The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-04 00:00:00

COPY OF TILE LETTER OF THE SHERIFF ADDRESSED TO

S. R. COLLET, DATED WEELSBY HOUSE, NOV. 28, 1829.

" have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter, accompanying the Requisition for a County
Meeting, to consider the propriety of petitioning the Legis-
lature on the subject of the Malt and Beer Taxes.
" I am as fully alive as any of the gentlemen who have
signed the Requisitions:can be, to the severe pressure under
which all classes in the kingdom are now labouring, and
I have a decided opinion, that the weight of Taxation falls
with more than an average pressure on the Agricultural
Classes, and I strongly feel the necessity of some measure
for their relief: •At the same time I am convinced,
that the exigencies of the country must, during
this recess of Parliament, have irresistibly drawn
the attention of his Majesty's Government to the state
of the kingdom in all its classes, and I feel averse to
any measure which has a tendency to embarrass them by
claiming any particular description of relief until the coun-
try shall have been made acquainted with the result of the
deliberations of those who may be considered as having
the whole connected subject before them.
"For the above reasons, I must beg to decline naming
a day for a County Meeting as requested, and have the
honour to remain, Sir, yours, most obedient,

(Signed) " RICHARD THOROLD,
" Sheriff for the County of Lincoln."

SPORTING INTEI,LIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.

From the general desire manifested to back Brunswicker
for the Derby, and the eagerness with which the odds are'
offered against the Major, we are entitled to infer that
the former has turned out the best, and that the Majd
may not be expected in the south. It ie not yet known
when Mr. Petre's lot will be sent to Newmarket, but we
have heard that besides the Derby nag, it is intended to
send Laura for the Oaks ; and Ruwton for the Ascot and
Goodwood Cups. Lord Queensberry's Sister to Emma,
rises daily, and there is not much doubt that she will be-
come the favourite for the Oaks ; indeed she is now so
close with Mouche, that it would be difficult to say which
has the call. The following were the general prices at the
close of the room :

DERBY.
ri to 1 agst Sir Mark Wood's The Mummer
12 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's Brunswicker (13 to 1 taken)
12 to 1 agst Sir Mark Wood's Cetus
17 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Mahmoud
16 to 1 agst Mr. Chifney's Cressida colt
18 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's Sall colt
18 to 1 agst Mi. Thornhill's Wat .Tyler
20 to 1 agst Lord Cleveland's Mouse colt
22 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's Mouche
25 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's Captain Arthur
25 to 1 agst Mr.'Petre's The Major
25 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Red Rover
30 to 1 agst Lord Tavistock's Custari (taken)

OAKS.
7 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's Monehe
7 to 1 agst Lord Queensberry,6 Sister to EmFaa
9 to 1 ngst Mr. Stonebewer's Leeway filly

TIIE NEW FOREST.—Although this recent
production of Mr. IfoRAcE Satins has naturally attracted
extraordinary attention in the county of Hampshire, yet
its interest is of so general a nature, that it promises to
be more universally read than any of the former works of
this popular author. The tale is one of the present day ;
and so great a variety of scene, character, and incident,
has rarely been included in one• story. Purse-proud city
merchants, worldly and obsequious clergymen, modern
utilitarians, pretenders to science, iniquitous magistrates,
dandies, ladies of birth and fashion, scheming women of
the middle classes, Yankee improvers of our mother
tongue, country squires, &c. &c., will find themselves
more clearly mirrored bx our popular novelist than they
have yet been ; and should they not be benefited by a view
of the picture the rest of the world undoubtedly will be
much amused by it.
The main defect in the covered parts of Far-
ringdon•market appears to be a want of light, which
might, we should suppose, be obviated by the introduction
of more sky-lights into the red.

ADELPIII THEATRE.—The elephant and
Mr. KEAN have made their appearance pretty much about
the same time in public. Both have been vociferously ap-
plauded, but the elephant is incomparably the greater
actor of the two. Last night she made her first appear-
ance at the Adelphi, in a, thing called a melodramatic
spectacle, put together lb? the occasion, and went through
her part with surprising intelligence. A house crowded
to the slips received her with open arms, which at the
close of the piece she acknowledged by a graceful bow, and
a grunt more remarkable for gratitude than harmony.
What with the Siamese twins and the Siamese elephants,
the country of Siam stands fair chance just •now of be-
coming fashionable. Probably we shall have a history, or
a novel in three vols., on the subject out in a day or two.

TILE PRIZE RING.—The match for JO/. a
side, which was made some time since between York-
shire ROBINSON, who resides in this city, and Scotch
ROBINSON, who' lives in Glasgow, was decided yesterday
near West Craigs. The day being as favourable as could he
expected at this season, a great concourse of spectators
attended. The Yorkshire pugilist beat his opponent
in forty minutes, and escaped with very little punish-
ment,—Scotsman.