The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-05-27 00:00:00

LAb' ARRANGEMENTS.

•
ft is rcprirted at the Mar, that Lord Eurrsoao UGH
will isnstediaiely ramie as Luca Chief Justice of the Court
of limes Batch, on account of indisposition, suit that the
reseal Tics•Catuccu.ost will succeed bias. The sneers-
stir to the tatter Learned Judge is ant knows. Mr. Coos,
one of 'the Counsel at the Chancery Bar, has &chard
practising in Court ; he intends to confine his ;mustier to his
Chambers. Messrs. WING/ILL°, HORMit, ROVPYLL, and
Haat°, Barristers at the SSW Bal. will be sworn is King's
Connect in the course of the Term.

EPSON RACES.
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These races commence this day, when the Woodoot Stakes,
fur 2-year olds, will be ran for, for width ten horses are
named, and eight are expected to start. Also a Sweepstak‘a
of logs. eack, for which five are entered.
Thursday is the Derby day, so interesting to sportsmen ;
aria Friday the o.lts.
The crack jock les are thus disposed of for the Derby
Buckle rides Fozeluddy ; Cbilfoey, MHO Goodisun, Sep.
timer; Ckll, filmunides; and Yuen &Wards, Prime Paul.

PEDESTRIANISM'.

FIFTY-FIVE MILES • DAY FOR FIFTEEN DAY!.

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Mr. Flowers, the Hampshire pedestrian, who started or
the 18th lest. to du the above textraurditiary undertaltimr,
was ries on well ou Monday, the eighth day. His roulettes
beer shromes Basingstoke, Salisbury, and Exeter, and (rum
tbruee tutu Soutereeti.hire. lie slept at WAD on &today
sad the next day proceeded towards Hereford. lie
has dew kis work regularly iu sitlceu hours per day.

EQUALIZATION Or COAL DUTIES.
Yesterday a numerous Illeetiax toolt piste he the Eryption
Hell, for the purpose of pelitiorieg Parliament to ettualise
the Doty us Cools theaaghnut.she Kintiono

The LORD (MAYOR in the Ch;ir.
His Lordship informed the Meeting that they had hems
enovened by a requisition from the coal dealers and COMM-
its, and that the object being to relieve the middling and
lower classes alb* people, lie had touniediately concurred in
the propriety of giving the Egyptian Hall to their service.
Recalled upon the Secretary to read the minutes of the last
Report, after having stated that it was the 'locution of those
whir Aimed She requi,itiou to petition Parliament to &val-
ise the Daly on Coale, an object of the geovt serious import-
ance to the City and its environs.
The Secretor) them read a paper iloclariue the result of the
application to 3lissitteris spoil the sithjeirt, which was, that
Governeneut would enter Tutu art the 114` wrinr.A of the lax, and
fully cunsider the propriety of the sag:l.moms made by the
deputation.
Mr. JACKS then roar to propose several resolutions. Re
presented himself Is) the Meeting merely as a domestic
consenter of coals ; hut be bad observed that the City
of London had eistivreil much from the preseut tax, which
WOO oppressive and iii:reriuis in au extreme degree. It
appeared, upon aiialyanig the stetement respecting the
inequality with which iliffereut pacts of the cocoon, were
taxed for coats, that the people of Middle:us and Surrey
paid duty at the rate of Mt. per heed pct alumni fir inane
woman, and child—i•tbat in fourteen other counties the ave.
rage was 2a. 9.1. per bead—is Wales, about 2.1. per head—
lm lain!, nut oue.sixtli of* fothiug ; and sit other places,
no part of a farthing at all.
Mr. Jeces then gave the lrietove of the coal trade, and de.
seibed the tamer additions made to th tex--ono groonil
for making which was the necessity of holding churches,
until it reached the present deplorable extreme of Us. Ail.
•elsalthein. This was the first time of objeetere in an t. (-
Alec live manner to the tax. Every thing that occurred m-
ien!), tended, in his t ieW to rectify the inequality, and the
("Willi, of the poor, to whew warmth might actually be cots-
sheered more averse:try than food, were now likely to be
atteeded to. An opposition to the measure conk' not,
in his °Ottani, be entertaitied„exeept, peshaps, by the
Nelleseifectiorets is iron in %Vales and other parts, although,
Trani the eateidstions he heel made, he toted that the
itemsequeuee of the equalization to them would be very im-
material—a consumption of thirty-horse power not exceed.
iug tone ehahlron per day, or at most double that quantity,
and reaching iii greater expense than 36Z. a yew. In the
conviction that the plan prorated would resider the greatest
teinfurt where it was most required, be proposed Resolutions
stating the parlisatlars of the inequality, declaring it to be
uppresrive, owl injurious to the interests of the cool-
munity. He also proposed a Petition to either House of
Parlimmeut, prayiug ass equalization of the duties, mid
stating the grounds of the application.
' Mr. Revers seconded the Resolutions and Petitions.

Mr JON,'" beard to ,tale, that bar and sheet iron con-
mimed a vast quantity of coals, and that au opposition
Wight he emirates{ from the Staffordidi ire coal miners.
A Gentleman having moped that rsrtain words in the Re-
solutions, skids' streek him as likely to rove otc•sive,
should he omitted•-
Sir I‘ILLISIICIIIKTI4 said, this was • subject on widch
his rrlluw•Yitizens had a rezlitto eionstuand their Represeso-
.

Mimes in Parliament. lie should therefore go the whole
lei, sh of the words, hoarser they might offend the delicacy
of other people. Government, he hail no doubt, would pay
every regard to the apidicatimi, for it atte► could be in con-
templation to levy an unequal Grunting.
Mr. HAS7IIIBIINI COUllifrrd in the Regolotions. He could
not see why the comities of Mhtillestx and Surrey should
pay &MASI. while a great portion of the country were
exempted from any demand at all. Bat one thing had
beets overlooked: in oddities. to the tax, the City was at an
exiii Intent expense In hst•iog coal Nosed to it, while
(Stowe who resided en the spot where the coals were dug were
at none, under any circumstances. Tbr thing appeared the
more maims, as there was no lax where the cool was four or
live shilling• a chaldron, but there was an enormous one
Isere it war at 50s. or GO..

Mr. It ()wen cwt. did nut rise to oppose the Repolotious. He,
however, thought II orcesaa►y that the (lunation should I.e
trove deeply inqiiirid into. He ahjccted to the idea or
making plasma where a proslectiun originated, pay a duty
upon that productitus equal ka that paid by distant parts. Is
would be as reasoaahle to tax Oats in Scotland, and Earley
111 tVals.‘, aim Wheat iu London
The Rewslotisins and Petitions were unanimously agreed
to. sod thank% having been voted to the City Representatives
stud the lord 31s)or, the Meeting svparated.

A man named Marsden, who resided in Moor-street, Soho,
threw himself out 6.f a window, from the two pair of stair%
on Holiday morning. He bad been tippling all night, and
on his return home in the morning, be had a dispute with
his ails ; ■nd she to avoid his putting his threats into exe-
cution, forked him in. It is supposed that after he had
gone to sleep, he awoke in a frantic state, and finding him-
self locked in, he committed the rash act.

Oa Monday night last three young men were returning
from in a soiling boot. apparently in a state of
intoxicatimi, Moog the Never Thames, mid by their own
miscouduct the boat overturned, and they were precipitated
into the aster, where they remained struggling for some
time, &&&&& le of them briar able to min. A young mu who
a As taw mug a barge steer the spot, observing their awls' situ.
ail ttttt made many cut/carman to save them, but to no mead,
lint at last jumped into the water after them, where he re-
intoned till he was finite exhausted. Ott one of them rising,
tot ass attempt to lay hold of him, he sank, and ruse no more.
The other three young men were unfortunately drowned.
The boat shortly afterwards being footed floating hi the river
led to a suspicion that some accident had occurred, which
was shortly after confirmed by a young noon who witnessed
the accident. Several reasons are awspiuyed in dragging for
the bodies.

Pease sold for 431. the half sieve in Covent-gar.
den market on Saturday. and were eagerly bought
up.