Star.
London, England, 1830-01-21 00:00:00

FUNERA L OF SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE.

The funeral of this lamented and distinguished artist
took place this day. The body had been removed to
Somerset House last night, and the funeril procession
having been marshalled, it began to move from that place
about half-past 12 o'clock this day It was led by the car-
riages of the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, after which came
the hearse, drawn by six horses. Then followed a
series of mourning coaches, .50 in number, each drawn
by two horses, and to them succeeded between 60 and 70
private carriages belonging to the • Nobility and Gentry.
On the arrival of the procession at St. Paul's, the coffin
was taken from the hoarse, and after the usual funeral

ceremony was performed, it was deposited in the place in
the vault assigned for it. The deceased never having beeii
married, the silk bat bands of the persons in the pro-
cession were tied with white ribbon. The individuals
of the superior Clan who attended it, consisted of tl.e
Members of the Royal Academy and other friends and
relatives of the deceased. The whole of the processi .n
had passed through Temple-bar before two o'clock. Th)
day being very fine the streets were crowded, but tl,o
most psi feet order prevailed.

MADEIRA.

From Lardncr's Cabinet Cyclopedia.

The Portuguese adventurers, %Tax and Zarco, can
only be allowed the merit of re-discovering the islaiel
of Madeira, which, it is probable, was obit u sly
known to seamen in the middle f the fourteenth
century. It is said, about the year 1344, an English-
man named Macham, flying with the fair Ann Dorset
from the persecutions to which he was exposed from the
anger of her relations, sought, through the ocean, some
place of tranquil security, and was driven by a tempest to
the shores of Madeira. Here he landed with his frienth
to rest a little from the fatigues of the voyage ; bait tlu
vessel in which he had arrived, put to sea again without
his knowledge, deserting him and his companions. Thy.
lady died of grief, and Macham, unable to bear this
calamity, expired on her grave five days afterwards ! Th
survivors of the company fixed a large wooden cross, with
a rude inscription over the common grave of the unfor-
tunate lovers ; and constructing a canoe, found means to
reach Morocco, whence they were sent into Spain.
Whatever doubts may be raised with respect to the trt.th
of this romantic story, it is evident that it betrays some
acquaintance with the island of Madeira, which Portu-
guese writers agree to make the scene of the adventure.
They add that the port and district of Machio take their
name from the inscription found there on the tomb of
Macham.

A good deal of remark has been made, and 1,:ot with-
out some reason, upon the fact of the Bishop rf Nor-
wich continuing to address his correspondence to an Irish
Popish Bishop in the dignified style of " My dear
Lord," as if a Roman Catholic Priest in England, Scot-
land, or Ireland, is, or ever can be, entitled to such a
distinction. If the Roman Catholics choose to practise,
what we must call this kind of ambitious folly among
themselves, why let them. There is, in fact, no more
real lordliness in it, under the existing stite of the law,
than if the same nickname were given by way of ridicule
to the Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks in our own
Church. But for a Protestant Bishop (who is, and will
be, a Lord, as long as he allows his own Church the as-
cendant) to use this kind of mockery towards the law, and
towards his correspondent, is a proof of weakness, for whit+
the age of the writer may furnish the only apology. To-
wards that age, and the amiable qualities of the Bishop of
Norwich, we would wish to show every kind of lenity and
indulgence. The Bishop has been at all times, Tram prin-
ciple, the zealous and consistent advocate of the Roman
Catholics, being himself, we are persuaded, a not lesS
zealous Protestant. Well, the Roman Catholics are ad-
to the privileges of the State, and the Bishop has
lived to see his efforts and his wishes on their behalf eon-

summated ; but part of the condition was, that the in-
signia and ' the lordly title of episcopacy abould be
laid aside. The Bishop of Norwich has expressed him-
self satisfied with the terms, and, indeed, exults in them,
as the long-wished-for fruition of his own wishes ; and
ought not the Bishop, to be consistent with hinnelf, to
conform to the terms, and not thus set the example of
what appears to be rather a wilful violation of them ?
The Roman Catholics themselves are, of course, willing
enough to see their Bishops thus be-lorded ; but, as the
title is sunk and abolished by law, it ought not to be
used or permitted—least of all ought it to be used by one
who has been himself an active party to the centred.
The matter, perhaps, is scarcely worth the notice it has
received ; but knowing, as we do, how rife the spirit of
encroachment is in one quarter, it ought not to be per-
mitted to receive encouragement from the other ; more
especially ou a matter in which the spirit of religion itself,
or of religions toleration, has no manner of concern.
However little the importance which we attach to the
.conditions on which " Emancipation" was granted, we
would not advise the advocates of that measure to take
this early opportunity of proving that they never seri-
ously intended to observe them ; least of all should a
Protestant Prelate tempt the Priest of Nome into an
usurpation of title, which places them in ambitious col-
lision with the law.—Morning Herald.

NEM FARRINGDON MARKET-THIS DAY.

This market has been respectably attended during the week by
persons from distant parts of the town, in consequence of the best
meat being so much cheaper at this market. There was a good
supply of Beef, Mutton, sod Potk, this morning. Veal Is very
scarce Prices per lb.
VIALed. to W. Bear—Finest Roasting part., 6id. Boiling,
4id. Equal quantity, Sid. Rump Steaks, IM. Rump of Beef, 6d.
M arrest— Haunch (Wethet), 6d. Leg, Cid. Shoulder; Sid. Neck,
4id. Breast, 4d. Pang—Sid. to 60.
Families sending their servants to this market may be supplied
with the above joints, exactly at the above paler.
SMITHFIELD MARKET'. Jaw. $l.
CATTLI AT MASCOT.
Beasts.. 450 Calves ... ............... 1111
Sheep and Lambs 3,600 I Pigs . .
' Beef Ss 10d to 41 4d Veal .
Mattes ..4s 4s lid Park ll4 Ss . ltd
Lamb
Hay (pet load), AO Ss. to 44 10s. Dime, A 16. 110 tat M.
Straw, .I'l les. to AL Se. •
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pc. = 441.3tr.WITINA
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MR.

'EN.

ROBERT OWEN.

ADDRESS• TO THE RELIGIOUS OF EVERY
DENOMINATION.
BREIIIREN—I am intimately acquainted with your
feelings and thoughts, and with their origin ; and I
therefore know that many of you most conscientiously
entertain the opinions and feelings which you have been
made to possess ; and that under your present convic-
tions there are many who would prefer death rather than
be compelled, by any other human power than the force
of a stronger conviction, to deny what they now deem the
fundamental truths of their respective religions.
This conscientious character has been formed equally
over the world—for the Jew, the Christian, the
Mahomedah, the Hindoo, and the Pagan. And by it
you have been made to view each other as irrational
beings, and to act most irrationally, both as individuals
and as members of the particular sect, by whatever name
that sect may be called, to which you have respectively
been trained to belong.
You have desired to be superlatively wise and good,
and many of you imagine you have become so by the
choice of the religion which you think That by your own
decision you have adopted, and therefore expect un-
speakable rewards in some future state of existence.
I.regret the necessity, even when it may be for their
ultimate benefit, to give to any of my fellow-beings even
momentary pain ; but the highest duty that can be per-
formed for man, is to remove error from his mind, and to
enable him to see those great truths, upon which his
own permanent well-being and the happiness of his race

depend.
My friends, it now becomes therefore my duty to in-
form you, that one and all have been in error; that you
have been deceived by your education, and that you have
been made ready to sacrifice your lives in support of a
fallacious supposition, which is the real origin of evil, and
to oppose a principle which will produce the greatest per-
manent good to yourselves and to all mankind.
The character of man, as it is exhibited in the particular
character belonging to each individual, is an effect of the
circumstances in which he has been placed, modified by the
original organization or constitution which he may have
received at birth. We have all therefore been made to be
as we are ; and we have been compelled, from our in-
fancy, to believe that we possess the power to feel and to
think as we please; on which basis alone has been formed
the whole fabric of human society. This supposition is
the sole foundation of all the religions which have ever
been invented—of all governments, of all codes of laws,
and of all institutions, which have ever existed in any
country. Yet, strange as it may appear to you, there
never has existed one single fact to prove the truth of this
supposition ; on the contrary, all facts connected with the
subject show it to be one of those popular errors received,
ithout investigation, into the human mind, which it has
required the experience of all past ages to detect, unveil,
and remove.
Contrary though I well knew it to be to your present
strongest conviction, it is nevertheless true that the
greatest of all evils to man would be for him to discover
that he is capable of feeling and thinking as he pleases,
did he make no better use of his power than he has
hitherto done.

Fortunately, however, for all, it is now ascertained by
facts, equally free to the examination of every one, that
man has not been created with the power to feel and to
think as he pleases, and consequently the direct road to
the attainment of the highest virtues, and of a very
superior state of earthly existence, is opened, and may be
securely travelled, by all of the human race, without their
experiencing any of the innumerable evils which the con-
trary supposition entails, and particularly that arising
from a diversity of religious opinions.

You desire to introduce into practice universal cha-
rity and kindness ; and to hasten the period when peace
and good-will shall pervade the population of the world ;
and when truth, being freed from error, shall be made
to extend its dominion over every part of the habitable
globe. These results can only be secured, when all shall
be taught, from infancy, to understand the laws of their
nature; and, especially, to trace the causes which de-
monstrate that man has been formed to feel in obedience
to the impressions which are made upon him ; and to
think in obedience to the strongest conviction which is
made upon his mind.
If you desire that a state of society should be brought
about, such as you have been taught to expect the Mil-
lenium to be, then you should endeavour to examine these
subjects without prejudice ; because, if you succeed in
doing so, you will discover that the supposition that man
Les been organized with the power to feel and to think
as he pleases, is directly opposed to the attainment of
such an object, while the contrary supposition would tend
in every way to promote it.
And as to the future state of existence, about which
you now trouble youselves so much in vain, it is sure to
arrive to all material things; but no one, with our pre-
sent knowledge, can ascertain what this change will be.
We may feel certain, however, that the best preparation
for it here is a life replete with good feelings and kind
actions; which the knowledge that man is not formed to
think and to feel as he pleases will infallibly create in
every human being.
You, therefore, brethren, of all men are the mast
deeply interested in having the truth or error, of this im-
portant position ascertained ; that the proposed change
of circumstances throughout society may be speedily in-
troduced, and thus, all be relieved from the demoralising
effects of poverty, ignorance, and hypocrisy.
Your minds, through the influence of the belief that
you are capable of feeling and thinking as you please,
have hitherto been kept in a state of irritation or anger
towards each other, and towards those whom you deem
irreligious. But a correct knowledge upon this subject
will exhibit to you the error by which these irrational,
feelings are engendered, it will calm your minds, destroy
within you the seeds of anger, and fill you with that
pure and genuine charity which will create in you good
and kind feelings only for every child of man.
That you may be thus blessed, is the sincere desire of
your friend and servant,
49. Bedford-square, Jan 19.
The Journal du Commerce, of Sunday's date, states
that the ice on the Wane broke up on the 10th, at the moment
when no less then 400 persons were on it. Two were drowsed,
but the remainder succeeded in teaching the shore. This Paper
contains an article from Christiania to the 16th ult. which mentialle
that the sliver mine discovered at Kongsberg bad produced, keel
ibi Ist January, 1929. to the ad of December last, 1.1142 mares el
solid silver. is was expected to be still Wes productive, as a rich
vein was reported to have been mat with.
TB.ANSIPA.AIIsatTIOIII or HUNAN COMM
ionnicstion to the Academy of Padua, Dr. Nardo bas
imparted some shigular observations in reference to the
growth of the human hair after death, nay, even after it
tied hien fbrdbly plucked from the skirt, 'Having
up s hair by the roots from liis own head, he it
in a pore be had opened with * needle in his breast, .ex.
cited a trifling inflammation around* by rubbing, and
ia a abort time remarket that the hair baa. taken freeh
root, and continued to thrive and grow perciptibly.—
Foreign Literary Gazette.


STATE OF TRADE.

From the Morning Herald.
In despite of the appalling accounts which are every
day arriving from all parts of the country, relative to the rapid
progress of misery and ruin, the Ministerial papers are ever sad
anon putting forth pretty little prosperity paragraphs about the
improvement of the cotton or other trades, no doabt hoping there-
by to delude the public into the belief that things have seen the
Iworst ; and, by so doing, neutralise, as much as In them lies, the
very proper exertions which ate now maklug to lay before Parlia-
ment such a description of the state of the nation as shall force
the Government into effectual measures of relief. But surely no
one can be so besotted as to be misled by such stale and contemp-
tible mansuvres. We have recently been informed, by the scribes
alluded to, that the trade of Preston was progressively improv-
ing, and that, In fact, comparatively speaking, little of misery has
existed in that town. But let us see what is the fact. It appears
that no less than ten thousand persona are weekly relieved by the
Soup Committee of Preston, and that one third of the population
are actually receiving charitable relief In one shape or other. But
this is not all. No person receiving more than half-a-crown a
week is entitled to relief ; a circumstance, as the Preston Pita ob.
serves, from which we may form some estimate of the wretched
earnings of the ten thousand who are relieved. The probability is
that the average does not amount to two shillings a week.
Notwithstanding this mi.erable state of things, we are as-
sured, upon good authority, that Preston is " infinitely better
off" than most of the neighbouring towns! But every branch
of industry is equally depressed. Some months ago we took
occasion to make a few remarks relative to the iron trade. We
observed that this business was in a most deplorable condition—
that the iron-masters were carrying on their works at a lou, and
that many of tkeni would, no doubt, suspend their operations,
could it be done without involving them in absolute ruin —for the
stoppage of iron works for even a short time is attended with a
great and irretrievable loss of capital. At length, however, the
masters have been obliged, in many instances, to submit to this
alternative. The Birmingkans Journal says—" A few weeks ago
we intimated that it was the Intention of the Staffordshire masters
to blow out fifteen of their furnaces ; some little difference, how-
ever, occurring amongst these Gentlemen, each person has since
acted upon his own opinions; the result has been, that ten furnaces
have stopped working, and it is anticipated that at least ten more
will be suspended within the next fortnight, if no change in the
state of affairs takes place." But, so far from any change in the
state of affairs being likely to take place, the prices of iron are on
the decline. The Shropshire iron-masters last week were com-
pelled to submit to another reduction in price—via. ss. per ton on
pig iron; and this will ultimately cause a depression of full 101.
per ton on manufactured bars and rods. The Staffordshire mas-
ters must, no doubt, as regards their future transactions, also give
way in price. The price of the Staffordshire cinder pigs is
.e 2 151. per ton, best ditto, ; the same article, in 1825, fetched
£9. The present quotable price of Staffordshire bars is 865 106.
and rods .135 171.6 d. which, in 1825, were selling at from sold to
£l6 per ton. At least the fourth of the furnaces in Wales and
Staffordshire are now out of blast, and with little prospect of many
others centinuing in work. There are only 75 furnaces now in
blast in Staffordshire. Such is the state of the iron trade, and the
lead trade is equally depressed.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Jam. 20.

The Vice CUANCILLOR took pleas, demurrers, exceptions, and
further directions to-day.
At the sitting of the Court his Honour struck several of the
cases out of the paper, in consequence of the absence of the parties
and Counsel. Many were ordered to stand over on account of
the Indisposition of Mr. Hoene; a few were disposed of, and
his Honour, having gone through his paper, rose at a quarter past
eleven o'clock.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Jan. O.

'SLAWS V.

This action was brought by the Assignees of Aisego, a Spanish
Merchant, to recover a balance of A 116,9113 ills. 4d. claimed as
being due from the defendant to the estate of the bankrupt. The
question of fact In this case was, whether the defendant as a gua-
rantee was liable to pay over the above balance. It appeared that
the bankrupts bad made large advances to a merchant named HU.
ben, by accepting bills. They were secured by the defendant be-
coming a guarantee, and depositing bills of lading in respect of a
large quantity of Petenburgb tallow.
The investigation of accounts between the parties occupied a con-
siderable length of time, and the Jury ultimately found a verdict for
the plaintiff foe AII6,MIS ills. 4db the sum claimed.
This is the second trial of the cause.