The Sun.
London, England, 1836-07-29 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS

CUSTOMS.
Umier the Bill to amend the laws relating to the Customs,
which is new before the House of Commons, Goods, the pro-
perty of perscns resident abroad, may be entered by Bill of
Store, if property be not changed.
Spirits may be imported in casks of twenty gillons, and to-
bacco or snuff in hogsheads, &c., containing 3001bs.
Goods may be exported in vessels of 69 tons.
Cr,minissioners of Customs to grant general Transires.
Goods reported to Customs as jetsam, flotsam or lagan, and
not claimed within 12 months, to be deemed condemned as
Drnits of Admiralty.

Bat used in fishing on the coast of Scotland not required
to have Licenses.

Prosecutions. not to be instituted in cases where spirits, tobacco
or snuff arc found on board vessels in legal packages within cer-
tain distances of the coasts of the liriited Kingdom.
The new Table of Duties follows, which has already ap-
peared in The Sun.

COMMON LAW COURTS.
A Bill is now before the House " to abolish certain offices
in the superior Courts of Law, and to make provision for a more
effective and uniform establishment of officers in those Courts."
According to the preamble, " the continuance of such sinecure
and useless offices tends to impair the effective administration
of justice, and to cast upon the public and the suitors in those
Courts unnecessary burdens and costs." Thirty-seven of such
sinecure offices arc, it is proposed, to be substituted by the
appointment of five Masters on the plea side of the Court of
King's Bench, four for the Common Pleas, and five on the
plea side of the Court of Exchequer.

BENEFIT BUILDING SOCIETIES.
Power is given to make rules and provide forms of conveyance.
Exemption from Stamp Duties is proposed, and a receipt en-
dorsed on mortgage is to be held sufficient to discharge with-
out reconveyance. There is a clause to prevent the invest-
ment of funds in Savings'-banks, or with the Commissioners
for the reduction of the National Debt. All Societies esta-
blished prior to June, 1936, to come within the meaning of
the Act.

METROPOLITAN POLICE.
In some returns recently ordered by the House of Commons
to be printed, on the motion of Mr. Hume, we see that the
total expenditure of the Metropolitan Police Establishment in
the year 1535, was 208,221/. 19s. 9d. The two Commis-
sioners, it is of course known, enjoy salaries amounting to
1,726/. The receivers salary is 7001. The number of consta-
bles or policemen was 2,977.
The aggregate expense of the nine Police Establishments
last year was 51,724/. ss. 5d.; Bow-street and the Thames
Police each cost more than double most of the other establish-
ments. It appears that 9,383/. 18s. came into the coffers of
the Police from gratuities, fees, and penalties levied, no portion
of which, it is stated, was given to clerks or officers, but lodged
with the respective receivers to defray the expenses of the se-
veral establishments.

A THIEF WHOSE LUCK WAS WORN OUT.—It
is a well-known adage all over the United Kingdom that,
when "the old one" has encouraged his followers far enough
in wickedness "he leaves them in the lurch." This opinion
having been borne out by numberless facts, is, therefore, not
to be controverted ; and the following instance is a curious
corroboration of that principle. At the Assizes, just now
ended at Buckingham, a man was tried for stealing a large
quantity of harness from the premises of Mr. Depree, of
King's Langley, in that county. After being arraigned,
however, the thief pleaded guilty, and would not retract his
plea, and the Judge, finding that he was a regular burglar,
sentenced him to 14 years' transportation. The manlier of
his apprehension was singular. This fellow, who was a
noted cracksman (housebreaker) had taken a trip in the
country for recreation and business, and in pursuing his
rural taste, he had fallen in with Mr. Depree's coach-house
and stables, into which he soon made his way, and bagged
all the harness. Having done this to his satisfaction, he
carried his booty down a by-lane, which led from the pre-
mises to the Bristol and London road. Here he planted him-
self to await the coming up of some of the Western coaches ;
one from Bristol soon came on, and be hailed it; but there
was not room for him. In it, however, was a Bow-street
officer, who, peeping slyly out, soon discovered that the " way-
worn traveller" was a regular Jemmy from town. Being, how-
ever, a discreet man, he recollected that verbum sat, &c. He
therefore went on. The bagman was, however, more success-
ful with the next coach ; he was stowed with his luggage on
the outside, and at Hounslow they came up with the first
coach, which was changing horses. Here Bow-street got a
better view of his man and bag, but still adhered to his Latin
adage. On the coaches went gaily until they reached Ham-
mersmith, when Jemmy got inside. Bow-street suspected he
had bolted, and thought he would look after the sack. How-
ever, on looking into the coach, he saw the bagman sitting
between a lady and gentleman: in a moment he said, " Jem,
I want you." Jem came directly. " Now," said the officer,
"is it all leather you have got in the bag ?" " No, it's only a
few bits of harness." So he put the ruffles on Mister Jem,
and he was soon introduced to the Magistrates, who lost no
time in sending him on another excursion into Buckingham..
shire, to account for his stock of leather, and from thence he
goes on his travels to the antipodes.
KIDDERMINSTER.—On Wednesday afternoon this
town was visited by a violent storm of hail and rain, attended
with thunder and lightning. The electric fluid struck the
north side of the tower of St. George's Chapel, and shattered
it very much, leaving a fissure up the pinnacle, and melting
the lead in the jointings of the stone. The lightning then
passed to a tree in Mr. Cureton's garden, exactly at right
angles with the tower, stripped a part of the bark off it, entered
a brewhouse at the bottom of the tree, and tore out a quantity
of bricks from the side of the furnace ; it then passed to the
front of the house, and entered the ground with a great noise.
The damage done to the pinnacle is so great, that it is feared
it will have to be taken down. The sexton, who was filling a
grave at the time, was thrown down by the electric fluid, but
sustained no further injury ; as were also several other per-
sons.—Kidderminster Messenger.
On Friday evening last, a servant man, in the em-
ploy of Mr. Thomas Jones, of Oldswinford, having loaded a
gun with small pebble-stones, for the purpose of shooting
sparrows, left it in a barn, when a little boy who was there, on
seeing it, brought it into the yard, unconscious, no doubt of its
being loaded, and pointed it at Mr. Jones's niece, but, fortu-
nately, it missed fire ; he then pointed at Mrs. Jones, and be-
fore she had time to go near him, he had pulled the trigger,
but it luckily missed fire a second time ; he then turned
round and pointed it at a valuable horse which was standing
in the yard, and shot it dead on the spot.— Worcester Herald.
OLD WOMAN.—There is now living in Barrett's-
court, Wigmore-street, a woman who, if she survives till No-
vember next, will have completed 110 years. In the main,
her faculties are not much impaired, considering her advanced
age ; and she subsists upon a small allowance from the parish,
assisted by occasional contributions from the few to whom
her case is known. Since she became a hundred she has
travelled from Dublin to London, walking all the way from
Liverpool.
TOLERATION.—On Tuesday se'nnight, the Nisi
Prius Court, in York Castle, presented the singular though
gratifying spectacle of having a Jew for the foreman of its
jury. In taking the prescribed oath, this gentleman put on
his hat, and swore upon the Old Testament. What a contrast !
A Jew exercising the most important trust which our free Con-
stitution assigns to the people, in the very spot where, a few
centuries ago, the persecuted professors of " the ancient
faith" were cruelly butchered, and compelled to commit suicide
by the persons then called Christians.— York Courant.
FLAG OF THE UNION —Since the 4th of July
last the flag of the United States has been spangled with 26
stars, two being added in consequence of the admission of the
States of Arkansas and Michigan into the Union. In 1818,
the number of States then being 20, an Act was passed, " That
on the admission of every new State into the Union, one star
be added to the flag of the Union ; and that such addition shall
take effect on the 4th day of July then succeeding such admis-
sion." The 13 stripes, denoting the 13 original States, were,
on the admission of Vermont and Kentucky, increased to 16 ;
but as the number of States was further enlarged, it was per-
ceived that the flag would not eventually admit of a stripe for
each, and so an Act was passed limiting the number to 13, as
before. The last star added to the flag was on the 4th of
July, 1822, in honour of the State of Missouri, which was ad-
mitted into the Union on the 10th of August, 1821. The star
for Maine was added on the 4th of July, 1820.
CRUELTY OF THE CAItLISTS.—The truth of the
following fact is unquestionable:—One of the Royal Marine
battalion, and an artilleryman of the Legion, whose horse was
shot on the late retreat, in their attempt to save the harness
and place it on a pony, were closely pursued by the Carlists.
They were obliged to fly, and made for the sea, and swam
round a promontory, where they concealed themselves in the
rocks for the night, and joined at St. Sebastian next day.
While they were pursued they saw two English women and a
child taken by the Carlists. The women were immediately
shot, but it is supposed the child was spared.
FINE CABRAGE.—A remarkably fine spring cab-
bage was lately cut in the garden of Mr. Bolt, of Goran
Haven, the white heart of which weighed ten pounds; had the
whole of the leaves been weighed with it, no doubt it would
have exceeded twenty pounds. The cabbage was one of the
" Paington" sort, the seed having come from that place last
summer. It was sown in July, and the plants set in October.
Many very good ones have been cut from the same seed, and
came very early.— West Briton.
THE POOR.—The Essex Herald states that
the Rev. Mr. Maberley has visited that county, and addressed
large assemblages of the labourers on the subject of the new
Poor Law 13ill—a measure which he loudly condemns. The
Herald, in animadverting on the course pursued by this Rev.
Gentleman, asks, " Would he leave the labourer, steeped to
the lips in pauperism, and stained with crime, to drag on an
idle and a wretched life by drawing from the overseer, without
one blush of honest shame, the means of existence for a still
more wretched family, till he drops without a tear to honour
him, and is hurried from the workhouse to a parish grave?
Would he leave the daughter of the poor man, in her moral
degradation, to subsist upon the sums which the law wrung
from her profligate paramours to support the living witnesses
of her own infamy ? Would be abridge the comforts of the
little tradesman and the half bankrupt farmer that the able-
bodied labourer, broken in spirit, and sunk in the social scale,
may clamour for parochial charity as a right, and look upon
the enforcement of honest toil as a punishment."—lt is per-
haps equally undeniable that all these wide-spreading national
evils did necessarily make part and parcel of the old system,
and also that severe individual hardship is, incidentally, suf-
fered under the new system.
We' have great pleasure in stating
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party, in this town, have acted with
with reference to the registration, Last year many voters
were struck off the list, because small arrears of rates, some of
several years' standing, had not been paid. A few weeks ago
a proposal was made to the Tories by the Liberals, not to take
notice, on either side, of any arrears of more than one or two
years' standing ; but the former said that they should not omit
to take advantage of every possible legal objection. The Li-
berals have consequently taken steps for preventing any of their
friends being disqualified on that ground; and have not only
made a tender of rates on behalf of every Liberal in the bo-
rough, but have obtained from the overseers an acknowledg-
ment that all arrears have been paid, The Tories were not
aware of this proceeding until it was too late to take a similar
step themselves, and their vexation may be easily conceived.
We understand that several of their own party are likely
to be disqualified, by the non-payment of rates.—Halifax
Express.
On Friday, a girl about ten years of age, who was
standing by the side of a well in Barrack-lane, Chelmsford,
with an infant in her arms, while in the act of reaching across
it to put the cover on, overbalanced herself and fell in. An-
other little girl, eight years old, a sister to the other, instantly
gave the alarm, and an old man let down the chain and de-
scended to the surface of the water, where he paw the infant
floating. He instantly brought it up, but was not aware that
the girl was in the well until asked by the mother, " Where is
the other ?" She was afterwards found at the bottom of' the
well, under ten feet of water, quite dead, although only about
ten minutes bad elapsed from the time the infant was rescued '

The SPEAKER considered that, notwithstanding the
prayer was in the alternative, it was substantially for money,
and therefore, according to the rules of the House, could
not be received, unless the Government assented to it.
Mr. ROBINSON would then ask whether the Admi-
ralty would waive the objection in point of form, and allow
him to bring it up ?
Mr. C. WOOD said that, so far as the Admiralty were
concerned, they could have no objection to the petition.
The person who, in his opinion, was to be called upon to
give leave was the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Mr. ROBINSON would withdraw the petition for the
present, and in the mean time he would endeavour to effect
some arrangement with the Chancellor of the Exchequer
upon the subject.

LAW OF PATENTS.
Mr. MACKINNON presented a petition from certain
manufacturers interested in the Patent law. The
Honourable Member complained that for the last four
or five weeks he had been prevented from having his
Bill for the amendment of the law of Patents, read.
If Hon. Gentlemen on the other side choose to have a
dinner, or absent themselves, or wished to shirk a Bill,
they ought to meet it in a manly and straightforward man-
ner, instead of making no House on Wednesdays.
• Mr. BERNAL thought the Hon. Member rather
sweeping and incorrect in his observations. He did not
know why the remark of the Hon. Gentleman should be
applied to that side of the House rather than the other.—
(Hear, hear.)
Mr. HUTT would beg to ask whether the Hon. Mem.
ber for Lymington was himself present when the House
was counted out ?—(Much laughter.)
POOR LAWS.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said it was his intention to
move that the Poor Laws Amendment Bill be postponed
for the present.

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.
Mr. T. ATTWOOD had some petitions to present,
and hoped the House would allow him to do so.
The SPEAKER observed that by a resolution of the
House, the public business was to be proceeded with at
half-past four o'clock.
Mr. ATTWOOD was not aware of any such arrange-
ment.

Several Hon. Members stated that they had petitions
which they were anxious to present.
Major BEAUCLERK begged most distinctly to deny
the inferences which the Morning Papers had drawn from
his speech of last night. He had not the slightest intention
of casting any blame upon the Speaker.
The SPEAKER hoped he would be allowed to say a
few words upon this matter. When he was placed
in the Chair, there was a very general complaint
made of the time consumed in the presentation of petitions
—(Hear, hear)—and there was also the same general feel-
ing against Morning Sittings. He was anxious to find out
some remedy, and then found that there was a report of a
Committee of 1833 which had never been acted upon, and
he took upon himself the ungracious and unpleasant task of
attempting to bring back the HousQ to the practice which