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

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, Suffolk,
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 preventing 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 the 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, 1,244—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