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)f the number of days they are occupied with the
a. A further sum of nearly £B,OOO is paid to the

e county rates for the expenses
lerable sum is also paid out of the
year) in respect of Parliamentary
ration and cost of jury lists; but there
,certaining how much of it is for the
iamentary registration. _ _

and municipal iegist

no means of

LANCHOLT ACCIDENT.—On Monday, Last week, Mr.
.4 Lupton, of the firm of Luccock, Lupton, and Co.,
ford, was thrown from his horse, and sustained such

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iries as to cause death a few hours afterwards. He was
, 'oceeding on horseback from his residence at Harehills,
__Jar Leeds, to Bradford, when he was thrown, and pitched
violently to the ground upon his head. He was removed
to his residence in a state of insensibility, but never
rallied, and died about two o'clock the following morning.
A LONG IMPRISONMENT.—On Thursday, George Risby,
who was tried at the Lent assizes, at Chelmsford, in 1836,
for the wilful murder of John Spooner, at West Bergholt,
wasdischargcd from Springfield goal, Her Itrajesty'spardon
having been received. Risby was committed on the 7th of
August, 1834, and at the following assizes was tried, and.
acquitted on the ground of insanity but ordered "to be
kept in strict custody until His Majesty's pleasure be
known." Thus, after a lapse of 20 years, he has regained
medical his liberty

GREAT BRIDGE IN CANADA .—A letter from Montreal,
July, 24, says :—" On Saturday the greatest engineering
effort of modern times was commenced under the most
favourable circumstances ; the preparations for receiving
the first stone of the Montreal Victoria Tubular Bridge—
the connecting link between the Far West in the Atlantic
seaboard—having been carried out with the most perfect
success. In the midst of difficulties which no past ex- 1
perience could overcome, Mr. Hodges, the able manager of
the affairs of the contractors, ha.ssucceeded in demonstrat-
ing to the Canadian public the practicability of spanning,
with an iron bridge, the mighty St. Laurence river, an
undertaking which, till very recently, was looked upon by
them as being next to impossible."
A HUGE PnizE.—ln 1799, the four British frigates,
Naiad, Ethalion, Alcmene, and Triton, captured the two
Spanish frigates Thetis and Santa Brigida, bound from
Vera Cruz for Spain, with specie,&c., The treasure in the
Thetis was worth £311,690; and the other prize con-
tained as much or more specie, besides a valuable cargo of
cochineal, &c., The prizes were safely carried to Ply-
mouth, and the treasure was forwarded with much pomp
to London, and deposited in the Bank of England. The
prize money, exclusive of the value of the hulls and stores
of the frigates, was distributed among the officers and
crews of the British frigates in the following rates :—Cap-
tains, £40,730 18s. each ; lieutenants, £5,091 7s. 3d. ;
warrant officers, £2,468 10s. 9id.; midshipmen, &c.,
£791 17s. Odd. ; seamen and marines, £lB2 4s. 91-d.
AN ITEM IN THE COST or CRIME.—The new arrange-
ment for voting annually a number of charges which have
hitherto been paid without vote out of the Consolidated
Fund has produced a number of estimates not heretofore
furnished to Parliament. Among the latest is the ex-
pense of the metropolitan police courts, £44,426. Above
half this sum—£23,2oo,—is for the salaries of the twenty-
three police magistrates. These are still paid out of the
Consolidated Fund, along with the other judicial salaries of
the country, but a vote will be taken for the remainder,—
£21,226, —which is required to pay clerks, ushers, and inci-
dental expenses of the police courts.

PUBLIC HOUSE REFORM.—The Select Committee on
Public Houses recommended that while on the one hand
the monopoly should be abolished, al. any person of good
character be allowed to have a license, coffee-houses,
temperance hotels, eating-houses, and shellfish-shops
should also be licensed, and that a proper control over all
licensed houses should be established by means of police
selected for the duty, as in the case of-• the inspector of
lodging-houses. The committee had evidence that several
coffee-houses are open all night, and that many are fre-
quented by bad and doubtful characters, sell spirits under
the pretence of supplying tea and coffee, and are scenes of
very great disorder and mischief. Colonel Hogg, who was
examined, mentioned that during his attendance on the
committee he went to a coffee-shop at twenty minutes past
two on Sunday morning, and asked for some gin, and re-
ceived for answer from the landlord, " Yes, you shall have
aHgolzs a,
dfdore,dif—tch,
Thep hpoe lihcoeusceomweasinfull, I sahtallthbaetfinhoedur.';
it, but you must drink it out of a cup ; we cannot give you
thCere°l.
was a little milk placed on one side in a cream ewer, and
I was instructed, if the constable came in to put a little of
that into it." ,

ABOLITION OP FOREIGN COPYRIGHTS.—The "glorious
uncertainty" has gained another illustration. Jeffreys
versus Boosey has come to an end, and the House of
Lords has reversed the judgment of the Court of Exche-
quer Chamber. Copyright, as regards foreign works in
this country, is again in abeyance, and dire is the conster-
nation in the publishing world in consequence thereof.
Our newest decision—pronounced by .a tribunal from which
there is no appeal—would seem to cancel all agreements,
destroy all assumed copyright of aliens in this country.
This last reversal of judgment was made at one o'clock,
on Tuesday, in the House of Lords,—a reversal which,
among other things, in effect, upsets all American copy-
rights, and before six o'clock that day the printers in
London were engaged in reprinting cheap editions of
American works. Messrs. Low and Co., alarmed for their
property in Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, rushed
to their printers to order a cheap edition: they found them
already engaged on a cheap edition for another house ! By
aid, however, of the Messrs. Clowes, Mr. Low hopes to
forestall the reprinters, and we cannot but trust that he
will succeed, seeing that he had already embarked capital
in the production of the work, in a belief that his pro-
perty was protected by law. The mails will carry out bad
news. to America: this decision puts an end to all negocia-
bons between the authors of that country and the
publishers here. Mr. Bentley, we believe, has just con-
cluded a treaty with Mr. Prescott, the historian, for his
Philip the Second at £l,OOO a volume. The American
historian is now in the same position as regards England,
as the English author is at regards America.—Athenfflm.