The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-31 00:00:00

Since to-night we have to say good-bye to '53,
and have already chronicled the good features of
the year commercially, let us also add a word or
two about its legislative results. With all their
sins of omission and of commission, the Coalition
are entitled to much praise for a portion at least of
their Parliamentary doings. The " Successions
Duty" Law will iu itself be a highly honourable
monument of their legislative usefulness, and, had
they done nothing else, that act alone would secure
them a large measure of respect from all reformers
and sound politicians. To carry so useful a bill
required courage, tact, and a considerable amount
of self-sacrifice. Let those who had the honesty to
put upon their own class an impost which had been
before evaded, have at least the credit fairly due to
such practical patriotism. The repeal of the Soap:
Tax and the Abolition of the Advertisement Tax
must also be gratefully remembered. Turning to '
a list of new laws passed in 1853 we find the 'i
following : .
Succession Duty. .
Clergy Reserves (Canada). '
Government of India. ' • -.
Income Tax.
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Soap Duties.
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Customs Duties. , , -.
Customs Tariff.
Hackney Carriage Duties.
South Sea and other Annuities Commutation.
South Sea and other Annuities Provision for
Payment. . .
Excise Duty on Spirits.
Stamp Duties.
Stamp Duties, No. 2. • . . .
Consolidated Annuities, Ireland. -
Insurance on Lives : Income Tax Exemption.
Transfer of Aids.
Exchequer Bills.
Consolidated Fund. •
Consolidated Fund,- 4,000,0001.
Consolidated Fund Appropriation.
Saying Banks Annuities.
Metropolitan Improvements (repayment out of Con-
solidated Fund). '
Public Works Loan.
Stamp Duties on Patents for Inventions.
) Sales of Bullion.
Inland Revenue Office.
Land Revenues.
Assessed Taxes.
Duties on Horses Let for Hire.
Coinage Offences, Colonies.
Goiernment of India.
Merchant Shipping.'
Pilotage. ‘
Customs Acts Consolidation.
Charitable Trusts.'
Transportation. -.
Apprehension of Offenders Act Amendment.
Stock in Trade Exemption.
Passengers' -Act Amendment.'
Poor Relief Act Continuance.
Mutiny.
Marine Mutiny.
Entry of Seamen.
Naval Coast Volunteers.
Militia' Pay.
Copies of Specifications Repeal.
Employment of Children in Factories.
Newspaper Stamp Law Defined.
Office of Examiner, Court of Chancery.
Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction.
Cathedral Appointments.
Aggravated Assaults. •
hackney Carriages (Metropolis).. • -
Sheriff Courts, Scotland.
Burgh Harhoun, Scotland. 1
Sheriffs, Scotland. • •
Universities, Scotland.
Bankruptcy, Scotland.
Entails, Scotland.
Registrar of Meetings.
Malicious Injuries, Ireland.
Valuation Act Amendment, Ireland.
Grand Jury Cess, Ireland.
Taxing-officer Common Law.
Business, Ireland.
Dublin Parliamentary Registration.
Encumbered Estates Act, Ireland; Continuance.
-Resident Magistrates, Ireland. • •
Crime and Outrage Act, Ireland, Continuance.
Turnpike Acts Continuance, Ireland.
Linen, &c., Manufactures, Ireland.
1 Dublin Carriages. .
Drainage of Lands, Ireland.
Public Works Act Amendment, Ireland.
Turnpike Trusts Arrangements.
Turnpike Acts Continuance.
Sheep, &c., Contagious Diseases Prevention.
Highway ates.
Land Tax Redemption.
Land Tax Redemption Act' Amendment.
Land Tax Commissioners' Names.
Loan Societies.
' Friendly Societies.
1 Defacing the Coin. •
Copy-hold, &c., Commission Continuance. •
Slave Trade, Scalar in Arabia.
Slave Trade, New Granada.
Liberated Africans, Sierra Leone.
Militia Ballots Suspension, &c.
General Board of Health.
Indemnity.
Commons Enclosure, No. 2.
Commons Enclosure, No. 3.
Whichwood Forest.
Sheriff and Commissary Courts, Berwickshire.
New Forest Deer—Removal Act Amendment.
Battersea Park.
Westminster Bridge.
Smoke Nuisance Abatement, Metropolis.
Metropolitan Sewers Act Continuance.
Thames Embankment.
Burials beyond the Metropolis.
Copyholds. .
Female Convicts.
Betting Houses. ,
Registrar of the Privy Council.
Elections.
Municipal Corporations Act Amendment.
Chancery Suitors further Relief.
Lunatic Asylums.
Lunatics Care and Treatment.
Lunacy Regulation.
Oaths in Chancery. •
Patronage Exchange. .
Colonial Bishops Act Extension.
Vaccination Extension:
Public Libraries, Ireland,
Burghs, Scotland.
Convicted Prisoners Removal Confinement.
County Elections Poll.
County Elections Poll, Scotland.
Law of Evidence, Scotland.
Evidence Amendment.
Bail in Error.
Public-houses, Scotland.
Common Lodging-houses.
Courts of Common Law, Ireland.
Parish Vestries.
A tolerably long list, this, of new laws f Among
the abortive Parliamentary measures of 1853, were
Bills respecting :

Jewish Disabilities (rejected by the Lords). Educa-
tion. Ministers' Money, Ireland. Ecclesiastical Leasing
Act Amendment. Assistant Judge Middlesex Sessions.
Places of Religious Worship Registration. Registration
of Assurances. Truck Act Amendment. Sheriff Court,
Scotland. Attornies' and Solicitors'
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Certificate Duty.
County-rates and Expenditure. Sale of Lands, &c.,
Juvenile
Pit
Ireland. Recovery of Personal Liberty.
Offenders. Episcopal and Ca la! Estates. Expenses
and Grants of Admin-
istration. Elections. Probates
°lWriils nd
Amendment. Manchester and
Salford Education.
istration. Simony Law
oolitan Building Act Further
Amendment. Missionteltrßishops Bill. Colonial Church
rtan Sewers. Highways, Ireland.
Regulation. Metr°P°
Glanders Prevention. New Trials, Criminal Cases.
Judges Exclusion.
Seamen Savings Banks. Burial
Grounds. Juvenile Mendicancy. Cruelty to Animals. .
Friendly Societies, No. 2. Sale
Payment of Wage
and Purchase of Land. Tenant Right, Ireland. Trans.
fer of Land, Ireland.
Many of these " murdered. innocents" we may
hope to see revived in the coming • session of 1851,
and made law of the land.