The Sun. — London, England, 1830-01-23 00:00:00

EY. d to the tunatell nd I all; mr, a" 0 they ani a, he gr Id in 0 110 sot 10 . 1 Ingine" nigh t len of bort,' ,cle. a t the not St' by lo t ' he nigh t in the no r ich o bset• hest• cwt ^`° sti oft of the Elneedsl ng Afte r derablf six fee t ch w 35 horse' ti e nd th' rcorn Id pr° - old Om ury..." re 0 3 meal cr 113 4 urfac'• nvich with ,niched ligM !moire leir tip . ; ! rity 1 rifler 'arc), 3 t iy,h 6 .onicto. erday :, fettr les for eollect n t e r of it l fell foreign mail subsequently arrived here about two in the afternoon. The roads from hence to Deal, Folkstone, Ste. Were literally choked up with snow, end no communica tion by carriages could be had with those town. The / ) " , 1-t , ffice packet did not sail, although a regular• mail day, and ❑o vessel of any description came from France ; bui in the cnin•se of the afternoon the mate of his Majesty's Packet Salamander arrived in the estafette boat, with the • Government despatches. The rapid thaw has, in a great measure, relieved some of the roads, which enabled many of the stages to continue their vocations this morning; but there is still a vast deal of stuiw, particularly on the • braLroad, and some of the vans were in consequence blocked up. Indeed the passengers by the stages were oblig e d in some parts to alight, and make the best of their way to their journey's end. LEEDS, ,JAN. 21.—The severities of winter accumulat e upon us. Monday and Tuesday were the coldest days expsrienced in Leeds for many years past. Yesterday morning a rapid fall of small drifting snow commenced, and continued the whole day. The snow lies from four to five feet thick in exposed places upon many of the great roads. The North Mill gets over Stainmoor with much difficulty, and not without a considerable loss of time. On Tuesday evening the Glasgow Mail did not reach that city till six o'clock, two hours beyond the usual hour. The canals and navigable rivers generally are frozen, including those in the immediate vicinity of Leeds. In ternal navigation is therefore almost wholly suspended. THE WEATHER ON THE CONTINENT. . The Seine at Paris is daily crowded with ekaiters, among whom some females display their dexterity. In the country parts of France The flocks and herds are dying in great numbers, in consequence of the extrem e cold and the want of water. Largu trees split, and birds fell dead in the fields. At Florence the thermometer has fallen to five degrees belew zero since the 21st of December. The Arno has been choked frill of ice, and it is said that at Bologna the river is entirely frozen over—an event which has not happened within the memory of man. Accounts received from various parts of Fratice and Spain concur in representing the severity of the wea ther as intense. Many individuals have lost their lives; communications are interrupted, and in some departments the wolves have been driven from their fastnesses. On the 29th ult. a heavy fall of snow took place at N a pl es , and the ground w as covere d t o so me depth. I . Vith the except i on of a' little which fell about the same time last y ear, a s i milar occurrence has not taken place in that city for twenty years. The postillion of a diligence from Toulon to Marseilles, was so severely frozen, that he died soon after he reached his destination. Three soldiers, in a state of intoxication, being unable to find their barracks, upon quitting a wine-shep, were frozen to death in the street. A peasant was found lifeless near the Botanical Gardens, and a Cnstorn-house officer perished at his post in the night. A letter front Montrejean, in the Department of the Upper Garonne, announces that several persons in that neighbourhood have died through cold, and others have had their limbs frozen. In many places the mills are unable to work. So furious are the wolves, that they descend into the towns and villages to seek for prey. A servant in the vicinity has been devoured by them, and several persons, who escaped with their lives, are dread fully mangled. The Pyrenees have been for some time im passable by carriages of every kind, owing to the frost, and the mails are conveyed by men on foot or on horse back. At Cadiz they have had three degrees of frost by Reaustua's scale, equal to 25k of FAIMENIIIIT. Such a circuinstance had not occurred within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. Frost is so unusual at Cadiz, that even ice has not been seen since the year 1793, a period of 37 years. The severity of the cold in the southern parts of• Europe is far greater than any which we experience in this country. At Turin, on the 11th inst., REAuxua's thermometer was at 14 degrees below zero (or about the tern of FARAINIMIT), and many persons have perished. The passes into Savoy are 40 feet deep in snow, and all the rivers and lakes are frozen. At Florence and Milan the cold is (to use the expression of a French Journal) atroce. Even the rapid Rhone is frozen into " mountains of ice," designated as uxe belle horreur. The Seine at Rouen is so thickly covered with ice that a fair is daily held vin it, and is attended by hundreds of people. The setae is said to he one of great gaiety. Mr. HusictssoN has left town, on a visit to Earl COVF - PERj' at Pensanger, Herts. The retirement of our Recorder. Mr. Baron itoi.LArin, was formally announeed by our active and in telligent Chief Magistrate. In communicating the fact to the Grand Jury, his Worship pained a feeling and well ' delerved eulogy on the Valuable services which, for so many years, the Learned Judge rendered to the Borough, as its Chief Law Officer.—Reading Paper. - - DUBLIN, JAN. 20.—At last we have it openly declared at this hitherto innocuous Association, " the Society for the Improvement of Ireland," that the repeal of the Union is the only measure to tranquillize Ireland finally, and that it can be done by the old means of agitation. The people are in a state of wretchedness from " Carrickfergus to Cape Clear," both manufacturers and agrictilturists, and they will gladly seize upon any measure Of agitation that will afford them even a transiert hope of 'relief. -The fag-end of the faction congregate around tYciitstsimr. aml his new Parliamentary Intelligence Office,'"from whence henceforward all schemes and pro thimationsare to issue. —Morning Herald. The smallpox, for three months past, has prevailed in this town amongst admits as well as children, and in several instances death has ensued from the virulent nature of the disease. —Stockport Advertiser. Demerara Papers to the 14th of November, have been received at the North and South American " Coffee-house. The only local circumstance worthy of any notice to which they refer, relates to the establishment of e• • new Court at Berbice for the protection of the slaves. tht s Court, The latter are allowed to sue white and black debtors in is an a l, and the decision of the presiding Magistrate N m !Plendid b a ll was g i ven on the 26th of of thew"e" at Tiflis, to celebr a t e th e h arpy term i nat i on the with the P or t e . It i s wor th y o f remark that pre sent; and l i aughters of many of the citiz ens were pre ; a circumstance which has not before taken place at Tiflis during- the thirty years which it has been occupied by the Russians. PUBLIC MEETING OF FARMERS, I&C. AT i u,}(C AsrEn.—On S a t ur d ay last, a very numerous and " i ghly respect a bl e M eet i ng of Farmers and others in vested in the prosperity of agriculture, was held at the Town Hall, in Doncaster, in order to consider the present distressed state of the country, and to take such measures thereon as may be deemed expedient. After some discus °i°n, a petition on the subject, imploring the assistance of it% , " er nment• was ordered t o b e presente d b y t h e county ~,ernbers.—Doncaster Gazette. CROMFOIID AND HIGH PEAK RAILWAY. ----This great work, which crosses the hills of Derbyshire, td will m a k e a commun i cation between Manchester and he districts of Nottingham, Derby, and Leicester, is 33 °li lac long, has 52 bridges and archway's, and two tunnels, "d has been carried over an elevation of 1,270 feet above qtile level of the sea. It has cost 180,000/., including en ces and mac hi nery, an d w i ll be opened for general trade it s ummer.—,Stockport Advertiser. SUSPENSION BRIDGE.—A very able pros freettl, of the intended bridge is ready for circulation. We • * ""re it is intended that the b r id ge s h a ll cross t h e r i ver r o °ll' Clifton side, nearly in a direct li ne w i t h Gloucester -„,_tn , to a po i nt o f a roc k on t h e Sonaersetshire side, a little j l 7"e the flag-staff, at an altitude of 210 feet above ; 0- water-mark. It is to be erected upon the principle 4,4 peneion, and is after a design of Mr. TELFORD. total expence of the work, including every incidental ...... -" % t ge 3 is estimated not to exceed fifty thousand pounds. -- "ut/4 Herald. 1 0 addition to the new rord in progress of b, N ation between 13ridport and Ilminster, and the im ip.'"ernents which have been made on the road leading f'"l Dorchester to Crewkerne, a new road is now being °rnied between Crewkerne and Langport, which will be erred by Lady-day next, by which means an easy !torn will be opened betw een D orse t an d t h e most phioun district of Somersetshire. This road will lead t,Pal Crewk erne , t h roug h M rr i utt, L opez Head, Compton ar ville, Kingsbury, Epi scop i, sl oc h e l ney, an d across t h e ier P arrett , over a handsome stone bridge, which is now " ~ course of erection, to within a quarter of a mile of the Polon, and trading town of Langport, where it will join the new road which has been completed front that place '4lt idgewiOtbse , ,Exetev Pose, FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT. ' CAMBRIDGE COUNTY MEETING. Kew, Jan. SO, 1830. The appointment of Frost, Esq. Surgeon in nr flinary to his Roy,' Highness the Duke of Cuntheiltnfl, in sertrd in the Gazette of the 15th December last, his not taken place. Commissions in the Central Glamorganshire Squadron of Yeomanry Cavalry, aigned by the Lard Lieutenant of the County of Glamorgan. C. Morgan, Esq. to be Captain Commandant, vice Nichol), reeigned, Dee. 28. J. L. V. Watkins, Gent. to be Lieutenant, vise Mor gan, promoted, Dec. 28. R. Franklen, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Watkins, pro.- poted, Dec. 29. J. Dillwyu, Gent. to be ditto, Dec. 28. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. James Jrnner, Lindficld, Sussex, wine•merchant. Richard Day, Villiers-street, Strand, coal-mercbaut. Joseph Jackson, March, ble of Ely, brick-maker. Thomas Flatter, Henrietta-street, Cavendish-square, linen-draper. BANKRUPTS. Octavia and Robert Buxton, Preston, Lancashire, corn dealers, to surrender Feb. 4,5, and March 5, at eleven, at the Mitre Inn, Preston. Norris, Allen, and Anthony, John-street, Bedford-row; Walker, Preston. George Weston, Lane End, Staffordshire, manufacturer of earthenware, Feb. 2, 13, at two, and Marcia 5, at five, at the office of Mr. Hugh Brown, Hanley, Stoke-upon- Trent. Hicks and Braikenridge, Bartlett's-buildings, Holborn ; Brown, Hanley, Staffordshire. George Hutchings Came, Narrow-street, Limehouse, victualler, Jan. 29, Feb. 5; - at three, and March 5, at two, at the Court of Commissioners. Marson and Son, Church row, Newington, Surrey. Marmaduke Wake, Higii,street, Wapping, anchorsmith, Feb. 8, at nine, 12, at eleven, and March 5, at nine, at the Court of Commissioners. Brown, Mitre-chambers, Fenchurch-street. Emmanuel Newcomb, Brentwood, Essex, baker, Jan. 29, at eleven, Feb. 9, and March 5, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Holtoway and Ling, Took's-court, Chancery-lane. John Smith and John Hutchinson, Liverpool, ship owners, Feb. 11, 12, and March 5, at eleven, at the Clarendon-buildings, Liverpool. Mallalcy, Liverpool ; Chester, Staple-inn. Adam Moiman, Liverpool, merchant, Feb. 11, 12, and March 5, at twelve, at the Clarendon-buildings, Liverpool. Battye, Fisher, and Sublow, Chancery-lane ; Messrs. Crump, Liverpool. James Potter, Maidstone, Kent, grocer, Jan. 29, Feb. 5, at twelve, and March 5, at ten, at the Court of Com missioners. Dod, Northumberland -street, Strand. William Neale and Richard:Hale, Tooley-street, South wark, druggists, Jan. 29, at one, Feb. 5, and March 5, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Sherwood and Son, Dean-street, Southwark. William Luckett, Bloxom, Oxfordshire, cattle dealer, Feb. 1,2, and March 5, at eleven, at the Red Lion Inn, Bunhnry, Oxfordshire. Aplin, Banbury. John Brett, jun., Luton, Bedfordshire, dealer, Jai. 29, at one, Feb. 5, and March 5, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Williamson and Austin, Luton ; Taylor, Featherstone•building6, Holborn. John Brett, sen., Luton, Bedfordshire, dealer, Jan, 29, at one, Feb. 5, and March 5, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Williamson and Austin, Luton : Taylor, Featherstone-buildings, Holborn. Edward John Brashier, Chancery-lane, boot-maker, Jan. 29, at eleven, Feb. 5, and March 5, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Swan, Bell-yard, Doctors' Commons. Richard Morrie, Regent-street, Piccadilly, auctioneer, Jan. 26, at one, Feb. 5, and March 5, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Burton, Queen-equare, Blooms bury._ John Hams, Edward -street, Stepney, currier, Jan. 29, Feb. 5, at one, and March 5, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Sandom, Dunster-court, Mincing-lane. DIVIDENDS. C. Holley, Melton Mowbray, victualler, Feb. 26, at ten, at the Star. Inn, Manchester—ll. Warren, Belgrave place, Pimlico, builder, Feb. 16, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners—ll. Chesmer, Brompton, merchant, Feb. 12, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners--J. Fisher, Great Bridge, Staffordshire, iron -merchant, Feb. 15, at twelve, at the Whiston Cross Ina, Albrighton, Shropshire —W. Graham, Leeds, draper, Feb. 17, at three, at the Palace Inn, Manchester—F. A. Smith and J. Allingham, New Brentford, fellmongers, Feb. 12, at nine, at the Court of Commissioners--J. Rudland, Bulstrode Mews, Marylebone, stable-keeper, Feb. 12, at two, at the Court of Commissioners --T. Carden, Oxford -street, silk-mercer, Kb. 12, at two, at the Court of Commissioners—J. Car dinal, Halstead, Essex, currier, Feb. 16, at two, at the Court of Commissioners—G. Newman, Streatham Park, Streatham, Surrey, cow-keeper, Feb. 12, at three, at the Court of Commissioners —T. Button, Sudbury, Suff o lk, tanner, Feb. 12, at twelve, at the Rose and Crown Inn, Sudbury---.1. Hodgson, Staindrop, Durham, grocer, Feb. 13, at twelve, at the Queen's Head Inn, Staindrop—W, Martin, Buckingham, draper, Feb. 23, at one, at the White Hart Inn, Buckingham—NV. Hill, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, coal-merchant, Feb. 18, at eleven, at the King's Head Inn, Cirencester—J. Gardner, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, baker, Feb. 18, at ten, at the King's Head Inn, Cirencester—J. Haigh, Milnsbridge, Almond bury, Yorkshire, scribbling :miller, Feb. 16, at twelve, at the George Inn, Huddersfield, Yorkshire—G. Russell, Birmingham, merchant, Feb. 13, at twelve, at the Royal Hotel, Birmingham. CERTIFICATES—Fes. li. T. Rhoads, Queen-street, Horton-square, cut-glass ma nufacturer—J. Crane, Warrington, Lancashire, butcher— J. Vaughan, Lamb's Conduit street, draper —J. Watsen, Long-acre, coach-builder—M. Lazarus, B broker— E. Kingsford, Lambeth Mills, Surrey, miller. Agreeably to the following Requisition, addressed to R. Orton, Esq., the High Sheriff of the County, a Meeting was yesterday held at the Town-hall, Cambridge : " Red Lion Inn, Cambridge, Jan. 2, 18:30. " We, the undersigned owners and occupiers of estates in the County of Cambridge and Isle of Ely, request you will call sn early meeting of the county arid isle, for the purpose of considering the expediency of petitioning Par•. liament for the Abolition of the Malt and Beer Tax, and for considering the present system of Licensing Public houses : " F. Godolphin Osborne, G. E. Graham, Foster Pi gott, Hen. John Adeane, William Freere, J. P. Affix, Christopher Pemberton, George Jenyns, Charles Townley, Francis Pym, jun., Edward Fisher, W. Thurnall, George ' Starkies Wallis, Peter Grain, Thomas Cancutt, Thomas Banyard, Wm. Mortlork, Peter Kent, Sanders Holben, Wilson Holben, J. Lilley, R. Headley, Thomas Nash, Edward Witt, P. Nash, W. Fison, H. King, jun., J. Fison, W. King, .1. Hemmington, R. Emson, Alexander Cotton, William Pearce, Henry Collier, Wm. Headley, Henry King, James King, Eben. Foster, Richard An gier, George Bullen, J. S. Cooper, Thomas King, John Wells, Salisbury Dunn, G. H. Harris, W. Nash Wood_ ham, Swann Hurrell, William Taylor, John Clear, Charles Diblin, Jos. Dunn, William Hurrell, William Nash, Edw. Mason, James Wilkerson, John Cock, Thos. Newman. " To the High Sheriff of the County of Cambridge." No sooner were the doors thrown open to the public than the hall was crowded to an overflow. Excellent accommodation was afforded to the re porters of the public Press. Silence having been obtained, The limit SHERIFF took the Chair at twelve o'clock. WILLIAM ORTON, Esq., the son of the High Sheriff, read the requisition by which the meeting was called. He said that, during the time his father filled the oftice of High Sheriff, he should always feel it his duty to obey the wishes of a requisition so respectably signed.—(Cheers.) He trusted that the meeting would patiently hear every gentleman who thought fit to address them. Rev. G. L. JENYNS, of Bottisham-hall, read the following letter from Lord Hardwicke " Wimpole, Jan. 20, 1830. " DEAR SIR,—As the meeting which is to be held on Friday is convened for the purpose of petitioning the House of Commons on the subject of the Tax on Malt and Beer, I think it right to state to you the cause of my absence, in order to prevent any misconception on the subject. " The object of the meeting is to represent to the House of Commons the opinions of this county on the subject of these particular taxes, and their desire to be relieved from the pressure, if other means can be devised to maintain the public revenue and the public creditor. The object is a perfectly fair one for discussion, and the proper subject of a petition to the House of Commons. But as a Member of the other House of Parliament, I have great doubt of the propriety of subseribing my name to it, and, conse quently, of attending the meeting itself. I wish it, how ever, to be distinctly understood that I am by no means averse to such a petition as that which I am sure will be proposed by the gentlemen who signed the requisition to the High Sheriff. " I remain, &c. " Rev. G. Jenyns. " HARDWICKE." Sir St. V. COTTON, Bart., of Mudingly, in mov. big the petition, said that, by striking at the root of the licensing system, affecting the repeal of the Malt and Beer Duties, would at once afford relief to the agriculturists of the kingdom. The lion. Baronet then read the petition as follows "To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parlia- - meat assembled; " The bumble Petition of the undersigned, being owners and occupiers of land in the County of Cain bridge and Isle of Ely, " Sheweth—That the distress which, to an unprece dented degree, pervades every branch of the agricultural interest of this country, demands the immediate And seri ous attention of the Legislature. " That the distress, although more directly affecting the agriculturist and the labourers dependent upon him for employment, operates indirectly upon the manufac turer, by depressing the home market. And that, unless the distress be speedily relieved, it must produce the most disastrous effects upon the country in general. " That the Landed Interest of the country is heavily burthened witk the payment of the Land Tax, the Poor's Rate, the County Rate, and the Highway Rate ;—all of which (with the exception of the first) have of late years materially increased, and are still rapidly increasing. " That no burthen, excepting the Poor's Rate, presses more heavily upon your petitioners than the taxes upon Malt and Beer, the total repeal of which would not only be highly beneficial to all interested in the prosperity of agriculture, by materially increasing the consumption of barley, bat likewise benefit all classes of the community, and especially the labouring class, by the removal of taxes immediately affecting one of the first necessaries of lire. " That your petitioners beg to call the serious attention of your Honourable House to the injurious effects of the present Licensing System ; which, instead of guarding the public morals (as was originally intended) acts as an en couragement to immorality; and, by preventin g a free competition in the sale of beer, forces upon the public, and especially upon the working classes, a dear and un wholesome beverage. Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray your Hon. House to take into your consideration, at the earliest period possible of the Session, the present state of the agricultural distress, and to repeal the taxes upon malt and beer, and to make such an alteration in the system of licensing public-houses as will remove the present restric tion up,p the sale of beer. And your petitioners," &c. The same petition to be presented to the House of Lords. Mr. ADEAN6, in seconding the petition, moved by his friend Sir St. Vincent Cotton, Bart., said that he did not think it necessary to revert to the pre sent prevailing distress—it was generally admitted by all classes of the community—(Hear, and had arrived at such a crisis that nothing but Le gislative powers could afford anything like relief.— The petition just rend, in its prayer, respectfully stated the evils arising out of the several taxes on malt and beer, land, and others of a similar nature. He should be content for one of the taxes to be taken off; and in that case he should say, remove the beer tax, as it was that which more particularly fell upon the poor man.—(Hear.)—lf the Malt Tax was re duced, or taken off altogether, would the poor man then brew at home ?—(" Yes, yes.")—He said that he thought the poor man would not ; as it was improbable that the laboarer would alter his present system for the triflingsaving which would be effected by the reduction of the Malt Tax, while the present heavy Beer Tax offered so great a bounty for his, to brew at home. Were the beer trade thrown open, then the poor would have good wholesome beer brewed for them at 3d. a quart. As it was, every ' year shewcd that the consumption of beer decreased, as also the malt in a similar way. He hoped the Meeting would bear in mind the fable of the bundle of sticks, and unanimously adopt the petition; which, although praying for more than he wanted, yet was in unison with the prayer of the last petition sent to Parliament from this county on the• subject. Sir CHARLES WALE, Bart. supported the petition. Mr. WELLS (of Huntingdon) then rose amidst the loud plaudits of the Meeting. He supported the petition as far as it went ; but as there were many farmers present, he would do as they did when their sheep had the fly. They (the farmers) gave them a dressing; and if that did not do, they gave them a double dressing. That was the course he meant to pursue to-day. It was the taxes, put upon the people by those who did not represent them; it was a standing array—the countless host of placemen and pensioners —that caused the dis tress. There was no necessity for a standing army. They came here to see the cause of the distress, and on looking at a document he held in his hand, he found that in th e parish of Huddersfield there were 13,22 G individuals subsisting upon twopence half-farthing per day, on an average ; and in Hon ley there were 1,821 ; and Cumberworth and Shel ley, 174—total, 1,995 persons, making, by working 16 hours, twopence half farthirg. In Dalton, there were 829 ; Almonday and Clayton, 2,191; and Sholmanthorpe, 1 , 2 44 —total, 4,327 persons, more lucky, as they are able to earn an additional half farthing, and thus luxuriate upon twopence and a whole farthing 1 Colonel Trench's salary and pay, 000/ which is about W. 10s. a-day, is equal to j PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVXD. W. Williams and J. Parker, Northampton, leather.- sellers—T. Dutton and J. Smith, Liverpool, dyers—W. Kirkman and T. Whitehead, Liverpool, stone-masons—S, Dawson, W. Dawson, and J. Mitchell, Wakefield, York shire, woolataplers—J. 1 taxworth and J. Carniey, Barns ley, Yorkshire, linen-manufacturers—H. Wheeler and F. BaiMon, New City Chambers, Bishopsgate-street—J. A. Whitcombe and C. Griffith, Gloucester, attnrneys---R. Moore and D. Morley, Newark-upon-Trent, Nottingham shire, grocers—W. Jones and T. Bell, Liverpool, smiths —D. Jones and H. Walkinshaw, Birmingham, engravers— J. W. Richards and J. Jones, Birmingham, metallic hot honse-mannfacturers—W. Welch, East Retford, and W. Lambert, West Retford, Nottinghamshire, cot n-factors J. Dalton and J. Robinson, Regent-street, silk-mercers— Sir J. W. Lubbock and C. 13ilsson, jun., London, bankers --J. Ade and D. Ade, Brighton, coach-manufacturers— T. Spencer, J. Waterman, and J. Garland, Ashton-under- Line, Lancashire, saddlers—S. E. Barton and E. Barton, Nicholas-lane, wine-merchants—A. Thomas and J. Kirk, Manchester, timber-merchants—J. Ranisbottorn and J. Greenwood, Lancashire, coach-proprietors—J. Small, G. Colgulionn, aid J. Bonar, London, dealers—W. Prosser and T. Robinson, St. Luke, Middlesex, linen-drapers—J. Silver and J. Silver, Hatton-garden, silversmiths—J. Comrie and E. Vitras, Finch-lane, hair-dressers—T. Sawer and J. Hall, .Aliermatibury, ;manufacturers—W. Smith and 11. Tregear, Smith's. buildings, City-road, general dealers—J. Davidson and A. Hood, Liverpool, commis sion-merchants—K Dowie and J. Baird, Liverpool, coin mission-merchants--J. A. Capron and J. Finlay, Bishops_ gate-street, leather-sellers—G. and T. Redmayne, New Bond -street, silk-mercers—W. and C. L. Ringrose, and W. North, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchants—S. Wakefield and R. Morley, jun., Nottingham, lace-manufacturers. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. R. and R. Eastons, Glasgow, merchants, Jan. 23 and Feb. 8, at two, at the Stirling-square Coffee-house, Glas gow. James Stuart, Dundee, coach-proprietor, Jan. 27 and Feb. 11, at one, nt Campbell's Inn, Dundee. William Gibbs, Glasgow, spirit-dealer, Jan. 23 and Feb. (3, at twelve, at the Stirlimg-square Coffee-house, Glasgow. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average pries of Brown or Muscovado sugar, com puted from the Returns made in the week ending Jan. 19 is 245. 7d. per cwt., exclusive of the duties of custom paid or payable thereon •s the importation thereof into Great Britain. Prince LEOPOLD returned to town on Thurs day, from a visit to the Earl of DARNLEY, at his seat Cobham Hall, Kent. His Royal Highness left town in the afternoon for Claremont. The Duke of WELLINGTON left town yester day in the middle of the day, to attend time Kixci at him Palace at Windsor. Nis Grace had an audience of him MAJESTY. The French Ambassador received despatches from Paris on Thursday. His Excellency attended at the Foreign Office in the afternoon, and had a conference with the Earl of ABERDEEN. His Excellency sent off despatelie, tp his Goverinaent yesterday evening. ‘shat is daily m aimed by nearly 600 poor labourers I With one voice, as it were, they decided that the of Htublersfield, a nd sends supperless to bed every Rev. Gentleman was out of order. night 300 honest Englishmen.—(Hear, and a great The Rev. F. H. MABERLY still persisted in being uproar.) heard, amidst the loud cries of " Turn him out The HIGH SHERIFF called the Learned Gent. to The Rev. Gentleman at last sat down. order. Mr. WELLS next rose, but the general clamour I I Mr. WELTS con:inued—He (lid not wish to de- still prevailed. part from the order of the day; but he thought it The Rev. Mr. MABERLY made another attempt. necessary to revert to the persons the poor people He said he would confine himself to the object of had to go for relief. The first Magistrate on his the Meeting, and Went most cordially with them for list was the Rev..T. H. Sparke, the eldest son of the repeal of the Malt and Beer Dut ies. He was the Bishop of the Diocese.—(Hear.) ready to sacrifice his life for the benefit of his coun- The SHERIFF again called to order. try. Some months ago he had presented a Requi- Mr. Wur,Ls would not further revert to that sub- sition to the High Sheriff to call a County Meeting. ject, but would look to where the petition was to It was signed by one hundred individuals, but the go to. The House of Commons consisted of twenty- Sheriff had refused to call a Meeting to consider the nine Generals, forty-nine Colonels, eight Majors, question of Catholic Emanciption.—(The mention five Captains, four Lieutenants, semen Admirals, of the term Catholic Emancipation was a signal for fifteen Captains (navy), eighty Placemen, a majority increased clamour.) of whom were returned by one hundred and fifty At the end of another half hour, persons. He would only further detain the Meeting Mr. WELTS said that it was his (Mr. W.'s) firm to rend the petition he held in his hand, which he belief that Mr. Maberly was paid by the Duke of should like to he moved, but would not do so Wellington to come and disturb the meeting in or himself:— der to defeat the grand object—the petitioning for "To the Honourable the Commons of the United the Repeal of the Malt and Beer Duties. Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parlia- The Rev. Mr. MABERLY promised to confine him ment assembled : self to a ten-minute speech, if the meeting would " The Petition of the Men of Cambridgeshire and but hear him. He then proceeded to state to the the Isle of Ely, assembled this 224 day of Ja- meeting the power the Pope of Rome had over all nuary, 1830, in full County Meeting, under the Roman Catholic subjects, which, he said, was the sanction of the High Sheriff, determined to same as that of the King of England over the separate no more (except by adjournm en t f rom people of this country; and concluded by propos time to time and place to place) until a redress ing that the Duke of Wellington and Mr. Peel be of grievances is obtained for themselves and impeached, and that the petition be adopted and their fellow-countrymen. signed by all present. Counsellor PRIME then inform e d th e meet i ng, Sheweth—That your P e titi oners ap p roac h your Honourable House with extreme reluctance, well remelts- that, during the time they had been engaged by the bering the indifference and neglect (to use the milde s t observations which had fallen from the last speaker, terms) with which the Petitions of the people have been he and the movers of the petition and resolutions invariably treated. had been engaged in embodying the whole of time " That your Petitioners would have abstained from topics embraced in one general petition, which, he proaching your Honourable House, but from the know- trusted, would meet with their unanimous appro ledge that the overwhelming distresses that now rage baton. throughout the ki ng d om have already, or soon will he Lord MILTON diff ere d f rom t h e op i n i on enter tion of the c oun t r y. felt, by all th ose M em b ers w h o d o not li ve upon t h e taxa- . tamed by some of the pre ce di ng spea k ers, b ecause " That ti me di s t resses o f th e ki ng d om an d t h e gr i evances he thought it w ou ld b e more b enef i c i al to the pub of the peopl e are t oo apparent t o requ i re any procrast i na- lie to take off th e tax on ma l t. All beer did not tion, any inquiry, or any Committee on the part of your pay a tax, but all malt did. It had been said that Honourable House—the causes arc before you and upon the labourers in this county consumed brewer's your table ; namely, overwhelming taxation, an enormous beer. He much regretted that such was the case ; and unconstitutional standing army, bands of useless and b ut i t oug h t to he remembered that there are large unmerited placemen and pensioners, profligate expenditure districts in England where the poor man used beer of the public money, an ill-regulated Established Church, brewed at home. Therefore the taking beer tax would o n ly act l oca ll y i n re li ev i ng the pre off of the and an arbitr ar y c h ange i n t h e va l ue o f money, compel li ng your petitio ners t o p ay two b us h e l s o f w h eat i nstea d of one, sent distress, whil e , i n a ll pro b a bili ty, a new tax and thus in e ff ec t d ou bli ng th e taxat i on o f t h e country. " That the r e d ress o f th ese gr i evances, an d t h e m i t i ga- would be laid up on t h e peop l e to make up the fic tion of this distress are equally apparent, and within the crease in the revenue which the beer-tax reduction immediate power of your Honourable House, by forthwith would occasion ;in his opinion, a too heavy burthen decreasing this overwhelming taxation, reducing th e enor - of taxes, which admited of material reduction, was mons and unconstitutional standing army, abolishing all the real cause of distress. useless and unmerited pensions and places, regulating the Counsellor PRIME withdrew his Resolutions, enormous resources of the Established Church, and, as and in lieu thereof substituted a short sentence, your Honourabl e House have d e termi ne d u p on es t a bli s h- embodying the wh o l e w hi c h h e w i shed to have ing the curren c y o f 1791, b y re d uc i ng t h e pu bli c expen di - added to th e p e titi on . ture to the amount paid at that period, namely, sixteen millions instead of sixty millions per annum. The HIGH SHERIFF then put the original petition " That your Petitioners beg to remind your Honourable in its amended form, w hi c h was carr i ed by a large House that your d u ty, u p on assem bli ng i n P ar li ament, i s to majority. redress the grievances of the people previous to voting the It was afterwards Resolved, money out of their pockets. " That the Petition be presented to both Houses of Par " Your Petitioners therefore pray, that you will vote liament ; that the Lieutenant of the County be requested no Estimates, no Supplies, or any Mutiny Bill, until some to present and support the one intended to the Lords, and steps are taken to redres s th e grievan ces of th e peopl e and that the Members for the County be requested to present better their forlorn condition ; especially that you will and support the other intended for the House of Commons, forthwith repeal a ll th e t axes u p on malt or beer, thereby in- and to press upon the House the imperious necessity for stantly, in some degree, relieving the distr esses o f th e la- taking the same and the other Petitions relating to the die bourers and cultivators of that soil which gave them birth, tressed state of the country into immediate consideration." and ought to give them bread." The thanks of the meeting were then voted to the Counsellor PRIME, of Cambridge, wished that Mayor and Corporation of Cambridge, for the great the petition moved by Sir St. Vincent Cotton, accommodation afforded to the meeting by the use of Bart., would have gone to a much greater extent. the Town-hall, in consequence of the inclement season. He hoped to see the Hop Duty removed; for, al- After a vote of thanks to the Chairman, the meet though the farmers of this county were not growers, ing was dissolved. still they were large consumers of that useful article. The meeting was composed of near two thousand After passing some warm eulogiums on Sir C. most respectable farmers. Wale, Bart., who served the country during the late war, when invasion was threatened, he (Counsellor Prime) stated that he was an advocate for support ing the Ministers in reducing places and pensions, notwithstanding the injury such a measure would inflict on some private individuals; and he therefore came prepared with Resolutions, which he begged to move and submit to the consideration of the Meeting, viz.— " That, in petitioning for a Repeal of these Taxes, this Meeting is not actuated by the selfish wish of relieving themselves by throwing fresh burthens upon other classes of the community. " That, for the last four years, a system of wasteful expenditure has been steadily pursued ; officers with large salaries, but with little or no duties of real utility to the public, have been created : that we have late'y witnessed with satisfaction some disposition to economy and retrench ment in his Majesty's Government, and trust that, by the rigid extension of these to every department, foreign, do mestic, and colonial, such a reduction of expenditure will take place as will enable these taxes to be abolished without the substitution of any others : that it is far from the wish of this Meeting to withhold what is suitable to the Royal office and dignity, but that they have witnessed with re gret, during the distresses and pm ivations of every class, agri cultural, manufacturing, and commercial, an immense ex penditure in the construction ofnew palaces, and in the de coration of those old ones which had been deemed suffi cient for the predecessors of his present Majesty." The Rev. Mr. BROWN, of Trinity College, se- corded the Resolutions proposed by Mr. Prime. It was with deep regret that he had heard such Meet ings as the present denominated farces ; if they were, he was much more pleased with them than the tragedies acted under an Aristocratic Govern ment. He was highly pleased with the sight of the names attached to the requisition for calling the Meeting. If such men had before come for*ard, the country would not be reduced to its present state. He was favourable to the original petition, but the one he had the honour to second went much farther, and was the petition which such a county ought to send forth. It was the duty of the people to instruct their Representatives, and tell them what they ought to do to alleviate the present distress.— He had had the honour to support, arid in a mea sure procure, the return of one of their Representa tives, who, he regretted, was not now present; but if he were, he was sure the Meeting would receive him in a manner highly flattering to that honourable individual. He most cordially and sincerely se conded and supported the last amendment. The HIGH SHERIFF was about to take the opinion of the Meeting on the petition and resolutions be fore him, when THII ARMY. The following compose the staff, &c., of the districts in reland NORTHERN-Consisting of the counties of Antrim Armagh, Cavan, Down, Donegal, Fermanagh, London derry, Monaghan, Tyrone. _ . General Officer—Major-General W. Thornton ; station, Armagh. Aide-de-Camp, Captain Lord Wallacourt, half. pay. EASTERN--Consisting of the counties of Carlow, Dub lin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Louth, Meath, Queen's County, Wexfoid, Wicklow. General Officers—Major-General Dalhrae ; station, Dublin. Aide-de-Camp, Captain Sullivan, 3d D. G. Major of Brigade, Brevet Major Smith, half-pay 61st Foot. Major-General Smith, Royal Artillery ; station, Dublin. Aide-de- Camp, Lieut. Smith, Royal Engineers• WESTERN—Consisting of the counties of Galway, King's county, Leitriin, Longford, Mayo, Roscommon, Sligo, Westmeath. General' Officer—Major-General Sir Thomas Arbuth not, K. C. B. ; station, Athlone, Aide-de. Camp, Captain Cockran, 8:h Foot. SOUTHERN-Consisting of the counties of Cork, Wa terford, Kerry. General Officer—Major-General Sir G. R. Bingham, K.C.B ; station, Cork. Aide-dc-Camp, Lieut.-Colonel R. C. Mansel, half-pay. SOUTII-WESTERN—Consisting of the counties of Clare Limerick, Tipperary. General Officer—Major-General Sir Edward Blakesay, K.C.B. ; station, Limerick. Aide-de-Camp, Lieutenant- Colonel Cuylor, half-pay. Major of Brigade, Captain Forster, 85th Foot. The Rev. F. H. MABERIX rose and spoke at some length. After reverting to the petition and resolu tions which had been submitted to the meeting, he proceeded to contend that the expenccs of the country ought not to be reduced below 60 millions, therefore the remedy for the present agricultural distress was only to be obtained by the exclusion of foreign corn. The people, he said, were now reduced to such a state, that if the present system of things were suffered to go on much longer, they (the people) would be reduced to a set of thieves and vagabonds.—(Hear, hear.) It was the system according to which the foreign corn was allowed to be imported that he had principally to object against; if the foreigner were compelled to take our manu factures out of England instead of our gold, that would be an efficient duty. The Hon. Gentleman next proceeded to comment on the effects produced by the passing of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill. He had not gone to any great length, when The HIGH SHERIFF said that the question was quite irrelevant to the business of the day. The Rev. F. 11. MABERLY was sorry to act in ally way discordant to the wish of the High Sheriff, but nothing, save actual force, should put him down.—(Loud hisses.)—Nurnbers might prevent his being heard, but clamour could not—(cries of " Turn him out !" and tremendous noise.) Se►jeant FRERE rose to order, amidst loud calls o f " Question !" " Order, order!" from some hun dred voices. Counsellor PRIME also rose, but did not succeed in obtaining► a hearing. After the lapse of half an hour the SHERIFF took the sense of the Netting by a show of hands. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, JAN. 23.—0 n Thursday last the Vene rable Samuel Butler, Archdeacon of Derby, and D.D. of St. John's College, Cambridge, was ad mitted to an ad cundcm Degree in this University. On the same day the following Degrees were conferred : MASTERS OF ARTS. Rev. Peter Hall, Brasennose College. Hey. Henry Thorpe, Fellow of St, John's. BACHELORS OF ARTS. Charles Richard Litt!Male, William Emmanuel Page, Frederic Biscoe, John Robert Hall, Henry Partinzton, John Dryden Pigott, Chrii; Church. Matthewman Manduell, Thomas Tyssen Bazely, Queen's ECCESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. The Rev. Henry Gipps, M.A. late Fellow of Worcester College, in this University, to the Vicar age of Corbridge, Northumberland ; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle. The Rev. James Hutchinson, M,A. has been appointed Head Master of the Free Grammar School of King Edward VI. in Chelmsford. The Rev. 11. J. Todd, M.A. Rector of Sewing ton, Yorkshire, to the Prebend of Husthwaite, vacant by the death of the Rer. Dr. Drummond. The Rev. F. Custnrice, B.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Vicar of Steeple, Essex, has Leon presented by the Rev. Charles Musgrave, Vicar of Halifax, to the Perpetual Curacy of Ripponden, in that parish, vacant by the death of the Rev. Robert Webster. Students of Christ church. The Dean of Litchfield having resigned the situation of Principal Official in the Royal Peculiar and exempt Jurisdiction of the Deanery of Bridge north, over which he had presided upwards of 30 years, the Her. John Storer, M.A., Rector of Hawksworth, Nottinghamshire, on the 12th inst. took the oaths of office on his appointment thereto by Thomas Whitmore, Esq., of Apley Park. The fishing station at Galway employs 8,240 men, and the Kilrusli stati on 2,010 inen.—Tippera ry Free Press. The copper mine is now being fully worked at Bonmahon; five hundred men are employed every day; and upwards of 200/. are weekly circulated by the work men in the village ; the consequence is that building ground is now being] let there at Is. 6d. a foot, it is said that Lady OSBORNE intends to erect there a number of sato tan ti aJ 11QUtt ripperarj free Pm', SPIRIT OP Tin PUBLIO JOURNALS. In the new number of the Quarterly Review there is an article on the subject of the Amend ment of the Tithe Law. This subject, as we lately observed, is quite distinct from that of the mode of paying those to whom the Ecclesiasti cal Instruction of the people is committed. It is, we believe, admitted, by all authorities of Po litical Economy, that Tithe is not like Land Tax, or any tax or rent, a deduction from the share of the landlord, but an addition to the price paid the consumer. " Tithes (says Ricardo) are a tax on the gross produce of the land, and, like taxes on raw produce, fall wholly on the consumer. They differ from a tax cn rent, inasmuch as they affect land, which such a tax would not reach ; and raise the price of raw pro duce, which that tax would not alter. Lands of the worst quality, as well as of the best, pay tithes, and exactly in proportion to the quantity of produce obtained from them ; tithes► ate, therefore, an equal tax." "In an improving state of society (adds M. Ricardo) the net pro duce of land is always diminishing in propor tion to its gross produce ; but it Vrom the net income of a country that all taxes are ultimately Maid, either in a progressive or in a stationary country. A tax increasing with the gross in come, and falling on the net income, must neces sarily be a very burdensome and a very intoler able tax. Tithes are a tenth of the gross, and not of the net produce of the land ; and therefore, as society improves in wealth, they must, though the same proportion of the gross produce, become a larger and larger proportion of the net produce. Tithes, however, May be considered as injurious to landlords, inasmuch as they act as bounty on importation, by taxing the growth of home corn, while the importation of foreign corn remains unfettered." - The dif ference between rent and tithe is this, that rent adds nothing to the price of food, whereas tithe does. Rent is the consequence of the increasing wants of society forcing the cultivation of inferior soils ; the difference between the produce of the worst soil and the other soils, after deducting the expence of cultivation, is the rent. The tithe, on the other hand, is an ingredient in the expence of cultivation, and always adds, to the price paid by the consumer. No matter how barren the land which the wants of society re quire to be cultivated, the tenth of the produce must first be set apart. It is as if God Almighty' had inflicted on a country the punishment of an additional sterility of soil. As poorer soils are taken into cultivation, an addition is made to the price of every quarter raised throughout the country, equivalent to the expellee added to the cultivat►on of the quarter on these poorer soils, by the deduction of a tenth of the gross pro duce. We have deemed it right to advert to these particulars, because the writer in the Quarterly Review, with all his learning respect. ing tithes (and we shall advert to that on a future occasion,) is obviously unacquainted with the manner ►n which tithes affect consumers and landlords. The Reviewer supposes the only parties interested are the landlord and the tithe- ►older. " The whole of the difference (he ob serves) between the present stipend of a Scottish benefice and the present improved value of the tenth of the produce of the parish, goes into the pockets of the landowner. Now, for our parts, we must be allowed to observe, that set ting religion out of the question, we had, as a mere matter of taste, rather see this difference expended by the Minister on the spot from which it accrues, than disposed of, as it is now, in swelling the tail of some absentee Lord or Laird, who seldom, if ever, secs the district from which it is drawn." It is very true that the Scotch landlords and the proprietors of estates in England, having a modus, pocket the differ ence between the sum actually paid to the Clergy and the full value of the tenth of the produce ; but if tithe were permanently commuted in England, and no longer a tax on the consumer, the rent of the Scotch landholder would be less considerable than it is at present. The precise amount of this reduction it is not very easy to state. In the Edition of Dr. Smith's work edited by Mr. M'Culloch, this point is dis cussed in Note, No. 25, Vol. IV.—" It is need- less to waste the reader's time (he observes) by endeavouring to prove that if a country -in which tithes arc imposed were in the habit of importing a considerable quantity of foreign corn, duty free, the effect of such importa tion would be to throw the .burden of the tithe wholly on the landlords. Every one must sec that in such a case the cultivators would be altogether unable to limit the quantity of produce brought to market, and that the tithe could have no influence on prices. According to the returns obtained under the Income Tax Act, the total annual value of all the land of England and Wales in 1815 is esti mated at 29,476,840/., of which lands of the annual value of 7,904,378/. were wholly tithe free ; while lands of the annual value of 856,183/. were tithe free in part ; and other lands, of the annual value of 498,8431. paid only a low modus. So far, therefore, it it from being true that all, or nearly all, the lands of England and Wales pay tithe, that it appears that about a third part of them is exempted from that burden ; and if to the tithe-free land of England and Wales we add the whole of Scotland, it may be safely affirmed that upwards of a half of the cul tivated land of Great Britain is unaffected bs tithe. It is obvious, therefore, for the reasons already stated, that tithe in England, supposing that it had no effect on consumption, could only raise prices one•twentieth part, or fire per cent. But, inasmuch as it would somewhat lessen con sumption, it would most probably fall, in about equal portions, on the landlords and the public." The rental of land, and houses on which the Property Tax was paid, in Scotland, amounted, on sth of April, 1813, to 6,285,3891.; the rent of land alone, to 5,041,779/. This amounts to little short of one-fifth of Ow rent assessed to the Property Tax in England. Were there no Tithes in England, this enormous rental f'or Scotland, considering the wealth of the two countries, would, no doubt, experience a consi derable diminution. The inferiority of the English agriculture to the Scotch no doubt must also go for something. The Q4arierly Review admits the expediency of allowing temporary commutations. "We acknowledge," he says, " in its fullest extent, the right of the State, in its capacity of trustee, to enforce the due and effective discharge of the conditions on which this species of property is held, and to introduce Al' iy alter a ti ons or regulations which may seem ikely to increase the efficiency and utility of the services attached to the enjoyment of Church endowments. We think it entirely con sistent, for example, with the honourable dis charge of this public trust, that the owner", - -tof landed property should be authorized,to enterint., an arrangement with incturN4 of eez:lesiastii i .4t,„)\ 4 benefices, which would for:4 iipil of reason fen gth put an cu 4 to Op pr • ' pcc yiki,ip