Star.
London, England, 1830-12-09 00:00:00

STATE OF ?lig COUSTItY.

Lord WYNFORD, in pursuance of the notice he had given on the
lltate of the country, observed, that he mated any remarks he had to
make would tend to allay the existing alarm, rather than to increase
it. He was persuaded that the present distress was very general;
still the people ought not to be led to expect that Parliament
wonld COMIC forward with pecuniary relief. The noble and learned lord
then referred to a paper, which stated the number of persons who had
emigrated to Africa and other places from England in 1826, to be about
200 ; but in the present year that number had been increased to upwards
of 2,000, an incontestible proof of increasing distress among the labour-
ing and .agriculutural classes, and of the bad administration of the
Poor Laws. Another proof of the alarming state of the country was
to be found in the fact of the:capitalist possessing his money locked up
in his strong box, instead of applying it to the traffic of :the country
or state. This was a question which could not be touched by ithe
Committee of their Lordships on the Poor Laws : he was persuaded
that distress did exist in this country to its present extent,
and be should like to have a public enquiry made into
that distress, because a most respectable and large body of his
Majesty's subjects, he meant the farmers, had been most vilely alum.
Mated. The late Lord Liverpool attributed the distress In his time,
for distress did then exist, though not to the same extent as now, to ex.
coulee production, a cause that could not now be urged ; he begged to
say that he was no enemy to machinery, or to any other improvement la
the arts ; but if machinery tended to glut the market with production,
he did not hesitate to give it his condemnation, satisfied that the poor
man and the artisan were as much entitled to a protection of their pro.
perty as their rich neighbours.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Tuts DAT.
Mr.PLANTA moved fora new Writ for St. Oamains, in the room
of Sir H. Hanlinge, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.--Ordered.
Mr. O'CONNELL presented a petition from a Chelsea pensioner,
complaining of a deduction from his pension of 5 per eon; and from a
Freeman of amuse', complaining that his Freedom had been refused;
sho, a petition from St. Michael's, for a Reform in Parliament. He
trusted that no effort would be made to delude the people on this
subject.

The Marquis of BLANDFORD trusted that no delay would take
place: in granting the reform. The delay of a single day was dan.
runts.

Mr. O'CONNELL then presented a petition from Ayrshire for re.
form, and said that if ministers made no declaration on the subject be.
fore Christmas, he would give notice of a motion. Those who resisted
rote by ballot must intend, that some ministers balance should prevail
over

Sir IL WILSON replied with indignation to this imputations those
who resisted vote by ballot were as honest as the bon. member. He re.
sisted vote by ballot from the sincerest conviction; he considered it no.
favourable to purity of election. His was the opinion of the most Ida.*
core and honest man in North America. He should resist it and do his
duty in spite of the dictation of the hon. member.

Sir 3. MACINTOSH took the oaths and his seat.

Mr. RUTHVEN said, he was storey to see the Hon. Member (llir
R. W.) who had so much dilleulty to make up his mind on the Civil
List, make up his mind so decidedly against the vote by ballot. He
considered the only security to be a vote by ballot."
Mr. PRICE considered that Parllametttary Reform had been too
long delayed.
Mr. O'CONNELL said that the Gallant General had shown equal
anger and lack of argument. He would not interfere with his boost of
patriotism►. but leave him to be his own trumpeter. He then presented
petitions from the Association Meeting at the Rotunda, and from the
Carpenters and Bookbinders of Dublin, for the repeal of the Union
and eight similar petitions from parishes in Ireland, for the extension
of the Galway franchise.
Mr. CALCRAFT presented the Report of the Cork Election Com-
mittee. It stated that D. Callaghan, Esq. the sitting Member had been
duly elected.
Mr. O'GORMAN MAHON presented a petition from the County
of Clare, for the repeal of the Union. He then threw himself upon the
indulgence of the House, to defend himself from an extensive system of
attack on members, by secret letters and otherwise, which in this ease
would be brought home to a member of the House by evidence at the
bar. He disliked 'secret insinuations and clandestine impeachments.
It had been imputed to him,that be was influenced by the Treasury.
He totally denied the charge of deliberate falsehood that bad also
been imputed to him. lie also, however, maintained that the
Duke of Wellington had tared the country from the evils that bad
threatened Ireland. He could not but compliment the sight boo.
gentleman for having sacrificed the glory of being the Church
ascendancy idol to a measure which he deemed essential
to his country's welfare. As to the charge against himself it had oc-
curred on the night of the debate on the Civil List. At nine o'clock
he went to dinner, and was accidentally shut out, thought; absent only
forty minutes.