The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-05-17 00:00:00

PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT.
Nothing of any coseejawsee ht the Loewe.
Is the Ceram, there were three athletic The

Poo► Law; Absentees; aid Young Won.

The first saute up iacideatally. A Colonel Jaw
stetson having said, the preeent distress was, in •
great degree, ascribable to the Poor ILaws. Ups*
which Mr. LOCKHAZT observed. that the system of
Poor Laws was, in its mature. rotten: and woold el-
timately expire is "agonising eatoidsions." We be-I
Hare, indeed, that there will be a convulsion whoa
these laws expire! But we are quite satisfied. that,
the convulsion will reed. beyond the Poor Laws.
There will be a convalaioa as to some other laws, or
things called laws. It is a pretty cations thieg to
hear the distress, as it is called. of Agriculture as-
cribed to the Poor Laws. We beard of no distress

while rents and prices were high, and landlords were
gaisisg enormously. It is only now t►at we hear of,
distress, though we never heard any thing at all of it
while that course of things was proceeding which re-
duced the people to pauperism.—lt happened rather,
unluckily for Col. JIINSINSON and Mr. LOCKHART'S
opinions, that Mr. HUTCHINSON who bad bees called+
sp by something that .bad fallen from Mr. Stile,

should ►id them look at Ireland; at dui

state of the people of that country ; at a sot of ditt
most miserable beings that over were seen in the
world. This was unfortunate, and at a esemeat. too,
when a Bill was before the House for grandee most.
almost all raised upon 'Cutlets& to give relief to lbe
starving Irish. Very paper that that relief should
be given, in soma shape or other ; but a very unfor-
tunate time. this, for talking of the evil of Peer
UN.. There are no Poor Laws in Irsised. If tbero

bed been, the people would not have been dyleg ►y
thousands la the streets and in the highways. Bat
why this clamour about the Poor Laws, which came
only about six 'millions to ►e raised, while ether
branches of expenditure, take, including the exposes
of collecting the taxes, about sixty tailless' a year.—..
Why this clamour about the her Laws aid at this
time, too; when Mr. Peal. and Mr. Ilusaissos ham
declared, and Lord LIVIIIPOOL, toe, that the Poet
Rates are dirainisbiag ?—Mr. Lo• octal. talked about
the 'ottomans' of this code of laws. No, Mr. Lacs-
HART : It is rottenness in mother rioter/ rottenness
as notorious as the " Sae at ama-day." that Is the
cause of the Agricultural, and all other dialogue. That
is the museums that we west to get rid if; ad if
we were well rid of that, the Peer Laws need give as
bat very little useasisess.
On tbs subject of irdatateee. Sir T. LICTURRIDRI
prostrated a retitle, from some people in Sessmentshira.
l'hii iiiiiitlell of the muster of peeped "West
sad of the quantity of mosey spent in Frame; and Sir
Tuella' proposed a tax on plate-men, peesimers,4-
neenrists and public assailants residing alined. Mr.
RICARDO took OCCRI4OII to speak agate of his project
for paying QC the nativist Debt; and Mi. Daman
Baowma observed that one half of the moo of pro-
perty in Ireland were calculated to be abeeetem. Mr.
11. °MIDST brought forward the came of the poor 111411
that were taken the other day aid crammed into jail,
under a charge of attempting to leave the kingdom for
the purpose of conveying a Itnowledge of their art to
foreigners. This he reprobated very justly, and said,
at any rate, that there ought to be the same law for the
rich and the poor. The men were very great foils,
or they might hare gone to Frame without their
master, whose name appears to be Meatier°, knowing
any thing at all of the matter. They need have eared
nothing at all about the law, just or unjust. Mr.
DICKENSON wished to remind persons who left their
country in this time of distress of the patriotic feeling
of a Persian Ambassador, who brought to Europe a sod
from his owe earth, that he might recollect every
day to do smoothie% for the benefit of Persia ;
as Englishman, Mr. DICIIRNION said, who resided
abroad at this time, should recollect that, le every
ant of their lives, they were doing something
to the injury of England. We dare say that the inge-
nuity of Mr. DICIIRRIDAN would hod something injuri-
ous to England in the increase which the pepuladoe
of France would receive from the bastards of Eagrielt-
men there born, of which, takiag army and navy pea
ple together, we should sepal the number to
about ten or fifteen thousand o-rar. Bat. the Pe
'aim Ambassador, Mr. Dicmisson, Sid, We dare ,s
bit

good reason for liking Persia. He wished to de sowi‘
thing for Persia every day; hat Persia was delog
something for him every day. The same may be said '
of oar pension sod sinecure people; bat the UM, eau•
not very well be slid for English artisans and manu-
facturers; and especially fir Irish, who are starving+
by hundreds and thousands in the streets and ea the
highways. And what Injury to Ragland are them
people doing? The quarrel is, what does England
mean ? Three people may do harm ttGlats and tithes
very likely ; but, at any rate, they_caa do no harm to
the ph ts, partridges, and hares. If they be,
abroad. forty of them at a time cannot he in Thetford
or in any other jail for the crime of seeking to kill
ror wound these precious animals. The Cas•xcau.oa
of the Excneouea took credit to himself for having
examined all possible spades of taxation; but could
not agree to a tax on emigrants. And here he really
made a very sensible observation, sanely, that to make
Eaglaud more comfortable was the best way of indite-
log people to stay at home ; and this ►s said would be
dose is preportioe as prices of provisions ()scene
more sfeelised witA Most of Me cattilisat. flakier