The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-08 00:00:00

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LECTION.
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ELECT,RS OF LIVERPOOL.

" In ehoooing your representatives, stlect no man who
will not pledge himself to a revision of of the money laws.
•• SJ long as row materiai, tobour. sod skill are abun-
:Lint in the country, or con h.:7 readily obtained, if we
rvssess a flfficient me-.-licon of exchan,,e, Re base the
elements of everything that is waered in human exi pi-
t-nee ; but if any of these aro deficient, merchants and
traders are embarrassed, and workmen thrown out of
employment.
" Will you say we lack labour? Wi!! you say we lac
skill or industry? Do we lack the raw material nei:ceoe-
sary for our clothing or building. or land on which to
r )duce or procure food? It we lack none of these things.
nd, besides, a large portion of the world is eager 'or otrr
productions, and anxious, upon toir tetras, to exchantry
illcirs for ours, what do we lack but moro'y an'i ,-,,,n0r,
,c.:lseY—Not a centrreted currency, which riisAs the price
trod when it ought to he eneope•-;t. an,/ reAkte,,s rho
%Lie ~t I,tonr 11,:d of all icaLlittetw L-o-Celot..
pe;:k,nts thp iironet, :oci.sty at.d fire Cs!•
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`...r ft modification of the i•emc.

CHIGHTFUL ACCIDENT IN TILL

MILE-LND ROAD.

fill Ttwsday Mr. Baker held an inquest at C'c Loaiitat
I r.or:pital on the body el R'zitmth 1.11)th, aged 36, Ike
ife of a se'.-ernalter, whole Oeatit took plate under the
tulatwing sborkiog circumstance::—
Benjamin Fearu, of' Is, Alapts-roir, Stepney-green.
turncrek to the East London Wat,r Company, said that
en Friday night last, between 10 and 11 o'clock, he
was walking up the Mile-eud-road, when he saw a
waggon, drawn by three horses, iu the act of .passing
through the new toll-gate, at White Horse-lane. Wit-
ness also saw a light spring cart come from behind
waggon, in which there was a man driving, and
live other persons. The cart was drawn by a single
horse, and was going at eight or nine miles per hour,
and, whilst attempting to pass the waggon on the off
si•le, the wheel of the cart caught a post placed to pro-
tect the toll-house, and in au instant the lighter vehicle'
was upset, and the whole of the passengers and the bone
were thrown under the waggon. The wheels of the
waggon rested on the deceased and also on the head of
the horse. The animal was saved only by its collar.
Witness saw the waggon pass over another person, also
heard the bones in her body crack. Witness laid hold of
the horse and held it until the parties were all extricated.
George Webb, of James-street, Globe-fields, Mile-end.
confirmed the evidence given by the last witness as to the
accident, and added that if there had been a light on the
t. .p of the toll-house the occurrence would not have hap.
pened.

- Mr. John Nash, one of the house-surgeons, said that
deceased was admitte-r with a severe compound fracture
of the left leg; the right leg was broken and quite
crushed. There were also several bruis,s o❑ the head
and over the body. The deceased never rallied, but died
a !most immediately after her admission.
The Coroner—How are the other parties?
Witness—They are all very bad ; it is doubtful whe-
ther any of them will recover, and one party is fast
sinking.

The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death,"
at the same time requesting the coroner to write to tha
cl.2rk of the trustees to have the place better lighted for
the future.

WISDOM OF THE EXCISE LAWS-
(Abridged from the Edinbutgh News.)
A highly respectable paper-manufacturer near
Dover was lately subjected to one of those many annoy.
ances that the Excise-laws, as they now stand, unjustly
warrant. In order that those unacquainted with the
Excise-laws in regard to paper may understand the
feirdship of this case, it may be necessary to premise that
the Excise duty on paper is levied by scale weight only,
and that the Excise officers themselves weigh the paper.
lc is a custom of the trade (introduced by stationers) to
mark each ream of paper one pound heavier than the
actual weight, and 10 per cent, on the actual weight is
allowed by law for this " making up." A hundred reams
were charged by the maker in question, and because
it happened that these hundred reams, in the bulk,
e ere a few ounces under the prescribed allow-
' once, they were instantly seized and carried off in
triumph, the officer himself sitting on the paper in the
waggon, as if' some great fraud had been committed,
instead of a trifling inaccuracy in computation on the
part of some of th workpeople; and, he it observed, an
error which, even if' intent:onel, could neither be pro-
ductive of benefit to the manufacturer or loss to the
revenue. Nevertheless, in addition to the loss of the
paper, which was enough indeed, a highly-principled
manufacturer, of thirty years' standing, had his hitherto
high reputation injured by a cartload of seized paper
hying paraded through a populous neighbourhood to
the residence of the supervisor, no one but those
immediately concerned knowing the why or the where-
fore—the only construction that could be put on such art
xhibition being, that an attempt at fraud had been
detected. On sth November, 1542. a puncheon of spirits,
in the act of being lowered into the `Princess Royal'
(a London steamer, lying at Granton and bound
fo: London), slipped from the slings and was smasked
to atoms at the bottom of the hold. The spirits con-
tained in it were of course dispersed over the whole veer
se! by the violence et the concussion, aed thence run
nine- down amongst the bilge water, were utterly lost.
Timis accident happened in the presence of many highly
respectable witnesses, and one might have imagined that
no duty would have bten charged on spirits which had
rlize; Lever gone into consumption. The distil'-r accord-
irely petitioned for remission of the duty, but was in.
stantly refused; he then sought that, at all events, he
sleeild only he charged the Scotch duty of 3s sa a
n, since, if the stints were held to he consumed,
,
they were, at all events, consumed in Scotland. And
what was the reply ? Why, this, that the distiller
had intended these spirits for the London market,
and that, therefore, to the London market they
should go; or, at all events, that whether they went to
the London market or not, the distiller should pay the
duty upon them. Accordingly, the full English duty of
s. 10d. per gallon was charged, and the distiller was
forced to pay to the Crown the sum of 65/. 13s, Id. for
spirits which he bad satisfactorily proved, by the oaths
of the parties in charge of the vessel, had not, and never
c.aild have been consumed. The whole value of spirits,
exclusive of duty, was 151. 9s. 6i., and this loss one
might have supposed, was sufficiently heavy ; but no,
the Excise duties, amounting to 651. 13s. ld., must be
paid in addition, and the unfortunate trader's loss was
thereby increased upwards of four hundred per cent.
by the exactions of the Excise. A seizure was ones'
made by a supervisor of about fifty little parcels
of paper at a mill, because these were tied up in
wrappers without labels being pasted upon them.
The Excise, at the time in question, did not allow paper
to be put up in less quantities than a ream. and the
parcels referred to consisted of remnants of so many
different kinds, ranging from one sheet or quire up to
nineteen. They had been tied up for no other purpose
than that of keeping them clean and in good order. It
only required the statement of this circumstance to the
Board of Excise, to procure the restoration of the
paper, though not without a good deal of trouble, and
te ter some weeks' delay ; but, in the meanwhile, the
trader had to endure all the odium consequent on the
feet, proclaimed abroad, of a seizure having been
made, without its being known that it proceeded from
excess of zeal in a contemptible officer ; the
manufacturer, besides, being greatly inconvenienced
by the want of specimens of the papers which he had
been previously making, in consequence of these rem-
nants having been carried away. This robbery wag
e7en sanctioned by the letter of the law. On the Bth of
August, 1844, an extensive fire happened at Leith
Distillery, when among other things, a considerable
quantity of spirits and wash was destroyed. One might
suppose that so great a calamity overtaking an indivi-
dual would be loss sufficient; but no, the Excise must
share with the devouring enle:tmwaenivlrihtiniosiv.kmnestohtraee
—4151. ls. 4d., duty on 2,264 gallons of spirits, which
the but
the Excise assumed ought to have been
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ORANGE raocEssioNs.—We regret to leans that
the addresses issued by some of the Orange leaders. 'wt.
ing the abandonment of party processions, in the present
lamentable state of the country, had been utterly disre.
garded in various districts. In Dungsnnon, Rathfrilaad.
Newry, and other places, the Orangemen walked, and riot
and stone-throwing followed as usual. In Tyrone and other
northern counties there are to be large processions, with
the usual accompaniments of banners and party tunes, on
the 12th inst., and considerable alarm is expressed in'some
of the letters that have reached us as to the consequences,.
This is another lamentable evidence that the demon spirit
of faction is still rampant amongst the Orange Lod;voa.
The Government, no doubt, will adopt all due preeawaons
to protect public order.—Dublin Evening Post,

THE JEWS AND THE BISHOP' OF OXFOID.--"
ABUSE OF CHRISTIANITY.—From an article in the
Jewish Chronicle, addressed to the Bishop of Oxford, in&
consequence of that prelate's speech at the meeting.of
the Society for the Conversion of the Jews, we give
the following :—" You, Lord Bishop of Oxford, you,
high in the list of favoured schoolmen ; you, the
representative of the humane Christian Church ; you,
the disciple of tolerance and religion, you could venture
to say we had no God. You could distinctly add
to this, that you had discovered the source of,
our wretchedness and misery, and your penetration
told you that Their misery is directly to be traced to
their want of Christianity.' My lord, my lord, as the
lion is seldom roused but by the touch that wounds 'aim,
so awakens in our breasts at these words all the indig-
nity of past ages, all the cruelty, all the inhuman' prac.
I ices that have been put in force against us ; our t whole
soul is roused, for we feel with all the bitterness of those
eho have suffered, that our misery proceeded toot from
our want of Christianity, not from our refusing, the light
of Christianity, but because its light was a 'torch that
lit the stakes to which we were led; because from Chris.
tianity and its abuse has sprung, and in In any places
yet springs, all our misery, all our faults, al our degra-
dation."

ST. PETERSBURG, JUNE 23.—His 'Majesty the
Emperor has just issued a ukase to the Stattholders of
the -Transcaucasian provinces, facilitating the comer'
cial custom duties on the east coast of the 'Slack $