The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-14 00:00:00

SUPPLY.

The reports of the 9th and 10th of August were brought
up and agreed to.

CONSOLIDATED FUND (X 10,000,000) BILL.
This bill passed through commitce.
STAMP DUTIES (No. 2) BILL.
This bill passed through committee, and on the motion
of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, the fol-
lowing clause was added :—From and after the thirtyflrst
day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty,
the allowances granted respectively by the 18th section of
the act passed in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of
her Majesty, chapter ninety-seven, in respect of stamps
for receipts, and by the twenty-fourth section of the act
passed in the seventeenth and eighteenth years of her
Majesty, chapter eighty-three, in respect of stamps for
drafts, ibills, and notes, and any allowance granted by or
payable under any other act, in respect of any of the
stamps in this cause mentioned, shall cease ; and in lieu
-thereof there shall be granted and allowed to every person
who at one and the same time shall produce at the office of
the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, in London or Dub-
lin, paper to be stamped with stamps for denoting any rate
of duty, not exceeding one shilling on bills of exchange,
drafts, or ordors, or promissory notes, or stamps for de-
noting the duty of one penny on any instrument or docu-
ment whatever (except posfage stamps and customs stamps)
to the amount of two pounds or upwards in the whole of
all or any of such stamps, and to every person who at one
and the same time shall purchase any such stamps as afore-
said at the office of the said Commissioners, in London,
Edinburgh, or Dublin, to the amount aforesaid, or of any
distributor or sub-distributor of stamps, at any place not
within the distance of ten miles from the said offices re-
spectively, to the amount of one pound or upwards, an
allowance at and after the rate of four per cont. on the
amount of the duties denoted by such stamps, provided that
no allowance shall bo made for any fraction of a pound.

CUSTOMS (No. 2) BILL.
This bill was read a second time.
DEFENCE OF THE REALM BILL.
This bill was read a second time.
SPIRITS BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
SPIRIT DUTIES BILL.
This bill passed through committee.
EXCISE DUTIES BILL.
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This bill passed through committee.
PEACE PRESERVATION (IRELAND) ACT (1856

AMENDMENT BILL.

This bill passed through committee.
The Metropolitan Local Amendment Act Amendment
Bill was adjourned, after which the other orders of the day
were disposed of, and the house adjourned at half-past
two o'clock.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT-Aug. 13,

OLD COURT.

The grand jury returned four true bills for mur-
der against William Godfrey Youngman.
Henry Jones, 27, who was in custody, and David
Wells, Charles Wells, his son ; Richard Lamb, and
Edward Wilson, who surrendered, were indicted
for• conspiracy.
Sergeant !Parry attended, specially with Mr.
Cooper, to conduct •the prosecution. Mr. Sleigh,
Mr. Giffard, Mr. Lilley. and Mr. Ernest Jones were
counsel for the defendants.

This was a prosecution instituted by the Great
Northern Railway Company, and the offence im-
puted to the defendants was a fraud not only upon
that company, but also upon the public, of a most
impudent character. The public are aware that
the Great Northern Railway Company is very ex-
tensively concerned in the sale of coals, and have
large depots at King's-cross, and this business is
managed by a Mr. Herbert Clarke. The elder pri-
soner, Wells, it appears,has a coal shed in Clerken-
well, and it would seem that it was his custom to
purchase coals of the most inferior quality from the
company, and for which he did not pay more than
14s. or 15s. per ton. and then sell the same coals to
the public as best Wallsend coals, and he had bill-
heads printed in such a form as to induce the public
to believe that they were dealing with the Great
Northern Railway Coal Company, and the receipts
were signed " Pro R. Clarke." The difference in
the quality of the coals was not the only fraud to
which the public were subjected, for it appeared
that the prisoners, when they sent in coals to a
customer were in the habit of sending empty sacks
in the van, and in one case they delivered to a gen-
tleman named Minaret, who had ordered two tons
of coals, 15 sacks only instead of 20.
The jury, after about half an hour's absence, re-
turned a verdict of not guilty.