Star.
London, England, 1830-09-15 00:00:00

STEA M N.,VIGATION

A schisms, vie understand, i, at pre- ew. to pt.,ttess estaiiiish-
ing a yew Company on aa en:eosive to he called the West of
Eng:and Steam Navigation Company. It hal in view, in tile first
instance, the following branches : trade:-1. The ir.terchatige ut
commodities between the west and south coast of England, end be-
tween both and London, by steam. 2. The like burchange la:tweet'
the west and south of England LO Ireland. 3. Trade from tile
south of England to France, Spain, and Portugal. 4. Trade front
England to Jody. Greece, and tgypt. Co. Ala!, as All ulterior ob-
ject, which a:11 not be eau;red upon till tt:e success of the ott:.r.
branches has. shcwn its practicability and wives tage.—a tied.
twixt England and North America. At rertra, acesnx-vcs,el, are
employed almost solely in the conveyance of lisssen,r.:is. or articles
of small bulk ; and this is a neceseutry consequerce their con.
struction, which renders so much space recess :try te4 and ma.
chutery, that very little stowage re items for goad . But the intioilue-
lien of Braithwaite and Erie son's boilers ix I:kely to work a revolution
in this species of navigation. We are rot able to state at this moment
the precise saving of space and fuel; but if we arc not misinformed, it is
likely to treble the steam ship's capability of keeping at sea. that is to
say, that instead of touching at a port every eight or ten day. ta renew
her supply of coal, she will be able ut carry with her fuel for cr
days. Something in this respect may b? learned from the Aucticans,
who have steam.vessels that sail fourteen or fifteen miles an hour. Wm!,
these various improvements arc brought fully into play. the capabilities
of steam navigation for the purposes of trade will receive a prodigious
extension. Speed, certainty, and regularity of arrival, are its grand re.
commendations, and as the trade of the werid assumes a more healthy
state, the value of there will be more sad more felt. An Italian mer-
chant could not get goods to order front Englund now in less, probsbly,
than three or four months. But enable him to get them in three we:l-A,
and the Manchester warehouse becomes a daily and regular feeder t:i
his shop ; his orders will then arrive as regularly as those of the Ixrtio:
or Edinburgh retailer. From the inorneat v-hen a steam ship can re .
main thirty days at sea, and make two Mandeled miles a day, a vot -
age to Egypt, North America, the West Indie4, or Brazil,
becomes easy and c:rtain, and this specks of navigation viii
admit of its being applied to four.filtiai of the whole trade t i Lie
world. We shall have steamships capable of making England aril
Italy communicate in tan days, long before we cvercome the tanne..r
cial jealousies which row exist, and get those liberal maxims Lstablishe I
which would render this communication beneficial to both countr'es.—
The distance front Pothmouth to Alexandria by sea being 3,CCO
a steam voyage to Egypt could be performed in 18 days; so that a vessel
carrying fuel for n days, would he independent orall new supply Mitt
the time of her departure from England to that of her return. For 1.1
own part we look forward with perfect confidence, and great delight, to
the time when a short and pleasant voyage of twelve days will c niter
us to the foot of Capitoline-hill, or the disinterred wonders of l'ompeil ;
and when six days more will place us amidst the ancient palaces cf the
Ptolemies, or enable us to pluel: the L tos on the Banks of the Nile.._
Scotsman.

LONDON AND PARISIAN PRINTFIIS.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)

The crusade of the Parisian printer:: against machinery has set our
own printers in motion. For this we were prepared. The etroneou.
notions of the French mechanics arc very generally shared by the me-
chanics in this country. Indeed, it is impossible for an individual, who
does not view the industry of a country as a whole, to escape from the
errors into which the printers fall ; and the proceedings in Paris have
not misled our own mechanics, but only encouraged them to give ex.
pressionoinions previously entertair.ed. We are ready to admit th:.:
much hardship is often caused by the introduction of machinery ; bu:
this is a separate question from that of national advantag-.
Every step in mechanical improvement adds to the means ..f
the enjoyment of society, though the individuals trained to p :
titular processes may be suflbrers from the improvement. Per.
haps the best way of meeting the enemies of machinery, without
compelling them to go through a whole treatise of political eco-
nomy, is to ask them to lay down a principle for determining the pull;:
at which machinery becomes an evil. They will allow that a stick t..
scratch the ground is better than using the fingers, that a plough is be;ter
still than a stick—they will allow surely that a mill for grinding corn
is better than a quern ; that a crane, though it saves the labour of all
immense number of porters, is advantageously used ; that printing a-
better than copying. But upon the principle on which further improve-
ments in machinery are resisted, every stage in invention ought to hav:
been resisted; and, in fact, every stage has always been resisted.
What complaints were urged by the copyists against the invcr..
don of printing itself ? In Wolfius's Monustenfa Typographica
we find loud complaints of contemporaries against printing, 4
depriving literary men of a decent means of subsistence. Thus, to
instance, Gulielmus Insulanus, Menapius. At vero inopie consult um
dicunt isti ab invent.) artificio que typographic ob levitatem inpendii.
Imo pessime, quoaiam sublets copia et instrument= magnum 11.1.. u..
tuns levanda egestatis. Enimvero vacabat inopum labor non sibi.nnt
aolum, tied aliis quoque in scriptitandis libels, erant que parabilea
omnino res, minimi que impendi, calamus, charts, atramentum. In
short, Gulielmus Insulanus produces more arguments against printing
than eves Luddite did against frames, or hand-loom wearer against
poweradooms. The following will serve to show what is going on r.t
present among the printers of the Metropolis.
The proceedings of the First Meeting of the Letter.press Printers re-
specting the Evil of Machinery, held at the Gentleman and Portcr Ta-
vern. New-street-square, Shoe-lane, London, on Thursday, September
9, IMO;

EDWARD Dowm No in the Chair.
G EUTLEMEN—This Meeting of the Letter-press Printers of Lon-
don has been convened for the purpose of petitioning his Most Gracious
Majesty William the Fourth, King of Great Britain and Ireland. 1.,
be pleased to take into his moat special consideration the urgent neeas.
city of his Ministers imposing a Tax upon Machinery, early in the en-
suing Sessions of Parliament. The ruinous system of Machinery
done considerable mischief to a: great portion of the Masters, de-
prived the Journeymen of employment, and, after all, it affords no real
advantage to the publics for Newspapers, Books, and Magazines, of
every description, are no cheaper to the purchaser ; the sole benefit being
derived by a few great Capitalists, whilst the whole body of the trade
are suffering from Machinery being so cruelly and extensively en-
couraged. The following Resolutions arc humbly submitted, as being
thought necessary to the general good :-
1. That a committee be appointed, to consist of thirteen persons,
seven of whom arc to form a quorum.
2. That the Committee appointed shall make every inquiry resp e:-
ing the number of machines now in use, the quantity of work perfi i••,:.;
by them ; also the titles of the different publications voria.. by ..-
chinery.
3. That every information be given to the committee on the Rubjvct,
by persons fully acquainted, from each office, en their difi'erent meeting
nights.
4. That a petition to his most gracious majesty be drawn up
diately, stating the distressed situation of the :rade, owing to triachint ty.
and praying that a protecting duty be imposed, of four shillings ptr
perfect ream, on all newsrapers, and two shillings per perfect ream upon
all books that are worked by machine) ; and that the same petition i
presented to his majesty previous to the ensuing session of parlisar
signed by the whole body of the journeymen letter-press printers, (and
masters, not using rraehitus) in London.
5. That every person signing the Petition to state. if married, the
number of persons depending upon him for support.
6. That the 'Petition shall remain for si...nature at the Gentle-
man and Porter, New-street-square, Shoe-lane; and at three other
places, which will be determined by the Centraittee, fur the spate of
three weeks.

7. That $ sufficient number of broadsides be printed, and the same
posted up in different parts of Lor.don, signifying that • The Petite() o
of the Letter-press Printers, paying for a Tax upon Machinery. lies
for Signatures at the Gentleman and Porter, liew.street.square, Shoe.
lane; and at three other places.'
8. That immediate communication be made with the diffetent
provincial offices in Great Britain and Ireland, stating the Reselu-
, tions of this Meeting, with a view of procuring their a,sistarce on the
same subject.
9. That the Committee give notice of this Meeting to all Trede•
Societies; and solicit their support in opposing the increase of machinery,
, which has caused the ruin of thousands of industrious oleo, an•t in.
creased the pour rates and crime to ao enormous extent.
10. That while the House of Commons has thought ti: to protect the
landowner and fanner r.gaivet the introduction of foreign product-, the
poor man has had ::o protection to ensure him a re►unneration for hoe la.
bout against machinery.
11. That all Religious Societies he appealed to on behalf of the Trade.
12. That the Resolutions and Pntceetitngs of the Meetiag th:s ever.
iog be printed, on a half sheet foolscap, at the expeuee of tile w note
body, and the same distributed, gratis, at all the Ceffie-howq t.od
places of public resort, and at all the Plinting.oilices in London.
13. That a General Subscription of Threepence per Week be ern.
tered into for four weeks, in order to defray the expellees which may h,
incumed, and the saute received by the Committee appointed, and en.
trusted in the hands if Mr. %Vitt TON. Treasurer.
The above resolutions were carrried imanimously, and the thank• of
the Meeting voted to the Chairman, also to the different prisons whose
names were affixed to the Circular, for their meritorious exertions in
calling the Meeting.

On Alon.lay lat.t the first stone of an Episcopal Chapel to
be erected from designs, and under the stiperinter.danee of J. J. Stoles,
Esq. Regent-street, London. upon Viscount Anson's estate, at South
Town, Crest Yarmouth, at the request of the Venerable Bishop of
Norwich (in consequence of his Lordship not being able to bear the
fatigue of the journey to ilarworth). was laid by Wm. Barth, Rsq.
Chairman of the Committee, assisted be the Hon. and Rev. the Dean
of Norwich, who delivered an apt rapriate and and impresive prayer' re
the occasion. Lord Nevill and the Rev. R. Turner, the principal 'a.
mWa ot the town, with a prowesiss of freemen, td. Ra mewled Ibis
very interesting catintray. The Chapel will c iatain 1,100 pewits.

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