The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-10 00:00:00

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS:

Mrs, Hannah Scott, publican, Edinburgh.
Robert Garvin, merchant, Kinross.
John Henurie, horse dealer, Glasgow.
James Hislop, baker and grocer, Hawick.
M'Bride and Company, power-loom cloth manufactur-
ers and cotton spinners, Albyu Works, Glasgow.

BANK OF
An Account pursuant to the Act
the Week ending on Saturda:

ENGLAND.
7th and Bth Victoria. cap. 32, for
y, the 4th day of April, 1857.
'LIiTMENT.

lOSITE DEP,
Notes Issued .. 23,045,180

Government debt .. .. 11,015,100
Other securities...... 3,09,500
Gold coin and bullion 8,570,180
Silver bu11i0n........

$23,045,180

£93,045,180
r. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated the 9th day of April, 18'

BANKING DE
Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
Rest . . 3,842,182
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ing's Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 9,019,531
Other deposits ...... 9,419,012
Seven Day and other
Bills .••••• •• •• ... 743,049

.71IITMENT.

Governmentsecttritles

(includg.Deadilf eight
Annuity) ..... 11,645 97 4
Other securities.. 2l 649,737
Notes 3,507,476
Gold and silver coin 773,540

437,576,776

£37,576,776
:. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated the 9th day of April, 1857

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending April
7, 1857, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great
Britain : s. d.
From the British Possessions in America 39 5
Muscovado, the produce of the
Muscovado, tho produce of the East Indies 3O 5i
Average of the above descriptions.

Sporting Intelligence.

TATTERSALL'S-THURSDAY.

A reported favourable trial caused Kent to be brought
with increased force into the Two Thousand betting.
After 1,000 to 100 had been laid, he was advanced step
by step to 6to 1. Towards the close, however, backers
cried enough, and 7 to 1 was offered, without finding
takers. sto 1 was wanted about Vedette. Loyola was
nominally second favourite. 500 even was early in the
afternoon laid on him against Schiedam. Three ur four
investment 4, amounting to about 1501., were made on
Anton at 15 to 1.

The betting on the other events was too limited and
unimportant for comment. The subjoined scanty list of
quotations comprises all the business transacted.

NEWMARKET HANDICAP.
100 to 30 agst Pantomime (taken)
7to 2 aget Eloquence (taken)
100 to 80 agst the two (taken)
GREAT NORTHERN.
9 to 2 agst Skirmisher (taken)
sto 1 agst St. Giles (taken)
12 to 1 agst Pantomime (taken and offered)
15 to 1 agst Capt. Barclay (taken and `offered)
CHESTER CUP.
7to 1 agst Leamington (taken)
40 to 1 aget Zig-sag (taken)
*WO THOUSAND.
4to 1 agst Vedette (take sto 1)
100 to 15 agst Loyola
7to 1 agst Kent (taken and offered)
Bto 1 apt Schiedam (offered)
10 to 1 aget Sydney (..ffered)
100 to 8 agst Apathy (taken)
15 to 1 agst Anton (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Bird-in-Hand (offered)
25 to 1 agst Dramour (offered)
500 to 10 agst Loyola's winning this event and the

Derby (taken)
1000 to 50 was laid on the following twenty :—Kent,
Bird-in-the•hand, Athlete, Purston, Anton, Fugitive,
Ackworth, Hunting Horn, Loyola, Lord of the Hills,
Matins, Kingmaker, Drumour, Szhiedam, King of the
I,zlev, Apathy, Lambourn, Bannockburn, Sydney, and
Veda ;to.

DERBY.
7to 1 aget Blink Bonny (offered)
20 to 1 agst Kent (taken and offered)
40 to 1 agst Bird-in-the-hand (offered)

RACE-HORSE DITTY.

The following are the new regulations respecting th•
race horse duty :
Inland Revenue-office, Somerset-house.

We, the undersigned, three of the Commissioners of
Inland Revenue, iu pursuance of an act passed in the 20th
year of the reign of her present Majesty Queen Victoria,
intituled "An Act to amend an Act of the last session
of Parliament to repeal and reimpose under regulations
the Duty on Race Horses," do hereby nominate and ap-
point Air. Charles Weatherby, of No. 6, Old Burlington-
street, in the county of Middlesex, to be the receiver of
race horse duty, and we do hereby authorise and em-
power him to receive the duties imposed upon race horses
by the said act, to be by him paid over and accounted
for in the manner directed by the said act, he, the said
Charles Weatherby, observing all the provisions and
doing the acts required by the said statute to be observed
and done by him as such receiver.—Given under our
hands the 33 day of April, 1857.
(Signed) C. J. HERRIES.
HEN. FRED. STEPHENSON.
ALFRED MONTGOMERY.

6, Old Burlington-sheet, London, April 6, 1857.
As receiver of race horse duty, I beg leave to call the
attention of the owners and trainers of horses to the al-
teration,
m i
which has been recently made by act of Parlia-
ent, n the mode of assessing and collecting this duty.
Tho act 19th and 20th Vict., c. S 2, as amended by the
20th Viet., c. 76, which came into operation on the 6th
of April, 1557, repeals the assessed tax on horses used or
kept in training for the purpose of racing, and imposes,
in lieu thereof, an annual excise duty of 31. 17s. on every
horse which shall start or run for any plate, prizt, or sum
of money, or other thing. This includes steeplechases.
The duty is to be paid to the receiver of race horse duty,
appointed by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, or
to some person duly employed and authorised by him for
that purpose, previously to the starting of any horse ;
aid, in the event of a horse running without theduty hay•
ing been paid, the owner or trainer or other person hav-
ing charge of such horse will be liable to a penalty of 501.,
and the circumstances under which the horse ran aro to
be represented to the Board of Inland Revenue by the
receiver, in order that proceedings may be taken for the
recovery of the penalty. Forms of receipt are supplied
by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue to the re-
ceiver ; and on payment of the duty for each horse, one
of such receipts, filled up, and signed by the receiver,
will be delivered to the person whs pays the money.
These receipts are always to be obtained during the
usual hours of business at Messrs. Weatherby's office,
No. 6, Old Burlington-street, London, where I request
that the duty may be paid. Such payment and receipt
will free the owner for the time baing of the horse named
in the receipt from any further payment of duty in re-
spect of the said horse for the year ending sth April
next after such payment. It is to be understood that
should a horse be prevented by any cause from running
a race during the year for which the duty may have been
paid, the duty will be returned ; there is, therefore, no
a lvantage in postponing the payment to the day of
running. The name of every horse for which the duty
is paid will be published in the RaringWalendar as soon
as possible after such payment. This will be a sufficient
notice to all whom it may concern, that the horse is
qualified by payment of the duty, and will prevent the
necessity of producing the receipt at each place
where
the horse runs.
C. WEATHEan, Receiver of Race-horse Duty.

Racing Fixtures for 1857.
APRIL.
Newmarket Craven 13 Abergavenny l6
Durham l3 York Spring 21
Coventry l3 Malton 93
Catterick Bridge l5 Newmarket F S 27

Chester — ......... 5
Shrewsbury l3
Ludlow 14
JU

Bath . l2
Epsom

Manchester
Ascot 9
Beverley, Hull, &c 10
Hampton l7
Newton 17
Newcastle 23

NE.

Bibury Club 24
Stockbridge o 5
Winchester og
Carlisle .... 30

Chelmsford .....30

Worcester JULY.
21
2 Nottingham
Newmarket
28
Liverpool lst Goodwood

LORD ELDON'S CHAIR.—A. very handsome present hat
just been made to the county magistrates by Mr. J. T.
Cantrell, judge of the Derbyshire County Court. It con-
sists of a strong mahogany armchair, with morocco lea-
ther seat, arms, and back. On the right side is a maho-
gany table, with a drawer, on a brass rest, and which
can be turned in any direction. The table is covered
with red cloth, and at one end three inkstands, two
which are mounted with silver, are inserted. This chair
was the one used by Lord Chancellor Eldon during the
many years ho held the Great Seal, and is now in excel-
lent preservation. The following is engraved on a brass
plate, and fastened on the back of the chair :—" This
chair was the judgment-seat of the Lord Chancellor
Eldon, in Lincoln's-inn-hall, during the many years that
he held the Great Seal, and is the. one delineated in the
portraits of that most eminent judge. On the retire-
ment of Lord Eldon from office in 1827 the chair became
the perquisite of the usher of the court, from whom it
was obtained by M. Lane, the then steward of Lincoln's-
inn, and by him presented to his friend the Rev. Wil-
liam Boultby Sleath, D.D., head master of .Repton
School. On Dr. Sleath's death the chair was purchased,
in 1843, by his relation and pupil Joseph Thomas Can-
trell, afterwards judge of the County Court of Derby-
shire, who had known it when in Lord Eldon'a occupa-
tion, and subsequently, and it was presented by him
to the magistrates of the eounty of Derby, for their
use in the County-hall, in April, 1857." We under!
stand the chair sill be placed in the grand, jury room.