All other fabrics of wool, or of mixed wool and cotton, wool and silk, etc., 5 per cent ad valorem. Iron, foreign, unmanufactured,... 010 Iron, as in pigs, iron manufactured, as in bars, rods, etc................ Lead, foreign, as in pigs, or manufactured,.. Steel, foreign, of every kind,.. 015 028 040 Tin, foreign,..... Tin plates, formerly not in the tariff,. 100 ................................... 040 Spelter is only permitted to be sold to government merchants. All unenumerated metals, as zinc, yellow copper, etc., 10 per cent ad valorem. All new goods, which it has not been practicable to enumerate herein, a duty of 5 per cent ad valorem. Rice and other grains, duty free. CLASS XVII. Shipping dues-These have hitherto been charged on the measurement of the ship's length and breadth, at so much per chang; but it is now agreed to alter the system, and charge according to the registered statement of the number of tons of the ship's burden. On each ton, (reckoned equal to the cubic contents of 122 tows,) a shipping charge of 5 mace is to be levied, and all the old charges of measurement, entrance and port clearance fees, daily and monthly fees, etc., are abolished. C. CUSHING. TSIYENG.* * Manchu characters used. BRAZILIAN CONSULATE FEES, OR EMOLUMENTS TO BE PAID BY VESSELS, BOTH NATIONAL AND FOREIGN. In this Department of State for Foreign Affairs, there is to be found registered in Book I. of Register of Decrees, page two hundred and seventy, what the supplicants mention, establishing a new tariff of Consular emoluments, viz.: The Regent in name of the Emperor, in revoking the Tariff of Consular emoluments ordered to be observed by Decree of 9th of September last year, has determined that the following shall be put into execution, signed by Antonio Peregrino Maciel Monteiro, Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, who will so understand and have executed with the necessary despatches. Palace of Rio de Janeiro, 12th of March, 1838-17 of Independence and of the Empire. Pedro d'Araujo Lima -Antonio Peregrino Maciel Monteiro. TARIFF OF FEES WHICH VESSELS AND PERSONS, BOTH NATIONAL AND FOREIGNERS, SHOULD PAY AT BRAZILIAN CONSULATES. Acknowledgment of signatures or legalization of any document passed Acknowledgment of signatures or legalization of any document not passed by the Consulate...... ......... A Procuration...... Bill of sale, purchase or deed of partnership........... A Protest or Declaration....... Registering any document in the books of the Consulate, per page. Interrogatory of witnesses, for each one interrogated...... A Certificate of the Consul to serve in any station... Translation of any document, per page....... 2 For the presence of the Consul to acts which require his absence from 21 66 66 For money received or paid for account of government, a commission of For deposit of money or goods in the Consulate and administration of a commission of......... 21 p. ct. For being present at a sale, if requested........ 2 p. ct. For gathering objects belonging to cargo or hull of a wrecked vessel,.. 2 p. ct. In these Consular fees on Brazilian vessels the expense of certifying the Manifest of cargo is included; and to poor sailors and Brazilian subjects will be given, gratis, all documents they may require. Palace of Rio de Janeiro, March 12, 1838. (Signed) ANTONIO PEREGRINO MACIEL MONTEIRO. Nothing else was contained in said Register book, nor in any other is it known that the (referred to) table of emoluments which ought to be paid at Brazilian Consulates, both by vessels and subjects, whether national or foreigners, has been altered, which I declare in this, and pass in compliance with the above despatch. Department of State for Foreign Affairs, September 3, 1845. (Signed) JOZE DOMINGOS DE A. MONCARVO. COMPEND OF THE TARIFF OF CUBA. We give, below, a compend of the tariff of Cuba, as it affects American produce, imported in American vessels, which is to take effect on the 1st of March, 1846. On the same day, the tonnage duty will be re-imposed upon vessels loading with molasses. In calculating the duty on imports, 1 per cent on the amount of duty must be added, called the balanza. Articles. A COMPEND OF THE TARIFF OF CUBA, TO TAKE EFFECT 1ST OF MARCH, 1846. Ale, cask,. Ale, bottles, Apples, Barrels, empty, .....each ...M. 30 00 271 Beef,..... ...bbl. Beef, jerked,. ...arroba 1 75 27 Lard,.. ..qtl. 12 00 333 Beef, smoked,.. 75 334 150 334 Nails, iron,. 7.00 974 Beer, bottles,.............doz. Biscuit, box,............4 lbs. 75 33 Boards, white and yellow 321 Paper, wrapping.........rm. 50 33 271 Pork, Candles, tallow,..... ...qtl. 12 00 33 Cheese, American,.......qtl. 10 00 27 375 32 Scantling..... ..M. feet 2 50 27 6.00 33 18 00 274 A gentleman at Havana, under date December 6th, 1845, thus speaks of this tariff:"It in effect differs very little from the old tariff, being only a simplification of the method of calculating the duties; which, under repeated impositions and reductions, had become quite complicated. Many of the best friends of the country had anticipated a reduction in the duties on articles of consumption, which are exceedingly onerous, and are fast grinding the poor to pauperism, from the tendency of the present system of collection of revenue to the accumulation of wealth in the hands of the few." NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. PORT ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA. H. C. STACKERMAN has addressed a circular to ports interested in the South Sea whale fishery, dated Adelaide, South Australia, April 15, 1845, in which he refers to the advantages it presents to whalers, in consequence of its rapid rise, since its foundation in 1837. Port Adelaide is situated in St. Vincent's Gulf, the entrance to which is 33. 48. S. L., and 138. 36. E. G. The passage through Investigators' Straits, and through the gulf, is perfectly safe and easy, keeping clear of the S. E. point of York's Peninsula, where there is a sand bank. Vessels drawing 18 feet may safely get into the harbor, which offers the security of any dock. At the mouth of the gulf, is Kangaroo Island, where, during the season, several small coasters are on the look-out for whalers, for the purpose of boarding them, and selling them at high prices, provisions and other articles, which they have bought in Adelaide. To obtain this object, and in order to induce the captain not to enter the port, but to buy from them, they will give false reports on the state of the market. We give below, the particulars of the port charges at Port Adelaide, such as they are at present; “but the general impression is, that very shortly a considerable reduction will take place, and additional inducements thereby be offered to whalers to call here-a more favorable port than which, according to the opinion of several American and European continental captains of whalers, who have had occasion to touch here, will not exist in these quarters for taking in new stock, etc., and for touching in case of any accident." In payment of stores, or provisions supplied, oil can be landed for consumption in the colony, subject to 107 ad valorem duty, which is also the rate on all other foreign articles, excepting spirits, subject to 128. a gallon, and tobacco, to 2s. per pound; this article is always sold in bond, by the importer, the buyer paying the duty. PORT CHARGES-Custom-house entrance and clearance, £2 2s.; pilotage, payable inwards and outwards, drawing 9 a 10 feet, £4; 10 a 11 feet, £4 108., rising 10s. per additional foot. HARBOR DUES-A vessel to 300 a 400 tons, £2; 400 a 500 tons, £2 10s.; exceeding 500 tons, £3; tonnage dues, 6s. a ton. PRICES CURRENT-Beef, 24d. a 2. per lb.; pork, 24d. a 3d.; mutton, 2d. a 24d. per lb.; wethers, 128. a 13s. each; pigs, 158. a 20s. each; flour, first quality, at 9s. per 100 lb. ; second do., 68. 6d. a 7s. 6d. ; biscuit, 13s. a 15s. per cwt.; butter, 6d. a 8d. per lb.; cheese, 5d. a 547. per lb.; Lacon, 52. a 5. per lb.; potatoes, £3 a £5 per ton, according to season. Vegetables abundant and cheap during the season; fruits, do. do.; tea, coffee, sugar, rice, at about the European prices. SUNFEN ROCK-CHINCHA OR GUANO ISLANDS. Masters of vessels proceeding from the port Pisco to the Chincha or Guano islands, should give the N. E. point a good berth, until the centre of the island bears south, and then haul into their moorings abreast of the loading shoots, there being a sunken rock about half a cable's length off the N. E. point of the island, not laid down in any chart. RIO GRANDE ST. PEDRO. The following notice, dated Rio Grande, March 30th, 1845, has been published over the signatures of Russel Snow, brig Sylph; Bennett Morgan, brig Osceola ; Thomas M. Mayhew, barque Brothers; and Azariah Done, barque Bevis : "It is usual to charter vessels for the Rio Grande St. Pedro. We consider the whole of this place Rio Grande St. Pedro, and it is generally considered so in the United States; and on all the books and charts of the coast, the St. Pedro is to distinguish this place from the Rio Grande north of Pernambuco. The merchants here say, that only Rio Grande South, as it is usually called, is Rio Grande St. Pedro; and though vessels arrive at Rio Grande North, and enter at the custom-house, and are ready to discharge, they will not allow that they are at Rio Grande, and refuse to allow the days while laying there. Vessels can very seldom go to the South, or Rio Grande St. Pedro, as they call it, drawing more than nine feet of water, and vessels drawing more than that are obliged to go to the North and discharge part of their cargo, which causes much trouble and detention. So that American vessels, drawing more than nine feet, should never charter for Rio Grande, without having it expressed in their charter-party, that their lay days begin upon entry at St. Josephs, or Rio Grande North, and when lightened sufficiently to proceed to the South, if the consignee wishes.” COMMERCIAL DECREE OF THE GOVERNMENT OF CUBA. It was officially announced at Havana, November 12, 1845, that the port of Sagua la Grande would be open on the first of January, 1846, under the following restrictions: I Spanish vessels registered in Spain will be permitted to enter the port of Sagua la Grande to discharge, and to load produce under the present restrictions. II. Also, vessels of other nations in ballast, to load sugar and other productions. III. Also, Spanish and foreign vessels from foreign ports, with the following articles, viz: joists, boards, planks, staves, wooden hoops, empty hogsheads, and hogshead shooks, do. barrels and barrel shooks, shingles, box shooks, sugar mould and zinc and tin plate for do., hemquen bags and linen do., hemquen rope, salt beef and pork, salt from the island, codfish, fish and mackerel, iron nails, steam engines for sugar estates, loose extra pieces for do., sugar-mill rollers, sugar boilers, and tanks and bricks. IV. Vessels having on board any articles not specified in the above list, will have to discharge those articles in some qualified port before they can enter the above mentioned port. VICTORIA ROCK OFF ANGLESEA. TRINITY HOUSE, LONDON, 24th Oct., 1845.-This corporation has caused a buoy, colored red and white, in horizontal stripes, and marked " Victoria," to be placed about fifty fathoms to the northward of the rock, upon the gravel bank off the north coast of Anglesea, upon which the Victoria steam vessel recently struck. This buoy lies in two fathoms at low water spring tides, and with the following marks and compass bearings, viz: Cemaes Mill point open east of the beacon on Harry's Furlong, S.E.4 S. Kemlyn Mill touching the eastern end of Kemlyn Farm, S. High water of Henborth Point, in line with Pengarn Beacon. VARIATION OF THE NEEDLE. The following is a corrected report of the variation and dip of the needle at Bermuda, taken with great care by Captain Barnette, of H. M. surveying vessel Thunder. In old charts but two degrees of variation are given, whereas from the present observation it appears that there are 7 degrees 1 minute west, and which is very likely to be the reason why so many ships pass the islands without seeing them, and others run on the reefs in the neighborhood. Variations of the needle at Bermuda, in October, 1845, 7 degrees 1 minute W.; dip of the needle, 65 degrees 26 minutes 15 seconds west. |