The Sun.
London, England, 1830-02-03 00:00:00

ARRIVALS AT OATH.

The Maiquis of Cholmondeley, Dowager Lady Bellew,
Dowager Lady Moreton, Lady Mary Cole, Lady C. Massey,
Major Glover, Major lioss, Captain Garland, Captain Haynes,
R.N. Captain Young, Captain Winter, Captain Williams,;
Rev. Messrs. R. G. Bedford, Curtis, Bland, Edgar, Richards,
Holland, and Young.

Yesterday the despatches were closed at the
East India► House, and delivered to the pursers of the fol-
lowing ships, viz. Reliance, Captain CHARLES S. TIMINS;
General Harris, Captain JOSEPH STANfON, for Ben2al
and China.

DEATH OF LORD ELLENBOROUGII'S SON.
—On Friday morning, at two o'clock, the infant son of
Lord ELLENBOROUGH departed this lire, at his retreat, at
Montague-cottage, Worthing, after only two hours' illness.
The sudden cause of his death is not yet ascertained. This
child was the darling of his father, and the admiration of
the visitors at Worthing. He was particularly noticed by
the Princess AUGUSTA on Tuesday last, when running on
the Esplanade, for his beautiful symmetry, and robust
and fresh appearance. The grief of his Lordship will be
severe, as the anxious solicitude and devoted attention to
his child was so marked that it hecame the theme of con-
versation with every visitor and resident at Worthing.
The child was removed to Worthing from Brighton about
three mouths since, and during his residence here was re-
stored to such. good health that the sudden transition has
excited no small surprise.

THE SERPENTINE.—Never at any period of
the frosts, since ISM has there been known so thick and
solid a body of ice as the Serpentine exhibited yesterday.
Put this state of affairs brings no delight to the skaiter, the
surface being covered to a great depth with snow, while
the ruggedness of the ice beneath is such as to defy the
most persevering attempts to make progress. The most
practised skaiter finds himself baffled, for a gravelled walk
would not present more distressing obstaties. With the
exception, therefore of a few circles, in which some very
excellent performers exhibited, the ice was perfectly clear
of stinkers, but the promenaelers were numerous, attracted
by the gleams of sunshine which cheered the scene from
twelve till three o'clock, It was intensely cold ; the ther-
mometer was at no period of the day higher than 19.

RANDOM RECORDS.-This work, by the
Celebrated GEORGE COLMAN, so long and impatiently
expected by the public, has at length made its appearance.
Of the convivial disposition of this gentleman, Lord BY-
RON, in one of his letters, gives the following pointed
illustration I have met GEORGE COLMAN occasion,
ally, and thought him extremely pleasant and convivial.
SHERIDAN's lonnolle, or rather wit, was always saturnine,
and sometimes savage; he never laughed (at least that I
saw, and I watched him); but COLMAN did. If I had
to choose, and could nut have both at a time, I should
say, let me h:gin the evening with SHERIDAN, and
fini,h it with COLMAN ;' SHERIDAN for dinner, COLMAN
for supper; SIIEOIuAN for claret or port, but COLMAN
for every thing, from the Madeira and champaigne at
dinner—the claret with a layer of port between the
glasses—up to the punch of the night, or down to the
grog, 07 gin and water,
of day break. SHERIDAN was
a grenadier company of Life Guards, but COLMAN a
whole regiment—of Light Infantty, to be sure, but still
a regiment."

FOSSIL REMAINS.—The late easterly gales
have laid bare, by washing away the sand, the roots and
other remains of what appears to have been formerly a fo-
rest of considerable, extent, a little to the north of Roker
House, and about midway between Monkwearmouth and
Whitburn. It is said that some clusters of hazel nuts have
been gathered in fine pre.et vation ; but the truth of this
we have not been able to ascettain. We have seen several
portions of the w, 01, which appears to have been only of
moderate bulk, and is as black as ebony.—Durham Citron.

THE FOG.—On Friday morning this town
was visited by (me of the densest fogs which we ever re-
member expimiencing in Liverpool. The " darkness
might almost have been felt." At the distance of six yards
objects were almost invisible ; and the features of the
people one met in the streets were indistinct at the die.
tance of a yard. Early in the morning people actually
lost their way, awl, the gas-lights being all ey.inguislied,
were empelled to grope their road along the streets. The
mail and stage coaches with difficulty pursued their journey
along the roads, and did net reach town until some time
after their usual hour of arrival The London fogs, of
which we have read such v/oomy descriptions, can scarcely
exceed in density the fog of Friday
Albion. worning-.—Ziropool

MR. OWEN.

TO THE LITERARY MEMBERS OF THE BRI-

TISU POPULATION.

The great ohjec of your a;n'ntion is to acquire
how ledge ; buy, while you are ignorant of the laws
of your nature, what knostledge can yon be sup-
posed to attain, capable of being applied to any use-
ful or important purposes ?
It has been said that knowledge is power ; and it
may be added with equal truth, that knowledge is
happiness. You wish for both ; but possess neither,
excepting to a very limited extent.

The reason is obvious : the knowledge you have
obtained has been that of meless or inferior objects ;
your acquaintance with these has been limited, aid
the facts you have discovered have been united with
errors of such magnitude, as to depreciate, and to
render useless or injurious, much of the knowledge
which has been acquired, and upon which, tin re-
fore, you set a most erroneous estimate.

Ilow little real benefit or happiness do the public
derive from all your literary pursuits, and from all
the establishments for the acquisition of learning,
when compared with the time therein consumed,
and with the expenditure, national and individual,
which they involve ! It is sufficient, however, that
the inutility of such pursuits has, at length, become
obvious ; and that a different direction is about to be
given to mental investigation, by means of which
man will obtain a knowledge of his own nature ;
and thns be enabled to make a right, and therefore
beneficent use, of all the less useful or unimportant
knowledge now in his possession, or which he may
hereafter acquire.
For the errors of tl►e past, no one, who has, by
acquiring a knowledge of the laws of human nature,
been rendered rational, will ever consider you as
blameable. These errors have been the necessary,
the unavoidable result ofthe unfavourableand vicious
circumstances in which all have been trained, and
under which you have hitherto been compelled to
live. Ia giving a new direction to the pursuits of
many of your number ; and thus rendering efficient
for the prosecution of future important designs, the
greater proportion of your establishments, your best
interests would be consulted ; for by this proceeding
the greatest amount of real happine,s would be al-
forthd and permanently secured to all. If it be a
truth (and such all known facts prove it to be) that
man never possessed the power of feeling arid of
thinking as he pleases, but that he feels and thinks
in obedience to the laws of his nature, then do your
theological studies, your law investigations, your
moral systems, and your theories of government rest
upon an error which is indefensible, and which can
no longer be upheld in opposition to public opinion.
By this single, simple, and now almost the best
ascertained and most obvious of all abstract truths,
it being in the power of every one to demonstrate
it for himself, your learned treatises on divinity,
law, morals, and government are rendered, not only
of no avail, but are proved to be a positive evil to
the world, in consequence of their filling the mind
with confused and fanciful images and no'ions,
which perplex, confound, and ultimately destroy- all
the rational faculties which belong to human nature.
The training which man has thus received through
past ages, has made him a weak, imbecile, and mi-
serable animal, instead of a superior, intelligent, and
rational tieing; a character which each individual is
destined to acquire, as soon as society shall obtain a
knowledge of human nature, and shall live under
circumstances in unison with its laws.

In the promotion of t his great change, all the
powers of your mind may, most advantageously
for yourselves and others, now be e.lled into re-
quisition. A new religion, a new code of laws,
a new moral system, a new theory of government,
and a new science of education, will shortly be
found indispensable.

Rational- books of instruction for the rising
generation, and a complete collection of the most
useful real objects, or the best representations of
these, kith correct explanations of each, will also
be immediately required.
The history of pest ages, too, in order to answer
any useful purpose, must be entirely re-written.
But in assisting to render perfect the science of
the formation of human character, by a full de-
velopement of the influence of circumstances in
producing vice or virtue, misery or happiness,
among the human race, your services will be found
the most important.
The change, then, which, in consequence of a
knowledge of the laws of human nature being ob-
tained, is now about to become general, will be
highly favourable to the advancement of your
future views and proceedings.
Every thing must of necessity, assume a new
character; but the whole arrangement of circum-
stances proposed being in strict accordance with
nature, the change must unavoidably produce uni-
versal satisfaction and happiness.

ROBERT OWEN.
49, Bedford-square, Feb. 1, 1830.

NEWSPAPER PRESS, AND PERIODICAL
LITERATURE OF THE UNITED STATES.

The Travellerand Monthly Gazetteer for January,
published at Philadelphia, in the United States of
America, contains, among many other literary or tides,
a list of all the Newspapers and various Periodicals
printed in the New World, from their commencemen•-,
in 1775, with the gradual increase up to the present
time

States. No. in 1773. No. in 1310. No. in 1330.
Maine 0
Massachussetts 7 32
New Hampshire ... 1
Vermont 0
Rhode Island
Connecticut
N,rw York
New Jersey 0
Pennsylvania ....... 9
Delaware 0 .. 2

Maryland
District of Colombia 0
Virginia
_ _

North Carolina
South Carolina 3
Georgia
Florida ........ 0

0
0 .

. .
Louisiatu 0
Tenne,sce ........... 0
Kentucky .... 0
Ohio
Indiana 0
1%1 ichian 0

Illinois 0
'Missouri 0
A t liansas 0

Cherokee Nation ... 0

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Mademoiselle FIENRIETTE SONTAG left
Paris on the 26th of January. She will reach Aix- la-
Chapelle on the Ist of February, and sing at the theatre
of that town on the 31, in the character of the Princess
of Navarre, in Jean de Paris.—Journal des Deb ats.

It will be remembered that last year the French
drama at the English Opera-pause was enlivened by the
beauty and talents of a clever young actress, caked JENNY
COLON. Whril she came to this country, she was calla('
Miss JENNY COLO:: ; she afterwards took the name of
Madame CoLoN-Larotsz, end last of all was designated
Aladaate LA FONT, from a marriage which she was eat:: Gu
have contracted with the actor LAFoNT, who performed
here along with her, and with whom we believe she had
previously colialtited. f.`,in their return to Pat is; it would ap,
that
these loving parties did net live in that liaro.,(lv
pear„
them a de: Tee oullk
yh(a)sunagpplaiLly,; the aml obtained fir
which was
ttioterlei:oree:pue:stuetilt,fl;ont,atth:ranieelo7:::lo:ntiiit:
union, and that they resolved to break or U? unloose those ties
which had been bound in London. The mother of the
of marriage, en the groUnkt of the minovity of her (laugh-
ter, and of her own want of consent to the match at tll*
time it was centraeted. The husband, LAroNT, made no
oppositioO, so. 1;1'4 ...-I.4ularne JENNY COLON-LA FONT is,
by th‘s authority of the tribunals, Mademoiselle JENNY
COLON once more.

LITERATURL

GREENWOOD'S COUNTY ATLAS OF ENGLAND
AND WALES. LOXDON. 1830.

We have much pleasure in noticing this wcrlc
It is the largest County Atlas taken from 3eual
survey, published some time since by Messrs.
Greenwood and Co., reduced to the scale of a
third of an inch to a mile. The first part has
appeared, but the whole Atlas, containing forty-
six will be published in four parts. Each
map is ornamented by an engraving of one of
the principal buildings in each county, in a very
superior style. The whole four parts may, we
!earn, be had for twelve guineas coloured. We
can only hope that a sufficient number of pur-
chaiers may be found to prevent the publishers
losing, considering the smallness of the price, on
reference to the manner in which the work is
produced.