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THE POOR LAWS.

EXTEAL.TII runs THE MINUTES OF EVIDENCE
TAKEN ■EFORE THE LORDS. COMMITTEES ON
TUN POOR LAWS, IN 1817.

The Pererend Thomas Lloyd teas examined, as follows:
Have the goodness to give the Committee some explain-
tiou of the Sunday bank, whirls has Oren established in the
county of Hertford, it addition to the iiisiiiiition culled
The Proildest Hank ?—The Sunday bank, which is mention-
ed in the First Arnold Report of the Hertfordshire Sayan
*ask, is totally distinct from the saving bank; it was esta-
blished sissy years before the saving bauka wire ever
lasseght of, and has had several objects its view; the lest
was, to induce a habit of saving •mseg the people is way
own parish; to induce a regular attinsdassee at church, for so
person cats pay isle the Suoday bask unless he •trends at
chinch; the money paid isle this bunk was always
returned to the depositors on the Ist of January, with a very
considerable interne, arising from differeut sources; I have
regula►ly, from the best establishment of the Sunday bask,
bad not less than from 90 to 10i/depositors in it. The sum
which! annually receive in suy parish amounts to about 3501.
or Jew. paid is swum (MOB sixpence to Iwo abilhngs every
Susiday.and arisiseutirely from the deposits of labourers and
of persons living by their industry. Mem he depositors tom-
Named their payments in January, there was no idea of a sae.
in; hank, which was nut then thought of, and sot established
till March, ttllO ; conarquelitly nu payment was made with
a view to that; but obese the baring, bank was established,
I sass anxious that the one should be subsidiary to the oilier,
and therefore I proposed to the rlrinititura, that they should
continue their pliant's, and at the end of Ilse year, what
the, did not want for rent or other purposes, they should
theo deposit in the saving bask; and the very lest year I
bad SUL paid isle the serial" bank, sod wbicb is now there.
lis the adjoi aaaaaa parish to mine, and in the parish of fewio„
and is Hartingfordhary, w Ire s sum than 6571. was
moil into one of liaise Sunday banks in tips year 1919. I
have always been rumbled, from various causes, to give my
people twelve per cent.; 1 do uot parasite, giving twelve
per test. ins any thing, I only guarantee to dins the
payment of the money. I have Leta enabled to do that
from various sources, which I will state. it wisels larger
sent having ham paid in than I ever expected, it beams a
anions consideration with use hos, 1 could secure them;
for if the Country but failed, it was impossible I could
afford to return diem the isms which they had paid
is, which ansuont perhaps to two hundred pomade;
therefore I xohmitted to a gentleman a person of pro.
petty in say polish, that difficulty; and be immediately

i gar, me a letter, gusratiteeing the safety of the pey-
ote*, if I wield pay it in to his moue to the country
beak; it Is (beware regaled, paid eves). Mesday eariessing,
shout 111.10 s. smokly, Is his name, and he allows sue St per
mot. ; that 1., the sad of the year he gives me roveiselv
two and a half percent. the interest upon any emu paid
iu weekly being exactly two atigl a half per heel. spots the
total St the cod of the year. lu addition to that, hr gives
roe a benefaetios of fire guineas; the remainder is made op
of kitbag heriefor, and the surplus of the sacrament
money that is nut sls lto other purposes ;an that 1 hare
always been enabled to give to every person who paid in
61. 4s. in the coarse of the year, twelve shillings iu additiou,
sad so in proportion. I have at this moment several per.
Mss payee(' in, expressly for the purpose of its being paid in
at the sad of the year to the saving bank. They have sow
deposited it with me, fur the purpose of getting, of course,
from nee a much larger later's' that. they can get by the
provides. isstitution.
Have say other banks on the same principle beets eats-
blUbed is the county of Hertford'—Four Sundry bulks;
two et Hertford, one at Trivia and one at Hartiegfordbury.
Vu you coaceive the establishment of the saving bank
has bees already maidactive «f ailvaistege?—lndeed 1 think
Infinite, led 1 believe it will be the salvation of she country,
if they are established generally. 1 cisuld state must
extraordinary instances of in 'es, which have been saved,
and the time they have been lucked op, witbuvt basis( pro-
duced nay advantage to the owner. There was one le-
stance in which 460/. bad bees sewed up its bolsters and
feather-beds, ever since the year 1796, of Abraham New-
land'. notes. I bad not the whole of those mites brought
me, but 1 had several pounds of those very soles brought;
they sever saw day-light till last year. Aud to show
the ignores.* of many persona in regard to money, it
is but a very few weeks since a woman is a red cloak,
a labours?. wifl, brought me ten tweeds in silver, said
ninety posed. is notes; and as I always, when they
bring me mosey, am particularly cautions, I counted
the mosey over several times, and said, " Now remember
you have Would me 101. in silver, and 901. its notes; that
melee 1001." I could led make her at all corn prebeud that
she had brought me that sum ; at last I found it arose fright
her not understanding my expression, and she said, " I have
brought you 11101.; hut I brought you 101. in silver, and four
score sad lee peso& in notes; she did not issilerstawil
Marty pounds. We have had several sass paid in, to a very
corgi& rable amount, frost labouriug people ; there is a
renew, merely a coke woman, has brought 126/. to the sav-
ing bank, the message weesiesi of a village. 1 have likewise
had persists, who have actually withdrawn themselves from
the benefit societies to pay sow jute the saving bunk,
feeling, as almost every body des*, that the benefit clubs are
by nu owns beneficial things ; I think they are the worst
things that can possibly he, which I have sees in my expe-
rience, not °sly se a elergyntas, but as a magistrate. I have
persona is my owe parish, who have paid money to she le-
meld clubs for twenty years, who have withdraw's their
names, and are paying in precisely the saute sums, that they
did pay into the benefit club.
Are those benefit clubs in the nature of tontines!—No;
Am the support of each other, when they are sick; that has
been the helical' of them; bet the evil arising front them is
extremely great, fur there is almost always a regulation, that
when two-thirds of the members choose to assemble and
inineisnously agree to break rap this clubs, they can; the
consequence hops% the third of the old members, who ought
to he deriving sit assistance dining the last period of their
!twee from those clubs, are completely deprived of it. We
have had four, live ter six clubs broken up within these two
years, Is the socighisoarlisoil of Hertford.
Have you found say objections in the minds of your pa-
rishioners stalest saving banks, in the Gila instance r.
lately; 11011•1111 very reedy to acknowledge, that I think the
prejudice still exists, and I believe arises from evil-disposed
peruses *edits; the people against them. Under my own im-
mediate eye, sad is my own parish, I do not find that ; be.
cause, from • residence of 21 years there, they are very ready
to attend to nay suggestions I can give diem • but lam 'peek-
ing in general terms of other steighbourhoos, and 1 c.ouceive
having 100 of those labourers paying into my Solidity bank, it
takes away certainly many lICIPUSIIUIs from the actual "avail
bank ; it is in the stature of a saving hank. 1 would beg leave
to state, that one objection given to me bas been, a fear °fib.
persons employing them keel,' jug what they Call Pave; that
what they can live upon : thtve certainly has always been a
fray that, if it were know., their masters and employers would
reduce their wages; that has been frequently said to me.
11 almost invariably happens, that when a deposit is made
by a labourer, the great anxiety is, that ssubody should
know it; sad it is °beef our regultitioes that we build upon
exceedingly, that it is founded in 'weeny; the man at the
sent door does sot know that his neighbour puts into the
savisste hank, and it is an invariable role for me to attend is
the vestry from ten o'cloek ou the Sunday till half past four;
and it is at that time that the labourers bring their books
instead of the asturdry, and they bolt the door regularly,
and bring their book out with great sectary, fur the entry to
hennas is it.
Do your saving banks repay the depositors according to
the price of smelts?—We are obliged iu ducted now ; all our
looney is invested is the three per cents.
Has the fact been, that the notoriety of the existence of
the soviet banks ha. reduced the wages of labour Intl°n tour
perishl.—Certainly not ; on the contrary, I know gentlemen
in my orighboarbood who are willing to give more to these
who pay tato the Paving basks. We have, since the 30th of
March, received 5321. .

ASIATIC INTELLI6RNCE.

DEPOSITION OF THE PEISHWA.

(From the Domliay Gazelle, Ithrch I 1.)

We ban been fireweed 'sighs Mahratta copy of a Prods-
matins issued by the Hun. Mountstuart Elpkinsione in the
Deccan, declaratory of the views of the British Government
and the paltry intended to be punned towards Dike Row
and Ilse territories dependant on the late Government of
Poirea. That important document adverts, in the first in-
stance, is the disorganised and rebellious condition of the
country's Nee RUM 'll accession to the Peishwnship; to the
confused and insecure elute of his power and government,
which led to its usurpation by Jeswant Bow Holkar ; to his
light from Punnets, Bassein; and the pusillanimous abandon-
Input of his capital to that enterprising ssodicr.
The Proclamation notices the alliance that was, under
these circumstances, formed with the British Government,

the troops that were immediately furnished ou the faith
of that r *ion*, and hi. consequent restoration to hi•
&overtok-is'. The heuelleial effects of that alliance, in
reviving the prosperity of his country, notwitlistandiug the
destructive farming systems by which it was managed, the
personal l'applistrin Whit* Halm Row enjoyed under the
British protectioo, sad the rapid and immense surplus re.
venue which flowed into his treasury are depicted ; and
the &Newly whieb we 'manifested to adjust those claims of
■ pecuoiary salute which the head of the Mahrstia Empire
possessed ott its subordiome breathes, which It was its pulley
to keep alive, and the %wealth/old assertion of which was
pregnaat with so mach tied ■nd injoseice, is adverted to.
It then explaiiir, that the deputation of thingratier llbastry,
the Goyeairow Minister to Poona mailer the altmaelce of the
British Government, had for its object the settlement of the
pecuniary claims between the two states, by which the bites
rest of Bajee Row anield be greatly promoted ; adverts it)
the himstry's assassination by the official fianctiousries of
Bajee Row on roamerated ground—a deed which the general
voice of the country &tiered could out have been perpetrated
without the orders of Bajee Ruw. It ►efen to the delicacy,
forbearance, cud moderation which Ike antis!' Gorcrumcat

PRICB (EVEN-P -NCE.

manifested no the occasion, by merely neptiritr. the sur-
render of Trimbuckjee Winches es the murderer, with.
00t throwiug the si.getest caepiriuu ngeinot the el.a.
rafter of its „ply; Atst tlik.temaiid, however, was not ruin.r
tell euttiplicil units, but 'lit:weed, at ow small degree
to the British Government ; that sa 110011 as Trioulinck •
lee was gives' op, the fainter relation, were instatioly re.
stored. The prociarantiou mat Notices the extensive in.
triage,' which Bajee new rommeneeil, in rousing the testier
states to a resistance of the British Government, in exciting
disterbances in his own couittry, and in rabiue !coup. on'
the idea of suppressing those insurrections; and law mem-
cures of precaution which we pursued to Impress those
turhances, which led to our investing the city of Po nra ; that
Bajee Row became nine subject t power It p to
those repeated professions and acknowledgments which Nee
Ituw has nouie of hie tieing indebted to lie British Govern-
ment for his existence as a Sovereign, and of his gratitude
for the blessings he bail enjoyed ; and to the eirceilite uf con-
cludiug 'wither Treaty in confirmation of that of Casein,
for the purpose of depriving Ii i 111 l out of his sovereignty, hilt
of the menus of hitriguing to the prejudice of. the •Iliance.
The Pro e maims proceeds to explain the uhjm to of the
late arraueenents fur suppressing the Pindirees, whose ile-
predations had devastated &jet Row's territories; that he
confessed that it would be a measure highly conducive lac
his interest, and engaged to co-operate ill its aceinsiplisli.
meat; but that under them.fair promises, the must active,
extensive, and powerful engiurs were secretly set to work,
to organise a force to oppose us; that he seized a moment
which be thought favourable, attacked the troops of his ally,
mid burnt and plundered the British residency and canton-
ment,.
That the Company', subjects passing through his country,
in the stenriti of existing treaties, were mired and legal-
emoted, end British Officers ow the road to Poona were mull.
dared iu the most inhuman lad disgraecfni manlier, acrd the
perpetrators relented is his service. It melees the reeal of
Tritnbuckjee lac his councils, sad thus becoming a participe-
for in his crime, and the invitation given to the lendarcee
to enter and ;domaier his territories. It Jeciariv. that Bajee
Row had by these ads abandoned the ditties of a sovereign,
and pr :senores his tinfilluess to govern; it proclaims his ohm-
Poiillora, and developes the determination of the British to
;dace the enuutry multi-the Campania governmesie It de.
mils the military arranernseists is progress for that poirpor,e,
and unr determinetiun to relieve the Rajah of Sattarsh from
the custody of Bider Ruw, and to 'stilted, a principality
far the maintenaucc or his rank and &oily, s ith whirls
view the Rajah's Ilse had beets displayed at the fort of ent•
tarab. the Rajah's territories should be roveris.-x$ by
his own laws, but that the British authority would he intro.
demi into those lo be reserved to tbeCouspiiiy. It advert%
to the principles of patter which distieguish our admen'.
motor, and emus all of the consequences of adhering to the
rectum"' of Beim Row.
We have atom topteil to (tee the purport only of the Pt."-
dumdum, which is dated the 11th of last minutia. It Is a
most impiirtant sod interesting document. It hue been re-
ceived with feelings of the 'lighten satisfaction ht the 'nimbi.
Mote of the Cancan, and we deal sot has prbdueed 'friths
equally cheering and exhilaraliug to the greet and valuable
mass of the population of the Deccan. Tliiis has the power
end iuthience of the mild and inoffensive goverumeut uf the
&abating terminated, we trust, for ever.
cret.ox, MARCH 4.
A report has reacherl Ws, that his M.ijesty*ii Ourerittiesit
is England were abut to erect Coleuthu into an Arcbdea.
coney, sod to place Ceylon under the spiritual jorisdictioe
uf the Bishop of Calcutta. A onion sod cinisisteney trill
shut be giveu en the English church throwehont the British
douriniosis. There are, we believe, several corieregatiosis of
Prutestaina at Celumbo, and other parts of the island uf
Gybe, which have much increased of late years under the
protection amid eueouragement of the present Governor ; aced
the accounts we bare seen lead its to think, that the moat
beneficial effect' are likeiy to result from the urdiaatioil of
native priests, the means fur which will be now regularly
ifforded.
• 1502. Vide Treaty of Bassein, and the operations of Sir
Arthur Wellesley, sow Duke of Wellington.