The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-09 00:00:00

51,282,900 1,893,682 5,293,7.26 .1 243,150

53,933,848 ; 3,738,128

3,727,585 1 317,620 I 479,700

Registrar of Warrants-office, Stamps and Taxes, 31st March, 1845.

7,000

WILLIAM WATSON, Registrar.

A Return 01 the Agginate Number of Stamps issued fk,r Newspapers in Ireland in each Year, from the Ist day
of January, 1842, to the Ist day of January, 1843.

• f Rate of Duty. Number of Stamps Total Number of Gross Amount of Net Amount of
at each Rate. Stamps.: Duty. Ihtty.
d. X. s." d. ' X. s. d.
• 11810
1 6,063,906 1 ~ ;..
4./ 099,6J6
25,340 15 1 19,037 6 11
1 35,750 S
Years
1843 i
1 6,249,, 1i
614
6,594,652 27,180 13 6 20,335 10 11
L522,5°870 2
7697 Z 1
1 / I 1814 7,018,617 28,724 610 21,586 1 4
it , 55060 1

Note.—By the Act 6 and 7 Will. IV., c.
ance of 251. for every 1001.
Stamp-oilier, Dublin, March 13, 1845.

'6, purchasers

of lot and upwards of these Stamps

J. S.-COOPER, Comptroller and Acei

.re wade an allow-

DUTY ON GLASS.

The following is the Bill for repealing the Duty on Glass,
brought in by Mr. Greene, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
and Mr. Cardwell. The words printed in italic are proposed
to be inserted in the Committee :
Be it enacted, by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by
and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assem-
bled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after
the fifth day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty-
fire, all duties of Excise now payable upon or for or in re-
spect of any glass-maker or glass-house, or any glass made in
the United Kingdom, and all drawbacks on the exportation
of such glass from the United Kingdom, shall cease and be
no longer charged, raised, levied, collected, allowed, or paid,
and that the several Acts, clauses, provisions, and regulations
for charging, raising, levying, collecting, allowing, and pay-
ing the said several duties and drawbacks shall not, from and
after the said fifth day of April, be enforced or executed, save
and except for the purpose of recovering any duties incurred
or charged on or before the said JIM day of April, or any
arrears thereof, the same not being duties charged on glass
which has been warehoused on the manufacture thereof free
of duty, on or after the fifteenth day of February one thousand
eight hundred and forty-five; and save and except for or in
respect of any drawback payable under the said recited Acts,
er any of them, for glass exported at any time previous to
the fifteenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and forty-
five, which glass has been packed for exportation under the
usual regulations on or before the said fifth day of April; and
save and except for the purpose of recovering any fine,
penalty, or forfeiture for the breach of any of the said Acts,
clauses, provisions, or regulations committed previous to the
said fifth day of April; but that all such duties and arrears
(not being as aforesaid), and all such fines, penalties, and
forfeitures, may be recovered, levied, enforced, and applied,
and all such drawbacks allowed and paid, in the same manner
and by the same powers and authorities as if this Act had net
been passed.
And whereas for the purpoee of making certain allowances
to manufacturers and dealers in plate glass, crown or Ger-
man sheet glass, and to manufacturers of bottle glass made
and manufactured in the United Kingdom, for and in respect
of their stock in hand of such glass respectively, on which the
respective duties thereon have been paid or secured to be
paid, such glass has been permitted to be packed as the like
goods when intended for exportation to foreign parts, and
warehoused under the charge of the officers of Excise, or I
otherwise deposited with and taken account of by the officers
of Excise ; be it enacted, that upon all crown and German
sheet glass, and upon all common bottles, vessels, and utensils
of common bottle metal which have been so warehoused, de-
posited, or taken account of as aforesaid, and which, on or be-
fore the twelfth day of April one thousand eight hundred and
forty-five, are on reexamination found conformable to such
previous account thereof as aforesaid, the Commissioners of
her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland may, for and in respect of the duties
thereon respectively paid, allow to the manufacturers or
dealers to whom suck.glass. respectively belongs, a sum of
money equivalent to the drawback to which such glass re-
spectively would have been entitled if the same respectively
had been exported to foreign parts previous to the sixth day
qf April one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, deducting
therefrom twenty fire per centum; and that upon all plate
glass which has been so warehoused or taken account of as
aforesaid, and which on or before the said twelfth day of April
is, on re-examination, found conformable to such previous
account thereof as aforesaid, the said Commissioners of her
Majesty's Treasury may, for and in respect of the duties
thereon paid, allow to the manufacturers or dealers to whom
such last-mentioned glass belongs, the sum of one shilling and
tenpence-halfpenny for every_ square foot a all rectangular
pieces of such plate glass of six inches by four at the least, and
not less than one. eighth of an inch in thickness, and the sum
offintr pounds jbur shillings for every hundred weight of such
plate glass if polished, and not one-eighth of an inch in thick-
ness, deducting twenty-five per centum from the sum to be
allowed as last mentioned.

lUD taut General,

RAILWAY BUSINESS IN PAR-
LIAMENT.
MONDAY, APRIL 7.
The following Bills were Presented and read a first time:.
Northumberland Railway_
Ely and Huntingdon Railway.
Lynn and Dereham Railway.
Wilts, Somerset. and Weymouth Railway.
Direct London and Portsmouth Railway.

The following Bills were read a second time and cum.
milted, and referred to the Committee of Selection :
Cornwall Railway.
Greenwich Collier)? Railway.
North Woolwich Railway.
Eastern Union Railway.
Great Southern and Western Railway (Ireland).

Wexford, Carlow, and Dublin Junction Railway,—Petition
for Bill reported ; report referred to the Select Committee
on Standing Orders.
_

Cork and Bandon Railway,—Petition for Bill reported;
report referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders.
Eastern Union and Harwich Railway and Pier,—Petition
for Bill ; referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for
Private Bills.

Aberdare Railway,—Petition for Bill; referred to the
Select Committee on Petitions for private Bills.
St. Ives Junction Railway,--Petition for Bill reported, and
Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Pendarves and Mr.
Edmund Turner.

Edinburgh and Northern Railway (No. 2),—Petition for
Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr.
Pringle and Mr. Edwand Ellice.
Coventry, Bledworth, and Nuneaton Railway,—Petition
for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr.
Dugdale and Mr. Fitzniaurice.

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE.
Dundee and Perth Railway,—Second reading, Friday,
April I I.
Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge Railway,—Second read-
Friday, April I I.
Direct Northern Railway (No. I ),—Committee on petition,
postponed from Wednesday 9th till Monday, April 14.
South Wales Railway,—Second reading, Friday, April 11.
North Woolwich Railway,—Second reading, Friday,
Aliril 11.

Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Acts Amendment,—
Committee on petition, postponed from Wednesday 9th till
Thursday, April 10.
Newport and Ponty Pool Railway,—Second reading, Friday,
April 11.

And be it enacted, that no glass or glass wares for or in re-
spect whereof any drawback of excise has been received or
claimed on exportation from the United Kingdom, shall be
imported into the United Kingdom unless by the special
permission of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Customs,
and on repayment of such drawback ; which drawback the
said Commissioners of Customs shall collect, recover, and ac-
count for as her Majesty's duties of Customs, and under the
laws and regulations in force relating to such duties at the
time of such importation, and notwithstanding that such
drawback on the exportation of the likegoods from the United
Kingdom is at that time repealed.

BRAZILS.
Her Majesty's packet Linnet, Lieut. Dicken commanding,
arrived at Falmouth on Sunday morning,, and landed her
mails just at the moment of- the mail-coach leaving for
London, so that her bags were posted on en mane, without
being sorted. She left Rio de Janeiro on the loth of Feb.,
and brought freight in gold, and diamonds to about 16,0001.
in value. Her passengers were dies-sre. Thomas and Priestley
and a miner. The barque Gloucester, Henderson, was shin-
doned in 8 deg. south of Itio de Janeiro, and the crew taken
oil' and conveyed into Rio by the Sardinian brig Giove, from
Buenos Ayres. The following British merchant.vessels were
at Rio :—The Homely, the Star, and the Emilia, for Liver-
pool; the Richmond, the Fox, and t he Iron Queen, for London;
the St. George, for Antwerp; the Conquest, for the Channel ;
the "Eliza Kincaird, for the northern ports ; the Diadem,
for Marseilles ; and the following were unfixed :—The St.
Lawrence, the Gulielmo, the Elizabeth, the Antelope, the
Buctouche, and the Sir John Bereaford. Freights ruled at
50s. for Antwerp, Trieste, Constantinople, or the Channel,
for orders. Exchange on London, 24,7 i ; on Paris, :;80; on
Hamburgh, 710 ; Six per Cent. Stock, 75,j. Business in all
branches had been exceedingly limited; the several markets
had been destitute of the slightest interest, and apathy had
been in the several departments a characteristic feature. In
piece goods the arrivals had been moderate,business restricted,
and•market dull. A small lot of American cottons com-
manded full prices. Coffee, superior, 235. Sd. per arroba (a
measure of a fraction less than 331b5.); first good, 255. 5d.;
first ordinary, 225. I Id. ; second good, 225. 2i. The export
duty on coffee is 11 per cent. Heavy rains had fallen at Rio,
which gave reason to fear that damage had been sustained by
the coffee plants. Of sugar—white, 255. per arroba ; yellow,
225. 2d. Of hides—heavy, per lb., 180 reis; light, 19 reis.
Sales for February—of coffee, 36,00.bag5; of sugar, in cases,
250 • of hides, 10,000.

The approaching confinement of the Empress was looked
forward to with some anxiety. The French naval Coin-
mander at Monte Video had refused to acknowledge the right
of the Buenos Ayrean Commodore, to enforce the rigidity of
the intended blockade, until he received instructions from his
Government thereon. The United States frigate Raritan,
had captured a Portuguese schooner in Rio harbour, but had
been necessitated to give her up again. Men-of-war at Rio
—British, the Alfred, Crescent, Gorgon, and Viper—French,
the Expeditive--American, the Raritan—Portuguese, the
Diana and Tamega.
The Linnet spoke, on March 2G, in lat. 39 10 N., lon. 32
50 W., the Harmony—and on April 1, lat. 47 57 N. lon. 16
W., the East Indianian, Hebrides, from Singapore; and Nau-
tilus, from Mauritius for London.

GRANT TO MAYNOOTIL—Monday night, at seven,
a meeting of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood was held
at Farringdon Hall, King's Arms Tavern, Snow-hill, for the
purpose of petitioning the House of Commons against the pro-
posed grant to Maynooth College, Captain Fishborn, R.N.,
in the chair, who was supported by the Rev. J. Hymns, of
Camberwell, the Rev. J. Pizey, and several other elergymen
of different denominations of religion. The meeting having
been addressed by some of the reverend gentlemen on the
platform, resolutions were unanimously agreed to, in efect,
that it was inconsistent with a Protestant faith te appropriate
any portion of the public revenue fim- the endowment of
Popery; that there was no contract by which the Legislature
was bound to make the grant annual, and that the meeting
pledged itself to offer every constitutional opposition to the
measure. A petition, founded upon the resolutions, was also
agreed to, when, thanks being voted to the Gallant Chair-
man, who briefly replied, the meeting broke.
dRANT TO MAYNOOTEL—Monday evening a large
meeting of the ministers and congregations of the various
churches and chapels at the east end of the metropolis was
held at the Eastern Institution, Commercial-road, fir the
purpose of opposing the Government grant to Maynooth
College. Sir Culling Eardley Smith, Bart., was in the chair,
supported by Charles Hindley, Esq., M.P., and a large num-
ber of clergymen of several Protestant elenominations. Reso-
lutions condemnatory of the proposed increase of the grant
I were passed, and the meeting separated.
REPRESENTATION OF WEST K ENT.—MA DSTONE,
MONDAY EVENING.—This afternoon a numerously attended
and most important meeting of the freeholders of the western
division of the county of Kent was held in the spacious ball-
room of the Star Hotel, High-street, Maidstone, opposite the
Town-hall. Long before the hour appointed for holding the
meeting carriages began to arrive, containing several of the
most influential gentlemen and yeomen in the district. By
one o'clock not fewer than three hundred had assembled.
.Captain Marsham, took the chair. Captain Austin
proposed the lion. Viscount Holinesdale (son of the venerable
Earl Amherst, of Noel t'ark, Sevenoaks) as a fit and proper
person to represent the freeholders of the western division of
the county of Kent in Parliament. The resolution having
been seconded, and carried unanimously, Viscount Holmes-
dale then addressed the meeting, declaring himself in favour
of protection to agriculture, opposed to the Anti-Corn-law
League, and a supporter of the policy of Sir Robert Peel. Ile
ceclared himself in favour of the grant to Maynooth, which
led to some expressions of disapprobation
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been talked of, but the rumour is not generally believed.--
Post. •
THE SALE or TuE FLEET PRISON'.--
the sale of the materials of the Fleet Prison
Tfiwhich is to be
oeonnatili natteerde)ofcogmrmouennde,edat:ittit tchoenptarienmsis3e,so.oo,oo.
Iprison stands
auctioneers (Messrs. Pullen) in the advertiseno bienictkdsescirilblee
the place.as a "town in miniature." At
pilatceiownestehnetsiit is not
decided what improvements will
ther a new street will be formed, or accominodationteaZdhede-
for the administration of public justice It seems that the
Corporation of London have purchased the property tbr
29,000/. The present building was erected after the Gordon
riots, in 1780, three former buildings having been destroyed
by fire. The prison was opened yesterday, and many availed
themselves of a farewell glance at the place where debtors
were confined. Those prisoners who remained when the pri-
son was ordered to be closed, about three Years ago, have
been removed to the Queen's Prison, whittler all Chancery
prisoners, who were 'exclusively sent to the Fleet, are now
ordered to be confined until they comply with the orders of
that Court. In a short time the walls will disappear, and in
their stead it is hoped that something more refreshing to the
Mind's eye will be formed.