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and of scientific power. As long as the supply of our
wants shal lbe made to depend an the artificial and
fluctuating demand of the market, so long is prosperity
a positive evil. If our storehouses were empty, and our
markets ill supplied, then trade wcarld flourish, employ-
ment would be procured, the workmen would receive
high wages, and the very expenditure of these wages
would serve to increase the general demand, and with
it the means of future employment for their labour—
until, alas! prosperity again approached us, until our
storehouses became filled, and our markets overflowed
—and then our farmers would begin to starve, and our
manufacturers to become bankrupt. Some new vent
is, doubtless, occasionally found, either at home or
abroad, producing a temporary relief from the evils of
abundance, but part of the immense amount of spare
capital which at present inundates this country, is in-
stantly employed to supply each increasing demand,
and the subsequent revulsion in the market is only the
I more quickly and painfully felt.
If some malevolent being were to afford us the means
of increasing our production, instantaneously, tenfold,
on condition that the present commercial relation of de-
mand and supply should remain unaltered, we should
probably all die of want before the end of the year; for
the glut on the market would be insupportable, nothing
would sell for half its prime cost, and the nation would
become bankrupt.
Surely we cannot long remain blind to the Ira, that
increasing prosl•crity is but increasing misery, so long
as our commercial system retains its present form !
Surely it need not continue to be a condition of enjoyment,
that the means of enjoyment shall not superabound!
Yet this condition, useless as it is at all gene,, and
ruinous, as it has proved itself, in pioisortinn as we ap-
proach to abundance and prosperity, is viitualiy inn-
posed on the enjoyment of the wot Id, so long as men'
continue to buy and sell i r the market against each
other; in other words, so long as the existing system of
individual commercial competition exits. Could a
malignant spirit have imposed a restriction r: ore in•
geniously fraught with destructive influence to society ?
The more rapidly we accumulate all the goDd thing; of
this world mound us, the more certainly do they eiude
our grasp I Was TANTALUS mote severely putiiihe.i
than this?

And not to want and poverty alone ate the effects of
this individual competition confined. I, as a merchant,
wish to buy cheap, and td sell dear : but all other mer-
chants wish me to buy dear, and to sell cheap. Is Iva
one man's hand against every man, and every man',
hand against him? Is it not a proof of the excellence
of human nature that honest men should be foun i in al
society with institutions such as this?
If wealth, and Lonesty, and benevolence, aril union,'
ale desirable to be attai:ied, do we act wiely in sur-
rounding ourselves by circumstances so pregnant with
poverty, and dishonesty, and malevolence, and (lissom-
tion? Is it not possible to combine other circumstances,
under ss hich abundance shall be indeed a blessing, and
where it shall become cur appal t, as well as our real
interest, to practise honesty and benevolence towards
our fellow-creatures ?

My father proposes to combine these circumstances in
a comtnunity of persons, who shall unite their interests,
like one large family, and produce, in the first place
Jor their own consumption. They arc thus entii ely in-
dependent of any market, until their ow•n wants are
supplied, and scarcely any inconvenience can arise from
excess Of prodoct:on, escept that which re,ults from
want of storehouses. In such establishments, the de-
tailed manaaements of which shall be shortly sub•
witted to the Public, the evident effect of each new im-
portation of mechanical power is to diminish the neces-
sity for labour on the pai t of the members, and thus to
afford them a real and certain advantage. Mechanical
inventions have hitherto been brought into competition
with the Working classes; may they not now be brought
to theii. assistance? We have learnt how to create
almost any amount of produce; can we not form ar-
rangements to distribute and to enjoy it?
True it is, that the leisure time, which the employ-
ment of mechanical power would thus gradually afford
to all classes, might produce inkirious consequences to
those whose minds were uncultivated; but this appa-
rent disadvantage becomes the greatest of blessings.
where ethieation is made, as it will be in all the new
establishments, the first and most important object of
s.ociety.

am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
ROBEILT DALE OWEN.

Pall Mall, June 22,1824.

A private letter from Greece states, that the Turks
have effected a landing in Candia and Negropont, but
that at the fir_t•mentioned place they were repulsed with
great slaughter. The force of Ulysses at Negropont
was considerable, and it was fully expected that the
utmost extent of the evil of the arrival of Turkish
troops would be, to prolong the resistance of the fortress
of Nerropfort. No details are given of the affair in
Candia. According to this letter, the Turks have aban-
doned all idea of invading the Morea this summer.
Accounts from Perpignan say that a disorder of a
ce►ions r.at•rme having appeared at Naples, and that it
had even spread as f: ai the Streight of Messina, orders
have been iLat goods arriving from Naples and
Sicily shall Le provisionally subject to ten days quaran-
tine in the ports of tl.e Eastern Pyrennees.
Thursday, a few hundreds of fresh herrings, chiefly
from Lochlong, arrived at the Broomielaw, Glasgow.
They were in good condition, and met a ready sale at
Ns. and 14s. a hundred, and were retailed on the streets
at 2d. each.

A violent explosion of gas took place on Monday
evening, at hand's china-s!iop, in the Westminster-road.
The whsle front was blown to atoms, and a soldier on,
the opposite side of the road received some of the con-
tents of the shop, but was not materially hurt.
CAPE or GOOD HOYE, MARCH 17.—A few weeks ago,'
as three soldiers of the Gth Regiment were travelling
from Fort Beaufort to Wiltshire Barracks, they were at-
tacked by an elephant, which came suddenly upon them
out of the wood, and killed one mars on the spot. The
others with difficulty escaped.
The purport of the clause introduced by the Lords
as an amendment in the Vagrant Act, which they were
afterwards induced to abandon, was to declare that the
settlement of the children of female vagrants should
fellow that of their mother.

Dr. ROBERT HONEYMAN, a Physician of much repu-
tation and learning, who died on the list April, in Virginia, whither
h. e emigrated from Scotland in 1774, has left the following bequest
to his will, dated in 1821 :—" I also bequeath to my sons hi"'
rib, which will be found in a small trunk in my chest, with my ear-
nest request that he will carefully keep the said rib, which is of
James the Fifth King of Scotland, and transmit it carefully to has
descendants."
Ford,
GOOD 11d.aga 9omABrearirs.--A f:
asaeor days ago died,
peaciabicangi
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awomeseatws, Ihd:waspiaab
example worthy of the ingiation of her neigabark