The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-31 00:00:00

THE LEGISLATION OF 1853.

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Since to-night we have to say good-bye to '53, and
have already chronicled the good features of the year
commercially, let us also add a word or two about its
legislative results. With all their sins of omission
and of commission, the Coalition are entitled to much
praise for • portion at least of their parliamentary
doings. The "Successions Duty" Law will in itself
be a highly honourable monument of their
legislative usefulness, and, had they done nothing
else, that Act alone would secure them a large measure
of respect from all reformers and sound politicians.
To carry so useful a bill required courage, tact,
and a considerable amount of self-sacrifice. Let
those who had the honesty to put upon their own
class an impost which had been before evaded,
have at least the credit fairly due to such practical
patriotism. The repeal of the Soap Tax and the
Abolition of the Advertisement Tax must also be
gratefully remembered. Turning to a list of new
laws passed in 1853 we find the following :
Succession Duty.
Clergy Reserves (Canada).
Government of India.
Income Tax.
Soap Duties.
Customs Duties.
Customs Tariff.
Hackney Carriage Duties.
South Sea and other Annuities Commutation.
South Sea and other Annuities Provision for Payment.
Excise Duty on Spirits.
Stamp Duties.
Stamp Duties, No. 2.
Consolidated Annuities, Ireland.
Insurance on Lives: Income Tax Exemption.
Transfer of Aids.
Exchequer Bills.
Consolidated Fund.
Consolidated Fund, 4,000,0001.
Consolidated Fund Appropriation.
Saving Banks Annuities.
Metropolitan Improvements (repayment out of Consoli-
dated Fund).
Public Works Loan.
Stamp Duties en Patents for Inventions.
Sales of Bullion.
Inland Revenue Office.
Land Revenues.
Assessed Taxes.
Duties on Horses Let for Hire.
Coinage Offences, Colonies.
Government of India.
Merchant Shipping.
Pilotage.
Customs Acta Consolidation.
Charitable Trusts.
Transportation.

Apprehension of Offenders Act Amendment.
Stock in Trade Exemption.
Passengers' Aet Amendment.
Poor Relief Act Continuance.
Mutiny.
Marine Mutiny.
Entry of Seamen.
Naval Coast Volunteers.
Militia Pay.
Copies of Specifications Repeal.
Employment of Children in Factories.
Newspaper Stamp Law Defined.
Office of Examiner, Court of Chancery.
Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction.
Cathedral Appointments.
Aggravated Assaults.
Hackney Carriages (Metropolis).
Sheriff Courts, Scotland.
Burgh Harbours, Scotland.
Sheriffs, Scotland.
Uuivenities, Scotland.
Bankruptcy, Scotland.
Entails, Scotland.
Registrar of Meetings.
Malicious Injuries, Ireland.
Valuation Act Amendment, Ireland.
Grand Jury Ceu, Ireland.
Taxing-officer Common Law.
Business, Ireland.
Dublin Parliamentary Registration.
Encumbered Estates Act. Ireland, Continuano
Resident Magistrates, Ireland.
Crime and Outrage Act, Ireland, Continuance.
Turnpike Acts Continuance, Ireland.
Lines, &c., Manufactures, Ireland.
Dublin Carriages.
Drainage of Lands, Ireland.
Public Works Act Amendment, Ireland.
Turnkike Trusts Arrangements.
Turnpike Acts Continuance.
Sheep, &c., Contagious Diseases Prevention.
Highway Rates.
Land Tax Redemption.
Land Tax Redemption Act Amendment.
Land Tax Commissioners' Names.
Loan Societies.
Friendly Societies.
Defacing the Coin.
Copyhold, &r., Commission Continuance.
Slave Trade, Sober in Arabia.
Slave Trade, New Granada.
Liberated Atricans, Sierra Leone.
Militia Ballots Suspension, &e.
General Board of Health.
Indemnity.

Commons Enclosure, No. 2.
Commons Enclosure, No. 3.
Whichmood Forest.
Sheriff and Commisury Courts, Berwickshire.
New Forest Deer—Removal Act Amendment.
Batteries Park.
Westminster Bridge.
Smoke Nuisance Abatement, Metropolis.
Metropolitan Sewers Act Continuance.
Thames Embankment.

Burials beyond the Metropolis.
Copyholda.
Female Convicts.
Betting Houses.
Registrar of the Privy Council.
Elections.
Municipal Corporations Act Amendment.
Chancery Suitors further Relief.
Lunatic Asylums.
Lunatics Care and Treatment.
Lunacy Regulation.
Oaths in Chancery.
Patronage Exchange.
Colonial Bishops Act Extension.
Vaccination Extension.
Public Libraries, Ireland.
Barghs, Scotland.
Convicted Prisoners Removal Confinement.
County Election. Poll.
County Elections Poll, Scotland.
Law of Evidence, Scotland.
Evidence Amendment.
Bail in Error.
Public lieu.,,c4, SNltlind.
Common LAgingr•houses.
Courts of Common Law, Ireland.
P.!rish Vvittle..
A tolerably long list, this, of new laws! Among
the abortive parliamentary measures of 1853, were
Bills respecting:
Jewish Disabilities (rejected by the Lords). Education.
Ministers' Money, Ireland. Ecclesiastical Leasing Act
Amendment. Assistant Judge Middlesex Sessions. Places
of Religious Worship Registration. Registration of Assur-
ances. Truck Act Amendment. Sheriff Court, Scotland.
' Attornies' and Solicitors' Certificate Duty. County-rates
il and Expenditure. Sale of Lands, &c. Ireland. Recovery
of Personal Liberty. J uvcnile Offenders. Episcopal and
Capitular Edate+. Expenses of Etcctior.e. Probates of
Wills and Grants of Administration. Simony Law Amend-
ment. Manchester and Salford Education. Metropolitan
Building Act Further Amendment. Missionary Bishops
Bill. Colonial Church liegulatiou. bletzopolitan Sewers.