The Sun.
London, England, 1833-05-06 00:00:00

COLDNESS OF POLITICAL ECONOII'.

o on the Se%g
°' It was only a year ago, that the House heard th,t:bo
of the people of Ireland were obliged to g
pick up the sea-weed for food. Were those stiffen two,
who could scarcely stand up in the attitude of hutranecoooplo
be driven to appeal to the cold calculatious of political
.0p
—Mr. D. W. Harvey's Speech on Mr. Ric
pr
0Q
defect in education occurring in
Poor Laws for Ireland.of oje
the case
cacircua
nious and in other respects able man, in ": , 1
stances becomes in the highest degree miarblec,gll6lo
such persons would be ignorant and silent at the !di,' cot
there would be no harm done ; but, unfortnnatelisipio
ceit is too frequently the companion of Partisio tbo
and envy also, of those who excel in the departing
fail in, is too often found in the same society.
Mr. Harvey speaks with contempt of the "cola r", 0,01
tions of political economy," because this science'"
fill the stomachs of a hungry population with a le at so
supply of loaves and fishes. Suppose a vessel lei'
tossed about the ocean without compass. or the °kit; if
making an observation ; the navigators conseque'o6!
norant where they were, or where to steer, with de id
e and shipwreck staring the unhappy
famine
face ; what would be said of a ho shop Trod
passenger t%
to sneer at the cold calculations of astronoulY
lunar observations will not fill the belly or reerole:
water-casks ; but, in the first place, had these c(Pfe,e
crew beri
lations been properly made, they would have rtebeV
the occurrence of distress; and, secondly, they ar`, 'or
means of obviating the recurrence or the contiol°
the misfortune. The best thing for the 110°'e.11414
tlioly, would be
and to administer totheir t • in
present wan o , f,e
perhaps, all that an ignorant person would think ,1
for a well supplied ship to heavedlie
he also. conceited, he might ridicule the coldness elh
that will not instantly clothe the naked or feed the
—Spectator.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—(THISY nAk

eII;FROM LLOYD'S.
DEAL, MAY 4 AND s.—Wlnd S.E., light 30- od
ict,
—Arrived from the river, and sailed, the Pyrativi,st,
for Singapore ; Sculby Castle, and Thomas
Burnett, for China. $#A
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 4. —Wind light an. Ipoiv
—Arrived his Majesty's ship Conway from tor,
and his Majesty's ship Nimrod from Lisbon Oucbil",
sailedPa 1
sedl4iy.th the Duke
January,
D ukeof
fromßuccleught,helicenaapinegaoffr°Guils;,„
on the 10th of March, and from St. Helena 00 thel/,l'
01
March ; Duke of Bedford, Rowan, from Beng'
on the 23d of December, from Madras on b„eb;
January, and from St. Helena on the 22d of
of
London, Wimble, from Madras. vg, freo ts
FALMOUTH, MAY 3 AND 4. Wind -'' kit-1
variable, and light.—Arrived the Goldfinch Prd
Bermuda—sailed on the light.—Arrived
ult. and from
17th; and Creole, Synons, from Pays. Stegs.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 4.—Arrived the Swiftsorea
from Africa ; Marengo, Two Brothers, )01'
Denary, and Agnes and Anne, from New Orleao
Hjun, from New York ; Minica, from liewl'uoel,ar
and Laura and Anne, from Geneva. Sailed the
Carr, for Batavia ; and John Taylor, Cr°f„°r l
stelimil
Bengal. An embargo was laid on all Dutch 1`
Surinam, as a British man-of-war was crujoil
harbour. „of:mai
CLYDE, MAY 3.—Arrived the Diana, re,r'',l,l
;
Helen M‘Gregor, from Demerara Bolivar,
Tobago ; Margaret, Mowall, from St. Viva°.
King Henry, from Barbadoes. plOg:
DARTMOUTH, MAY 4.—Arrived off port the, Vr'''
from Charleston ; Martha, Newman, from =lse%.
Vr
and Eneyheiler, from Lisbon. POe 0
saly
PvLei,lYA.oan Faro ; and
H
,MAY
the Mayflower,
s.—Arrived the March po
aciker,
fro°
St. Michael's. Quickt
COWES, MAY s.—Artived the Speedy,
St. Michael's. Ce('
PORTLAND, MAY s.—Arrived off port the
Thompson, from Bengal.

rd
The Anacreon, White, from Liverpool to arg
ndlllo
„
driven on shore the 4th ult., on Hogg I')land'be sfe%'d
feared would be wrecked—cargo expected to
The Olinda, from Liverpool to St. AndreWA'
Brunswick, was fallen in with the 21st of N'ar'eref
doned, and with seven feet water in her bold'.
to
passengers arrived at Boston. 00
The Batavia, from China, arrived at Egf°'
16th ult.