A considerable sensation ...
The Times, 1824-04-17T00:00:00

A considlerable sensation has been excited amongst the- importers, merchants, and dealers interested in rum at Liverpool, from its having been ascertained, that the Lords of his Majesty's Treasary had, in their minute of the 3d-instant, excluded the whole of the rum imported prior to the 1st of Mlarch, amounting to about 40,000 puncheons, from the relief granted to subsequent importa. tions, namely, exemption from payment of duty on the wastage and evaporation in strength whilst undter the King's locks. A. meeting of the WVest India Association took place on Friday,when it was re- solved, that a memonial upon the subject should be immediately transmitted to their Lordships; and on Saturday another memotial upon the same subject was adopted by that body, and, being most respectably and numerously higned, forwarded on Tuesday to the Lords of his Maiesty's Treasury. The memorial prays that their Lordships will allow all rums in bond to be placed in the sime situa- tion as those imported after the 1st ult. At Ripley Castle, in Yorkshire, the seat of Sir William Ingilbv, there is in the great staircase an elegant Venetian window, in the ilivisions of which,on stained glass, area series of escutcher.-f' displaying rhe principal quarteringas and intermarriages of th gilby family since their settding at Ripley, during a course of.43s years. In one of- the chambers of the tower is the follow sentence, carved an the frieze of the wainscot:_" In -the yeire of owre Ld. Ml.D.L.V. was this howse buyldyd, by. Sir Wyllyam Ingilby, Knight; PhiUp and Marie reigning that time." 3ohn Palliser, of Birsthwaite, formerly held his lands of the manor of Ripley, h the paymentof a red rose at lidsumttar,and by cirryingt eboar" head to the lord's table all the 12 days of.Christmas. 'rhe followiing mode of trial bv erdeal prevails in the Buriabn empire:-A certain quantity 0v wax is weighed in two equal portions, and formed into two candles, which are lighted at the same instant: one is held by the plaintifF, the other by the defend- ant, and the holder of the candle which first burns outi adjudge4 to have sworn falsely, and of course to have lost, the cause. CostPuleCTTo,N.-One of the prisoners in the High Gaol, Exeter, against whom sentence of duath was recorded, l.a, smce the assizes made over the property of a house to a emscn of the name of Davenport, whose house he had robbed of 20L eleven years ago. To bring about usnanimity in a jutry at Wexford last as. sizes, a stratagem wasresorted to, which deserves to be recorded. The evidence against Gribble (the revenue officer charged with thlicrob. bery of tobacco from the King's stores) appeared to be conclusivc. Notwithstanding the able defence of him by his counsel (Ar. Smith), it was the general imrression in Court that he could mot escape conviction. nly one of the jury, however, was under that m ression. " Well, gentlemen,"-said he to the others," xince yoa will not agree to adontmy view of the case, a thought strikes mue by which wecan get over the difficulty. I'll write Iguilty' 'aMIA then I'll retire, and yoa can act as you think vr6per." 'I'*n expedient was approved of-the fearful word " guilty ' was written flown. Our readers, no doubt, pictUre in inagination the sword of justice, like that of^ famoles, suspended over the head of poor Gribble; butt as the proverb say4, "all is net lost that's in danger," the consecen. tious 3urym m having stepped aide, his wforthy compgambts Aid. ed." 23'ot!"FWcaford JHerald.