The Sun.
London, England, 1832-06-15 00:00:00

POST HORSE AND STAGE COACH

DUTIES ACTS.

From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons,
Jovis, 14Q die Junii, 1832.]

Resolution reported :
" That the several Duties under the management of the
Commissioners of Stamps, and now payable in Great
Britain, in respect of Stage Carriages, and of Licenses to
keep the same, shall respectively cease and determine, and
that in lieu thereof there shall be raised, levied, collected,
and paid, in Great Britain, the several Duties following
(that is to say) :
For and in respect of every License to be taken out by
the person who shall keep, use, or employ any Stage
Carriage in Great Britain, that is to say, for every
such Stage Carriage £5 0 0
And for and in respect of every mile which any such
Stage Carriage shall'be licensed to travel, the several sums
following respectively (that is to say) :
Duty per mile.
If such Stage Carriage shall be licensed to carry more
than four passengers £0 0 1
More than four and not more than six passengers 0 0 la
More than six and not more than eight passengers 0 0 2
More than eight and not more than eleven passengers 0 0 21
More than eleven and not more than fourteen passengers 0 0 3
More than fourteen and not more than seventeen pas
sengers 0 0 :3-a
More than seventeen and not more than twenty pas-
sengers
And if such Stage Carriages shall be licensed to carry
more than twenty passengers, then for every three
additional passengers exceeding twenty which such
Stage Carriage shall be licensed to carry, the addi-
, tional Duty of
And where such excess above Twen'y shall not be ex-
actly three or a multiple of three, then such additional
Duty of one halfpenny shall be payable also for any number
of such excess being less than three, or progressively less
than any multiple of three which such Stage Carriage
shall be licensed to carry.
_ . . .

On Horses let for Hire and on Licenses to let the same.
Duty.

For and in respect of every License to be taken out
yearly by every Person who shall let any Horse for
hire in Great Britain £0 7 6
And for and in respect of every Horse let for hire by
the mile, at the usual rate charged for Horses travel-
ling post, at the place at which such horse shall be
let for hire, (that is to say) for every mile such Horse
shall be hired or used to travel or go 0 0 li
lone fifth part of
And for and in respect of every Horse let for the sum charged
hire to go no greater distance than eighth for such letting,
miles from the place of letting I or in lieu thereof
L... ...... 0 1 9

And for and in respect of every Horse let for'
hire or used for any period of time less than
28 successive days, or in any other manner
than as aforesaid
And also for and in respect of every Horse let
for hire for 28 successive days, or for any
longer period of time where any such Horse
shall be returned in a less period of time
than 28 successive days, and shall not be ex-
changed for another Horse in continuation
of the same hiring
Or in lieu of such last-mentioned one fifth part of sucl
sum, the following Duties for every day such Horse that
be let for hire or used, or shall (by virtue of any such
letting) have been under the direction of the person to
whom the satne shall be hired (that is to say) :
Duty per day,
For every day not exceeding three days £0 2 6
And for every day exceeding three days, and not ex-
ceeding thirteen days 0 1 9
And for every day exceeding thirteen days and less
than twenty-eight days 0 1 3"
Resolution agreed to ; Bill ordered to be brought in by
Mr. Rice and Lord Viscount Altborp.

One fifth part of
the sum charged
or received, or
agreed to be re-
ceived on every
such letting for
hire or using.

It was rumoured yesterday evening in this city
that several houses had been burned by the Whitefeet, in
the county of Kilkenny, on Monday night. We could
not, however, trace the rumour to any authentic source.—
Dublin Morning Register Tuesday.

MACKEREL.—Within the last few days the
quantity of mackerel for the London market has been im-
mense ; but by the method which the dealers have of
keeping back the supply, the prices have been kept up.
On Monday morning no less than seven boat-loads of
mackerel, which had been kept back, were condemned at
Billingsgate-market by Mr. GOLDHAM, as unfit for human
food, and they were taken down the river to be destroyed.
Each boat would probably contain, on an average, about
50,000 mackerel.

AMERICAN DRUNKARDS.—The Chan-
cellor of the State of New York has made an order re-
straining all persons who should he served with a copy
of that order from selling or delivering to any habitual
drunkard, who had been declared such by a decree of the
Chancellor's Court, any spirituous liquors whatever, un-
der pain of incurring a contempt of the Court. This de-
cision will enable the Committees of all habitual drunk-
ards, to obtain similar orders, and by this means to pre-
vent all tavern-keepers and others from selling them
liquors. —New York Journal of Commerce.

The Jews in Germany are allowed to con-
tract thirteen marriages, and no more. A very rich Jew
solicited in vain an auto, isation to marry a fourteenth
time ; and not being willing to lay out, in such a specula-
tion, the whole of his property, be purchased of a tailor of
his nation the permission the latter had obtained to re-enter
the marriage state. The tailor congratulates hinisel:
doubly upon his bargain ; he has received 1000 florins,
and has found out that the wife he was going to take wa,
a termagant.— The Parrot.