The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-04 00:00:00

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TO THE Etlfro.a 01, TM: ;517N.
SlR,—There art; sd attempts to itopo:,T upon
the public, by sale of chef P .1.3 f Vdrk trutll
pretended importations of these artitli Aftlo
rica and the Continent, althow,;ll the Tnritt'
admit salted Beef or Pork until after the 10th of
October, that you may think it fir to Volnish ttlb fol"
lowing exceptions in the tariff to the time orittittiitl
sion, and that the Duties on all articles nut enumeNAH
below took effect from the pin sing of the Act, viz.:—
Beef, salted, not being Owned Beef, pays now 12. s
per cwt., andafter the 10th October will be charged

Bs. per cwt.
Beef, fresh, or sligitly salted, which was prohibited
is admitted paying per cwt. from foreign coin.
tries ; but those wticles from British Colonies
pay only 2s. per *wt.
Pork, salted (not hams) paid 12s. per cwt., iilti fit:F
the 10th of October will pay Bs. per cwt. froni
foreign countries.
Pork, fresh, was prohibited, but now admitted at 8s
per cwt. from foreign countries, and both only: 2s.
per cwt. from British Colonies.
Hams, which paid 28s. per cwt., are now admitted at
14s. per cwt.
Nutmegs now pay from 2s. Gd. to 35.. Cd, pet lb., and
after sth July, 1843, will pay 3s. '6& Ibt from
foreign, and 2s. 6d. British. . .
Onion-seed now pays ls. 6d.. per lb., and after sth
July, 1843, will pay 20s: per cwt. from foreign,
and 10s. from British Colonies.
Timber or Wood--the Nell) duty 30s. per load of 50
cubic feet, will come into operation on the 10th
Oct., 1842, and 255. after , 10th Oct., 1843, from
foreign countries, and ls. from British Colonies.
Deals, Battens, Brands, or
.other Timber, sawn, to
pay 38s. per load of 50 cubic l'OOt titer loth Oct:s
1842, and 325. after-10th Oct., 1843, kali l'elf-Hgtl
countries;and 2s. from British Colonies.
'Wood, planed or ,otherwise dressed for use, 9d. per
foot of cubic contents, and further for every 100/.
value 101., from and after 10th Oct., 1842, and 7d.
per toot after 10th Oct., 1843, from foreign coun-
tries, and from British possessions only Si. for every
1001. value.
Oil, Train, and Blubber, the produce of foreign fish--
ing, now pay 261. 12s. per tun duty, and after the,
ate
sth July, 1843, will pay only 61. per tun from fn-
reign countries; from British possessions, ls. per tun. • "f,4ri•ol
Oil, Spermaceti, pays 261. 12s. per tun, and after stili. ,
July, 1843, will pay 151. 10s. per tun, and be free •
from British possessions.
Cork now pays Bs. per ton ; and after the sth July, , ,alO
1843, it will pay Is. per ton. Aflf
Corks, ready • made, pay 7s. per lb., and after the sth ' AO"i
•
Juiy, will pav Bd. per lb. 'Ai• •
• lyhale fins, of foreign fishery, pay 951. per ton front Neo9-
,
the sth July, 1842, and after the sth July, 1843,
they will be admitted on paying 201. per cent. on tOO
value.'
There were grounds, perhaps, for allowing some ..
time to the South Sea whalers, which take up two- . ,
and-a-half or three years in the voyage ; but loss ".
must arise' to every holder of goods on which he has; AV;
paid a high duty, when the duty is lowered, as has ,;14j
been the case with almost the whole of the articles in • -
the Tariff. The exceptions made by Sir Robert Peel
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were pressed upon him by particular interests, and I .
think he must now be convinced that he acted wrong '•
,;„
in yielding to any applications. I know that the-r,
postponement of the lower duty on timber. until Oc- , •
tober has been productive of much distress to the work- !•5;
ing carpenters generally, as the masters have been un'
willing to-buy timber to carry on any work with-the.
high duty, when a few months' delay would save it.
The postponement of the reduction of the duty on
Onion
,Seeds was, we are informed, very discreditable;
as it has thrown considerable profit into the hands:of .•,;rt•
a few speculators, who had interest with the Board of '
Trade to procure the alteration. . The' postponement
of the reduction of the duty on Cork was also the
result of solicitation, by which the monopoly on that,
article is continued for a year longer.
I take the opportunity of stating that the public will- ,•
not derive the advantage which the reductions in the c-k, • 't;
Tariff ought to give to the consumers, until the delays •• • •
and impediments at the Custom-house are 'removea
and until that Board is reduced in number to. two ;
Commissioners, .and one or two Secretaries, there .• ls-
little hope of these impediments being removed. -The. 7:
late exposures of frauds in the silk department 'poinit.4.•:, •
out to Sir Robert Peel the absolute necessity of. & .
strict and immediate examination • into, and reform 049'
their proceedings.-I remain, „ .
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London,. Sept. 28, 1842. A
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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. '11K•
TATTERSALL'S-YESTERDAY. .'51•01'1' 910
Heslington, Roscius, and Lucy Banks were the• 0a1ri11,,.41/610i.
new appearances in the Cesarewitch betting, whiclVi
in other respects, presented nothing remarkable, and. on -4
the whole was, for se important an event, singularly 4) .A
flat. For the Derby, Scott.'s lot was backed for neatlte-',1,4
2001. at 7to 2. Napier for 10et. at 20 to I, and Par= ~y
titian for poney at 40 to L The Oaks bets quote •''
below were laid a day or two back.
sal
7 BseTi
LuE STAKES. •
6 to I agst Mr. A
7 to 1 agst Mr. Jones's Portrait
10 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Blue Bonnet_ •
12 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Florence-taken
12 to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Ralph-taken
12 to 1 agst Mr. F. Clarke's Arcanus
15 to 1 agst Major Yarburgh's Heslington-taken
15 to 1 agst Mr. Graydon's Roscius ,
18 to 1 agst Mr. Forth's Lucy Banks-taken ;4;
DERBY.
7 to 2 agst Scott's lot-taken
20 to l agst Col. Anson's Napier . .
20 to 1 agst Mr. Clarke's Philip •
25 to I agst Mr. Bowes's Cotherstorie-taken •
40 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Parthian-taken
500 even Philip agst Cotherstone
1000 to 900 on Philip agst Napier-taken •
OAKS.
1250 to 50 agst Lord Exeter's Macrenima filly -taken
800 to 100 agst Maria Day-1200 to 100. agst Wee..
Pet-1500 to 100 agst Testy-and 1230 to 50 agst
tempore, taken in one bet.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. • ,
Mr. Long's harriers will meet on Wednesday, at 'Wad-
man's Copse ; Friday, at Warminster Firs, at 11. ,
Tytherley hrs.. Wed., West Dean ; Fri.,.lladdon hilt.
M. 11., Fri., Ash-11. • , •
Devon and Somerset stag hds., Wed., Park•end Gate,
Cotherstone Hill.
That. t hrs., Wed., Munster Mill ; Fri., Northbourne
Mill-10.

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EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF pOl-
- G.
A considerable degree of alarm and excitement
was created in the neighbourhood of Folds, Little
1391t0n, on Thursday last, in cOnsequence of an'in-•
quisition, held at the Crown Inn, upon the body of
William Eccles, a boy, of nearly fifteen years of age,
son of Henry Eccles, a carter,.and who has hitherto
borne an irreproachable character. The Jury were
at first summoned with an idea that it was an
ordinary case of sudden death ; but, from facts that.,;
fterwards , transpired, the Coroner deemed it ne-
cessary .„
to have a post mortem examination of the
body ; the result of which proved there was a
large quantity of arsenic in the stomach of the
deceased- The evidence yet given does not implicate'.
any i individual ;' but it is asserted, that from inqui-
ries made, there is every reason to suppose that the
deceased's step -mother has been, guilty of the murder.
It appears that Betty Eccles, then a widow, was mar-
ried, about two years ago, to Henry Eccles,. a carter,
of respectable character, who was then in the service
of Mr. Hardcastle, bleacher, at Firwood, but was dis-
charged in consequence of some faux pas on the part
of his- wife, and has since been working at Manchester,
the family remaining at Little Bolton. On Tuesday last ..
the deceased went to his work, and on his return for ~.
dinner, was supplied with a damson pudding, of which
he ate heartily. On his return to his work' he begaa '-•
to feel sick, and vomited rather freely, and was cool- '
palled to leave work for the purpose of returning -
home; but he had swallowed such a large quantity of ~!.,
arsenic, that, on his way, he was obliged to go be':
hind a hedge; where he remained until a workiniii-v
in the same employ, named Devonport,. who was 8A
his way home, about four o'clock in the afternbon, was I .
informed by a girl of deceased's state, and on finding
him took him home, and he died the same evening.
The Jury, on the recommendation of the Coroner,
adjourned the inquest until Thursday after-
noon, when it was stated that the body of Alice
Haslem (who was interred a fortnight ago);daught.er
to the woman, by her first husband, had been ex-
humed, and that, on examination, a quantity of
arsenic had been found in her stomach. The bowels'
of the boy were also found to contain a considerable
quantity of poison. The matter had now assumed
a ve:y serious aspect, Wand the Coroner recom-
mendt.d that the inquest should be .further Adjourned
until Tuesday next, and then to be held at the police-
office. This was at once agreed upon ; but, in the..
case or the girl, an additional number of jurors Were 11,,,1
sworn, and the body was inspected in the yard of the
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parish church.-11-fanche.'ster Guardian. t
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FREEMASONRY.—.A.mong these Fathers 0..: the _
Order there is one, whose name is known from north
to south-•--from east to west—from Indus to the Pol!;. ,MOl
one whose erudite researches have enriched the
braries of all connected Nvith the Craft, from the son'
of r.,ya in hIA ancestral palace; 'to the humblest r
,
artis at hi:: loon; ;--;--one; Is-hose writings have given 01
to the Fraternity a literature specially its own, hic I
terteitoti; circumstance of illustrious birth, or
(11, co it
~Ufa-. ever have secured for t
l-ake familiar to the Brethren of everY
and Peit:ifPLl alike With the ,Masonic studies
iof
dative.: cf. every quarter of the glohe,;--0.n.,-,
whose character; a!, a divine, a scholar, and 3
Mason, are united 'all the Christian graces;—in a •
word, One, in whose p rson are Concentrated so many
rare pttl,lier and private virtues.,. that if we search
!hr,itlitli the annals of the Craft, from the earliest
period:; of time to find his equal, we search in vain,"
himself is his only parallel Character of Dr. Oliver,
,
by Brother Sharpe. Freemasons' Quart. 44 YVa
for October.

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