The Sun.
London, England, 1830-04-17 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, APRIL 16.

Elizabeth Stalling, a good-looking young woman,
in the dwelling-house of
Charles Hodges, 241. in money, a tea-caddy, and
was indicted for stealing
other articles, his property.
The prosecutor is a bookseller, and resides in
Portland-street, Portman-square. He met the pri-
soner in the streets, provided her with a lodging,
and eohabited with her for some time, although a '
married man, and ultimately took ber home as a ser-
vant. touring his absence one day she decamped
with the money and property named in the, indict-
ment.

Mr. Justice GAZELEE, in summing up the evi
dente, observed that the Jury were not to suffer
their minds to be biassed by the feelings of compas-
sion towards the unfortunate young woman at the
bar, as it was their duty, from the evidence, to de-
termine whether or not they considered her guilty
of the charge. If the prosecutor had a spark of
feeling left, he would deplore his violation of the
marriage-vow, and the consequent misery which that
act entailed upon the prisoner.
The Jury consulted for about two hours, and then
returned with a verdict of Guilty.

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PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

EXCISE ON MALT.

Abstract of a Bill to alter and amend an Act of the Seventh
sad Eighth Years of his present Majesty for consolidat-
iag and amending the Lawe of Excise on Malt made in
the United Kingdom, and for amending the Laws re-
Iltiug to Brewers in Ireldnd, and the Malt Allowance

cm Spirits in Scotland and Ireland.
Clause I. Enacts that One Room may be used
for keeping Malt and for keeping Grain, if sepa-
ratA by a partition.
11. Provides that. Raw Grain may dried on the
kiln.

M. Cisterns and Couch-frames may be used,
alt:rough not constructed in the manner directed by
the Act.

LV. }acquires Officer of Excise to give a copy of
hip chs:go, if demanded at any time by the Molester,
V. Ccwains regulations relating to keeping a
Barley Look, arid making entries therein, repealed.
VI. Prev;sion for notice of wetting Corn or
Grain, repealed.
VII. Tv%anty-four hours' notice to be given of
wetting Corn at a Malthouse situated in a city or
market-town, and Forty-eiglit hours' notice else-
where.

Tull. A Book to be•delivered to every Maltster,
in which the quantity of Corn wetted is to be entered.
JX. Provision that Molesters giving notice to
steep for Sixty-fire hours, shall begin to wet at
Eight in the evening, and Eleven at night, repealed.
X. Provision that Corn shall be kept in the cistern
not exceeding Fifty-five, nor less than Forty hours,
repealed. •
XI. Provision that Maltsters having given notice
to steep for Sixty-five hours, shall keep, grain in
steep for that time, repealed.
XII. So much of Act as allows water to be once
drained, repealed.
XIII. Maltater to keep the Grain in the cistern
covered with water for at least Forty hours.
XIV. Water may be once drained during the
steeping, on due notice having been given, provided
the Corn be again covered within an hour.
XV. Provision that Molesters,. having given
notice to steep for Sixty-five hours, shall empty
their cistern only between One in the forenoon and
Four in the afternoon, repealed.
XV I. Co:n may. be emptied from the couch frame
at the expii ation of Twenty-six hours, but to be
deemed in couch for Thirty hours.
XVII. When any increase shall be found on
turning out any grain from the couch, such increase
not to be deemed conclusive of treading, unless such
increase shall amount to six bushels and one quarter
in every one hundred bushels.
XVIII. •Grai❑ which has been steeped Fifty
hours, if there be no other grain in the house which
has been steeped for any less time, may besprinkled.
XIX. No penalty for the outward edges of the
floor not being in straight lines, if so pieced as to be
conveniently gauged.
XX. Allowances on charging Malt, repealed.

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XXI. Allowances to be made on charging Malt
by gauge.
XXII. Allowance on unscreened Malt measured
tom the kiln, repealed.
XXIII. Entry required to be made monthly, rc-

pealed.
XXIV. So much of the Act as requires Maltsters
to clear off their Duties within Fourteen days after.
entry, repealed.
XXV. Officer of Excise to make a Return of
Duty charged on the Maltster every six weeks; the
amount of such Return to be paid in six days, un-
less security should have been given.
XXVI. Maltsters in Scotland and Ireland, who
shall make Malt to be consumed in distilling Spirits
from :Walt only, to clear off the Duty in six days,
whethtr tho y have or have not given security.
XXVII. .“(gulations relating to Certificates, re-
pealed.
XXVIII. Daily Entries of Malt sent out, re-
pealed.
XXIX. l',•ovision that entry shall be made of
every builds .g used by Malt Factors.
XXX. Regulations regarding Malt Factors, re-
pealed.
XXXI. Regulations for taking Stock of Malt,
repealed.
XXXII. Penalty anti forfeiture for removing
Malt without Certificate, repealed.
XXXVII. Provision that no person shall be en-
titled to relief for Malt destroyed, unless notice be
Oven in mannar therein specified, repealed.
XXXIV. Notice to be given on application for
relief, in case of Malt destroyed or damaged.
XXXI'. Former Act to remain in force where
Abt repealed.
XXXVI. Former Act and this Act to be con-
ttreed together.
XXXVII. This Act to commence and take
effect from a day to be hereafter appointed.

LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 1880.

THE KING'S HEALTH.

Up to the time ofour going to press no official
intelligence has been received of the state of his
MAJESTY'S health. We have, however, been
informed from private sources that his MAJESTY
is improving.

Despatches svere received at the Foreign-office

this morning from Lord PoNsoNzY, our Am-
bassador at the Brazils. Despatches were also
received from the British Minister at Buenos

Ayres.

The French Papers of Thursday have not
come to hand. The following was the state of
the Funds on Wednesday :

FRZI4CH FvxOe.—FARlS, APRIL 14.—Five per Cents., 100 f.
30c. 25c. '2oc. 25c. ; Four and a-half per Cents. 1051 60c. ;
Three per Cents., 8441 35c. 30c. 25c. 20c. 25c. • Bank stock,
1,915 f. ; Reates d '
e Naples, 94f. 10c. 94c. 931 95f. SOe. 931. Ssc.
90c.; Itentee
' d'E.ipagne, 15 14N 15 14%; Royal Spanish Loan,
91 90Tc; 74, • R :tes Perpetuelle d'Esixirne, 80 79%
% 3‘l. 79; Haytian Loan, 5501—Exchange on London—One
month, paper, 251. 65e. ; three months, paper, 261. 50e.—Coars
Alitkeutivte.

The following are extracts from the Diario
Fluminense to the 20th inst.:--

RIO DE JANEIRO, FIR. 19.

On the 6th inst. the Portuguese residing at Rio do
Janeiro caused solemn thanksgivings to be celebrated, on
account of the happy recovery of his Majesty the Empe-
ror and of her Most Faithful Majesty, in the church of
M. S. da Gloria, which was decorated on the occasion
with great splendour. The diplomatic body, the Court,
the prelates, and the most distinguished persons of the
ecclesiastical, civil, and military classes were invited, so
that the company was most brilliant and numerous. All
the Portuguese subjects were present. At six in the
evening the ringing of bells and the discharge of sky-
rockets announced the arrival of her Most Faithful Ma-
jesty ; immediately the band struck up the national hymn of
Senhora d'Maria 11., who on entering the church was re-
ceived with all the form obsert ed towards crowned heads.
Her Majesty, as she withdrew, was pleased to give her
royal hand to kiss to the distinguished persons of the
Court, and to her Portuguese subjects.
FEBRUARY 15.—His Majesty has appointed Brigadier-
. General F. J. de Souza Soares de Audria, Military Co-
vernor of the province of St. Catherine, to the post of
Military Governor of Para. He is succeeded at St.
Catherine's by Major-General Joao Chrisostomo Callado.

The German Papers, received this day, con-
tain no news of moment. The following are

extracts :

MATENC2, APRIL 3.
The Fre,:e% Plenipotentiary in the Committee for the
Navigation of the Rhine, has lately received the instructions
of his Court relative to the final regulations proposed by
Prussia and the Netherlands. France accedes to the
plan, but requires fur the advantage of commerce
and navigation a diminution -of the duties on
the navigation of the Upper Rhine. The Committee sat
the day before yesterday, but the Prussian Plenipotentiary
being absent ou account of iliners, nothing could be de-
cided, ar.d only communications made : these, it is said,
were not very satisfactory, and rather give reason to fear
that the much desired conclusion of these discussions may
yet meet with great obstacles, and be long delayed. It
cannot be too often repeated that the dasired result will
not he attained, or the commercial interests of the inhabi-
tants of the banks of the Rhine secured, till the States
convened lay aside all local views, and regard only the
genet al advantage. •

VIINNA, Arita 3.
The aurae Litherto coutributed fur the relief of the

sufferers by the inundation are estimated at half a million
convention money. The first distribution of 150,000
florins was made the day before yesterday, in the Leopold-
stadt, under the personal direction of the Crown Prince.
There is only one voice respecting the behaviour of the
Archdukes, and especially the Crown Pi ince. No hou,e
was too mean, no danger too great, for him to convince
himself, by personal inspection, of the distress of the suf-
ferers. He has acted entirely in the spirit of his august
father.

Letters from Naples state that some differences
had arisen between the Courts of Naples and
Rome, in consequence of a claim preferred
by the POPE to renew the acknowledgment of
feudal supremacy claimed by the Holy See over
his MAJESTY'S dominions. The demand seems
to have been resisted, and it was reported a
Bull had been privately fulminated from the
Vatican.

The following is an extract of a commercial
letter from Trieste

" The Ordonnance, declaring Venice a free port, cannot
fail to be prejudicial to Trieste, because the situation of
Venice for free trade is much more favourable than our city.
The transport of merchandise is much more easy and ex-
tended there, and its produce much more considerable and
varied than ours. The environs of Trieste are mountainous
and rocky, r‘nd yield but few, and these unimportant, ar-
ticles of commerce; while the fertile plains of Lombardy
present the Venetian merchant vast supplies for exportation,
and all that grows in the environs of Trieste is to be found
at Venice. Thus Trieste must sink its proportion to the
progress Venice shall make. The latter city is indebted
for its prosperity entirely to England, -who never relaxed
her endeavours to induce the Court of Austria to grant
what it at length obtained, and which was, it is said, fol-
lowed by a commercial treaty that will shortly be pub-
lished."

If the clamours of the opponents of Mr. flys-
KISSON'S commercial policy could be silenced
by facts, none would be more convincing than
the accounts of our exports an.l imports lately
iAid before Parliament on the motion of Alder-
man WAITHMAN. They afford us a proof that
within the last nine years, the period during
which the liberal system has been in operation,
the exports of British produce and manufactures
have increased by more than three-fifths, having
been in 1820, according to official value
37,820,2931., and in 1829 55,465,7231.—
In the same way the exportation of cotton
goods was ii, 1814, 17,655,3781.; in 1820,

18,282,292/. ; and in 1829, 37,269,3951.,
being nearly in the same proportion. This in-
crease c,,Ald not possibly have taken place if the
continuance of the restrictive system had excited
foreigners in general, as it bid fair to do, to
restrict the admission of our ships into their
ports, and may therefore be fairly attributed in a
great degree to the relaxation of our commercial
code. We do not however agree with Lord
ELLENBOROUGH that the merits of the free
system of trade ought to rest alone on the fact
of the increase of our commerce and shipping
since it came into operation, because such an
assertion implies a doubt of the soundness of the
principles on which that system is founded, and
would warrant its condemnation, if adverse cir-
cumstances, with which it had r►o connection, had
unfortunately depressed instead of raised our
commerce. There were facts enough in the
history of trade to induce Parliament to conclude
that the prohibitory system was mischievous to
the country, and it was altered as it ought to have
bee►►. To say, therefore, that the experience of
all history and observation, on which the so
called theory of free trade is founded, can be
shaken by the subsequent experience of eight or
nine years, is to impeach " Hoyle's Rules of the
Game of Whist," because one rubber played ac-
cording to his advice may have led to an unsuc-
cessful result.

Those who, like Alderman WA uritmAN,
talk about the falling off in the declared value
as compared with the official, and set it down as
a mark of the downfall of our commerce, labour
under a greater delusion even than those who
advocate restriction. The increasing cheapness
of commodities is the best proof of the steady
progress of commerce, and the best security for
its permanent prosperity. The cheaper we can
afford to sell our manufactures, the greater
quantity do we export, and by consequence the
more abundant is the supply of those articles
which are exported in return. The people of
this country are decided gainers, by being able to
sell in 1829 nearly twice as much of their ,pro-
duce and manufactures for 35,212,8731. (the
declared value), as they could in 1820 for
35,569,0771., (the declared value for that year,)
and for this plain reason, that the quantity of the
importations must be, and are increased in pro-
portion. It is not high prices that are wanted,
but an abundance of the necessaries and com-
forts of life—let Mr. Alderman WAr-rum AN
say what he will to the contrary.
As to the necessity of a change in the manlier
of keeping the official accounts of exports and
imports, Mr. COURTENAY said unfairly, that
the Government were not so particularly attached
to the present mode as to adhere to it, if any

better could be pointed out. But until this is

done, it is the language of ignorance to say that
the official value is a delusion, because it was
fixed so long ago as 1696. It is no delusion at
all to those who will take the trouble to under-
stand that it presents quantity only, and not
price, and that it would be impossible to com-
pare the state of the trade of one year with that
of another, if the current value were alone taken

as the standard. Fixed rates are therefore ne

es year to year, and it II
cis,ahr,y,fit;
immaterial"d,hefrtrer in
such rates the
value
a yard of cotton cloth is fixed at a shil-
ling or a sovereign. The declared value began
to be stated when Mr. PITT Put the ad valorem
duty on exports. This ad valorem duty is so

very trifling in amount, that it is not worth the
collection, and the best thing would be to repeal
it at once, whereby the declared value might
cease to be taken account of, and all quibbling
about the two different kinds of valuation would
be set at rest.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE,-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 16.—Wind W.—Arrived off
port the Valley6eld, Johnson, from the Mauritius ; and
the Union, Airtb, from the Canaries.
PLYMOUTH, Amu. 15.—Wind S.—Arrived off poxt
the Matchless, Nicol, from Pernambuco.
FALMOUTH, APRIL 15.—Wind W. to S.W.—Arrived
the Rinaldo packet from Rio Janeiro, sailed Feb. 20.
Off port, the Amity, Willor, from St. Jago de Cuba.

I..avKamm, APRIL 15.—Arrived the Gipsey, late
Quirk, from Bombay, sailed Dec. 19 ; and the St. Cruz,
from Honduras.

CLYDE, Aram 14.—Arrived the Mary, Laird, from
Demerara; the Emma Zoller, Aberdeen, from New Or-
leans ; and Amulet, from Virginia.
DZAL, Aram 16,—Wind W. S.W.—Arrivea the Royal
Mail from Terceira. Arrived from London the Sir Joseph
Banks, Fraser, for Ceylon ; the Magnet, Watkins, for
the Cape ; the Meanwell, Morgan, for Rio Janeiro ; the
Cyrus, Dawson, for Genoa ; the Ellen, Maughan, for
Trieste ; and the Coquette, for the South Seas.

The Edina, Douglas, from Leith to Corfu, was driven
on shore on the island of Stroma during a gale, Bth inst.,
but expeeted to be got off.
The Helen, Robinson, from Hull to Quebec, struck and
sunk off Stroma, 9th inst.

The Ursulle and Anna, Johnson, from Arindahl to the
Isle of Man, wes wrecked at Stroma. Crew saved.

OLD BAILEY.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.

In consequence of the absence of witnesses, this morn-
Lag, considerable delay was occasioned in the business of
he Court.

Mr. Sergeant ARABIN said, that none of the parties who
had been called, and were not present, should be allowed
their expences.

Thomas Juxx and James Plummer were indieted for
breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Mary Car-
penter, and stealing property to the value of 801.
The facts of this case, which have lately appeared in
the police reports, clearly proved the prisoners' guilt, and
the July returned a verdict accordingly—Death.
John M.Donakl (aged 26) was capitally indicted for
uttering a forged cheque for 751. 103., he well knowing
the same to be forged, and with intent to defraud Messrs.
Gosliu and Sharpe, bankers.
The case being fully proved, the Jury found the prisoner
Guilty, but recommended him to mercy on account of his
good character.