The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-24 00:00:00

SUGDEN v. BLACKBURNE.

A considerable sensation was excited in the Hall of
the Courts on Saturday, by the strong and uncourteous
terms in which the Chancellor commented upon a de-
sion pronounced by the Master of the Rolls in an ap-
peal from his Honour's judgment, brought before his
Lordship. The case was briefly this :—The plaintiff
(Walsh) filed a possessory bill, praying for an injunc-
tion against the defendant (M‘Kenna) and others, to
restrain them from plying certain ferries on the River
Liffey. The Master of the Rolls has granted the ap-
plication for the injunction, with costs.
In the progress of the discussion the Chancellor is
reported to have used the following strong expressions :
LORD CHANCELLOR—" You put in your bill a title
upon which you never could sustain an injunction;
nor can I collect anything from your bill which would
authorise the Court to interfere in the way you re-
quire. It is the most naked bill I have seen ; I don't
know that I ever saw such a pleading. You cannot
(said his Lordship, addressing the counsel for the plain-
tiff) ask me to maintain your case and support this in-
junction, in any thing you did not bring forward your-
self. Indeed, the case is presented to the Court in a
most extraordinary manner. I must repeat that I
cannot see how this injunction can be supported. If
I were to allow this order to stand, the defendant
would be without remedy."—Dublin Evening Mail.

MORE CONCESSIONS to CANADA.

To the great advantage which the Canadians will
derive from the modification of the Corn-law we re-
ferred in our last, and now we have to call public at•
tention to one equally, if not more serviceable to them,
with regard to the Provision-laws. About the former
there may be as yet some doubt, but such cannot be
the case with reference to the latter, as the following
Treasury order will show :
" Office of Committee of Privy Council of Trade.
" The. Lords of the Committee of Privy Council of
Trade have had under their consideration the Report
of the Commissioners of Customs, dated 29th ult., re-
lative to the duty on hams smoked and dried
Canada, from salted pork imported from the United
States—and I am directed to acquaint you, for the
information of the Commissioners of the Customs,
that upon considering the whole of the circumstances
before them in this case, my Lords are of opinion that
the hams in question ought to be admitted at the duty
of 3s. 6d. per cwt.
(Signed) "J. MACGREGOR.
" Whitehall, Oct. 31, 1842."
All that it will be necessary for us to say with re-
ference to this order, is, that it will throw another
trade into the hands of the Canadians for a time, as
4s. 6d. per cwt. in the duty will be saved by importing
this cured meat from Canada instead of from the
United States, and this sum will be more than cicinbly
safficient to counterbalance the additional expense of
freight.—Pilot.

" How ARE THE CHINESE TO PAT ?"—The Chi-
nese Government have given England their " promise
to pay" 21,000,000 dollars as the price of peace be-
tween this country and the Celestial Empire. The
question now comes, and will be asked by many,
" How are they to pay?" The Government of that
immense empire have been represented for years
past as very hard pressed for means to satisfy
the ordinary calls upon their exchequer. They
will, consequently, be extraordinarily "hard pressed"
to liquidate in the course of three years this extra-
ordinary and recent addition to their debts of
21,000,000 dollars. The Government of so vast a
country must necessarily be an expensive affair,
swarming as it does with its hundreds of millions.
Du Halde apparently, however, without the means of
exact correctness, calculated the total expenses per
annum of the Imperial Government at about 200,000,000
-taels, or considerably above 50,000,000/. sterling,
of which only 10,000,000 reached Pekin, the rest
being expended in the management and regulation of
the various and tremendous provinces of the empire.
The sources from which these sums are derived are—
a land•tax, for, which the landowners, and not the
tenants, are held responsible ; a tax on salt, which is
a Government monopoly ; taxes on imports and ex-
ports ; taxes on the transit of goods within the empire ;
and certain revenues derived from tea and alum,
which are likewise monopolies to a limited extent.
Ginseng is another monopoly of the Emperor, tickets
or permits being given to those employed in the col-
lection of that root, and severe penalties being enacted
against all who presume to gather it without the
license. Several mines of metals likewise afford a
revenue ; and there is a river in Yun-nan, called
Kin-shae, or " the golden-sanded," some portion of
the produce of which is paid to Government. In the
Pekin Gazette of October 11, 1833, there appeared an
article that showed how much the serious attention
of the Chinese authorities had been turned to some
mode of increasing its regular income for the pay-
ment of the ordinary expenses of Government. This
article was the result of deliberations between the
several supreme boards and that particular one that
has the especial charge of the revenue. They had
formed a committee of ways and means upon the
subject, with the view to increase the income for cur-
rent expenses, because during the last years the outlay
had exceeded the receipts by more than 30,000,000
of taels. An expedient was afterwards adopted of
raising money by selling the rank of kin-jin, which
qualifies for public employment, and, by the funda-
mental law of tne country, should be attainable by no
other means than those of learning and talent. "The
present Government (says Mr. Davis) of the country
is evidently hard pressed for means, and would be
distressed by any unusual draught on its resources."
This 21,000,000 of dollars may be considered rather
an "unusual draught," and the interesting question
remains to be answered, " How are the Chinese to
pay ?"
WIGAN.—About dusk on the evening of Friday
last, a very extraordinary and lamentable accident
befel Mr. Henry Latham, agent of the Wigan Sav-
ings' Bank, which has been attended with fatal conse-
quences. - We understand that the unfortunate de-
ceased, having been engaged in some business
which he usually transacted on a market day,
had drank rather too freely, and had wandered
through the gates (which are generally open)
under the Commercial Hall, and traversed the long
bottom room (probahly 100 feet long) of the right
wing of the buildings, at the top of which is a door-
way about three feet from the ground floor. He had
passed through this door-way, and thence fallen head-
long into a stream of hot-water, which flows down a
passage about four feet wide, from Tennant's mill, in
which he was found after a lapse, it is supposed, of ten
minutes, in a state of utter insensibility. Although
the hot water flowing at this particular place is never
known to be more than three inches deep, the de-
ceased's legs and arms, and almost the whole of his
body, were most dreadfully scalded ; showing that his
body had obstructed the stream, and thereby the
water accumulated and flowed over his person, his
head only escaping. He expired on the following
evening in great pain.—Manchester Guardian.
THE UNEMPLOYED.—We grieve to say that the
number of the unemployed is still rising. Last week
it was 7,090, this week it is 7,372; showing an in-
Advertiser of Saturday.
crease of 350.—Paisley