The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-18 00:00:00

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Just published, price 55., No. I. of

LAW 'REVIEW.
CONTENTS :-

1. The Study and Science of Jurisprudence-2. Resistance to the
Gradual Improvement of the Law--3. On the Distinction between
Law and Fact-4. The Law of Fees and Costs-5. A Memoir of the
Lord Chief Baron Abinger—G. The Joint-Stock Companies' Regulation
Act-7. The Alteration in the Alien Law-8. Lord Denman's Speech
ou the Belief of Scrupulous Persons from Oaths-9. Memoir of the
late Lewis Duval, Esq.-10. The Revision of Puna Bills-11. Legal
Education—l 2. Recent Alterations in the Forms of Conveyances-
-13. The Writ of Certiorari in Criminal Cases-14. Bankruptcy and
Insolvency ; with a Selection of Adjudged Cases recently reported.
Owen Richards, Law Bookseller and Publisher, 194, Fleet-street.

AMERICAN NEWS.
The final result of the election of the American
President has reached us. It is as follows :
Clay. Polk.
Pennsylvania
Ohio 23 •
Connecticut 6 0

Rhode Island
New Hampshire
Maryland 8 0
New York .
Virginia
New Jersey.
North Carolina
Michigan 0 5
Georgia
Massachusetts l2 0
Kentucky l2 0
Indiana 0 12
Maine
Delaware 3 0
Vermont
Illinois 0 9
Mississippi
Missouri
Louisiana 0 6
South Carolina
Alabama ,
Arkansas
Tennessee

105 170
105

Polk's majority of elector votes

EXTRAORDINARY AFFRAY.

On Saturday evening a man, named John Jeffries, an
utterer of base coin, and who is well known to the police,
entered the shop of Mr. George Sheffield, a butcher, in
the Old-road, Bethnal-green, and tendered a base half-
crown in payment for a small quantity of meat. A
counterfeit half-crown was received about half an hour
previous by a man resembling Jeffries, and on the second
occasion the fraud was detected. He was immediately
detained by the butcher, on whom he committed a most
violent assault, and attempted to regain possession of
the spurious coin. A young man, named Montague, a
greengrocer, came to the assistance of Mr. Sheffield, and
he was also beaten. After a desperate conflict with the
fellow, whogave the butcher two black eyes, and knocked
down several other persons, he was secured, (and given
into the custody of a policeman, named Thompson, No.
196 K, who conveyed him to the station-house in Arbour-
square, Stepney, where he became exceedingly violent
and abusive, and, after he was put into the dock appro-
priated for persons charged with felony, Mr. Horn, the
inspector, directed him to be searched, and three penny
pieces were taken from him. Thompson was in the act
of marking the base coin, and exhibiting it to the
butcher, and while he did so, that he might be
able to identify it again, the prisoner made a
sudden spring, knocked down the policeman and a
sergeant standing by, and snatched a coin from
Thompson's hand, which he immediately put into his
mouth and swallowed. Police-sergeant Townsend in-
stantly seized him by the throat, and attempted to make
him disgorge the piece, but he was too late, and he ex-
claimed, " The half-crown has gone down ; he's got it."
Thompson also believed that he had swallowed the base
half-crown, and displayed considerable vexation at the
prospect of being reported for negligence, although the
act was so sudden and unexpected that it was impossible
for him, or any of the numerous officers who were stand-
ing by, to guard against it. After the prisoner had re-
covered himself, he laughed at the police, and said he
had done them. He was locked up in one of the cells,
where he had not been many minutes when he com-
plained of severe illness, and the symptoms ;became so
alarming that a surgeon was sent for, who advised ins
immediate removal to the London Hospital. It was
then that the policeman (Thompson) examined for the
first time the money he had taken from the prisoner, and
discovered that instead of the base half-crown, ho had
snatched one of the penny pieces from his hands and
swallowed it. The illness under which Jeffries laboured
was soon accounted for, and he was carried on the
stretcher to the hospital, where he still remains in a most
precarious state. All attempts to dislodge the coin have
as yet proved fruitless, and the wretched man has en-
dured the greatest agony for the last two days. Singular
enough, he was unconscious of having swallowed the
penny piece instead of the base coin, until the policeman
informed him of his mistake.

SUNDERLAND, DEC. 12.—A great many light ves-
sels have arrived at this port since the close of last week,
and from the prevalence of east winds and a heavy sea or;
the bar, no laden vessels have this week got to sea, so
that the harbJur is blocked up with ships, and consider-
able difficulty is flit in moving the craft to the places
where they are wanted to take thei▪ r cargoes. Till the
laden vessels can pet out to sea, busi▪
ness will, in the coal
trade, be at a stand-still. Coal freights may be considered
stationary at present at from 9s. to 9$ 6d. per ton to
London And proportionately to other ports.

Let us now inquire into the burdens imposed on
the man with a rental of 100,0001. We can fix his
land-tax exactly, because we know the rate of the as-
sessment. We.caa do the same with the present in-
come-tax. We can only do so approximately on his
consumption of food and his articles of luxury, since
these will vary according to his mode of living. Ne-
vertheless, we may form a pretty accurate estimate ;
and this, indeed has been done by Mr. Macintyre, in
his work on " Aristocracies." Availing ourselves of
his conclusions without filling up our columns with
his details and enumerations, we arrive at the follow-
ing result :
Land-tax £9.,716 17 11
Income-tax
Taxes on consumption.
Direct taxes on articles of luxury,
as servants, horses, &c