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London, England, 1816-05-29 00:00:00

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THE EVENINQ 'STAR.

LONDON.

THE TWO THIRTY THOUSAND POUND PRIZES
MU:if BE DRAWN I 0-MORROW, AND I r 14 NO r
UNLIKELY ONE TICKET MAY GAIN SIX Y THOU-
AND POUNDS.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1816.
Kula CtsMILILS IL les roßea,:—Haliday at the Bank;

A variety of interesting topics came before Par-
liament lase tight.—The Report of the Committee
on Sir Ronny Pzet.'s Bill respecting the employ-
ment of children in Manufattories ; a Petition froM
the Victuallers of Reading, praying relief from the
Monopoly of Public-houses by brewers and Distillers ;
the Report of the Committee on the stated Mendicity
in the Metropolis ; the Report on the state of Mad.
Houses, with a Bill for their better regulation ; a
New Silver Coinage ; the Trinity House Funds ;
the Debt due by Austria to this Country ; tlia Cs.
tholic Question ; the. Poor Laws ; and the Alien Bill.
Some of these subjects are deserving of great at-
tention' indeed ; and none more so than the Poor
Laws. That the present system is perhaps the most
vicious that could have been devised or acted upon is
proved by its effects—by its invariab:e; unchanged.
and turchangeable tendency to produce a.deleasement
of moral feeling and character ; an increase of pau-
perism, idleness and vice; an increase of taxation be.
yond all endurance, and the hardening of the heart
in consequence. against modest and uncomplaining
distress. It is the duty of every person, on such a
momentous subject, to point out any fact bearing on
the question, and we therefore call on the Memtiers
of Parliament to procure proper returns to ascertain
the comparative progression of the expense of the poor,
before and since the general erection of Workhouses.
We can already tell them what will be the result of
the examination of this one point: namely, that the
expense has gone on in a greatly increasing ratio since
maintenance in Workhouses superseded in many
parishes the previous practices of giving relief to the
poor in their own dwellings.. Many reasons might
be assigned for. this : in too Many parishes those who
obtain the snperintendance of the poor-rates have an
interest in furnishing supplies to the Workhouse, nor
can any law prevent this; for the real thieves,' by
their predominating influence, elect their own cm-
tures into office, and through them get the contracts :
but the principal cause of the increase of pauperism
is the compelling every person who applies for relief,
to '
proclaim his reduced circumstances to all his
neighbours, to lay dostn the character of an in-
dependent cotter or housekeeper, and to go into
the Workhouse with his childten4 What could
be expected from such a' system but the very
effects that basic followed t Disgrace a man and
his family in the eyes of his parish, and you de-
stroy the only remaining stimulus left in the mind of
poor ignorant people. It is otherwise in Scotland.
The distressed poor aretelieved in their own houses,
and are generally impressed with a belief that their
neighbours are ignorant of their extreme poverty.-0
The effects are what might be expected : they perse.,
vere in their industrious habits, and never feel easy
till they can again maintain themselves without parish
aid. In such patishes as have houses for the poor,
none are admitted, into them but orphans, or the aged
and infirm who are past labour and bass no relatives
to take care of them.

;. is -confislently reported that the Duke arGLOW•
ragmen will shortly receive the hand of the Princess
MARY. The Doke and the Princess aux both in
their 41st year.

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FRENCH PA 1B:

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We.have received the Paiii,ThlOirs a
of &WIT:L.,
They contain some farther details the circumstances
attending the arrest of Dituna, the chief of the rebels
at drennble, and, a biography of the early part of the
life of General CHMITIIAND, who WaLidttii shot at
Lille for treason. He seems to have merited an iz-
nominiotis fate many years since, and to have been
promoted by BONAPARTa for his crimes' atone. It is
evident that he was capable of matting Why' service,
however degrading or dishonourable, which the latter
tecitiired of him;
Dumtk has been conveyed si dlose prisoner to
Turin, in• the first instance. He will afterwards be
brought to Effie for trial.
A great outcry is made in Switferland against the
French regicides who have taken up their residence
there, all of whom, ai it appears, %idiom leave or
licence. They are accused of secretly abetting the
, late instil rections at Grenoble.

There is a, report at Paris that Lord Wurrwoans
succeeds Sir CHARMS STUAUT as British Ambassador
there.

. COURIER EXTRAORDIgARY OF SUNDAY SIORNINGe

The frigfte Galatea, commanded by Count Mon-
cabria, Capitaine de Maisseau, set out on the 9th of
May irons Bastia, to carry the Marquis of Riviere,
the new French Ambassador to Constantinople.—
This frigate is accompanied by the galley la Biche ;

and after fulfilling this mission it will remain upon
the Levant station, where the Zephyr and Fawn
French gun-brigs have been mime time. '
It is said that Sir Charles Stuart, the British Am-,
bassador from England; is appointed Ambassador to
the Bing of the Netherlands, and that Lord Whit-
worth is to replace Sir Charles Stuart at Paris.
General Sebastiani returned yesterday to Paris from
.London.
Count Woronzoff, who commands the Russian
'contingent in France, arrived at Parii yesterday.
Lord Fitzroy Somerset is appoin4d Secretary of
the rmbassy to the Court of France.
GRENOBLE, MAY 21.

The following are some details respecting the ar-
rest of Didier. After the route of his wretched ac-
eomplices, he wandered among the mountains, fly ing
from asylum to asylum, and at length reached the
territory of Savoy, accompanied by sever a 1 /if Lis
accomplices. Two of them, fathers of families,
smitten with remorse, and perceiving the whole dan-
gerof their situation, saw that their only hope of
safety lay in the arrest of the person who had dinged
them into their misery : on a request being made by
their families to the proper authorities for an amnesty,
their pardon was promised. Sion Didier was there_
fore delivered up to the Sardinian gend'arrnerie, who
conveyed him to Turin, where he will be first esa-
Mined, and then sent to France to meet his fate.