The Sun. — 1830-03-31 (London, England)

INEQUALITY OF TAXATIOY.--A striking example has just occurred of the frauds generated by the exemptio❑ of Ireland from taxes which are levied in Britain. Six bales of white calicoes about to be shipped for Ireland, were seized at Liverpool a few days ago, which were reported to the Custom-house as printed calicoes, and as such, if they had not been detected, the shipper would have got a drawback of 3FI. per yard upon them, amounting in the whole to fire hundred pounds. The probability is, that after passing to Ireland, they would have been printed there, and secretly landed somewhere again in England, without paying the duty, and thus would have been the means of robbing the revenue to the amount of 7d. per yard.—Scotsman.  The foolish story which appeared in this and other papers la't week, respecting a man at Chesham having confessed that he was instrumental in the murders of the MARRS and Wituattsows, had its origin in the most trifling circumstance imaginable; and, like the man vomiting " three black crows," was so unlike itself by the time it had received a few additionr, from certain scribes, that its parent could scarcely recognise a single feature of his own offspring. The facts are as follow : A simple fellow was examined by Mr. ifansuatr., a solicitor of Chesham, and also vestry-clerk of the parish, respecting his settlement; the man, in the course of his examination said he had once lived in a house near the Mauna and WlLLiamsouls. There was, however, some hesitation in his manner in replying to questions on this subject, and Mr. MansuaLt consequently wrote to Sir RICHARD BIRNIE to ascertain if his statement were correct, and also the situation of the house in which he had lived, with respect to its contiguity to the dwellings of the murdered families. The man never said anything that could be construed into a confession, and there was no reason, except his own hesitation in answering the questions that were put to him for the slightest suspicion that he was concerned in the murders.—Rucks Gazette.  EXTRAORDINARY ! T !—The town of Pen' ranee and its neighbourhood have, daring the past few days, been in a state of wonder and surprise in consequence of a series of extraordinary and strange occurrences which have taken place in the house of Mr. Maxima, a respectable inhabitant in the parish of Ludgvan. From the information that we have been able to collect, it appears that on Friday morning last several articles of furniture and wearing apparel were discovered in a state of ignition without any 'visible cause, no fire having been placed against them. The feathers in a bed-tick were burnt, whilst the latter remained uninjured; a mauls coat that was hanging was burning soaks i is places, and notwithstanding being removed from the liquid element, the fire again proceeded in its destructive work ; the several articles of furniture appeared to possess the powers of vitality—pokers ging up it was and tongs walked about the rooms, the kettle jumped from the fire into the middle of the floor, and sundry articles, in making their preregrinations, were broken. But the most extraordinary of these extraordinary movements of the inanimate articles in the house were those of a beer barrel, which walked up and down stairs, following the inmates in and out of the house; and although it was sunk to the bottom of a pit in the yard, it shortly afterwards recovered the power of motion, and actually stalked, on end, into the house: it first entered the kitchen, from whence it proceeded, in all gravity, to the parlour ! We have not space to relate all the strange proceedings which, it is said, have taken place in Mr. Hosliso's house : the above is but a very meagre report, but we shall probably be able in our next to give a more ample detail, and, no doubt, a solution of the cause of these things, which have excited no inconsiderable degree of astonithinent..—lat. mouth Packet.