1 FEBRUARY 1834, Page 3

A deputation from the inhabitants of St. Andrew and St.

George the Martyr had an interview with Mr. Robert Grant and Mr. Sergeant Spankie yesterday, to urge upon them the neeesaity of supporting a motion for the repeal of the Haase and Window duties ; or, in case of no such motion being brought forward by Alinisters, to request that they would bring one forward themselves. Both tlw Members ab- solutely refused to promise to do ciao but stated, that they thought that the propositions of Government caglit to be supported. Sergeant Spank ie ulso said, that the agitation On this question ought to have been put down by Government some time since.

It is reported that Sir John Hobliousa NVill be called upon to stand for lIarylehone, in ease of a vacancy for that borough.

'rite Benehers of the Inner Temple have mianimously decided toll to alter the resolution of the Bench in IS.21,-Ly which Mr. I). W. Harvey was denied admission to the bar. The gentlemen present on Thursday sermight, when this resoletian was adopted, were Sir J. Scarlett. Sit C. Wetherell, Sir Alexander Croke, Sir E. Hyde East, Sir robot Baker, Sir George Rose, Messrs, E. II. Lushington, Joseph Jekyll, John Wyatt, Henry I lick ersteth, John Willianis, Frederick Pollock, Horace Twiss, Charles Ewan Law, Thomas Coltman, F. L. HO-, H. H. Joy, and Philip Courtenay.

The following amusing and intelligent account of a controversial meeting which was held yesterday week in the Burton Rooms, by the disciples of St. Simon and Mr. Robert Owen, has appeared this Aveck in the Courier.

" The evening was rather unfavourable; which may, perbaps, account for the very limited attendance of the disciples. About sixty persons were present when Itr. Prati mounted the rostrum, and at no period of the discourse were there above one hundred. Ten or a dozen helitts or females attended. 3Ir. Owen, accompanied by ten or twelve of his followers, males and females, ap- peared just befiwe the discourse began : be occupied the scat nearest the orator on the front bench, listened with apparently great attention, hail a messenger bringing him, with sufficient importance, and documents, and at one time endeavoured, but without success, to interrupt the speaker, with a view to ex- planation, or, as he said, to save time ittterwaids. The whole proceedi ll gs were so inconceivably ludicrous and absurd for an apparently grave assemblage of hu- man beings to be eugaged in, that we can scarcely, un recollection, believe in their reality. " Dr. Prati commenced by siwakiag respectfully of Mr. Owen, and of the benevoleuce of his ptojects; hut lie ridiculed his system of perfectibility, fininded on metaphysical axioms, having nu facts and no ploof on which to rest, as alto- gether chimerical : he contrasted the wilt! and visionary nature ol Mr. Oweit's

spoke of the untounded calumnies with which the St. Stmoniatts had been as- 'to [Id not comprehend what they were from any thing he had heard. Then,

volume published in January I i-SI1), he proceeded, usual, to abase all govern- ments, and all religions, as occasioning all the evils of every kind which pre- vail on earth ; maintaining that be knew of no proper objects of punishment, except the heads of the Church and of the Government, and that only one thing was now required in order to convert the pandemonium in which we live into a terrestrial paradise. Here he was stopped by a female in the gallery, who ex- claimed that the absence of Satan, the Prince of lankness, was necessary before Mr. Oweu's prophecy could be accomplished-that the God of Revelation had declared it, and then the Millennium would commence. Mr. ottani paused while the lady. spoke ; and then went on as it' he had not beard her, to take a rapid view of his own exertions for a long period of years, proclaiming the constant success (witness Harmony, New Lanark, Orbistown, Ste. ! ! !) which had uni- formly attended them. The time of regeneration was' he said, fast approaching, , but there :vas not yet one rational man on earth. llere the same female voice was again heard, inquiring, " How are we to be regenerated, wheu there is not one rational being, not even yourself to regenerate us?' Mr. Out-en's reply to this merited rebuke was very nearly in these words; anti was delivered appa rently with perfect calmness, sincerity, and solemnity-, I hare by very long continued efforts brought myself nearer to the state II perfectibility than any , person Heinq has done leaving to his audience to draw the inference, that he was the individual, who on the 1st of January 183.a, is to convert the earth into a terrestrial paradise.

" This announcement gave rise to some tittering, but nothing abashed the speaker. this temper is quite imperturbable.

" The 1st January lataa, is now, it seems, the date of the commencement of the happiness of the world under the moral government and superintendence of Mr. Robert Owen. The period will no doubt be adhered to with equal punc- tuality as the 4th of July ler26 was of the mental independence of Mr. Owen's American Colony in Indiana, declared in his celebrated prochunation is-sued just before his followers in the Western world and their leader separated front each other for ever.

"Mr. Owen is obviously in an incurable state. No doubt can, we think, be

Y after consumiles about twenty minutes in reaulims his 11W11 creed, from his quarto tens which always follows the having lecontse to such ill-advised measures. tied Mr. Oweu acted as he is now iloine; thirty or foe ty years ago, the Govern- s:tete. would have made him, as they did Paine, a martyr ; and would IrIve ce.tscs1 his want-ivies to In, made tiniverselly known, and adopted by weak- ureuraled people, by means of sonic wise trial for sedition or libel, at the cost to the sae, in it eertainly not less than a thousand pounds or two. Such proceedings aeu tee ever, we hope, at an end. But ria not let its slumber until the laws to sseee: me have alluded, which autheriz.al such ill-judged and oppressive Inca-

e see and which wet,. productive t,f gilt mischief in other views, are 111/10.

rtt,ci. We ran haiiily Itch‘c in the It, form of l'arliainent, while the I.ibel unou seditien lew add, country ii tutu. 011 the Statute l'ite lower parts of Wapping, SI Limehouse, Lambeth, and Vac Strand, teen, flooded about firmr o'clock ow 1Veduesday mot nine, by

et, civet :low of thu Ilt.iittc. 11 we!: corn in the warehouses has been u''' if ;111,1 e..rried nay. Melly peer fantilive, svhtoe dwellilige were

• ee.it, 1,suffer severely. In soita, houses the inmates were atwakened edine the water contieg into their beds,. 11',Itermen were employed tele• the inhabit:des from one street t11 another in S bedwell and .fe,:tie. A boy, 1 in Blackwell vele swept ;tway a minute after its

;,,e.:,!.•s.tic idd nen& cnil their i'leuel ter, were removed by the boatmen. • .! eteins iii inany were Inne t open by the rushing up of the ✓ hi 'fewer \Vinod, the teeter rost so high es to reach the ttel-

ie the ;wet ior of the ',row( lace S01111.! Government stores are Meny of the decayed stottes (,1* the piers of Illockfriars I'eidee v. iii iii iv 1 :111■iy. (Iv, I lloW sec:us to have been owing slelden cheare of the V. i1J1 fl1,111 till' ti(11101-Wl',.t ti, the north- .1, ;::!11 thu tbhuli,tt Of the lend waters, oveasioned by the Lute heavy lone contitoted rains.

Seeneary nf State heel): issited a paper, directing one of the :le-fact:en al es at each of the .11etropelitali Police-offices to pereonally ex- 21:,i:10 the ptililheleeisee ein-shops in their respective disnicts, lii eeeer to useertein tt hillier they have all the necessery convenience for U va;rhitle-inen to cook hie dinner. A Magistrate hes inepected, during the week, several public-houses in the vicinity of the New: lload. A report will of eotirse lie made to the Government ; who, it is supposed, itetend an important alteration of tla law respecting the licensing sys- "evn, and punted:lily affecting the " gin palaces."