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imedequoie price of lel:mgr. would .see a great
deal of that increase accounted for. On a future
occasion he should, he thought, be able to strew,
that as the price of corn had increased the wages
of labour had dimiuisbed. The inischiewmaynne.
lice which had obtained its agricultural promotes
of paying greet part of the labourer's wages out of
the pones rakes bed served to increase the amount
of the nitre. No fair comparison could therefore
be drawn from looking to the amount at former
periods. Gentlemen moot not expect that this at
any other measure would have the effect of re.
clueing the poor's rite., unless a great increase
took place in wage. The maximum has bea► sla
ready tried locally, but the parishes which had
made the expeeinsent were •bliged to come to
Parliament to be relieved from the operation of that
principle. He thought the retorts to the edition-
stratiou of the law of Elizabeth was extremely right;
indeed, since the inquiries which had taken place,
the law was already much better executed. On
the selaject of settlement, he would not now enter ;
he woo folly aware of the litigation and expense
which that part of the law involved, but he feared
tittering on a new system, which might also be
liable to the same objections. lie did not view
th• poor's rates so deapoudingly as some Gen.
dames did. The effects could not have been to
very terrible on the people of this country, since •
tta•re energetic, industrious, and obedient popula-
tion was not to be sere he sny other part of the globe,
where a spirit of hberty pervaded the society. Ths
same gloms predictions were put forth in 1740,
as to the effect of these laws, yet look to the pres
gress of the co•nt►y since that period. From rif
to Isis was the period at which the rates were
greatly increased, yet it was a period daring whit*
commerce, agriculture, and manufactures hod
made the greatest advances.
Mr. &TIMOR/ BOVRNI, as one of the Commit.
tees° which the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had
alluded, stated the intention of the Committee, is
the Report which they had made, was to bring the
whole *abject before the House. They hod pro.
posed. one measure which they considered an its.
provemeut in the administration of the law, which
wherever it had beer, tried had been productive
of the best effects—he meant the select vestry.--
(Hear, hear.)—The effect had been i reduction
on the rates wherever it had been established. Ain'
perish near Richmond, in Yorkshire, one third hod
been saved in the first year. At Preston, to die
last quarter, the rate was only 6,1. in the pounds
when is the July quarter preceding it was Is. 3d.
He-waa noxious to state these thing., that the pub-
lic might not be ignorant of the law, and the good
effects of it. He should state his objections to the
maximum on ■ future occasion. The great object
would undoubtedly be confining the relief to the
impotent, in which he wished the Hon.and Learned
Gentleman success, and should be happy to afford
him all the assistance in his power.
Mr. MOROI concurred with hi• lion. and Learn-
ed Friend in censuring the present system, which
he considered as an Agrarian law, or rather a real
Spencean system; yet before he could give his con.
sent to this measure, he should insist, on the part of
the poor, for the repeal of the Malt Tax, and others
which pressed peculiarly on them, and above all he
should demand, in the name of the poor, the repeal
of the Coro Bill. He agreed in the praises which
the ffight flan. Gentleman (Mr. S. Bourne) had
given to the select vestries, but it should be ob-
WIWI they were very different from the select ves-
try which had been lately proposed for Newington,
•boot which the Homan had heard so much.—
(Beer, hear.)
Mr. Mansetsim considered the establishment
of • maximum as impracticable.
Mr. Pommes bore testimo►y to the good effects
of the select vestries.
Mr. RICARDO agreed with the Hon. Member for
Wareham (Mr. Calcrsft), that part of the labour-
er's wages were paid out of site poor's rates. It
was the object of his Hon. and Learned Friend to
gist the labourer a fair reward. By the operation
of the poor's laws the supply of labour was above
she demand, and his object was to reduce it to its
fair level. Much had been said respecting the
amount of the national debt and the amount of
taxation, but he was persuaded the principal piss-
sure from those causes was felt by the rich.
Mr. M. A. TAYLOR thought the House could
►ot direct its attention to any subject more deserv-
ing of itusttestion. if they did not adopt every
part of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman's plan,
yet great good would accrue from wry of the im-
provements suggested. The amount of the ex-
pense and litigation on the subject of, settlement*
was, enormous.
Mr. SCARLETT protested against the supposition.
made by his gallant Friend (Sir R. Wilson), that
the measure was hostile to the rights or interests of
the pow; had the measure any ouch tendency, lie
should be the last man in the world to advocate it.
The very existence of a compulsory provision for
the poor bed of necessity the effect of reducing the
wages of labour. This position lie elucidated by a
comparison of the rates of wages, of the poor's rates,
of rents, and of the mato of cultivation of land of
equal quality in the north of Euglaud and in the
county of Surrey. It had also a tendency to
promote the increase of vice among the labour.,
tug claw". In support of this doctrine, the Ito-
stowable and Learned Gentleman quoted Irvin
a canons and intere►ting statement with which
he had bee,' furnished by a most intelligent and
observant individual, Mr. Walker, of Stratford,
an the suwu.hip of klanchester, the results of bus
observations during a pet tort of four year•, in the
course of which the pour rates had been gradually
rediterd, and Ilse constablta' fres diminished in the
proportion of that reduction.

The Bit as then read a first time, and ordered
'to be read a second time on the 24th or the present
mouth.
SICILY.
Lord Wit. BgIiTINCIL moved for a copy of s
snitch of the lustructeuris trisismitted to Sir Wm.
A'Court as directed him to procure from the Ou-
verunsont of Rsples a guarantee of piotectiou to the
persons of the Sid:tens. Nutt the security of their
political tights sod privileges. on the evacuation of
Sicily by the British forces, and its rtitunition to
the King of Nspirsi; also for n copy of the Note
addressed by Sir Win. A'C,art to the Court of
the

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WEDNESDAY, MAY g, ism
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Paris Papers or the 6th instant arrivea last night.
The following are extracts :
Villlll.ll, APRIL 23.
_ _ _

As Mkt Ms appeared, ordering the levy of 150,000 cos.
scripts.
PARIS, KAT S.
This morning, at eleven, hla alfwieety gave a private
aaJi-
mace to the Marquis de Lsorsels. After sass his Wiest/
trishacted Waists, with Count Simeon, lifiaister of the Is-
terior, Dares Pimlier, sod the Duke de Richelieu.

*bast seventy members of the Chamber of Deputies
have received the decoratioa of the Legion of Honour.
Owe hundred and seventy-two functionaries of the Ministry
of the Fiamme have been created chevaliers of the Legion of
Hamar.
The Neapolitan Ambassador has received from bin Majesty
the blue ribbon.
Tbe ancient abbey of Parseete, founded by Eloise sad
Ahelard, is advertised for sale.
The diversion of the affair of the 11th of August, will
open its the Chamber of Peers on the 7th of May, at the
Palate of the Luxembourg.
Yesterday, at three o'cleck,jihe prisoners implicated in the
cherge et -conspiracy were removed in hackney coaches to
the prison which has been prepared fur them in the barracks
occupied by the genderenes. The day before, a huissier gave
them a list of 178 witnesses who will be examined in this
affair, iud►peudently of the witnesses in favour of the accused.
May 5—5 per Cent. Consols 82 f. 70 c.

GREECE.
Extract,' of a letter from Brassown, in Trans)!!saris, on
the frontiers of Wallachia, April II:—" We liars from
Bucharest, that Prince Ypsilanti has made his entry lam that
city, preceded by Theodore Wledinsisltur, and the principal
Boyars, who weal to meet hies at some distasce from the
city. This entry was a reel triumph. The irkabitants of
Waßarbie rejoice at the melon which mews to be forming
between the Chiefr, and especially at 16e unius of the
forces of Theodore with those of Prince Ypsilanti. The
drat result of this union ban been the creation of •
Comical of Guvernmeut, as well for the civil ad-
suieirtratioo, as fur the soppJying of the army, which is
dated to susoutit to 60,000 sues, end which iseiicamped oat
the hanks of the Delilah*, one day's march from Burh .
A decision af the Council has placed at the disposal of the
testier' of lie Greeo-Wallachian army all the hells of the
parishes, of the antaereus termasterier is Bucharest
sad the weighbooriag district% to he east into carotin. The
patriotism of the majority ef the iobobilooto has caused
tbia rattoore I• he well received, ever by. the liagewases
or superior Abbots of the monasteries, sod y she o,t
soperstitiors CllOlll of the peuple, as had bbiros already

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