Star.
London, England, 1831-08-09 00:00:00

THZ VESTRIES BILL.

Os the motion of Mr. flolifloiiii, the Vestries Bill
was read • second time, and ordered to be committed on
Monday senniglit.

EDUCATION IN IRELAND.
Mt. WYSE rose to obtain leave to bring in a bill for the
better educatioe of the poor in
Captain JONES opposed the BIM
After • short discussion, leave was given to bring in the
bill, which was road a drat time.
The remaining orders of the day were then disposed of,
and the House ad'oumedinumat utorto Three o'Clock.
Mr. E. G. WAKEFIELD having spent three-
years within the state-yard of Newgate is instruct-
ing the public about Criminal Law, though his
experience could in no other way assist hint, ex-
cept in the information of turnkeys who acted in
different yards. Hence his work abounds is
fables and erroneous inferences. The only para-
graph worth transcribing for public observation is
the following :
•• when one reaft.ts that the only object of punishment is
the repression of crime ; that, therefore, penalties ought to
be so measured as to hold out in omit owe a strooger motive
for abstaining from an offence than say astir. for COMM i tting
it ; and that, above all, the power of pulisinlent, as a means
fur the repression of al:re, depends altogether on its certainty.
it does appear &own!, to leave to the pleasure of an oldish.
dual in every case what shall be the ainsest of punishment,
if any at ;ill. The wisest legklature woad have intibitedit-
ficulty In so duerminirg the penalty of each offence as to,
mail punishment as tiThetual as possible in the tepres.tor. of
crime. The kgisla.ute of this country leaves the matter to
oe settled by fruity:duals, acted upon by all hinds of iinpro-
per motives—such as at:ger, laziness, sad osinpovion—and.
above all, utterly thoughtless of the sole object of punish.
went. Ought it, then, to be matter of astonishment, that
crimes shun:d increase with the increase of populrion and
wealth ?"—p. 68-9.
We agree with him as to the gross impropriety of
leaving so much to the cruel discretion of
Judges; but nothing can be more extraordinary
than the inference of this soi-disant instructor, the,.
crimes increase with wettish, when all other men
know that their increase arises from poverty—
solely from poverty, though, of course, we except
that of Mr. Wakefield.

SPIRIT 01' 717'n' DArS JOURNAL.
TI ES.—We really think that it would be bate?, tool
for society end clergy, if the revenues of the prehendal vet'
which are too often hut nests of idle aristocracy or ncpw,..h.
could be tranferred altogether to the ill-ereloattl liwngt, aril
occasional residence changed into continual. I: is true
we 1-3Ve expressed-..at dwe repeat it—a wish that r. cry
clergsteisn should reside upon. his °wit parish. amongst
from shorn he draws his rev. mot. and upon whom, as it a eto I
appear to be the only rational cod of a ebeirch cstabliahne-t.:
his religious ins titetion and pastosrl (Mee' might to
beteowt..l. ir. our be the perfect:
of WI ec.lialastecir, cen.d.shment lt's do not see, bli,id .
we are, elms v hot•el nI dean. and etap•ers, an I prely-n
dents, and all the dor eel lust employed about cur
c:ln•idenel in refiner in th- dispensation of the cm,.
forts and kind nfS,. ro: religion. The cathedra:lt tit: ottglim
the, eitintry are but thinly attenet.t lu comoarisor. wi h
o.lijnary of no: palish ehurchts; yet time fur:min-or
employed Cisrein, and tni-yrog ter. rues Irene t! tr-
ate I.:earrally spiakieig. In every worldiv point of vie
the best provided of all our English cicipy. It is the,
fore our entneat desire In err telecom aid reinuto ran
mar; equitably arportioned by the. t %I
should not complain very Iceidly it nurtures were boi
fide conferred -only en tho-c cletoymie, a lu»c dettaretplin
pan• bee were not large toeugh yi,1.1 them a crenth.rt.e
subsis'ence. flue the mischief of the thing is. that who
pluralities are suffered at all. tlinsc who hay, t'te patron.,
wtr. and must abuse it. We are nor satisfied whit kavi
re much itt the power of the Bishops. amongst whom. ki
drcd are to be found example,. at e • most frightful a•
shameleos plurality. "A begsiihg rkrgy is tin desire
ours.'—onf•e th • contrary We a ish foe too 'eel pendent a.
respected clergy ; hut we do nor to late a sea a e.f thiogi
which it is lett to an,:irresponsibl.: officer lo sleet. ai Aisne
calece or selfishness may Induce him, one minister of t
church for a Dives and snnzher for a Legatos. It is the
chosen ploralists who make the .` beggars,"
111E11 ALI).--ire cahoot help thinking that Co?. Dori.
and toner aineere friends of the Itofer.o Rill, avoid rend.
good serves to der cause by declioiiig to press their storied.
meats. Tooy need not be told at this stage of she in
eeeding that the great object to tile noroughwong:
is in delay; that their only hor as an dci iy ; to
whe:lra they look to the .gamy cf accidents tit (Iv
VC:MU Or meditate seriously to in eke a 514114 in 111, Il.w,
of Lords, their grand reliance is in the efficacy of th tat
....This being the case, hew c..n any Itefunn
persuade himself that he is Join; net chief when he
promotihg the very object which those m.n have in 'let
To wait until the Bill be made perfect wale to wait until
miracle be perfor.ned. If l'arlianient were never to beg•
reform until it could begin 'hese tee shall be wel. atrisnt
to finish—with perfection—athe hurouglottongers mg!
laugh at every attempt to put ih.tti down by It.gisiatit•
We know nut whe.her the agrieultu al interest will be suf.
eiently represented under the Bell; but this we kn.:
that if, upon ex (rent, it showd appsar not to !,4.
ie will then be time enough to ni..ke ebe hsceitsary chin;
H RRALD —.Mr. Hume, taloa. g io a pi.thion froth
Westminster Union, which depr,ea ed the war against
Poles, observed, thou " it related to a suleji 0 of very rre
importance and tote. est to every one w tie LUUritty. few,
was nut an Liditridual who war nu, som•-us to know it
Majesty's tloverionimt had taken any shiasure, wish r.
to th • suffering Poles. Ile war no: a sott.cate for rho
fercnce in the cone ens of toiler countries ; on the eot.trai
lie thought we had interfered too m..ch. and paid too u. VI
for that antefference. But when he sae a great deal of int.
faence in behalf of one country ca: tied on fur many mond
he Mought it became a questiou tit to b: put to his Maj..t;
gOVertalle .t how far they had inkrfeee e, by rettiohstratnee.,
commendation, or otherwise, in tasour of the l'oles biro!
&tug fur their indepettnetecs." Tile &hewer of law,' I'
Illefhtol2 wag, that lie " coon nut. tutteistently with i
duty, give the explanation which was requir.d.” It t
were to interpret this mower. as Mr. teCuunell dal, Iwo
belt admission that no effort has been made by the Br.ti
government on behalf of tint gallant people. we sbauld feel
a deep sense of humiliation at toe co..thict of Eng Lind. 1k
we cannot think dent we shiuld be iownied in mak ng .ioe
such assumption: ou Me contiary,ws. taus that Franc. invit,
other countries to remonstrate, sad be lief that no Cox
try, so ilivited, could refuse its good oifi.es. unless it mig.
be one of those et/accrued in that roVery g es by to
mild name of the partition of rola: el. ithietd, c..teelou
seems to require that we should e sire cut die to days-u"
00VerilteUt far toe nionvits Which they avow'. .The tone •
souse when they must nrustegit 1.6.: MAMA... of 1. ;rm...
action. It will Com be seen b3O on: th.. sr;•
effected by toe coarse aelopieti in tier nem.. tine
not wi:haut a guardian to wa,cli tiv.y leer et put. ou • Is,
Blrltlnbhaobjewedto the riv•Ufillito t ;La .11 wet
Poland was '• unjust and huiotous. n ter tut.. yu.
hon. hart."' cause, ho evsr, the whole worl I had t ter
of that rashness betor. Ire si.uke, and we t..tt out th tient
the influence of his authority viii he sofliett 14 to „I, r their
determination. There is oiee hope fur the
of all this coldness and cemion. A:ter tit step waizo fr.o.te •
lass taken with rtspeet to lietgiuni, at seems 1.1.4
she can thilik of leaving the I'.l s:0 titer tea. I. I. ;:41,
surely, • comparison of the riskh in born cases ,hat shell in.
, duce a gallant nation to make a darer. nee in tits poll; y to-
t wards either.

Don Pedro is nicking great eilorts to entry tato
execution his designs on l'ortugal. .Ai proem at du not
find that the British Government has lent any aid ta., or
countenanced his plans, but they have been rartuly api.r.Aed
by the King uf. the trench.
After Madame Paste bad retired from die :ti.ge
than was a pre•ty general call for Lauorte, ..In.
tomard to the loot-lights; and seemingly oder aim,. e.-
able tinoilm, ad named a .ew btllstilat, 10 1.1:t m.44att1'.13.
No set ot• men e'er evinced such a diatulert•eleil
disregard of any thing like popular teciing :.nd tiVllllOl. as
the remit opposition ; fur.not o.ily do they .et s..eu t..t; s
against reformat ho.t.e, but micct Ddn 31:suel, ih. v
Ferdinand, and the King of Holland, as their f reign pet.
and favourites.

The dejeuno given by the Marquess of II Afoul
co Saturday, at his niansani hi the R.gtut's parr, was vu
the most splendid
Among the European nobility, prob•tbly the
•larquis of Stafford is the 'canniest indiviJuai.
COMB goes beyond 301.1,u01.0.sterii mg. The Duke of iour
Cali, whose wealth is generally taken as a standard and
term of comparison, possesses only 114,000,000 of
about 115,0001. and he is ooliged to keep a regal nosh) -
tnent, as he still keeps up his pretension. to the man
Spain. His household amounts to more than two Ituni.r.d
persona.

ADV•I.TAGEI or LITEKATIIKE IN AMENICA.
—Tea high price of paper, hbour, and i.ms in this cow/.
try, has been very favourable to authwah:p and the puhh.
estioa of books in Awoke. Foreign pubtications Mr. alau
charged there with a duty of 13 pa cent. and foreign rags
ate exempt trout all impost. Ti.e number of volumes an.
nuaUy printed at POiladtlphia is computed at 5t10,600 ; and
last year there were 56 printing.officea, cnipluyitie 213
presses; at the same time there was upwiwus of tin
leugravas.
1111511 DINANDS OF 1798.—We linve
muc . of what is called tile 1/isii iebeition ; b.t she latttael•
tits committed by Pitt, Dundas & Co. win ,pprcimalvd
by perusing the demands of the p.rties. They a e rtcordtd
in kit. Moorp's Lite of Lonl Edward Fitzgerald, whim'
deserves a place by the tide ut the lives of Tb mas Muir,
Fletcher of Salmon, and Andrew Marvel :
. •.

`• 'lliac it is indieltensatly necessary io a luneamental
Imo of the representation that all dieabUities, un acc.m.c
of religion, be her ever abolished, and that Cathultc. shall
be admitted into the legislature, tied all tbt great offices of
state, hi the same ex .ent, &c. as Prot:mains now art.
•• 'flirt it is the indispAisable right of the people of Ire-
land ?u be fully and fairly represented in parliament.
" That, in order that the peup:o may be hilly ei.anlitti to
exercise that right, tie privilege of returning mcitobas for
cities, b.•rough., &e. in the present form, snail cease; that
each co my be divided into) district% mind o IMO
houses earn, each district to re.urn twu members to pant..
went.

" That all paeans pussessits freehold property to the
amount of forty pound, p.r annum ; ali poste...eta of leare-
bold inter's.. of the value of ; ail pooseikant of a
lhouse of the value of • ; all woo Lore resided bit
a certain number of yeah; in any great my or tuna, follow.
mg a trade ; and al alto shall tae tree et any city, he. by
bill, marriage, or 'attitude, shall vow fur members of
1 pvtiaament,
•• That seats in parliament ahall ending lot num-
ber of seats.
"(The blanks lift to be filled up at the dip:rearm of
the ho..ee.("
'the parry relive! thew &wands rebellion. aiskin ce.
aiming them wasted 100,000 iieve r yet Pitt% mime is mill
in 6Utidhall, and es, we are told, about so beset up in Ha.
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