAN rose and said, the next senti- the entire earth.—(Cheers.) ment I have to• propose is—" The production and The CHAIRMAN, after some time said, I now give distribution of wealth ; may they . speedily be you—" The Central Board ; may all their future arranged to abundantly supply the inhabitants of proceedings be as successful in promoting the sub all countries, without inducements to deteriorate its stantial interests of the Society, as they have been qualities, or the necessity to continue the demo- during the last year; and may their example of disin ralizing practice of endeavouring to buy , it ) terestedness and industry be adopted by all other cheap, and sell it dear , " I think (sa id Mr. executive bodies." My friends said Mr. Owen), Owen) we have investigated this subject, so far you know long since that I have had but one idea. as to be able to say with con fidence, th a t there will be I have explained part of it to-night, but if I were no difficulty whatever in making arrangements, to go on explaining the whole of it, I should detain to produce with ease and pleasure, wealth abundantly you here a very long time ; besides, I must reserve to supply all the inhabitants of the earth ; nor will part of that idea for future occasions. I will, there there be greater difficulty in making other arrangements fore, call on our Vice-President, Mr. Travis , to to distribute that wealth after it has been created, in speak to this toast. such a manner as that there will be no demoralize- Mr. TRAVIS expressed the pleasure he felt in re tion in its possessors, and that the necessity for buy- sponding to the sentiment. With respect to the suc ing cheap and selling dear will entirely cease. I cess which had attended the exertions of the Central have been compelled, long since, to entertain the Board, he was sure he spoke the sentiments of those opinion, that so long as it is necessary for indi- with whom he was associated, when he said that it viduals to be trained and practised in the art of buy- was altogether attributable to the individual who pre.- ing cheap and selling dear, it is only a waste of sided over the Board and the Society at large.— words to. talk about honesty or about virtue ; •and, (Cheers.) The Board had endeavoured, so far as therefore, until arrangements shall be made to en- their humble abilities enabled them, to carry out able the population of all countries to distribute the his wishes ; and he (Mr. Travis) thought the wealth after it has been produced, without these de- friends then assembled would well understand moralizing effects, we cannot expect to attain that • that by so doing, they would . most effectually pro state of society to which we all so confidently look mote the realisation of the objects they had in view. forward. The success which had attended the exertions of the After the lapse of a few minutes, the CHAIRMAN Central Board were but the first commencement of rose and said—Our next sentiment is one of as much the great results which would follow. The Chairman importance to society as any that can be brought had referred to the disinterestedness with which the forward. That which I am going to ask for has exertions of the Central Board had been accom never yet existed, and while the principles upon panied. On this subject, he (Mr. Travis) could . which society has been based shall continue to only say, that the gratificati on derived from assisting he 'supported by the authorities of the world, it never such a man in so great and glorious a work as the can be obtained. But so soon as the opinions and establishment of true knowledge and universal hap notions upon which old society has been based shall piness, instead of the false principles, and consequent be abandoned, and the true principles of society incalculable evils and misery of the present state of adopted, there will be no difficulty in its attainment. society, was a" reward far beyond all riches and any It is— honour that the world could bestow. " The union of all parties for the benefit of all." The Cumtpleat next gave " The branches of the There is (continued Mr. Owen) but one interest Rational Society, and may they speedily acquire a throughout the whole of society; and so soon correct and extended knowledge of the system of as we shall be one in thought with reference which they profess themselves to be members?' to our own nature and the interests of so- Mr. MINT, of London, responded, and briefly ex ciety at large, we shall discover that there is but pressed the pleasure he experien ced at meeting -those one interest, and we shall also know how to act in accordance with it. I have been more assembled that day. The Society was , he be li e ved, now in a more healthy condition than it had ever delighted than I can find • expression for, been, and from the reports which • the Delegates had with observing the union among the Dele- given in that Congress, it was clearly evident that the gates met at the present Congress. There is no- excellent spirit which had pervaded the branches was thing that could be more gratifying to me than to see the advance of mind that is now going on , and , I attributable to the adoption of the paternal. form of government which their President had recommended. hope, that this feeling which is at present but as a little Mr. HIGGINBOTTOM, of Manchester, also briefly grain of mustard seed, will extend wider and wider replied, and bore testimony to the confidence, spirit until the spirit of union shall not only cover this nation, of determination, and zeal which was manifested by but all the nations of the earth. the branches that had come under his observation. The CHAIRMAN next said, the sentiment lam now The next toast proposed was—" The Missionaries going to propose is—" The Rational System of So- —increasing success to their future labours." In ciety. ' " What r many parties may say, "is not that pro p os i n g it, the Chairman said, he trusted that which we have lived under hitherto, a rational system they would still proceed onward , conqueri n g and to of society ?" No, my friends ; nothing in the slightest conquer. He would call upon Mr. Lloyd Jones to degree approaching to it. There never has been any- speak to the sentiment. thing in the world that deserves the name of " rationa ," Mr. LLOYD JONEs said, Mr. President and friends, and when we come to examine what has passed and I may state, although I speak to this toast as a mis what is, we shall have no difficulty in discovering the sionary, that I was a Socialist before I was a mis reason why nothing has hitherto been rational. All you sionary, and that nothing ever gave me so much who are acquainted with the computation of numbers, be well aware, that if we had taken it into our pleasure, either as a missionary or as a private mem must her of this Society, as being instrumental in making 1 heads that one and one made three, and not two, and the views we all hold, known to t he p ublic. if we had made all our calculations upon that idea , It is now four years since the missionaries were first for hundreds and hundreds of years, so soon as we appointed. At that time the public mind had not been discovered that one and one did not make three, but aroused in any great degree to a sense of the import two, that moment we should have discovered that all ante o f the principles that you have promulgated. I those calculationshad been made on. erroneous suppo- do not, however, attribute the success since that time sitions, and were therefore erroneous. All institu- so much to the endeavours of the missionaries, with tions, governments, laws, and religions of every de- Mr. Owen himself at • their head, as - the leading scription, are made upon the supposition that every missionary, or to any peculiar powers possessed by individual forms himself to be what he is ; but the them, as I do to the truth and force of the truth is that no man or woman ever formed them- principles which they had to announce to the public. selves to be what they are. We were originally I t is quite true, that in public agitations for evils, formed by that creating power of the universe that though they may be in some degree successful, owing brings all things into existence, and subsequently to the inflammatory speeches of demagogues, or. those by the arrangements of society acting upon us who arouse the passions of the people—it is quite as soon as we were born. Having made this true, that, if the evils which they speak of ha d not an discovery, we are confident in asserting that existence, the public could not be excited in relation to nothing in society could have been rational. Our Society is formed with a view of corn- them ; so, if the good was not in our principle s, the p ublic could not be brought to see it by any eloquence mencing a rational system, and it can only be corn menced on the distinct knowledge, that whatever may or any power we possess. Now, however , the p ublic are becoming awake to a knowledge of these princi be the character of any individual, that character has been formed for him. But the most delightful con- pies, and are discovering their truth, their beauty , a nd their potency for the accomplishment of good ; they sideration is, the discovery that society has the full are rallying around your standard, and knowing power of well or ill framing the physical, the intellec - you are the oldest veteran in the cause, the originator tual, the moral, and the practical character of every and first promulgator of them, they have every individual. Yes, my friends, I am prepared to state, confidence in you, and, in the spirit of that and to demonstrate that society possesses within confidence, they are giving you that assistance which itself—sirhen it shall understand its own powers, and is enabling you to realise what you have long hoped how to apply that power—the means of making all and wished for, before you pass away from among the future generations far superior to any of us of the us. I know, that to be instrumental, even as the present generation. Nay, so enormous is this least of such a body, in working such a change as power of creation of character in society, that we are bringing about, is• something for a man to I should be extremely disappointed when our pride himself upon. In perusing the histories of schools are fully , established, if our children, Greece or Rome, and reading the glorious achieve of ten years of •age, will not be far superior to ments of those who perished at Marathon or what the most esteemed philosopher ever yet conceived Thermopylae, the school-boy pauses and exclaims — possible. We hare said that to-day was the first day " Oh, that I had been one of these." I know, Sir, of the Millenium, or a state of sock Sy such as is that when we have all passed away, those whom you generally described as the Millenium. The difference have spoken of as the parties who are to possess such between that which we. now contemplate, and what happiness, as we cannot even at all form any ade has been contemplated, is, that the Milleoium was guide idea of—l believe that even these would give only to continue for a thousand years, but this system, away all their happiness to have been partakers in which commences substantially this day, if I mistake the glorious struggle in which we are engaged at not, will proceed onwards, step bv step, without star or retrogression, and that to endless time there shall present moment ; and whatever happ iness they may enjoy, be a positive and substantial improvement in every are engaged' I 'believe that the happiness w e feel, who in the present stru g gle, may be equalled , },veneration. Where are we now — where has the know but it n ever ca n be surpassed. I indulge a hope, ledge of the world left 'us at this moment ? Great Britain is esteemed the most advanced of the na tions of then, that what we have begun will be speed il y con summated, and it is my ardent wish that you, Sir, the world, the most powerful, the most enlightened, instead of dying as the warrior who the most adventurous. It takes the lead in war " With dying hand above his head, and in peace, and yet her millions are existing • shook the fragment of his blade, in gross ignorance; her millions are starving; And shouted, Victory," • and this ignorance and this starvation both will experience the most serene tranquillity, knowing, exist at the moment when we are full charged with that instead of a nation having been destroyed, the all the means of giving the greatest enlightenment to world will have been blessed.—(Cheers.) every individual, and surrounding all with we alth The CHAIRMAN next p ro p osed the health of " Those far beyond their desire to consume. Then, my friends, who have suffered persecution in the cause of truth ; am I not right in saying,'that, Sys- and when the Rational may the happiness to be derived from the tern shall be introduced, in one year the children of in tro duction of the R ation al Sy stem s p eedil y be ten years of age shall advance the whole of society conic their rich reward." I think (said Mr. Owen) I tier beyond the point to which we have yet attained ? ma y Congratulate the Society on the small extent to It is, therefore, that I have placed b e f o re you thi s which these persecutions have been experienced from impel-tent sentiment,—"The Rational System of So- the commencement. When the idea first occurred •ciety; and may it henceforth make most rapid strides to me, and when I saw the value and importance throughout this country and the world."—(Cheers.) , of the great fundamental principle upon which our The CHAIRMAN, again rising, said—Our last senti- Society is based ; when I reflected upon the complicit meat was "The Rational System of S oc i e ty." I will tions of society, all proceeding from the original error now give—" The Rational Society, based on the glori - with respect to the formation of character, I ous and everlasting fact, that the c h arac t er of each foresaw distinctly that all the prejudices, super human being is formed for, and not by itself, and may stitions, and supposed interests of the world be well or ill, or indifferently formed for each by so- would be directly opposed to that which ciety; may this truth be universally adopted, and may • I had in contemplation. I, therefore, anticipated that society speedily determine to well form every man when this principle should be openly promulgated to and woman, Physically, - mentally, morally, and prat- society, the founder and his immediate followers tically." Having said so much upon the former senti - would be subjected to the loss of character, ment, I have the less occasion to explain in ' de- to fine, to imprisonment, and even to death. I knew tail that which is immediately connected with from the experience of the past reformers of the world, the present. I may say, however, that the Con- that there was not one of them who ever attempted to gress of the Rational Society has met here with introduce a n y re f orm ation but what has suffered more or a view of aiding, to the extent of their power, to less from persecution, and many of them have suffered bring the Rational System into practice; and I know it death. Now, although this new system has been is a feeling, in the breast of every individual who un- more openly promulgated than any other has ever derstands what the Rational System is, that every thing been in the same space of time, we can scarcely say, else in society sinks into insignificance. The error, with truth, that we have had any serious persecution that the character of man is formed by himself, has from any but inferior members of society, with the been the cause of all the immorality that has ever ex- exception of the present Bishop of Exeter, and those isted. Were it not for this error in the human mind, who joined his attack upon the Social system in the immorality could not, and would not; be known. This House of Lords, and this arose from the most old world has made immorality to consist in assisting false information given to him by a person nature and acting acc or di ng to her directions, but in with whom you are .all pretty well acquainted. a rational state of society all immorality will consist However, some of our friends have suffered persecu in opposing nature. :Nature is the only thing on tion; and I therefore call on my friend Alexander which we can depend ; na t ure hasproduced us ; nature Campbell, whom I esteem as a very old disciple, to surrounds us with all things that are good—and shall speak to this toast. we say that nature has been wrong in her c r e ations ? Mr. CAMPBELL replied; and in the course of his re- Are we going to contend against a power that is marks narrated several instances of persons, with illimitable, that is universal, beyond even our concep - whom he was • a c q uainted, who had former ly tions. We have done so hitherto, and while we shall been' the mo s t d e termined opponents of the . social continue to do so it is utterly impossible that we principle, but who now were thoroughly imbued with should make one substantial step towards real virtue ; its spirit and practice. A young man, whom he lap but so- soon eas another , generation . shall be trained, pened, to Meet accidentally, stated to him that he for from birth, in a knowledge of their own nature, and I merly assisted to assail him in the streets of Leamington, but he was now perfectly satisfied of at intervals, IN the truth of those principles which once it was his until midnight. greatest pleasure to decry. There were two persons however, the Rev. Joseph Barker, and another individual, who used to make the most gross misrepre sentations ; but these gentlemen had so much fallen in public estimation, that they could now scarcely obtain a public hearing ; but all the opposition that had been made, tended to the spread of that universal gospel of which they were the advocates. They went forth to preach the words of soberness and of truth, and those who had been persecutedcarried with them, in a more especial manner, the seeds of those principles, and sowed them where they . would not have been known, and thus " the blood of t he saints, " as it:were, " became the seed of the Church." The CHAIRMAN next proposed—" The New Moral World ; and may it prove to be an effectual instru ment to destroy the old immoral worn• out world, and to establish the Rational System in practice on earth." Upon this subject, he continued, I will merely state, that without such an instrument, by which truth can be conveyed to the , world a very limited progress will be made. This paper is now, perhaps, as a weekly periodical, the only periodical that dare express the whole truth to the people. It has been sent forth to the world, car rying tidings such as were never heard before its establishment, and I hope it will henceforth continue to be widely circulated in every part of the kingdom. "The London Social Tract Society" was next given from the Chair. Mr. PALMER, of London, in acknowledging the toast, said, that 120,000 tracts, illustrative of the Social principles, had been distributed since the period of its establishment—about a year andthree quarters — and these had been circulated in upwards of 300 towns of the United Kingdom, on many parts of the Continent, in New Zealand, South Australia, and America.—(Cheers.) The next sentiment proposed by the CHAIRMAN was —" The Home Colonization Society, and success to its operations." Mr. GaLrpr, as Secretary of the Society, said he had been called upon to respond to the toast of—" Suc cess to the Home Colonization Society." In com mon with the rest of those assembled, he not only hoped for its success, but he anticipated it. The Home Co lonization Society, or rather, the nucleus of it, had been formed by that mind which formed the other societies connected with the Rational System ith the greatest harmony and hilarity POLICE y TELLIGENCE, MANSION HOUSE. A gentleman, who stated that his name was Aaron Smith, was charged before Alderman Wilson, with hav ing violently assaulted John Hedger, omnibus conductor, No. 6,521. The complainant said, the defendant was one of the, passengers in the omnibus which plied to and from Blackwall. Witness informed him and the other passengers distinctly, that he could not go further towards the West-end than the Bank, and upon reaching the end of Leadenhall-street told them they were to get out. The defendant, however, desired to be let down at the Bank, and complained loudly and bitterly that the witness did not go as far as Charing-cross, notwithstanding the assurance made to him before he took his seat. Complainant accordingly desired the coachman to drive to the Bank, and then the passengers got out. The defendant, determined to fallow up his violent conduct, caught hold of the complainant, and struck him with a stick across the head with such effect as to occasion a considerable loss of blood, and for such unprovoked and brutal conduct was called upon to answer to the Magistrate. The driver, No. 4,588, of the omnibus, said, he dis tinctly saw and heard the defendant strike the conductor with the stick, after having followed and caught him by the coat. Alderman WILSON—Where were you when the blow was given ? Witness—l was on my seat driving. Alderman WILSON—Did you see your conductor do anything to the defendant ? Witness—Nothing at all. Alderman WILSON—How could you see them in the street in this condition, if you were driving on your seat ? Witness—l turned round and saw it all. Never saw the conductor raise his hand to the gentleman. Mr. Smith, upon being called upon to answer the charge, stated that in the Commercial-road he got into the omnibus, on which were marked outside the words " Bank and Charing-cross," as he wished to go to the Strand, and the conductor not having uttered a word about not going further than the Bank to him or any of the passengers in his hearing, when the vehicle stop ped at the end of Leadenhall street, he (complainant) insisted that it should, at all events, go as far as the Bank, upon which the conductor said, " We'll take you to the Bank, and be d—d to you," and declared that such vaga bonds gave more trouble than respectable people would think of giving. This language was followed up by gross and insulting expressions, and he (defendant) re solved to take the number of the conductor, and to have the Lord Mayor's decision upon the case. The conduc tor, however, refused to show his nnmber, and the defen dant went after him to stop him; but received two blows from him in answer to the demand; he then instantly laid his stick across the head of the conductor, who lustily called for the police, and complained of having been at tacked for nothing. Alderman WILSON, to the conductor—Why did you not show your number to the defendant ? You are liable to a fine for having refused. Complainant—l think you will find you are wrong, Sir; I am not obliged to show my number to every body. Mrs. Frances Pratt, of Seymour-street, Euston-square, stated that she and her daughter were passengers in the omnibus, and w itnessed the occurrence. The language used by the conductor was gross and insulting in the extreme, and the defendant, who was a stranger to wit ness and her daughter, did not at all retaliate, but fol lowed the conductor in order to obtain his number, and was struck twice by him before he (defendant) used the stick. Miss Pratt confirmed her mother's account in every particular. Alderman WILSON asked the ladies whether the con ductor told them when they were getting into the om nibus that he could not go further than the Bank? Mrs. Pratt—By no means. Alderman Itlrmsom—Well, Mr. Conductor, what have you to say to the statement(of these ladies ? Conductor —Why, as sure as there is a God in heaven, every word I have spoken is the truth. I did not touch him I swear. Alderman WlLsoN—These ladies swear that you struck him twice, and why should I not think that their oaths are as worthy of credit as yours ? Conductor—l have been twenty years on the road, without a complaint made against me, and I think my word ought to be taken; upon my honour, Sir, if you will believe me, what I have said is quite correct. Alderman WthsoN—l do not believe yon or your wit ness, and I do not think that you are fit to be employed, and shall write to the Commissioner to that effect. I am sorry that the gentleman who has been so improperly charged has been put to so much trouble, and I advise him by all means to summon you for gross abuse, as well as for entrapping people by false directions on your omnibus. If I sit to adjudicate in such a case I shall certainly make an example of you. As for the blow you got across the head you richly deserved it, and I wish you had been more severely punished. It is unnecessary to say that this decision of the Al derman gave very great satisfaction to all in the Justice room, except the complainant and his witness. Mr. Smith intimated that he would make no com plaint against the conductor, to whom he considered the whack with the stick, and the mortification of the Al derman's rebuke quite sufficient punishment. It was, and still would be, under the superintendence of that mind ; and for him (Mr. Galpin) to doubt for one moment that the object of their Society would be established, would be to have—what he never had had, a doubt of the principles on which they were asso ciated. If they followed correct principles, they might calculate their results with the same certainty as if they had actually passed, and correct principles had gone to a greater extent in the formation of the Home Colonization Society than any other ever established. The reason was, that there had been no counteracting principle whatever to the mind of the founder of the Society. Its object was to give to capitalists of this and other countries security and interest for their capital, that they might assist in carrying out the objects of the Community Society. They intended to show the capitalist that there was security for invest ment, and the operations of the Universal Com munity Society would then be assisted, and the country would be relieved from the burden of main taining the surplus population. He (Mr. G.) con gratulated them that day in their new name, as mem bers of the Rational Society, upon the great events of the past year ; and the proceedings of that day were a sufficient guarantee for the expectation which he had always entertained that they• were to have the world, and that soon. The CHAIRMAN proposed—" Success to Harmony Hall, and the health of the architect, Mr. Hansom, — the clerks of the works, and the builders." Mr. Halasom acknowledged the toast, observing that he was deeply thankful for the kind expression of the appreciation of his efforts, also for the great and constant support that had invariably been given by the Chairman to him in the prosecution of his pro fessional labours. With such a mind to direct his operations, he could never doubt of the success of anything that might be undertaken. The CHAIRMAN again rose, and said, the next sentiment I have to propose to you is—" The Nor mal School of the Rational Society, about to be established in Harmony Hall ; may the new cha racter to be formed within it for man and woman make them superior rational beings, end may the ample speedily be foll Owed by all the inhabitants of the earth." I will merely say upon thissubject, that the hap piness of the present generation depends entirely upon the training, education, and the formation of the cha racter of the rising generation. I know that members of this Society look with extreme interest at the change that is intended to be effected in their children. Many of them are aware that their own habits are too strongly formed to admit of any very great change being made in a short time upon themselves, but their hopes, are centered in their children ; and, it is somewhat strange that, in old society, every generation sacrifices its own happiness to the succeeding generation ; but this will never be the case under the new system of society. In the new system all will be educated, so that each gerieration can have its own enjoyment ; but under the old system no generation has had its enjoyment, but has been looking forward to something they have never experienced. As I have before expressed myself pretty fully on the formation of character, I 'have only now to say that when arrange ments shall be completed for this purpose, a new cha racter will be formed for man and woman ; a new spirit will be given ; a new mind will be formed, and, using an old Scriptural expression, I may say, the mind will be "born again,' and I trust the time i 3 not far distant when we shall have an opportunity of exhibiting it most fully. The CHAIRMAN said, there is one toast which I think I am called upon inn peculiar manner to give ; it is " The health and continued prosperity of the in habitants of Queenwood, those individuals who have formed the nucleus of the Society which we are about to form," and I shall call upon the Deputy-Governor, who has had the immediate direction of the establish ment for some time past. I did not expect that materials could have been selected from the old world, and that in so short a space of time, such a variety of minds and notions and habits could become so well assimilated to each other; and I was much surprised to hear some parties say, who had watched their proceedings, that no other individuals ever applied themselves to their various duties with the same industry, and with the same energy, and with the same success, as did those individuals. But it was added, the reason is quite plain, they know that they are working for them selves. The doubt which old society has had is, the practicability of uniting a number of dif ferently-formed minds to act together ; but I see that when they are properly applied Mere will be no difficulty whatever en this point. It is only neces sary, in the first instance, that there should be a ju dicious selection for the nucleus. After one of these societies shall have been formed, and be in full operation, there will be no diffi culty in taking any individuals from any part of society. I have said that 1 would make an experiment, if the Government would furnish us with the funds to form our own external arrangements— and I should have no hesitation in performing what I formerly declared I would do. It was to take '5OO of the picked worst men out of the prisons in London, and 500 of the picked worst women, and at the end of five years I would undertake to make them 1,000 of as most respectable ladies and gentlemen as were ever seen in Great Britain.—(Laughter and cheers.) Mr. RIGBY said, having been called upon to respond to the toast of health and prosperity to the inhabitants of Queenwood, he could say, on behalf of the Queen wood family, that they experienced a great deal of happiness, and their only regret was that there were so many thousands around them almost dying for want of the necessaries of life. Alany re ports had gone abroad, grmtly misrepre senting their .real condition, and the state of feeling in which they lived; and he would, therefore, observe they were upon the most friendly terms, not only with each other, but with all their neighbours, and if any doubted their happiness and comforts, he would say, let them come and see. The CHAIRMAN next proposed "Health and pros perity to the visitors, who have favoured the Society with their company on the present occasion ;" all of whom he was most happy to see, and he hoped they would frequently visit the establishment. Mr. BRAY, of Coventry, and Mr. LEWIS, of London, briefly replied in terms expressive of the pleasure they felt at witnessing the spirit of unity which pervaded all their proceedings, and the completeness of the arrangements for carry ing their principles into practical operation ; the latter gentleman observing, that he came to Queenwood, ex pecting from the rep resen t at i ons h e had heard of it, to fi nd the place a desert, instead of which it was almost a paradise. The land of some other parts of the parish was in a most miserable state, but that which belonged to the Queenwood Farm was rapidly advancing towards a high state of cultivation. The garden, too, evinced that it was under the management and direction of a very superior mind, for the head of this department was indeed a man of most extraordinary knowledge, perhaps not only without an equal in Great Britain, but he (Mr. Lewis) would say, in the world. He had no hesitation in saying that the capabilities of . that estate' for agri cultural and horticultural purposes were very great indeed, and that it was rapidly increasing in value. The prospects of the Society altogether appeared most flattering., and he heartily wished them all the success they could desire. These proceedings took place partly on the lawn, after dinner, and partly in the large room in Har mony Hall, before and after tea ; and at the termina tion of Mr. Lewis's address, the hour of nine having arrived, dancing was commenced, and was continued, STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) MANCHESTER.—This being a holiday week, and yes terday the principal market-day, being the first day of the races, it was scarcely expected that any material amount of business would be done. We are glad to say, however, that there was a better demand for cloth than had been previously anticipated ; and, though nothing like a general advance in prices could be noted, yet there was a decidedly firmer and more cheerful feeling amongst the manufacturers. Indeed, during the last few days, a .considerable amount of business has been done, which, combined with the great reduction in the quantity of goods produced, has almost cleared the market of several kinds of goods, the only holders, to any extent, being a few large manufacturers, who were all known to stand out for higher prices. The great body of the manufac turers, being, therefore, destitute of stock, are not willing to take orders at the extremely low prices re cently current ; and, unless there should be a large in crease in the production, it seems very likely that they will soon obtain an advance. Of yarn, we cannot report quite so favourably. The market has been somewhat overloaded by the large quantity which has been diverted j from the hands of the home manufacturer, and is now offered in the export market ; and, though a tolerably large business has been done, the prices continue to have rather a downward- tendency, especially in inferior de scriptions of mule yarn. On the whole, however, ap pearances are decidedly more favourable than for several weeks past, and there is a more cheerful and confident. feeling prevalent amongst both spinners and manu facturers. _ _ ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, MAY 16. We have had a better demand fir goods to-day, and a considerable quantity have sold without any advance in price. In the wool market there is no change to report. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, TUESDAY, MAY 17th. — So little alteration has taken place in the state of this market for several weeks past, up to this day, that opinion is scarcely divided as to its fixed character of one continued series of struggles for existence. How ever, it is satisfactory to state, that it was no worse ; in fact, considerable business was done in light fancies for the home market, and in heavy woollens for ship. ment ; but still prices are unremunerating generally. Wools are stationary, and in fair demand. Business in the warehouses has slightly improved ; but no great things may be expected until the tariff is settled.—Man cheater Guardian. SUICIDE FROM JEALOUSY.—On Tuesday an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, at the Adam and Eve Ta- . vern, Homerton, on the body of Mary Ann Anninge, aged 25, who committed suicide. William Carter said he lived at Barber's nursery. Deceased was his fellow servant. On Friday night last, about eight o'clock, he met deceased walking with a young man in the Lea bridge. road, and shortly after in the Greyhound public house, drinking half a pint of ale te% herself. He heard her ask if she could have a bed there, and the reply being no, she said she would not go home, for her sister had behaved badly to her, and ruined her peace of mind for ever, as she had been out the whole day in com pany with the young man who was to have married her (the deceased). She walked with witness for some distance. and said she would go back again and ask the landlady to let her have a bed. He followed her and overtook her going in the direction of Lea-bridge, near which he stopped her. He then said she should go to Hoxton to sleep. She appeared much agitated, and he endeavoured to. sooth her, when she promised to go back to the Grey hound, if witness would not follow her. At her desire he left her, and had not gone far when he heard a plunge in the water. He called a policeman, and they ran to gether towards the bank of the river Lea, but in their progress fell over a lime heap, and were nearly blinded and suffocated. They found the deceased's bonnet and shawl on the bank, and having procured the drags, got the body out in about twenty minutes; and Mr. Fountain, surgeon, endeavoured to restore animation, 'but without effect. He had no doubt that jealousy, at the conduct of her sister, was the cause of the deceased committing the rash act. Verdict—" Temporary insanity." The Limerick Chronicle of Saturday says the Kerry mountains were then covered with snow. RESULTS OF SAVAGE FIGHTING.—L4st week Jo seph Hacksley (as principal), and Thomas Baylis, Ed ward Gadd, William Shaw, Thomas Higgins, and Ben jamin Humphreys (as accessories), were committed on the Coroner's warrant to take their trial at the Assizes, for the manslaughter of Joseph Wassail in a pugilistic contest at Edgbaston, near Birmingham. Hacksley and Wassail were boys about 17 years of age ; they fought upwards of an hour, and the scene closed by Hacksley " butting'' Wassail on the chest with a blow of his head, which proved fatal. His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge arrived in Dublin yesterday, for the purpose of paying a farewell visit to Colonel Stawell and the officers of the 1 2th Royal Lancers. His Royal Highness was entertained at the mess of the regiment yesterday afternoon, on which occasion General Sir E. Blakeney and all the military authorities were invited to meet him. We are sorry to learn that his Royal Highness must leave again to-morrow afternoon, as he is under the necessity of being present at her Majesty's birth-day drawing-room en Thursday next. It is creditable to find a Royal Prince so uni versally beloved as Prince George is by all who have the honour of knowing him, and especially by his bro ther officers, with whom he has been most intimately as= sociated for the last three years, and the regret of part ing is, we learn, quite reciprocal.—Dublin The General Steam Navigation Company's British steam-ship, Earl of Liverpool, Capt. 11. Lomax, arrived from Ostend yesterday morning, in twelve hours and a half. Lady Beresford arrived from Boulogne on Tues day, in the same Company's packet, Magnet. of ` the Lew • - - • LLOYD'S SHIPPING. VESSELS SPOKEN WlTm—Lowther, Liverpool to Messina, 30th March, oft Cape de Gatt ; Morley, Lon' don to Bnmhay, 4th inst., let. 39, long. 16, by the Martha, :waved at Falmouth. Rainbow, Algoa Bay to Lontlov, out 38 days, lat. 47, long. 24 ; Sir James Koupt, No v " castle to Bermuda, 18th ult., lat. 9 7, long. Supply, arrived in the Downs. Anna Eliza, from Brig, 9th March, lat. 10, long. 21, W. ; Star of Falmouth, for Rio, 10th inst. ; Archimedes; Newfoundland to Pernambuco, 25th ult., lat. 3, N., long. 22, by the Ali( 111 Wellminna, arrived in the Downs. Hope, Java to ltoti terdam, 26th Jan., lat. 22, S., long. 80, E. ; Emi l , t „ London for China, 31st ult., _tat. 26, long. 63 ; Dundee, to St. Dominica, 19th ult., lat. 21, N., long. 4 '. AV., by the Thomas King, arrived off Portland. The following has been received at Lloyd's, from thg Office of the Committee of Privy Council for trade. " Whitehall, May 1 7 . am directed by the Lords of the Committee (.1 Privy Council for Trade, to transmit to you, to ha 0 before the Committee for the affairs of Lloyd's, a transl'..v 44, by ,the tion of a law recently passed by the Belgian Chanibl to indemnify persons for losses occasioned b y the ill° al . ' the Belgian revolution; also a translatio n of a 103.„, ordinance for carrying that law into executi on ; and 1 r directed to request that you will cause the same tO made known for the information of the commercial go' other interests. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, (Signed) "J. MACGREGOR.° " To the Secretary, Lloyds." EAST INDIA SHIPPING. The Alexander Baring, Hale, from China, off . 2e- ; zance, sailed Jan. 14, and St. Helena March 23 ; Thot t King, Rounce, from China, off Portland, sailed I)ee. and the Cape Marchfch Arrivals at St. `Helena-4loyal Archer, Scott, 3 1 1 - ,, 12, from Calcutta,' and sailed 21st to Liverpool ; t )54 ", - Htiaswinkel, 20th, from Batavia, and sailed 22 d to A i d sterdam ; Rotterdam, Vis, 20th, from Batavia, and 0- 22d to Rotterdam ; Elephants, Ross, from China , g l ' o , sailed 22ti to Rotterdam ; Columbine, Capes, 21st, fg r , Bombay, and sailed 22d to Liverpool ; Bangaloro,,vn. nie, 21st, from Singapore, and sailed 21st, to 1. 011 ", °- r: London, Benn, from Bengal, and sailed 21st, to 1- , ''! os , pool ; Heart of Oak, M'Donald, 21st, from Mauritni and sailed 21st to Liverpool ; Delta, Evans, from tavia, and sailed 22d, to Amsterdam. to Departures R itir a e s s se from' ias,2h Sott, to Boston .Helena—L ;min utinilitolarac,h2;;;, to Nantes i Nantes. THE M. COAL M. , Ships arrived since I. 4 ' , Buddle's West Hartley l7 IW. E. Braddyll'sHotton 4.: id !; Holywell Main l6 6 Walls End Hamel!. ...... .4 ; 1 0 1 ' Nelson's West Hartley l7 t: Walls End Hetton .....••."" 0 t! Old Tanfield old's ltedheugh l4 5 Walls End Morrison ...•..'" 0 !', South Pontop Townley .... . 1 i 6 Walls End Whitwell ......... .21 , Wylam ..... Walls E d resvicse and C l9 0 Walls End C 353011 ............ la 't, Walls End Hedlcy l7 6 Walls End Tees Heiton .." 10 Walls End Hilda l7 6 1 Wal s F.... 1 '1 es. ....... ..... 10 0 Walls End Killingworth Walls End N. r humberlauti 17 0 Hartley ... Walk End Walker l7 61 %RKETS. AR KET. last market .day,-.42 COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. r ose; Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. - Per Quarter.`l s. to s. a. to s. s. to s. a. to S. ~arlile I 68 31 23 46 Hexham Morpeth Penrith Sheffield 64 —' 32 23 43 j Winchester 6O 68 25 27 20 26 '35 40 - ; 1 , f.# Per Bushel. s.d. s.d. s.d. s.d. a. d. s.d. $ .O. s.d 0 1 Carmarthen 6:l t, 0 0 0 4 4 0 0 1 9 5 0 0, y i 0 0 Cowbridge 76 8 0 0 0 40 00 30 5 0 5 3 0 0 Swansea r 8011. Ba P rn e ardcaatle 13 n OlB 6 8 9 9 0 4 0 7 4 9 6 It 0 0 0 1 Durham l2 6 14 6 76 S 0 50 60 0 0 9 Richmond St o ckton NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE 40 74 1 9 6 11 Oi 50 6 0 0 0 0 0 j 60 7410 0 110 60 7 0 0 0 11 6 1 EXCHANGE volto, Whet, Northumberland s'!s. 58s. te• e A l l: ---- Norfolk and Suffolk .....-... Berwick and Scotch ......... 50s. 56s 5 4.• :'.", -- Foreign sBs. 645....,... 6 24 . ' 1 ... . j , Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk -- Foreign Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk... 295. 304 "" 4. -- i. A - Grinding and Feeding Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk OA yes -•• • "'" " Beans, Small 'les. 31,..... -•' • 3. • -. Tick 3Bs 4 's -4•• -- . ....... , ... Pease, White 4i.s. 4 '5....... ---,• ~ -- Gray ... Oats, Northumberland, Fotatoe ..r 2l s. 2is ....... --s• - ....., - -- Feed if.. 20s. --s• ' s •eign 2.0 22s -,• • sack) 43s. •Vs --i• --. 7 H O 7 OO I3DIN I O 3. I•O cd N CO 2 R Ss N u MAR I K 4s E ud r , ...., 04 ~,,,,, , ie. Wheat. Barley. oats. Bea , IS ; ' OS S n eC r O st ildl... Gilt Od 28s 6d 23s 6d 154 Od 1 --,.' 01 Third-, 56. Od 27s Od ills Od 30s Od ' ''''' - . . ---Fori Flour (per Average GLASOW CORN MI !MET • il l Wheat, per `2401b. s. d G . s.d. Oats, per .2C4lb. 11. tl a tO i English .., ...„..»..... 300 to 32 0 Ir i sh Scottisn 23 6 28 C British ..........„„.•,_ 18 ° ~i Irish. .... . Foreign Barley, per 3201 b. Scottish 29 6'35 0 English • ill a , .111 English 2l 0 25 0 Pease,Scottish ... .. , t 1 6 il Scottish ' Irish ' - DALBEITH CORN MARKET. , re3 6 -,:i Wheat. 1 Barley. Oats. 1 L ease. s , ) , t._ I First 7os Ou als 6d . 28s 84 36 0 „ A O :ci v: i Second 639 Od 986.0 d 21a 4d 34 A u" wo ' I hird n sz k; I'. D I . 1:1 .. . 8 .. : R ll G 11 6: 00 M EA L M A .. --- e Per Sack of 2301b5. First Oatmeal Second Ditt0.....„..... 1 14 0 Second ditto ...........• .. 1 Id Balleymeal Peasemear— I 8 0 Peasemeal ...... ....• " • Pot Barley from IV a. to Ors. per sack. LY i°• ct kv er' ' 9 1 , ... ,i 1 6 1410. ,1 ..ETS. the Week ensiling 31 From To 763 Wheat,perbarrel 2 t stymie.... 26 0 37 0 5 Bere ..._..... ...... ww 16 stone...". 15 0 " I 106 Barley 3,251 Oats l4 stone •10 6 15 0 , i Flour, per cwt.... ta stone — 0 — 0,, 1.2 612 Oatmeal ....—.......... 6 stotie.....• 11 C 14 0 it Sold to Bakers only. gl 8,191 Cwt. Flour 9 0 24 0 _ k „,4 Average price af Wheat and our 53. 4i per iii . ._ 0 , I.:: ' Fi5t5............ from 17s. 0(1 ',“., os ',,j Beceipts of Flour, 10,159 1 sm,,,n, iv .... » .. from 15s. Od. ''' igi 1 Sales of Do. 8,795 Thirdr ........ from ...9s. Od. to PILICE OF a1i.141416 4 /4d' al Quarters'. Loat ...........d . 1 Malt Quintero ...... ..i CORK MARKETS.May 14. „ /•i, Wheat (per 204. ) 58s Oil to:‘ Is. sid.suats (per 1461. .• 8 7 4 .6 , 1; ' i . i , , ,, Barley (per 165t.)10 6 12 6 11.1o0r (per cwt ).... I Oauncal (per cwt.)... ..... .....2.. Od to 13 s. 0 ~, 5.1 I keef, tad. to 6id —Mutton bd. to6d..—Veal, 40 `,,,, ~', Pork, 4d. to s . ll.—Fresh 'Buttes, 11d. to —d Per ' 0 PRICE OF RUTTER. ' (70,4 1 To the blerchants. To t he r First Quality ... B O4 ... ...... ............."..: 7, Second ,.. .... 0 •. 84 ... •••••••••••••••••••- , fliird ... ......... .. Fourth •••••• ............w..... ,,— " . , • , ,, i Fifth 4O ......................... ***;,. Sixth 24 ............. ...... w ..... ' CLON 61 ELL M A RKETS.....May 14. * Per Cwt. ci. 0 s. d. s. d. S ' i. t‘ 4 6 New Butter .. ..... ..98 0 to 19 0 bidet (raw) .........7g ( / Oatmeal 0 14 6 8ac0ttrhr5............. - Rendereu Lard 0 52 J i r 1ead5................. 0 ' il I'er Bad. - 0 ~ Flour, Second ... 0 40 0 1 F10ur,Th5rd5........1 d --Household P 38 01-- Fourtbs..... l ' i Per Barrel. , g 0 --0 I Barley •••••••••••••••• .- ~ 13 0 I C.vals ... KILKENNY MA RKETS. O4 I' t° Wheat,perbarrel)2Bs.od.to 83i. Ud. Beef ;;per 11% ..... CL , , Barley 12 0 19 0 Mutton .......... 0 i 'vats 14 0 15 1 . MTh . ............. .•. , 6 Flour (per bag) 25 0 1.9 0 Yes! ....».w.... w 1 : 0 Butter(pet cwt.) 0 0 98 0 irestt Buttes ..... 0 „ 6 Cacon Pigs 45 0 46 0 salt Ditto .... ..... u 0 Coals I 0 1 2 Potatoes per st.l U IRISH MAR DUBLIN MARKET NOTE for Rapesecd 2O 0 Bere LO tit !eV , IV to I) . ° ,loite t the al&do!vre ore rotas i Pupil r In 04 1 ,r% rer anoileod, !;111 Up~yOp nll a t 3 ia )( 11 , 1 to i°l°loo 11 difitaa t itoll. Cr a yerY tD r ; r i y of o f ,e OO O O n a c:: ` ai ) r a D o ,' a fiticte d n a t to ri ' -' o e t . „ Pq.' A l e:l ll l one, 59 ' g Sl ' e Jf 1 7 6, ) ‘: , collo‘;pi L ying -t yo , J' a ti n to ttY, l' i r a . 0 10 , in t ' 3) 19: i, 0 0' 00 ' L i h d e a g :"t ;Pi k , PeO °ll, l l)e ,lii P InJ el urablary c , )01,0 3re 're f ti ' s t t ° thing ' e • l tis , 1 ot) Dr i ; so io c, pi e f 313 %teir e l l l/ he bel il t )11 a!lc01. lla PREDESTINATION.—" My horror and inciV.ee; 0 this doctrine," says Dr. Parr (On Matt. xii O! carry . me beyond the reverence which is due t° who is the subject of it, when I say that it iniP tl t he spin Deity the forms of judicial proceeding withoo t wo,c l of justice itself—the baseness of treachery `si dexterity—the malignity of cruelty without tl e tions or interests which impel other beings l° the wantonness of oppression without the power." This specimen of the Doctor's ore T o ` l lo o o , recalls an anecdote related by one of his pupils . party be had been endeavouring to hammer 11 1 into the convictions of an auditor, who repli e "', f ceased speaking, "I do not quite undersond 41 1 but, as fur as I can comprehend it, I can ( 0 . 7 , 0 0 1% my mind refuses to receive the impression) o cto,. 6 give it." " by then, Sir," lisped the 1 ' 2 . 4 0 „ can only say that your mind has the dulled- ~;1)0 d without its malleability." A 6 DEAFNESS.—Sound Magnifiers, an — ol'oe./ Operative Voice Conductors, to enable persons S t i 3 : e 1 6 l age, and of old standing extreme deafness, to J e 10 ,0 II conversation, and to catch the sound of a distan t at a public assembly ; they are the size of a re d , ird, seven shilling piece, and when in the cavity of d a rts 1 1 ,p are not in the least perceptible nor more uneeffl i otlO,cils o l having a small piece of fine wool in its place ; an d , 01 ° of} are so extremely smal yet they enable those effi' c o,oi c treme deafness to hear in every respect equal t° 0 :4/ acute hearing.—From the late Henry Cowper, f ',t'' ' A l og i i Waters, Herts., to Messrs. S. and B. 5010m0n 5, , 9 40; street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, and 76, - peri l street, Bank of England.—" Gentlemen, having yoOloi many years, I was induced from recommendatio n to t r .l lo,`'ol:i ble Voice Conductors, and I have great pleasure in t e pre tio l' i s they enable me to hear persons in company and 31 : 1 ,,t tr s l ship most distinctly ; and in consequence of the g' er io l l. l o 0 1 : which I have derived, I have recommended manYlQ . odd i and their report is similar to mine—most favour 3 "; e ry rpiS tacks and Hand-glass which you have sent me ar e , o f tD ot , and suit my sight precisely, and surpass any thin*Drilo lstlr have ever tried ; the transparency of which is s° lA st , e ol although I have passed my 6th year the 22d of 31$test, enable me to read, &c., by candlelight wit h the 81.,e -yomfort to myself.—Gentlemen, I return y oil and remain your zr set obedient servant. HElslit , - f June 22,1839. 1 ' if 4 d tb- ,f D e e On the 13th inst., at the Rectory, Row, er , ~ji the Rev. Frederick Vander Moulen, of a tlaugllt t he ," On the 14th inst., at Gros venor- p lace, flaw, ,P Pycroft, Esq., Madras Civil Service , o f a son• rifle it, On the 16th inst., the wife of C. B. Rule, Esi" oh , hill, Brixton-hill, Surrey , of a dau g hter. v iy ol° On the 16th inst., at St. Andrew's-terrac e, ,I t} lady of Major Newport, of a daughter. On the 17th inst., at West Brixton, S ur rey ' ors ly Daniel, of a daughter. of J °ll° On the 17th inst., at Tottenham, the lady ~o so . Esq., barrister-at-law, of a daughter. ° ll° 1 On the 17th inst., Mrs. G. G. Richardsoo, f ' ll On the 18th inst., in Upper Wimpole-street' i o ft Marshall, Esq, , M.P., of a son. 'O S DIED. lll ° '. ,of Killed near Caubul, in Nov em ber last, Ge or g e ris ,° Assistant-Sum, on, Bombay M e di ca l Seto" . 3 0, On the 7th inst., at King's-terrace, Souihsf.a'o,sth Ray:saint& Brigadier in the serv ice of his Iligun- CO s , Hydrabad, in the East Indies. Ot I On the 17th inst., at Trinity Hospital , G l.° o,lll ls eldest daughter of the late C. H. Tatham , Es,,V a y i On the 17th inst., at East Grinstead, I - 9 . h iOtit Ilastie, of her Majesty's Royal RD° Sur London : Printed and Published 1ey112,50 No• 112 , Strand, at. The S,O ofEce , ,,: 19, 1 the County of Middlesex, Thursday, 1,"*: Sti I Ala I Gild and I Dip 'pp Lea and On, st a i a 601( 4, 11v e ) En v: ee -gen fr o ehur liF ;it' tj t , t 1 lq