The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-04 00:00:00

HAT MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 163 Od to 3/ 17s 6d ; Clover
ditto, 3/ 10s to 4/ lOs ; and Straw, 1/ is to 1/ 8s per load.
A full average supply, and a dull trade.
CUMBERLAND.— Meadow Hay, 21 18s to 41 Os; Clover
ditto, 31 108 to 4/ 8s; and Straw, 1/ Is to 119 s per load.
Trade dull, at barely stationary prices.
WHITECHAPEL.--illeadow Hay, 2/ 15s to 31 18s; Clover
ditto, 3/ lOs to 4/ lOs ; and Straw, 1/ is to 1/ 85 per load.
Supply good, and trade dull.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS:
(THIS DAY.)
Tho Court sat this morning by agreement at the
Westminnter.

Hayes, a lad not more than fourteen years of
age, was indicted for stealing money from the till of
Mary Way, of Bridge•crescont, Kilburn.
It appeared that the prosecutor keeps a tobacconist's
shop, and on Thursday last the prisoner and two other
boys were observed standing outside the shop window.
Shortly after he came stealthily into the shop, and
before the prosecutrix could get from the parlour, he
had reached to the till and took out all the money ex-
cept tenpence. Ile then ran away, but was afterwards
taken with the whole of the money in his pocket.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
Mr. WITHAM asked if he was known.
The policeman said he believed he had been in cus-
tody before.
Mr. WITHAM dirccted that inquiries should be made
before he passed sentence.

TILE CIA GAZINES.
BLACK WOOD.
After a very eulogistic and encouraging notice of
" The Esuya of Mr. Helps"— essays better known
to the g-nerality by their titles, " Friends in Council"
and " Companions of my Solitude"—we have the
fourteenth instalment of the new " Novel" by Sir
litilvver Lytton, under his pseudonym of Pisietratus.
With the close of this portion of the narrative we ar-
rive at the end of the first important epoch in the
lives of its principal characters. Years are to pass by
before they are again introduced to us, and the man-
ner in which this is told brings to our remembrance
in its Hebraic eloquence a beautiful passage occur-
ring in the same author's historical romance of
4'l-Jerold." The prominent charm infused into the
chapters comprised in the October number of Black-
wood is that imparted by every look, and word, and
action of Harley L'Estrange—" gentlest heart and
subtlest fancy that I have met with in my walk
through life," as he is called by his admiring friend
Alphonse Riceabocca. Harley has discovered
Helen, or rather he has been discovered as
the fellow-soldier of her father, Captain
Digby, by Leonard, who we are inclined very
shrewdly to look upon as the son of Lord L'Estrange.
Frank Ilszledean fulls into debt, and in consequence
thereof into disgrace with his father, the Squire.
The mariner in which they are estranged from each
Other, in spite of their own large hearts, and hi de-
fiance of their mutual yearning towards each other, is
told with admirable feeling, and indicates as strik-
ingly as anything we have ever read, Sir Bulwer
Lyttoa'a master-knovvledge of human nature.
.landel Leslie is beginning to show
r his detestable influence as the evil genius of the nar-
more and more
native. We only console ourselves in his regard by
anticipating for him in the endvery terrible re-
tribution. Poor Burley while •
also of Richard Avenel, the hard
we have alost Ift of for a
tuner; of •
brutal manufac-
good simple-minded Parson Dale; of the
(la fellow the tinker, and the poor harmless creature
his onkey. Our attention meanwhile is directed to the
aperds2nages already mentioned, and beyond this to Lord
vigorousnLady Lansmere, to Audley Egerton, the strong and
and staesman, to Henry Norreys, the author,
to a very masterly sketch from the life, the lac-
41ileY attendttnt Norreys—" a man-servant of a
tiin,plarly grim and awful aspect"—with "care on
lip and
liarle Pomp on his brow"—who, as he precedes
the yto the library of his master, "stalks across
hall withsonic g
the step of a Dan eau ushering
Montinorenci
to the presence of Louis le Grand."
After. " My Novel" comes a dry but able epitome of
the political situation just now arrived at by "The New
talanders." The commencement of the historical
'Vet* which follows—a chapter dedicated to an
ac-
count of the' "Italian Revolutions"—is as admirable
is l
its tone and lucidity as the latter portion of
• Jllllhled and nonsensical. In this respect, perhaps,
the article is particularly suitable, bearing a certain
resemblance in consequence, to the confusion and folly
Whichi together closed the Italian movement. " Levan-
tine Rambles" will prove on examination to be a very
ightful criticism on the recent books of travels
Wtitten respectively by M. G. de Nerval, a French-
a.,lll4u, and by Mr. F. A. Neale, an Englishman.
The,
“Pare next some exceedingly unequal lines called
aY Dreams of an Exile," signed H. G. K., verses
~ratto.gether unworthy of insertion in Blackwood. "A
v
from the Digging:" means that of Mr. Shaw,
the last well-known traveller in California : it is the
eliding, moreover, of a sensible and readable criticism.
tThe last article in the October number is of a politi-
al n
nature, sneering at Free Trade under the designa-
eonsideo
o' .the Experiment." It is entitled to serious
,ration however, as the argument put forward
the morality organ of the Protectionists.

CoOLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE.
r. The present is an excellent number. " British
he
in India" is continued, as likewise the
" adventures of an English Soldier in Mexico." In li
Paper on the "Military Defences and Expenditure of
the West Indies," the writer, Major Smith O'Connor
?hews, We think clearly, that a safe and advantageous
Zwithdrawal may be made of four regiments of the line,
ird. a large portion of the Royal Artillery from the
Liindward and Leeward, and Jamaica commands.
Lieutenant. Leeward,
E. Napier continues his consi-
d.eratione
o.n the subject of the proposed alterations.
lis our military dress, arms, and equipments ; and it
1 to be sincerely hoped that some such ameliorations
_11153, shortly take place, especially as that excellent
onieer the Duke of Cambridge is favourable to a
iCforin. of the present abominable system of 1313e-
c.149, tight-coats, stocks, Scc. By Colonel Napier's
teen the infantry soldier's kit,
nts when in heavy marching d
but
57)b..n0z., in iiou arms, and appoint-
Weight
for details we present.
of
68g1b.or8oezr, wasoautldbein
must refer to the article itself
which will be found highly w
I told ; bat "
Fight in Ronda,,, is
__ e suggestive. A_ "Bull
Combat between a Pawnee and Osage Chief, contrid-
bated b The Fight " a
spirited Y Ur. Mills, is one of the most graphic and
peattjiirratives we ever perused. An "Adventure at
the Bra
af Salamanca," by Capt. Barralier, who was.
Ply and etoYu wounded in that engagement, is.toldonsitmhe-
field from theelnglY.
be a freenin himself to
his showing
circumatila:::iofef was saved twice
aponden e -B„°;n* In a short letter among theeorure:
gestion c-'
'gned " Nestor," are two excellent
from
g
aingtoa,.tsctornoeoptos send reinforcements to the Cape .
an
ra account there ~ being just the men to give
of the liafirs, if assisted by our Euro-
un r
Bmitheginaents, and de such men as Sir Harry
,n. ond General Somerset ;" the other as to the
-..isehief
Writer s to•the
service
The
oys :—..of early selling out.
Iv_
III: 8 ° have too many young gentlemen who only enter
are
or to leave it again whenever their regiments
aervi reu abroad, leaving it just at the very time their
me °Qs are most wanted; and when their commanding
per." 6 mist require officers of some standing and e -
-..en1,,,, 'elle assis them on embarkation. Many rep-
t.,
7 t'lls embark short-handed in officers; the newly
ZeaPP("Led must remain with the depots until made she.:
I:kilited with their duty. The remedy is, easy. enough;
'" none to sell out until after ten ears 'service. r
in-Biof the price of their commission would retain many
,t,,Q, service, or prevent holiday and home officers from
- ',rill . , -
it
Th g •
Vtb e other principal papers are the second
.part of the
,il3Blation of General Yusuf's " On War inAfrica,"
4'4 The Victories of the Month."

A COLBURIV'S NEW MONTHLY.
th-aknother sporting novel, evidently from the pen of
he now popular author of " Soapey Sponge's Tour,"
acommenced in the October number of the New
onthly—its title being " Young TomHall'sHeart-
hesnf and Horses." It promises capitally in the way
„.7 fun and animation. With much of the rude ani-
Zfat spirits of John Mills, the writer combines a trifle
hiatha comic vulgarity of John Poole. Occasionally
uSni:tyle is as harum-scarum as Lover's, and some-
w.
3 too as vividly graphic as that of Apperley.
cannot
these
qualities the story just entered upon
fail to be a source of amusement. A. rather ela-
of`te review of " Mignet's history of Mary Queen
by
sots" follows soon afterwards, being preceded
4,,sotne agreeable "Reminiscences of Baden." The
• -V4,c11 and concluding part of the tale called the
attraction.
-Picture" lends to the magazine an additional
tiuttee,tion. "Hester Somerset" is, of course, con-
hoe ; and among the novelties of the month we
do 507 e well-timed articles on " Arctic Expedi-
States?, Succour," and on " Cuba and the Slave
criticism _Besides these the New Monthly contains a
ginning ,31;eaded " A Batch of Novels," and the be-
entitled the <<" account of a summer tour in 1851,
Griffin
J.
B.
cliorfpetnhetercoutse
potion
ultus Switzerland." The metrical
r
is, as usual, contributed by

________________
1114 V SWO liT IL
, After the customary instalment of the romance
berbY insworth, we gays in the current num_
*rasi_ before us a variety of interesting and
ng contributions. Nicholas Michell, known
Lr"Y a 3 the author of " Ruins of Many
ii:oloft_bcles" and also of the romance of " Hester
.13erset," gives us an excellent
414ntiquary and his Daughter." Miss Julia Addison
11Pears anew to the readers of Ainsworth,chapter about. an
tg ET of her narrative relating to the fortunes_
toor
the me-f
e..l."'renee Hamilton." An anonymous contributor
it:• 11,,ens the magazine with a paper recounting
.-tinw
vrast:-.°,PPY expatiated on the Beauties of Slinniedye-r
noticeiwillind in other respects the publication
uteirs
to
be by 40 be found by the curious in such_ mda.
October• 44443
the least among the periodicals for

THE
.1)
Poor Peter LI ,4ZTONS. Part -MIL
gets cleaned outlillt° h• and
4 finds each turn against lint
the J tit the gaming-table.
eery usurer, of
se hitu with R course turns obduraAteb,ealnidireavues4
- summary writ, hut Hansen
acia'atiges to get him bail to stave off arrest for twelve
1)21' lia makes another visit to the Cursaal, and
_.rriow _
ing from the banker, has an extraordinary run
°Ettild luck for some time, but it begins to be reversed, deadtb;ellLPPlnes " the last stake of all." He drops
iildl ad
' the gmning room, his dirge being thus fur-
lßned by Colonel liag erstone : ~ If coroners were
6 fashion here he -g
bled from back.. ey would bring in a verdict of
ing the wrong colour, with a deo-
-44" against the rake l'

•
„. SINGIILAIL CLIARA l• R.—Mr. Thomas Hale, far-
Rter, of Greet, near WinechEconabe, Gloucestershire, died last
teumleek, in his 78th year. The deceased was formerly in poor
stances, but a considerable sum having been left to him
itY some maiden ladies, his prospects underwent a change for
Ve better, and by industrious and careful habits he managed
et).o7 accumulate a large fortune dying worth more tha,,n
00/ Ile was unable to read and write, and such was
:la love for the shining metal. that Ile
was unhappy when in
tassession of bank-notes until he turned them into gold
j' his death between 10,000/. and 20,0001. in money was in
.41 house.—Bath Chronicle.
iti
fiLette) a from Glasgow state the suspension of
Sirs. Slater and Robertson,
-411)40,1 R 1.80,0001. In—erchants and brokers, with

THE

TIIE REGISTRATIONS.
CITY OF LONDON.

The question as to the legal time for the payment
of the t st ,essed taxes, to meet the requirements of the
Regiett a tion Act, came before Mr. M‘Christie the
other de] e The Learned Barrister having taken time
to consider the point, delivered his judgment on
Thursd ky, by which it will appear that the decisions
of other revising barristers are held by Mr. MiChristie
to be cc ,n trary to the law. The case was that of Mr.
Charles Lovell, who occupied a house No. 19, Bow -
lane,
lane, an, I who claimed to have his name inserted in
the list .'f persons entitled to vote in the parish of St.
Mary, 2 Lldermary, from which it had been omitted on
the grot Led that he had not paid his assessed taxes
which L a 1 " become payable from him previously to
the sth day of January last." The barrister said,—
The question simply is, whether, for the purposes of
the regis ':ration, a quarter's assessed taxes were pay-
able by >1 Ir. Lovell on the 20th of December, 1850,
which of i ght to have been paid on or before the 20th
of July, 1851. It is to be observt d, that both by the
Reform Act, and by the 11th and 12th Victoria, c. 90,
the expr e asion used is that the poor's- rates and assessed
taxes are, to be paid by the 20th of July which " shall
have be.:. ime payable from him previously to the sth of
January .." The 43,i George 111., c. 161, was an Act fbr
repealin. g the several duties under the management
of the C ommissioners for the Affairs of Taxes, and
granting• new duties in lieu thereof. By section 23
of that 2 ieof every assessment to be made under it is to
be in fat .ce for one whole year, commencing from the
sth of A and to be payable quarterly—namely,
on the 2 0 :h of June, 20th of September, 20th of De-
cember, :and the 20th of March in every year. By
the 55th 1 • ection it is enacted that those duties shall
be duly emended of the respective persons charged
therewitl 3 within ten days after the same are payable
by virtue, of this Act by the collector or collectors,
and the sth section is this—" And be it further
enacted, t hat all the several duties hereby granted in
England, Wales, and Berwick-upon-Tweed, shall be
assessed, raised, levied, and collected, under the re-
gulation: s of the Act passed in the present session of
Parham( ti t, entitled An Act for consolidating certain
of the pr o visions contained in any Act or Acts rela-
ting to 11 se duties under the management of the
Commis' ,i;.oners for the Affairs of Taxes, and for
amendin. g • the same.' " These taxes, therefore, are,
by this . 9.ct all to be assessed, raised, levied, and
collected lunder the regulations of another Act, which
is the 43. 1 George 111., c. 99, and the collection, &c.,
of them are hereby declared to be under the manage-
ment of t I.e Commissioners for the Affairs of Taxes.
Turning, then, to that Act of the 43d George 111., c.
99, you • find that by the 12th section the col-
lectors a r e required to made demand of the parties
charged 'with those duties (as in the other Act)
"within en days after the said duties shall respect-
ively bee ame payable." By the 13th section the col-
lectors a r a required to give security " for their duly
demandirls• the sums assessed of the respective persons
from wh( the same are payable ;" and by section 61
it is enac fed that all officers and persons who shall
be emplo tied in the execution of this Act, or any Act
or Acts for granting duties to be assessed under the
regulatic iis of this Act, shall observe arid follow such
orders, is t structions, and directions as they shall from "
time to t i the receive from the said Commissioners o

the Trea: a ary." So far, therefore, it is obvious that
these tax :s are under the management of the Corn-
missionei 3, and that all collectors and officers are to

act in ref erence to them under the instructions and
direction of the Commissioners. The Commissioners
according ly issue their printed instructions to their
collectors and officen—a copy of which, dated 1851,
I have iohow before me—and it is beyond a doubt,
from the ..e instructions, that the Commissioners con-
sider th r.t these taxes become due, payable,
and cull ectable half-yearly, and half-yearly only,
notwiths mding the 43.1 George 111., c. 161,
states th, y are to be payable quarterly. The in-
struction s explicitly inform the collectors that they
are to be collected by half-yearly instalments, on the
days hei dnafter mentioned—that is to sag, the 20th
day of fieptember, for the half-year commencing
from the .sth day of April and ending on the 10th day
of Octob r; and the 20th day of March, for the half-
year con, mencing from the 10th day of October and
ending ci i the sth of April next; and you are to
make del x land of the several sums from the parties
charged, or at the places of their last abode, or on the
premises charged with the assessment, " within ten
days—an.a these latter words are put in italics by the
instructs 3 ns themselves—within ten ten days after the

said duti,t's shall respectively become payable ; and in
all cases of demand and non-payment, you are, by
virtue of the warrant annexed to your duplicate, to
distrain.' ''' Then at p. 12 the instructions say, " The
composil ons of assessed taxes are to be paid to you
by the la arties charged therewith by two instalments,
viz., the first instalment on or before the 10:h of Oc-
tober, au a d the second instalment on or before the sth

of April ; and you are to make demand of the same,"
and if :a ot then paid the collectors are to levy. It
is pally ible, therefore, from these instructions, that
the Coy raissioners, who by the Act are to regulate
and sr.:lmage these taxes, consider that de facto
and for all practical purposes they only be:
come d tie and payable half- yearly—that is to say, on
the 20: 11 of October and on the 20th of March, and
not qt.'. a rterly—not on the 20th of December. It is
very ti "ae that the commissioners in some parts of
their i nstructions inform their collectors that by the
Act of .Parliament these taxes are made payable quar-
terly, hut that is only with a view to a necessity of
levying for them where they are likely to be lost.
They sf y in a note, " You will observe that, although
the tax s are collected half-yearly, yet according to
the law they are payable quarterly. . . and therefore
as befor, a stated in case of a seizure under an execu-

tion, or- other proceeding (except at the suit of the
landlor (1 for rent), you are authorised to demand for
the wh ede duty assessed for the year, though the day
of Papx lent for the first quarter only has arrived,"
asnrhde a id. n
y•
case of not receiving to levy. But, as I have
said, that is solely applicable to a case
w 1
erene there is a prospect of the taxes being lost.
And ie the same note the Commissioners go on to
say, " And you should in all cases proceed according
to the st rpiactmdiernetctifons—namely, to give notice and to
quarteros assesserde
demand
of Deci.
on Mr. Lovelly previous
wereo the d
uttflareomf Januaryhim o
n th
ethat
20th
toaexdte.hsettaxes.' No notice was served
taxes rnbmeradep
of
him;ing; no demand for any such
aP p arent that the
d eeply interested Nif asand, surely, when it is so
self-app
rescribe that the
are so
a .Commissioners themselves, who
yinarethe
ue collectionaed payableof thesehalf.
taxes,
yearly, thaltevtiehdey shall only be collected half-yearly,
due sha 11 have been for until after notice of their being
and newer
them,
hold the t because
ofM given and demand made for
i t,.. would bear monstrous hardship if I were to
lector thy the sth. Lovell did not go to his col-
receive a sum of m„ January and insist that he should
sessed tuxes from from him in respect of as-
DecercierT, the collect°
20th of October to the 20th of
theey
holding. in his hand at the
same ea( fluent his instrru
informirg him that no ctions from his employers,
from Mx. Lovell on the assessed2oth
h taxes were payable
would be absolute injustice if of December—l say it
to disfranchise the claimant on that ground I was
Acts, which are to have the largest
the Registration
construction [put upon them, lst and
he coll most liberal
assessed taxes has no authority Whatever Collector of the
housekeepers quarterly for payments, and I do not
to call on
believe that one man out of ten, or anything like that
number, throughout England, called
by the sth of January and paid for" his collector
as-
sessed taxes up to the 20th of December, so that the
a quarter's
might be registered as a voter. I
anitold
that it 'nets been decided by a gentleman actin, indeed,
the sa..ne authority and with the same pew g under
self, 'that a person in Mr. Lovell's position is not as
intold
enti-
y"
tied to be placed on the register, but I
must h
by a higher authority that that is the precedent's I
am
to follow before I shall feel justified in adopting it. '
overrule the objection which has been made to this
gentleman's title to be registered; I insert his name
in the list of voters; and I hold that for the purposes
of the Registration Acts the assessed taxes are only
due an& payable half-yearly, and that those which they
voter is required by the 11th and 12th Victoria, c 90,
to have paid by the 20th of July are those only which
were due and payable on the 20th day of October pre.
ceding.
The revision of the list of voters for the City was
finished yesterday. The result of :the efforts of the
two parties to correct the list was, that 42 claims
made by the Liberals were allowed, and 18 disal-
lowed; 1 claim by the Tories was allowed, and 3
were disallowed; 537 objections by the Liberals
were rjlowed, and 83 disallowed; 575 objections by
the Tories were allowed, and IEI disallowed; 178
objections taken by both parties were allowed, and 8
disallowed. The barrister also expunged 24 names
for reasons appearing on the face of the register.

BLOOMERISM IN ARBROATH.—Considerable sen-
sation was created in our market-place on Saturday, by the
appearance of a lady—young, beautiful, and aristocratic--on
a fiery steed, habited ala Bloomer. She wore hat, habit,
and trousers. The material of the latter were of substantial
cloth, of a darkish hue, with the extremities tightly strapped
below the boot, whether a Wellington or not we were not
permitted to see, but both legs and boots were strapped,
although only one stirrup was used. The equipment was
most becoming, and certainly an improvement in horseman-
ship worthy of imitation; and we advise all our fair readers,
when they ride their horses, to don the Bloomer costume. To
this extent and no further, however, do we hold ourselves
committed.—Arbroath Paper.

Sir Charles Napier is a candidate for the repre-
sentation of Bassetlaw, in the place of Captain Duncombe,
the future Member for the East Riding, in opposition to the
Hon. W. E. Duncombe, son of Lord Fevershinn. Sir Charles
comes forward as " the champion of reform and retrench-
ment, and the rectifier of all acknowledged and well-proved
abuses."

EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH.—A cr,se of three chil-
dren at one birth occurred on 'Wednesday in Victoria-place,
Peckham. The mother is the wife of a flydriver. Tho chil-
d= of this birth are two boys and one girl.