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London, England, 1824-12-09 00:00:00

AMIN'S REIGN OF GEORGE THE THIRD.

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This day was published, in Two Volumes Octavo, a New Edition,
brought down to the Period of his Majesty's decease, price 11.55.
boards,
ANNALS of the REIGN of GEORGE the THIRD.
By JOHN AIKIN, M.D.
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TOSEPH COOPER and SON, 93, Bishopsgate-
ts street Within, Auctioneers, Appraisers, House Agents, and
Upholders, beg to inform their Friends, and the Public generally,
they continue to REGISTER ESTATES and HOUSES for
SALE, in any part of the Kingdom, and trust that few Concerns
in tile Metropolis, arising from their long establishment, pttssess
more extensive Connections for the disposal of 'Property. Advances
made on any description of Securities intended for immediate Sale.
Household Furniture purchased at liberal prices, or removed to
convenient situations for disposal, if Sales on the Premises are ob-
jected to. It is the principal feature of their Establishment to set-
tle generally within three days after the Sales have been effected,
and to make no Charge for Registering Property intended to be
disposed of by Private Contract, unless absolutely sold through
their exertions.

" Treasury Chambers, Nov. 18, 1844.
G E:N T LEN! es—l ani commanded by the Lords Com-
missioceis of his Majesty's Treasury, to transmit to you
pi hired copies of the following Bills, which were read a
first time in the Ilouie of Commons, at the close of the

late Session of Parliament, being part of the series of
Acts which it is prciposed to substitute for the whole of
the L:►ws now in force relating to Customs:
I. A Bill to it peal the several Laws relating to the Customs.
.' Bill for the General Regulation of the Customs.
A Bill for Granting Duties of Customs. •
4. A Bill fur the Prevention of Smuggling.
L. A Bill for regulating the Customs of the Isle of &lan.•
" The remaining Bills by which the Series will be
completed, and which are now in a forward state of pre•
paration, by the experienced oaicer (Mr. Hume) whom
you tecommended for the execution of this difficult and
most important work are-
6. A Bill for giving certain Bounties for the encouragement of
Trade and Navigation.
7. A Bill for the Registering of Vessels.
S. A Bill for regulating Vessels carrying Passengers in certain cases.
9. A Bill for regulating the Trade of the British Possessions abroad.
" It is the desire of their Lordships that all of these
Bills should• receive. the consideration of your Board,

before they are submitted to Parliament in the next
Session; and as those which are already printed com•
prise the principal part, in extent and importance, of
the whole series, I am commanded to transmit them to
you in the meantime, and to request that, in 'addition
to the consideration which you will yourselves be
pleased to bestow upon them, you will forthwith take
such measures ds may appear to you most expedient
for collecting the opinion of any persons in your de-
partment most competent to offer useful suggestions,
either for the correction of any of the provisions
which they now contain, or the insertion of any others
which it may be deemed necessary to add to them, for
the increased security of the Revenue, or the greater
convenience of the subject ; in order than, after receiv-
ing all suck suggestions and opinions, you may return
these Bills, with your own- judgment and observations
upon the whole matter to this Board.
" In calling for these opinions, you will, however,
cause it to be understood that the present Bills have
not been prepared as amendments of the existing Laws
of the Customs, but only as a new arrangement of all
the Provisions of those Laws now practically in force.
66 The principle upon which the various subjects of
legislation now dispersed throughout the several hun.
dreds of Laws relating to the Customs, are proposed to
be classed and divided in the few Acts comprising this
new Code, will be obvious from the titles and preambles
of the Bills which I have enumerated, and also from
the mode in which the matters comprised in each Bill
are arranged and subdivided, under distinct heads of
enactment. It is scarcely necessary to add, that it is
intended by this arrangement, to afford as well to those
whose duty it is to enforce the law, as to those who are
subjected to it, the readiest and most intelligible refer-
ence to the whole of its provisions relating to each
branch or department of the business under your ma-
nagement and controul.
' You will perceive that the Bill to repeal the sever
ral Laws relating to the Customs,'—is intended to ef-
fect its object—first, by a specific indication of those
Acts and parts of Acts which are intended to be re-
pealed, in order that they may, without question, be ex-
punged from the Statute Book ; and next, by general
description; because, however careful the researches
upon which the reference to these existing Laws may be
prepared, some Enactments inserted in Statutes, chiefly
relating to other matters, might still be overlooked. The
general Repeal will, therefore, obviate the possible evil
of any such omission, and at the same ti me serve as a legal
Declaration that no Law, of a date anterior to that of
the new Code, can continue to have any force.
" The Bill for the General Regulation of the Cu.
toms,' is intended to constitute the chief and fundamen-
tal law of the Cdstoriss, for the government of that De-
partment, and for the collection of the large Revenue
which is levied under your authority.
" Under the three General Heads of Inwards,' Out-
wards,' and Coastwise,'—this Bill ought to contain all
the Rules relating to the Arrival or Departure of Ships,
and to the Landing or Shipping of goods.
"It will also comprise the Law of Navigation:—
all the provisions of which as enforced in every part of
the World are to be re-enacted in it. Scme of these
may not appear to be strictly connected with the Law
of the Customs of the 'United Kingdom ; but it has
been deemed desirable that the whole subject should be
arranged under one head; and, considering how large
a portion of the Law of Navigation, is in effect the Law
of Imports and Exports, it could scarcely have been
classed otherwise than as a part of the General Law of
the Customs.
" It will probably be found, when this comprehensive
Bill has been fully considered, that there are some sub-
jects of a local, temporary, or peculiar nature contained
in the Acts to be repealed, which are not provided for
in it ; and it has therefore been considered that a sepa-
rate Bill to include such subjects may be necessary.
The attention of Mr. Hume has accordingly been
directed to a Bill of that supplementary description.
" The Bill for regulating the Customs of the Isle of
Man,' brings together under one point of view all the
existing regulations affecting the Trade and Revenue of
that Island, peculiarly circumstanced, as they are with
respect to those of Great Britain.
The Bill for Granting Duties on Customs,' will
be a Tarif only ; and, as the Duties will be collected
under the Powers of the General Law, the Bill will
contain no Clauses, except such as may be explanatory
of the Tables, and cannot well be made the subjects of
per rnanent regulations.
" The Bill 6 for the Prevention of Smuggling,' forms
an Act in aid and defence cf the existing Laws of the
Customs; its enactments pre-suppose some infraction

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TIIE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1824.
THE FUNDS.

French Rentes, December 6,102 f. 35c.
FOREIGN FUNDS.

ICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
S per I ent. Red. 943/4 5/8 %
3 per Cent Cons. shut.
31, per Cent. Red. 101 1003/4
4 per Cent. New shut.
Lang Ann. 22 15-16 23—India Bonds 97
£l,OOO • c eq. still, (2d.)54 2 (11/2c1.) 54 2
£lOO and £2OO ditto (11/2d.) 52 4
Advertised (2d.) 40
Cons. for Acct. 95% %

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or evasion of those laws, or some indication of an at-
tempt to evade them. Aril provisi:ns relating to the
'object of. the legal jurisdiction, to which offenders
against-the laws are amenable, are to be included in
this Bill.
" The Bill for the Registry of Ve;sels,' and the
for Regrilating Vessels carrying Passengers in
certain Cases, will be nearly transcripts ( f the Acts of
the 4th of the King, upon thoe subjects, which, in the
framing of those Acts, have already undergone the pro-
cess of consolidation, but which, for the sake of unifor-
mity, and in order that the whole Code of customs'
Law may commence from the same pet iod, it is deemed
necessa: y to renew upon the present occasion.
44 The Bill for Regnlatiag the Trade of the British
Possessi..,ns abroad,' will emhody the various Legisla-
tive Regulations to which the Navigation and Com-
merce of the Foreign Dominions of this country have
been subjected by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
44 The Bill for giving certain Bounties for the en-
couragement r•f Trade and Navigation,' will be con-
structed so as to continue further the Allowance of such
Bounties as may he in force under any existing Laws,
at the epoch of the general repeal of the Laws of
the Customs.
" Having thus called your attention to the principal
points in the plan which ;ivy Lord• have approved of,
for this renewal of the Lass E of the Customs, in a simple
an 4 compendious form, I have only further to express
their Lo dships' entire reliance upon you for the utmost
assistai cc which can be afforded by experience, ability,
and zeal, in the final arrangement of the details of.
these sever al Bills, and in the measures which may be,
necessary for giving effect to them, when they shall
have received the sanction of Parliament.

" I ani, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
(Signed) " J. C. IiEItRIES.
" To the Commissioners of Customs, &e. &C. &c."

STOCK EXCH ANG K. TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Consols opened at 95i I, sellers, and remain steady at the above
price.

Current Price. New Spanish 16, Old 2241, Russian 954, Mexi-
can 674 1, Colombian New KO, Old 834, Chilian 761 77, French
Scrip 131 pre. Austrian 95, Portuguese 881, Alliance Shares 94 10
pre. Buenos Ayres 11 1 pre. Brazilian 2# 1 pre. Greek 554 I,So-
lombian Mines 194 pre. Rio Plata Mines 64 3 pre.

The Tenth Letter of Vittosx op West India Slavery will appear in
the 9eh of To-morrow.

By the arrival of the Canada packet ship,which sailed
from New York on tile 16th uh. we have papers up to
that date. A Baltimore Journal of the 11th contains
intelligence firm Porto Cavallo, of the 18th October,
stating that BOLIVAR and CANTERAC had met, and a
general battle had taken place, in which CANTERAC v as
killed and his army routed. It is said that BOLIVAR lost
6,000 men in the engagement, but that Lima and Cal-
lao are in his possession. The defeated were flying be-
fore him. BOLL visa's army, previous to the bank, is
said to have amounted to fifteen thousand men.,
This account, it will be seen, is very vague, neither
the date when, nor place where the battle took place
being mentioned; the loss on the part of the victors
also appears out of all proportion to that of the com-
batants. It will be recollected also, that CANTERAC
was said to have been killed in the battle of Junin, in
the beginning of August last.
The following is the extract from the Baltimore
Paper of the llth ultimo:—