Star.
London, England, 1831-08-10 00:00:00

,DS OF A BILL

rEY.COACII BILL.

T. consolidate and amend the laws relatinj to Hackney-
coaches, and the registering and *numbering of Waggons,
Carts, and Drays, used in the Metropolis ; and also to
place the collection of the Duty on such Hackney-coaches
order the management of the Commissioners of Stamps,
amd to transfer the collection and management of the
Duties on Hawker; and Pedlars in England from the
Commissioners of Hackney-coaches to the Commissioners
of Stamps.
Certain Acts declared in force until the sth day of Ja-
!mare, 1832, and after that time repealed.— Acts passed in
the Parliament of Great Britain, from the 9th of Queen
Anne to the 57th Geo. 111. quoted, for licensing and regu-
late, hackney -coaches, and to be repealed after the sth Ja-
r. may. 1832.
Former licenses to cease and the plates relating thereto to
be delivered up to the Col::mis:joners of Stamps. and, in
tlet'atilt thereof, a penalty to be inflicted of 495. for every
pl-..e on the persons neglecting to delver up the same.
tirant of stamp-duties specified in the schedule annexed.
Definition of a hackitee.coach :—Every carriage, with two
or more wheels, which shall stand or ply In any road, &c.
within five miles of the General Post-office.

liackneyscoachn nct to be kept wi.hout licences from the
I othmissioners of Stamps. nor without plates, nor without
3g certain particulars ptiated th,nvo.t.
L:ences to be granted by the Commissioners of Stamps
or their authorised offieetY.

l'onituissioners in ::,g licences to 'ire preference to
the former holders of hochney-conch lieencees. Nut to grant
Less than three licenses to one applicant. troll the expiration
of three years star the commercemerA of the Act. Pro-
viso, in ca‘e the number of licences granted and in force be
less than 1200.

• Persons poscessed of licences lathe commencement of this
Act, to be enthkd to new licensee without payment the duty
thereon.

Persons applying for hackney-coach licensee to sign a re-
quisition for the same.
What shall he specified in licences.
Notice to be given to the Commissioners of Stamps by
propriewrs of hackney-coach,:., of any change of their places
a'iode. Penalty for neglect to give notice, 40s.
Names and places of abode of the proprietors of hackney-
couches. and the numbers of the plate granted to them, to be
registered at the Guildhall of the city of London. Penalty
foi refusal or reglcct, 40s.
Duties, in what manner and to whom to be paid.
Mode of discontinuing licences.
Plates to be delivered up on the discontinuance or remo-
tion of such licences

Carriages, horn a, harnra, &c. liable to duties and pe.
Lathiea.

Duties recoverable by distress.
In what manner plates are to be placed upon hackney.
coaches. Penalty for concealing plates, or opposing or en-
deavouring to prevent persons inspecting and taking the
number thereof.

Commissioners may change plates. Where plates have
Leen wilfully obliterated, a new licence shall be required.
Penalty for keeping, using, &c. a hackney-coach without
licence, 101. Or without plates. Or for not delivering up
recalled plates.
Penalty on drivers of carriages plying for hire u hackney
coaches without plates, 101. and if not paid the offender to
be committed for three calendar month..

Carriages having thereon plates provided under this act, to
be deemed hackney coaches.
Forgery, &c. of hackney coach plates, a misdemeanour, to
be punished by fine or imprisonment.
Names of proprietors to be painted on hackney coaches in
legible characters of black and white. Penalty for default, Al.
Drivers of hackney coaches to be licensed.
Penalty on proprietors and driven, if the latter be em.
ployed without licence, Ike.
Proprietors of hackney coaches to be summoned to produce
the drivers. Penalty on the proprietor for neglect or re-
i..431, 40s. On neglect to appear and produce the driver,
the proprietor may be convicted.
Penalties to be paid by the proprietors of hackney coaches
unless the drivers be produced.
Justices to determine disputes between hackney coach
rroprietors and their drivers.
Watermen to be licensed.

Penalty on acting as a Waterman without a licence, 40s.
Penalty on the publican employing an unlicensed water-
man, 40s.

Numbered badges to be worn by drivers and watermen.
Penalty, 40s.
Particulars of licences to be entcred in books to be kept
at the stamp office, and such entries to be evidence.
Procuring any licence in a fictitious name a misdemeanor,
fine or imprisonment.
What distance hackney coachmen shall be compellable to
drive.

Hackney coaches standing in any street to be deemed to
be plying for hire, and the driver thereot refusing to go %ith
any person, liable to a penalty of 40s.
Compensation to be made to hackney coachmen impro-
perly summoned for refusing to drive •hen urder a pre.
sinus hiring.
Hackney coachmen may ply for hire, and shall be corn.
pellable to drive on Sundays.
Rates and fares to be taken by hackney coachmen.
Back fate payable by night. By day.
Limits of the metropolis defined for toe purpos:s of this
Act.

Persons refusing to pay the driver his fare, or for da-
mages, may be committed to prison.
Penalty on hackney coachmen refusing to go for or ex.
acting more than the It gal fare, 40s.
No agreement with the driver of any hackney.coaell to
pay more than the legal fare to be binding. Sum paid be-
yond the proper fare may be recovered backs and the driver
punished.
Driver not to charge more than the aunt agreed for, ai.l
though the dislance be exceeded, 445.
Penalty Mr demanding more than the sum agreed tor,
though less titan the legal fere, 40s.
Number of nelsons to be carried in a hackney-coach to be
painted thereon. l'enalty ter neglect to paint, c•r for refusal
of the driver to carry the number so painted. 40s.
Deposit to be made on coaches waiting. Penalty on the
driver refusing to wait or to account for the deposit, 40s.
Proprietors of hackney-coaches to provide check-strings;
drivers to hold the same in their hand,. Penalty 20s.
Property left in hackney-coaches to be deposited at the
Stomp-office.
Penalty for permitting persons to ride on any hackney.
coach without consent of the hirer, 20s.
Penalty for standing with a hackney-coach across any
street, or with two coaches in a breadth, or within eight feet
of the houses. Feeding hackney-coach horses in the s• reet.
Refusing to give way Obstructing any other driver, or de-
priving him of his fare, 20s. penalty.
Hackney-coaches may stand two in a breadth in certain
places.
Punishment of hackney-coachmen leaving their coaches
unattended at places of public resort.
Punishment of hackney-coachmen or watcrmen misbe-
having. Licence may be revoked after conviction.
Commissioners to give notice of the revocation of li-
cences.

The owners of waggons, carts, &c. driven within five
mites of Temple-bar, to enter their names ar,d places of
abode at the Stamp-office ; and to paint the same and number
therc:tf upon such waggons, cans, &c.
Register books to be open for inspection.
Penalty for driving any waggon, &c. within five miles of
without having the name, •&c. of the owner,
and the number of the registry painted thereon. Such wag.
gon, &c. may be seized and detained until such penalty be
paid. And on non-payment of such pc:ialty on conviction,
such waggon, &c. may be sold to raise the same.
Duties and penalties how recoverable.
Where and before whom ofrences shall -be heard and de-
termined.

Mode of proceeding for penalti.., before a Justice of the
Peace.

COnvictions and warrants to be dr:i•vn tilt according to the
forms itt the schedule (U.)
Justices may issue watrants or auturro::a:- to compel the
appearance of hackney•coachmen and watery. en to answer
• complaints.
Penalty on wituemt neglecting to attend, or refusing to
give evidence, 81.
Service ui' Jusuce'a FUTI.11:011..
• Penalty on constable refusing to serve a hurt:mons or exe-
cute a warrant.

, ,Justices nay mitigate penalties.
Disirtbutimi of.penisliirs. . .
lammants or comphinants nut; disqttal:P:Al from being
'witnesses. „ .
Limitation of actions in proteetfings against petsons acting
elidtr this Ac:. l'eriue.s.iilNatice.of Action. General
issue. Tuntler of arnica? .,, .
Construction of the ternis uscil in this Act.

Duties granted by 50 Geo. 3, c. 41, on hawkers and ped.

lass, to be paid to Commissioners of Stamm and to be
decroed Stamp Duties.
Powers, &c. of Act 50 (3eo. 3, c. 41, and of any other
Act or Acts relating to duties on hawkers and pedbus, to be
of as full force and effect as if repeated and enacted in this
Act.

Commencement of the Act.
Act may be altered this Senior..

LITERATURE AND THE ARTS.

THE ASIATIC JOURNAL—August 1831.

The mattes.otlact novelties which this journal contains,
renders it quite a treasure to those who are in quest of real
knowledge. The first article brings together almost all that
has been written descriptive of Timbuctoo, by different
travellers, ancient and modern. On the Cape of Good
Hnee. that colony, which it appears to be the determination
of Government to crush, we have some very amusing, and,
we can add, correct descriptive notes from the pen of a Dr.
Carmichael. The paper on the Pagoda of Tripati, affords a
view of Indian priesteraft, which may, in some degree,
reconcile the tythe.psyer to his sacrifice ; but it will surprise
many to learn, that theßritisb government have condescended
t i shave or rather take to themselves as revenue, the booty
of superstition, and actually receive 87,000 rupees annually
from the votaries to the Pagoda. A view of " Tyemian
and Bennet's Journal," from which we have from time to
time made extracts, constitute an amusing article. To
those who are considering the subject of the India Com-
pany's exclusive China trade, we recommend the judicious
Essay on our relations with China—in which there are
remarks meriting attention. This number, as usual, is
enriched by transactions of the learned societies connected
pith Eastern Literature, and an excellent combination of
Indian intelligence.

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE NATIONAL
REPOSITORY AT CHARING CROSS.
We recently passed an afternoon with great sa-
tisfaction, in the National Repository, for the
exhibition of specimens of new and improved pro-
ductions of the artisans and manufacturers of the
United Kingdom, near Charing Cross; and we
feel it to be a public duty to notice a few of the
very ingenious specimens brought together in this
interesting deg& of the fine and useful arts. We
need scarcely premise that we highly applaud this
Institution, being fully satisfied that such exhi-
bitions prove not only a powerful stimulus in pro-
moting the further improvement of our already
successful manufactures, but likewise in bringing
into notice the latent talents of many skilful in-
ventors and manufacturers, instead of these me-
ritorious persona suffering in obscurity, and sacri-
ficing their inventions, valuable alike to the
country and themselves, for want of such a suit-
able opportunity to introduce their works to the
British public.
In the present year's exhibition we find no less
than two hundred and forty-four specimens, all of
them admirable in their various degrees and qua-
lities of " ornament and use." In the brief no-
tice to which our space necessarily prescribes, we
cannot be expected to touch on rho twentieth part
of the merits of so extensive a collection. A few
of the specimens, however, must on no account be
hastily passed over. Among the first of these we
are bound to notice the " Model of a Fire Escape
and Moveable Crane," by Mr. D. Davis, of George-
street, Trinity-square. This is one of the highly
meritorious and philanthropic contrivances by which
assistance is effectually conveyed from without, to
the inmates of a house on fire ; and Mr. Davis
has most ingeniously combined lightness, strength,
and facility of application to any point of a build-
ing, where assistance is requisite. It consists of a
simple machine, to which a, tin or fire-proof car is
attached, which admits of being rapidly raised and
lowered on its standard, and in which persons shut
out from every other means of escape, together with
their valuable goods, can, with the most perfect
safety, be conveyed from the upper windows, or
front any aperture in the walls, of a building on
fire. When wo consider that " goods and chat
tels" are the only things in which Insurance Com-
panies are interested, and that they never provide
for the security of human life, in those conflagra-
tions which so frequently occur in this vast city,
we look upon the invention of Mr. Davis as inva-
luable ; and without hesitation proclaim—now
that the discovery is made—that no Insurance
Company in the kingdom should be unprovided
with stores of this Fire Escape, to co-operate with
their other engines in cases of destruction by fire.
We a; 'e further induced to recommend Mr Davis's
invention to public patronage and application, as
we consider it a matter of general Police. Surely,
the protection of human life, as far as human aid
can go, in the frightful casualty of fire, is as much
a matter of general Police as the protection of a
man's pocket-handkerchief in a crowd ; and ought
Ito be provided for by the same, or some analogous
lautherity, as that which guards against the burgla-
rious entry of a dwelling, or the abstraction of a
few pence front a mans pocket. It is on these
grounds, and in the name of humanity, that we
congratulate the public on this useful invention.
In the fine arts at this exhibition, we see a great
variety of exquisite specimens. It would be bar-
barous not to direct attention to the handiwork of
two young ladies, more especially as their produc-
tions deservedly hold a high place in the Reposi-
tory. The first is a vase of flowers, in wax, by
Miss Mary M &hull—imitations not only beauti-
ful, but recommending themselves to the natu-
ralist for the fidelity with which objects of this
class may be permanently pourtrayed. Miss
Minshull has modelled her tasteful group from na-
tural specimens, without resorting to the mecha-
nical aid of stamps. The second is another vase of
flowers, with rice-paper ornaments, by Miss Rams-
den, of Walworth, likewise tasteful and faithful
representations of nature.
In the improvement of musical instruments, we
have several specimens of the sweet flageolet, by
the celebrated Bainbridge of Holborn-hill. One of
these is more especially worthy of notice. It is
an ordinary concert German flute, the head of which
may be removed and replaced by a flageolet top,
with this advantageous peculiarity, that the finger-
ing is precisely the same with both hands. We
have no doubt that it will be very generally pre-
ferred as soon as its merits are known.
It would be culpable -to pass over some other
specimens which especially mid deservedly attract
the admiration of visitors to the repository. One
is a picture of organized nature, as extending over
the earth, by Smith and Son, the mapsellers in the
Strand. We have here a vast number of facts,
of the highest interest to the naturalist, assembled
by the artists, Messrs. Wilbrand and Ritgen, in
an inconceivably small space. It is, in truth, the
perfection of concentrated knowledge. In one
collective view we are shown the local habitation,
and range of distribution, of several tribes of or-

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genic beings, animal and vegetable, on the sur-
face of the earth. These bird's-eye glances, over
the various departments of organic nature, conduce
greatly to the consolidation of the student's ac-
quirements, and lead him, perhaps, by the shortest
[ path to the formation of general and philosophic ,
views. Connected with this subject, we likewise
see in the national exhibition, a miniature model
of the earth, (executed, by the way, in Germany),
and sent in by C. Baring Wall, Esquire. Al-
lowing for the exaggeration necessary to make the
prominences on the earth's surface apparent, on
so small a sphere, this globe affords a display ex-
ceedingly interesting to the student of geography,
and more especially to the geologist.—such models
speaking so much more intelligibly than do at-
tempts by the graver, to delineate the mountain
ranges of our planet. We wish that the improve-
ment in art, demonstrated in the present specimen
of foreign assiduity and talent, may instantly be
followed in our own country; and that the inge-
nuity of our British artists will furnish us with
Jac-similes of that which the patient labour, and
diligent inquiry of the German, have so admirably
achieved. The information of volumes is here
imparted in a glance of the eye.
We have enlarged so much on the few speci-
mens we have chosen, that wo find we must post-
pone much of what our visit has furnished us, for
some future occasion. We can make room at
present only for a slight notice at the magnificent
" Triumph of Alexander the Great," by the Che-
valier Thorwaldson. Mr.' Pusey, we find, with
his accustomed liberality, has permitted this frieze
for another season to adorn the walls of the
gallery. The original was designed by Thorw•ald-
eon, for the Quirinal Palace at Rome, on the ex-
pected occasion of Napoleon's visit to that city.
From his original models, casts in plaster were taken.
Subsequently the Count Sommariva requested the
celebrated sculptor to execute the frieze in marble,
for his splendid villa on the Lake of Como. Lat-
terly, Thorwaldson has superintended the labours
of his pupil, Bienaime, in reducing the subject to
its present size, one half that of the original, and
multiplying it in terracotta. Although we can-
not enter here on the details of the scene, we
must not omit the tribute of our admiration to
the talents of the illustrious artist—born certainly
in an unhospitable clime, but possessing the in-
ventive faculty, and fine imagination of the most
favoured native of the most genial soil and at-
mosphere. Whether the taste of Thorwaldson
bas been nurtured to ripeness, by his transmigra-
tion from the glacier shores of Iceland to the sun-
ny sky and classic ground of Italy, were difficult
to demonstrate, knowing so little as we do, in his
as in other cases, of the causes and course of the
progressive development of intellectual power ; but
certain it is, that the artist of whom we new
speak, stands first in the first rank of the sculp-
tors of our day, as gifted richly with the faculty
of original conception, and eminently endowed
with the physical skill of facile and correct execu-
tion. In the exhibition of this season we have two
or three other productions of the chevalier; there are
two bass-reliefs—the one representing Bacchus and
Cupid, the other Anacreon, at the moment when,
having received Cupid into his house on a rainy
night, and tended him by the fire-side, he enquires
whether Cupid has recovered, and receives the an-
swer that he is well,--but that Anacreon's heart
shall ache. We likewise find in the repository, a
baptismal font, of which the marble original was
composed by Thorwaldson, as a present to Iceland,
his native country.
This notice of the National Repository must not
be considered invidious, or by any means derogating
from the '• use or ornament" of the two hundred
other curious and ingenious specimens now to be
seen for a trifle at Charing Cross. The most me-
ritorious of them we will not fail to notice as they
deserve on an early uocasion—distinctly avowing,
at the same time, that our unconditional and un-
biassed support of this meritorious and national In-
stitution, must be accompanied with this qualifica-
tion, that there are a few—a very few—specimens
which we conceive the artists to have had a certain
degree of vain but fruitless ambition to offer, and
the " Committee of Inspection" a certain degree of
complaisance to receive.

FROM THE ImADON GAZETTE, Av. 9.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, Atm 8.

The King was this day pleased to confer the honour of
Knighthood upon Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Edward Cust,
M P. tilitary Knight Commander of the Royal Hanove-
rian duclphic Order, and one of the Equerries to his Ma-
jesty King Leopold.
WHITEHALL, Atm. 8.

The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, granting to ltear.Admiral Sir J.
Ben.on, K.C.B. the office or place of Lieut. Governor of
Greenwich Hospital, in the room of Capt. William Browsll,
deceased.

WAR OFFICE, Auo. 9.
2d Regiment of Life Guards—Lieutenant John Kinlock to
be Captain' by purchase, vice Atkinson, who retires;
Cornet andSub.Lieutenant Sir John Andrew Cathcart,
Bart. to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Sir John Ogilvy,
Bart. who retires ; Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant Thomas
Gardner to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Kinglock ;
Samuel Marindin, Gent. to be Cornet and Sub-Lieute-
nant. by purchase, vice Sir J. A. Cathcart ; George
Wood, Gent. to be Cornet and,Sub-Lieutenant, by pun.
chase, vice Gardnor.
4th Regiment of Light Dragoons—G. J. Huband, Gent.
to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Blake, promoted.
4th Regiment of Foot—Lieut. John Court, from the half.
pay of the 20th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice
Charles Burnley, whose appointment has been cancelled.
sth Foot—Captain Charles May, from half-pay unattached,
to be Captain, vice John Macdonald, who exchanges,
receiving the difference.
24th Foot—Ensign Michael Mitchell Cooke, from the half..
pay of the 44th regiment, to be Ensign, vice Frederick
Angerstein, who exchanges.
30th Foot—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Anthony
Angelo, from the half-pay of the Newfoundland Fenci.
Mu, to be Captain, vice Charles Wynne Barrow, who
exchanges.
Stith Foot—Assistant-Surgeon David Moyes Macgibbon,
M.D. to be Surgeon, vice Tonnere, deceased.
blat Foot—Lieutenant William Gordon, to be Captain, by
purchase' vice Elliott, promoted ; Ensign Charles An.
gusto, Arney, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gor.
don ; William Henry Hare, Gent. to be Ensign, by pun.
chase, vice Aeney.
68th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon John Huggins, from the half
pay of the 92d Foot, to be Auistant-Surgeon, vice Wilson,'
appointed to the 02d Foot.
59th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Prior, from the half-pay_ of
the 18th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Robert
• MacGregor, who exchanges.
60th Foot—Captain Clement Johnson. from half pay, on.
attached, to be Captain, vice Hon. Francis MVO, whq
exchanges, receiving the differesce.
64th Foot—Captain John Warren, from the half-pm of Al
7th Foot, to be Captain vice William Jun, who ex-
. changes, receiving the difference.
68th Foot—Lieutenant Philip Durnford to be Captain. In
purchase, vice Jackson, who retires; Ensign

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Frederick Vernon Graham to be Lieutenant, vice Dun. I
feed; Alfred Edward Hill, Gent. to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Graham.
74th Foot—a:twigs Henry Grant to be Lieutenant by pur-
chem. vice Lord Pewterlington, promoted ; Peter Wil.
11am Uwe Hawker, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Grant.
90th Foot—Staff-SurgwnJohn Robertson, M.D. to be Sur-
geon, vice James M'Arthur, who retires upon half-pay.
94th Foot—Gentleman Cadet John G. Champion, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Simpson, deceased.
96th Foot—Capt. Moyle Sheer, from half-psy unattached,
to be Captain, vice William Ouseley, who exchanges,
receiving the difference ; Lieutenant Roderick Mackenzie,
from half•pay unattached, to be Lieutenant, vice Pierce
Stephen Nugent, who exchanges, receiving the difference.
let West India Regiment—Captain Daniel Keogh, from
the balf-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Storey,
who retires.
BREVET.

Major Henry Webster, on the half-pay unattached, to be
Lieutenant-Colonel in the army.
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