The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-28 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

the changes in the present practice which will then take
place should be clearly stated, my lords proceed to indi-
cate the same.

" 1. AS REGARDS THE MERCHANT PAYING DUTIES.
" In place of requiring to send notes and coin for the
amount of the duties to be paid, the merchant may send
his own ordinary check upon any one of the bankers
whose names are included in the list attached to the
minute of the 4th of August, and who shall, before the
11th of October, express his willingness to comply with
the regulations therein.
" It will, however, be required that all checks shall
be crossed by the merchants with the words Bank of
England for Customs' duties,' legibly written upon them,
in order that it may be impossible that such checks can
be applied to any other purpose ; and it is suggested
that those words should be impressed in large letters
with a stamp, for the purpose of more clearly exhibiting
the specific use for which they are to be dealt with
throughout.
Merchants will bear in mind that all checks which
are paid up to each even hour during the day (from 9
till 3 inclusive) will be sent out at that hour, and that
checks received at any time after the even hour will not
be sent out until the next hour. But as soon as the
checks are received at the Custom-house, all the usual
entries will immediately proceed in the same way as if
the duties had been paid in cash, with a view to the
clearance of the goods.
"For the purpose, however, of further facilitating the
progress of the clearance of the goods for delivery, and
in order that no time shall be lost, the merchant will be
' required, in addition to the ordinary document called an
entry or warrant,' upon which the clearance now pro-
ceeds, to deliver therewith another document containing
a short abstract of the contents of the entry or war-
rant,' and which will be termed a di-charge bill.' As
an example, the following is a usual entry or warrant'
now in use :

" WEST INDIA DOCKS.
Wellington.' Johnson ® Matanzas.
British ship. Home Consumption.
RUCKER AND CO.
JJ T 100 boxes. Five hundred boxes.
P Y C 150 boxes.
LR 0 150 boxes. One thousand eight hundred and
J V Y 100 boxes, fifty-three hundredweight, tw,
quarters, and fourteen pounds
Half-past Brown Clayed Sugar, not being
12, equal in quality to White
13 Sept. Clayed, the growth and pro-
-1854. duce of and imported from
Matanzas.

Warehoused by C. Smith, 10th August, 1854.
(104) £1,112 3s. 6d.
Duty not paid.
" 11th October, 1854."

" With this ordinary document must be delivered a
' discharge bill,' of which the following would be the
proper form :

" WEST INDIA. DOCKS.

Discharge Bill.
ellington.' Johnson cc Matanzas.
RUCKED AND CO.

Cwt. qrs. lb.
500 Boxes 1,853 2 14 Brown Clayed Sugar.
£1,112 3s. 6d.
Two o'clock,
13 Sept., (104)
1854. Duty paid.
" 11th October, 1854."
—the latter document being a short abstract of the for-
mer.

"In the event of all the entries in the Long-room
being completed before the collecting clerk had returned,
the first document (the ' entry or warrant') will be de-
spatched to the delivery department, in order that the
necessary preparations may be made for the actual deli-
very of the gcods. This document will go from the
Customs marked ' Duty not paid.' As soon as the
clerk shall have returned, the ' discharge bill' will then
be forwarded to the delivery department, with the words
' Duty paid' imprinted thereon. In the event of the
collecting clerk returning before the entries are all com-
plete in the Long-room, which will usually be the case,
both documents will be sent together to the delivery de-
partment, and in any case as soon as the ' discharge
bill' has been received the goods will be delivered.
"The only additional duty, therefore, which will de-
volve upon the merchant will be to make out and present
with the ' entry or warrant' the ' bill of discharge,' in lieu
of all the trouble, time, and risk which at present attend
the obtaining of notes and coin, and sending the same to
the Custom-house.

" 2. AS REGARDS THE Form OF BUSINESS AT THE CUSTOM-

HOUSE.

"At the same stage of the entry of goods at which
money for the amount of duties is now received, checks
for the same, drawn upon any of the banking-houses in the
list furnished which shall have complied with the terms
of this minute, will be taken. At each hour, from 9
to 3 o'clock inclusive, a list will be made of all the checks
received in the preceding hour, classified according to
the banks upon which they are drawn, in such a form as
to show the total amount upon each bank, and the
aggregate amount of the whole, each check having pre-
viously been stamped with legible words, ' Received for
Customs' duties, the day of , 1854.'
" The collecting clerk will then be immediately de-
spatched to the various banks upon which the checks
are drawn. At each bank the checks will either be
endorsed in such a form as shall entitle the Bank of
England to pass them as cash to the credit of the Cus-
ttims, or a transfer order will be received from the
private banks for the full amount of the checks
upon it, which will authorise the Bank of England to
transfer the amount from the amount of such bank
to the Customs' account. The clerk will then pro-
ceed to the Bank of England, and obtain an acknow-
ledgment attached to the list originally furnished of the
amount received by the rank to the credit of the Cus-
toms, with which he will return immediately to the
Custom-house. In the event of any check not being
paid, the Fame will be erased from the list at the Bank,
the amount for which the receipt is given reduced ac•
cordingly, and such unpaid checks will be returned to
the Custom-house.

" In the meantime, the entries at the Custom-house
will have been proceeding as usual ; and, if they are
are completed in the Long•room before the return of the
cellecting clerk, the ' entry or warrant' will be des-
patched to the delivery department, but marked ' Duty
not paid,' in order that the documents for the delivery
of the goods may be prepared ; and as soon as the clerk
shall have returned with the certificate that the checks
are paid, the ' discharge bill,' with the words ' Duty
paid,' in red ink, legibly stamped thereon, shall issue.
In the event of the clerk being back in time, both those
documents so marked shall be sent together to the deli-
very department.

In all other respects the business will proceed as at
present.

I' 3. AS REGARDS THE BANKING-HOUSES UPON WHICH

CHECKS WILL BE RECEIVED.
"It will only be necessary that they shall appoint an
officer to whom the Customs' collecting clerk can apply
at once, without being subject to delay (regularity and
despatch being essential to the plan), who will be au-
thorised either to mark the checks produced in such a
way as will entitle the Bank of England to treat them as
money, or who shall furnish to the Customs' clerks a
transfer order upon the Bank of England for the full
amount of the checks presented. Each bank may elicit
either of the plans mentioned, but in each case to be uni-
formly acted upon.

" 4. AS REGARDS TEE BANK OF ENGLAND.
" The only duty which will devolve upon the Bank
will be to receive the payments from the collecting clerks,
and sign the lists, as certifying the receipt on behalf of
the Customs of the amounts named therein.

" 3. By this machinery their Lordships hope that they
will thus materially abridge the labour and risk imposed
upon merchants in the present mode of paying duties ;
effect a considerable economy in the circulation, as well
as in the stocks, of bank notes necessarily held by bankers
and render unnecessary the present practice of sending a
Bank clerk to the Custom-house each day for the pur-
pose of cancelling and destroying all the notes received
on such day ; and thus bring the operation of Customs'
payments into strict harmony with the modern practice
of trade, by which much economy of time and money is
effected. At the same time they entertain a hope that
these advantages will be obtained at little or no addi-
tional cost to the department of Customs.
" 4. Their lordships, however, do not wish it to be
understood that the introduction of this plan—which
will, no doubt, on account of the great convenience
which it will afford, be generally adopted—will prevent
persons who may still prefer to do so, from paying their
duties in cash as at present.
" Transmit a copy of this minute to the Commissioners
of Customs, and request that steps may be taken forth-
with, with a view to the introduction of this system
on the 11th of October next.

" Transmit a copy of this minute to the Bank of Eng-
land for their information, and to each of the banking
firms named in the list attached to the minute of the 4th
of August, and request that they will intimate, by letter,
to the Commissioners of Customs, their readiness to
comply with the provilinns contained in this minute so
far as they are concerned, in order that their names
may be placed upon the list of bankers upon whom
checks will be received for the payment of duties.

" JAMES WILSON."

RXTRA.ORDINABY DEATH.-Mr. Davis held an inquest
circntnsta
on the 23d instant, at Knockmoles, near Swords, county
Dublin, on the hod' y of a man named Patrick Sherlock,
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ROCK LIFE COMPANY.—A meeting of the Rock Life
Company yesterday attracted attention, in consequence
of its being for a septennial division of profits, and the
large amount of property thus to be dealt with. The
assets of the company were stated at 2,207,7371., and
the liabilitiesat I, 575,666/., leaving asurplue of 732,071/.,
out of which a bonus of 609,7611. was declared—one-
third in additional stock to the shareholders, and two•
thirds in an increase of the policies of the assured.

BOW-STREET.—A Hungarian refugee applied to
the sitting magistrate, Mr. Henry, for his advice under
the following circumstance. He stated that the London
Journal had been publishing supplements, the profits
upon which had been devoted to the fund which was
being collected for the wives and children of the soldier
now on service in the East. Anxious to assist even in a
very humble way, in the good purpose, he left at the
office of the publication in question the manuscript of
part of an unpublished work for publication in the sup-
plement, as it had a bearing upon the topic in connec-
tion with which the supplements were issued ; but it
had not been published, and he had applied six or seven
times personally, and twice by letter, for it to be re-
turned, but he could not get it. If it was published
he should not care, but it was now wanted for the work
of which it formed a portion, and which related to the
Turks and people of the eastern countries.
Mr. Henry said the usual rule was that manuscript
contributions were not returned if rejected.
The applicant said he left the manuscript in question
on the condition that it was to be returned if not used.
Mr. Henry said he oould not interfere. If the appli-
cant resorted to law on the subject he must go to a
county court, and there try the question if newspapers
and periodicals were bound to return manuscript which
was not used, or if not, whether in this particular in-
stance there was a condition to that effect.
James Coppick, cab-driver, No. 3,214, was placed at
the bar charged with having used abusive language.
Mr. Fredrick Mortimer Lewin, of the Wyndham
Club, stated that he took the defendant's cab at New-
gate in the morning, and desired him to drive him to
Long-acre. He did not know that he was in drink.
When he arrived in Long-acre he remonstrated with him
for having driven in a most reckless manner, whereupon
defendant commenced abusing him iu language of the
most disgusting nature—calling him a vagabond and a
scoundrel, and among other things he said it would not
take him two pins to punch his nose. Deponent
procured two persons to witness this, and by the advice
oflone of them he re-entered the cab and desired the de-
fendant to drive him to this court. The inspector on
duty, finding that the defendant was somewhat the worse
for liquor, had him locked up for a time before he was
brought before his worship.
Inspector Mitchell said he did not think the defendant
had then recovered from the effects of drink.
The defendant denied that he bad drank anything that
day, except what he took with his breakfast.
Two gentlemen gave evidence fully corroborating the
prosecutor's statement.

The defendant denied that he used any abusive lan-
guage whatever, and assured the magistrate that he was
quite sober, and that he had driven in the streets for
over twenty years and had never been complained of in
all his career. As to the reckless driving, he said gentle-
men must know that it was not such a very easy thing
to drive straight with a " shoful," and if he did go in
and out a little he could not help it, and the gentle-
man need not have got quite so " cheeky " about it as
he did.

Mr. Henry said the offence had been most clearly
proved, and he should teach the defendant that such
conduct was not to be passed over lightly. Defendant
must pay a fine of 3/., or be imprisoned for one calendar
month.

GUILDHALL.—Mr. William!, a dairyman, was
summoned by the inspector of meat for Newgate-market
for sending the body of a cow to market for sale which
was totally unfit for human food.
It appeared, from the statement of the witnesses for
the prosecution, that the cow was delivered at the shop
of Mr. Weaver, a salesman of Newgate-market, in the
ordinary way in which meat intended for human con-
sumption was usually forwarded ; but Mr. Weaver's
foreman detecting the quality of the meat refused to
take it in. The porter, however, said he should not
take it back, and accordingly threw it on the shop
floor, and one of Mr. Weaver's men subsequently hung
it up in the back of the shop. Information was then given
to the inspector, who, on examining the meat, found
is not only unfit for human food, but actually in a
putrid state, the cow being what was termed in the
market a " wet'un," having been killed to prevent its
dying, from a disease it had long been suffering from.
The defendant said the cow appeared to him in good
health, and the only thing that induced him to have her
killed was that she dropped off in her milk, and got
gradually rather thin. He did not see the meat after it
was dressed, and it was put into the cart to go to mar-
ket before he was up in the morning, and he therefore
had no opportunity of seeing it before it went away.
Sir W. Carden and Alderman Rose severely censured
the practice of sending meat in such a state to market at
any time, but more particularly during the prevalence
of such7a fearful epidemic as that from which all London
had been suffering, and to which thousands of persons
had fallen victims, but as they had no summary juris-
diction in the matter, they had no alternative but to
commit the defendant to take his trial at the sessions.
Committed accordingly.

SOUTHWARK.—Mr. A'Beckett was engaged for
several hours in investigating several charges against
parties carrying on offensive trades under the arches of
the South-Eastern Railway, in the parish of Ber-
mondsey.

Mr. liallantine, instructed by Messrs. Drew and Gray,
solicitors to the Bermondsey Improvement Commis-
sioners, appeared to prosecute ; and Mr. Solomon was
retained for the defendants.

The first case was against Messrs. Garner, leather
dressers and japanners, carrying on an offensive business
in Nos. 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, and 121 arches, under
the South• Eastern Railway, adjoining Russell-street,
Bermondsey.
Mr. Ballantine said that the defendants' business was
very obnoxious, and carried on in such a place as to
spread disease and terror among the inhabitants. The
very spot in which they boiled the compound for japan-
ning was directly under the line of railway where the
tickets were collected from the passengers, and so offen-
sive was the smell that complaints were hourly made by
parties compelled to travel by that railway. Not only
that, but the inhabitants of the surrounding neighbour-
hood made bitter complaints to the commissioners ; and
he was instructed to say that the nuisance was so bad,
that many parties were seriously indisposed at the pre-
sent time in their houses adjacent. For the protection
of the lives of the inhabitants he must press upon his
worship the necessity of its instant removal.
Mr. Garner said that they would do no more boiling
under the arches.

Mr. Ballantine—But you still carry on the dyeing,
which is equally offensive. Will you discontinue that
Mr. Garner—We have 195 degrees of heat i❑ that de-
partment, and I suppose we must keep the windows shut.
Mr. Ballantine—Yes, and kill your own men. Your
business is injurious to the health of the inhabitants,
and it must be discontinued.

Mr. Garner—We will construct a shaft to carry away
any offensive smell.

Dr.
Challis, the medical officer, here said that if a
shaft was constructed it ought to be thirty or forty feet
above the railway. He was sure that could not be done.
The vapour arising from the factory was very heavy,
and must be, at the present time of serious injury to the
inhabitants and railway passengers.
Mr. Garner—But there has been no complaint made
before.

Mr. Ballantine—Typhus fever and cholera existed all
around the premises, and the effluvia must he got rid of.
If the defendants undertake to remove the nuisance I
suggest to the commissioners the necessity of allowing
the summons to stand over. We had these matters be-
fore Mr. Justice Crowder at the Central Criminal Court
last week regarding a lucifer-match factory, and the
learned judge laid down that no business could be car-
ried on that endangered the lives of the inhabitants.
Mr. Garner—We will remove the nuisances immedi-
ately, if that is the law.
_ _

Mr. Ballantine—The magistrate at my request will
give you a fortnight to do so, and unless that is done you
will lie indicted at the Central Criminal Court.
Adjourned accordingly.
James Oates, a bone boiler, carrying on business in
Nos. 243, 244, and 245 arches under the South-Eastern
Railway, in Bermondsey, was next summoned for car-
rying on certain trades or manufactures so as to be in-
jurious to the health of the neighbouring inhabitants.
Mr. Ballantine said the defendant's factory it at the
corner of Blue Anchor-lane, a very crowded neighbour-
hood, and if his worship thought fit he would carry the
case to the Central Criminal Court for indictment. The
law was perfectly clear on the subject, and, as before al-
luded to, no one could be allowed to carry on a business
injurious to health. The defendant's business was so,
and he was consequently liable to he indicted unless he
removed the nuisance. It would be impossible for the
defendant to construct a chimney of a sufficient height,
connected by the railway, to carry off the obnoxious
smells, as that would interfere with the railway. As it
at present existed it was danger ous in the extreme, and
parties coming from the pure air in the country when
waiting for the ticket collector over those arches, were
sickened by the noxious effluvia emitted from defendant's
premises below. Although not the immediate cause of
death, he was instructed to say that such smells predis-
posed persons to the prevailing disease, and swelled the
lists of mortality in Bermondsey. He must say that
the authorities had been extremely active in putting
down all nuisances in their district, as no less than 450
persons had been summoned by them for nuisances, and
in all cases they were immediately remedied. He, there-
fore, called upon his worship to assist them in putting
down the present offensive nuisance.
Mr. Solomon said lais client did not wish to carry on
any business that was likely to be injurious to the health
of the inhabitants. When he took these premises there
were no houses near him, but now he was surrounded.
If he should be ordered to remove immediately it would
ruin him.

Mr. Ballantine said he did not want to injure the de-
fendant, and he was willing to allow him time to remove
his business, provided, that he refrained from continuing
the nuisance.

Mr. Solomon replied that his client would do what
was required within a month.
_ _

Mr. •A'Beckett ti ten adjourned the summons for a
month.

THAMES.—Geo 2 Bennctt, 17, late apprentice, on
board the Ythan, lying in the St. Katherine s•dock, was
charged with cutting with a knife the body of Alfred
Audsley, who is now :lying in a dangerous state at the
hospital at Leghorn.
Inspector Bolas, of 'the river police, who had charge of
the case, put in a document from Mr. Alexander
M'Bean, Brit;,sh connul at Leghorn, directing the cap-
tain of the Ythan to have the prisoner brought before a
magistrate in this country on a charge of
,endangering
the life of Audsley,
Id another document
ged in the 1,, ting that
the wounded man been paid off at Leghorn, and
lod
Mr' jar.
Joseph.tothe
dBpital there.
j‘loore, master of the Ythan, said
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