The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-03-22 00:00:00

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SATURDAY EVRNING. MARCH 22,
.1823.

PARLIAMENTARY COMMENTARY.
IN vat LORDS there were some speeches about the
Sinking Fund Bill. We are tesolved never to treat Otis
as a serious ;abject; and should now have dismissed it at
once without a single remark ; but, in his speech upon
Loan LIcZIPOOL spoke of its advantages in case ofwar
and, if we had time to notice it, gave as pretty a descrip-
tion as heart could wish of the nature and tendency of
war with regard to national wealth. The conclusion
was, that some bow or other, war increased national
wealth; but stilt, some how or other, war was not a
prod thing. The Sinking Fond be represented as ne.
cessary to enable the Government to go to war, when-
ever its honour, or safety, required it : but, he did not
show how it was to give such ability. He took occasion
to observe, that the " `Agricultural interest was reco-
vering!" Yes, greatly recovering! The last week's
average price of wheat was, 435. 2d. the quarter, or nut
quite be. sd. the bushel. This is Weed a recovering
from 395. the quarter. That is to say, it is not quite so
good for the manufacturer and tax eater ! bet, can
rents be paid at 50*. a quarter ? However, lite
delusion .will stand the Ministers in good stead.
—lt will enable them to get along a little ;
—it may carry them through the Session ; amt.
with them, sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
They are true practical politicians; if a thing will last
them a week, that is better than a thing that wilt last
them only a day ; but, a day is preferable to no time at
all. They are deaf as adders if yon talk to them of what
will take place to-morrow. Lord Lansdowo took this
opportunity of saying, that, under all difficulties and all
embarrassments, it was indispensable to maintain 111
tional faith; and he explained this to mean contiouini
to pay the interest of the Debt in full in gold! There
he is penned down, then. Yet, this Lord, in the conrm
of his speech, said that the change of the property which
bad taken place in this country was inferior to that on!,
which is produced during a Revolution. This noble
Lord seems to forget, that, i• fact, the transfer of pro
pert), is only beginning. The transfer of farming cap.
tat has taken place to a great extent; but, the actual
transfer of real. estates is only beginning. When Mr.
Ricardo talked about an Act of Parliament to make good
Mies to the transferred estates, if be bad said that a law
would become necessary to cut off entails ; to enable the
owners of entailed estates to sell them in order to get
looney to buy victuals and drink, he would have been
tight enough. Such law must be passed before it be
bong, or else the present possessors will actually be wAh•
tut bread to eat
In the House or COMIONS—Sir Thomas Lethbridge
regretted that his motion about agricultural distress had
dropped, in consequence of there not being members
enough to make a House last Thursday ! Sir Thom
bear us Or a moment: as long as corn can be said, wile=
thee truly or falsely, to be upon the rise, though it be
but one penny a bushel per mouth ; and though the causer
be speculations on war, or apparent shortness of quantity,
you will never get any body to listen to any motion about
agricultural distress. This you may depend upon; and
you may also depend that uo relief will ever be glven,
unless quite an mode of proceeding be adopted, than
the mode proposed by you. The eatates must be trans-
ferred, or, there must be a complete adjustment of con-
tracts, public as well as private. This you tremble at ;
and its long as you tremble at thi., it is quite useless to
talk about relief. The movements of the French have
served, in a most singular manner, the cause of the Jews
and Jobbers ; and we think it very likely that it will
serve them and the Ministers to the end of the Session.—
There was nothing else of any consequence except that
the House went into a committee on the new Bill about
duties on beer. This subject will come before our read;
ere again. But as far as we can see at present the Bill
will not have that effect which the proposed Bill of Mr,
Wm- -'s was intended to have.

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BOURBON WAR.
We always said that the French would get to Madrid
without the slightest opposition. This is admitted by
the Morning Chronicle of to-day. It says that the Spa-
niards themselves admit that the French will get to
Madrid with ease. If they do, they will establish a
overnment in the name of King Ferdinand, and will
proclaim all to be rebels that do not submit to it. We
think that the settling of the business will require but a
very short time; and we shall not be at all sur-
prised to see the leading revolutionists flee to England
for safety; find in England not one single friend ; and
then be compelled to flee for safety to the United States
of America. In the mean time the French Chamber of
Peers have been discussing the question of war uith
Spain. The Morning Chronicle is surprised to tind in
those discussions, "language contemptuous in the ex-
" treats towards this country !" Why should the Morn-
fltg Chronicle be surprised at this. It has a great deal
more of this sort of langurge to hear, and we toid it so
long enough ago. We told it that the French were not
going to be base enough to crouch down at the sound of
noisy English speeches and paragraphs. The Chronicle
cites the speech of the Duke of Fitz-James. This Doke
said that a member in the English-Parliament bad said
that the allianre between France and Spain. establisher'
by Louis the Fourteenth, was a source of powt
prosrrity to France, and that, for this reason, he
liked it. " Nothing," said the Duke, " could be het