The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-02 00:00:00

IMPOLTANT DECISION.

A steeple chase, got up for the benefit of the town and
neighbourhood, took place at Grantham, on the 7th
April last. Since then great surprise and dissatisfaction
has been created amongst the sporting characters of the
district, owing to the surveyor of taxes (Mr. Atkinson)
having caused those who entered their horses in the
chase to be furnished with surcharge; with cause (if
any) to appeal. The appellants appeared before the com-
missioners of the district and the surveyor ; the latter
concidently insisting that they were liable, induced the
commissioners, after a long examination, to come to the
conclusion that they were to pay the extra duty. Mr.
Sampey, one of the appellants, feeling indignant at this
decision, wrote to the managing commissioner, Thomas
Keogh, Esq., Somerset House, as to his liability to pay,
and received the following answer :
" Inland Revenue, Somerset House, London,
September 14, 1854.
have laid before the Board of Inland Revenue
your letter of the cth instant, requesting to know whether,
under the circumstances therein stated, you are liable to
he assessed for a race horse. In reply, lam dire..:ted to
inform you that the board have made inquiry into the
matter, and they find you are charged only the ordinary
duty on your horse for the present year, and that, under
the circumstances, you will not be assessed for a race horse
in respect of the use of your horse on the occasion to which
you ailude.—l am, &c.

" THOMAS KEOGH."
The matter so far is endod at Grantham, the solution to
the problem showing that Mr. Atkinson, with all his
knowledge and power, was as much wrong, probably
more so, as he has ever been right. The present case
fully proves, and what maybe of great service hereafter
to the sporting world, that any gentleman paying com-
mon riding horse duty, may enter and run his horse
in any steeple chase, without paying racehorse duty.

CAPA MUDADLA.— The columns of the Orthoepist have
been most industriously searched in latter times to
furnish names that have certainly created confusion I
rather than assisted in explaining what they were in-
tended to convey ; but a most happy selection of title
has been made in reference to a patent for an improved
ladies' mantle, and which is called the Capa Mudabla,
or, as its Spanish name would translate, changing cloak.
Of all the novelties in dress that have recently appeared,
this is the roost marked, inasmuch as it gives an ever-
varying change. Firstly, it has the form of a comfort-
able ye.:, elegant cloak, with the fullness of skirt so
much now in vogue in Paris. Secondly, without the
slightest difficulty it may be changed so as to form
gracefully draped sleeves ; and, thirdly, may be 4r-
ranged for the sleeves to fit closely. With 'these pecu-
liarities, it will be seen how admirably it is adapted to
our variable climate, and the tact, judgment, and taste
displayed by the Messrs. Jay, of Regent-street, the
patentees, atamce conceded.
LEEDS, Stolit. 29.—There has not been any change of
consequence in the state of the woollen market this
week. There was rather more activity in the
coloured Cloth-hall on Saturday, and an improved
business was done ; but on Tuesday the market was
flat, and the quantity of cloth that changed owpers was
within a very moderate compass. In the white cloth
market, both on Saturday and on Tuesday, there was a
fair moderato business done.,