The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-18 00:00:00

IMPORTANT RESOLUTION OP THE SURREY

MAGISTRATES.

At a numerous meeting of justices of the county
of Surrey, assembled yesterday in quarter sessions at the
Court-house, Kingston-upon-Thames, under the presi-
dency of Major Penrityn, the chairman of the bench, a
very important resolution was carried, which it is believed
will have the effect of preventing a great deal of inconve-
nience to the public, and at the same time effect a consi-
derable reduction of expenditure to the county in criminal
prosecutions. The public are awarethat from a very ancient
date it has been the custom in the county of Surrey, not
only to have a quarter session at Newington,
where prisoners are tried for offences committed in
any part of the county, but also at Reigate, Guildford,
and Kingston; but the great majority of the cases, if not
nearly the whole of them, arise in the metropolitan portion
of the *minty, and it has long been felt to be a very great
inconvenience as well as expense to take prisoners and wit-
neves' all the wayfrom London to one or other of the places
above mentioned, when the cases could be disposed of at
much less expense and inconvenience at the Newington
sesrons. The feeling upon the subject has very much in-
creased sines the establishment of the different railways,
and the facilities afforded by them for persons who may
have to prosecute for offence, committed in the now try
districts, and which are comparatively very few in
number, to cows to London to attend at the
Newington Sessions-house ; and at the June ses-
sion at Guildford, Mr. Cubitt, M.P. for the weste.n
division of the county, gave notice of the following motion,
to be discussed at the next court :—" That after the
October sessions this year all the criminal and judicial
business shall be transacted at the Newington sessions
and adjournments, and no other than county business at
Reigate, Guildford, and Kingston." This motion now
came on for discussion, and the honourable magistrate, in
proposing that it should be adopted by the court, took
occasion to advert to the great inconvenience that was
occasioned to the witnesses and the unnecessary expense
ti •at was entailed upon the county by witnesses having
occasionally to go to Guildford and Reigate, as
well as Kingston, when in the great majority
of the cases the offences were committed in London,
where the persons accused were in custody, and the wit-
nesses might attend at the Newington Sessions-house,
and have their cases disposed of with very little incon-
venience or expense. The motion was seconded by the
Honourable W. Broderick, who said that he entirely
concurred in the observations that bad been made by
the honourable member for West Surrey as to the advi-
sability of the proposed alteration and the beneficial
effect that it was calculated to hare upon the adminis-
tration of justice in the county. Colonel Challoner and
several old and experienced magistrates of the county
also spoke in favour of the motion, indeed there
seemed to be but one feeling among the magistrates
in reference to it, and upon the motion being put by the
chairman it was carried unanimously. The proceeding
thus adopted by the magistrates of the county of Surrey is
regarded as one of very considerable importance, and it is
not at all unlikely that it may be the prelude to an altera-
tion in the law with regard to the trial of assize prison-,,
• great many of whom, under the present system, have to
remain in prison for seven or eight months before trial,
and being then, in a great many instances, acquitted of the
charges made against them. In pursuance of the above re-
solution, the present session will be the last at which pri-
soners
will be tried in the ancient borough of Kingston-
upon-Thames.

ATTENDANCE AT JCDOES' CHAMBEILS.—YeItenIAy
Chief Mania Kelly attended at chambers, and will again
attend on Friday. After Tuesday next, the end of the
long vacation, there will be a daily attendance until the
commencement of Michaelmas term. _

IMPORTANT TO FARMERS AND LANDOWNER/IL—ln
his &dress to the grand jury, at the Shropshire Quarter
Sessions, on Tuesday, Sir Baldwin Leighton, Bart., said
he wished to draw their attention to a subject affecting
farmers and landowners, which he believed bad not before
been made public, and was very little known among the
class interested. In a circular letter issued to the clerks to
the commissioners of income-tax, by the commissioners of
inland revenue, so long ago as the 30th of May last, but of
the existence of which he had only lately become acquainted,
the commissioners of inland revenue stated that the Lords
of the Treasury have sanctioned an allowance to landlords
of duty under schedule A proportionate to the sums paid
by them in respect of cattle plague rates ; and that in
such instances where landlords have granted a considera-
ble abatement of rent en account of losses sustained by
their tenants from the cattle plague, an allowance would
also be made under the same schedule in respect of such
abatement. For the past year this allowance would be
made by repayment, on proof of the claim. With respect to
the assessments under schedule B no distinct order is
made, but when by reason of the lose of cattle, or from
the payment of thew portion of the cattle rate*, the profits
of the occupiers fall abort of the sum assessed under that
schedule, it is open to them to prefer claims for an abate-
ment of the tax.

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