The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-17 00:00:00

TH F 1 SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 17, 1811

ANOTHER SHOCKING STEAM.

BOAT ACCIDENT.

A little past six o'clock last evening., an the Et-am
tow-boat Henry Edttord, Captain Tice, wjs lcaving
the dock at the foot of Cedar-streot, No.th River, anti
jut as the escape of sfram through th-, chimney had
ben stopped, her boil .1. burst with a tremendous ex-
plhion, tearing her machinery and upper works to
fragments, and killing or wounding nearly every one
on board, as follows : _

Captain Tice, blown sixty feet across the slip, over
the like boat in tow, into the water ; one leg broken,
and otherwise severely injured net scalded. His re-
covery is doubtful.
--, engineer, terribly injured ; both legs
broken ; not scalded ; can hardly recover.
-- Welsh, of the lake-boat in tow, was killed nut-
right—struck by a piece of the cylinder, and terribly
mangled.
One fireman killed outright.
Another fireman nearly killed ; limbs broken.
One passenger in a state-room on deck, lambs broken.
One deck hand had his head badly cut and bruised
by flying tra.7tnents of the boiler.
A son of Captain Tice had his wrist dislocated.

The Captain of an Eastern schooner alongside was
knocked over by the water from the °oiler, and one
side of his face slightly scalded. ,
The Captain's wife (in the cabin) was immersed in
water from the feeding cylinder, but not scalded.
The engire, piston, smoke-pipe, shafts, and upper
work wheel, pilot-house, deck-cabin, &c., were blown
completely away—most of them into the river, so that
they cannot be found. One half the boiler is pushed
forward, and remains on the boat, the other half was
blown into the river. The steam and contents of the
boiler were blown out. aft, so that very little injury by
scalding was experienced. The wreck was taken in
tow by the Citizen for the foot of S.:venteenth-street,
East River : but she was sinking so fast that it was by
no means probable that she would reach her destination.
Tie Henry Eckford was probably the oldest steam-
boat running in the vicinity of New York. She was
built some seventeen years ago by Eckford, and has
been used as a tow-boat on the river and in the harbour.

Toe customary stereotype phrase on such occasions
imports that " No blame cAn be attached to any ore."
We cannot use it here. It seems to us that there was
gross recklessness of life evinced in the running of so
old and worn-nut a boat—that her en;ineer must have
been unqualified for his station—and that the United
States Insp actor, who examines and licenses boats, has
been grossly unfaithful to his duty. We will not cur.
sue this subj.!et now, but await further developments.

A man who was on the wharf at the time, remarked
to us that he was looking at the Eckford as she started,
and heard her squeal when the escaping steam was
shut off. He instantly observed—" There is too much
steam on—we bad better get away from here." Tne
next instant a roar as of cannon was heard, and a cloud
of stem, pierced by flying fragments of boiler, engi:...e,
works, &c., proclaimed that the boat was a ruin.
We understand that three or four persons are miss-
ing in addition to those abeivementioned possibly
escaped. hut more probably blown into the river dead.—
New Yurk Tribune.

BIOGRAPHY OF M. SAY.
(Abridged from the French of M. Mancini.)

M. Say was born at Lyons on the sth of January,
1767 ; he banngiAl to a family of Protestant refugees,
and was the (Iciest of three boys. His father, a re-
spectable merchant, gave him a substantial educ ktion,
and sent him to England in order to learn the English
language, and to get acquainted with commercial matters,
&c. It was then that a circumstance, apparently trifling,
produced a deep impression upon his mind, and deter-
mined his taste.for tie study of p 1 teal economy.. At
the period when he was at a boardiegschotil in a village
near London, the door and window tax, which is
known to be extremely severe in Etipl ind, had just been
voted. Young Say occupied a smolt room ligt.ted by
two windows, and his master found it a very ea•y
matter to ged rid of one of them, in order to escape
the tax. " Hqre, then, am I, deprived ci a window
without the Treaodry being any the richer. What,
then, will be the -if this tax ?" exclaimed the young
economist to Urns, if ; and thirty years afterwarls he
published, in his " Complete Course of Political Eco-
nomy," the curl, us chapter "On Taxes which bring
nothing to the Revenue."

The events of the Revolution turned aside Sly from
the career of commerce. Ho published several po-
litical and literary works. He established, in con-
junction with Chamfott, Ginguene, Amaury, Duval,
and Andrieux, the " Decade Poilosophique," and
he continued for six years to hold the chief editor-
ship of that collection of writings. In 1789 be was
appointed a member of the Tribunes' office. The First
Consul, who had divined the tendency of his mind, en-
dewoured to seduce him, but could not conquer his
natural repugnance to taxes on articles of consumption.
The Tribune rofwed the lucrative appointment of
Director of the Droits Reunis, and was soon cjeeted from
the tribunate. It became necessary for him to seek, in
works of industry, the independ,nce which public offices
denied him, and he established a manufactory for the
spinning of cotton. He settled in the depart nent of
the Oise, and subsequently, upon a larger ecale, in that
of the Pas de C ileis, being by turns engineer, archi.
tect, mechanist, and potter ; by this rude exercise of
all trades be learnei to know and to analyse the pro.
cess of the various arts.
It was in 1803 that the first edition of the
" Treatise on Political Economy" appeared, an im-
mense work, which was completed successively in five
editions, and which perfected the doctrines of Adam
Smith. What will insure an immortal fame to M.
Say are the demonstrations by which he supported his
theory of Means. This theory, foundel upon a scree.
pulnus observation of facts, proved that nations only
paid for products with products, and that every law
which forbids them to buy, also forbids them to si 11.
Say extol! .d the liberty of commerce in the teeth of
the continental blockade ; and also the a►leviation of
taxes, in consideration of the increasing exaggeration of
the droits reunis. The spectacle of the Imperial
regime caused him unconquerable aversion. He could
only behold in the Emperor a wholesale dissipator of
capital, and an inflexible destroyer of men.
Shy profited by the peaci, to revisit England, with a
commission to ascertain the industrial cond tion of that
country. He was received with great distinction by
the great economists of that period—Ricardo, Mel:bus,
and Jeremy Bentham. He was made to sit down at
Glasgow in the chair of Adam Smith, a signal and deli-
cate honour, with which he was deeply touched. Tne
brochure which he published on his ret en, entitled
" England and the English," displayed his strong anti-
pathy to extravagance on the part of Govern
ments. This was followed by the " Catechism of
Political Economy." He also published under the
title of " Little Volume," a collection of ideas
written in the sty l, of Franklin, and vamped with an
artless ingenuity, in which the caustic satire of his
mind is quite predominant. This little book pourtray s
him better than his other works, and describes him as
he existed in private life—sceptical, bantering, an enemy
to al prejudices, rigid in his morals, independent, in-
dustrious, and economical. The satirical powers of his
mind ever delighted in exercising themseltes at the
expense of men without fixed principles, the number of
whom is always great in periods of trouble and political
changes. He speaks thus--" A man without
pies meets another who possesses principles ; they talk
together, and they both despise each other. Which of
them most despises the other? Do you think that it
is the man who has principles ? You are mistaken ; it
is he who possesses none l"

The increasing success of his doctrines drew public
attention towards him more and more every day. His
works were devoured with ardour ; people desired to
hear him ; he gave his first lectures at the Royal
Athenaeum of Paris during two successive winters, with
great success.

Say bad then to defend his doctrines against cer-
tain opponents, the most formidable of whom were
Malthus, Ricardo, and M. Sismondi. The first
had just published his " Essay on the Principle
of Population," and a hazardous theory concerning
some of the phenomena of production. Say addressed
five remarkat:le letters to him, which have been
prirted in the collection of his po,thumous works. He
ought to have attacked the terrible book of " Malthus
on Population," but he fully adopted all its conclusions,
so severely commented upon and unravelled by Ricardo
in his work upon the " Principles of Taxation." Mal
thus condemned to celibacy two-thirds of the huswin
race. He scolded the children who thought proper to be
born without fortune, and announced starvati in to them
in a paternal voice, whilst the eloquent M. de Sismondi
implored mercy for them from machines, and for their
parents from bankers. Ricardo coldly calculated the
number of victims necessary to be sacrificed upon the
alters of competition, as a General calculates the loss
of men indispensable for the blowing up of a redoubt.
Say died on the 15th of Nov. 1832, aged sixty-six
yeolineriii. He left four children, two sons and two daugh-
ters. One of the latter was the wife of the Hon. Ch.
Comte,
, whose death the Academy will soon have to
deplore. Say did not belong to any learned body it,
Prnnee, hut he was a member of the principal academics
of Europe.

THE LOVE MATCH, BY THE AUTHOR OF
"EmlLY."—Mrs. Maberley's new novel is of a kind
whiAi, we feet sure, will give great pleasure to the nume-
rous class of readers who delight in fictions of this de-
scription. The style is good, the story interesting, and
well constructed, and the whole a faithful picture of the
" life " of which the fair author is so distinguished a
feature. If "Emily" was clever, this is something more ;
it is both affecting and true ; it is lively without being
pert, and witty without being malicious. The characters
are all well drawn, and well sustained, and we. follow
the fortunes of the heroine with deep and unabated sym-
pathy to the close. Mrs. Maberly has fully established
her fame as a novelist by this production.—Morning
Herald.
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