The Statesman.
London, England, 1824-01-28 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN

CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION.
(PROM ?RR DUBLIN RVININO POST. OP SATURDAY.)
There was en extraordinary full meeting of the Catholic
Association this day. At 3 o'clock, Mr. Fitzsimons was called
to the Chair.
Mr. O'GORMAN announced the names of some Gentlemen
who bad joined the Association, and who, pursuant to Mr.
Conway's Resolution, weie intinditced by two Members.
Mr. Pt.ungarr proceeded on his motion adjourned from the
last day of Meeting, touching the printing of an address voted
in 1514. After supporting the motion in a speech of consider.
able length, it was put from the Chair—but there being no
seconder it fell to the ground.
Mr. Kin WAN. pursuant to notice, moved that the Lords, Ba-
ronets, &c.. and the Members of the last Catholic Board should
be applied to for the purpose of becoming Members. He sup-
ported his motion in a speech of considerable ingenuity.
Mr. O'Cosmazi. suggested As art amendment, that a Commit-
tee should be appoiuted for the purpose of devising means to
extend the Catholic Association. _

Mr. Ktnwss persisted In his motion.
Mr. O'CoNmsci then put his suggestion in the shape of an
amendment, and spoke with great eloquence for some time.—
No period was more necessary than the present for the exten-
sion of the Catholic Association to every County in Ireland,
through all ranks of the People.—He then sketched out his
plan.
Mr. Sam seconded the amendment in a abort bet very im•
prassi we speech.
The amendment was pat from the Chair, and carried with
few dissentient voices.

Mr. O'Conaishi. rose for the purpose of altering a Notice
he had already given. concerning the period of calling the Ag-
gregate Meeting. It was orleinally tiled for the 9cl of Feb.
He should, with the leave of the Meeting, postpone it to the
13th. There were various reasons for this ; but there was one
which he would mention. It was intended to submit to the
Aggregate Meeting the propriety of being heard at the har of
the House of Commons by Counsel. The measure was not
without precedent—and instanced the case kid by Sir Tohy
Butler before the Irish Parliament, for a breach of the articles
of Limerick. Ile said that the violation of the articles still
continued. The object would be to solicit Par.iament to re-
peal certain oaths which the Catholics were compelled at pre-
sent to take, in contravention to the articles of that Treaty.—
It having been suggested that an Irish Barrister wolid not he
heard before the English Legislature, Mr. O'Connell derided
the idea. It was, and he would state it, as almast from his
own knowledge, the opinion of Lord Colchester—no friend,
certainly, to Catholic Einancipation—that the Catholics could
be heard as a matter of right. Ilehad consulted some friends,
slid he would mention, particularly, Mr. Charles Butler, of
Lincoln's Inn—and they fully concurred in the propriety of the
cause. It was said, in the Dublin Eveaiap Post, that this was
the opinion of Mr. Brougham. The statement was erroneous
—ha did not mean to say that this was not Mr. Brougha.n'a
opinion ; hut he had not, as a matter of delicacy, been con-
sulted as to the course which it would be prudent, io the pre-
sent unprecedent state of the Catholic Question, to pursue.—
After several other observations, Mr. O'Connell moved that an
Aggregate Meeting should be called on the 19th of Feb.
The Motion was put and carried without a dissentient voice;
and the proposition received very general approbation.
A Committee was then appointed for the purpose of devising
means to extend the Association, coosistiog of nine Gentle-
men—the Chairman and Secretary, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Shell,
Mr. C. !O'Loughlin, Mr. N. Mahon, Mr. Kirwan, M:. Clinch,
Mr. Coppinger, and Mr. Conway.
Mr. SHEIL asked sabot the Burial Committee were doing?

Mr. CON WAY replied, that every thing which remained fur
them to do. had been done. They waited on Archbishop Mur-
ray, had received front his Grace all the encouragement in the
laudable design they could expect. Nothing now remained to
be done but collect the Money.
Mr. Sum. gave notice that he would the next day move for
Coiensitte (or this purpose.
Thanks being voted to the Chairman, the Association ad'
jonrned at six o'clock.

INFANT SCHOOLS.
(PROM TUE DUBLIN MORNING POST.)
In the !Monthly announcement of new oublications, we
observe that a " Sketch of the System of liducatidn at New
Lanark," written by Mr. R•tbert Dale Owen, the son of
the celebrated Robert Oven, is just about to appear. It
is well known that the children of the workers, in the new
Lanark Factory are admitted into the schools as soon as
they are able to walk, and there brought forward by a
course of instruction divested of all the usual apparatus of
individual reward and punishment, in a manner almost in-
credible, were not the truth of it votielied by persons of the
highest respectability, who have visited the pl,ce and es-
'mined into the details of this in:eresting department. The
work now about to be laid before the public developer the
principles of this novel and stucessful experiment. Among
others who have expressed their unqualified approbation of
the Lanark System, is Mr. Brougham. lie had already
visited the celebrated schools in Switzerland; and during
his labours on the Cominitteeot gducation, hail made him-
self acqnainted with the details of all the chief schools of
Great Britain ; yet to much struck was he with the simpli-
city and excellence of the plan adopted at Neff Lanark,
that he list instituted one of a similar kind in Westmin-
ster, which has succeeded so as to lead to the establishment
of others in various pelts of the metropolis. Torre are
now six inf int schools in Lon lon, besides one in Bristol,
one or two in Liverpool, and some others of which we have
nut yet received the p4rticul as. The King proposes to
become Wiwi of on« about to be opened at Brighton.

M►CNANICS' AND APPRENTICES' I.lllllAnY.—Friday week a
tweeting was netd be the Town Hall, Liverpool, fur the pur-
pose of taking into consideration the subject of the Mee ,a-
nice' and Apprentices' f.shrery. His Worship the ►layor pre-
sided. Mr. Egerton Smith addressed the utertitag. As the
person with wheat this matter had originated, and under whose
care and responsibility the growing property as yet rested, it
naturally became him to stand forward early in the business
of the meeting. He hod brought it under the notice of the
public, through the means of the press in his power. Books
had been gradually contributed ; ■ room prepared ; readers
admitted, and at length it had become an institution so formed,
of such magnitude, and still more, of such promise towards
the objects originally to slew, hot he felt he ought no longer
to take upon himself the responsibility of Its management.—l,
He stood titers to o!ter it to the meeting—to the public. The
objects of such an institution were obvious. The utility of
these objects was, indeed, questioned but by a ♦ery few,—
the illiberal, the bigutted, or the timorous,—who hated that
knowledge should he extended, to the lessening. perhaps, their
own consequence. from the exaltation of knowledge. or who
feared that intellectual power extended to the inferior cl
would, In time, be found incompatible with the necessary sub
serviency and gradation of society. Mr. Smith gave testimony
to the great pleasure which he and those who had assisted hint,
had had In their intercourse with those younr men who had ap-
plied for books. Tite►e were now (we believe he said) tour
hundred names of young men readers—as many thousands he
might have had to affirm, if the books had neen numerous
enough to admit of it. About 1600 were now in the library.
I gentlemen followed in proposing the several resolu-
tions, which were unanimously adopted. Our of the resole.
lions gave the cordial thanks of the meeting to Mr. Smith.—
Tue utmost unanimity prevailed throughout.
HUNT.—An order was sent on Monday evening, from
the Home Department, to Hertford liaol, for the remov4l
of Hunt fottawith to the Justitia hulk, at Woolwich pre-
paratory to his transportation for life, to New South Wales,
on board a convict ship, which will sail, about six weeks
hence, from the river for that destination.

We are anxious to correct a misconception which, we
understand, prevails in regard to the augmentation of the
army. This augmentation consists, as we announced ori-
ginally, in the formation of t►vo regim?nts, the 94th and
95th Infantry, and in the intruded raising of foor others,
but which will not be embodied for some tune. If we look
at the previous strength of the army of this extended em-
pire, the small increase in question will not only excite no
alarm, but it will be coaridrred absolutely necessary for
rdinary purposes. Our readers will probably be snipes .41
to bear that the total amber of regulars rated for the last
year (reclusively of the Bast Indies) ti as only 71,000, is-
chiding ofEcor.—(Courjer,)

SHIPAWNERS' sour

Yesterday the annnal dinner of this society took place
at the London Tavern. 'rho company which assembled
on the occasion was highly respectable, and in number
exceeded 300. At half-past six o'clock, the Earl of Liver-
pool, the President of the society, took the chair; near
him sat the Right Hon. George Canning, the Right Hon.
Wm. Huskisson, Messrs. Croker, M.P., E. Ellice, M. P.,
J. Wells, M. P., A. Robertson, Al. P., Aldermen Bridges
and Thompson, M.P., Thomas Wilson, M. P., G. Lynn,
Esq., J. Buckle, E•q. and many other gentlemen eminent
in the commercial world.

The dinner having been disposed of, and the cloth re-
moved, the Chairmen proposed the health of the King,
which was drank with three times three. The " Doke of
York, and the rest of the ,Royal Family ;" " Lord Mel-
ville and the Navy;" and " The Arn.y," were likewise
drank with similar hononrs.

The CHAIRMAN said, that he rose to propose a toast most
intimately connected with the object of the meeting—
namely, " Prosperity to the Shipping Interest of the United
Kingdom." (Applause.)—ln looking at the company be-'
fore him, and considering the great interests which were
involved in and connected with the society which they
were assembled to support, lie could not avoid repeating
what he had stated on former occasions—that the country
owed much to the shipping interest.—(Hear, bear.)—At
the period of the change from war to peace, when every
great interest laboured more or less ander difficulties, no
' interest had suffered more than the shipping interest of
the United Kingdom. That was the unavoidable result
of circuiricances ; but whilst he said that no interest suf-
fered more than the shipping interest by the transition
from war to peace, he was alto bound to add, what he knew
to be the fact—that no interest had borne their sufferings
so well.—(Loud applause.)—lt was gratifying to know
that the shipping interest, like all the other great interests
of the conntry, was now emerging from the iliffieulties tine
tl-r which they had for many years laboured. On former
occasions be had said, and he would now repeat, to h. r
maritime interest and her navy, this country owed its safety
and its grea:ness among other nations of the world; and
that that maritime interest and navy had been created and
support. d by the attention which had been bestowed on
the interests of navigation ; for it was not true, that be-
fore the interests of navigation received the support of
Government and Parliament, the navy of this country, and
consequently its safety, was what it had been since It
had been often contended, that commercial wealth and a
military spirit were incompatible ; but the nnion of the
navigation and maritime interests in this country was a
proof to the contrary. The seamen who carriel our com-
merce in time of peace, learned thereby to be oar protectors
in time of war. It was no disparagement to the other in-
terms of the country, to say that they were all, in some
degree, subordinate to those connected with the maritime
interest Such bring his opitii nn., he felt no hesitation in
declaring, that the first of British manufactures was that
of British ship., and that the class of the population which
was most worthy of support was that of British seamen.
(Loud approbation.) The Noble Lord then proposed the
toast which lie had mentioned at the commencement of his
speech, and it was drank with great applause.
Mr. LTALL said, that he felt much honoure I in having
been selected to propose the health of the noble chairman.
fhe sentiments which the Noble Earl had that day utter-
ed, as well us the hereditary predilection for naval affairs
which he had heard the noble Lord avow on a former oc-
casion, fully justified him (Mr. Lyall) in the convic!ion
which he felt, that their chairman would at all time: give
that attention and support to the shipping interest which
its great national importance in every respect entitled it
to maintain. lie proposed the !meld' of the Earl of Li-
verpool.
The toast having been drank with three times three.

The CUAIRMAN!kaiIi. that after what he had before ad-
dressed to the meeting, little remained to say except to
express his most sinrere thanks for the honour which the
company had done him, and to assure them that he felt it
at toe bottom of his beim He might add, too. in conse-
quence of what had fallen from the Hon. Gentleman who
had proposed his health, that he should he ashamed that
any person bearing his name should nut be a kited of the
shipping interest.—(Applause.)
Mr. BUCKLEY, in proposing toe health of Mr. Hnskisson,
and the other members of time Board of Trade, compliment.
ed time Right Honourable lien leman for the reellitirgl with
which he at all times listened to any communication which
the Shipowners' Society made on subjects connected with
their interests.

'f he toast was then drunk with much applaose.
Mr. flusatssust felt much gratified, in finding from the
manner in which the I ist toast bad been received, that the
procrelings of tile Board over which he at present un-
worthily presided, had not appeared altogether undeserving
of the sititpurt of the Ship-owners' Society, and of the
distinguished honour of theirenlightened approbation. It
was the special duty of the person who filled the situation
nide!' he hall the honour to to watch not only over the
interests which were connected with navigation and com-
merce. hut also over those which were connected with agri-
culture an 1 manufactures. He might, perhaps, in the
disch +rye of his dory pursue a line of policy which would
be consi ler,tl detrimental to one particular interest, but it
was only because he was obliged to look with an iwpattial
rye to all the great interests of the country. The coin-
plaititsof any virticolar class, however,Llitiays induced him
to revise his onittions, and to re-examine the group us on
which they were founded.—(Appl :use.)
Mr T. Wthilost propsed toe ;weigh of the" Right Hon.
George Canning, and the rest of his Majesty's Minist-rs ;
and may they ever be the guardians of the maritime and
eomme:claliutercsts oft hit count,."—Tate toast was drank
amidst arclarnatio-s.

Mr. CANNING rose, and was received with a general
burst of applause. It was, he slid, impossible for hint to
express his thankfulness tar the kind manner in which the
mention of his name had been received. When with his
name was coupled a recommendation, that he and the rest
of his 31ajesty's Mioisters should attend to the maritime
interests of the country, it was only saying in other words
that they should remember that they were alinisteis of Eng-
land. If any tuilig should add to the satisfaction ts hick
be felt at being so kindly received by such a large body
of bis countrymen, it was the consideration that they re-
presented an interest peculiarly English. The situation to
which this country had raised itself in the world—a situ-
ation far beyond that to which it was entitled by the extent
of its territory or the amount of its population—was mainly
to he attributed to that interest which provided in time of
peace the means of vigorous exertion in war. For many
years past the commanding situation of Bleat Britain had
entitled it to interfere in matters in which its uwo imme-
diate interests were not concerned. We had been called
on to combat for the world, and it bad been shown, that
whilst with one hand we held the trident which ruled the
seas, with the other we were able to launch the thunder-
bolts of war. (Loud applause.) It would appear as a mat-
ter of aroeisbutent on the page of history that this small
is'and should have been able to act soconsiderable a ; art on
the theatre of war; but, after all, our reputation must de-
pend on our maritime enterprises. At' all times the field
of our native glory bad been the sea. (Cheers.) I► was
very gratifying to perceive, that notwithstanding the ex-
ertions of the late war, and the lassitude and exhaustion
naturally produce.' by those exertions, the country was in
a state of permanent and progressive improvement, which
promised wore prosperity than had been experienced at any
former period. He trusted that no untoward accident would
disturb this s ate of repose; but if any such misfolunit
should occur, let them remember the experience of the last
twenty years, and defy the prophecies of evil, and look
with confidence to the future. (Continued applause.)
fullo•wg toasty were t)ie•o dtaah

. .
" The Vice Presidents of the Society;" " The Chair-
man and Committee;'l and " The Strwards."
At half past ten o'clock the Chairman retired, and was
followed by the majority of the company.

SHERIFF'S JURY.-SURREY.

;WILLIAM KOLC3MIF, ESL Y. THE GRAND !CAREY CAY4L

COMPANY.

This ease has for some weeks past excited an extraordinary
interest in the county of Surrey. Mr. Holcombe. the plaintiff.
claimed damages from the Grand Surrey Canal Company. Os
account of the injury his lands, through which the Surrey Ca-
nal ?mind received from inundations. A Jury was summoned
by the Sheriff to decide on this claim, which met at the Ses-
sions House, Iforsemonger lane, Newington. on Tuesday. the
20th instant. A numb, rof proprietors of lands in the virinity
of the Canal were anxiously waiting the issue, so that if the
plaintiff had obtained a verdict in his favour; many other ciaiais
would have been probably made. .

As soon as the Jury were sworn, they proceeded to view the
lands belonsing to the complainant, lying on the North and
South side of the Canal, accompanied by the surveyors of the
respective parties, and in this operation the whole of Tuesday
was taken up. On the following day,
Mr. ANDR ftws opened the case, and afterwards proceeded to
call his witnesses.

Mr. Ilattetsorr, subsequently, entered on the defence of the
Canal Company, contending that the plaintiff was ant untitled
to damages, inasmuch as any Injury he had received, was not
attributable to their works.

♦Witnesses were then called on the part of the Company, and
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Mr. ANDREWS replied; and the ASSPSSOT, after reediug the
whole of the eti,lenor, and commentiog on it i i a In ninon%
manner, left the matter to the Jury. who retired, and after three
hours deliberation, returned a verdiet for the defendant.

The iiirestigatbn did not close till a late hour on Monday
the 26th.

On Saleslsv Thomas Putman, of Northowram, innkeep r$
was fined at Halifax, for having in his house three pounds
of treacle, which he had purchased to make into treacle
parkin, a common article of luxury among the middle an,'
lower orders of society about the nth of Novemb-r: th•
treacle in question was seized on the 7th of November last.
as molasses, by the excise officer, and Putman was informed
that no publican haul a right to have a single ounce of
treacle in his house, on any account whatever.
EDINNURCH PULlre Cover.—The following case excited.
considerable interest as well as amusement :—A man and
his wife, apparently natives of the highlands, charged a
respectable looking young ir.an with having, on the pre-
' ceiling evening, attempted to carry off their chill, a girl
of three or four years old, from the stair in which thcv
lived, for the purposes (is they said he looked like to
voting doctor) of dissection. The young man stated, that
he was coming shown the stair, an stumbling upon a chit
in the dark, he lifted it up from fear of hurting
girl, however, into whom a salutary tear of the doctors
seemed to have been carefully instilled, >creamed out i.s
such a manner, as to bring a crowd instantly around them,
and the father and mother insisted on fixing the present
absurd charge upon him, the defender, who stated, more-
over, that he was a painter, and not a surgeon. Tile Ma.
gistrate, of course, dismissed the case ; hit the po r peep'w
retired in the firm persuasion that the ti-fender, if he was
not a doctor himself, had rerainly intended to deliver the
child into their hands.—(Coledoninn Mei•cstry)
Some time since t' e par b f Cof Frome as. ro')I) d :
shortly after, tl e p o -h mar f hat town was robbed ;an
on Monday night, t me cousins it guard-Lolso of that place
was robbeu! We wonder what the rogues will attempt
next. _

Votemtervi. Fee.% ir.-t.—On New Year** eve, old style, n
man of the name of Sinclair. left tie (leneral's-hut for
Foyer's leonse4and in tracing his steps on that narrow awl
perilous passage between the Up:e.r and bower Falls, leis
foot slipped, and he fell into the b:al of the river, over Out
steep and almost perpeedicular side of the mountain, .1
height of 150 feet! Ile remained there all night, and on
being found in the mornings by a shepherd, who was drawts
to the spot by his cries, all the itjary he seemed to have
sustained, was the dislocation of one of his thigt.-4ones.
Through the prompt attention of Mr. Fraser, of Foyers'
he Iva. immediately conveyed to the Infirmary here, and
he is now in a fair way of recovery. hirer:tree Courire.
CHILDREN BURNT TO DEATH.—On Friday week a child
was burnt to death, in Vicar ege-,rreet, Yeovil, whose suf-
ferings were of a natnee truly distressing.—Ois the 15tta
inst. a boy named Baseley, ts hese parents reside near the
(leorge Inn, Sherborne, was sa dreauffelly burnt by hi*
clothes igniting when warming himself by the fire during
his mother's absence, as to occasion his death in a few
hours. It is a remarkable circumstance that a brother of.
this boy met his death by a similar accident on the 15ila
of January, ISIS.
OGsscowdast 20. —List night a lire broks ont i t the
second door a a cotton mail, situ steel near the New Dar-
racks. The flames having eancet a anantity of cotton.
spread with great rapidity, and in a few en:.rintes, alarm and
confusion prevalefl among the workers and throtteh tho
neighbourhood. It was n d without coasiderahle difficulty
that some of the people who were at work in the top tl it
effected their escape by meant; of tel used in the work, an l
ladders procure,' front the b ttea. La. tine woman and a
boy, in deseeseding. ot theo selves hnri by lo- ing their
hold of the belts while on the latl,lers. M Itta-k pro ni gl,r
proceeded to the vet tsith two entriues, and althooo tie
flumes had forre-1 their way through several windows,
and bad an a.aren. ing eo;:rarance, tat his arrival, he sav-
e ereled in confining the fire to theft at in which it wig, steel.
The ignited cotton was thrown out of the windows au i
extinguished outside-, amd in a short time the lire was cool-
pletrly subdued.
On Monday night a man of the name of Coll, a chimney
sweeper in town, got himself *merely heraed• lie hati
been in the habit of cleaning, a high chimney steak of a
public work, and as this chimney is upwards of Ind f,et
the cleaning of it is a work of difficulty, and is coo-
serently well paid.—About Nix o'clock Cull went op tn,
finish his task as usual. lie had been enj'ving hints •If
with some artiosintanc•s in the early part of the afternoon,
and being in high spirits, he did not examine :lee tempera-
ture of Use chimney with his usual caution. Ile beg in and
finished his work in about 17 minutes. When he emerged
front the chimney, his clothes were scorched to cinder., and
his fret, hack. arms, and different parts of the body, were
severely horned. Ff., was put into a cart, and taken to t',e
Royal Infirmary in a state of insensibility.— (e.'iliaits
Coarcs'.)
Scions.—On Friday last an inquest was taken !,ef )re
W. Price, Curoner. 0:1 view of the body of Mr. James
T odor, tractioneer. and f w many years one of the aispo 'a
Officers of Gloucester, who was, on the inor aaaaa g at* that
day, discovered suspended by a cord to a beam in his own
summer house. It was satisfactorily proved, on II e testi-
mony of several eery respectable witnesses, that the de-
ceased, who had been always remarkable for a high how
of spirits and jocularity of disposition, hail recently exhi-
bited a very different turn of mind, and, with out any appa-
rent ranee, had at once become frightful, gloomy. and des-
ponding. He left his family directly after breakfa t. on
Thursday, and was not seen by them till ten o'clock nett
morning, when be was discovered by his nice.: in tl e me-
lancholy situation above described, in a garden which he
rented at a distance from his own house. Tate Jury, with-
out a moment's hesitation, returned a vertli. t of Lunacy.
As a faithful and confidential servant, he was mulch re-
spected by the Magistrates of that city; whilst as a Police
officer, he was efficient, active, and intelligent ; awl on many
occasions, during his engagement in the wore uupleesaiet
dotter of his situation, evinced a kinduess of heart which
did honour to human nature. He was generally beloeeti
by his brother officers, by whom his loss it ill be loug tilt
4041 lainented. and !IC has left a widest to daplote his ul.-
lancboly en