The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-04-22 00:00:00

LONDON:

WEDPEATIAT. Ara% flt •&Sl6.

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An Impartial and interesting diecession took piste
lest night in the noise of Commons; on the subject
of Bank-tint, Foreerits, the necessity of preventing
eirrelotoel the dreadfol somber of spectacles of penis&
tient far this erime,whieb hemenity is Pow entopelled
tOWitneve in Await ell places. Sir JAllZSMXctottosti
;Peale' an interesting and lemlntroe statement upon
these 'objects, and moved several Resolvtions which
Were carried. lie alluded in very proper terms to the',
titivation* et Warwick, whets a woman of 60, for'
Jesting in fereeries, and a mere ytioth who bad been
entrapped into the commission of the crime, last
Peek -.offered the sentencs'of tie lair. Mr. Alder.
mew .Wwoe also substautiated the.estraordloary fact,
allele litiirtah.worthy.ectielly ofiti peeviler means
6fikisewledge, base Cootriboted to raider lea bertha
to sedgy, (bat " sine out of ten of the prosecutions
for forgery in Londes originated wish' persons who
were paid for exciting others to commit (heeds's!"
The CHANeti.Lolt of the Excuetturet,in the course
of a debate en a Motion made by Mr. SHAW for a
Committer on the Hearth and Window Taus of
Ireland, stated it to be in costemplation to affetd-the
sister country some relief, by taking off the 25 per
teat. which had been added to the Window Tar
some Yearstgo, where the pressure of distress should
bake this necessary, • end that rend would be af-
forded on a narrower scale iu other casts.
The eetreordinary nature of the Billi"respectiag
Parish Vestries, and purporting to be fortbe Amend-
*teat of the- Poor Laws, which are now ra.
-pithy carrying through Parliament, calls strongly for
the attention of every parish in the
towersl parishes in the Metropolis have, with:
prompt propriety, passed Resolutions, some of
*bids we lave laid before the Public, with the view
If oppoiing the further
.progress of these Bills, and.
eorrectly eppreciating their tenour and principle;
end Mr. ,Alderman Wool), with his usual attention
fo'the public interests, has meritoriously, and trot
hieuceestielly for the Chy of Landon, exerted
to check sod ameliorate,the tendency of
.(Ibex enactments, which, so far froin having the re-
,'lief of the Poor in view, or the better regulation of
. Parish affairs, appear *sprout, intended to serve
the purposes of the rich; to change the consults-
Ilona usages of the teinttry by depriving the great
hid% of the community of their right of voting in'
palters that materially affect their interests, sod
piling so undue influence to persons directly kite-.
seated in. the questions that may require decision.—
qhi Reader will have observed that the first of these
ditturba the established order of voting at Ves-
tries by the poll, and tweets upon the man who ham
the mast acres the greatest number of votes, allowing
is its bendceut regulations none who are assessed
below TOM a year to have more than one vote, and
*beetling on all the other proprietors of a parish a
!leiter every 501.! Now, when it it considered that
aalpi Parish Vestries the rates for. the support of the
poor are levied, and that these rates already press
with ruinous acconsulstion and disproportionate
esegnitude upon the middlingelasses and t rades-people,
the inffitence thus thrown into the hands of the great
tpropeimors must be allowed to be extremely danger.
ems and unjust. We own we cannot sufficiently
septets ear abhorrence of sock a proposition.—
It is bat toe tree and lamentably evident that the
"thief anaisty with respect to the support of the Poor
.does not rest with those that ore rated highest: the
n who has to labour for himself, has also to labote
the most for the wants of his brethren. Yet this lig.
-quite** project would in many instances confer the
whole power of levying mod adjusting the Rate upon
llSP'l6lffous *voltintatily take epee tbeastsives
'ow joffisailPel providing for tie iodigtot. -ifOetaintie.-
for Om tuba et, of the Metropolis, Mr. Akio,.
man Woo. succeeded on Moods, night in prevent.
• iisg the moat odious elates of the Vestry .Bitt from
eitending to the City of London ; but a Bill a&
uojuit io principle, and so little calculated to
afford relief to the Poor, osght not to be al.
. lowed to pass into • law, under such .a pretest.
Select Vestries, like Select Committees, 'give little
premise of better or more ittpartial decisions •thai
• what we 'have witnessed of Green Bag jetties'',
and of such reclusive Committees we have sees,
enough. the management of the Poor in such
quorums, from which the great mass of Proprietors
will of course be eicieded, the number not being
*Hewed to exceed twelve, nor be less than five, may
too nearly resemble the management of the other
affairs of the Milton, whicb kekelreadly enfficiently
provided for the security of as rich, but made more
than a tenth pert of the populatioa peepers; bless-,
in; the toiletry, is addition to its State Tames, wait
a permanent annual berthas of above eight millions'
for Poor Batas--The popsiatlim of England and
. Wales,ai tikes from the abstract laid before Par-
!littera kt She year 1811, appears, to have been
11))15913,5 se that the number of persons relieved