Star.
London, England, 1816-05-30 00:00:00

the inept*, to tare them to the foutedettes t , for it
would hive been found, not that a gisin number of
paupers could be suaintaineh cheaper In a teorihouse
tban in` their own dwellings, but that, to avoid the
epgradation which then attached to marked paupers,
:the poor fled from the perishes which disgraced them
by liveries, and hedges, and a marked pauper •resi-
dence, and gradually placed themselves in other pa,
Tithes, where they hoped not to be degraded bi a
stigma put upon their distress.
By the operation of this honest ambition among the
poor at that period, the expenses of the, parishes
which first matured the present system of evil, were
for a time lessened; other parishes, willing also to
be frugal, followed the example the system became
general land what followed ? At last every place
being brought to the same level of 4legradation, the
poor had no choice left, and the operation of the
taus* which produced a saving for a time to the pa.
tikes which first adopted the system, entirely ceased.
—But when all the parishes were thus equally de.
fended against intruders seeking an asylum from dis-
grace, were they thus brought back respectively to
their original state ?—Far otherwise. Your poor are
now a very different race. You have destroyed
among Owns every feeling of independence, every'
sentiment of emulation. You have now a labour
much more difficult to perform than that of building
Workhouses, or levying rates for their support—you
must regenerate the lower orders, by bringing them
again to the same moral state in which they were when
your Workhouses rendered them idle, profligate, and
shameless; nor will this be the work of a day.—
This, however, must be accomplished—and the first
effectual 'step should be the pulling down, or selling,
all the Parish Workhouses.—Let not a vestige re-
main but what is sufficient to shelter the infirm and
the orphan. Increase the number of Overseers of the
poor, and let the relief afforded to the indigent be
conducted as secretly as possible, that those who re.
ceive relief may be induced to believe that their
neighbours are ignorant of the fact.

We have received the Paris Papers of Monday.—
they contain but little intelligence of interest. An
article front Madrid would fain persuade the Spanish
nation, that the affairs of FXRDINAND go on swim-
mingly in South America : nothing can be more fal-
lacious. Indeed the paragraph in question is so
worded as to render it quite evident that the author
.himself believed the contrary of what be has said.

COMER EXTRAORDINARY OF MONDAY MORNING.

Yesterday, after Man, the following distinguished
characters were presented to his Majesty by his Ex-
cellency the Minister of Finance, viz.

Count de Vi&many, Peer of France.
Pardemus and Piet, of the Chamber of Depudee.
ism Mere de Sump. one of the Preach:ate of the Chamber
of Amounts.

Chewslisr Laline, Provisional Govern of the Bank of Prance.
Count Chabrol, Prefect of the Department of the Seine, and i
President of the Chamber of CoMmerce of Paris.
All Members of the Committee for superintending
the two Chests of Amortisement and Consignation.
His Majesty said to them—

N I have entrusted to you a very important mission: it cannot
beta better hands. I am persuaded tharyour cares and your seal
WU secure the success of an Establishment which wW have so
much laluence on the trosperity of the State."
His Majesty afterwards addressed each of the Mem-
bers with that affability and benevolence for which he
is so eminently distinguished.
The Mayor of St. Cloud has been dismissed.
- The last letters from London confirm the intelli-
gence that Savary and Lallemand have obtained per
minion to leave Malta, and have embarked for the
United States.