The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-25 00:00:00

DUTCH FUNDS.-AMSTERDAM, APRIL

' Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent ......... 52% _ 7 52%
Ditto, ditto • 5 per cent. ........ lOll4 • 191%
Amert Sandic,4g percent...... ....... 93 .9:34,
Ditto, ditto, 334 percent...„....„.„,....... 77% 77}4
Commercial Company, 44 per cent.......... 156 :56%
Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. ..... 10034 1i o%
Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 99% l i;9!4,
Exchange on Londota, One month l2 15
Two months
Han2burgh, One month 25 :11,4
• Two months 35 1234
Dutch Papers, April 22.
BELGIAN I.UNDS--/SItUIIsRLI, APRIL 22.
Actual Debt, 2hi per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cant R2%
Loan of Thirty Atillions, 4 per Cent....
3 per Cent.
Thirty.seren---------..
----. (1840)..... lO4
Loan of City, I=3'2, 4 per Cent ps
Society of Conlin, rce, 4 t.. per Cente fW
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent .............
National Society —
Exchange on Lonclem (short) .... —
.—Brussels Papers, April 22.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, APRIL 13.
fireper Cents.Metalliques
Four per Cent 5...„.„.„....„....„.„.„....„.„ lOO
Three par Cents.
Clank Shares 1616
HA 51BU IIGH BORSENHALLE, APRIL 22.
bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents. ,.. — IV%
Bank Shares l6fi,4 1666
Anglo-Russian Loan llO% 110%
Russian 5 Der Cent., Ist series, Certificate 103% 103%
Inscription, Ist series
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series 1:9!.4 99
Ditto in Certificates ...
New 4 per t ent. (1849)
Dutch Actual Debt, :46 per Cent. .... 51% 5174
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Polish Boy ds 154
New Tickets
Anglo-Danish Lo.an, 3 per Cent.
Spanish, New 5p r Cents
EAC HAN GEX ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, APRIL 29 —l3 1034.—Tw0 months, 13 8%
PETURSBURGR, APRIL 8 --Two months, 38 hence.
STOCKHOLM. APRIL 15.—Ninety days. 14 12.

ATTEM PT AT MURDER.—Yesterday afternoon, a
boy about twelve years of age, residing with his parents at No.
In, Pat ker-street, Drury-lane, went into the room of a female
tedg,r in the house, named Ellen Smith, (a s, oa,ati of disre-
putable character), for whom he had been in the habit of
going on errands. Upon his entering the room she immedi-
ately seized hint with her left hand, and at the same time in-
flicted a severe w oond on the side of his throat with a razor,
whirh she held in her right hand. 'I he mother of the boy ran
into the room and rescued
upon hearing his screams, anreseued her son.
The ii,iclieesoon' after cr:ived, and conveyed the woman to
Bow-atreet. She declared her only reason for attempting the
b
that she had made up her mind to commit a
murder, and
he was the first person that clme in her way.
It appeared she was drunk at the time. The boy was taken
to Portugal-street Hospital, and altheugh very weak from loss
of blood, yet it is hoped that he may recover, as none of the
p'incipal vessels were injured.

THE :S UN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1842.

First.—The said duty on employments shall be construed to
extend to every employment, by retainer in any character
whatever, whether such retainer shall be annual, or for a longer
or shorter period ; anil fo all profits and earnings of whatever
value, subject only to such exemptions as are hereinafter
granted.
Second.—The,duty to be,charged: shall be computed at a
sum not less than the full amount of the balance of the
profits, gains, and emoluments of such professions, employ-
ments or vocations (after making such deductions, and no
other, as by this Act are allowed) within the preceding year,
ending as in the first case, to be paid on the actual amount
of such profits or gains, without any deduction, subject to the
like provisions as are made in the first case in respect to the
period of average, in the cases of setting up and commencing
such profession, employment, or vocation, within the period
herein limited.
RULES APPLYING TO BOTH THE PRECEDING CASES.
- . .

First.—ln estimating the balance of the profits or gains to
be charged according to either of the first or second cases
no sum shall be set against or deducted from, or allowed to
be set against or deducted from, such profits or gains, for
any disbursements or expenses whatever, not being money
wholly and exclusive's laid out or expended for the purposes
of such trade, manufacture, adventure, or concern, or of such
profession ,:employment, or vocation •, nor for any disburse-
ments or expenses of maintenance of the parties, their fami-
dliweseloling-hu
or establishments o
shmr
ents ; nor for the rent or value of any
domestic offiees, or any part of such dwel-
ling.house or domestc offices, except such part thereof as may
be used for the purposes of such trade or concern, not exceed-
ing the proportion of the said rent or value hereinafter men-
tioned ; nor for any sum expended in any other domestic or
private purpose, distinct from the purposes of such trade, ma-
nufacture, adventure, or concern, or of such profession,
employment, or vocation.
Second.—The computation of the duty to be charged in re-'
spect of any trade, manufacture, adventure, or concern, or any
profession, whether carried on by any person singly, or by any
one or more persons jointly, or by any corporation, company,
fraternity, or society, shall be made exclusive of the profits or
gains arising from lands, tenements, or hereditaments occu-
pied for the purpose of such profession, trade, manufacture, ad-
venture, or concern.
Third.—The computation -of duty arising in respect of any
trade, manufacture, adventure, or concern, or any profession,
carried en by two or more persons jointly, shall be made and
stated jointly and in one sum, and separately and distinctly
from any other duty chargeable on the same persons or either or
any of them ; and the return of the 'partner who shall be first
named in the deed, instrument, or other ''agreement of copart-
nership (or where there shall be no such deed, instrument, or
agreement, then of the partner who shall be named singly, or
with precedence to the other partner or partners, in the usual
name, style, or firm of such copartnership, or where such pre-
cedent partner shall not be an acting partner, then of the pre-
cedent acting partner), and who shall be resident in Great
Britain (and Who is hereby required, under the penalty herein
contained for default in making any return required
by this Act, to make such return on behalf of himself

and the other part;er -or partners, whose names and
residences shall also be declared in such return) shall be suffi-
cient authority to charge such parties jointly ; provided always
that where no such partner shall be resident in Great Britain,
then the statement shall be prepared and delivered by their
agent, manager, or factor, resident in Great Britain, jointly for
such partners, and such joint assessment shall be made in the
partnership name, style, firm, or description ; and no separate
statement shall be allowed in any case of partnership, except for
the purpose of the partners, separately claiming an exemption as
herein directed, or of accounting for separate concerns ; pro-
vided that any partner, being entitled to exemption, shall
declare the proportion of his share in such partnership, trade,
profession, or concern, in order to a separate assessment for
the above purpose, it shall be lawful to charge such partner
separately ; but if no such claim be made, then such assess-
ment shall be made jointly, according to the amount of the
profits and gains of such partnership ; provided also, that any
joint partnership in such trade, profession, or concern, which
shall nave been already returned by such precedent partner as
aforesaid, may return his name and place of abode, and' that
he is such partner without returning the amount of duty pay-
able in respect thereof, unless the Commissioners respectively
shall think proper to require a further return, in which case it
shall be lawful for such Commissioners to require from every
such partner the Eke return, and the like information, and
evidence as they are hereby entitled to require from the pre-
cedent partner,

Fourth. —ln case of change of partners, the duty to be
charged on the profits antecedent to the change.
Fistb.—Every statement of profits to be charged under this
schedule shall include every source so chargeable on the person
delivering the same on his own account, or on account of any
other person ; and every person shall be chargeable in respect
of the whole of such duties in one'and the same division, and
by the same Commissioners (except in cases where the same
person shall be engaged in different partnerships, or the same
bison shalt be engaged in different concerns relating to trade
or manufacture in divers places, in each of which cases a sepa,
rate assessment shall be made in respect of each concern at the
place where such evicern, if singly carried on, ought to be
charged as herein directed), and every such statement on the
behalf of any other person for which such persons shall be
chargeable as acting in any of the characters before described,
or on the behalf of any corporation, fellowship, fraternity, corn
pany, or society, shall include every source chargeable as last
aforesaid, and shall be delivered in that division where such
person, corporation, fellowship, fraternity, company, or society,
would be chargeable, if acting on his or their own behalf.
Third c.se.—The duty to be charged in respect of profits of
an uncertain annual value.

First.—The duty to be charged in respect thereof, shall be
computed at a sum not less than the full amount of the profits
or gains arising therefrom t‘ithin the preceding year, ending as
in tee first case, to be paid' in the actual amount of such profits
or gains, without any deduction.
Second.—The profits on all securities bearing interest, shall
be charged according to the precedmg.rule in this case.
Third—Whenever the Commissioners shall, on examina-
tion, find that any lands occupied by a dealer in cattle, or by .a
dealer in or seller of milk (which lands shall have been esti-
mated and charged on the rent or annual value), are not sufli•
cient for the keep and sustenance of the cattle brought on the
said lands, so that the rent or annual value of the said lands
cannot afford a just estimate of the profits of such dealer, it
shall be lawArl for the said Commissioners to require a return
of such profits, and to charge such further sum thereon as,
together with the charge in. respect of the occupation of the
said lands, 3h511 make up the full sum wherewith such trader
ought to be charged in respect of the like amount of profits
charged according to the first rule in this case.
Fourth Case.—The duty to be charged in respect of inte-
rest arising from securities in Ireland, or in the British plan-
tations in America, or in any other of her Majesty's domi-
nions out of Great Britain, and foreign securities, except such
annuities, dividends, and shares, as are directed to be charged
under Schedule C, applicable to annuitants.
The duty to be charged in respect thereof shall be computed
on a sum not less than the full 'amount of the sums (so far as
tn computed),i which have been or will be re-
ceivedo the current year; without any t
de-
ductionhes a m eno
r can
Great b
abatement.
B

Fitth case.--The duty to be charged in respect to posses-
sions in Ireland, dr in the British plantations in America, or
in any other of her Majesty's dominions out of Great Britain,
and foreign possessions.
The duty to be charged in respect thereof shall be computed
on a sum not less than the full amount of the actual sums annu-
ally received inGrcat Britain, either for remittances from thence
payable in Great Britain, or from property imported from
computing the same on an average
of
deduction or abatement. case, without
thencethree
i precedingntoG r eat Britain,years,
as
directed in the first c

Ihens notduty fallingt o
be charged in respect of any
annSuixalthprocafistes.; gains
under any of the foregoing
rules, and not charged by virtue of any of the other schedules
contained in this Act.

The nature of such profits or gains, and the grounds on
which the amount thereof shall have been computed, and the
average taken thereon (if any), shall be stated to the Com-
missioners, and the computation shall be made either on the
amount of the full value of the profits and gains received an-
nually, or according to an average of such
.period, greater or
less than one year, as the case may require and as shall be
directed by the said Commissioners ; and such statement and
computation shall be made to the best of the knowledge and
belief of the person in receipt of the same, or entitled thereto.
Persons carrying on two or more concerns may set the
loss sustained in one against the profits acquired in the other
concern.

VELLUM-BINDERS and MACIIINE
RULERS' PENSION SOCIETY,

The first annual meeting of the Vellum-binders and
Machine-rulers was held on Friday evening at Ander-
ton's Hotel, Fleet-street, for the purpose of forming a
Pension Society for the support and relief of distressed
members, and the widows and children of such connected
with that trade.

JOHN SMITH, Esq., being called to the chair, he stated
to the meeting that the business which had brought
them together was so familiar to all, as to render any.
introductory observations from him almost unnecessary.
Almost every other trade, he said, had formed charitable
associations, and had left the Vellum-binders at the
eleventh hour to come and reap a rich harvest from the
experience of others. He begged to remind them that,
their numbers being small, the calls upon them would be
proportionate to their numbers. In conclusion, he re-
quested the attention of the meeting to the reading of
the Report, and the Rules and Regulations which the gen-
tlemen of the Committee had framed.

The Report was
.then read by Mr. Brett. It stated,
although the commercial depression of the last year had
offered almost insurmountable obstacles to the formation
of a Society purporting to draw upon the liberality of
persons engaged in trade, that the Committee had the
satisfaction to state that they l'ad, in their appeals to
the persons connected with their trade, realised in al-
most every instance their most sanguine expecta:ions.
Referring to the list of donors and subscribers, the-Com-
mittee felt assured of the ultimate success of their de-
sign,particularly when it is considered thi.t the Vellum-
binders' trade does not include more than four or five
hundred persons,'and that the result of their personal
canvass has reached 250. The Report next set forth
the advantages'of the Society, by which it appeared that
a member subscribing five shillings half-yearly would
be enabled to lao, by a provision for old age, accident, or
disease, should circumstances compel to seek relief
in such a case. It was also stated that a clause in the
rules provide that all donations and subscriptions for the
first five years after the formation of the Society should
be placed in the public funds for the formation of a per-
manent fund, which it was expected would in that time
amount to 8001. or 9001., a sufficient sum to carry out
the purposes of the Society, which, being limited in its
numbers, would consequently be limited in its contin-
gencies. In conclusion, the. Committee earnestly en-
treated every person feeling an interest in the Society to
aid and assist in forwarding the charitable object they
had in view.

On the motion of Mr. SMITH, jun., seconded by Mr.
the Report was received and adopted.
PHE
Mr.LP, MS‘AluRDIE,.the Sccretar', then read the intended
rules of the Soeiey, which were agreed to unanimously,
and ordered to be enrolled.
The following gentlemen were elected for the ma-
nagement of the Society:—John -Smith, Esq., Trea-
surer; 'Walter, Learmouth, B. Bennington. and Samuel
Reid, Esqrs.. Trustees ; John Bindle), and F. G. Moore,
Esqrs.; Auditors.
A Committee was alSo appointed and the thanks of
the meeting were voted to the Chairman in the usnal
form.

RECOVERY —OF -DE-R MAJESTY'S CELEBRATED
DEER " SuLKy."—The celebrated deer " Sulky," wh4th was
uncarted at Knapp-hill, in Surrey, on the last day of the season
of the royal stag hounds, and lost at Hardlestone, after a short
run, was safely secured on Friday last. The hounds left the
kennel that morning, and after drawing that part of Surrey
lir upwards of two hours, the lost deer was found on Mi.
Church's farm, at Chobliam. It immediately made to.vards
Chertsey (skirting Ottersham and lio.ley's park) where it
crossed the hames, aml, after a beautiful run of an hour and
a half, it was taken at Shepperton, and safely conducted to its
01t1 quarters in the padeocks of the Great-park, at Witcher,