The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-18 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

At a Court of Common Council held yesterday it was deter-
mined that the silver cup voted to Sir R. Sale should be sent to
India to that Gallant Officer, and that the silver cup voted to
Sir W. Nott should be presented to his widow.
Sir HENRY POTTINGER was then introduced to the Court,
and was presented with the freedom of the City in a gold box.
The Gallant Officer having acknowledged the compliment in
appropriate terms, withdrew amidst loud cheering.
The sum of 500/. was then voted to the sufferers by the re-
cent conflagration at Quebec, after which the Court brake up.

WILD NUTMEGS.—An importation has recently
taken place of wild nutmegs, divested of the shell, in an Ame.
rican vessel from New York. The tariff contains two distinct
rates of duty for the article, viz., " Nutmegs from foreign conn.
tries and British possessions respectively, 3s. 6d. and 2s. 6d. per
1b.," and " wild nutmegs in the shell," 3d. per lb. ; and as these
were, although wild, and evidently inferior to those usually im.
ported, not, according to the Act of Parliament, actually in the
shell, they were detained for the higher rate of duty. Application
was subsequently made to the Customs Board for their delivery at
the lower rate, and permission has been given for the nutmegs in
question, being of a very inferior description, although not actually
in the shell, as required by law, to be admitted as " wild nutmegs"
at the duty of 3d. per lb. Since the above privilege was allowed,
another party has made a similar application with respect to a
parcel of the same sort of article in bond, which being precisely
similar to those previously admitted at thelow duty, has also been
granted on the same conditions. This is of considerable im-
portance, as there is a marked difference in the rates of duty on the
article.

B ku, IN Ertl:Oß.—A Bill has been brought from
the House of Lords intituled " An Act to Stay Execution of
Judgment for Misdemeanours upon Elvin?, Bail in Error." It con-
tains but seven clauses. The first enacts that in every case of
judgment given after the passing of the Act for a misdemeanor,
where the defendant or defendants shall have obtained a writ of
error to reverse such judgment, execution thereupon shall be
stayed until such writ of error shall be finally determined, and in
case the defendants shall be imprisoned under such execution, or
any flee shall have been levied, either wholly or partly, in pursu-
ance of such judgment, the said defendants shall be entitled to be
discharged from durance, and to receive back any money levied on
account of such fine from the person in whose possession it shall be,
until such final determination ; provided always, that no execution
upon any such judgment shall he stayed, unless, and until the
defendants shall become bound by recognizance, to be acknowledged
before one of the judges of the Court of Queen's Bench, with two
sufficient sureties to he approved of by such judge, in such sum as
such judge shall direct to prosecute the writ of error with effect;
and in case the judgment shall be affirmed, forthwith to render the
said defendants to prison, according to the said judgment, where
imprisonment shall have been adjudged. The time of imprison-
ment is to be reckoned to begin from the day when the defendants
shall be in actual custody under such judgment ; and if the defend-
ants shall have been discharged from imprisonment, such de-
fendants shall be liable to be imprisoned for such further period
as, with the time during which they may already have been im-
prisoned under such execution, shall be equal to the period from
which such defendants were so adjudged to be imprisoned. The
writ of error may be quashed in.the case of delay or neglect to
prosecute it. The Act is not to extend to Scotland.
LABouß.—Not less ' han 150 nhle b 'de-Amen have
gone from the neighbourhood of St. Helen's, in this county, to
work on the French Railways, and from the scarcity of hands in
the farming districts of Lancashire, wages are rising. From 13s.
to 14s. a week, with additional pay in hay and corn harvest, is
now generally given to farm labmers in this county.—Liverpool
Paper.