Star.
London, England, 1830-08-24 00:00:00

DUBLIN 7'HBATRE-ROYAL.

Sale of Me Property of the Lessee for non-payment of Rent.
Friday there was a sale at our national establishment, which was
stated by the auctioneer, Mr. Littledale, to have been for arrears of rent,
or rent charge due to Mr. George Bicknell, of London. There was no
notice given of the sale in any of the public prints of the city; the
only notification was the posting of two or three bills on the entrance
doors In Hawkins-street. At twelve o'clock, the appointed :hour, a
few persons were assembled at the doors. In a short time afterwards
Mr. Littledale made his appearance, and, with a few gentlemen, en.
tend the theatre. However, those who appeared in the character of
Wane. were not permitted to enter until more than half an hour af-
terwards. The large centre chandelier was sold for 301. The next
lot stated in the bills were eighteen small chandeliers that lighted the
interior of the house, but these were not sold in consequence of an ob.
jection made by a gentleman in attendance. The auctioneer then put
up three small chandeliers, one of which he said was in the Mana-
ger's room. Some of the bidders having expressed a wish to see it,
they were ushered into this apartment. Here everything was in die.
I order and confusion—books, pspers, play-bills, ate. were lying
about in various directions. The auctioneer remained in this
room about two minutes, and returned to the stage, where he put up
three chandeliers—they were sold at 41. The third lot—" The several
articles in the manager's mom and in the green-room." The furniture
of the manager's, or more properly speaking, the lessee's room, con.
slated of some chairs, a sofa, and oral table—there was an iron safe
which was open, but being a fixture, was not included—in the Green.
room no*hing of value appeared, except a large looking-glass; this lot,
including the furniture of both rooms, was sold at 331. The foutth and
last lot, as stated in the bills, consisted of " the several articles in the
dressing.roorns ;" the bidders were ushered into four or five filthy apart.
ments, which appeared to have been the dressing rooms for the per.
formers, and those holding the lowest situation* about the establishment.
This lot was sold for MI. When this last lot was sold, the auctioneer
said, " Now, gentlemen, the sale is over, the articles must he removed
forthwith." The entire sale occupied about i 0 minutes, and was carried
on with the utmost hare and precipitation.

TIIE TURF.

TATTEKSALUS.

Yesterday there was a thin attendance and bu.iness slack; Priam
advanced a trifle, 7to 4 being snap wd at. Houten was stationery, nor
did either Maria, Moss Rose. or T 4 Cardinal move from their places.
St. Nicholas was talked about, but nothing was done; there is a screw
loose with Raby, who, although quoted at 21 to I is in point of fact
quite out of the betting, some of the bets were made agt.inst outsiders,
but taking the afternoon's busineu generally, it was dull and unim-
portant. A few engagements were made on du races at Ascot this day.
The closing prices were as follow
ASCOT KING'S PLATE, (This day.)
Even on Lord Uxbridge's Rough Robin, p.p.
2 to 1 apt Lord Jersey's Olenanney.
Great Park Stakes, (Ascot, this day.)
5 to 4on his Majesty's The Colonel apt LUrd Mounteltarks's
Raseekaa. mot p.p. offers to take 6to 4 about The Colonel, not p.p. and
7 4 tared apt Raaselas, pp.
DIIIICA ITEM ST.
7 te/ 4 apt Mr. Chifney's Priam (taken freely)
- •6so I Lord Queensberry's Hassan (taken)
• 10 to 1 Mr. Clifton's Mow Rose
16 to 1 Lord Queensberres•Maria
V • IS ma 1 Mr. Shepherd's The Cardinal (taken)
• • 17 to 1 Mr. Richardson's St. Nicholas
20 tel Mr. Petre's Brun:midi"
22 to 1 Lord Cleveland's Rsby (no hack, rs)
22 to 1 —. Duke of Leeds' lady Mowbray
30 to 1 Mr. Powlett's Lady Rmmeline
40 to I Mr. Beardswenh'a Birmingham
40 to 1 Mr. Grant's The Balkan
50 to 1 Mr. Ridodale's Rryen
.50 to t Colonel Cradoeli'. the Barber
50 to 1 Sir T. Mostyn's Laurie Todd.
Even between the field and two; money given for choice of the two.
1,500 to 1,100 on the Barber apt the Balkan (taken.)
/GAL WAS= AT PONTITRACT.

Even betting between St. aniiiiiießed Rover, p.p.
BETTING IN THE COUNTRY.

At Ilasschestet and other sporting places the betting of late has been
unusually brisk. Priam, Hassan, and Moss Sow are in high favour
and several others are backed at prices below the London quotation. The
following is a statement oldie odds up to Saturday night :

THE OUT STAKES AT wAnwici,
•7to 4 apt Lawrie Todd. I sto 1 opt Ihe Mumma.
9 to 4 aim Birmingham. 5 to 1 ogee say other.

DONCASTLIIIIr. LlOll.

7to 4 apt Priam 1 10 to 1 apt &unswieket.
7 to 1 apt Hama. 18 to 1 tript Baby.
I to 1 apt Masa Row. 20 to 1 apt Lady Mowbray.
12 to 1 apt Maria. 26 to 1 opt Lady Emmeline.
13 to 1 apt The Cardinal. 20 to 1 apt The Barber.
16 to 1 apt W. ?Belisle&

A freeholder presenting himself at one of the country
booths, and hulas given his vote for Mr. Paget, was told that he had
gather vets. " Have 111 (saki he) then kt Mr. Paget have that also !"
retortottirodseed a beasty laugh bees the by.standers..—
likwarsr
Thursday, while the servants of Lady Aylesford. of Lower
Oreevenmenvet, were et dimmer, some expert thief towed his way to the
pain by tbs tame an s, and carried sway several pieces of plate.

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MR. OWEN'S SECO.VD LETTER.
TO THE OOVERNMETIFFOIEfirtE OF. FRANCE.
In my first Letter, I stated that all people now require
institutions, to form a superior character for the population;
arrangements to direct their skill, capital, and industry, the
more advantageously for the coantr! ; and practical mea-
sures to unite all in good and kind feelings for each other ;
and that, in my next letter," I would expainavhat the institu-
tions are which prevent the formation o a superior character
among the people ; which keep them generally in poverty ;
and which create disunion among them."
All Governments have hitherto naturally adopted such
measures as they thought were the best calculated to insure
their safety and permanence ; but, cooing to the inexperience
of former times, none understood the art of governing for the
mutual benefit of the people and themselves. Facts were
unnoticed, or not followed up to their legitimate conse-
quences. Human nature was misunderstood; the science of
society remained unknown ; and vague conjecture, and ran-
dom imaginations, directed the whole proceedings of mankind.
The world is thus governed at this moment.
In consequence of these errors, the governments of all Cie
nations of the world have entirely mistaken their course ; and
instead of forming institutions to remove ignorance in the
people, and to create a superior character for each of them,
they have devised establishments to perpetuate this grossest
ignorance, and to engender a variety of the most inferior
characters among the great mass of the population whorl:
they governed. They contrived various measures to keep
this mass in perpetual poverty, or in the continual dread of
it. They encouraged all means of disunion among the mul-
titude, under the supposition that they would be more easily
kept. in subordination than if they were taught to unite, and
have rational kind feelings for each other.
This is the present condition of the civilized and unfivilized
state of man wherever he has yet been found. Are you,
men of France, prepared to break this triple bondage of
ignorance; to meet your present difficulties fairly; and t.
say, we wish to know the truth, and to act rationally in con-
formity to it ?
If you are, I will state to you the task which you have to
perform, and you will thus discover that, although the
schoolmaster is abroad, and some progress has been made in
the march of intellect, you have scarcely yet entered upon
the first steps of that knowledge which can satisfy human
expectations, or insure happiness to mankind.
What are the causes which keep you in ignorance, and
make you mentally imbecile ; which oppress you with the
dread of poverty, or make you feel its actual existence; and
which now divides man front man, solely for the imagined
benefit of those who govern ?
I solicit the attention of all the faculties of your mind to
the replies which lam about to make to these all-imp of
questions.
The cause of the present mental imbecility, moral cow-
ardice, and utter confusion of intellect and conduct among
the human race, arises front them all being made recipients,
early in life, of false religions. The experience of the past
enables us now to declare it, as an universal truth, that env
child may be forced to receive any false religion, and to be-
lieve it the only true one; and, in consequence, to have all
the feelings of his nature aroused in favour of it ; and to be
made willingly to suffer death in support of it. True reli-
gion is truth, pure and undefiled from all error. The ascer-
tained and universally-acknowledged facts which have accu-
mulated through past ages, enable us now to declare, with-
out fear of any rational contradiction, that no such religion,
entirely free from the impure admixture of error, has yet
been current, among mankind. That, in every part of
the world that which has been, or is now Balled,
by the name of religion, is mixed up with, and
is defiled by, innumerable grievous and most melan-
choly errors, calculated to make their votaries incon
sistent and irrational in the extreme, both in principle and
in practice; and that while these errors shall be forced into
the infant mind, it will be vain and useless to expect that
men can be formed to be otherwise than ignorant and vi-
cious.

This is alone the character which all the false religion,
in the world now force upon the human race. It is every
where compelled to become vicious, and far more ignorant
than Nature would form it, except for this lamentable u►isiu-
struction.

Men of France, are you prepared to remove this obAaele
which stands pro ineptly in the way of your progress to
knowledge, peace, and happiness? Are you prepared for
the reception of truth without any admixture of error on
the subject of religion—on the cause of your poverty,. and
on the sources of your internal and external divisions
And, if you are, are von also ready to act in conformity with
the knowledge which will be thus developed ?
If you are not ready for these truths, and to act upon
them, then is your present revolution a.change only of men,
I and not of false principles for true ones. You will only fol-
low up the old common game of ignorant people, and ex-
change one set of aristocratic governors for another. All
former revolutions have terminated alike in this result.
Great Britain and the United States are to-day governed by
an aristocracy of wealth. And until you know how to
overcome this evil, you will, after every chance of men. he
still governed in the same manner.
In my next letter I will explain the cause of the' perpetual
poverty of the people under the existing order of society, and
develop the means by which the cause may be for ever re-
moved. . .

But, in the meantime, before it maybe too late, let me
direct your attention to the mistaken and miatiught
duals who, by the previous circumstances of their education,
were the, immediate cause of your present most desirable
situation.

They were the victims of your sensele s institutions, and
were formed by them, and, consequendy, deserve your pity
and commisseration. '

Plinhl them not—let them be supported., M reaionablit
comfort, arid your revolution will prosper. .If you act other-
wise, you have a knowledge of t •.most valuable principles
of human nature yet to acquire.
ROBgkT OW h

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Last week Mrs. Ridsell, aged 60, a roost respectable wo-
man, who has long been in the habit of attending the first families in
Bexley and its vicinity, in her capacity of nurse, underwent a tided and
final examination, befOre Captains Cater and Levi,, and the Rev. gip,
Davies, the county magistrates, at the Golden Lion lea, on Beide y.
heath, Kent. charged with having administered points in some melted •
butter, or fish sauce, about seven weeks since, to blr. !datum,*
on Bexley-heath, and his wife. The circumstances of the case excikd
considerable interest in the neighbourhood for some titre past from the
well.known respectability of the accused, and the greatest care Lid viten.
lion has been bestowed by the magistrates to sift the affair lathe bottom.
On the day previous to the alleged dreadful crime having been consasiteed,
Mr. 111. had been to Woolwich, where he purchased two fine trviste, as
he thoughts at the extraonlinary low prim of one shilling each, and at.
the time of their being cooked it may well be supposed that they
were nut in a very fresh state, but nearly in a state of deeempositioo—
just in that state which might be called • betwixt and between:" Now,
an the fish being served up with butter and sauce, it appeared that both
Mr. and Mrs. Milburn partook pretty freely of the cheap repeat, and,
on die following day, were much alarmed at !lading thenweelvee in,
great pain, and their .bodice oaasiderably swollen. A mews was
called in, who, from the appearances, gave it as his opinion that
they bad both been poisoned, ant be instantly procribed the ne-
cevasty remedies to candaact its ellitemomd anted that had not a me.
dicel man been called in apse the inniant, the.censdpicacht might have
=fatal. it was Aeneas& =Watt the coshes"
.whaelt. hod
eaten were the canoe at •the Alter a bag invni i-
gallon, the magistrates dedend thonweless Pettedly whiled that the
Wags, of the complainant and his wilt peeeeeded from the impose state
at the turbots which On had eaten, sad ordered the sensed es be dia.
Omega instanter.

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LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.
Tht' " °ugh** of Universal ilium." which ^forms the last pub-
lished Voltime.of Dr. laardner's •4 Cabinet Cyclonsedia," appears to us,
On a perusal which we have just completed, to be a most judicious and
earef.ll abridgment of those facts which constitute all we know or cou-
p cure on the history of past ages. The public are seldom inclined to
attribute much original talent to a compiler; but to make a goodabridg-
meat. we hesitate not to say. requires a mind of a very peculiar cast.—
hook at the space which the "Universal History" occupies on the li-
brary slid yes —itself only an abridgment—and reflect what discrimination
and judgment is required to select, from its innumerable edges, those
great events alone which have been the parent events, if we may use the
expression, from which so many subordinate ones have descended ; and
then some idea may be formed of the kind of merit requisite to execute
such a tisk satisfactorily. There is a vast difference between the " Uni-
versal:lll'story" in bulk, and the little Tom-Thumb volumes of Sleidan
anti others, which issued formerly from the press of the Elsevhs, and the
other celebrated typographers of Holland ; and bet some of their vo-
lumes required and employed minds perhaps more truly gigantic and
original, than what were employed in the larger week alluded to.—'
The volume which has occasioned these remarks; we consider a for-
tunate exhibition of the abridging talent; and a most useful work it
must prove to every one who wishes to fix in his mind a consistent view
of history. As we make it a rule to select, from every book we review;
on the principle that we have no right to occupy our, or more conettly,4
our readers' columns, with works which are not productive of emitted-
vantage to them, we shall extract a paragraph from the very Judie:Lime
introductory sketch of what may be termed the conjectural history of
man, as a fair specimen of the spirit with which the work is composed :
" ORIGINAL STATIC or Miter.—A point which has rive oc.
easion to a good deal of ingenious conjecture, is the original of
mankind. Philosophers, on surveying the human race in ha ailment
situations, have traced out four distinct states,--thoes of the mire fruit
and plant.eater, the hunter, the herdsman, and the cultivatiw,—and
have generally inferred that man has progressively passed through ell
these states, commencing at the lowest. Yet this is still but mere con-
jecture, unsupported by any historic evidence. No tribe has ever yet
been found to civilise itself; Instruction and improvement always come
to it from shelled; and experience would rather lead to the inference,
that the savage is a degeneration from the civilised life. In the very
earliest history, that of the Bible, we find the pasterel and agrieultund
life co.existing almost from the commencement of the world; at all
periods we find man possessed of the useful and arts, the
master of flocks and herds, the employer of the spade, the p h, and
the sickle. It is in vain we seek for commencement,—all is progress.
In imagination, we may conceive a time, when the human race was in
the lowest degree of culture ; but, on inquiry, we every where meet
the arts, meet men collected into societies, meet property, legislation,
and government.
" It may, perhaps, be collected from the testimony of the sacred Scrip-
tures, and from the deductions of philosophy, that man has always
existed in society, and that the fleet societies were families, the first
form of government patriarchal; and the following may be stated as
the most probable hypothesis : namely, that man commenced his exist-
ence in the social state under the mild and gentle form of government
denominated patriarchal ; that his first nourishment was the fruits of
trees and plants, which ripened in abundance for the supply of his
wants in some temperate and fertile region of the earth, possibly that
at the south of Caucasus, or where now extends the paradisal vale of
ravhmeer ; that gradually he became a keeper of flocks and herds, and
a cultivator of corn ; that families spread and combined; and that from
their union arose monarchies, the most ancient form of extended civil
government.
It is in this last state that we propose to consider mankind, and
to trace the great and important events that have taken place among the
various stems and branches of the human race; to show how, beneath
the guiding energy of the Creator and Ruler, the great machine of human
society has proceeded on its way, at times advancing, at times apparently
retrograding, in the path of perfection and happiness. And the final
result of our view of the deeds and tiestinies of man will, we trust, be a
firm conviction in the mind of every reader that private and public fe-
licity are the result alone of good education, wise laws, and just go-
vernment, and that all power which is not based on cquiry is unstable
and transient.
" It is to the Caucasian race that the history of the world must mainly
confine itself, for with that race his originated almost all that ennobles
and dignifies mankind : it is the chief depositary of literature, and the
great constructor of philosophical, political, and religious systems. We
shall restrict ourselves, therefore, chiefly to the history of that race,
briefly premising views of the state and character of the iEthioptans, the
Mongols, and the Indians."
We cannot dismiss this neat and comprehensive volume, without
discharging another debt we owe to the spirited bibliophists of the
present day, in recommending, as a most appropriate companion to the
history just mentioned, a beautifally executed family Cabinet Atlas, of
the same size. The maps of the Atlas we allude to are engraved ea
steel, by Mr. Starling, with great neatness and accuracy. We re-
member to have seen former small adassea, rendered quite illegible by
the injudicious shading of the seas ; but from this fault, and others, the
series of maps we allude to, is etempt.