The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 185 3.

IAILIf7.4Y INTELLIGENCE.

YORI, NEWCASTLE, AND BERwicK.
The half-yearly report of this company states that, in
pursuance of resolutions passed at special meetings on
the 2d of November, 1852, and the 18th of February,
1853, the directors have taken steps for amalgamating
with the York and North Midland and the Leeds North-
ern Railway Companies upon the terms then approved
of, and, pending the final completion of the amalgama-
tion under the authority of act of Parliament, to unite
the management and revenue of the three lines, and to
conduct the whole as one concern. Parliament having
refused to sanction any amalgamation clauses, the inte-
rim arrangement for the joint working and management
of the undertakings commenced on the Ist of April last,
and still continues in force " with benefits both to the
public and to the shareholders." There is an increase
observable in the working expenditure, especially under
the head of maintenance of way, which is attributable,
inter alia, to the rise in wages and materials, the unpre-
cedented wet weather towards the close of last year, and
the heavy snowstorm in February, which affected the
permanent way and interfered with the traffic. The in-
crease of the receipts upon the joint account from all
branches of traffic is stated to be highly satisfactory,
although this company does not as yet enjoy its full
share of the increase, and from this and other causes the
dividend for the present half-year is less than might have
been expected from the increase in the amount of the
united traffic. Nevertheless, the directors recommend a
dividend at the rate of a quarter per cent., per annum,
in excess of that declared for the corresponding period
of last year.
The result of the arrangement for the apportionment
of the revenue is that there is a balance to the credit of
revenue of 87,8101. on the separate account, and
of 113,6871. on the joint account, which, with
a balance of 12,480/. brought forward makes a total
of 213,9771. From this has to be deducted 116,1291.
the amount of the interest guaranteed dividends
and rents, and 2,3331. the final instalment of
the sum ordered to be written on two years ago, leaving
a divisible balance of 95,5151. which will be sufficient
for a dividend at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum, and
leave 3,799/. to be carried forward to the next half-year's
account. _

The Pensher branch was opened for merchandise
traffic on the 4th of April, the Thirsk and Walton
branch for the same description of traffic on the 21st of
June, and both branches for passenger traffic on the Ist
of June. The continuing increase in all descriptions of
traffic has compelled the directors still further to aug-
ment the rolling stock, and they have ordered nine
engines, 500 chaldron coal-waggons and 60 carriages ;
but this stock being for the use of the united companies,
the first cost will be divided among them in proportions
which have been agreed upon. The works on the Auck-
land branch have been let by public competition on
favourable terms.
The Sunderland Dock Company having found it neces-
sary to increase their capital by 150,0001., have created
new 121. 10s. shares, with a preferential dividend of 4
per cent. The directors of the York, Newcastle, and
Berwick have no authority to accept, on account of the
company, any proportion of those preferential shares ;
but, at their request, the Sunderland Dock Company
have set apart 3,000 of the new shares for such of the
shareholders of this company as may wish individually
to take them. The report concludes with a recommen-
dation from the directors to proceed without delay with
the construction of docks at Jarrow Slake, upon the
Tyne, which have been in contemplation since the early
part of 1849.
The capital account shows total receipts up to the
30th of June last of 6,827,7411., and an expenditure of
7,262,2861., showing an excess of charge over receipts of
434,5451. The debentures outstanding at the same date
were 1,605,2521., as against 1,472,1171. outstanding on
the 31st of December, 1852. Since that period 328,0601.
has been borrowed or renewed at rates of interest vary-
ing from 31 to 34 per cent., and 194,9251. at rates
varying from 4 to 5 per cent., has been paid off.
The accounts are audited by Messrs. A. H. Wylie
and T. J. Maude, and are further certified by Messrs.
Quilter, Ball, and Co., the accountants.

AIZI3 INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL—YESTERDAY.
(Before Mr. Justice Wightman.)
INTIMIDATION BY WORKMEN.

At the sitting of the Court this morning, his lordship
passed sentence upon various prisoners. The first placed
in the dock were William Moyle and William Hill, who
were turn-outs at Manchester, being in the dyeing trade,
and who were convicted on Saturday of feloniously cut-
ting and wounding, with intent to do grievous bodily
harm, Mr. James Crompton, a master dyer at Pendle-
ton, whose works were attacked by the mob of turn-outs.
His Lordship, in passing sentence, said that there was
no doubt every man had a right to work or not to work
for whom he pleased, and he might legally join with
others peaceably to carry out his views ; but no man
had a right to dictate to others the terms on which they
should work. It was not to be endured in this free
country that any set of men should exercise such a
tyranny over others. The offence of which the prisoners
had been convicted was of a most grievous character,
and whenever such unlawful crime was brought to jus-
tice it was necessary that it should be severely punished,
and he hoped that the sentence he was about to pro-
nounce would be a warning to others to avoid joining
such illegal associations. The sentence was, that they
be transported for seven years.
The prisoners, who seemed quite astounded at the
sentence, were then removed from the bar.

strength to free himself. The prisoner was exceedingly
violent, and it was some time before he could be secured.
The complainants, in answer to questions, said their
husbands were unable to attend in consequence of being
obliged to go to work.
The prisoner pleaded drunkenness as an excuse for his
outrageous conduct.

Mi.'. Beadon sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned
for six months with hard labour.

THE NEW .HACKNEY CARRIAGES ACT.

The following is a copy of this act, which received the
royal assent on Saturday. It comprises all the altera-
tions in, and additions to, the bill originally introduced,
and is entitled, "An act to reduce the duties payable in
respect of hackney carriages used in the metropolis, and
to amend the laws relating to the granting of licenses
and payment of duties in respect of metropolitan stage
and hackney carriages, and to make provision as to the
charge for the hire of hackney carriages in certain
cases."

Whereas it is expedient to reduce the duties now pay-
able in respect of hackney carriages used in the metro-
polis : be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most ex-
cellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of
the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this
present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of
the same, as follows :

I. From and after the respective times hereinafter ap-
pointed in that behalf the duties granted and now payable
under the act passed in the session of Parliament holden
in the Ist and 2d years of the reign of his late Majesty King
William the Fourth, chapter 22 (that is to say) for and upon
every license to keep, use, employ, and let to hire any hack-
ney carriage within the distance of five miles from the Ge-
neral Post-office in the city of London the duty of five
pounds ; and for and in respect of every such license as
aforesaid, weekly and every week during the continuance
thereof the sum of ten shillings, shall respectively cease
and determine, and shall be and same are hereby re-
pealed ; save and accept as to any of the said duties which
shall have been charged or incurred on or before the said
respective times, and any arrear thereof, and as to all fines
and penalties incurred or which may be incurred in respect
of the said duties and arrears or in relation thereto ; all
which said duties or arrears, fines and penalties, so ex-
cepted as aforesaid, shall respectively be sued for and re-
covered, levied, paid, and applied in the same manner as if
this act had not been passed.
11. In lieu of the said duties hereby repealed there shall
be granted, raised, levied, collected, and paid, from and
after the respective times hereinafter appointed in that be-
half, unto and for the use of her Majesty, her heirs and
successors, for and in respect of every hackney carriage
which shall be kept, used, or let to hire within the limits
of this act as hereinafter defined the several duties follow-
ing, that is to say :

For and upon every license to be taken out yearly
to keep, use, and let to hire any such hackney £ s. d.
carriage
And for and in respect of every such hackney car-
riage as afdresaid, weekly, and every week,
where the license for such carriage shall a utho-
rise the using and letting tohire of the same on
every day of the week, the sum of (weekly duty) 0 7 0
And where such license shall authorise the using
and letting to hire of such carriage on every day
of the week, except Sunday, the sum of (weekly
duty)
111. The repeal of the said several existing duties, and
the grant in lieu thereof of the said several new duties, by
this act, shall respectively commence and take effect from
and after the respective times following (that is to say), as
to the said several weekly duties payable in respect of
every such hackney carriage as aforesaid, from and after
the 10th of July, 1853, and as to the said duty for and
upon every such license as aforesaid from and after the
passing of this act,
• _

IV.—The said duties by this act granted shall be denomi-
nated and deemed to be duties of excise, and shall be under
the care and management of the Commissioners of Inland
Revenue for the time being, and all powers, provisions,
clauses, regulations, and directions, fines, forfeitures, and
penalties contained in or enacted by any act or acts in
force for levying, collecting, and securing the, said duties
hereby repealed or any other duties of excise, or otherwise
in relation thereto in all cases not herein expressly pro-
vided for, and so far as the same are not superseded or ex-
pressly repealed by and are consistent with the express pro-
visions of this act, shall be duly observed, applied, prac-
tised, and put in execution for the granting, of licenses
under this act, and for charging, raising, levying, collect-
ing, and securing the said duties hereby gr ant ed, and other-
wise relating thereto, as fully and effectually to all intents
and purposes as if the same powers, provisions, clauses,
regulations, directions, fines, forfeitures, and penalties
were particularly repeated and re-enacted in the body of
this act with reference to the said duties hereby granted.
V. From and after the 10th of October, 1853, every
license granted and in force under the said act of the first
and second years of King William IV., chap. 22, or any
subsequent act or acts amending or altering the same, to
keep, use, employ, and let to hire any hackney carriage at
any place within the distance of five miles from the Gene-
ral Post-office, in the city of London, shall cease and deter-
mine ; and no hackney carriage shall be kept, used, em-
ployed, or let to hire, at any place within the said distance,
or within the limits of this act, without a license authoris-
ing the same granted under this act.
VI. Provided always, that every person who shall be
possessed of any license or licenses granted to him to keep,
use, or let to hire any hackney carriage within the distance
of five miles from the General Post-office, in the city of
London, and in force at the time of the passing of this
act, shall be entitled, upon production of the proper cer-
tificate, or certificates required by law in that behalf, to
have the same or any less number of new licenses granted
to him under this act without payment of the duty by this
act imposed on every such license, provided he shall pro-
duce and deliver up to the proper officers of Excise au-
thorised to grant licenses under this act the said license
or licenses of which he shall be so possessed, together with
the numbered plate or plates appertaining thereto, and shall
apply for such new license or licenses within the period of
one calendar month next after the 10th of October, 1853,
and such person shall also be entitled, upon the production
of such certificate or certificates as aforesaid, to have such
license or licenses renewed under this act without pay-
ment of the said duty imposed thereon until the first Mon-
day in the month of January, 1857.
VII. Every license which shall be granted under this
act to keep, use, and let to hire any hackney carriage shall
have effect and continue in force from the day of the date
thereof until the day hereinafter appointed for the expira-
tion thereof ; and every such license which shall be granted
before the 2d of January, 1854, shall expire on the Ist of
January, 1854, and every such license which shall be
granted upon or at any time after the said 2d of January,
1855, shall expire on the first Sunday in the month of
January in the year next following that in which such
license shall be granted; and every such license shall be
renewed from year to year on payment of the duty by this
act chargeable thereon.

VIM-Provided always, that for and upon every such
license as aforesaid which shall be taken out after the pass-
ing of this act, and before the 2d of January, 1854, there
shall be charged and paid in respect of the portion of a
year for which the same will be granted one-fourth part
only of the annual duty by this act charged on a yearly
license.

IX. Every person who shall be desirous of renewing any
such license shall give notice in writing twenty-one days
at least before the expiration of the current license to him
granted of his intention to renew the same to the proper
collector, supervisor, or other officer authorised to grant
such licenses ; and where such notice shall have been given
the new license shall bear date on the day next after the
day of the expiration of the former license ; but if such
notice shall not have been given the license shall bear date
on the day of the application for the same.

X. Provided always, That whenever any license granted
under this act shall cease or expire or be discontinued, the
person to whom such license shall have been granted shall,
within three days next after the expiration or discontinu-
ance thereof, deliver up to the Commissioners of Inland
Revenue, or to the proper officers or one of them, by whom
such license was granted, the numbered plate mentioned in
each license, or in default thereof such person shall con-
tinue to be subject and liable to the payment of the weekly
duty chargeable under this act in respect of the hackney
carriage mentioned in such license ; and such person shall
be charged with the said duty accordingly to the time of
delivering up the said. plate ; and such duty shall be re-
coverable by the same ways and means as if such license
had continued in force.

XL The numbered plates to be provided by the Commis-
sioners of Inland Revenue, and to be fixed on hackney car-
riages not authorised by license to be used or let to hire on
Sundays, shall be distinguished in such manner as the said
commissioners may think pkoper from the numbered plates
to be fixed on hackney carriages authorised by license to
be used and let to hire on every day of the week ; and if
any hackney carriage which shall be authorised by license
to be used and let to hire on every day of the week except
Sunday shall be used or let to hire on any Sunday, or if
any hackney carriage shall be used or let to hire on Sun-
day having fixed or placed thereon any such numbered
plate as aforesaid provided for any hackney carriage not
authorised to be used or let to hire on Sunday, every such
hackney carriage shall be deemed to be used and let to hire
without a license in that behalf; and the owner of such
hackney carriage, if there shall be no such plate as afore-
said fixed or placed thereon, or the person to whom such
plate (if any be fixed or placed thereon) shall have been
delivered, with any license relating thereto, shall be
deemed to be the person using and letting to hire such
hackney carriage without having a license in force so to do,
and shall incur and be liable to the penalty imposed by law
in that behalf.

XII. And whereas, under and by virtue of the laws in
force, licenses for or in respect of hackney carriages and
for or in respect of certain stage carriages are required to
be granted at the chief office of Inland Revenue, and the
duties payable in respect of such hackney carriages and
stage carriages respectively are required to be paid at the
said chief office, and it is expedient to make other provi-
sion in that behalf.
It shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Inland Re-
venue, and they are hereby authorised and empowered,
from time to time to order and direct that all or any of
such licenses as aforesaid shall be granted, and that the
duties payable in respect of all or any of such hackney car-
riages and stage carriages as aforesaid respectively shall be
paid, at such place or places within the limits of this act
as the said commissioners shall deem to be most proper and
convenient for the purpose, anything in any former act or
acts contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
XIII. It shall be lawful for the driver of any hackney
carriage within the limits of this act to charge ls. per mile
for every mile (or part of a mile) which he shall be required
to drive beyond the circumference of a circle, the radius of
which shall be four miles from Charing-cross, provided
such carriage shall be discharged beyond such circumfe-
rence, anything contained in the 33rd chapter of an act of
the 16th and 17th year of the reign of her present Majesty,
or in the schedule thereto, notwithstanding.
XIV. Whenever more than two persons shall be con-
veyed by any hackney carriage drawn by one horse only,
a sum of 6cl. for each person above tho number of two shall
be paid for the whole hiring in addition to the fare now
directed to be paid for two persons under the said act of
the sixteenth and seventeenth year of the reign of her pre-
sent Majesty, chap. 33; and two children under ten years
old shall be considered as one adult person for the purposes
of this clause.

XV. When any hackney carriage within the limits of
this act hired for a fare to be paid according to time shall
be hired or used by the hirer thereof for any longer time
than one hour, 6d. shall be paid for every fifteen minutes,
or any portion of fifteen minutes not completed, above
one hour.
XVI. The proprietor of every hackney carriage or. me-
tropolitan stage carriage licensed to ply for hire within
the limits of this act who shall withdraw his carriage from
hire for two consecutive days, or for any two days in one
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liable to a penalty of a sum not exceeding twenty shillings

in respect of every- carriage for each day he shall so with-
draw the same, and the license of such proprietor shall be
suspended or recalled and taken away at the discretion of
the said Commissioners of Police • provided always, that
it shall be lawful for such proprietor, upon giving ten days
notice to the Commissioners of Police, to withdraw his
carriage from hire.

XVII. The limits of this act shall be deemed to
.be
and to include every part of the metropolitan police
district and the city of London ; and all provisions of
any former act in force referring to hackney carriages
licensed under the said act of the Ist and 2nd years
of his late Majesty, or to hackney carriages kept,
used, employed, or let to hire within the distance of
five miles from the General Post-office in the city of
London, or to any act, matter, or thing committed or
done in relation to such hackney carriages within the
said distance, shall from and after the passing of this act
be deemed to refer and apply to hackney carriages licen-
sed under this act, or to hackney carriages kept, used,
employed, or let to biro within the limits of this act,
and to any act, matter, or thing committed or done in re-
lation to hackney carriages within the said limits.
XVIII. From and after the passing of this act it shall
not be lawful for any person other than the solicitor or
some other officer of inland revenue, or some officer of the
metropolitan police, to inform or prosecute before any
justice of the peace for the recovery of any penalty imposed
by or incurred under any act or acts now in force, or this
act, for or on account of the keeping, using, or letting to
hire by any person of any hackney carriage at any place
within the limits of this act without having a license in
force so to do, or without having the proper numbered
plate properly placed and fixed upon such hackney car-
riage in the manner required by law.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

CUSTOM-HOUSE-AuG. 22.

ENTERED INWARDS.—The Ceres, from Rotterdam ;
Vesta, Amsterdam ; Magnet, Harlingen ; Fame, Calais ;
City of London, Dunkirk ; Stadt Dordrecht, Dordt ;
Rhine, Denmark, and Hanover, Rotterdam ; Tiger, Ton-
ningen ; Echo, Barbadoes ; Copia, Dantzic ; Flecha,
Ghent ; James Lumsden, Moulmein ; American Eagle,
New York ; James, Guernsey ; Les Amis, Rouen ; Cale-
donian, Hamburgh ; Hampshire, Mauritius; Christian.
August, Berwick ; Balmoral, Quebec ; Amonia, Constan-
tinople; Grace, Malaga; Sciots, Isle Verte and Quebec;
William D. Sewall, Green Island and Canada ; William
Pitt, -Unity, and Lamburn, Guernsey ; James Alexander,
Melbourne ; Tamar, Sydney ; Thames, Hamburgh ;
Medwin, Musquash, N.B. ; Rufus, Carthagena ; John
Pearce, Leghorn ; Atlas, and Charles, Guernsey ; William
Patten, Spedia ; Falcon, New Orleans; Harmonie, Hen-
rietta, and W. A. Cooper, Quebec ; Progress, New York ;
Bernardus, Patras ; Ravensbourne, Antwerp ; Helen A.
Miller, Baltimore ; Ceres, St. John's, N. 8.; St. Croix,
Barbadoes ; Excavator, Guernsey ; Jane Hudson, Tagan-
rog ; Queen Esther, Antigua; Mary, Patras ; Empire, Cal-
cutta ; Rosa, and Swift, Guernsey ; Mathilda Luckie, De-
merara ; City of Paris, Boulogne ; Mariner, Bombay ;
Stately, Canterbury and Wellington; Fyenoord, Rotter-
dam ; Ealing Grove, Dominica ; Cambrodia, Sydney ;
Christine, Quebec ; Maid of Auckland, Adelaide ; Susan
Bayley, Girgenti ; Ocean, Havre ; Creole Dominica : Tres
Hermanoes, La Guavara.
ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Fame, for
Calais ; City of London, Dunkirk ; Eliza, Dunkirk ; Ocean
Lady, ditto ; Flecks, Ghent ; Stad Dordrecht, Dordt ;
Ceres, Rotterdam ; Charles, ditto ; Mary and Ann, Ant-
werp ; Dominion, Sydney ; Thames, Hamburg ; Juliana,
Galatz ; Ruby, Adelaide ; American Eagle, New York ;
George, Dunkirk ; Lord Petres, Mauritius ; Fame, Dun-
kirk ; Fyenoord, Rotterdam ; Seine, Boulogne ; Moselle,
Rotterdam; Emerald Isle, Adelaide; Abbeylands, Sydney,
N.S.W.; Abraham, Rouen ; Ravensbourne, Antwerp.
CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The Jabez, for St.
Helena ; Liebe, Altona ; Harmina, Konigsberg ; Carnatic,
Otago, Canterbury. &c. ; Gertina, Rostock ; City of Bou-
logne, Boulogne ; Rainbow, Antwerp.