The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-24 00:00:00

THAMES.

TAX ON DRUNKARDS.—John Turner, a master baker, of
Peckham, was brought before Mr. Salle, charged with being
drunk and incapable of taking care of himself.
Simon Ralph, a police-constable, No. 244 K, stated that
he found the prisoner this Morning in Cross-street, St.
George-in-the-East. The• prisoner was lying on his back
in the scow which was falling at tho time.
Mr. Selfe—ln the snow! That's cool. _
Ralph—He was dead drunk.
Mr. Selfe—You are fined 55., Mr. Turner.
Prisoenr—Oh don't do that, sir, I have been robbed.

Mr. Selfe—You had a good deal of money left. You
have been saved by the police. You are the salvage of
the wreck

Prisoner—But I have been already punished for my
,ransgression. _ . .

Mr. Salfe—But not legitimately. I think the ss. tax on
drunkards is a very proper one indeed, and I shall enforce
it. Pay 55., Mr. Turner.

The prisoner paid the tax very reluctantly, and took his
departure for Peckham.
A REGULAR TORMENT.—Jane Dixon, a woman about 30
years of age, was brought before Mr. Selfe charged with
assaulting Mr. James Astor, the landlord of the Sun and
Sawyers public-house, in High-street, Poplar.
Mr. Charles Young, solicitor, said the prisoner was a
regular torment to the prosecutor, who was her brother-
in-law. She was a confirmed drunkard, and a very noisy,
disorderly, and violent woman. She had frequently an-
noyed and disturbed Mr. Aster, and had been .held
to bail to keep the peace for six months. Her
sister, Mrs. Aster, was bed-ridden, and had been so for three

years, and she took advantage of that to annoy her sister
and her sister's husband. On the night of Wednesday, the
16th of November last, the prisoner went to the Sim and
Sawyers, as Mr. Aster was closing the house, and demanded
a glass of ale. She was intoxicated, and her brother-in-law
refused to supply her with anything. She then made use
of dreadful language and threatened him. Burgess, a police
constable, removed her, and she came again in half an hour
and repeated the disturbance. A summons was applied for
and granted, to which she did not appear. A warrant was
then applied for, and it was executed last night.
The case was made out, and the magistrate fined the
prisoner 10s. and 4s. costs.

The Spanish Congress.

MADRID, Jan. 19.

To-day, in the Congress, Senor Barzanallana
read the following bill for a forced advance of
600,000,000 reals

" Art. 1. The Government is authorised to proceed to
the distribution of 600,000,000 reals, in hypothecated notes,
created by the law of 26th June last, among the taxpayers
paying upon landed property, agricultural produce, cattle,
or upon trades or commerce, an annual contribution of
.40
reals or more ; the distribution to be effected according to
the taxing lists for the current financial year.

"Art. 2. Nominal lists of distribution will bo drawn up,
augmenting by a three months' contribution—that is, by
25 per cent.—the annual quotas due to the Treasury fixed
in the schedules of the 'property, agricultural, and cattle
tax, and in the lists of trading and commercial taxpayers,
and also increasing the necessary fraction, in order to make
up the sum apportioned to each taxpayer. Payment of the
latter will be obligatory at six equal periods, viz., on the
15th Feb., April, June, August, October, and December of
the current year.

" Art. 3. In conformity with the law of the 26th of June
Last, the hypothecated notes now remaining available from
the issue already made by the Bank of Spain will imme-
diately be delivered into the Bank of Deposits, as well as
those from the issue which by virtue of Art. 1 of the said
law may still be made. The Bank of Deposits will also re-
ceive those that may be indispensable to complete the sum
of GOO millions of reals, or that which may finally be rea-
lised in consequence of the present law.
" Art. 4. The Bank of Deposits, at the periods stated in
Art. 2, will receive the sums to be made up by the tax-
payers, delivering to them special ,receipt notes, bearing
interest at 6 per cent. per annum, transferable by endorse-
ment and admissible in exchange for hypothecated notes.
The anticipated periods will enjoy a bonus corresponding
to the time elapsing between the day of payment and the
day upon which payment is due, with regard to the interest
of 6 per cent. per annum.

" Art. 5. The Bank of Deposits, providing for the mutual
liquidation of interest, will, on delivery, change the special
receipts it had issued for hypothecated notes of the Bank
of Spain, provided always that one or several receipts make
up the amount of 2,000 reals, the present representative
value of each note, or the lesser amount at which they may
in future be issued. The receipts remaining unchanged will
be placed on the same as the whole of the abovementioned
receipts at the time of interest falling due every six months
and at the reimbursement of the proportional part of the
advance.

"Art. 6. The proportion of contributions which in
conformity with those mentioned for the tax upon landed
property, agriculture, and cattle, fixed in Art. 2, corres-
ponding to the provinces of Alva, Guipuzcoa, Navarra, and
Viscaya, will be directly made up by the respective depu-
ties at the periods fixed by the said article. As the delive-
ries take place, the deputies will receive the equivalent
hypothecated notes, being authorised for their distribution
in the form that may be considered expedient.
"Art. 7. The Minister of Finance will take the neces-
sary measures for the execution of the present law,

,4 MANupj, GARCIA BARZANALLANA,
the Minister of Finance.

" Madrid, Jan. 18, 1865."

The New York correspondent of the Boston Jour-
nal communicates the following piece of informa-
tion :—" Brooklyn is the city of churches and the paradise
of ministers. Here are found the largest congregations,
the fattest salaries, and the hugest presents. I mentioned
some time ago that one of the pastors of Brooklyn realised a
fortune of $BO,OOO by a liltle speculation in stocks. Another
pastor in the same city has been more fortunate. He has
struck ile' He has sent down to tho oil region $5,000 by
an officer of his church. The officer returned with $250,000
as the result of his investment. Grateful for his sudden
wealth, ho has offered to his denomination $40,000 for
theological instruction."

DOUBTFUL SYMPATHY.—One of the Republican
papers of New York, after speaking of General
Butler's quarrels with Gilmore and others, remarks:—
"The. public do not so much censure General Butler for
-the:failures which have invariably attended him, from Big
Bethel to Fort Fisher, as the authorities who have kept
himin the field."

AN'AMERICAN BIGAMIST.—A woman at Detroit,
Michigan, is in gaol, charged with bigamy. First she
married a man, had six children, and was left a widow.
Then she married another man. He went away for work,
and when he came home found his wife with a new hus-
band. Presently she left her third husband, and married
a fourth one. She left him, and was on the point of mar-
'tying the fifth time when she was arrested. Her three
forsaken husbands appeared in court against her.—New
York TVorld.

THE SALMON IN AUSTRALIA.--By the last mail
we have very favourable accounts of the progress of
the parr hatched from the ova introduced into Tasmania.
The parr at the breeding establishment on the river Plenty
have now found their way into the large pond prepared for
their reception below the hatching boxes. During the last
fortnight they had fed eagerly and perceptibly increased in
size, though their growth, up to that time, has not been so
rapid as that of the trout. For the latter, a serpentine pond
70 yards long, varying from 10ft. to 12ft. in width and
leading into a round clearing pond, has been constructed.
The upper part of this serpentine pond consists of a series
of shallow gravelly rapids, with hero and there a few
larger stones. Many of them were from two to three
inches in length, and, as they had ample room, they could
be kept where they were until they had become old enough
to spawn, probably nehr thy autumn of 1860.--. Australian
and New Zealand Gazette.