The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-18 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 16 —The Blonde frigate,
Captain Lyons, returned to Constantinople on the
Bth October, having landed about 300 Russian
officers and men, who were made prisoners by the
Turks at Odessa. The Blonde visited Varna,
Bourgas, and Sebastopol; at the latter port the
Russian fleet were preparing to lay up for the win-
ter. Each ship was made fast to a wharf, on
which is a receptacle for her stores. The officers
of the Blonde were kindly received in all the Rus-
sian ports, and the Count Woronzow, at Odessa,
paid them the most marked attention. The weather
in the Black Sea was particularly tempestuous, and
the cold intense, the mercury being frequently 13
degrees below the freezing point.
The Royalist brig, Lieutenant Nash, tender to the
St. Vincent, returned to Plymouth from a cruise on
Tuesday morning. The Royalist saw his Majesty's
ship Pearl, 20, Commander. Blake, on Friday last,
and the Leveret brig, Lieutenant Worth, on the
preceding Wednesday, cruising to the westward.
His Majesty's ship Sapphire arrived at Guaya-
quil from Lima 28th July. The Vigtor, from
Caropeachy, arrived at Jamaica 13th ir..",ctober ;
Firefly, from .Bernri r.tt., 1:-
auu Maracaibo, 19th; Pickle, from Nassau,
N.P., 10th November ; and Shannon, from Ber-
muda,lsth ditto. The Ranger sailed from
.Jamaica
for Jago de Cuba, 12th Nor. The Adventure sailed
from Bombay for Chiloe, 11th Aug.
Accounts from St. Andrew's, New Brunswick,
state the loss of the transport William, on the S.W.
Reef of Bermuda. Gen. Sir Hilgrove Turner (the
Governor of the Island) and his lady were passen-
gers in her. On the vessel striking, a boat, bearing
Sir lifigrove and his family, was immediately dis.
patched, to obtain assistance from the men-of-war at
anchor at Bermuda. It reached the Champion,
sloop-of-war shortly afterwards, from which, as well
as from the Tyne and Columbine, assistance was im.
mediately rendered, but without effect, the transport
having bilged soon after she struck. The crew were
all saved, but the greater part of her cargo is lost.
PROMOTlON!—Commander Aaron Tozer, to be
Captain; Lieut. John Harvey Doteler, to be Com-
mander.

APPOINTMENTS—Commander the Hon. Thomas
Best, to the William and Mary yacht ; Lieut. Wm.
Dawson (a), to the Onyx, of 10 guns, tender to the
Royal George yacht; Lieut. Thomas Thorp Fowke,
to the Ganges.
The follor►ing officers are permitted to study at
the Royal Naval College, in addition to those already
there :—Capain the Honourable W. Wellesley,
Commander Hindmarah, Lieutenants H. M. Atkin-
son, Ellery, Bedwell, and Miles.

On Wednesday sailed the Cracker cutter, and
on Thursday sailed his Majesty's cutter Sylvia, on
a cruize.

The Espiegle, 18, Commander Elliot, was paid off
yesterday. _

Ships in Harbour—Royal George, Victory, Gan-
ges, Java, Galatea, and North Star. There is no
man-of-war at Spithead.
-

Arrived on Sunday the Good Statesman, Buck-
ingham, from Baltimore for Ireland. Sailed the
Alert, Tyson, for Cape Coast Castle; and the
Lively, Ford, for Smyrna. Arrived on Monday the
Cecrops, Blatickson, from Trieste, in 38 days,
bound for Amsterdam. Sailed the Medina, Pace,
for. the Cape and Swan River. Arrived on Tues-
day the Auriga, Bransfield, from London, for South
America, and sailed on the following day; also the
Florida, Weston, from Boston, in 40 days, for Am-
sterdam, and passed on to Cowes. Arrived on
Wednesday the Eensgeziedheid, Keyper, from Mar-
seilles, for Amsterdam, and passed on to Cowes.—
De Ceres, from Liverpool, for Amsterdam, was
fallen in with, on the preceding day, by the Peggy,
of Dover, off Beachy-head, in a sinking state, but
by the assistance of her crew was saved and taken
into Cowes. Passed by, on Thursday, the Diadem,
Wallis, in 36 days, from Halifax. Arrived the Nile,
Mills, from Dublin, and the Boston, Tinkham, from
Boston, in 40 days, bound to Antwerp, and passed
on to Cowes. The Lord Melville, Brown, bound
to Antwerp, is come into harbour, to winter. The
Alexander, Anderson, for Madras and Calcutta, is
hourly expected.
On Monday the Belvidere frigate, and on Thurs-
day the Edinburgh, 74, were undocked, and yester-
day the Carnatic, 74, was taken into dock for exa-
mination. The docking of the Elephant, .50, is
postponed until the Sirius frigate is put out of dock,
the Elephant will take her place.
The petty officers and ship's ciunpany of his Ma-
jesty's ship Espiegle, have presented to Captain
Drinkwater, their late Commander, a very hand-
some sword aul belt, and a pair of rich uniform
epaulettes, us a mark of their esteem and respect.
The Nournahrid transport will shortly proceed to
Malta from Spit head, touching at Gibraltar, for
stores.—llampshire Te!egraph.
DEVONPORT, JAN. l6.—His Majesty's ship Hus-
sar, 46, Rear-A.drniral Sir Charles Ogle, Captain
Boxer, was in Halifax harbour on the 16th ult.
housing over, and preparing to be laid up for the
winter months. She had rhea recently returned
from Barbadoes, to which place she was sent with
General Maitland, for the benefit of his health, and
with a freight of Government money. The General

HADDINGTON CORN MARKET.--Jan. 15.

Barley was in better supply than demand, 99 quarters
sold, 32 unsold, top down 2s. and average Is. 5d.. Oats
in full supply, 346 quarters in market, of which about
one-third remained unsold, top up Is. and average 4d.
Wheat brought higher prices to-day than last market.
The average is up Is. Sd. Very little alteration in the
price of Pease and Beans, 57 quarters of Pease, and 90
quarters of Beans were sold.
Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beans.
First lsBs Od 30s IM 256 Ott 29s Od 32s Od
Second s2s Od 28s Od 22s Od 28s Od 29; Od
Third
There were 355 qrs. of Wheat in market, 327 whereof were told:
10 Unsold.-18 Grey.
21. 12s. 10d. 1-12th.

Average

LTFI COW
all kinds
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of Grain
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DALKEI
The supply of
ket wan large ; pri
senniglit.
Wheat. Barley. Oats.
First GO& Rd 325 Oil 25s Oil
Second
4.95 Od 2Gs Od 20s Od

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at this (11
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Pease.
36s Od
326 Od
266 Od

CORNWALL. MARKETS.

lay's mar-
)f this day

Beans.
36s ed
32% Od
26s Od

TRURo.—Wheat (average) 235. 6d.—Barlev, 134. Ocl.—Oats, 10i.
IlituToN—Wheat, 225. 6d.—Barley, 12s. M.
Sr. AUSTELL—Wheat, 21s. to 245.--Barley, 11s. to 13s.—Oats,
Ss. to 9s. 6d. - - -

13onutN—Wheat (average) 235. Od.—Barley, 128.—Oats, Bs. 6cl.
LAUNCESTON—Wheat (average) 235. 01—Barley, 123.0(1—Oats,
Bs. &l.—Beef, 6d.—Mutton, M.
PENZANCE—Wheat, :235. to 24s.—Barley, —s. to 16s.—Oats,
Ss. to Ins. o(l.—Beef and Mutton, 4d. to 50.—Pork, 31d. to Oct.--
Butter, 11d. per lb.
LtsKEAßn—Wheat, 225. 6d. to 25s.—Barley, 12s. 641.--Oats, 10s.
to I Is. Od.

Sr. LoLnut—Wheat, 201. to Ms.—Barley, 11g. to 174.—Bear,
and Mutton, 4d. to &O.—Veal and Lamb, Od to Od.

NORFOLK COUNTY MEETING.

On Saturday the freeholders and other inhabitants of
this county were called together, to agree to a petition to
Parliament on the subject of the Malt Tax. Similar
petitions in various hundreds of the county of Norfolk have
already been got up ; and a few weeks ago it was wished
by upwards of sixty gentlemen of the county, that the
High Sheriff should be called upon to summon a meeting
of the whole county.
The meeting being appointed to take place at the Shire-
hall, a considerable number of persons assembled in di::
precincts and avenues;of that building shortly after eieren
o'clock.

At a little after twelve o'clock, the doors being thrown
open, the Crown Court in the Shire-hall was crowded to
excess. The thou Sintnirr, on entering the Court, was
received with applause ; and having taken the Chair, the
businesa of the day commenced.
Among the Noblemen and Gentlemen present, we ob-
served Lord Suffield, Lord Charles Townshead, Sir This.
Bravo:, Mr. Coke, Mr. Wodehouse (the two Members for
the County), Mr. Bulwer, Mr. Pestle, Colonel Harvey,
Archdeacon Bathurst, Mr. Palmer, &e. There were up-
wards of 1,500 persons present.
The HIGH SHIRIFF said, that haring received a requi-
sition, most respectably signed, to call a County Meeting
on the subject of the Malt Tax, he had obe)ed the call of
the gentlemen who had signed it, and he trusted that the
proceedings of the day would be conducted in such a man-
ner as to reflect credit on the county.
Mr. W. E. L. Buvreas rose to address the meeting.
He said, that as to there being great distress in the country
there could be no question ; and however gentlemen might
differ as to the cause, he thought that they must at all
events agree that the object which the requisitionists had
in view would be one mode of relieving the public from
the burtheus under which they were labouring.—(Hear,
hear.)—lt was on tbis ground that they had been called
upon to meet to petition the Parliament for a repeal of
the tax upon malt—a tax which was highly obnoxious to
the labouring elassee of the community both in its effect
awl its principle; but besides this, it was a tax which
might be said to fall heavily on the whole of the comma-
nity, for it effected both the producer and the cOnsumer.—
(Hear,hear.)—Many indirect advantages would he derived
to the public, from the removal of the Malt Tax ; the con-
sequence of the price being lowered would be that double
the quantity would be consumed, the result of which would
be not only that that which was grown at home would
find a ready and brisk sale,
.but that a considerable quantity
would be imported,
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—Regarding
able
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the proposed repeal (as lie did) as the pro,
bald?, means of bettering the lower order* of the people, he

thought that it was a subject which went far beyond the
question of revenue. He considered it to be a subject preg-
nant with great moral consequences; and whatever way
the Government might view it—whether Merely ris a tas.
or as something much beyond, he trusted that they would
at least afford the question their most serious attention.—
(Cheers.)—Mr. Buiwer concluded by moving the follow-
ing Resolutions
"1. That this Meeting, in common with the inhabitants
olevery district irghe, United Kingdom, feels and laments
the general distresta which pervades almost every classSof
the community. t a
" 2. That both the cultivators of hind, arialte manu-
lecturers of goods, are placed in such circumstances as to
he no longer able to dispoa of their respective:productions
to advantage; and in proportion as their means diminish
their difficulties increase, being obliicl tor maintain as
paupers all those to whom they can o longer give pro-
fitable. employment.
"-tot the want of due employment for the labour-
ing and industrious classes has increased pauperism and its
attendant evils—crime and moral.degradation—so rapidly,
as to demand the most serious attention of the Legislature.
" 4. That among other causes to which this lamentable
state of suffering and degradation may be attributed, none
is more prominent than the overwhelming burden of taxa-
tion beneath which the country groans.
" 5. That the taxes which call more especially for alle-
viation are those which bear upon the industry of the
country, and effect the necessaries of life; and upon these
grounds there is none more prejudicial in all it bearings
than that upon malt.
" 6. That the Duty on Malt is an oppressive burthen
upon all classes, more particularly upon the cultivators of
the soil, by narrowing the market for their staple produce
Barley, to an extent which would hardly be credited, but
from the well-known fact, that the consumption of Malt
is sow considerably less than it was a century ago, though
the quantity of land now in cultivation is at least one-third
more and the population more than doubled.

" 7. That ;index the vex.itious operation of the existing
laws, the price of malt is enhanced beyond the actual duty,
thus bearing with double weight upon the consumer, while,
to the revenue, the expence of collecting the same is a
heavy drawback.
" 8. That the Repeal of the Duties on Malt would
greatly benefit the consumer generally, but more especially
would it relieve the labouring and industrious classes, by
placing within their reach the means of brewing their own
beer, and baking their own bread ; by the want of which
they are now driven to the use of ardent spirits, to the de-
struction of their health and morals.

"9. That Petitions to both Houses of Parliament,
founded on the foregoing Resolutions, and praying for the
total repeal of the du ties on Malt, be immediately prepared."
Much applause followed the reading of the Resolutions.
Mr. P,osme—Leing one of the Requisitionists for the
calling of the Meeting, and having had the honour of co-
operating with those gentlemen, he rose with much plea-
sure to second the resolutions which had been so ably pro-
posed. It would have been quite unnecessary for Lim to
say a word, even if Mr. Buiwer had not addressed the
meeting, in order to persuade a body of the people to pe-
tition for the repeal of so heavy a burthen as that of the
Malt tax.—(Applause.)—They had no reason to doubt
that the DuLe of Wellington and his colleaguce were
anxious to economise as far as was ha their power—(Ap-
plause and a laugh)—but to relieve the people as they
ought and required to be relieved, was not the work of a
day, nor of a year—no, it would be the work of much
time and great consideration. A private gentleman, if he
found that he was living too fast, had it in his power, at
any time, to stop short, and get rid of his horses and his
servants;" he might alter his residence, or lie might go on
the Continent, and put his estate to nurse ; but this was
not the case with the Ministers of a nation; utast Ka
f tic. too—much
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Thge was likewise another consideration which de-
manded their attention. If they asked for the remission
of both the Malt and Beer Tax, there would be danger
of a property tax being imposed upon the country—and
not one confined exclusively to mortgages on property and
Government securities, but likewise extending to all landed
property. Now, if this were the case, would not the
Members of Parliament be sure to oppose anything that
was likely to produce a tax calculated to bear so hard
upon themselves ? In the Upper House, in particular,
where they were all men of landed property, every ex-
ertion would be made, under such circumstances, to pre-
vent the remission played for. This being the feeling of
the Requisitionists, it became a matter of consideration
with them for the repeal of which tax they should pray ;
and, after due deliberation, the preference being given to
the Malt Tax, the present Meeting was called, and for this
reason—because it was considered that if they could
procure the repeal of the Malt Tax, that would virtually
be the repeal of the tax upon beer—(Cheers)—and in
that case not only would the brewer be enabled to reduce
the price of his beer, but the price would be still more ma-
terially reduced by the labourer being enabled to brew for
himself; nor did this refer to the labourer in husbandry
alone; it was applitable to every individual throughout
the kingdom. This might be thought only to refer to
the small ale, but for his own part he was no enemy to
the poor man having his pot of strung beer too.—(Ap-
plause.)—lt was a luxury which, after his toil, he had a
right to enjoy; nor was he, when passing a public house,
horrified if he heard the rattle of the sittles, for why
should not the poor matt have his pastimes and amuse-
ments as well as the rich ?—(Applause.)—lt had been
urged by some that the praying for the repeal of this or
that particular tax was a sort of interference with the plans
of the Minister ; but suppose the Minister wished to re-
lieve the people from a portion of the taxes which they
were enduring, what could a Minister wish for more then
to have the particular tax pointed out which was deemed
most oppressive ?—(Applauee.)—Surely those who paid
the taxes were the best judges of their weight. A reduc-
tion only of the duty on malt was objectionable, because,
if the Riinisters were to leave the tax in that state, the
same army of excisemen would still be required.—
(Cheers.) For himself, he srl.s in the habit of sending
I •
his own barley to lie made into malt, and he was charged
2s. the coomb, with the duty; but if the duty were en-
tirely taken off, he could afford to sell it at 41. 6d. the
bushel. If any portion of the duty, however, was left,
the malting would still be open to the excise—(Hear,
hear)—and no one but the licensed flutterer would
be able to sell it; and for any other person to attempt
it, or to meddle at all in the matter, would be
ruin. In illustration of this, he knew a case in
point, which had happened a few years ago. When
the tax on salt existed, there was a duty on it of 16s. the
bushel. This duty was afterwards lowered to 2s. the
bushel, and, for agricultural use, to 6d. Still, however,
while any duty on the article remained, the farmer was
unable to make use of it; for there were so many restric-
tions, connected with it—so many accounts were to be
kept, of bow much for the bullocks, how much for the
shety, and how much in store, that a man who employed
it always ran the risk of getting into the Exchequer
through it; but when the tax was entirely taken off he
began to use salt, and had continued to do so successfully
to that day.—(Applause.) He trusted that the Meeting
would confine itself to the subjects now before it ; though
he had seen in a Norwich Paper an intimation that the
Game Laws would be touched upon ; if there were to be
such a Requisition, he would be one of the first to put his
name to it—(Cheers)---and if the Meeting, in any respect,
went beyond the consideration of the malt tax, he should
more for the Game Laws being the subject.---(Cries of
cc No, no!")

Mr. WonEstousx, M.P. for the county, then presented
himself to the meeting, and was received with applause
mingled with a few hisses. Every one who heard him
was aware that be had riot suffered a year to pass in which
he had refrained from pressing on the attention of Govern-
ment (whoever might form its members) the evils arising
from the malt tax—(Applause)—but with that conviction
pressing on his mind, he must be allowed to go at once
into a short statement of the points on which he agreed,
and of those on which he disagreed, with the resolutions
which had been proposed to the meeting by Mr. Bulwer.
The first, second, third, and fourth resolutions were all of
them of a general nature; for they all applied to the gene-
ral influence of taxation on the country. These four,
therefore, were in their spirit and in every syllable of them
undeniably true ; but they would be so good as to recol-
lect that the fifth arid sixth resolutions applied to one ar-
ticle only. And what was that article ? Malt But
then, why not also the article of beer ?—(Applause and
uproar.) Why was not the tax on tea speeified.—or that
ou sugar—and still more that on coals'—(Cries of

" Bravo !" and confusion.)—lf asked why he wanted tl
include those also, his answer was that the high rate,
of these taxes must necessarily press upon the people,
now that they were labouring under the difficulty
of low wages.—(Cheers ) It was evident, therefore.
that by this high rate of taxation the comforts of the
lower classes were abridged; and while things remained
in this state, it was a scandal to the Aristocracy of the
country.—(Cheers.) The seventh Resolution was of a
different nature again, fur it applied tel the vexatious re-
strictions that the malt trade experienced. At his request
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the course of the last
session, acceded to a proposal for examining into the affair,
according to a sugtesiion transmitted to him by his friend
Mr. CI isp Brown, and procured the appointment of three
experienced excisemen and three experienced maltsters, as
a sort of Commission of Inquiry, in order that it might be
ascertained whether these vexatious restrictions were ne-
cessary or unnecessary, in order that those only which
were necessary might be retained. What was the result
of this Commission ? He himself not being able to attend,
his friend Mr. Portman attended for him, and the con-
elusion arrived at was, that the =haters were perfectly
satisfied with the conduct of the Government.----([dear.)
It had been observed by Mr. Postle, that he wished the
Malt Tax to he extinguished altogether, as otherwise the
same army of excisemen would be kept up for its collection.
But let them look at the other high taxes—the enormous
one upon spirits in particular, and they would see that
there was little hope (while that continued) for the de-
crease of the number of excisemen; in short, while there
was a high duty there waist necessarily be a high penalty,
and the argument therefore applied gerserally to all ex-
ciseable commodities.—( Hear, hear.) There was one
material sabject connected with this and every other tax
which the meeting was bound to take into consideration.
He had, for a loeg time, (and was never more impressed
with it than now), been of opinion that it was mere
childishness, and both nugatory and delusive, to enter
into a consideration of the present state of the country,
either as compared with what it had been in past time, or
what it would probably be in future, witkout constantly
bearing in mind its relation to the overwhelming and pa-
ramount question of the altered value of money.—(Ap-
plause.) In his opinion the Legislature, when they med-
dled with that question, had no adequate Conception of the
importance of the work they were taking in band —(Hear,
hear.) As he looked at the question, it was a good rule '
for Parliament to tax trade in the time of war, and in tLe
time of peace to alter the tax to land ; and he believed
that if the Parliament of 1815 bad not been actuated by
the greatest selfishness, there would then have been a rate
levied upon property.--(Applause.) Ile should content
himself with reading some resolutions which he had drawn
up, for the sake of recording what his sentiments were, ,
and that be might stand before clear.—(llear.) The fol-
lowing were the resolutions :

" That the state of depression in which every interest
throughout the empire is placed, demands the most serious
attention of the Legislature.
" That one great and primary object for consideration
is the extent to which the comforts of the poor and indus-
trious classes of the people are abridged by the continuance
of a high rate of taxation under a ►ow rate of wages, as
applied to the necessaries of life, such as malt, Leer, tea,
sugar, and coils.

" That with respect to the real weight of taxation, the
Legislature does not appear to have entertained an adequate
conception of the effects that were likely-to be produced by
the partial restoration of the present standard of gold,
even as far as regards England ; Scotland and Ireland
being hitherto exempted from its operation.
" That the evils of an unlimited paper currency arc
snch as no right-minded person should ever seek to renew;
but that every practicable suggestion id, toleviating the
ethvielssotaft::.
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Lord SUFFIELD wished to know whether Mr. Wode-
house intended to move these Resolu►ions by way of
Amendment? If he did, his Lordship would be happy to
second them.

Mr. WonEtrousm—lf your Lordship will move them,
I will second them.
Lord SurviELn—He had not come there with an inten-
tion of offering any observations on the object of the meet-
ing; that object he generally approved, and his mind was
not made up to express any opinion on the language of the
petition ; but he had been so forcibly struck by the argu-
ments of Mr. Wodebouse, and they wire so precisely in ac-
cordance with his own sentiments, that he could not for-
bear affording the great and respectable Meeting which lie
saw before him an opportunity, by secontling Mr. Wode-
house's Amendment, of passing their judgment on the sub-
ject.—(Applause.)

Sir THOMAS BEZVOR, in rising to offer any opposition
to Mr. Bulwer's Resolutions, did so with considerable dif•
fidence. When, however, he looked round that hall, and
saw the respectable body of freeholders that surrounded
him, and recollected that seven years ago, in the ♦ery
teeth of the Aristocracy, they had voted for an equitable
adjustment, it gave him some little confielence.—(llear,
heir. )—The Mover and Seconder had appeared extremely
anxious that all who succeeded them should stick to the
question of the Malt Tax alone, as the law had been laid
down by the sixty individuals whom they represented.—
But though these gentlameft had taken this trouble on
themselves, he did not know why the rest of the Meeting
were bound to adhere to their rule. He considered that
those who petitineed only for the Repeal of the Malt Tax
(and Mr. Bulwer's Resolutions went to nothing else) were
too sanguine as to the consequences they deemed likely to
attend such remission—(Applause.)—The effect for which
they were looking would never be produced till they had a
thorough and Radical Reform in the Commons House of
Parliament.—(Continued cheers.)—lle had no wish to
offer himself as the opponent of Mr. Wodehouse's Amend-
ment; but if that were not carried, he wished to be un-
derstood as saving to himself the right of proposing
his own.

Lord C. TOWNSHEND hoped that the system of peti-
tioning would be steadily pursued in all directions; for he
had not that confidence in the Ministry to believe that they
would yield the point, unless compelled to do it.
._

Mr. COKE then presented himself to the Meeting, and
was received with loud and general cheering. He said that
he had never attended a County Meeting with more satis-
factory feelings; for it had nothing to do with a difference
of political or party spirit.—(Applause.)—Neither had
they to canvass the errors of a Revolutionary War, which,
in his opinion, had been the primary cause of all the
distress and bankruptcy which had taken place since, Ana
of the present impending danger to the country.—(Ap-
plause.)—ln looking around him he saw men who had
pledged their lives and fortunes in that cause; they were,
however, alive, and at this Meeting, and he was glad to
see them; he wished to God, however, that they had
seen their error before they had plunged so madly into a
war, which had ended in almost the ruin of the
country.—(Great applause.)—To the Mover of the Re-
solutions he offered his congratulations, on his now, for
the first time, stepping forward to take a public tart in
the affairs of the county; and he was sure that they
ought to be obliged to him and his Seconder
for the able manner in which they had introduced the re-
solutions to their notice ; with respect to the latter Of
those gentlemen, though he agreed with him in many of
the points which be had urged on the Meeting, there
were some in which he was obliged to disagree with him ;
he might also, perhaps, agree with Sir Thomas Beevor in
his wish for Radical Reform.—(A laugh and applause.)
This and other points !night be in unison with his senti-
ments, but he must be allowed to say, that at all events
they were foreign to the objects of the Meeting.—(Hear,
hear.) For the exertions that were now making for the
repeal of this tax, he was hound to return his thanks to
the yeomanry of England, and to the county of Norfolk in
particular. He knew that it was thought by sonic taut j
the repeal of the Beer Tax would be still more beneficial
to the poor than that of the Malt Tax. To hope for the
repeal of both duties was too much, for, to.:ether, they
amount to a large sum ; and the question, therefore, was,
whether they would not be more likely to obtain the repeal
of one than of both ? In order to obtain that, he believed
that it was only necessary for them and the yeomanry of
England generally to resolve to have a long pull, a stiong
pull, and a pull altogether.—(Cheers.) In the removal
of all grievances, however, there must be a beginning, and
he therefore gave the preference to the Malt Tax over the
Beer. He would tell them why he gave the preference is
the repeal of the Malt Tax over that of Beer. It was be-
cause he was old enough to remember when all the poor of
the kingdom were able to brew their own beer. Up to
1750, when the po.pnlation of England and Wales was

I no more than 6,470,000, there was :7.4 snook malt as new,
I when the population amounted to thirteen
(Hear, hear.) Surely this was a sufficient evidence that
the beer did not contain the malt that it ought.—(Ap.
clause.) They were told by interested persons that if ;lie
Beer Tak Was taken off, they would supply it to the poor
no- a penny a pot less; but did they tell them that they
would make it better, and promise not to use the. skill of
tl:e chemist in its composition ?—(A laugh and applause.)
In Ilia opinion the removal of the Beer Tax would only 141
premium for bad bear. Now let them consider the
Malt Tax. lie could remember the time when every
poor inzn brewed his own beer—nor wail it only 'his beer
that he thus procured—in addition to that there were the
grains with which he could fatten. a pig, or Which enabled
his wife to rear a few fowls ; besides: this, there was a tittle
yeast, with which he was able to make his own bread ; for
all which reasons he thought the repeal of the Malt Tax
preferable to that of beer.—(Applause.)
Co/noel
.H.aavny thought that they were bound to do
the best they could to relieve the condition of the poor.
when they considered the oppressive circumstances under
which they were labouring ; if the Malt Tax were re.
moved, he had no doubt that it would greatly tend to that
effect.—(Applause.) The great fault, and one of the
principal causes of the distress of the country, was that
the Legislature, in what they had done of late years for
the supposed relief of the country, had proceeded on a
wrong principle. If they did hut contemplate what had
been done, both with respect to the Corn Laws and Free
Trade, they would perceive how ruinous the system must
be. As to the Corn Laws, ail they now stood, they were
entirely absurd; and indeed they must be so, for they
knew the result. The bubble that cheap corn was'a com-
fort to the people, was:burst ; and they now- began to
know that what they. wanted 'was to get hack to the former
prices;

- Mr. PALMER--Ile had never attended t Cennty Meet-
ing at whichhe had felt more pleasure than at the pre-
sent one. For himself, he was opposed to tke idea of
property tax, because he did not see that; it,was any relief
to take out of one pocket to put into another. What they
really wanted was to retrace their steps, and to have the
true principles of legislation advocated. He trusted that
the agriculturists would not think, that because he was a
commercial man, be was therefroe their enemy. He was
not such a fool ; he looked upon the nation but as one
large family, with but one interest to support, and who-
' ever abused one portion of the State, inflicted an injury an
the whole. If the amendment of Mr. Wodehouse should
be negatived, he would advise those who constituted the
meeting to proclaim for themselves those principles of Par-
liamentary Reform, without which the vessel of the State
could not rightly be navigated.---(Applause )
Archdeacon BATHURST agreed with those gentlemen
who had spoken in opposition to the original motion. The
speech and the resolutions which had been given to the
Meeting by Mr. Wodehouse did both his head. and his
heart credit ; and with Sir Thomas Beevor he agreed in
one point, that they ought to go to the root of the evil.—
(Applause.) He must confess, therefore, that if the
Meeting was determined to come to a division on the sub-
ject, he should prefer the Amendment of Mr. Wodebuu,c.
He however hoped that both Mr. Wodehouse and Sir
Thomas Beevor would consent to withdraw their Amend-
ments, so that the original Resolutions might be agreed to
without opposition.

Mr. Wo—mmousa said that when he had first introduced
his Resolutions, he had done so merely for the purpose of
recording his sentiments ; but as he found that many of
the gentlemen present appeared to agree with him in
opinion, he should certainly take the sense of the Meeting
upon them as an Amendment.

- Mr. Cor.t,xx said that he" had now been a farmer for
about forty years, and was therefore pretty well acquainted
with the habits of the labourers; formerly, when they cams
to work they would always bring their allowance of beer
with them, but now they were only able to bring a bottle
of water—(Cries of shame)—ancl what is the reason of
this ? Why the tax upon malt ; if that were removed, the
labourer would be enabled for a shilling to buy enough malt
to procure him a pot of beer every day for a week—(Hear)
besides having yeast enough to make a good loaf of bread.
—(Hear, he4r.)—What he wanted to tee was everything
taken out of the way that could oppress the country.
The Resolutions and Au►endment were emu again read
seriatim to the Meeting.
The meeting during this period was in considerab!e up-
roar, and the Hran Stumm. reduced the question simply
to a show of hands for Mr. Wodehouse's Pma7^,kar-v-‘---1
eisuer. •
_timid putt'

The original resolutions of i+T.••LLitwer were carried by
a majority of about three to one.

The limn SinitllY declared the original resolutions to
be carried.

Sir THOMAS Bravoit protested against this course. lie
ought to have been permitted to propose his amendment.
Mr. Cora then moved a vote of thanks to the High
Sheriff, which was carried by acclamation, and the High
Sheriff then dissolved the meeting.
After a considerable number of the Meeting had with.
drawn, Sir T. Baryon addressed those that remained.
Me complained very much of the conduct of the High
Sheriff, and said, that instead of a Vote of Thank, there
ought to have been a Vote of Censure passed upon him.
There was one point, however, which be begged them ta

observe, which was, that though the requisitionists had
carried their resolutions, they had carried nn petition, and
therefore any petition that was presented to Parlia-

rnent in th; name of that Meeting would be n for-
gery. They were no longer, legally speaking, a Meet-
ing, and therefore lie could not propose any motion ; but,
with permission, he would read to them the resoluions
and petition which he had drawn up. They were then
read by the worthy Baronet, after which the assembly dis-
persed.