The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-25 00:00:00

POST HORSE AND HACKNEY CARRIAGE

DUTIES.

The following are the resolutions reported to the house
on Friday evening :

POST HORSE DUTIES.

1. That from and after the 10th day of October, 1853,
the duties of Excise payable under any act or acts now
in force on horses let for hire, and on licenses to let the
same, shall respectively cease and determine ; and in
lieu hereof there shall be paid for and in respect of every
license to be taken out yearly by every person who shall
let any horse for hire, with or without any carriage to
be used therewith, the following duties of Excise (that is
to say) :

Where the person taking out such license shall Duty.
keep at one and the same time, to be let for
hire

1 horse or 1 carriage only £7 10 0
And where such person shall keep, as aforesaid,
any greater number of horses or carriages,
Not exceeding 2 horses or 2 carriages
Not exceeding 4 horses or 3 carriages
Not exceeding 8 horses or 6 carriages
Not exceeding 12 horses or 9 carriages ....... 40 0 0
Not exceeding 16 horses or 12 carriages 5O 0 0
Not exceeding 20 horses or 15 carriages
Exceeding 15 carriages
Exceeding 20 horses, then for every additional
number of 10 horses, and for any additional
number less than 10 over and above 20, or
any other multiple of 10 horses, the further
additional duty of
HACKNEY CARRIAGE DUTIES

10 0 0

2. That from and after a day to be named, the
duties now payable in respect of hackney carriages, and
licenses to keep and let to hire such carriages, within the
distance of five miles from the General Post-office in the
city of London, shall cease and determine, and in lieu
thereof there shall be payable for, and in respect of
every hackney carriage which shall be kept, used, or let
to hire within the limits of the act of the present session
of Parliament, chapter 33, for the better regulation of
metropolitan stage and hackney carriages, the several
duties following (that is to say) :
For and upon every license to be taken out
yearly to keep, use, and let to hire any such
hackney carriage £l 0 0
And for and in respect of every such hackney
carriage as aforesaid, weekly and every
week :

Weekly duty,

Where the license for such carriage shall au-
thorise the using and letting to hire of the
same on every day of the week, the sum 0f...
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 0f... 0 6 0

P.,0 7 0

LATF ST V( )ItEiti N NEWS

FRANCE.

The Emperor of the French appears sure of a
pacific solution of the Eastern question. Madame
Ducos, the wife of the Minister of Marine, who is
now making a tour of inspection on the coast,
went a day or two ago to take leave of the Em-
peror and Empress preparatory to a visit to Bor-
deaux, her native city. She asked an extension
of leave of absence for her husband to the 10th
August. The Emperor at once granted it, and
observed that the Minister need be under no ap-
prehension of being disturbed from his repose by
any warlike announcements in the press ; that he
had no pressing occasion for the presence in Paris
of either the Minister of War or the Minister of
Marine ; and that the only member of the Cabinet
whose presence was indispensable at the present
moment was the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
The Emperor and Empress, by the way, paid a
visit to the Tuileries on Saturday. The Emperor
came in on horseback, and the Empress and her
immediate attendants followed in a carriage. The
Emperor proceeded to inspect the works going on
at the Louvre. No escort accompanied the party.
It is expected that on the occasion of the fetes
of the 15th of August eight new Senators will be
named. Among others the names of Dr. Conneau,
first physician to the Emperor and the companion
of his captivity at Ham, and the Napoleonist poet,
M. Belmintet, are mentioned.
Monnet has been convicted by the Court of
Assizes of the Drome of the murder of the Vicomte
de Dampmartin, mayor of Uzes, and sentenced to
be excuted. at Valence.

The Moniteur announces that the Emperor had
received a letter from Don Jose Maria Obando, no-
tifying to him his elevation to the Presidency of
the Republic of New Grenada.

The 4overnment has granted concessions for the
railway from Rheims to Mezieres and Charleville,
with a branch line to Sedan, and for the railway
from Beauvais to Creil. These concessions have
been granted to an Anglo-French company, among
the members of which are the Duke de Mouchy,
the Count Simeon, Mr. John Masterman, and M.
ITzelli.

The absence of decisive intelligence respecting
the progress of the Eastern question, combined
with the usual dulness in business at the termina-
tion of the week, exercised an unfavourable in-
fluence at the Bourse on Saturday, and a decline in
prices took place. The Three per Cents. fell 55c.,
and the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. 30c., both for
the account, whilst in the quotations for cash, the
Three per Cents. declined 30c., and the Four-and-
a-Half per Cents., 10c. An advance of sf. oc-
curred in Bank of France Shares. The final quo-
tations were :-For cash : Three per Cents. 78f.
50c. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 103 f. 40c. ; for
the account : Three per Cents., 78f. 25c. ; Four-
and-a-Half per Cents. 103 f. 20c. ; Bank Stock,
2740 f. Bank of Credit Foncier Shares declined 10f.,
and those of the Societe Mobiliere, 15f., the former
closing at 753 f. ; and the latter at 825.. A gene-
ral decline in prices also took place on Saturday in
the Railway Share Market, although in some few
cases the final quotations remained unaltered from
the previous day, in consequence of a favourable
change occurring just previous to the conclusion
of business ; Firthern fell sf. ; Paris and Orleans,
17f. 50. ; Paris and Lyons, 12f. 50c. ; Paris and
Strasbourg, 7f. 50c. ; and Rouen and Havre and
Bordeaux and Cette, each, 2f. 50c. Closing prices :
-Northern, 875 f. ; Paris and Orleans, 11,35 f. ;
Paris and Strasbourg, 927 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons,
925 f. ; Paris and Rouen, 1100 f. ; Lyons to the
Mediterranean, 765 f. ; Western of France, 750 f. ;
Rouen and Havre, 502 f. sOc. ; Bordeaux and
Cette, 637 f. 50c. ; Caen and Cherbourg, 620 f.