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EXCISE ACTS.

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The following Resolutions hate been •greed t' by
the House of Commons, and a Bill ordered to be

brought in
1. That the duties. of Excise on sweets, or made wines, made in
Guilt Britain for tale, granted by an Act made in the 43d year of
his late Majesty; and which, by an Act made in the sth year of his
present Majesty, were continued until the Stb day of July, 1825,
shall be further contlhukd until the sth day of January, 1826.
8. That the several dudes of Excise payable
,in Great Britain
and Ireland reipeetively, on sweets or made wines, upon mead or
tnedtaglin, and upon vinegar; and also all duties of Excise payable
in Great Britain on cyder and perry ; and the Regulations in the
several Acts in force in Ireland, for the collection of the duties en
sweets or made wines, Mead or tnetheglin, and vinegar, shall cease
and determine from and after the sth day of January, 1826. •
3. That there be paid for and upon every 100 gallons, imperial
'standard gallon measure, of liquor, which shall be made in any part
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for sale, by
infusion, fermentation, or otherwise, from fruit or sugar, or from
fruit or sugar Mixed with any other ingredients or materials what-
soever, commonly called sweets or made wines, to be paid by the
maker thereof, the sum of 21. 10a.
4. That there be paid for every 101 gallons, imperial standard
gallon measure, of metbeglin or mead, which shall be made in any
part of the United Kingdonta Great Britain and Ireland for sale,
to be paid by the maker thereof, the sum of 21. 10s.
5. 'That there be paid for and upon every 100 gallons, imperial
standard gallon measure, of vinegar or acetous acid, or liquors pre-
pared or preparing for vinegar or acetous acid, brewed or made in
any part of the United Kingdom called Great Britain and Ireland
for sale, to be paid by the maker thereof, the sum of I6s. Bd. and
that a drawback of the whole of such duty shall be allowed on ex-
portation to foreign parts.
6. That there be laid for and upon every 100 gallons, imperial
standard gallon measure, of cyder and perry made in any part of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for sale, to be
paid by the first buyer or maker thereof, such buyer or maker being
a dealer in or retailer of cyder or perry, or by the factor or agent
to whom such cyder or perry shall be sent or conveyed to be sold
or disposed of, the sum of Al Os. 10d.

CUSTOMS ACTS.
The following Resolutions have been agreed to by
the House of Commons, and a Bill ordered to be
brought in :
1. That in conseqaence of the provisions of an Act of the last
Session of Parliament, for establishing tmiformity of weights and
measures, the duties of Customs and Excise be varied in proportion
to the alterations in measures directed by the said Act.
2. That it is expedient that the bounties now payable on the ex-
portation of refined sugar from any part of the United Kingdom
be further continued.
S. That the duties on 'spirits, aqua vita, or strong waters, im-
ported into Great Britain, granted by two Acts of the 474 and
47th years of his late Majesty, and which by an Act of the sth
year of his present Majesty were continued until the sth day of
July, 1515, sbaU be further continued.

On Tuesday, the 3d instant, at a Quarterly Meeting
of the Royal Carilege of Physicians of FAlinburgh, AMANDER
Berne, M.D. Surgeon to his Majesty's Forces, was admitted to the
honour of being a Fellow of that College.
Mr. Serjeant ONsLow last night excited a good deal
of entertainment in the House of Commons, by his
novel appearance, in having mounted a Lauderdale
black wig. with tolerably luxuriant culls ; —he hereto.
fore powdered the straggling locks that time had lelt to
him. Many persons hardly knew him ;--he replied, it
wason account of his I Vhiggish appearance in that House.
At a Vestry Meeting of the Parish of St. Nicholas, in
Hereford, on Thursday sennight, it was determined
that all persons keeping dogs within the parish, should
be assessed to the poor rates ; and to any person re-
ceiving pay from the parish, and keeping a dog, such
pay in future shall be discontinued.
The Catholic Relief Bill, as amended in a Commit-
tee, has been printed. The amendments of the Com• •
mittee consist of two clauses introduced as regulations
respecting the intercourse between the Roman Catholics
of the kingdom and the Pope, and the securities to be
taken for the loyal and peace ible. conduct of the
Bishops. The enactments of the Bill on these subjects
stand thus :—Two Commissions are to be issued by the
Crown to Catholic Bishops in G.-eat Britain and Ireland
respectively (three to form a Board), which Commis-
sions are to certify to the King or the Lord Lieutenant,
the appointment of each Catholic Bishop and Dean,
and their belief that the person appointed is a loyal
subject. The person so certified is to take the oath
preset ibed by the Bill for Catholics, instead of the Oath
of Supremacy. Before these Commissions also are to be
laid all Bulls, or other instruments, proceeding from
the See of Rome ; and the Commissioners, if they find
in any instrument submitted to their inspection any
thing " which shall appear to them to be in any way
injurious to the safety or, tranquillity of the United
Kingdom, or to the Protestant Establishment in Church
and State," must transmit it to his Majesty or the Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, as the case may be ; and the
Commissioners arc bound by oath to do so faithfully.
SUDDEN Dearn.—Friday night, a young man, of
the name of George Basham, aged 28, residing with
Mr. Harvey, clothes-salesman, in High-street,-. S.
Giles's, came by his death under the following singular
circumstances:—A person of the name of Wood., u
hair-dresser, to whom the deceased was indebted the
sum of Si. went, accompanied by a person of the name
of Craigs, on the above evening, to the shop of Mr.
Harvey, and demanded the money. Words ensued,
'when Mr; Wobd said, that be would get it, if it cost
,him 204 which occasioned the deceased to go into A
very violent .passion. They then left him, when an ac-
quaintance, who was with him; obierved shim to bite
his lips; when shortly after he said, be would go and,
his books, but he fell down on the pavement. Ile
" immediately taken up, and surgical aid premed.-
but without effect, as be died about twelve oclock on:
e same night. Yesterday evening, a Coroner's
In-
~gtest was held at the White Lion, St. Giles's, when the
Jury retarned a verdict—Died by apoplexy, occasioned
by extreme irritation.

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•POLICE iNtALMINOE-1-,

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MANSION-HOUSE.
A noun soldier named Jotter, belonging
.tio the first Regiment of
Life Goias, and a sailor not half so taU, named /Iknopson, were
brought before the Loan MAYOR, charged with having exchanged
clothes in Petticoat-lame, the former with intent to escape from
military discipline, and the latter with the view of defrauding his
Majesty of the suit of regimentals.
- . The extraordinary figure the two defendants cut upon being put
to the bar, caused an universal shout of laughter, the sailor having
swaggered into the Justice-room in contempt of all military state&
nem and precision, and the soldier having marched up as if upon
drill, with his shirt sticking out batween the trowsers and jacket,.
which were distant at least a foot f each other.
A Jew Rained Moses stated, th t he saw the soldier go up to
the sailor, and soon afterwards ob ed them exchanging clothes.
As soon as they were both equipped and about to separate, the
witness gave information to au officer, who seized them. The
soldier said, he wished to quit the army, and to try his fortune at 1
some more lucrative profession, however deficient in glory. The
sailor seemed to view the matter with characteristic unconcern.
He said, he had given the soldier his clothes because the poUr fellow
wanted to run away.
The LORD MAYOR asked the soldier why he had deserted?
The soldier said, the serjeants gave him such hard knocks, he
could no longer endure the disgrace of the correction, which he de-
clared was quite unnecessary. He bad, therefore, determined pi
fly from his Majesty's service, for which purpose he asked several
persons to exchange clothes with hint, but was refused by all until
he cafite up to..the sailor, who readily consented to the mutual dis-
guise. He had, he said, a pprticular aversion to blows, as he was a
member of a respectable family, had received a good " cdication,“
and could read and write a little.
The Loan MAYOR told him, that botkbe and• his comrade were
now in an awkward condition, and must go back to prison until the
Commanding Officer was informed of their conduct. The course
which might be pursued with respect to the sailor would,he thought,
be by prosecution, fur unlawfully receiving his Majesty's property.
_ _The sailor said, the clothes he had given in exchange were also
his Mijosty's property, and he did not see what difference it made
whether he or the soldier dressed in red, as both red and blue be-
longed to the same person.
They were then locked up in the cage which is in the outer room,
and Information was sent to Knightsbridge barrack.. In the mean
time the soldier and sailor stripril while the officer's back was
turned, and soon appeared in theft proper habiliments.
His Lordship was afterwards requested to discharge them, as the
soldier was quite a simple lad; and the sailor seemed to have no
idea that he was committing au offence when be put on the mili..

tary garb.
The soldier had jost three-pence to set out with in the world,
when he was taken into custody ; and as the sailor had nut a half-
penny, they agreed to have a pint of beer to console themselves for
'their disappointment.
BOW-STREET.

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A notorious duffer, named Joseph Wren, was charged Itrtth de-
frauding a young countryman of 51. The complainant came to
London about six weeks since, and was walking about Bishop gate
in search of a situation, when a man came up to him and askea
him, if be saw a lady pass with a veil on? He said he had not par-
ticularly noticed such a person. Because, replied the fellow, she
has run away with 101. of mine. The conversation having thus
commenced, the countryman was invited into a public-house, and
there Wren assured him he would procure him a situation. The
poor countryman thanked him repeatedly for his kindness. A
man Alto•was present said, that his brother had been very infer-
tunate, and had broken bis leg. infortunate, replied another, that
I cannot be right. The countryman said there was no such word in
the dictionary. The man said there was ; another person told the
countryman to lay a wager on it. lie did so, and deposited Si. iu
the prisoner's hands. A dictionary was then procured from the
pocket of one of the men, and " sure enough," said the countryman,
" the word infortunate was there." The fellows then managed to
leave the house, and he found himself deserted and chested out of
his 51. Yesterday morning he met the prisoner, and requested he
would return him some part of the .51. The prisoner said be would
give him a dinner if he accompanied him to a public-house, but the
countryman gave him into the custody of a constable. In his de-
fence the prisoner said, be did not recollect being with the coun-
tryman in the house in Bishopsgate, nor di►l he receive from him
the 51. Ile was remanded.
QUEEN-SQUABS..

Etoremssr, Assavvr, Stc.,--Yesterday, a person named While,
residing in York-street, Westminster, was charged with committing
a most desperate assaalt on his wife. The Lady cumplained that
on Friday, when she returned home to her husband from the coun-
try, where she bad been on a visit to her friends, he beat her se-
verely, forced open her chamber door with a hatchet, gave her two
black eyes. destroyed her dresses, and finally turned her out of
doors, at l i o'clock at night. On her cross-examination she stated
that Mr. White was of a jealous disposition, but she had given
nu cause for it.
Mr. White, when called upon to explain his conduct, said, his
wife's story was as false as she was incontinent. She bad not
been on a visit to her friends; she had eloped from his house about
a month since, with a fellow named Harvey, wbo was enabled to
carry her off with the money she had stolen from him, and she left
him with a young infant still at the breast. He had pursued her all
over the country, and at length ascertained from a Clergyman of a
small parish of Worcestershire, that they were living together as
man and wife. On receiving this intelligence, be formed a sew
lution never to see her again, or to allow her any intercourse with
his child. He had never seen or heard of her till Friday, when she
returned, with all the impudence imaginable, and insisted on coming
into the house, and after a deal of persuasion he allowed her to
enter ; and when she had gained her end, she began to aggravate
him in a manner he could not well describe, and declared that the
child she was now pregnant with belonged to her paramour, and
thus his feelings being strongly excited, he had committed the of-
fence complained of.
Mr. hlaaxeaxn said, he felt for his situation, but as he consi-
dered there might be faults on both sides, he should dismiss the
complaint.

DUEL.—A meeting took place yesterday morning, on
nimbledon Common, between a Mr. F-4., and a Mr.
S—r. Mr. S. was slightly wounded in the arm, when
the affair terminated.
The Dublin Evening Mail of Ft iday states, that the
Honourable Member tor Armagh (Mr. BROWNLOW),
was last week iturnt in effigy, opposite. his own gate, in
the town of Lurgan.
The Duke of Noturitusiaratnua,AmbassadorExtra-
ordinary, appointed by the King of ENGLAND to attend
the Coronation of the King of. FRANC; landed at Calais
on the Sd, at four o'clock, and put rip at Dessins Hotel.
He is accompanied by the Duchess, his Consort. Ns
Hoke is composed of Mr. &mamma, Secretary ; Lord
PRUDHOE, the Marquis CARRMARTHEN, Lord HOPE-
roux, Lord PRLHAU, Captain Buttlut, Sir W. W.
Wrasi Lord HERVIY, Lord STRATHAVRY, Lady W.
Wriot, and Lady H. Ctivx. His Grace went to the
theatre, and set out on the 4th, at eight o'clock, with a
train of eight carriages.
'The Dutcb are making preparations to surpass us in
vessels navigable by steam. There is now building at
Rotterdam a vessel, which, when completed, will be of
the burthen of 1,100 tons, to be propelled by an engine
of 300 horse power.
Wednesday night, while six men were in pursuit of
a badger, on the lands of Weraddu, near Heath, two
fell into an old coal-pit, and were killed on the spot.
The public feeling. as connected with passing events,
is strongly' evinced in the Dublin Theatre. God save,
the King is repeatedly called for during the play, and
when at length it is played by the orchestra, the ap-
plause is most fervid and animated.
A Gentleman of Dublin has found out a substitute for
steam in propelling' vessels, by throwing or forcing into
the reservoir condensed air, by means of pistons hori-
zontally placed, which are worked by a pendulum.
DaAxis By Boxisa.-r-A sawyer, of the name of
Willoughby, was killed yesterday morning, in a casual
pugilistic combat, with a man of the name of Irving,
on Stoke Common, near Bushy. They had quarrelled
at a neighbouring publiatoosi. and the deceased was
taken off the ground lifeless, after a fight of more than
one hour.