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London, England, 1829-12-16 00:00:00

MALT AND BEER DUTIES.

(Concluded from our Paper of yesterday.)
The CHAIRMAN would now inform the meeting
of what had taken place by the instrumentality of
the Committee acting in their individual capacities
in their respective districts. In Lincolnshire an en-
deavour had been made to have a county meeting,
and he was surprised that the Sheriff had refused to
call one. He was at all times willing to give others
credit for that which he claimed himself, namely,
purity of intention, and therefore he believed that
the Sheriff, in refusing to call the meeting, did what
he conceived to be right. However, had the humble
individual who now addressed them been the Sheriff,
he would not only have called a county meeting,
but, if necessary, have presided at it. It was satis-
factory to know, that the conduct of the Sheriff of
Lincolnshire would not prevent a meeting from being
held in that county. Already the requisite number
of county Magistrates had determined to call a
meeting, which he had no doubt would be better
attended than if it had been convened in the
usual way. Some meetings had already taken
place on the subject. One was at Reading, another
at Maidstone, and another at Bury St. Edmund's,
and others in the county to which he belonged.
Various other meetings were in preparation. He
now came to the third head, namely, what the Com-
mittee recommended the public to (10. The Com-
mittee advised the public to get up county meet-
ings, and parish meetings, regularly convened in
vestry. The Committee, however, (lid nut intend
to force the measures which they recommended
upon the country. If the public did not take up
a matter so deeply interesting to it, the Com-
mittee did not intend to stand forth and be con-
tinually agitating the question. The Committee
would most cheerfully give their services to the
cause, but to be effectual, their efforts must be se-
conded by the public. They were extremely de-
sirous of receiving from the meeting, or from any
individual forming part of it, hints or suggestions.
The Committee would, however, exercise their dis-
cretion as to whether they would adopt them. It
must be quite obvious that an undertaking, of this
kind could not be carried on without finances. No-
thing would be expended in the attainment of the
object which the Committee had in view except
what was absolutely necessary. The chief expense
was the insertion of advertisements in the public
Journals. The Hon. Gentleman then complimented
the Journals generally, and the Farmer's Journal in
particular, for the aid which they had lent to the
endeavour to procure the repeal of the malt and
beer duties. The disbursements of the Committee
had been 27/., and their receipts 32/. Amongst the
greatest subscribers were the Duke of Bedford and
Mr. Curteis, who had given 10/. each.—(Hear.)—
The subscriptions of these individuals were va-
luable,not so much for their amount as because they
indicated that the opinion of the donors was in
unison with that of the Committee, and that their
support might be relied on in Parliament in favour
of a proposition for the repeal of the malt and beer
duties.—(llear, hear.)—The Hon. Gentleman con-
cluded by observing, that if he had omitted any
thing in his address which ought to have been stated,
some of his brother Committee-men would supply
it._(Applause.)
Lord TEYSIIAM, as a Peer of Parliament, had
always advocated the cause of the agricultural
classes, and especially of the labouring poor. lie
had made himself personally master of the sub-
ject. He had traversed whole parishes arid districts,
and entered the cottages of the labourer arid artisan
in every direction. The present condition of the
labouring classes, and particularly of the agricultural
labourers, was such as loudly called for interference.
Every person was bound to come forward who was
capable of lending a helping hand, or giving the
smallest aid towards restoring those unfortunate per-
sons to the station which they enjoyed in tire time
of their ancestors, when the peasantry were the
pride and glory of the country. (Applause.) Their
spirit was now humbled to the dust, by measures
which gave them cause to hate their landlords and
all above them in rank. (Hear.) The labouring
classes in this country were now reduced to so
dreadful a state of misery, that he was convinced it
was only owing to the want of means of combina-
nation, that we were spared the horrors of a servile
war, He felt gratitude to the chairman for coming
forward on the present occasion. He was conscious
that nothing but the sincere feelings of his heart, and
the noble motives which actuated him, had induced
him to stand forth inn a cause which, as he stated, he
found to be an up-hill one as regarded the higher
ranks. He was sorry to find many persons were ab-
sent who should have made their appearance on this
occasion. There should have been at least five Peers
of the realm present. The Duke of Bedford, how-
ever, had promised his support, and no doubt there
were marry Members of the House of Lords who
would give the subject all the consideration which
its importance merited. The question was, what,
in the present circumstances of the country, was
tire best mode of affording relief to the labouring
classes, and bringing back those happy times when
the labourer, after the toils of the day, sat at home
with his wife, and drank his glass of home-brewed
beer. Contract that state of things with the pre-
sent. Let those tvho heard him visit the gin-shop,
and they would turn from the picture, as he haal
done, with horror and disgust. The labourer must
have something to refresh him after the toils of the
day, and if he found that at home, his honest heart
would lead him there in preference to the public-
house,—(Applatrse.)—The object of the committee
tea* the repeal of the malt and beer duties. The
duty on these necessaries of life was originally pro-
yosed as a security for the sum which was the be-
ginning of our national debt. These duties had
now been carried to an extent unparalleled in at.
country. He might here be allowed to quote the
woids of 311 illustrious historian), Gibbon, who said,
that " tire taxation of England was more cruel and
oppressive on mart than all the crimes of all the
Ceo4ars." It was the duty of every honest man to
endeavour to lighten the load of taxation which
pressed upon the poorer classes. He had been in
frequent communication with the Noble Duke now
at the head of the Government, and always found in
him a most anxious desire to mend the condi-
tion of the people. The Noble Duke con-
stantly said," Show me how I can afford relief to
the country, without injury to public credit, and to
those establishments which I rim bound to maintain,
and I will do it directly."—(Hear.) He believed
that that noble individual's great mind would deve-
lop some plan for the relief of the country. Ile
looked for something at the opening of Parliament.
But it was necessary that the subject should be
pressed on the attention of the Legislature from
out of doors. Every person acquainted with the
country was aware that at the present moment there
was a less consumption of malt by probably two-
thirds, than there was in 1773. This was a striking
proof of the distress of the labouring classes. It
vas truly shocking to reflect upon the small amount
of wages now generally paid to the industrious
classes. Weaving, the average wages of which used
to be its. or lie. per week, now obtained only 2s.
or Is. Gd. This unfortunate state of things was ag-
gravated by the general adoption of the worst
species of relief,—namely, the application of the
poor-rates in aid of wages.—(Hear, hear.) 'rile
whole operation of the poor-laws was an encourage,
ment to vice, particularly as regarded the fair sex.
He had made inquiries in twenty-aix parishes in
Kent, and found that not one marriage in fifteen
took place among the labouring classes where the
woman was not ready to drop to pieces before the
eaeer.nony was performed. Unless the labourer were
put In the way of maintaining himself without parish
relief, it war impos-ible that he could be provident.
He looked upon the poors' rate as his property, and
his only object was to get as large a slice as possible.
The proceedings of the parish officers with respect to
the management of paupers were perfectly disgrace-
ful. In one parish he knew the paupers were all
huddled together into a pound, and kept there all
day In another parish they were placed in a pound

and people set round to prevent them from gettinz
out. On the coast, smugglers found no great diffi-
culty in hiring 500 men at threepence per day than
in purchasing a leg of mutton. It was apparent,
that unless this state of things were mended, a
convulsion must soon take place. He was pleased
to see so many respectable persons assembled at the
present meeting. Nothing but the expression of the
public voice would compel the Government to look
the evil boldly in the face, and apply a remedy.
The Noble Lord concluded, amidst much applause,
with moving that the Report of the Committee .be
adopted by the meeting.
Mr. MARTIN CRIPPS deplored the increased con-
sumption of ardent spirits amongst the people. lin-
fortuustely, he said, the Minister's of the country
had always been anxious to encourage the drinking
of ardent spirits rather than malt liquor. When the
visiting Magistrates of Surrey went round to visit
the gin-shops in the Borough, Mr. Vansittart, then
Chancellor of the Exchequer, said, " Take care how
you decrease the drinking of spirits, which brings
such a revenue to the country."—(A cry of
" Shame !") The drinking of beer strengthened
the labourer ; the use of ardent spirits rendered him
weak and emaciated. The crimes committed by
dram-drinkers were always of a blacker die than
those perpetrated by other individuals not addicted
to the use of spirits. On visiting lunatic asylum s
for the poor, in the execution of his duty, he found
that a large portion of the inmates had been driven
to madness by die excessive drinking of spirits.—
The Hon. Gentleman concluded his observations by
an attack on the free-trade system, and tire return to
cash payments.
. A gentleman in the centre of the room, whose
name we could not learn, contended that the licens-
ing system was the evil of which the poor had the
greatest cause to complain. If the malt and beer
duty were repealed, porter could not be sold retail
for less than 3d. per pot—a price beyond the reach
of the poor man; but if the licensing system were
abolished, and competition allowed, the price would
be reduced to 2d. per pot.
Mr. CULLEN condemned the absence of the repre-
sentatives of the people on an occasion so interesting
to the public—
" Silence in this case the name of weakness hears,
" And is partaker of the crimes it spares."
Alluding to the conduct of the Sheriff of Lincoln-
shire, he described it as childish.—(Hear.)—People
might scold him in Lincolnshire, but in London he
was only laughed at. Many gentlemen had declared
their confidence in the Duke of Wellington, and he
also had confidence in him. The Duke, when he
was out of power, perhaps from factious motives, or
probably from imperfect views, expressed sonic opi-
nions which he (Mr. Cullen) thought neither liberal
nor wise. Since he had been in power, however, he
had, as far as opinions could be judged of by taking
acts as their index, grown wiser and more liberal.—
All Ministers in this country during his (Mr. Cul-
len's) lifetime, had professed better principles out
of power than in power; but the Duke of
Wellington had done better in power than out
of it.—(Hear.)—Though he gave the Duke no credit
for a passionate love of liberty, he did give him cre-
dit for exemption from prejudice, sound judgment, and
sagacity which enabled him to read the signs of the
times, and the real courage of yielding wisely to the
wishes of the people—unlike his petty predecessors,
who always opposed the will( f the people, and had
not the wisdom to know when it was greater wis-
dom to yield than to resist.—(Hear.)—The Hon.
Gentleman then made some strictures upon the
vexatious nature of the proceedings in Exchequer
against maltsters, and said, that the laws were so
framed as to render it almost impossible for the most
honest man to avoid infringing them. He con-
demned the licensing system, and considered the
House of Commons highly culpable in not having
abolished it in conformity with the tenour of their
report in ISIS, and concluding with moving the
following resolution :—" That in the opinion of this
meeting the relief offered to the people by taking
off the duties on malt and beer will be very trifling,
unless the present system of arbitrary licensing be
put an ad to."
111 r. FIFE, a Member of the Committee, objected
to the mixing up the question of the licensing sys-
tem with the repeal of the duties. He was con-
vinced that if the meeting entertained the Hon.
Gentleman's proposition, it would raise up a host of
enemies.—(Hear, hear.)
The CUAIRMAN wished the resolution to be with-
drawn, but
Mr. CULLEN would not consent to it. After a
long wrangle,
The CHAIRMAN put it to the meeting whether
the question of the licensing system formed a legiti-
mate part of the day's discussion. For the affirma-
tive of this proposition only five hands were held
up, and a host against it.
Mr. CULLEN then withdrew his resolution.
Colonel SurrllonPE next addressed the meeting.
He declared his expectation of being soon present
at a meeting in Lincolnshire, called to petition Par-
liament for the repeal of the duty on malt and beer.
He would apply no harsh epithet to the Sheriff for
having refused to call a meeting of that county.
It was a gocd maxim de absentibus (as well as ?nor-
tui.s)nil nisi bonnet. He would express his opinions
at the approaching meeting freely and impartially,
and, as far as his humble abilities permitted, he
would perform his duty to his fellow creatures.—
(Hear.)
The report was unanimously approved of.
On the motion of Mr. QUILTER, it was resolved
that the Committee should in future use all their
exertions to procure the total repeal of the malt
and beer duties, and not as was originally proposed,
their " material reduction.
Thanks were voted to Lord Teynham and the
Chairman, after which the meeting separated.

«'e•ohseive by the Monthly List of Insoa
vents published by " The Metropolitan Society for the
Opposition and Prosecution of Fraudulent Insolvent Deb-
tors," that no less than 488 persons have petitioned the
Court for relief under the Insolvent Act between the 4th
day of November and the sth day of December, both in-
clusive.
As ISAAC GLENNY, Esq. of Glenvale, was
lately exploring an ancient Irish cairn, in the neighbour-
hood of Newry, he made a fortunate discovery of twenty
pieces of silver coin, in an excellent state of preservation.
Among them were one of the reign of an ALEXANDER, of
Scotland ; and others of HEszitY 11., and one o the
I.:ow:inns of England, coined in Waterford.
LILLE, DEC.9.—A scandalous affair, highly
interesting as regards public Morals, was yesterday brought
La, re the Correctional Tribunal. A woman, who had
been authorised by the Police to keep a house of de-
bauchery, was charged with an outrage against public mo-
rals, in having favoured and facilitated the corruption of a
number of young girls under the age of 21, and much
astonishment and disgust were excited at seeing several of
the victims brought forward of the age of from 15 to 17.
'lice defendant attempted to exculpate herself by asserting
it the police had granted licenses to these young girls to
devote themselves to prostitution ; and the Court, not cre-
diting this statement, sent for the Chief Officer of Police.
On his arrival he stoutly denied having granted such infa-
mous licenses ; but the documents were instantly put into
Court, in the presence of the Commissary, who endea-
voured to excuse himself by saying that there bad been
some mistake as to the ages of the girls. The President,
however, ordered them to approach, and after remarking
upon their small stature and juvenile appearance, he ob-
served to the Commissary that it would have been impos-
sible to fall into the error which was alleged as an excuse.
The Chief Police Officer retired in much confusion, and
the def.endant was condemned to be imprisoned for a year
and a day, and to pay a fine of 200 f. It is said that a
great many strange and most scandalous abuses exist with
respect to the police regulations upon women of the town
and improper hou•es ; and it is said that in some instances
the police have forced young girls to inscribe their names
in the book kept for the purpose, merely for the sake of
obtaining the fee paid on such occasions. It is known
that iu the provinces prostitutes are not allowed even to
pursue their infamous vocation without this formality, and
without submitting to a visit from a surgeon twice a
month, though in Paris the Prefect of Police lately abo-
lished the regulation. A great revenue is derived from
impure source.---French Paper.

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Bolanos Mining Co. .£'oo
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O Flanders 0 0 Mexico
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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 1829.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.
'From the Quotidienne of Monday, Dec. 14.)

BUCHAREST, NOV. 16.

The fortress of Ghiurgevo has at length been
given over to the Russians, who entered in the
greatest order, with drums beating, on the 27th.
The Turkish garrison are to pass the Danube
•
for Rudschuk.

The plague does not cause any more alarm.
The army before Shumla, as well as the second
corps commanded by General PAHL EN, have
received orders to march for Russia.
In the afternoon Prince POLIGNAC had an
audience of the KING.

FRENCH FuNns.—Five per Cents, 10Sf. SOc. 10Sf,
60c. 109 f. 40c. 10Sf. 85c. ; Three per Cents, 84 f. 40c,

Mr. MARcuEsA, an Italian Messenger, ar-
rived at the Colonial Office this morning with
despatches from Sir FREDERICK ADAM,
Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Isles.
Mr. M A RCIIESA was also the bearer of des-
patches from Mr. DAWKINS, the British Mini-
ster at Greece.

The Nureniburg Correspondent of the Bth
December contains the following account of
the illness of the Emperor of Russ' A, which
it appears was occasioned by accident :

BERLIN, DEC. 2.
The intelligence of the illness of his Majesty the
Emperor of Russia caused great alarm here at first,
but according to the later accounts we may now
make ourselves easy. At the first moment nume-
rous reports, founded on suspicious conjectures,
were in circulation, all of which have now disap-
peared. We hear that his Majesty's illness was
caused by the following accident : Pie Emperor
and his august consort sleep in the same wing of the
palace. Between the bed-rooms on each side, in
which the Princes and Princesses also sleep next to
their Majesties, •is a large apartment or gallery,
the floor of which is highly polished. Dur-
ing the night one of their Majesties' children,
rising up in bed, threw down a vase which
stood on a bracket. The great noise caused
by the fall roused his Majesty from his sleep;
he leaped out of bed in much alarm and hastened to
the room from which the noise proceeded, but
slipped in the gallery and fell. The fright, the fall
on his forehead, and the cold which he caught, pro-
duced his Majesty's indisposition. He derived great
benefit from being bled immediately, and the fears
of an inflammation of the brain, which might have
been the consequence of the fall, are said to be now
dispelled. Only a few hours the august patient was
delirious, and showed some symptoms of alarm of
mind. It need not be stated that this unpleasant
event excites general sorrow here : we however con-
sole ourselves with the hope that his Majesty's
vigorous constitution will overcome the effects of
the accident, and we trust in the ability of his
physicians. The life of the Emperor is of the
highest importance to all Europe, and it cannot be
denied that an event, which we trust is very distant,
would lead to fresh embarrassments in the policy of
Europe; and there is therefore but one unanimous
wish for the speedy recovery of the universally
revered Monarch. The extraordinary interest that
is felt for him here, more than any other place, is
partly founded on the love and respect of the
Prussians for the daughter of their King, the E m
press of Russia.*

BELGRADE, NOV. 27,

Accounts from Constantinople of the 10th say
that the greatest tranquillity prevails there, and
that commerce daily becomes more and more active;
many ships of all nations are contineally arriving.
It is said that some Greek merchantmen, which had
hoisted their colours, were at first refused admission
to the Dardanelles, and that this led to same dis-
putes, which were arranged by the intervention of
the English Consul, and it was agreed that the
Greek J►ips should be allowed to enter the Darda-
nelles on condition of their not hoisting the Greek
flag. We understand that the complete evacuation of
Adrianople by the Russians was to take place on
the 23d instant. Mustapha Pacha, of Scutari, is
still with the main body of his army at Philipp°.
polis, where he has bespoken quarters for 17,000
men.
" This article being dated the 2(1, the convalescence of
his Majesty was not yet known at Berlin.

The construction of a regular code of English
law is a subject on which much difference of
opinion exists, in respect both of its expediency
and its practicability. Some tl4ok that the
highly complicated system, now in effect, is well
suited to settling the disputes to which a civi-
lized and wealthy state of society gives rise—
that simplicity of law would in such circum-
stances be an absolute evil—and that more litiga-
tion would oc,:ur under a code, like the Code
Napoleon, than under a mass of statutes and
adjudged cases in which our jurisprudence at

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present lies. It is moreover urged, that there
would be the greatest difficulties in the formation
of such a code--that, to consolidate so bulky
and unwieldy a mass, would be a more than Her-
culean labour—and that men could hardly be
found, possessing at the same time the philoso-
phical minds, and the profound legal knowledge,
adequate to the fulfilment of so arduous a task.
In « Sir Walter Scott's Life of Napoleon,"
where we should scarcely have expected to find
such a discussion, a very ingenious argument is
raised for the superiority of a collection of cases
or precedents over a code ; the former being
compared to a breakwater, by which the common
law is maintained in its place and protected

against encroachments.
This common law was originally nothing bu
the expression of the vague feelings of the corn
munity, concerning what was just in each matter
of dispute that arose; and the Judges, as the
representatives of the KING, were the organs of
that expression. They were the interpreters of
the customs of the realm, and the records of
their decisions were the best guides to the know-
ledge of those customs; just as the Court of
Rolls of a manor is the evidence of the former
proceedings of the Lord and the Leet. Hence
the law has been gradually formed by the accu-
mulated decisions of the Judges upon particular
cases, the principles of which decisions remain
to be inferred from the reasons assigned in deli-
vering the respective judgments, and to be ap-
plied to the instances that arise in the best
manner that the skill of the lawyers can suggest.
The question is, then, whether it is better
that the principles of the law should be laid
down by the Legislature in plain terms, under
the name of a code, or that they should be left
to be ascertained by the experimental observa-
tion of each successive generation of lawyers ?
In the former case the method would be to de-
scend from principles to particular circumstances ;
in the latter it is necessary first to hunt out the
principle, and then to endeavour to apply it.
The rights of persons to liberty and property
are at present badly defined ; the necessary con-
sequence of which is the difficulty of knowing
when they are violated, and when not. Some
offences are not defined at all, such as Libel,
which can be explained no otherwise than by
saying it is " that which a Jury shall find to be
so." Other branches, such as the Law of Car-
riers, are so uncertain that it is extremely diffi-
cult to know what are the duties of those per-
sons to their employers—when they do right—
and when wrong. Not long ago the Court of
King's Bench was equally divided upon the
question, whether a person hiring a glass-coach
was liable for the mischief done by the driver
whilst the hirer was in the coach ; and the law on
the point is at this day unknown, and would de-
pend on the Judge before whom it might be
raised. Instances without number might be
cited in proof of what is in every one's mouth—
" the glorious uncertainty of the law"—a phrase
which implies a general ignorance among the
people of what is a man's own property, and
what is his neighbour's—a confusion between
meum and tuum—between what lawfully may,
and what may not, be done.
That the law should have become a standing
topic of conversation—that great public attention
should be drawn to the decisions from time to
time pronounced in our Courts, on account of
their important effects upon the interests of us
all,—are facts which prove the process of law-
making, or rather law-changing, to be constantly
going on. Befo're November last, commer-
cial men believed the correct course to be
to protest in London bills refused under
the circumstances of that which was lately
recovered against the house of BARING ; to
their surprise the Judges held (we do not
say well or ill) that such a bill ought to
be protested at Liverpool. Is it not then ob-
vious that a code relating to bills of exchange,
in which such a case was provided for, would
have prevented the cause of MITCHELL v.
BARING from having ever been heard of, and
would have been a great public benefit ? A
comprehensive and well digested code would, so
far as we can see, be a prodigious improvement
upon our present Judge-made law. Mr. HUM-
PHREYS has already given an outline of one re-
specting real property ; is there not ability
enough in England to take the other branches
by Committees as,..it were ? and by a division of
labour, to reduce into form and symmetry the
mass of rugged materials, among which we are
now stumbling and falling, whilst we seek pro-
tection for our rights? If the Code Napoleon
be not worthy of imitation, there is at all events
the Roman Code for our model,—a code raised
with materials even more scattered and multi-

furious than we possess, yet forming a monu-
ment of human wisdom, whose grandeur will, to
all ages, command the veneration of mankind.

Despatches were sent off yesterday evening
from the Foreign Office for L.( rd STUART DE RoTnsay,
our Ambassador at Paris.
Mr. Secretary PEEL, accompanied by his
brother, Mr. WILLIAM PEEL, arrived in town yesterday
evening, from the residence of the Right lion. Secretary
at Stowe, in Norfolk.
It is confidently stated that Sir GEORGE
MURRAY will be removed to the Horse Guards, and that
Mr. IlusmsoN will resume his station in the Colonial-
(Am We have also heard, and that in a high quarter,
that onv of the first measures of the next Session of Par-
liament will be the abolition of the tithes in Ireland, and a
counnutation, in the nature of a stipend, will he paid to
the Clergy of the Irish Church and the lay impropnators
out of the Revenues of both countries, and the new taxes
imposed upon the former for that purpose.--Morning
Paper.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.--(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 15.—Wind N.N.E.—Off
the Wight, the Blossom, Norry, from Rio Janeiro.
FALMOUTH, DEC. 3.—Wind S.E.—Sailed the
Sandwich packet, for Lisbon.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 13.—Arrived the Montezuma,
West, from Philadelphia; and Andromeda, Wilkie,
from Quebec.
HULL, DEC. 14.—Arrived the Campton, Cham-
bers".; Suffolk, Jackson ; and Iphigenia, Bird, from
Quebec ; Mauchester,Willer, from Richebucto.
STOCKTON, DEC. 14.--Arrived the Crown,
James, from St. John's, N. B.; and Maria, Wil-
kinson, from Riga.
HOLYHEAD, DEC. 14.—Off Port, the Sandbach,
---, from Demerara.

The Amelia packet, from Liverpool to Buenos
Ayres, is lost off Monte Video.
The Brothers, Brathwaite, from Dublin, was
driven on shore at the entrance of Ravinglass ; crew
saved.