Star.
London, England, 1831-06-18 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL. •
Thursday Evening.
(Tito)! OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
I passed through the Potteries to-day, and
found there had been a complete stand among
the colliers and potters. The numbers who
have turned out are variously stated ; some
say five, others ten, and another account is, they
are 20,000. Troops have been marched to the dis-
turbed quarters. I•met the 80th regiment going into
Stone, after a march of ten days, from Portsmouth,
and every thing appeared warlike on the road, from
stragglers in one place, and in others numerous',
Jaggage carts, with women and children. Crowds
A* the potters and their families turned out in dif-
ferent parts to see them. I hope things will be
.settled, and there will be no occasion to employ
the military, who are, however, nothing in point of
number to the refractory at this moment.
A band of felons, strongly ironed, filled the
inside and outside of a coach from Liverpool this
morning to London.

The lay crops all the way from London to Li-
verpool are most luxuriant, and no complaints
from a single farmer is heard.

MR. OWEN'S INSTITUTION FOR TEACHING
THE NEW SCIENCE OF SOCIETY.
Many of our readers are probably not aware that
the indefatigable philosopher, ROBERT Ow EN, has
opened in London a regular Lecture Room for oral
instruction on the principles of the Science of So-
ciety. Few of them can be ignorant that this
gentleman has long taken cognisance in its social
relations of human nature in the abstract; and
has examined how the human character is
formed; and whether the accidents which
have directed his ordinary gregarious arrange-
ments are the best which could have been
adopted. There is sound principle in these general
views, and though all men may not agree in all
Mr. Owen's reasonings and inferences, yet the sub.
ject in the abstract, and his doctrines and disco-
veries in particular, merit the attention which they
are receiving, and, we may say, the general atten-
tion of the public. That there is something radi-
cally wrong in systems which produce such con-
trasts of luxury and want, opulence and penury,
virtue and vice, knowledge and ignorance ; and,
above all, which administers to the exaltation of
SO Few, at the cost and waste of so 31. AN
is palpable. To correct the errors of the ex-
isting systems by instruction and advice, and not
by violence or personal infliction, is Mr. Owen's
professed object; and certainly no man ever at-
tempted so much, who excited less animosity in
vested interests, and who enjoyed more general
credit with all parties for purity of intentions.
The establishment, or Lecture Room, of
Mr. Owen, is in Burton-street, Burton-cres-
cent ; and here, every Sunday morning, from
eleven to one, and every Sunday evening, from
seven till nine, he discourses on branches of his
social system. He also, as will be seen by an ad-
vertisement in this Paper, intends to deliver Lectures
On Wednesday evenings, and to have a class on ano-
ther day for detailed elementary instruction. His
auditory are most respectable, and constantly in-
clude some of the best intelligence in the metro-
polis, as well as distinguished visitors from the
country, and many foreigners.
The building, in which Mr. Ow Ex's New
School of Philosophy is taught, has some peculiari-
ties. In front of the building, outside, is inscribed,
" School of the Rational System of Society,
established 1831." In two aide compartments are
the following: —" To prevent the longer continu-
ance of ignorance ; to remove the cause of poverty
and crime." Below this, in front, " Robert
Owen's Institution—open Sunday, eleven a. m.;
half-past seen p. m. Wednesday eight, and
Thursday eight p. tn." Mr. Owen has placed in-
scriptions on all sides of the interior.
In front, or behind the Teacher's desk, are the
the three following :-Ist. On the left—" This
Institution is open to develope the rational system
of society, intended to supersede the irrational sys-
tem, by which alone the world has been hitherto so
ignorantly and so miserably governed." 2d. In
the centre, behind the teacher's desk—" Sacred to
truth, without mystery, mixture of error, or fear
of man." 3d. On the right—" The highest prac-
tical duty of man is to exert all his powers, to re•
move inferior and vicious circumstances from

around society, and to replace them with superior
and virtuous circumstances only."

On the opposite end, in front of the gallery, is
written in two compartments—
lst. " The old system of the world is founded
on the belief that the character of man is formed
by himself." _ . .

2nd. " The new rational system of society is
founded on the knowledge that the character of
man is formed for him."
On the one side " The fundamental factson which the ra.
tionsi system of Society is founded, art—
ist. That man is a compound being, whose character is
formed of his constitution or organization at birth, and of
the effects of external circumstances upon it, from birth to
death ; such original organisation and external influences
continually acting and re-acting each upon the other.
2d. That man Is compelled by his original constitution to
receive hie feelings and his convictions independent of his
vitt. _ .

31c1, That his feelings, a his eonrirtions, Or both of them
united,:create the motive to action called the will, which
stimulates him to act, and decides his actions.
4th. That the organization of no two human beings is
ever precisely similar at birth ; nor can art subsequently
form any two individuals, from infancy to maturity, to bs
the mute.

yth. That nevertheless the constitution of every infant, ex-
cept in case of organic disease, is capable of being formed or
matured, either Into a very iliferior, or a very superior
being, according to the qualities of the external circumstances
allowed to influence that constitution from birth.

On the other side —"The science of society, or so-
cial state of man includes :

1. A knowledge of the laws of human nature derived
from demonstrable facts, and which prove man to be a
social being.
2. A practical kowledge of the best mule of producing,
in abundance, the most beneficial necessaries and comforts,
for the support and enjoyment of human life.
3. A practical knowledge of the best mode ofdi.tribuling
these productions, most advantageously for all.
4. A knowledge of the principles and practice, by which
to form the new combination of circumstances, for training
the infant to become the beet matured of human being.
5. A knowledge of the principles and practice by which
to govern man under these new arrangements, in the best
manner, as a member of the great family of mankind.
1,;. A knowledge of the principles and practice, for uniting
in one general system, in their due proportions, the !tee pee.
ceding branches of the Science of Society ; to effect and se-
‘..tre, in the best manner for all, the greatest amount of per-
manent benefits and enjoyments with the fewest disad-
vantages.

In the starving counties, potatoes are, it seems,
but 2d. a-stone of 141 b. yet the absentee landlords,
tithe collectors, and tax gatherers, have so com-
pletely drained the district of money, that the
People have not 2d. to feed their families.