Star.
London, England, 1830-02-17 00:00:00

NORTHUMBERLAND MEETING.

On Monday last, the 15th, a county meeting was held
in the Moot Hall, in Morpeth, for the purpose of taking
into consideration the depressed condition of the country.
The High Sheriff, S. Ilderton, Esq. took the chair.
Among the company present were noticed the Hon. H.
T. Liddell, M.P. for the county ; Mr. Clennell, of Har-
bottle Castle ; Sir C. Monck ; Mr. Atkinson, Lorhottle ;
Mr. Smart; Mr. Clarke, Belford; Mr. Orde, Nunny-
kirk, &c. &c.

Mr. CoLLINGWOOD. of 'Album, begged leave to propose a pe-
tition, embracing the objects of the meeting. He deplored the
great and overwhelming distress which pervaded all parts of the
country—he deprecated the returning to a metallic currency, and
the abolition of the small notes ; and maintained that every branch
of business had severely suffered from such a legislative enactment.

Mr. ORDE, of Nunnykirk, seconded the petition in a long, hu-
inurous, and argumilttative speech. Re said the farmer, the trades-
man, the citizen, and the labourer, were all equally suffering dis-
tress ; and that this distress had immediately arisen from the small
note bill, which had added 30 per cent. to the taxes of the nation.
He maintained that the public money ought not to be squandered in
extravagantly paying public officers, and in building the mummeries
called, but very falsely, kingly palaces. Ile concluded with giving
his hearty concurrence to the petition.

81r. LIDDELL, 31. P. rose, and made a long and able speech, in
which he took a review of our monetary system since the bank re-
striction in 1797. He cndeavcured to show that all our embar-
rassments were attributable to the suggestions and opinions pro.
mulgated by the bullion committee in 1811, and subsequently by
the advice of the late Blr. Ricardo, as to the depreciation between
paper and gold. He was of opinion, that if the present currency
measure be curled into full eftict, • great many of the landlords
of the country would be utterly ruined by means of mortgages and
annuities made during high prices. /la thought that some modified
system of giving the country the bale& of a small-note circulation
might be devised. He concluded by pressing upon the attention of
the country the necessity of meeting to petition Parliament, and
making their grievances known.

Sir C. Alorma.—He thought that the present meeting had the
appearance of having been got up from party motives, as no men.
tion had been made of the subject of free trade. (No, no.) He
thought free trade the bane of the country. But he would give the
petition his cordial support.

After some desultory observations between Sir C. Monk, Mr.
Liddell, and the High Sheriff; the petition was put by the last named
gentleman and carried unanimously.

Thanks were then voted to the High Sheriff, and the meeting
broke up.

The meeting was very numerously and respectably attended.
The following is a copy of the petition :
To the Hon. the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled,

This petition of the nobility, gentry, clergy, and freeholders
of Northumberland, duly convened in county meeting,

SHEWETII,—That your petitioners humbly beg leave to repre-
sent to your honourable house the great dibtresa, privations, and
difficulties which affect the agricultural, commercial, manufacturing,
and shipping interest of the county of Northumberland, apparent in
the diminution of rent to the landlord, and the absence of profit to the
tenant, in the decreased comforts of the labouring classes in the
genetal stagnation of trade, in the want of remuneration in the
freights, and in the great depression of price upon every article of
production and industry.

That your petitioners eonxive that a pressure so universal can
only be created by a general and pervading cause.
_..

That your petitioners are unable to attribute the existence of these
evils to any manifest infliction of Providence, and still less to any de.
ficiency of exertion or deterioration of morals in the people, since the
nation is now entering upon the fifteenth year of uninterrupted peace,
and at no period of our history has a more duLiful obedience to the
laws and a more patient resignation to unavoidable evils been evinced
than at the present time.

That whatever cause or combination of causes may have involved
the country in difficulties, one thing appears evident to your peti.
tioners, to wit, the increasing inability of the people to sustain the
present weight of taxation under the present depression of prices;
and while in the words of his Majesty's moat gracious speech from
the throne, your petitioners acknowledge the necessity of acting with
extreme caution in reference to this important subject, they con 6.
dently rely on the wisdom and justice of your honourable house,
that a due inquiry shall be instituted both into the facts connected

with the existing dbetmsses of the country, and the most probable
and efficacious means of obtaining relief.

That your petitioners, wishing to ground their application to
you• honourable house upon facts, refrain from entering into other
questions of a more speculative nature, still less do they presume to
point out to your honourable house the remedies for the grievances
which weigh them down ; but they cannot conclude without praying
your hon. house to take into your early and serious consideration

the statements contained in this their prayer, and by a revisal of the
measures adopted since 1819, coupled with the strictest economy in
the public expenditure, and the repeal of those taxes which press
most grievously upon the poor, grant ouch relief as your hon. house
in your wisdom may think fit, and which the present distress of a
suffering community imperatively demands.

The Spanish Minister had a long interview with the
Duke of Wellington yesterday at the Treasury. His
Excellency afterwards transacted business at the Foreign
office.

The Dean of Peterborough had an interview with the
Duke of Wellington yesterday at the Treasury.
The French Ambassador sent off despatches yesterday
evening to his Government.
Despatches were received at the Colonial Office from
Demerara and several other of the West India Colonies.

Despatches were received at the Foreign Office yes-
terday from Lord Cowley our Ambassador at Vienna ;
from Lord Stuart de Roth say, at Paris ; from Sir Charles
Bagot, at Brussels ; and from the British Minister at
Buenos Ayres, dated Nov. 29.
We have received Singapore Papers to the 27th
August. The capture of 39 chiefs of the insurgents
by the Dutch troops is confirmed. The chief rebel,
Duo NEGOBI, escaped. He was closely pursued, and
threw himself from his horse into the brushwood—other
wise his escape was certain. The destruction in Chins
by high tides is extensive. At the latest dates the
streets of Canton were navigated by large boats.
The Russian and French Ambassadors, and the Earl
of Aberdeen, waited on Prince Leopold yesterday at
Marlborough-house, Pall-mall, and had an interview with'
his Royal Highness. After the conference with the
Prince, the Ambassadors and the Earl of Aberdeen
peoesisd to the Office of the secretary of State for Fo-
nts Affairs, where their Excellencies remained some
time with his Lordship.
The Athenaeum Club House is going to be lighted
with gas, notwithstanding one of its most distinguished
ratimaloses (Dr. Faris, in his book on " Diet") protests
rillithe introduction of it into the interior of houses.
phyisician says, " Carburetted hydrogen is a deadly
poises. Homo been consulted on several occasions for
*as is the head, nausea, and distressing languor, which
evedlotly had been produced by the person inhaling the
inhume r• is the boxes of our Thiatres.'
It L *swift reported, we know not bow truly, that
gille Wei extraordinary, though not unusual means
live hese resorted to, for supposing the expression of
ipublie feeling through its natural organs, relative to the
origin sad -terethiaties of a catastrophe.

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STOPPAGE OF THE SUPPLIES.

FROM A CORRESPONDENT OF TILE lIERALD.

Monday night the success of the Opposition, originat-
ing with the Marquis of Blandford on a former evening,
was most complete ; but the particulars ought to be men-
tioned, to show its completeness, as the Reporters, not
being in the gallery, were unable to report them. The
Speaker was never allowed to leave the Chair; nor was
even any formal and preliminary step permitted to be
adopted. The first motion was that of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, that the house do resolve itself into a committee
of Supply ; and it was requisite to adopt that motion even
before the question could be put that the Speaker do leave
the Chair ; but on the first motion the several amend-
ments were put, which occasioned the debate of the
evening The avowed object of the resistance was to
stop all supplies till there be a redress of grievances :
in reply, the Ministers said—" 'We have redress—eco-
nomy is promised—and reductions will be proposed—
only wait till the proper time arrives when they will be
detailed to the House ; namely, when the several Esti-
mates are to he moved." " No," said the Marquis
of Blandford ; and " No," echoed Mr. Hume--" state
now what redress you have in store—what are to
be the reductions ; sow, before we go into any Com-
mittee of Supply—before we allow Mr. Speaker to quit
the Chair." The Ministers were not prepared to ac-
quiesce in this course—they were for having their own
way—and so divisions took place, which were of course
in favour of the Ministers ; but those Ministerial ma-
jorities on the present occasion are useless ; for it is in
the power of any Member to displace them with
any other amendment, and content himself with merely
moving " that this House do now adjourn" —a
question, debate or no debate, that the Speaker must
put over and over again, as often as any Member
may chow eto propose it. The Chancellor of the
Exchequer, having got the two majorities against the
amendment, was for having the Speaker leave the Chair,
and go into the Committee pro forma—adding that
he had intended to go into the detail of the pro-
, posed reductions on the Army Estimates, a course
that would be convenient to him, and he trusted to the
House. " No," replied Mr. Hume, (and he was joined
in this resistance by the Marquis of Blandford, Colonel
Sibthorp, etc.) " now, or, at all events, before the House
go into any Committee of Supply, let us have the details
and see what ' retirees' you have in the shape of reduc-
tions ;" if this be denied, and you still persist, I shall con-
tinue to move that " this House do now adjourn." Here-
upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer no longer pressed
his motion, so that the Speaker was prevented from leav-
ing the Chair, or from accomplishing any pro forma step ;
and it was understood by Mr. Hume and others, that the
Chancellor of the Exchequer would on Wednesday (to-
day), or whenever he shall move that the House go
into a Supply, be prepared to detail the Ministers' schemes
of " redress of grievances" in the shape of reductions—
if he did not, the Marquis of Blandford, Mr. Hume,
Colonel Sibthorp, &c. avowed their determined intentions
to renew the motions of adjournment till such object was
achieved.

The Hon. R. H. Eden, brother-in-law to Mr. Peel.
has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.
The Rev. Edward Churton, A.M., of Christchurch,
Oxford, has been elected Head Master of the Hackney
Church of England School.
At five o'clock this morning, a gentleman of the name
OE BAKER, lodging in the house of Mr. OLIVER, Duke-
street, Piccadilly, sprang out of a two-pair-of-stairs win-
dOW into the street, and was killed on the spot.
At one of the late sittings of the Court of Assizes at
Paris, •' two of the Jury exclaimed, " the journals are
ail edited by scoundrels (miserables) and they must be
suppressed." One of these gentlemen is a bookseller,
and the other a member of the Society of Antiquaries.
A Cure in the vicinity of Auxerre lately preaching
against the mythology, when he was on the subject of
Venus, exclaimed aloud from the pulpit, " Who is this
Venus ? a libertine or a liberal ; for libertine or liberal it
is all one."— Figaro.
WEN DELI N PELZER, a man deaf and dumb, lately
appeared before the Court of Assizes at Aix la Chapelle.
Being asked the idea which he had formed of a Supreme
Being, PELE ER answered : " The sun and the moon in
their union, which, however, has taken place but very
rarely, constitute the divinity. A separation of this
divinity takes place when we ace the sun and the moon
at the same time above the horizon. The moon goes to
the Heavens during the night, and the sun during the
day to watch the actions of men. Their actions are noted
down, and the wicked are cast by the devil into a horrible
The warmth of Mr. PEEL, and the cold indifference
of Lord PA LMERSTON last night in the House of Corn-
WWI, formed one of the finest contrasts that can be
imagined. In refusing to give more information, and in
taxing Lord PA LMERSTON with divulging the secrets
of office, Mr. PEEL was like a " wild elephant." But
when told by his Lordship, that if he, Mr. PILEL, or any
of his Majesty's Ministers, believed, for one moment,
that the entire knowledge of political manoeuvre was
confined within the corners of Downing-street, the,
all much mistaken—then Mr. Pv'

elephant."

COURSE OF EX(
Amsterdam ...12 7g C.F.
Ditto at ,ight ...12 Si
Rotterdam-2 Ul2 7;
Antwerp ... 12 7g
Hambiargh Pg U 14 00g
Altona ... 2g U 14 00g
Paris.3da7'ssight 25 $0
Ditto ...2 U 26 5
Madrid
Cadiz ... 35i
Barcelona ..35g
Daiwa ... ..35g

PRICES OF GO
Foreign Gold in Bars
Silver, in Bars, standard

CORN—EXCHANGE, Mn
The Healing Trade was extremely
the best samples of Wheat could suj
Barley continues in the same unsetti.
effected ; and until something is known
don in she duties on Malt and Beer,

DOOIIIIIIIOIII4 soca
Wle at, &gilds (qrs.) . 1.5410 I
Barley.
--.- Ida . Oats,
Foreign .
Barley. English
•.
Irish .

3.000
. ....... I Mat

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COAL MARKET -- _
me Coal Exchange was well attended
sad Orals were in good demand. The sir
lead sod Newcastle was vary plentiful.
market.

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Cubit suns
•Ipa arrival &deg Se mat!,
Mips M Market.

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'e more information, and in
.Ith divulging the secrets
a " wild elephant." But
at if he, Mr. PktL, or any
*Herod, for one moment,
►f political manoeuvre was
Downing-street, they were
PEEL looked like a " tame
!RANGE, Feb.l7.
Seville 551
Gibraltar .. 471
Leghorn 471
Genoa is S
Venice 471
Malts
Naples
Palermo .. 119 d pet as
Lisbon 43
Rio Janeiro .. s 4
Dublin 11
Cork . . 11
AND SILVER.
£3 17 9
... 0 0 0
LARK—LANE, Fes. 17.
rly heavy this morning, and only
support Monday's advance.—
ettled state. No bales can be
nown with respect to the latera-
l., no improvement is expected.
mica I.II)PDA T.
latley. Foreign
)ate, E,glish . IWO
Foreign
Irish . . 3,150
?lour (seeks) . 9,100
VF—Tins Dar.
attended by merchants today.
The supply both front Sander-
anal. Tea new snips were at
... itis. dd. 570,11 d.
...... tit Od. 314. Od.
404--Dariag the weak, 104.
1111.
r-FRIDGE TO MORMOW.
17 minutes after 7
40 minutes after 7
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Jon Mars. at On Sus-
a-plassaampla Bar.
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