The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-05-01 00:00:00

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STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The blade opened tbis 'morning at7Bi for the Account.
and 78a for Monty. with little business doing, sad
are at present for the Account 7811, and for Money
7811.

FORLIGN Y•RKCLT.
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PROCEIWINOS IN PARLIAMMT.
Do our readers folly understand the hatiaks of the
projects broached the night before last by oar great
CAITLIUMAGII? The partial repeat of -Psits4 BM is
clearly 'sough about to take plate.; hist. As ether
projects of that memorable night we have met yet re-
marked on. The million of money out of the tams,
to send food to the starring Irish. while another mil•
lion is to be laid out in pawns on food, because it
jest now, too plenty; these projects speak fee thaw
selves, though they can add nothing to the fame of
the Ministry or to that of an assembly for endeavour-
ing to bring which into contempt we might be Muffed.
ed for Iffy ! lint, that other famous project about the
half-pay and pensions of the army and navy : do *sr
readers understand it clearly ? De they get to the
depth of its collective wisdom" Do they penetrate
what CABTLERZAGII calls " the dense measures of his
" hia.lllsTirs Government ?" The measure is this :
tofund the pensions and the hery'pay • To get peo-
ple to COMtraet to pay them. To make than our to
the contractors. To put them let on firms, as they do
the poor of some parishes. In Amt. it is a loam that
the Collective is about to make, to get mosey to pay
the pensions aod.tbe half-pay with. This is the fact
stark-naked; and there is no double( tie plea being
carried into effect ; for, it will cause some tares to
be taken Mt—Suppose here to be as Aker who has
belt-pay of 1001. a year. It is foe his life. The go-
government contracts w:th nee, suppose. to pay this
dicer; and it pays me, not the 1001. a year at first,
but /cm ; and, in time, it pays me more Ass 1001. a
year. So that, in the end I get by it; but, then,
the government has less to pay fir the present !
This is what CASTLE 11111•011 calls Wadi.: the bur-
then with posterity! Posterity will sot, we
hope and believe, be fools eaoagk to lmar any portion

.. • • • .- I^i
of it.-:-Illoweiritr, OM Ala; is a Teen ; and ilia esseijrl
eclat for the armee sad soldier' pay gad pensions are
the scrip! What next! What devil's tricks has the
borough-system yet to play? Upon erectly the sass,
grated the Ktsre's allowance, that of his family, all
the penises and WOMB'S!, the placemen and judges
salaries, may be/tended. PAINS said, that he shwa'
art wonder if PITT were, at last, " to $.14,'
Notre," and issue other paper as evidence of the Belt.
There is so ksowiag. as we have often said, what shape
the thing will ammo at last. We have only to look as
the history of the South Sea Bubble to be convinced
that the powers of humbug are infinite. We aboeld
net at all wooderte seethe tithes fended! Don't start,
parsons. Mary things much more unlikely have
taken place. A mince of some sort or other must
happen somewhere. To fund the tithes would be •
gnat deal mere &Mural thing time to fund the half=
pay sod lawless of officers and soldiers. A large
sum of mosey advansed upon the tithes would " di.
" ride the burtlees with posterity," indeed. However,
these hints will be sufficient. Our readers will sec
what a rich vein our table political philosopher has
struck-upon here. This sew fending-oysters may be
carried to lengths of which few men are yet aware.
Mr. CANNta• last night brought forward his so-
Bon for mewing the Catholic Peers to their seats in
the House of Lords. The House divided upon the
"modes, when there were 219 for the motion, and
lit
244 against l •leetring a majority of five in favour of
the motion. all be brought in, and go throogit
the Commorc, VW, to a certainty, not pass its
Lords. We bile not time now to go into what is
called the debate; but we may just observe that no
man in his senses will vote fur inch a 8111, unless he
mean to abolish the Protests:se Inierarehji ins Irelossel.
We should regard this Bill just as so mccii seaseese.
"Mess it had that great, and, in our ()pillion, abets-
lately necessary measure in view. The question le
sot at all a question of religions. There is so
bigotry at work now. Poet's Bill has driven bigotry
out of people's heads. It is a question solely relating
to the property; to the immense estates to houses,
herds, manors, mines, waters and tithes, which the
Protestant hierarchy of Ireland pats into the hands'
of great Protestant families ; and, unless those great
Protestaat families be prepared to give up those is-
'sense estates, it is all miserable nonsense to talk of
restoring the Catholic Peers to their rights. We last.
year agreed with Mr. BANGS: and no now agree
with Mr. WITUGIALL, that if you take mite step, yore
must go the whole length ; you must give up those
estates of which we have just been speaking. Mt.'
Baps and Mr. WIT/SIMMS are GOt for ileitis Ilf
ela estates; SOS is Mr. CANNING nor any of the
rest of them. that we know of. Nay, Ido not know
that they would sot almost call it seditious and blas-
phemous to propose such a thing. They are, there-
fore, very iacoesistent, to say the least of their con-
duct—There is no fear of the Bill being passed into
a law. Great as the church estates in Ireland are,
those that possess them do sot want to share them
mime; tench less do they want to lose them
altogether. Pat the Catholic Peers into the House of
Loris, and with what "hew ofjastice can you exclude
the Catholic gestlenses from the House of Columns?
Make these legislatures, privy councillors, judges and
chancellors ; and then what justice will there be
in keeping the churches fur the owls and bats
to inhabit, while the Catholic clergy are say-
ing seas to their congregations ander the shelter of
a hedge or of a hovel ? Let the Catholic clergy into
the churches and what justice will there be in giving
the parsonage houses, the glebes, and the tytbes to a
protestant priesthood ? Give the tythes to the Catho-
lic clergy, and what justice "ill there be in maintain-
ing those greats by which the estates of the Catholics
in varietal were given to the protestants? At any
rate to talk of Catholic emancipation, is a gross ab-
Nudity. or an impudent imposture, unless you mean
totally to abolish, as far as h regards its temporalities,
the protestant hierarchy in Ireland ; we should sup-
pale it most likely, that, not a thought of this kind
ewer once entered into the heads of any of the Catho-
lie easonseipalors, a word which is descriptive of ell
that is burlesque and ridiculous. There are at this
time, it is asserted, more than a millioa of poor
-wretches upon the point of starvation is Ireland.
Amen into this wretched state by a system which
beggars all description, bow are they to be believed ;
hew are they to be essaseipoled by the petting of a
few rich men into the houses of Parliament, into the
privy council and on the bench ? Take from them the
horrible lylke fluters, and you do something ; but
you do nothing unless you do this ; and, therefore,
this grand exhibition of speech-making amounts to
jest nothing at all; and it car serve not even to af-
lhord amusement to any man of sound understanding,
'while it cannot afford to be offensive to every one AO
rally wishes well to the oppressed amid wretched pest.
No: Ireland.

Paris 'papers have arriveJ to the 29th inst. IL de
Tattiacheff was, on the (Sib or 19th. still at Vienna,
but on the eve of his departure, in consequence,- it is
said, of despatches received by him from St. Peters.
burg. A courier, from St. Petersburg, arri►ed in
Paris, at the Hotel of the Minister far Foreign Af-
fairs, about 11 o'clock on Friday night; and reports,
next morning, were in circulation, that his despatches
were pacific, and the mites rose 55 centimes, Private
letters from Vienna state, that the Austrian Bank Ac-
tions, on the 17th instant, were three per cent.
higher than on the preceding day. There is no
news, whatever, respecting France; the recess of the
Chambers having taken place.

Yesterday his Majesty gave audience to tho Bari of
Liverpool, the Marquess of Londonderry, and the Earl
Bathurst.

Tun Dune or YORK.—His Royal Rlghneaa the
Duke of York is confined by a serer. sprained ancle,
and a slight attack of the gout. The answer t 4 in-
quiries yesterday, was, that bis Royal Highness was
better.

A requisitioe. gigues] by Lords Maynard and Petro,
Sir Wm. Howley, and fourteen other gentlemen of the
county of Hosea, bas been promoted to Sir U. H.
Smyth. the High Sherif. requesting him to convene a
meeting of the county. to represent to the Legislature
the distressed situation of all the different classes of
society dependent upon &griddle's'. The High She-
riff hu complied. sod appointed the meeting for Tees-
day, May 7, at the Shire Hall, Chelmsierd.