The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-23 00:00:00

STAMP ACTS.

The house then resolved itself into a committee on the
stamp acts, and, on the motion of Mr. WILSON, the
following resolution on stamp duties, on conveyances,
charters, &c., cp as agreed to, in order to remedy a defect
in the act of last session :—" That the respective stamp
duties granted and made payable under the several
heads or titles of duplicate or counterpart,' and
progressive duty,' in the schedule annexed to the act
13 and 14 Vict., c. 97, shall respectively be payable upon
and in respect of, and deemed to apply to, the several con-
veyances, charters, dispositions, and contracts, described
under the head or title of conveyance,' in the Schedule
to the act of the last session of Parliament, c. 63, and to
any duplicate or counterpart thereof. That, where any
such conveyance, charter, disposition, or contract, as
aforesaid, shall be male in consideration of any annual
sum payable for the life of any person, or for any period
determinable upon death, or any indefinite period, as here-
inafter mentioned, the gross value of such annual sum.
calculated according to the respective tables in the schedule
annexed to the act of the last session of Parliament, c. 51,
in any case where such tables are applicable, shall be
deemed to be the purchase or consideration money, and
such deed or instrument shall be chargeable in respect
thereof, as a conveyance upon the sale of property, with tne
ad valorem duty granted and imposed by the said act of
the 13th anil 14th Vict., cap. 97, in lieu of the duty
chargeable under the said act of the last session, cap. 63.
And where the annual sum shall be payable for any period
determinable upon death, or for auy life subject to any
event or contingency which may determine the same, or
for any indefinite period not extending beyond a life in
being, the value thereof shall be calculated as if such
annual sum were payable absolutely for the life of the per-
son upon whose death the same may or must cease, and
without regard to any such event, contingency, or period
respectively."
The resolutions on the stamp duties, agreed to in com-
mittee on Friday, were reported to thei house, and bills
founded on them were ordered to be brought in.
The Customs Duties Bill was read a third time and
passed.
The Valuation of Land (Scotland) Bill went th rough
committee pro forma for the purpose of amendment.
In answer to Mr. WHITESIDE,
Sir J. YOUNG stated that the Towns Improvement
(Ireland) Bill would be taken at a morning sitting after
Whitsuntide.
The Public Statues Bill went through committee, and
was ordered to be read a third time on Thursday next.
On the motion of Mr. PIGOTT, a select committee on
medical relief was appointed.
Mr. FREWEN said, before tha house adjourned, he
wished to state that he had received a letter from a gentle-
man alluding to something he said on Thursday night. He
was proceeding to read the letter, when he was called to
order.
The SPEAKER said no gentleman out of the house Was
entitled to know what passed in the house, consequently
no gentleman in the house could read a letter referring to
what passed in the house. (Hear, hear.)
The house then adjourned at a quarter-past two.

SIIIPPINO INT ELLIGENCE.

CUSTOM-HOUSE, MAY 22.

ENTERED INWARDS —The Lion, from Gravelines ;
Leonne, do.; Jane, Ghent ' • Stad Dordrecht, Dort ; John
Henry Yates, Dantzic ; Vesta, Corunna ; Den Gode
Moder, Christiansand • Fr eesland, Worcurn ; -White Mouse,
Lisbon ; Release, Gallipoli ; Anna Catharine., Flensburg ;
Palm, Antigu' ; Santos, Matanzas ; Pauline, Callao ;
Lion, do. ; Pearl, Para ; George Guildford, Odessa ;
George Frederick, Konigsberg ; Eclipse, Rouen ; Minerva,
Mauritius ; Anglesea, Jamaica Kate, Galatz ; Wilber-
force, Mauritius ; Virginia, Odessa ; Kate Callao ; Duke
of Richmond, Odessa ; Hylton Maid, do. ; Industry, Dun-
kirk; Juno, Uckermonde ; Anna Dorothea, Nykjobing ;
Emanuel, Skive • Agnes Blackie, Callao ; Panama, do. ;
Mary Ann, do. ; Ondemenong, do ; Garland, do. ; Johanna,
Carolinenseil; Fendraglit, Ystad ; Kangaroo, Port Philip
and Cape of Good Hope; Cormorant, Rotterdam ; Mary and
Emily, Stettin : Clara Catharina, Carolinenseil ; Reena,
Nykiobing; Vrow Hellegina, ditto; Renshaw, Mauritius;
Emmanuel, Rander; Elizabeth and Mary, Brussels; Geb-
kea, Memel; Gen. Von Wrangel, Stralsund; Marie, Wool-
Emerald, Antigua; Jantina, Groningen; Feliza, Belize;
Marys, Memel; Giovanna Leopolda, Venice; Gretina,
Skive; Essex, Thisted; Neptune, Aarhaus; Eindracht,
Carolinenseil; Mentur, Memel; Elizabeth Marie, Aarhaus;
Enigheden, Neustadt; Vriendschap, Dantzic • Saint Jocob,
ditto ' • Mediterranean, Belize; Clarendon, ditto ; Artag •
non, Dragomestra; Candidate, Hamburg ; Rio Packet,
Rio Janeiro ; Prince of Wales, Gothenburg; Ondernening,
Colding ; Furet, Gravelines ; De Tweeling, Svendborg ;
Gloria 1)eo, -Nykiobing • Tennant, Hamburg; Ceres, Cal-
mar; Iliona, ; dolconde, Bordeaux; Patriot, Lan-
zarote ; Elizabeth, Dunkirk ; Vera, St. Kitt's and Neves;
Genereuse, Caen; Zeus, Tarragono; Empire Queen, Cuba;
Margienna Margaratt, Nykiobing; Nereid, Odessa.
ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING The Reli-
ance, for Quebec and Montreal; Spirit of the North,
Shanghai ; Stad Dordrecht, Dordt ; Thomas Ilvrrison,
Madras and Rangoon ; Robert, Demerara. ; Vesta, Alex-
andria • Armaes, Ceylon; Braganza, Payta, ; Ripa, Cuba ;
White 'Mouse, St. John's, Newfoundland; Queen, Oporto
and Lisbon ; Jenny Lind, Demerara ; Top Smet, Port
Adelaide; Emigrant, Hamburgh ; Clarendon, Sierra Leone ;
Burgomestra Van Reenen, Melbourne; Dos, Demerara.
CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO The Eliza-
beth, for Stockholm ; Elsina Engelina, Leer ; Rosa, Ber-
bice ; General Wiltshire, Aden ; Tantivy, Sydney ; El-
speth, St. Lucia ; Salacia, Hobart Town.

LIVERPOOL, May 22.—The fore part of a vessel of about
400 to❑s, bottom up and copperecl, was passed, May 9,
lat. 48 N., long. 28_W., in the vicinity of the Three Chim-
neys, by the Queen of the Ocean, from Virginia, who
spoke and enchanged cheers with, on the 16th May, lat.
50.20 N., long. 9.38 W., the clipper ship Lightning, for
Melbourne. The Glencairn, from Glasgow, has arrived at
Quebec (May 10) the first and only ship from England at
that date.

MEMEL.—H.M. screw steamer Archer, arrived in the
roadstead for provisions and water, reports an English
steamer to be approaching with four itussian prizes in
tow, supposed to have been taken out of Libau Harbour
yesterday evening, where several steamers were in the
roads. Weather fine ; wind variable ; 14 ft. 6 in. water
on the bar.
The, Bellona, of Bristol, from Cardiff to Quebec (cargo
railway iron, was abandoned 18th April, with stern frame
forced out, cargo shifted, and unmanageable, having been
pooped by a sea during a heavy gale the day prey ous, in
lat. 47, long. 31; crew saved by the Cleopatra (s.), arrived
here as above.

A DEFECT IN THE Lew.—Lord Campbell has done
good service to the public by an emphatic assertion of
the law of fraud on the trial of two persons at the
Central Criminal Court for a conspiracy to defraud, by
selling as Allsopp's ale a spurious liquor which was not
Allsopp's, but compounded by themselves. The case is
capable of extensive application to the public service.
Thus, if it can be shown that two persons are engaged
in it, so as to make out a conspiracy, the practice of
adulteration, so extensively revealed by the exertions of
the Lancet, might be brought, as it should be, within
the grasp of the criminal law, and judges and juries will
not be slow to discharge their duty and punish. But
we would respectfully suggest to Lord Campbell whether
the case does not plainly exhibit the defect in the law of
fraud. Here, if the fraud had been practised by only
one of the defendants, he could not have been convicted.
The fraud, as such—that is, the act of cheating—is not
punishable. It is only punished in this instance by a
sidewind, alleging a conspiracy to cheat. Thus, accord-
ing to our much-vaunted criminal law, it is a crime to
plan a fraud, but not a crime to execute it. Would it
not be more rational to punish directly an offence which
we punish indirectly—to make that a criminal act done
by one which is criminal when done by two I—Law
Times.

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