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vice of drunkenness is still too prevalent among working men,
w hat wholesome means have been taken to check its progress?
Has any consideration of the protracted hours or labour in
unwholesome atmospheres, devised 1-,ny raitooai in,oyments
in which they could share, apart from intoxicath.n ? Have
any means been taken to raise up thos > whom poverty has
prostrated, or to prevent others from falling? Has wholesome
knowledge been freely circulated amongst them, to super,-ede
vicious excitement? Has any encouragement (or even legal
security) been given them to build their own places of m.o.
ing, and share in those advantages other classes enjoy ? No s
on the contrary, they have been treated like mere machines;
to toil in youth aed starve in age.
Fellow-workmen, we have deemed it advisable thus to no.
tine the charges that have been recently re- echoed against cut•
unions. We do not contend that they are the most perfect
arrangements that could be devised; but we feel confident that
without them we should soon be reduced to a state of misery
of which we can form little conception. At present those who
arc not in union have their w iges protected by three who are.
But if any new enactment is to result from the forthcoming in.
quiry which will en lang,er the existence of our unions, we
may as well cast to the winds our hopes of progressive im.
provement and brighter prospects; for, with the poverty and
degrada:ion that will inevitably ensue, will retrrn tile 4411(u
ranee and brutality of the people, and tho riotings and %Amin;
which characterise former days,
l3rethren, if we have in any way sitecoolati !r, convlnoiog
you of the great importance of ttliiiifi, and the necessity of
bringing all your pottota itntl Clergies together to resist any
new infringe rticnt th your most sacred rights, we shall not deem air labGbr altogether vain.
We remain, in the cause of union, your fellow-workinen,
the London Trades' Committee.

Signed on their behalf,

Committee Rooms, March 19,
3, Bridge-street, Westminster,

LOVET T, See.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hanzpshire Telegraph.)
Poersmotern, March 24.—The Volcano steamer left Malta
on the 19th of February with mails and passengers for Fal-
mouth, and on the 24th of February, when 100 miles east of
of Cape do Gette, she encountered a severe gale, in which
she lost her jibboom, jolly-beat, and life-buoy—seas 'washing
right over her. On the 28th anchored for sheltered in the
Bali of Mahomet, ten miles N. N. E. from the Cape. The
wind increased to an ae ful hurricane at midnight the sea was
was one complete sheet of foam ; the Volcano was driven from
her anchors athwart the hawse of an English brig, the Helen,
for Glasgow, laden with brimstone. The brig's foremast and
bowsprit went immediately, and she soon sank, but the crew
were saved by getting on board the Volcano; the latter then
slipped her cables and got out to sea, but not before she had
received considerable injury ; fortunately, she succerled in
making Cal thagena harbour, from whence, after und, rg,ohys a
temporary refit, she will proceed for Falmouth, and may bbe
expected on the 28th inst.
The Edinburgh, 74, Captain Henderson, is ordered. to
England, to convey troops to North America. She is to .Leave
her lower-deck guns, and part of her crew, with the Tagus
squadron.
The Suffrein, French 84-gun ship, driven on shr.re on the
mud in Cadiz Bay, in the late gales of wind, was lying with
only eight feet of water round her about ten aays since, so
much did the force of the wind lift the water when she drove
Iron. her anchor.
The Larne, 18, Commander Blako, arrived at Calcutta on
the 12th of November. She was about to go to Penang. Thu
Wine:ester was at Trincemalee, waiting the arrival of the
Wellesley ; the Zebra was at Bombay ; Wolf in the Straits
of Malacca, to which quarter she had conveyed three pirates,
who were to be executed at Aehean ; Conway, 28, at New
Mouth Wales, to which quarter the Pelorus, 11, would pro-
ceed as soon as she had landed a freight of silver at Bombay ;
Rattlesnake, 28, was gone with a freight to Madras, and was
to return to Calcutta.
The Volage, 28, Capt. H. Smith, sailed from Plymouth for
the East Indies on Thursday.
The Zebra, 18, left Calcutta for Penang on the 21st or
December.
The Termagant brig will b.: launched from this dockyard on
Monday next.
The Lily, Commander Reeve, and Modeste, Commander
Eyre, two new sloops-of-war—the first constructed by Sir W.
Symonds, and the latter by the Hon. Admiral Elliot—sailed
yesterday on a trial maize of four d tys in the Channel.
The Hastings, 74, and Andromache, 28, from Sheerness ;
Malabar, 74, and Inconstant, 36, from Plymouth ; Belle-
rophon, 74, from Gibraltar; Portland, 52, from Malta;
Pique, and Madagascar, OM Bermuda, may shortly be ex-
pected at . Spithead. The Portland was to leave Malta for
England on the 29th ult., with the flag of Rear Admiral Sir
Thomas Briggs on board.
The Satellite, 18, arrived at Halifax on the Ilth of Fe-
bruary, with 270,000 dollars on board, for Jamaica.
The Herald sloop-of-war was taken out of dock this morn-
in.-b, and is ordered to be masted for commissioning ; the
Atholl troop ship was taken into dock, but as she wants but
little doing to she will he floated again on Monday ; the Ac-
taeon is tarred into the basin, and will be docked previous to
ee-conlanissioning.
The Mediator New York packet sailed yesterday afternoon;
she conveys a large quantity of sovereigns to the Bank of
England Agent at New York. The next packet ship will
sail on the Ist of April. The Mediator returned this even-
ing, having in the course of last night run foul of some ship
in the Channel, by which the has carried away her cutwater
and damaged Ler forefoot under water. She will come into
harbour to-morrow to be docked and repaired.
ra=ROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. -Mr. Oliver, Mato of
the Asia, is promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, and to, the
Princess Charlotte, in the room of Lieutenant Edward. Stop-
lord, to cornmand the Confiance steam-vessel, vice Arlett, de-
ceased ; Commander Newell, of the Orestes, and Commander
Holt, of the Asia, have exchanged ships ; Lieutenant R. P.
Littleworth, J. J. Foord, and J. T. Yates to the Coast Guard;
Mr, Wickham, Purser, to the Lily, vice Dyer, to the Talbot ;
Mr. Harvey Morris, Assistant-Surgeon to the Royal George;
Mr. H. D. Burney, Second Master, and Mr. John Doyle,
Clerk, to the Appollo ; Messrs. C. C. R. Kennear, Charlee
Daniell, and D. W. Brown, Assistant-Surgeons, to the Corn-
wallia ; Dr. P. H. Lowry, Assistant-Surgeon, and Mr.
Edward Moore, Second Master, to the Royal Adzlaid,:: ; Mr.
G. Biddlecombe, Acting Master, Mr. W. T. Nlainprise,
Second Master, and Mr. Robert Forte, Guener, to the Talbot;
Mr. C. M. Gillam, Naval Instructor and Schoolmaster, and
Mr. David Miller, Midshipman, to the Malabar ; Mr. NV,
Foster Carter, Auistant- Surgeon, to the Haslar ; Mr. Jean
James Witiaoin, Clerk, to the Hastings ; Mr. W. Roberts,
Assistant-Surgeon, to the Britannia. The situeation of Super-
intendent at Bermuda, is abolished ; and the late Superinten-
dent, Sir Thomas Usher, has been placed on the half-pay list,
and allowed a pension of 1501. a-year Mr. Chambers, As-
sistant-Surgeon to the Golduneh packet ; Mr. Charles Lyne,
ticom Britannia, to be Clerk art the Talbot.
(From the
.Devonport Independent.)
PLYMOUTH, Mereart 24.—The Inconstant, 36, Captain Da-
raid Prinz, wea,i Out of harbour into the Sound on Tuesday,
having ho.f.t her defects made good. She is ordered to Ports-
mouth to embark the Coldstream Guards for Quebec, and will
previously have her cabins fitted here. The Pique, on her
arrival, will be employed in the same service.
We have received the following letter from her Majesty's
ship Columbine :—" Sir,—llavin,g observed in your paper of
the 17th inst. the name of Mr. Bradley, mate of the Forester,
amongst the deaths on board that vessel, I feel assured you will
be happy for tire sake of Mr. Bradley's friends to correct that
statement on my authority. Mr. Bradley, at the time of the
Columbine's sailing was ill of fever, but 1 believe not dan-
gerously so.—John Mcin, Surgeon of -her Majesty's ship Co-
-1 urn bine, March 19,"
The Jaseur, 18, was taken into dock on Friday to be exa-
mined, previous to being put in commission.
Tho buoy boat, sai.led- on Wednesday with stores, for Fal-
mouth. The Ilitigence, naval transpost, sailed on Thursda with stores,rmr Pembroke. y,
The :tlinden, 74, Captain Sharpe, C. 8., was laying at
re,oraltar, the 8:11 inst., wind bound, with troops on board. A
seaman of the name of Hern, fell overboard from the fore-top
and WAS drowned.
The Barossa, hired transport, having been new coppered
and caulked, pr e% ious to her} taking troops to Canada, will be
taken out of dock this day (aturday.)
The Malabar, 74, Captain Harvey, was warped to her sail-
ing moorings yesterday. She will be ready to go into the
Sound about a fortnight hence, and will proceed to Cork,
and receive on board the 23d Fusileers, for conveyance to
Halifax,

We are informed that the Dublin, on her arrival from South
America, will be paid off at Portsmouth.

Nye regret to state, that on Saturd,4 morning last,
,bout eight o'clock, the Unity, of 80 tons liurthen, belonging
to this port, the p;-operty of the mastu, Captain Stevens, went
down in a squall of wind, off Lowestoft; it is supposed, in
consequence of her cargo, which consisted of wheat, having
shifted. The Unit, was on lrer passage from 13urham, in
Norfolk, to London; and so sudden was the accident, that it
was with the utmost ditil,ralty the crew could save themselves,
which they happily affected; but it gives us pain to add, that
Mrs. Stevens, th-a wife of the Captain, who was in the cabin
at the time, unfortunately perished with the vessel and cargo.
Woj understand the vessel was insured. —Suffolk Chronicle.
• Goon JUDGES the last Beaconsfield cattle
show a gentleman exhibited a good barren heifer, but was
disappointed of the prize. At the Aylesbury show he won
with the same beast the prize awarded to the best in-calf
heifer. This " barren" " in-calf " heifer was killed, very fat,
at Christmas. We think, next time, a jury of matrons should
be cmpannelled and sworn upon the occasion. —Aylesbury
New., .
The Corporation of Doncaster is stated to be in
debt to the tune of 100,0001. ; so that the St. Leger, it would
seem, while it fills the pockets of others, produces no profit at
home.

A letter from Copenhagen of the Ist inst., says that
it 0 ice in the Sound at Elsincur has become so solid that
carriages and heavily laden waggons arc continually passing
PSelrilgittamaal
between. That place and Helsinbarg. The Sound is only two
Lagues in breadth, and numbers of Swedes arc crossing every
day, some of them coming up to Copenhagen..
the eay.) from one
thillea Mcaabrqauloinsgof
itai.:iriated animal
Lor°d"SeMaZnrld%a.yereevepnroiicTe'diansg
Parliament-
s reet, from the House of Lords to Audiey-square, the horse
PerPendi'-ntlarly, and, over-
balancing ccaomfe
one. s 1 itft:
Bandet
to utnhnementahgeer a; b lac;
Idaassthi
thet:g
balancing himself, fcll to the ground ; the groom with great
presence of mind threw himself over the neck of the horse
,erred on his hind legs, almost
and secured him until assistance arrived ; at this moment,
Lord Seaford threw the reins tic.wn and leaped from 1;
the ea ,
fcauwed by the Marquis, Vilio, both escaped. The horse was
sc.:ured, and with tl •,,.4b (wteh• 13 was b in •
broken pieces) taken
home.