16 NOVEMBER 1833, Page 10

Political corruption and subserviency were not the worst vices about

the Corporation of Cambridge. Their gross peculation and embezzle- ment of the town property are still more glaring and criminal. It would occupy columns of our paper to detail and to explain the' dis- graceful facts which go to support this assertion. The property of the borough has been leased or rather alienated, in a great part, to the cor- porators themselves or to their relatives and friends, at ludicrously inade- quate prices. The summary produced by the Town Clerk of leases granted for varions terms was the following . 62 for 999 years ! 69 for 40 years, 3 for 99 years, 2 for 21 years, I for 500 years. They were

getteitilly granted tor tneiely licm oat sums to burgesses and their con.. notions.— Times.