Star. — London, England, 1831-09-29 00:00:00

II '; i ±~~: lopeorad. THE NEW HACKNEY-COACH ACT. CAP. XXII.-/In Aft t d thc tars tent:in.? to Markus. Canisters, and to Weapon. Carts. and Drays used in Ike Me/repo/is 4 mid it place the Collection of Pie Duties en 'lack: en Cerriales, and on Hawkers and Pedlars in En • land ready. the Commissioners of Slonsps. Passed 92d &member., 1831. Whereas It is expedient to repeal the laws relating to the registering and numbering of waggons, carts, and. drays need in the metropolis. and to make other regulations in lieu thereof; be it therefore enacted. that the several Acts 'and part of acts herein-after mentioned. or en much and such part and parts thereof as are now in force, shall respectively re main and continue in force until and upon the fifth day of January, in the ye:crone thousand eight httnered and thirty. two, and shall from thenceforth respecthely cease, deter. mine, and be repealed ; '(that is to say), !I Ann. c. 23. as. 1 to 22. 11 a. 3. c. 24. 10 Ann. c. 19. is. 158 & 159. 11 G. 3 e. 2 8 • 12 Ann. c. 15. 12 G. 3. c. 49. 1 G. 1. c. 57. ss. 1 to 5. 24 G. 3. c. 27. 3 G. 1. c. 7. s. 1. 26 G. 3. c. 72. 12 G. 1. c. 12, sa. 13, 14,32 G. 3. c. 47. and 15. 19 and 40 G. 3. c. 47. 16 A. 2. c. 26. as. 3 and 4. 42 G. 3. c. 78. 18 G. 2. c. 33. 44 G. 3. c. 88. 30 G. 2. c. 22. ss. 1 and 2. 48 G. 3. c. 87. 33 G. 2. c. 25. 34 G. 3. C. 147. 4 G. 3. c. 36. P. 2. 35 G. 3. c. 159. 7 G. 3. c: 44. ss. 9 to 21. 57 G. 3. c. 125. 10 G. 3. C. 44. SP. 4 to 9. 11. Former licences to cease, and the plates to be deli. %fret' up to the Commissioners of Stamps. 11T. That horn and after the commencement of this set tin re shall be raised, levied. and naid unto and for the use of his Majesty, his heirs and SUCK*" for and in respest of every licence and every hackney carriage mentioned and de scribed as under : DUTIES IMPOSED BY THIS ACT. For and•upon every licence to keep, use, employ, and let to hire any hackney carriage within the di.tance of five miles from the General Poet Office in the City of London And for and in respect of every such licence •as ator said, weekly and every week during the continuance thereof, the sum of ....0 10 0 IV. DEFINITION OF A HACKNEY Cannianie.-..That P . ;cry carriage with two or more wheels which shall be used flr the purpose of standing or plying for hire in any public street or road at any place within the distance of five miles from the General Post Office in the City of London, what. r may he the form or construction of such carriage, or the oimiher of persons which the same shall be calculated to convey, or the number of horses.by which the same shall be drawn, shall be deemed and taken so be a hackney carriage within the meaning of thieact ; and in all proceedings at law or otherwise, and upon all occasions whatsoever. it shall he sufficient to describe any such carriage as aforesaid by the term " hackney carriage," without further or otherwise de scribing the same : Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall emend to any stage coach used for the purpose of standing or plying for passengers to becarried for hire at separate fares, and being duly licensed by the Commissionen of Stamps for that purpose, and having thereon the proper numbered plates required by law to be placed on cinch stage coaches. V. That the duties granted byan act passed in the fourth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth. intituled An act to repeal the duties on horses let to hire for the purpose of travelling in Great Britain, and to grant other duties in lieu thereof, and to provide for letting the same to farm, shall not be deemed to attach upon or be payable in respect of any horse used In drawing any hackney carriage which shall be duly licensed under the provisions of this act, where the same shall be used to go no greater die tame° than ten miles from the general post office in the city of London, provided such hackney carriage shall be regu- ' lady and constantly used for the purpose of standing and plying for hire 14 the public streets or roads within the dia. lance of five miles from the said general post office. VI. That it shall not be lawful for any person to keep, use, employ, or let to hire any hackney cartbage at any place within the distance of five miles from the ge neral past office in the city of London, unless such person shall have a. licence in home so to do under the hands of two of the com missioners of stamps, or Wider 'the hand of some puma duly authorised by the said commissioners to grant sash cence, nor unless there shall be fixed on such hackney sow riage, in the mannar herein-after mentioned, the numbered plate herein-after directed to be delivered with every such licence. Z. 16 a. ... 5 0 0 VII. Licences to be granted by the commissioners of 1 stamps or their Officers. VIII. That until the fifth day of January one thousand ' eight hundred and thirty-three the number of !lances so I be granted by the commissioners of stamps or their au. tisoriaed officer which shall be in force et one and thusame time shall not at any time exceed twelve hundred, and. that in the granting of such Iteene,es u aforesaid the sairLcom r missioners shall first give preference to the applications 'of such persona as shall be possessed of licences granted under any former act to keep hackney &aches, chariots, or two. wheeled carriages, and in force at the time of or at any time witblo one calendar month next 'preceding the commence- I melte of %bisect, and who, at any time within one calendar timid' nest preceding or before the expiration of one ellen- dar month next following the said commencement, shall ahply for Itrencei under this act. • IX. That from* and after the fifth day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three the said corn.. missionera or their authorised officer shall grant to .any person or prisons who shall apply for the same any such licence or licences as aforesaid under the authority of this act, without regard to the number of such li cences which at ; the time of such :application may have been granted or may be then in force. 1 X. Persons possessed of licences at the commencement of this act, to be entitled to new licences, without payment of Om duty of 51. XI. Petsrms applying for licences to sign a requisition for the same, XII. Inditates what shall be specl6td in the licences. *XIII. Notice to be given by proprietors of hackney carri ages of any change of abode. Penalty 40s. XIV. Names and places of abode of the proprietors of hackney carriages and the numbers of the places, to he regis tered at the Guildhall, in London. Penalty 40s. XV. Explains in what manner duties are to be paid. Xl'l. Mode of discontinuing licences. . . XVII. Plates to be delivered up on the discontinuance or revocation of such licenses. Penalty 101. XVIII. Carriages, horses, harness, &c. liable to duties and penalties. XIX. Duties recoverable by distress. XX. Numbered plates to be placed on hackney carriages. Penalty of I. for concealing plates, or preventing persons inspecting and taking the number thereof. XXI. Commissioners may change plates When a plate has been t►iltuliy obliterated, a new• licence shall be taken out. XXII. Penalty of 101. for using, &c. a hackney carriage without licence, or without plates, or for not delivering up recalled plates. .! XXIII. Penalty on the driver of a carriage plying for hire without plates, 5!. If the awner, 101. XXIV. Carriages having theron, plates provided under this act to be deemed hackney carriages. XXV. Forgery, &c. of the titamp-ofEce plate, a mistle. meanour. XXVI. Proprietors of hackney carriages to be summoned to appear and produce the drivers. Penalty 40s.—On ne glect on second summons justices may proceed. XXVII. and XXVIII. Penelties it not paid by drivers to be levied on proprietors; who shall be entitled to reco%er from the drivers. XXIX. Drivers.—That in case of any dispute between , the proprietor of any hackney carriage and the driver thereof, I then upon complaint made before any justice of the peace by I such proprietor spinal such ilrieer, t r uy such driver against • such proprietor, such justice i5:%,11 inquire into and deter mine the Berne, and. and shall award and crdet such com pensation to be made to either I arty as ts such justice shall seem proper ; and in case ct the nen-payment of such con:. pensation, such jus:ice shall cause the wile to be leviiii by distress end sale of the gocds of the party refusing or ne glecting to make payment thereof; and for wart of suffi cient distress such justice shall commit the said party to the common Gaol or House of Correction, there to remain for any time not exceeding two calendar months, unless the same shall be sooner paid. • XXX. That Withal' be lawful,(er any two of the Comniis siestas of stamps to grant licensee under their hamls to such persons as they,shall think fit d proper to act to waterinen os assistants to the drivel . ..Pt hackney carriages at the stand ings or places of rem, where hackney colliers usually stand or ply feehire:Whfelt said licences shall be granted in • such form as thodataLtosamisaielers shall think tit. Badges to be worn.hy. wa•cr•ror. 2 XXXII. Particulars of licences to be entered in books at the Stamp-affice i and sunk entries to be evidence. XXXII!. Pr ocuring any licence in a fictitious name, a misdemeanor. XXX IV. That the driver of every hackney carriage which shall be 'let for hire at arty place withirt the diseases of five miles from the Gene:al Post Office, hi ,the City 41. bond( n , shall he obliged and compellable, if required by my person hiring such - hackney carriage, unless Etch driver shall have a reasonable excuse to be allowed by the Justice before whom any such :natter shall be broght m question, to drive such hackney carriage to any place to which he shall be 233 required to drive the same within the distance of five miles from the said Geoeral Post Office, or to any place to which be shall be so required to drive the same within the .distance of five miles from the place where the same shall have bten let to hire ; and in case such driver shall refuse to drive such hackney carriage to any such place as aforesaid, he shall forfeit 40s. XXXV. That every hackney carriage which shall be found standing in any street or place, and hiving thereon any of the numbered plates required by this act to be axed on' hackney carriage*, shall, unless actually hired, be deemed to be plying for hire, although such hackney carriage shall norbe on any standing or place usually appropriated for the purpose of hackney carriages standing or plying for hire; and the driver of every such hackney airship which shall not be actually hired shall be obliged and compellable to go with any person desirous of hiring such hackney carriage;' and upon the hearing of any complaint against dm driver of any such hackney carriage for any such refusal, such driver shall be obliged to adduce evidence of having been, and of being actually hired at the time of such refusal, and in ease, such driver shall fail to produce sufficient evidence of having been and of being so hired as aforesaid, he shall forfeit forty shillings. XXXVI. Compensatidn to be made to drivers improperly summoned for refusing to carry any person. XXXVII. Drivers may ply, and shall be compellable. to drive on Sundays. XXXVIII. That the proprietor or driver of any hackney ;carriage, licensed under the provisions of this set, shall be 'entitled to demand and take for the hire of such imatney carriage the rates and farm mentioned and set forth in agates or otherwise described in either of the two schedules to ts- Ides, calculated for time or distance, at the option of such proprietor or driver; and that the rates and fares of all such 'hackney carriages shall be calculated by the hour or mile only, and not by the day. Rates and Fares to be paid for any hackney carriage hired and taken any distance ; that is to say, a. d. For every hackney carriage drawn by two horses, for any distance within and not exceeding 1 mile 0 I 0 And for any distance exceeding one mile, after the rate of 6d. for every half mile, and for any fteetional part of half a mile over and above any number of half miles completed. And for every hackney carriage drawn by one horse only, two thirds only of the rates and farce above mentioned. Rates and Fates to be paid for any hackney carriage hired and taken for any time • that is to say, For every hackney carriage drawn by two horses : For any time within and not exceeding thirty minutes ... 0 1 • Above 50 minutes, net exceeding 45 minutes 0 I Above 45 minutes, not exceeding one boot 0 2 - 2 And for any further time exceeding _one hour, then after the rate and proportion of 6d. for every 16 • minutes completed, and Bd. for any fractional pan of the period of 15 minutes. And for every hackney carriage drawn by one, horse only, two-thirds only of the rates and • fares above mentioned. XXXII. That in case any hackney carriage, after haw Ing been hired at any place, whether within or beyond the limits of the metropolis as defined by this act, shall be die, charged at any place beyond the said limits after. the Mae of eight in the evening, and before five in the it shall be lawful for the proprietor or driver of seek carriage to demand and receive, over and above the papa fare in respect of the distance or time for which the am* shall have been hired or used, the full rate or fare frees lb. place of such discharge to the nearest riot of the .ilI limits, or to any standing of ken rcpt whore Ask hackney carriage shall have baseball's/ma such llealespe the option of the mien discharging thew" lei bteeselay hackney carriage shall be hired and LM the fieggittY, there discharged at a distance of four Mae ei'lesee s trod the said limits of the metropolis, in the . Mete, not after the hour of eight in the evening. we Whin live in the morning, it shall be lawful for the driver of such babas" carriage to demand and receive for the return thereof front the place of such discharge to the nearest point of the said limits, or to any standing for hackney carriages beyond any such limits where such hackney scarriages shall hove been hired, at the option of the person discharging such hackney carriage, for each and every mile the additionalrate or fare of sixpence : Provided always, that no such additional rate, or fare in•theekty.time &Wile payable for any less distance' than four mike. _ . 4 s. d. .X L Limits of the metroV era de fi ned. Whereas lenses arriving in London by the Post are now delivered without additional postage at any place comprised within a circle, the radius of which is of the length of thrermiles measured from the General Post Office • be knotted, that the circumference of the said chyle sh all for the purposes of this act be deemed and called the limits of the man ! polis. X LI. Persona refusing to pay the driver his fare, or fat any damage, may be committed revisor,. XLII. That if the driver of any hackney carriage shell with' refuse to go with soy person desirous of hiring his for the legal and proper fare allowed by this act, or 0 driver shall refuse to drive such hackney carriage with. • reasonable and proper expedition, or if the or driver of any hackney carriage shall exact or dsmeadier. the hire thereof more than the proper sum limited and al-. lowed for the same by this act, every such proprietae or driver so offending shall forfeit 40s. X Llll. That no agreement whatever made with the dri ver of any hackney carriage for the payment of more than his proper fare, as the same is allowed and limited by this act, shall be binding on the person making the same,;but that any such person may, notwithstanding any such aces. meat, refuse, on discharging such hackney carriage, the Ipayment of any sum beyond the proper fare as allowed and imited - as aforesaid ; and in case soy person shall actually pay to the driver of any hackney carriage, whether in pur. seance of any such agreement or not, any sum exceeding his said proper fare, which shall have been demanded or ye. quired by such driver, the person paying the same shall be entitled, on complaint made against such driver before Justice of the peace, to recover back the sum paid the proper fare, and moreover such driver shall forfeit, as a penalty for such exaction, the sum of forty shillings; and in default of the re-payment by such driver of such excess of fare, of ofisyment of the said penalty, such Justice shall forthwith commit such driver to prison, there to remain for any time not exceeding one calendar month, sinless the said excess of fare and the said penalty shall be sooner paid. XLIV. That it shall be lawful for any person to re quire the driver of any Hackney carriage to drive such hackney carriage, for a stated sum of money, a distance in the direction of such driver, and in case such driver shall exceed the distance to which such person was entitled to be driven fur such stated sum of money, such driver shalinot exact or demand more than the sum for which he was as engaged to drive, upon pain to forfeit forty shillings for such offence. XIS. That if the proprietor or driver of any hackney 'carriage, or if any o her person on his behalf and with his knowledge and consent, shall agree beforehand with and person biting such hackney carriage to take for any job any sum less than the proper rate of fare allowed by this act, such proprietor or driver shall not exact or demand fur 1 his tare more than the sum agreed for, upon pain to forfeit forty shillings for such offence. / X LVI. Numbsr of persons to be carried in a hackney carriage to be painted thereon. Penalty fur neglect, or tor refusal to carry the number,lts. XLVI I. Deposit to be made for carriages waiting. Penalty on the driver refusing to wait, or to account for the deposit, 40s. . X Ll'l 11. Proprietors to provide check strings ; drivers to hold sante in their hands. Penalty 20s. XLIX. That' the driver of every hackney carriage w:lerein any property whatever shall be left by' any person hiring the saute shall, within four days next tater the same shall have been so left, carry such property. in the state in which he shall find the same, to the head office for stamps in the city of. Westminster, •and shall there deposit and leore the . same with the.. proper officer to be appointed by the Commissioners of Stamps fur thatpurpose, upon pain that 'escry such driver making any default hereto shall.forteir twenty panels; and the said officer whit w hock iairstich pro f erlr will: b: i':.,-c.ited shall forthwith enter 111 a book to be kept at the said office for that purpose the descriptioo of such property, and the name and *tidies of thee** who shall bring the same, and the day os which k sheik be brought; and the property so enteral shall be neditMit• !the=who shall prove, to the of Aholeili ere, that the same = v ie 'silts r paying allexpenen wuti *eh le sum to•the driver wise kestight an with. to the value o f the operty In ;reknit the end ciallipbeni shall award : Pttatided nkiffas. 41148 sad preplan shall not be claimed by and ren d to baling to some person within one year after the ernes &Whore been deposited, (the same having ben advertise( 1 0 each mOomr •as the said Commissioners may dint,) such' repay del be delivered up to the driver wise brought and/vomited dir t same, provided he shall apply for the ere within at calendar month next after the miriade, of the ,said ewe year; and in default of nab application by amend driver within the time limited as dorm- aid,ihs said Omentissioners 'shall cause such property to be nil or othenein disposed' of, and the proceeds thereof to be paid one to the Receiver General of stamp duties, to be carried to the rale account. L. Penalty for permitting pen.= to aide withonsconstet of the hirer, 20s. LI. Improperly standing with carriage, or feeding hones in the street; refusing to glee way to, or reenacting any other driver • or depriving him of his fare; rnalty 201. LII. Car riages may stand two in breadth in Palace Yard. LIII. A clear space of ten feet to be left after every four Imeltn_ey carriages on any st a nding. Penalty 20s. LW. The Court of Aldermen authorised to make orders for regulating, hackney carriages in the city of Loudon and in the borough of Southwark. Penalty on persons offending against such orders, 51. • LV. Penalty for leaving carriages unattended at places of public resort, 20s. • LVL That if the proprietor or driver of any ha carthige, or any other person having the OM thOTOOr,= by intoxication, or by wanton and furious (*.riving, or by any other wilful mieneftes, injure'or endanger any person in his life, limbs, or property, or if any such proprietor or driver, or if any Mamma or aiskant to the drivers of hackney carriages, shall make use of any abusive or insulting kn. guage, or be guilty of other rude behaviour, to or towards any person whatever, dk shall assault or obstruct any officer of stamp duties, or any o ffi cer of police, constable, or other race officer, watchman, or patrole, in the execution of his *sty, every such proprietor, driver, Waterman. or assistant, if other person so offending in any of the several eases afire laid, shall forfeit five pounds, and in default of payment thereof he shall be committed to the common gaol or house of correction fur any time not exceeding twocalendar months; and after the conviction of any such proprietor or Waterman , OT assistant, for any such offence as aforesaid, it shall be law. ful for the commissioners of stamp, if they shall think fit, to revoke the licence *luny such proprietor or Waterman or assistant, and to refuse to grant hint any farther licence in future. LVII. Justices empire/mod to sired compensation to drivers or watermen for disk loss of timely standing to an swer complaints which shall not be substantiated against them. LVIII. Commlasitatcroffositivitotice of the macadam of licences. LIZ. Names of plates of ilia& of owners of waggons, carts, &e. to be painted theremi. L.Y. Penalty for sreing• gramma, &e. upon which the names and places of abode sew wet painted, &L LXI. Dudes and maiden bow recoverable. LXII. Before wham Ames' shall be beard and deter mined. - 1.31111. Mode of peeceedingthe penalties before a justice of the peace. • . • LXIV. In what mintier gook &strained under this act shall be sold. LXV. Stimmonsekconvictions, and warrants to be drawn up according to the forme in the schedule. LXVI. Justices may issue warrants or summonses against proprietors, driven and erstentith. LXVII. That if arty person who shall be summoned es a witness to give evidence before any justice of the peace ; touching the moms alleged in or relating to any Infoema-' don, complaint or other proceeding depending "before such justice Imam the authority of this act, shall neglect or re fuse to appear before such justice at the time and plies to be for that purpose appointed, without a reasonable excess to be allowed by such - justice, or if any person so summoned shall appeakbut shalt -refuse to be examined and give evi dence before such justice touching the matters aforesaid, • every person so camas' shall forfeit five pounds. IA VII L Service of I Tuetioes summons. LXIX. Penalty on canitable Telhling to serve a summons or execute a wanant, 4 lll. WILL Jusdancsay mitigate penalties. LXXI. That all pecuniary penalties which shell be row vend before any justice of the pesos tinder the provisions of this act, shall respectively be divided,. one moiet to his Majesty, and the other roolety thetvot(mith f o esoat%) to the person who shall isfonn, end pthsecote the same. Informants or complainants not dhqualiSsd from being wanness. LXXV. Dutisssanted by 80 0 3 c. 41. on hawkers end, palliest', to be_poli ononomeisionnv of Nampo. LXXVI. noo t * A O SO 0.3 c. 41. and of soy Waif act relating to disaissikers and pedlars, to be of as, full fore, as if.aepcegd hethjeict. • LXXVII. That 4811 ores-when pe, other rriodal dilly dud for thieniatoencentent of any of the abuses of provisions of this oa r * Arno gill osninunee gull taki' effect on the fifth diy.of January, in th e year one thousand eight htindred mid thhty.tms.- - • • aftemensessammnsamome WINDSOR CASTLE AND BUCKINGHAM' • PALACE. The select committee appointed lo inquire into matters connected with Windsor Castle .and , Buckingham Palate, and to whom the papers pre sented to the House by his Majesty's command on the 15th day of February, 1831, togethir with the minutes of evidence taken by the committee in the last session of Parliament, and the papers laid be fore them, were referred ; have w eed to this their first report, which has reference 'ody to the furniture of Windsor Castle. The Committee have eueetalsed tbiteateesee of Parliamentary grow lesleadusset•Wiado • sur Castle, was • a /MOM .. That the sums paid to certain tradesmen in the department of the Lord Chamberlain, on ac count of their bills, amounted to ...... 217,9 . 43 That there has been paid to the tradesmen in the department of the Lord Steward, ter kitchen furniture ..... .......... ........ 1:768 That there has aim been paid for tapestry..... • 3,630 Mating oh aggregate of 421401 That the balaue .of the Petkliamentarylmte in the Exchequet is consequently 43;7391. The Committee, after the best inquiries they ' wire able to make, resolved to recommend the payment of certain balances due to the trades men, whose bills were either within the original estimates delivered, or the excess of whose bills above their estimates was satisfactorily explained. I These balances amounted to 11,6081.95. 7d. Messrs. Morel and Sedon had been paid the . full amount of their estimates, 143,0001; but the bills by them delivered were for the sum of 203,9631. and a balance was consequently claimed of 60,9631. The committee felt that they were why in capable of fixing any value on the furniture so provided, and yet that they could not be justified in advising the payment of so large an excess over the original estimates, without endeavouring to obtain further information. Certain charges for different articles of furniture, to which the attention of the committee had been specially di rected, were, at their recommeneation, submitted by the Treasury to the culmination of competent judges, who, ho'wever, alter a preparatory infpec- Con of the same, declined a task which ilterccinsiJ dered themselvfs wholly incapable of performing, IThe committee having thus failed Man disrupt) to value those selected Articles of ferniture,.whick lmigllt have been a criterion of whether the gene- ral charges in the bill were or were not extrava gant, at length entered into an arrangement with Messrs. Morel and Seddon, that they should deli ver a statement of the sums actually by them ex pended in labour, materials, and trade charges, ' and the profit to the accruing ; this statement to be verified by the elimination of their honks, by an seconiptant to be appointed by the treasury. Mr. Abbott was consequently appointed ; and after due consideratioa of different reportspresented by him, and the answers thereto made by Messrs. Morel and Seddon, and after the examination of many witnesses as to the fair profit which ought to be charged by upholsterers for such costly and ela borate furniture, your Committee report, that the bill of Messrs. Morel and Seddon, orignally , amounting to 203,9651. 61. sd. should be dimi nished to 179,3001. 18s. 9d. Messrs. Morel and Seddon having paid 1,0501. to the Lord Chamberlain's office, in part of fees, a practice to which the committee strongly object in all instances, and to which the Lords Commis sioners-of the Treasury have in this case specially, objected, the Committee recommend that this sum should be repaid. The account will be as follow : L 'Delano due to various tradesmen, exclude* of Morel and Seddon Balance to be pald Morel and Seddon 148,959 9 21. Tbs.• balance of grants in the &diviner -being 43,T391. there will remain to be, provided for by .rarliament, to complete the sums due for furni ture at Windsor Castle, 6,2201. 9s. 2id. less such buns as may be repaid by the Lord Chamberlain's office for fees received. The committee Inuit that they do not exceed the duties intrusted to them, if they express an opinion that a very heavy expense has been incurred for furnishing Windom Castle, without due regard to economy, and without sufficient check from the proper authorities. . The appointment of a furnishing committee, so far from realising the expectations of the Lords of the Treasury, who, in their minute of the 27th July, 1826, say, ":My Lords receive with much satisfaction the communication of this arrange went, snider 'which they are convinced that the ser vice will,, be executed in the manner best suited to the peculiar nature of it, and mast consistent with the utmost economy of which such an expenditure may be susceptible, has, it is to be feared, been productive of an increased lavish expenditure, ins*. latch as neither the Treasury nor the Lord Cham lierlain'soffice appear to have considered themselves responsible, while the members of the furnishing committee did not supply any adequate chetk on this extravagant waste of public money. The committee strongly deprecate practice of establishing any irresponsible boards, who thus re lieve the proper authorities from the peformance or] duties which strictly belong to their official situa tions. Sept. 27. PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. DUBLIN MORNING MORNING IMIGISTER, MAO. FL (In Setuadff _night, Worms the boars of twelve and one o'clock,,a alma Ileediflegt bowies the- Leeds gems best: and the City Si Debbi stoma pelme t shish `per needy to a l i t . i 0 lb. haiMe. The City el DdiNgim ea e heresy ib to irdi s port-4be bed, at din timesbilrilbillb INK POolleft m i tt itipid mete, Whosim Olt et a sects ela Mk, another gam vessel ma Alatiodermeigiliksitibloallibeky der OW weliabliblipidF; let they libbiliel sed iiingi MO 111111M•11111klaittaft be labribbis. peie mei Wise the masts OP*. ba bat FOlittri, amtlack imemikas Wftc 1110011 shoot lam wen. oak* a', plan im, aid b ; ! een lain ; • 'rits °IP*: dalliald thilatemmnitths muesli Seise vested its hig6lygi,powaslo, , to. lumpish heath out. of . Ore way a hgmb . of,thiladeMeing s = 4 l n rersasseal• 11 aseaNs :ra e o n f se thetilli f t e trn WM.. was . .hearil. 'The City of idin was struck a littk behind th i p : l tiatly ilid several, he:flanks wore etoved..hi, :and ' the waves imbed In &Menem into the ledies' , In the drat me., Meal of hotniand Alight at *bat hid mansid, the cap- s tabs: of the City of -NOM . celled out, ' all is lost, we : midst agggibe'bottom i^ . Shrieks, erles,.and groans bunt from theTadinlet the mbin,And for many minutes the vessel Br in the greatest ilimeder, each person Imitating or foe the mortal and final "gunk which 41te. i stL ar rfnesel would expose bib to. At he isise lbw, it who seen that the' engine was stopped, and as *the .mo., eel had km bee helm, she was become ablyiaaltaliblm. This acme, iihkh Is described by two of the passivism. who was on board die 'City of Dublin. lasted be: sling three quarters of an hour ? until the Leeds steam beat, by which the damage had been done, returned so the City of Dubilit,mnd conveyed her bask again to LiespeoL It is probable that the ewe to which the passengers were exposed in this weed have been avoided, him! the City of Dahlia bush . with a speakingtreuri,• to warn the Leeds of the .danger -its captain was exposing others to, or had the Leeds toed the ,precaution to have night lights busing, which would have enabled the other ship to escape in rime the'peril 'Jihad to encounter. On Friday lost ; wi got a letter from 'London, deteetWed nesday, which containalm Dodos of an Idle rumour about a pretended difenace between the King sad Lord Grey, with regard to the Mike held in the court by the Marquis of ' Winchester. According to •the rumour, Lord'Grey irked the Marquis to vote forth, Reform Bill, sod en receiving a refusal,. applied to the King lee the noble :Lord's dismis sal, but without success. • We are requested by an inhabitant of the neighbourhood et Fiekistitern (a police station within about eight miles of Dublin,) to sequin whew the poll* people, lawmen Whets five or six sods ogre, by the - Rev. lilm.Rasiclife, to assist him in collet his.tofs, will be allowed to return timbre Imerzt • thair eadjqszy Atay ? Re eayethekikeisace at. It maim Traastd. Mr.'Rthdln, it Masse;ilthir Rester of one pellek,Mnsi the View .of dm others, besides' being Surrogate in the Prerogative Court, . and Chaplain to _the Royal HospitaL In tbs. parish in which be has th/po dice people assisting in collecting his tithes there is, we wt..' Onstend, only •orse Protestant family, though it is within' 1 ten miles of Dubbn. , • , The tithe wisdom it 'certainly Improving in point of big. 'ant, and occurrences are happening now such es we never .. heard of before, even In Ireland. Air Exasertz.—The Rev. Parson Irwin, or harico t , lately seized the snare of the Rev. P. OPDotrogitoe, of :hat' pariah, and caused it to be sold by public auction in the town of Trim. it is said that the parson and his son at tended the auction. and were bidden against each ether, to help the sok. The expenses of misuse, sale and livery, were no less than 11.8 s. • Altosain Resmot.x.—Tbe bosses drawing the passage boat, one day last week, on the Edenderry . line athe ()rand Canal, county' Kildare, were seized by aparson in theneigh. bourbons!, for tithe clAntad by his reverence, under the can.• position A ft er o ditch that. fences the ad* lands from' the line. considerable delay and Inconvenience in the' pawners on beard the boat, the agent of this Christian pastor consented to liberate the horses, on teceiving a posit, exceeding the amount of his Haim, until the case shout be decided at petty sessions. DITZLIN SLICCTIOX COMMITTRE.—Sefirast Heath opened the and detailed the general features of the case. edi the charges of the petithon into Stet parts. Ist, bribery 2d. treating-3d, .Bbeelffe-40, in eligibility of Reebeder—bth, nub parnsin to "barrliten. ilk Wed die situation of the ' tally . soma ist Oress.eueetl and Halston.street, for Shaw and Ingpre, and of the room, .whme tbs . vile % 'refi t paid. He explaided theisLetnle brsabish,the .bet Taiss were . out: two.! thre e ! held op—or ny blows, one, two, t 6=l pounds, representatives of sterling pounds, accepted or i e . .creined ie in perhaps V do voters insisted on striking 'bard bawl& Then the modeit u st smolt by dock ets and paper! tans the enemy 41D, . 4 12ePped in th e pr. rate rosins of the agiuts. In Siemer case there had beer, dilliesky in Inning dot there was a unity of act i on b . : tween *ideated esedlibiss. for they had commenced on s,. paste Inlssests, bat be dlogseeent instance every thing war plain sod explidt. Mr. w and Lord ingestric had ,twitted slid eustinued in a imam unity of interest dirougheut. BewsY thit tkila jibe Interest had effected the =ditty @ll6 wesenipleilliftest agents. He had folk or. fisitint Oedema se land* tile aperatie as emanating directly farm tie . He would prove that a system of treating had been entertained ; five public houses had kept open for the successful a: dilates, where voters la; been gins entertainment according to tickets toned b., Lindsay and Smut, from Is. to 12s. On one occasion Mi. John Long had gone to Tudor's house. in Abbey-streei, there had treated sixty people ' who went off arterwarl i five, to polL These people got Sl. each, but they eompinn, that four fingers had been held up to them. Time mar r.nr reached the oars of Cap.. Coitinghans, and they did get 41 He then explained the duty of sheriffs at elections, as Ll.' down in the 63d chap. of the act of Cie& IV. in the arrane, meet of booths, and the allotment of voters to each. On t': former Dublin election they had acted legally and satimaro. tidy, on the ptwent they had actedin a directl) contrary way. notwithstanding every remonstrance. On the former elec tion, at Sergeant O'Lougiden's instance, they had divid e d the 2,400 treeholden into three booths of 800 each, ac. cording to the freeholders' initials in the alphabet. On the present election the sheriffs had so managed the booth., that the reform candidates, instead of polling 240 voter: on the first day, polled only 106, to the great detriment of :heir cause, foe the system adopted was, to have only two booths fur the 240 freeholder& is the freemen's hood,. No. 1, Mr. Hinds piedded, and commented fairly, polling G by 6 for each party; he proceeded in this course, but in a short time he changed it without apparent reason, and adopte d a course that gave Shaw and Ingestrie an undue p nce on the poll for the first re days. In another booth . Moore presided, andplacerds were adopted to designate the respect it e It was found in this booth that tallies with the re. Frm its. candidate's placards were not attended to, while Shaa• and Ingestrie's placards, exhibited as a ruse on one occa. soon, succeeded in drawing Mr. Moore's atten t i on an d admission to that batch of freemen to vote, till it was discovered that it was only done to try his bias, and Mr. Shaw wee sitting at Mr. Moore's back, and conversing with hinroontinuall_y during this period ! Another plan o f d e l ay was adopted. The registry clause was read over so slowly by Shaw and Ingesttle, by their two agents, twice to cacti voter, (their own as well as their opponents,) that three voters were only taken in fifty-seven minutes 1 On one occasion the Sheriff came In and told his deputy that be was reading the same clause too fast ! buch was the policy of the present members to gain time, which they well knew would eventually gain the election. He then argued the ineligibility of the Recorder to sit in Parliament, and eloquently deprecated the dreadful effect of such an example in the putte of justice , which the Recorder (a, the supreme judge In criminal matters in Dublin) exhi. lifted in the attainment of his ambition by the most corrupt awl unwarrantable MUM. lie would, most probably, in ldb judicial capacity,• be obliged to pronounce sentence on some of the wretched beings whom his agents had, by their bribes, thrown into circumstances of riot, drunkenness, and crime ! He begged to add one 'word more. The act for the regulation of - fees in election cases only allowed to each candidate one barrister in each court, at a emu. neratioa of 601. and ten guineas a day. If more barristers were emplod at a greater expense, (and be would prove that there were In this case), it would amount to bribery. He then read a charge of Lord Tonged's% in Sir F. Burdetes case, legal rule for the presumption of guilt in casea ri gr n rcutstantial evidence, where the guilty appear. ances are uncontraditted or unexplained, and epplied it to the 'present ease, to be proved In evidence. He also read authorities to show. that if bribery be traced to an agent in an eleed".., it would be suMcient to invalidate the election Of the principal, though not sufficient to =laminate and in volve Min in the penalty of 5001. unless his privity to the bribery was proved. Panetstorre—We had but a limited supply of salt =inat oar het week's market. Bacon suffered a duction in price, but, notwithstanding, a con siderable quantity wealth unsold. In hams there has not been any alteration. There was a pretty good supply of 0101 boners, • which went off steadily at fanner rates; cask batten were in verellathed supply. th/7 Wing rook sent into the anerelont'syerd; we have heard that price, at the dose of tie Market were, fee first quality, Us. to 88s. per ewt. • Bladdered laid continues to eupport tonne rates. - - No less than 10 candidates ate earned for the *ono= of =Presenting Poole, and among than the Lod M=fik John Sty. Aihley, the son of the Bail of Shiites ' • isdhs , ot sentesdaiDerseuhin wills Mr. 'Wench) ; seey it is merely talk. *a *plucky coincidenne, ;the Coastaiesienets • open old Omega R ose's moles *womb of arrived there, an 'vest their, JAIN= • the very day ',bear the deposed,* *es takincltit fug will feast, at thinned', equate • • Lord Brougham Aexpertaasas die - troth of the well*kaow fidale,.whigh shown :how 'Windt it is, sio.,what one will, to pies= story lady; *r though 1 . his Jot& ship has, in ten assinibs,' got ,through move *gad, la boar thewhir predecessors accothPihthed in as 'inany'yeerh his almmasta foe one day hem the Woolsack le srasteenly censured as if he were •a perpetual truant or &perpetual sleePer• . Alt 'Luise Pt Atm.— A sober - i ndu s tr ious Priddy in the Caltotrhaelately *invented i Missicalbox, for whieh be deserver a patent. -IVishios to enjoy . a 'little mode on an evinlngeiter work,isegata bee, of the puled impotence. but ilaspwrond brocades then an ordismay piesakaid bored a eon of holes from one end torthe other. • Into this box or seven swine arepbreed (but there may be More), of dif. ferentagesi felimqhesudktng-pig tothe gruff boar, esulting in entwined. In :this one &scale of 'wilco le • obtained: The tails of each inmate are then drawn through the holes in the box, and the lid closed. so that ball a dozen tails hang Outside. Whenever Paddy wishes to play he twitches Nekton rapidly and successively, end the music begins snd less as brig as he likes. When tired, be just liberates the musicians till •the next time. The eke are all Irish, and when the tssiteble4 is manly and skilfully done, the music is not a whit heated' the mixture of bands at the late "PhP 1 sista Vemenoraileu." The 'thattument is called a SW. mat,iillasposse Courier. probabilitrat dm 'embarkation of neaps of the line. from Ireland, which has ban more particuistil drawn into notice hens the fart of Sir E. Codeington's Beet cruising or the has created a good deal of comment at the West end of the town ; and the importance of the eireunsseence is increased by a cossunnication which is slid, to have been made on thrasurming of several regiments of wait to bold themselves in readiness ' fee active-serelee. We are' informed, -by a gentleman - who arrived in town the night Were last, that on the mustering Orbs Gleneestenthins meisia, en liturday lasts at Chine"• ter, an intimation was cloth that their services might be to gutted very shady inirelind • and an extraordinary allot ment of winter tiothing was distributed, as it is added. 1: consequence of thlsexpectetten.--Heraid. DAZING ROILIIMIT.•—Mr. 3. Lorrndes, a gen tleman resident at Hackney, was yesterday. about test o'clock, while cat: his way to the City, stopped near Firstell Square, by a fellow who asked him some trilling questicc. while-two others corning up,' he was in an instant robbed C. his pocket-book containing bills and other documents. to the amount of 1901. BIRTH. The 27th inst.. in Woburn-place, Bauell.Fguare, the lat. otGeolga Hanson,`Esq. of a eon. MARRIED. The 27th inst. at St. Anne's, Soho, J. F. Slater, Esq. so. eitor, of Birmingham, to Miss 'Elisabeth 13b5e1tc....--. 4 t M 7'.,'BryanMq the Rn. R. T. Champetk Figober, Bub, Jo Written Dawson, of POTU11311.$ 10: only don/Otter of the late how Dawson, Esq. DIED. The Sidi fast. the Bet. John Painter Bottler, N Patadiserhaseo. Heniepast.Thasues,ased 42—On We A day, the 28th inst. Eliza, eldest daughter of Juno l'ario Re & of Qusen•etteet, Cheapside, in the 24th year a her lath test. at Melton, in Yorkshire, 64, T. Pre 4 P . ... ballue o4 . stalubsl4 &Mika Ls Jou x Yavvr.st'°4 OTAL rice, No. 1, Pisketup'sce, Topple rat 11. „i: ' i