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London, England, 1830-04-09 00:00:00

HUNTINGDON COUNTY MEETING.

A numerous and highly respectable Meeting of the
Owners and Occupiers of Land in the County of Huntingdon was
held, on Tuesday, at Huntingdon, pursuant to Requisition, to take
into Consideration the Propriety of Petitioning the Legislature for
the Repeal of the Duties on Malt. A little before 12 o'cluck, the
High Sheriff for the county, J. (1. SCOTT, EVI took the Chair.
Among the company present were observed, Lord Milton, M.P.
Sir J. Duberley, J. B. Hooper, Esq. J. Hammond, Esq. Capt.
Duberley, and a large proportion of the most respectable farmers
of the county.

The HIGH SHERIFF read the Requisition under which he had
convened the meeting; and letters were read (torn Lord Mandeville
and W. H. Feßowe', Esq. the members fur the county, apologizing
for their absence from the meeting.
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J. B. RooFzi, Esq. mowed that the following Petition to both
Houses of Parliament be adopted :

" That very general distress pervades the country, the prevalence
of which renders still more oppressive that burden of taxation
which is so injurious to the industry of your petitioners, and the rest
of their fellow.subjects.
" Your petitioners have been gratified by the reductions which
have been already made in the public expenditure, and they duly
appreciate the desire which your honourable house has manifested
for the alleviation of the national distress by repealing taxes to a
considerable amount.

"Your petitioners, however, extremely regret, that in selecting
taxes to be repealed, your honourable house has not selected the duty
upon Malt in preference to that oo Beer.
" Your Petitioners, who are either owners or occupiers of land,
are satisfied that the agricultural interests of the country would have
been much mote effectually promoted by repealing a duty which
may be said to be levied upon the raw produce of the soil, than by
LW remission of one iropesed upon a consumable article, and they
are saddled that it would have afforded equal, if not more extensive
relief to the community at large.
" Your Petitioners, however, cannot admit the impracticability
of repealing both these duties, if your Honourable House makes
such reductions in the establishment, of the country as the wag-
ties of the times imperiously demand. These establishments, in
the opinion of your Petitioners, are greatly beyond what is neces-
sary for the administration of justice and the protection of the em.
pare and its dependencies against foreign aggression, the only objects
for which government is instituted.
Your Petitioners seek not for relief in the enactment of laws in.
jurious to any class of the community, but solely in the diminution
of taxes, which press alike on all classes.
" Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that the duties upon
malt, by which they are particularly agrieved, may be forthwith
and entirely repealed.
" And your Petitioners, Ac."
The Hon. Gentletnan moved that the above Petition be adopted.

M. TE3SUTT, 11. seconded the motion.
Mr. WELLS moved that two resolutions oeaffixed to the petition
read ; one declaring the necessity of a repeal of the beer, malt, and
hop duties, and the assessed taxes, and the second for the subuitu-
don of a modified property tax.
The Rev. F. H. MASULEY said he did not see the necessity of
any new taxes, but if one was necessary it should be an assess-
ment upon real property. Reduction of taxation. as now content.
plated, he thought it was no relief to the agriculturist. If the revenue
was, as he understood it to be, 55,000,0001. and government would
only take of 6,000,000 L if all the relief went to the agriculturist, it
would not amount to 5L each. He should like to see 50,000,0001.
taken off—(immense laughter and cheering),--not that he thought
it could be so. So with reductions of rental, what was 15 or 20
per cent. they ought to have off 80 or 90—(laughter.) He was a
great friend to the human race, and always glad to hear of Indivi-
dual and collective prosperity, and therefore he thought the repeal
of the beer duties most unjust towards the brewers and publicans,
many of whom had staked large sums of money on the faith of the
laws remaining as they found them—(disapprobation.) The country
must be irretrievably ruined unless they entirely shut out foreign
corn and encouraged the home grower—(laughter.) What was the
effect of the present system ? All the poor were thieves and yap.
bonds—(roars of laughter, and " No, no.")

Lord Illtivrow rose, and was received with loud cheering, which
lasted for some minutes. He said, before he would says syllable
on the subject of the meeting, he would exwas his gratitude to the
Rev. Gentleman for the benevolence he hat displayed ; and, baying
done so, he must be perositted to mom a doubt whether benevo-
lence, unless guided by wisdom end penthess, was a sage guide for
them to adopt. (Chem) He thought the declaration of the Rev.
Heideman, that he roved of the repeal of the beer duty, be.
cause it might MdilieMy affect the interests of eistant brewers,
was a sure pee of the justice of his proposition. (Cheers and
laughter.) •
Rev. Mr. Mansitstr—lt is quite a mistake; I Dever said any
such thing. (Roars of laughter.)
" Well," continued Lord AltLrow, " we will not stop to in-
quire into that. Our object to-day is not to talk about the beer
tax but to considerthe propriety of petitioning for relief from the
malt tax. (Cheers.) At any rats, the great panacea of the Rev.
Gentleman, which sou to relieve the landed interest, which, be it re.
membered, included landlord as well as tenant, was to be found in
the shutting out of foreign corn, and the high prices consequent upon
such an enactment. (Cheers.) These high peke, he maintained,
would be of DO service to the tenant farmer, however much they
might benefit the landlord ; and if proof, beyond assertion, were
necessary of this truth, he might point out some familiar instances
which had occurred even in this county. (Cheers.) The rents must,
and would be regulated by the prices of coca ; and the gross pro-
duce of a farm, after deducting the expences of cultivation. If all
expences of cultivation with taxation, and the fair interest of ca-
pital employed, amounted to 4001. per annum, and the gross pro-
duce of the farm amounted to 0001., the difference between these
two sums must ultimately form the rate of rental. Low prices.
therefore, were not injurious to the interests of the tenants, while
high prices were advantageous to the landlord, as enabling him to
proportionate his rent accordingly.—(Cheers.)—Farmers might rest
assured that much of the cry that had been raised on this subject
was not with a view to benefit their interests, but those of the
landlords themselves ; and the Legislature, by giving ear to such
complaints would only be furthering injustice and owession. The
noble lard then entered at considerable length into the necessity of a
modified property-tax, as proposed in the amendment of Mr. iVells,
and instanced from a parliainetary paper, (which was recently pub.
lished.) the great proportion of persons of small incomes, receiving
under 1501. per annum, who would not be oppressed by such a
measure. He did not see that the necessity of such a tax bed
as yet arisen, and therefore it was much better not to show
that the people of this country approved of such an alter.
native He should have approved of the repeal of the malt
tax in preference to that of beer, and he thraight that by rigid
economy, next Session, government might be in a situation to pro•
pope such a measure; but he thought it both inexpedient and un-
called for, to suggest an arrangement of that sort now, by commut-
ing with government for the enactment, in their stead, of an arbitrary
and inquisitorial tax like that upon property. The noble lord sat
down amidst loud cheers.

Several other Gentlemen addresard the meeting, and the original
petition was canied unanimously ; and that the Lord Lieutenant
should present it to the Lords, and the members for the county to
the Commons.

Yesterday morning the 7th Regiment of Dragoon
Guards, commanded by s's Roe? BOLTON, matched through
Lambeth from Ipswich, on route to Canterbury. The 15th Hus-
sars, commanded by Lieut.-Colonel Sir It. LONG, marched from
Brighton to Barnet, on their route to Nottingham. in order to re-
lieve the Bth Ruyaflomeers who return to Ilounslow to take the
express duty, and relieve the 10th Iluakars The 14th Light Des.
goons marched into Brighton Irons York to relieve the 15th Boa-
sars.

TICE NEW POLICE.—The Worship-street office was.
at An tarty hour yesterday crowded by licensed victuallers who
were especially invited by the particular wishes of the new polies.
That which is tew cannot be COMMON and therefore the new rebus
took precedence of the common informer. The first case was these
Mr. Harker, proprietor of the Bsesitus public-house Heaton. Csa.
stable No. said, that as Tssolsy morning about one eels*
he saw upwards of thirsese persons coming out of the Mass
The elms was, that then was a quarterly supper of remsetsWe
traduseeet. He was Geed Ws. and Se. mete. The next was 111 r.
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kw Sudsy, at a emu eleven o'clock, Shut plum woe
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