The Sun.
London, England, 1830-02-02 00:00:00

QUEEN-SQUARE.

Yesterday the time of the Magistrates, Messrs.
MARRIOTT and WHITE, was chiefly occupied in
hearing the cases of distressed paupers, and order-
ing them relief. The greater part of them appeared
in a most distressed state, and many of them de-
clared that they had not tasted food for some days.
Amoog the nnmber of applicants was a young man
named William Sheffield, and perhaps a more
wretched object of pity never presented himself
before a Magistrate. He had scarcely sufficient to
cover his nakedness, and had nothing on but an old
worn-out jacket and a pair of trousers. He was
quite destitute of shoes, stockings, shirt, or hat,
and trembled so exceedingly from cold, that he wus
scarcely able to utter a word. With some difficulty
he stated that he was a parishioner of St. Margaret's
parish ; he had applied to the overseers for assistance,
and they had refused to relieve him. He was in
that state of distress that he must soon either perish
from cold or hunger, for he was unable to get any
work.

It. MARRIOTT—For God's sake, Mr. Painter,
get him to the workhouse as fast as possible, or he
may perish in the streets.—The poor fellow was
then sent to the workhouse.

Mr. MARRIOTT observed, that he never saw so
many paupers about as he had done that morning
on his road from Queen-square, Bloomsbury, to the
office; he, however, did not find near so many when
he got into St. Margaret's parish ; he was of opi-
nion this was occasioned by the numbers of persons
going for relief to the Mendicity Society, in Red
Lion-square.
Mr. WHITE said, that ever since the Mendicity
Society had been established in London, there had
been a considerable increase of paupers.
A number of other paupers, in a moat distressed
state, made applications, the greater part of whom
received temporary relief.
Mr. Painter, the overseer, said the inhabitants had
entered into a subscription for the further relief of
the poor.

MR. OWEN,
TO THE BANKERS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND

IRELAND.

GENTLEMEN,—You have amassed enormous sums
of money, by means of a system which has reduced
the real producers of wealth to the lowest state of
misery. You are, however, blameless, having acted
as all other men would have done under like cir-
cumstances. And many of you are, I know, sin•
cerely anxious to remedy the evils which the system
under which you have acted has produced. You
are too intelligent not to understand, that every
shilling which you have acquired has been circuit-
ously drawn from the hard earnings of the agricul-
tural labourer, or from the skill and industry of the
operative manufacturer.
The industrious classes have thus paid dearly for
the representation of their wealth, with which you
have supplied them. You have given to them a
shadow, and have received from them their sub-
stance. Had they possessed sufficient knowledge,
they would have created for themselves another re-
presentative of the wealth which they produced;
one which they might have obtained for a small
commission, without risk or the payment of addi-
tional interest, by which to exchange their commo-
dities and services; and thus would have been
spared that enormous loss, sustained by them, in
upholding banking establishments and their pro-
prietors, to the real benefit of none, and to the in-
jury of all. Had this knowledge not been hidden
from the industrious classes, by reason of the igno-
rance in which they were involved, they would
have discovered, that to possess the requisites of a
sound or correct representation, it must be one
which should increase as their real wealth increased;
and diminished as their wealth diminished ; and,
which was unchangeable in its value; and thus,
your bank notes would be rendered valueless, and
your gold and silver held in less estimation than iron
and steel.

Existing circumstances have permitted you to ae-
quire the artificial wealth you now possess, but
others are about to arise, which will reduce the
wealth again to its intrinsic value. By all your
proceedings, you have not created one pennyworth
of real wealth; but you have abundantly consumed
that which the working classes produced ; of which,
however, by a legerdemain in society, they have
been prevented consuming but a very small portion.
What is now to be done? How is justice to be
awarded, and yet none injured ? Let some of the
surplus artificial sums which you possess be applied,
while the circumstances of society give them cur-
rency to create new arrangements, under new know-
ledge, which will secure for yourselves and your
children permanent advantages, a hundred fold
more beneficial for you and them than can be ex-
perienced under the miserable system of deception
in which you and the whole world are now involved,
and in which you are compelled to act the part of
irrational beings, to your own incalculable loss and
grievous injury.
The principles on which these new circumstances
will be formed, have been developed, and submitted
to the consideration of the British Cabinet; but
no Government can change the fundamental prin-
ciples, on which human society has been based,
without the aid of an enlightened and influential
public opinion.
Your early accession to the measures proposed
will benefit yourselves, and the community, in an
essential manner; and will be the best compensa-
tion you can make to those classes upon whosewealth and ignorance you have hitherto subsisted.
49, Bedford square, Jan. 22. ROBERT OWEN.

It is said that Dr. LYALL, or BERESFORD,
the Rector of St. Andrew's, Holborn, will be the new
Bishop of St. Asaph.
TIIE WEATHER IN IRELAND.--The wea-
ther in Ireland, considering the accounts received from
other quarters of Europe, has been singularly favourable.
The glass has seldom descended below 40, and we have
had many days as fine for the season as could possibly be
expected. Colds have been more prevalent than usual,
but on the whole we have suffered as little of the r;gours
of winter as points of Europe seven or 800 miles to the
southward of our latitude.—Dublin Morning Register•.

SHEEP SKINS.
Wool O. Od. tooa. Od. f Od. to 3s. ed.
Downs Ls. Ed. to Vs. Od.