The Sun.
London, England, 1830-04-13 00:00:00

TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
THE ELECTION of SIX DIRECTORS
of the EAST INDIA COMPANY being appointed
for WYDWISDAY, the 14th April next, the favour of your
Vote and Interest is requested for the following Gentlemen,
Va.

JOHN BAILLIE, Esq.
JAMES RIVETT CARNAC, Esq.
JAMES LAW LUSHINGTON, Esq.
JOHN PETTY MUSPRATT, Esq.
WILLIAM WIGRAM, Esq.
Which will much oblige,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your most humble servants,
Charles Mills, John Lock,
John Morris, William Astell,
Charles E. Prescott, J. Du Pre Alexander,
George Raikes, Henry Alexander,
John G. Ravenslaw, Robert Campbell,
George Smith, William S. Clarke,
James Stuart, Neil B. Edmonstone,
John Thornhill, Robert C. Fergusson,
Sweny Toone, Hugh Lindsay,
- H. Sr. George Tucker, John Mastermart
William Young.
Eaat-India House M h3l 1830
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TQ THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
HAVING the honour of being recommended
to you by the Directors of the East India Corn-
Pail, as Candidates for the Direction, to be chosen this
Year, we take the liberty of requesting the favour of your
Vote on the day of Election, WEDNESDAY, the 14th April
next. We are,

adies and ntlemen,
Your most L
obedient and most bumble servants,
JOHN BAILLIE,
JAMES RIVETT CARNAC,
JAMES LAW LUSHINGTON,
JOHN PETTY MUSPRATT,
WILLIAM WIGRAM,
East India House, March 31, MO.

TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
TO-MORROW, the 14th instant, being
the day appointed for the Election at the East
India House, I respectfully renew my solicitation for the
honour of your support.
With the most grateful acknowledgements for the kind-
ness and favour with which you have received me on my
canvas, I earnestly entreat your attendance at the Ballot
on my behalf.
I have the honour to be,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
YOur faithful servant,
THOMAS BARING.
Bishopsgate-street, April 13, 1830.
TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
IMOST respectfully and earnestly entreat the
favour of your attendance and support at the AN-
NUAL ELECTION for SIX DIRECTORS, at the
East India House, on WEDNESDAY Next, when I am
willing to entertain a sincere and confident hope that the
length of time I have been on the ground and in your
service, your favourable consideration of my pretensions,
your kind and honourable feelings, and the peculiar cir-
cumstances which recommend me on the present occasion
to your protection and patronage, may dispose you to ex.•
tend to me that support which will insure my success.
I have the honour to he,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obliged and faithful servant,
CHARLES MACKINNON.
10, York-place, Portman-square,
April 10, 1830.
Mr. Alackinnon's Committee sit daily at the King's
Head, Poultry.

BRITISH INSTITUTION, PALL-MALL.
THE GALLERY for the EXHIBITION
and SALE of the WORKS of BRITISH
ARTISTS is open daily, from. Ten in the Morning till
Five in the Evening, and will be CLOSED on SATUR-
bAy, the 24th inst., preparatory to the Exhibition of the
principal Works of the late Sir Thomas Lawrence.
Admission Is.—Catalogue Is.
WILLIAM BARNARD, Keeper.

ARTISTS' GENERAL BENEVOLENT INSTITU-
TION, FOR THE RELIEF OF DECAYED AR-
TISTS, THEIR WIDOWS AND ORPHANS.
THE Nobility, Friends, and Subscribers,
are respectfully informed, that the FIFTEENTH
ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL will be celebrated in
Freemasons' Hall on SATURDAY the 24th instant.
The Right Honourable the Earl of ABERDEEN, K.T.,
in the Chair.
STEWARDS.
Sir Thomas Dyke Ackland, William Freeman, Esq.
Bart. M.P.
S. Joseph, Esq.
Sir Harry Verney, Bart, G. B. Lonsdale Esq.
Martin Archer Shee, Esq. R. Ludgate, Es'ks P.R. A.
W. H. Mann, (I.
John Jackson, Esq. R, A, H. Munro, Eq.
Henry Behnes, Esq,
Charles Russell, Esq.
John Braithwaite Esq, Charles
Seddon. Esq.
H. P. Briggs, Esq George
Smart, Esq.
C. R. Cockerell, q.
George Booth Tyndale, Esq.
J. C. Denham, Esq.
William J. Donth orneGeorge R. Ward, Esq.
, Esq.George G. Wyatville, Esq.
Dinner on table at Half-past Five o'clock.
The Vocal Department under the direction of Mr.
Broadhurst.
Tickets (including Wine) I/. Is. each, may be had of
the Stewards ; the Assistant Secretary's, 14, Duke-street,
Portland-place; and at the Freemaz.ons' Tavern.
W. J. ROPER, Assistant Secretary.

CARTEIt and Co., CARPET MANU-
ACTURERS, respectfully submit the following
LIST oFf
PRICES for their NEW SPLENDID DRAW-
ING-ROOM PATTERNS (with Hearth Rugs to eor-
rixn,d):--
Di'tria Carpets, good useful Patterns...3c 2d. and 3s. 4d. per yard
by „
r ratterns, the quality sold
apers "anddenominated by 7 and 3go ditto ' „ Theiein „ r c best
welfirs-frame triple. round Brus
t Carpets, the Patterns entirely
w and elegant, for the Drawing. 4 4 and 4 6 ditto
&e., the quality of which
cannot be excelled at any prise
The Patent Damask, Kidderminster, Venetian, and Stair
,Citrpeting, and Hearth Rugs, in the greatest variety.
L'ONDON WAREHOUSE, t 2, the
NEAR
ST. PAUL'S.
, In addition to their own manufactured Goods, they are
TIN holders of the following Articles, which they are en-
kuled to offer 35 per cent. under the Trade Prices :
Dor Cloths, well-seasoned, to any dimenaions.
ufravt,
bb of all colours.
Morino Damasks and Moreens, for Curtains.
Fringes,, Trimmings, and Bell-pulls, of every deseriptiou.
Patterns forwarded to any part of the Kingdom.
N.B. About 70 Pieces of Brussels Carpets, of the best
fours quality to be sold decided JOBS for CASH, and will be
to deeerve the particular attention of the Trade.

DR. JAMES'S POWDER.
THIS celebrated Medicine is invariably
adopted by Physicians; and for those who cannot
obteln medieal advice, with each packet are enclosed full
dFeetions ' for its use. Its efficacy is most certain, if freely
give* on the
THROAT attack of FEVER, MEASLES, SORE
orator , recent Cold with Cough, and other Inflan- y
.Disorders. In RHEUMATISM and Chronic
Complatats It has
performed the most extraordinary
cures, when ruled with perseverance. Dr. JAMES'S
t
POWDER continues to be prepared by Messrs. NEW.. zany, FROM THE ONLY COPY OF THE PRO-
CESS LEFT uy DR. JANIES IN HIS OWN
HAND-WRITING, which was DEPOSITED WITH
THEIR GRANDFATHER IN 1746, AS JOINT
P DR
RIETOR. In Packets, 2s. 9d. and 24s
DR. JAMES'S ANALEPTIC PILLS afford con-
stant relief in INDIGESTION, BILIOUS and STO-
MACH
.r....
Rhenulatisni, and
—`-'II2PLAINTS Gouty Symptoms, recent
Cold With slight Fever, and are so
mild In their effecte as not to reqUire confinement. DR.
JAMES'S to a`
PILLS are prepared by
Messrs. NEWBER, from THE ONLY RECIPE
EXISTING UNDER DR. JAMES'S HAND, and are sold by them in Boxes at 24. 9d., 4s. 6d., and 245.,
at 45, St. Paul's Churcli-yard • and their Agents, J.
SANGER, Iso, Oxford-street, London' • and W. Psusit
Dublin. The name "P. Newherv, is' engraved in each UPTlrsilitat Stamp,

MR. OWEN'S PUBLIC MEETING.

(Concluded from our Paper of yesterday.)
Shortly after twelve o'clock Mr. Owen took the
Chair, and addressed the meeting from a written
paper, containing a full exposé of his views and opi-
nions on the subject. The delivery of his address
occupied nearly three hours. He concluded by
proposing a series of resolutions, and a petition to
both Houses of Parliament. We select the most
important features from his address, and subjoin the
petition and resolutions :
He contended-1. That the present national dis-
tress was not owing to any of the causes to which
it had been attributed by any of the Members of
Parliament as explained by them in the present Ses-
sion.-2. That the remedies which they proposed
were wholly inadequate to give the relief sought for
and required.-3. That the distress had arisen from
one cause alone, and from one which, if allowed to
proceed unchecked, would inflict more evil than so-
ciety would bear.-4. That this cause was artificial,
or one which might be effectually removed by the
union of the Government and the people.-5. That
by their union the pecuniary distress in Great
Britain and Ireland might be terminated be-
fore the end of another year, and consider-
able relief might be given before the end of the
present year. It was his intention to explain the
outlines of the science of society, a science
hitherto unknown to the public. He would also en-
deavour to demonstrate the cause of, and remedy for,
the moral evils, which,equally with pecuniary distress,
destroyed the happiness of all people. He proceeded
to argue that the doctrine of Mr. Malthus, that
over-population was one of the causes of national
suffering and distress, was unfounded. The next
cause, he said, to which the present distress was
attributed was over-production ; yet a very little
reflection would make it evident that there could be
no over-production of real wealth as long as any
part of the productive classes was in want of the
necessaries and comforts of life, and were willing
when required to create more by their labour, and
the means existed by which more than they con-
sume might be created. He said it was absurd to
suppose that there could be at the same time over-
production and over-population. That was one of
the innumerable mistakes proceeding from the theo-
ries of the political economists, who were opposed
to nature and to facts in almost all their notions re-
lative to the science of society. Another cause of
the present distress was said to be over-taxation.
He denied that taxation could be the cause of the
general distress arising from the want of a just re-
muneration for labour, skill, and capital. The remedy
proposed for this cause of distress was a reduction
of the national expenditure—now, this reduction of
expenditure would immediately take support from
those whose incomes were derived from taxation,
and thus great distress would be created among
those who had not yet been trained to create wealth
for themselves, while the reduction of taxation
would only remit the greater part of the amount
diminished to the wealthy, already abundantly pri-
vileged by the existing arrangements. Free trade
was another cause to which the distress in the ma-
nufactures, commerce, and the retail trade, had been
attributed. Upon this subject there had been much
said by the friends and opponents of free trade to
very little purpose. Both parties were wrong in
part, and right in part; but their discussions were
useless for any practical purpose, in the present per-
plexed state of the commerce of the civilized world.
He denied that parliamentary reform, even if grant-
ed to the full extent sought for by Mr. Hunt and
his party,—annual parliaments, universal suffrage,
and election by ballot,—would cure the existing
evils. Another large portion of the Members of
both Houses of Parliament attributed the distress
t. the sudden attempt to return to cash payments,
and expected relief from a renewal of the paper cur-
rency. He (Mr. Owen) would allow that the pe-
riod of distress had certainly been hastened by the
futile attempts which, in the altered condition of

commercial affairs, had been made to return to a
metallic currency. Through a knowledge of the
science of society, the popular errors entertained
on these subjects would be discovered, and the re-
medy ascertained. Labour, he maintained, was the
true and natural standard of value, and the currency
that would be alone necessary in a rightly consti-
tuted society, would be national bank notes of time,
say of days and hours, instead of imaginary pounds,
shillings, and pence, or dollars and cents. As soon
us the science of society should be known, a stan-
dard of value and a circulating medium, possessing
the requisites which 'had been stated, might be
easily introduced to supersede the present standard
and currency. The new circulating medium, he
said, would be portable, and measures might be
adopted to render forgery extremely difficult, and,
at no distant period, to remove all motives to induce
any one to make -the attempt. The cause of dis-
tress was the general disunion, of society, arising
from ignorance; and the remedy would be, a gene-
ral union of society proCeeding from rtitelligence.
He proceeded to argue, that all the pecuniary dis-
tress experienced in Great Britain and Ireland since
1810 had arisen from vast accumulation of new pro-
ductive power, chiefly mechanical and chemical,
which had been added to the manual labour of the
country, upon which our forefathers mainly depend-
ed for the wealth they consumed. The inhabitants
of Jacquemel, in the island of St. Domingo, ap- '
peared to him, when he saw them 14 or 15 months
ago, in a condition greatly to be envied by our labour-
ers and operatives. They appealed to live to enjoy
their existence, while our working classes appeared to
live to toil for others, who ill treated, despised, and
grievously neglected them. The most miserable
population he had yet seen in any part of the world
was the working classes of Great Britain, while if
the immense scientific powers at the control of the
nation were rightly directed, the whole population
might live in perpetual enjoyment. After as full a
consideration of these subjects as any one perhaps
had yet given them, he did not hesitate to say that
a remedy might be applied that would be perma-
nently beneficial to all ranks and descriptions of per-
sons, without excepting the members of the Govern-
ment
or the Sovereign of these kingdoms. It was
now practicable to give another direction to the
great and daily growing scientific powers of produc-1
tion, which had been hitherto under the control of
individuals, who had employed it solely for their
own gain or aggrandizement. Society, lie said, con-
sisted of four parts,—production, distribution, the
formation of character, and government. When
these departments were analyzed, and the defects of
their combination investigated, it would be seen that
the united errors committed by the individual com-
petitive system in the forementioned departments
had afflicted society with poverty, crime, disunion,
and misery, or with a wretched tinsel splendour, in-
stead of creating universal wealth, union, virtue,
permanent prosperity, and happiness. A knowledge
of the science of society would 'enable the inhabi-
tants of this and other countries to remove speedily
all the obstacles which now retarded the progress of
general extensive improvement. He repeated that
the rapid extension of mechanical inventions and
chymical discoveries for the abridgment of labour,
was, under the individual competitive system,
the cause of the general distress which pervaded
all classes, who were compelled to support them-
selves either by physical operations or mental ac-
quisitions. As a permanent and effectual remedy
for these evils he proposed a change of system, from
the individual competitive to the co-operative, com-
mencing the change with the unemployed among the
industrious classes who were competent and willing
to work, and arrangements should be immediately
formed to prevent the necessity of one individual
among the working classes being unoccupied for a
single day in the year. The change which he con-
templated in society he would propose should be
effected by different modes to meet the existing cir-
cumstances of the population of the country. He
here read a general outline of those arrangements
which he said he had already presented to the pre.
sent Administration of this country. The great
question was, what was the origin of moral evil, and
whether it was practicable to withdraw it from so-
ciety? His conscientious conviction was, that the
cause of all moral evil was artificial, and that it
might be withdrawn for ever from the world. The
cause of moral evil was a fundamental mistake re-
specting human nature, and that mistake regarded
the power of the human will. All the founders of
all religions, and of all forms of governments, had
pre-supposed that human nature was created with
the power in each individual to determine his own
convictions of truth and error; upon that false
foundation alone had all human society been created.
That was the sole base on which the society of this
country rested at this moment, and so long as it re-
mained on this foundation, moral evil must continue.
The truth was, that in every instance man believed
and felt as he was compelled by his nature to think
and feel, and that by his will lie could neither
change his convictions nor his feelings; and also,
that every man's will was formed for him, and
that no man ever possessed the power to form his
own will. He would therefore contend that there
could be no more merit or demerit in our thoughts
or our feelings than there could be in the colour
of our hair, of our eyes, or of any part of our phy-
sical organization. But it would be inquired how
was the morality of the population of this and other
countries to be maintained if they destroyed the
only foundation on which it now rests ? or how were
they to preserve the union of society ? He replied,
that their morality was vice, emanating from false-
hood—that their union was discord, created by error.
They were told by those who had abundance of
what was now called " the good things of this
world," that there was distress among certain classes,
that it returned periodically, acid perhaps with in-
creasing aggravation, but that it was natural, and if
let alone, that the evil would cure itself. Now this
might be very well for those who did not experience
the distress, and who, by their position in society,
were not likely soon to . feel it ; but it was not so
with those who must pass through all manner of
suffering before the cure could be effected. He
concluded by reading the following resolutions:—
" 1. That great and general distress prevails among the
industrious classes.

" 2. That the causes of the distress are twofold—phy-
sical and moral.
" 3. That to relieve the industrious classes from the
distress created by poverty, without recurring for relief
to the wealth of the non-producing classes, new wealth
must be created and more generally diffused among the
producers of it.
" 4. That existing arrangements render it impracticable
for individuals to accomplish these desirable results.
" 5. That wealth is created by labour and capital, and
the most valuable wealth is produced when capital and la-
bour are united, and directed by sound principle applied
by skill and experience.

" 6. That Great Britain and Ireland superabound with
capital and labour, now unoccupied or inefficiently em-
ployed.
" 7. That it is for the interest of the Government and
the people that there should he no unnoccupied capital or
labour in the British dominions.

" 8. That Robert Owen has long been engaged in con-
sidering the best means by which the apparent excess of
capital and labour may be beneficially employed for the
Government and for all classes of persons.

9. That he Bow offers to give the information be pos-
sesses to the Government or Legislature of these kingdoms.
" 10. That this meeting will petition both Houses of
Parliament to take the principles and plans advocated by
Hobert Owen, the outlines of which have been explained