The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-05-24 00:00:00

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of 41/141111111 git cruel driving of cattle from Smith
0.1.1 to the Ataghter-howste.". Revived kid Who
" &de." Wires we hope it will not lie long ;
emonrst frr ilistreues, we ongitt in lieu a little fan,'
and. of all rhino, we should like to have this peti-
tion at fall length.—Mock has been said and enacted,
shoot Movie; the Parlierncet into contempt; but
what sort of a thing is it. if it he to he called upon in
this way to pass laws to save the butchers the trouble
of fluting'. in the expense of paying, treaty and obe-
dint servants? What would be thought of a petition
ferns the lleuse.wives of any tow° or parish, with.
should pray to have legal punishment inflicted on theft
maids for not milking their cows clean, or neglecting
to fred the motility? We know a boy who wants con-
stant watching to make him feed pigeons sod get in
eineer for rabbit, ; and why does not his gloater peti-
tion the Parliament to pan laws to punish him far
these acts oferuelty? After what we have seen, bow-
ever, of this petty legislation, and of the innumerable
attempts to Intit#4ll it, we shall not be at all surprised
to see a petition from some one or other to punish
maids for layiega-bed too lug in the morning, or for,
breaking the Glasses and china in playing with the
footmen.. It is perfectly monstrous to see stash mat-
ters brought before the legislature of a kingdom;
and parikulsrly at a moment like the present.
Something was said, and very sensibly, by a Mr.
RODIRTSON about the effect of the Navigation Bill,
but the report of the Bill was brought up and agreed
to. and is to be read a third time nest Thursday.
when, if it pass, the first blow it given to the Navy of
geglantl. It is so matter, however, what they do;
for, without a Reform of the Parliament, the country
mot sick ; nod, perhaps, it is destined to undergo
that before it be restored to its former liberties aid
happiness. This Bill is so much in the way of giving
up security sad honour for the ready penny; and this
is the great characteristic of all the armors, that
have been talked of. We must observe here that the I
news from America to the first of May, inform us that
the Americas., as owners of the Florida., have takes
posteseion of an Island in the Gulph of Mexico about
the sine et the Isle of Wight. Levier a good harbour
for shipping. and calculated to become a rude:vows
for other Navy in those seal. That is the rising, aid this
the tallier, wimpy! A few years will make a pro-
digiess difference in the relative situation of the two.
stride after stride will the former take. Lee war once
e. punisher+ its face, and let this Parliament remain un-
reformed. and we shall begin to get a glimpse at the

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depth of oar degradation:
The Assassin Team are to undergo an alteration,
such as will mese from the riding-horse-tax farmers,
whom farms are at a mat ender two hundred pounds
a year. As far as this goes, we very much approve of
tb. measure; for it is perfectly barbarous to make a
brow. who may rent, perhaps, not more than thirty
or forty acres of land, pay as much hone-tax as Gas
that may rent a thousand acres; and that, too, perhaps,
for merely riding one of his cart-horses to market. To
market be manta go without thy horse, nine times out
of Ora. As to two hundred pounds a year for a farm,
however ; arch a sum will not be paid is all England,
in a abort time. it is true that this regulation, is
well as all others of the kind in the present umertaia
state of -things. may or may not be of any ass; bet
we appreveof It in the principle. We should approve

of it, or any thing is tk► same way, if the country
were paying only about twenty millions of taus
a year, which is much about the sum that it
ought to pay, if any remnant of the debt be to be pre-
served. Large farms are great evils generally speak-
ing. They should be graduated. A few large; many
v..ore very small ; but the main part varying, accord-
ing loth* soil and situation, from two hundred to fifty
acres of tillage and pasture land. This makes great
numbers of happy; it leaves a comparatively smaller
number of rich and of poor. If a Oofernmeet cannot
proceed by direct means to produce and to render per-
manent such a state of things, it can (IQ it by indirect
mesas, which are always the most salutary and the
more efficacious.

The WWII! JUDICATURR was before the HOll5O ; but
nothing worthy of particular notice. except a decla-
ration of Mr. SCAILITT, that, fur the last three years,

the bootees, had by aemeeca increased is the Court

of King's Bench, intelligence which we gladly com-
municate to our readers; for we wish to GOD -that
for the nest three years there were not to be three
briefs held by any of the lawyers of that or any other
Conn. We dissent from Mr. SCAR Lir?, however, in
thinking, that much of the matter brought before the
Judges ought to be left to the Justices at the Quarter
5e8:141331. Those Justices have become terribly power-
ful of late years. We do by no In: -ins wish to see the
business augmented in that species of Court. The
twelve Judges we know ; bat we do not know those
who sit at the (Insure Sessions. We hear of the
Acts ; we hear of the sentences; but we do notknow the
names of the Judges. Every crime should, if possible,
be brought before the twelve Judges, or one of them.
No man in his senses, and that had a love for justice
and fair plsy, ever wished to see the administration of
justice lodged in the hands of local judges. it must
be manifest to every one how dangerous this is
Justices of the peace, were never until of late authorized
to inflict sentences to any considerable amount of pu-
sishment. We have seen JOSRPH SWANK, who had
already suffered three months Olf imprisonment, seat
from the Quarter Sessions of Cheshire to a prison for
four years and a half under three indictments, two for
selling pamphlets, and one for brimg present on the
hosting. at a Reform Meeting ; without being charged
with having spoken a word at that Meeting. We do
sot agree with Mr. SCARLET? that the place of the
Judges ought to be, in the smallest degree, trenched
upon by Jutiees of the Peace.

The Pollee of Ireland took up a small portion of
time. This word police is quite a new word in our
country. It never was heard of till the Anti-Jacobin
crusade was began. And now there is a bill, it would
appear. for investing the Government of Ireland with
the appointment of even the constables all over the
country. Mr. Pam. calls this an introduction of the
ordinary English law into Ireland ; though it is well
known that the appointment of these inferior officers
of justice is purely local in every part of England.
Constables are appointed by courts•leet ; by copy-
holders, in some cases; by freeholders, in other eases ;
by parish vestries, in other c4ses ; sometimes by corpora-
Alone, and sometimesby the possessors of feudal rights
and tenures; and yet not one single constable in the
whole coast( y appointed by the Government. Bat, alas?