Star.
London, England, 1830-01-23 00:00:00

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Imperial General Weekly Average.
Wheat mu. 34.1 Oats 21.. Bd. 1 Beans ils. 94.
Barley 295. 6.!. 1 Bye 31a. 11,1 1 l'eas 115 s. 11d.
Aggregate Average of the Slz Weeks which genres Duty.
Wheat des. 54. I Oats 21s. 64. Beans 325. 104
Barley 295. 74.1 Rye 31.. 94.1 Peas 345. IN.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Prim of Baown or bloacovano Suoaa, competed
from the Returns made in the Week ending the 19th day of Jao.
1830,4 114 s. 711 per cwt. exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid
or payable thereon on the importation theteof into Great Britain.

CAMBRIDGE COUNTY MEETING.

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, Cam-
bridge:—
" Red Lien-Inn, Cambridge, Jan. I, 1030.
'6 We, the undersigned owners and occupiers of estates in she
County of Cambridge and Tale of Ely,request you will call an early
meeting of the county and isle, for the purpose of considering the
expediency of petitioning Parlament for the Abolition of the Malt
and Beer Tax, and for considering the present system of Licensing
Public-houses.
F. Godolphin Osborne J. Hemmington
G. R. Graham it. Ranson
Foster Pigott Alexander Cotton
Henry John Adeane Williams Pearce
William Frere Henry Collier
J. P. Allis William Headley
Christopher Pemberton Henry King
George Jenyns James King
Charles Townley Eben. Foster
Francis Pyns. jun. Richard Angler
Edward Fisher George Bulks
W. normal J. S. C
George Stark's.* Wallis ThomaasnErtg
Peter Grain John Wells
Thomas Cancun Salisbury Dunn
Thomas Banyard 0. H. Harris
Willi..m Mortlock W. Nash Woodham
Peter Kent Swan Murrell
Sanders Holben William Taylor
Wilson Holben Jobs Clear
J. !Alley Charles Diblin
It. Headley Jos. Dann
Thomas Nash William Harrell
Edward Wht William Nash
P. Nash Edward Mason
W. Film James Warned
H. 'King, jun. John Cock
J. Filo. Thomas Newman
W. King
a. To Ike High Sherif of the County of Cambridge."
No sooner were the doors thrown open to the public than the:
hall was etowded to an overflow. Excelknt accommodation was
offended to the Repo of the Public Pr,sl.—Sienoe having
heels obtained the ITasp Sewn, took the Chair at twelve o'clock.
Wicsaam Orrott. Ktq. the son of the High Sheriff, read the
Requisition by which the Meeting was called. He said that doting
the time kin lather biled the Alec of High &miff. he should always
feel It his duty to obey the wishes of a Requisition •so respectably
signed (cheers) lie trusted that the Meeting would patiently hear
every gentleman who thought Seto address them.
11ev. G. 1.. Jamul% ot Buttisham-tall. read the following Letter
from Lord Hardwick, :
" Wimpole, Jan. 20, NM.
•• Dean Eta—As the Meeting which is to be held on Friday is
of petitioning thc
Malt and Bret,

Mr. Wes.r.s continued—He did not with to depart from tk
order of the day; bet be thought it necessary to revert to the pe:
sons the poor people had to go for relief. The first Magian' .te u,.
hi.. list was the Rev. J. H. Sparke, the eldest son of the Bishop
the Diocese (bear!)
The Sewe► again called to order.
Mr. Wg&.t.s would out further reve-t to that subject, but woulk:
look to where the Petition was to go to. The House of Common•
consisted of tvieuty-nine Generals, forry.pine Colonels, eight kJ:
jots, five Captains, f..ur Lieutenants, seven Admirals, fifteen Cal.
tams (navy,) eighty Placemen, a majority of whom were returi.,.:
by we hundred and fifty persons. Hs would only further det.ii:
the Merlins to read the Petition be held in his hand, which hro
should like to be moved, but would not do so himself :

" To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdm
of Greg' Britain and Ireland in Parßement assemblegt :
" The Petition of the Men of Cambridgeshire sad the Isle o
Ely, assembled this 49d day of January, 11130, in 'fun
County Meeting., under the sanction of the High &satin,
dot. twined to separar no more (except by adjoiunmeri:
from lime to time and pia is place) until a redeem .:1
grievances Is obtained for tbsempelves and their fellow• •
countrymen,

" Some iten—Tbat your Petitioners apptoseh your lionnurahle
House with ezuente reluctance, writ remembering the indifferent..
and neglect (to use the mildest terms) with which tilt Petitions c.
the people have been invariably treated.
"'that your Peritioner6 would leave abstained front •approseliii•
your Honourable House. but.from the knowledge that the ova.
whelming distraint, that stow rage throughout the kingdom
already, or soon will be felt, by all those Members who do rot it v •
upon the taxation of the country.
• That the distresses of the kingdom and the gricepers of
people are too apparent to require any rocrastinatioo, any ingot:.
*soy Committee on the part of your RM. House—the cams, at.
`,anon and upon your table; namely, overwhelming razatio .
enormous and unconstitutional standing army, bands of useles•
and unmerited pbcenien and pensioners. profligate eapenditum e 1
the public money. au diarogekted Besiblidid Climb, and Yr.
arbitrary change in the mine of meow? uourgenieg Too Pelithory '
to pay two bushels of wheat instead of one, and thus in rib-cc
doubling the taxation of the oemetry.
" That: the redress of these grievances and the mitigation of Ibis
dimes are equally apparent. and within the Immediate power
.your Honourably limier, by forthwith degreasing that overwkartin
log taxation, reducing the enormous and isocoestitutional stsashsta
army, 'abolishing all useless and unmerited pensions and places,
paining the enormosscrewerces of the Ratablished ('birch, sod
as your Honourable Honer have determined upon es:4oliaisidgAttas
currency of 1791, by reducing the public espondkure to the mow. t
paid at that period, namely, sixteen millions loStrad art sixty ri!
lions per acnum.
That your Petitioners beg to remind your Honoorable Howe
Pat yoUr duty, 'spew assembling in Palliasses., is to redrew the
grievances of the people previews to valor' the money wt of
pockets.
" Your Petitioners therefore pray that you will vote No
mats., no Supplies, or any Mutiny MU, until some steps aro Wise
to redress the grievances of the people. and better their forlurti
etedidon ; especially that you will forthwith repeal all the tan,
upon Malt and Herr, thereby in-tautly, in some degree, relieving
the distresses of the lahoorsiss and cultivators of that soil whirl
Pee them Meths and tmeht ti give thews bread." '
Our space nail DM admit of our lllVirs 11.1411 n d. tails,
merely to mentins that a wenn disesteem folleivred. %%kith de
.euluded the Interpokition of the Sheriff' I vied- times. lit length
the High Sherif put the original Pollan is an an ended turns.
whirls was carriedhy 6 large majority. It witi afterw..rdereiolved,
"That the Petitioe lee promoted to both Hoene, et Paelianseut
that Amr 14:writ,m-or the Comity btkrespiested.to vre•ent smisesip
Intended - Lords, .pd tie Mrcibeis for th,

.• Bess Sin—As the Meeting which is to be bete sot rnuay it that toe tas:Wenint-or tar %,-,osslty tiskrespiestecto vss•ros 2114 imp
Liii=fpr the yurpo-e of petitioning the House at Commensal p,,rt the ono Intended to the Lords. mild tliatrite Slecl It
tt of the Tee on Malt sad Beer, I think h eight to State County he requested to present ',MI *appose the mho, tatmern '? ,
In yen she C.sufir of my absence, in order to prevent my minus- fur the times of Comtnesis• sad so pees upon the House she iy% : 1
eeptithi an the subject. . prime. saccade! tut taking the saute sod the whet P, opals Sr- • . . , •
io Me object of the Meeting is to represent to the .1111ase of Wing to tile dimmed slue of the country Ono imaseelisee seer
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Dittman the opinimi of this county Mt the subject of these par- Menthe." . • a,); .. .
SWAM Than, said' site desire to-14 cokedfistslhe pressure, it The thinks of the Meeting were *en voted se the lips•
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Who Mtmsigmbt be detriard to itaalotsin the public revenge and the Cm poestlaa of Ceenbriddo fir the fresh •
smutfir, Thi übirq.l 14.410efeirdy fair one fise'diantssiom the Meeting by she gm of Ms Toirn-bsiii.hl
the 'tope subject of !pet lose m the Hanle cynsmatst element mama. 'Ater a Mir of flambe Ps t
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