The Sun.
London, England, 1834-04-12 00:00:00

PLYMOUTH, APRIL 11.

The Plymouth and Devonport Spring Races are
fixed for the 14th to take place on Chelson Mea-
dow. Upwards of thirty subscribers are entered for
the Lyneham Stakes ; some other matches of interest
are likely to come off at the same time, and it is ex-
pected that the Spring Meeting will be the fullest yet
experienced.

The Tavistock Races will take place early in the
ensuing month.
The first Meeting for the season of the Members of
the Royal Western Yacht Club was held at the Royal
Hotel on Tuesday : several new members were enrolled.
The Regatta, it is expected, will be fixed at the next
meeting ; and, from the exertions that are making, a
better attendance of yachts than on any former occa-
sion may be confidently anticipated.
The Horticultural Exhibition and Fancy Bazaar are
to be held on the same day, viz., the 22d of May,
for both of which preparations on a grand scale are
now in progress. The Brunswick steamer has com-
menced plying for the season, between this port and
Portsmouth ; the Sir F. Drake is refitting to com-
plete the line of communication to Falmouth and the
Isles of Guernsey and Jersey. The Irish. Liverpool,
and London steamers are now also in regular inter-
course, and afford the easiest and most economical, as
well as certain means of communication. No symptoms
of the cholera having now for a considerable time ap-
peared in this district, it may confidently be expected,
that the desire of strangers to visit this neighbour-
hood, which was formerly so strikingly exemplified,
will, during the ensuing season, be generally indulged.
Plymouth offers a thousand inducements to summer
visitants—the natural beauties of its vicinity—the en-
chanting scenery of Mount Edgcumbe and Saltram,
and the' colossal works of art exhibited in
the national floating bulwarks, and which rest
on the bosom of the waters in its port, are attractions
which, however appreciated from description, require
to be seen to afford all the delight which they are ca-
pable of bestowing.
The depots of the 10th and 66th Regiments marched
from Plymouth en route towards Exeter on Tuesday
last. It was considered at Plymouth to have been
,
caused from the application of tne magistracy, as a
measure of precaution against the effect of any ebulli-
tion of feeling consequent on the sentence which may
be awarded to the trades'• unionists at the Exeter ses-
sions. Our corresßoydentstates that there is no ground

ar
where;-utith buf fevecOrptionCtlte erorts of the de-
legates have entirely failed.
The, Surrey, hired ship, Charles Kemp Master, is
lying in the Sound, waiting her despatches, which are
to arrive to night, when she will proceed with 206 con-
victs to her destination. Amongst them are the six
unionists convicted at the Dorchester assizes. She
has on board two subalterns, a surgeon, and fifty rank
and file.

P. ra. —The despatches per Surrey are arrived,
and she will proceed early in the morning—the wind
at present is quite fair, and there is no doubt she will
be off. There has been a rumour afloat that the Surrey
was detained to wait the result of the trials at Exeter,
in order, that if the event were a sentence of transpor-
tation, he men would be immediately transferred to
her. Her departure, however, will prove the fallacy
of such a report.
FORGEWV.—Francis Garland, cabinet-maker, was
fully committed by the Magistrates of Devonport on
Wednesday last, to take his trial at the Exeter Assizes
for forging two bills of exchange, one for 15/. 10s.,
and the other for 241. is., both discounted at the Joint
Stock Bank. These bills were filled up in the hand-
writing of Garland's apprentice, Stephen Jose. The
names attached are fictitious, and clearly proved to
have been perpetrated by Garland. There is a charge
against the same individual in another Court, for al-
tering a 51. bill to 151. The inquiry which led to the
committal created a great sensation at Devonport.
Garland was apprehended in Wales, by Halse, an ac-
tive officer of the Devonport police.

IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL MEET-
ING AT STRATFORD-UPON-AVON.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9.
At a very numerous and highly respectable meeting,
held this day at the Town Hall, to adopt measures to
remove the embarrassments that oppress the agricul-
tural and trading interests, Sir Gray Skipwith, Bart.,
M.P., in the chair, the following resolutions were
agreed to :-
Ist. That whilst the manufacturing interest and in-
habitants of large towns have received an accession of
strength and influence in the councils of this nation,
and are urging their claims to a remission of taxation,
and uniting themselves in formidable array and increas-
ing numbers against the present protection the corn
bill affords to the British farmer, infringed, as we be-
lieve it to be, by the introduction of large- tinintities of
"American corn and flohiihrough Canada, is Colonial
produce, and at a nominal duty, and the advantage they
would have over the agriculturists, were the corn laws
repealed, by the exclusion of many articles of foreign
manufacture, in consequence of heavy duties, which
amount in many instances to a prohibition, and it
having been admitted, by the recent Report of the
Committee appointed for the Investigation of the
State of Agriculture, " that the amount of capital
employed therein has generally diminished, and conse-
kquinegndm ;
tleyeu"ltivation has deteriorated throughout the
and believing, as we do, that it will be
impossible to uphold much longer that system of cul-
tivation from which a
frugallone the proprietor can look for
rent, the farmer for a
ifto
is his
necessary daily bread,to
the and the
e competency, the labourer
the tradesman for his support,
seewi
agriculturists and for
the protection of tradesmen,' e
thati
embarrassments and
theyshoulda te theunit e a n d
form themselves into societies, submitaned
con-
sideration of Parliament the m
grievances under which they labour,
relief fromthe burdens which oppress. and
pray for
2. That the maintenance of the poor, the repair of
the highways and the county rate, are great burdens.
That though we do not object to contributing to the
relief of the poor, we conceive some mode should be
of the manu,
that the
adoptedfaetur er
twoh i cahn
emightqnal degreesubject t
ohfe gainstaxation,
farmers should have some relief from the laws relating
to the repair of roads, and that the county rate
ought to be more equally borne.
3. That the malt tax, though not exclusively borne
by the cultivators of the soil, presses upon us with
peculiar severity ; that its operation diminishes the ge-
neral consumption of barley, the cultivation of which is
considered essential to good husbandry ; that the quan-
tity ofbeer consumed hyfarm ors and their labowera neces7
sary for their support, in undergoing the labour of the
town, is very great, and one of the heaviest charges
on the cultivation of land; and that the total repeal
of the malt tax, by inducing the lower classes to brew

at home, would contribute to the health, comfort, and
morality, of the population of the country, whilst it
would materially relieve the agricultural interest.
4. That it is the opinion of this meeting that, un-
less the burdens on the people are reduced, in pro-
portion to the contraction of the circulating medium,
which has of late years been effected, the agricultural
class must inevitably be ruined.
5. That a petition, praying for the repeal of the
malt tax, and relief from the other grievances stated
in the foregoing resolutions, be presented to each house
of Parliament. _

These resolutions and a petition to both Houses of
Parliament shaving been signed, thanks were voted to
Sir Gray •Skipwith for presiding, and also a request
that he would present the petition to the House of
Commons. _. . • •

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SiT.,GRAY SKIPWITH, in acknowledging the honour
conferred upon him, said he should have great pleasure
in consenting to their wish, but after having so re-
cently voted against the repeal of the malt tax, his
conduct might be thought inconsistent. He had acted
from conscientious motives, because it was next to im-
possible for iris Majesty's Ministers to do it without
violating faith with the public creditors, and that he
never would consent to:.- The Government were doing
all in their power to alliate the public burdens, but
it was not to be expected' every thing could be done at
once. If time was given them he-felt confident such
measures would be adopted as would satisfy the public.
Sir Gray sat down amid great cheering, and the meet-
ing soon after. separated.