The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-03 00:00:00

MR NEW RUSSIAN TARIM

The new tariff has just been pnblished at St.
Petersbnrg. The duty on currants is reduced from 21. 80e.
per poud to If. 60e. • and that on fig!, dried raisins, dates,
and prunes from 51.60 e. to 4f.; wines in barrel reduced from
llf. to Bf. 40e. • in bottle (except Burgundy and Mouoeeax
wines), reduced from 21. to If. 20e per bottle; bottled porter
reduced from If. 40c. to 80e. • leather gloves and chamois
leathor goods reduced from 12f. to 81. per lb. ,ro• printed cloth,
V. with or :bout a mixture of cotton, reduced m 51. 60c. to
2f. Bk. par lb. • batiste, and handkerchiefs f
of that material,
or entobrte, reduced from 12f. to sf. ; white cotton yarns
reduced from 20f. to 141. per pond; ditto, coloured, 20f.;
cotton wadding reduced from 16f. to 4f. per poud; cotton
woven stuffs, such la calico, jacconct, cambric, crinoline,
cotton, silk, and woollen mixtures, knitted or plaited goods,
reduced from duties ranging between If. 92c. and 61. 40c. to
an uniform duty of If. 60e. Iron, in bars rails, or eases, the
importation of which was prohibited, is admitted on
payment of a duty of 21. per poud; or 2f. 80c.
if in tars of leas than half an inch thickness; iron
boilers, at 3f. 60c.; cast iron, at 60e.; the duty on block
zinc is relived from 4f. 80e. to 21. 40c.; sheet sine reduced
from 7f. 20e. to 3f. 60c. ; writing paper reduced from 40f. to
241. ' • silk fabrics, except brocade and transparent stuff, re-
duced to 111 f.; mixed silk to 81.; on woollen cloth, mixed
woollen, braver, raalnuere, &c., the duty is sf. 60e.; trow-
wrings robe,' from 6f. 40e. to 4f.; flannel velveteen, and
plush reduced from 41. to 2f, Bc. ; green vitriol reduced to
If. 40c.; sulphuric acid reduced from 61. 40r. to 4f • ground
madder reduced from 4f. to 2f.; and dyewoods free; 80c. to
48e. These ,•bringes ere calculated to give great satisfaction
to the commercial world.

DEGENERATE DATS.—If the great Grecian poet
has made so much of a little tin-pot mega as that of Troy,
which wee scarcely troy-weight in the scale of sieges, and
bad little beyond its duration to recommend it—if Homer has
made so much of this, we say, what would Le not have ac-
complished with such a subject as the siege of Sovssiopol
ready to his band, as it now lien ready to the hands, or rather
pens, of the tardy poets of theme degenerate days? Think
what descriptions the great storm would have furnished
Homerwith ! The angry 2Eolusl tents and pewees whirl-
ing through the air I The surging Euxine—vessels siokiug
—crews thriekingl—worth fifty paltry &amender% with
Ito flotilla of miserable cock-boom, which the old Grecian
=ekes such a fuss about! Then the bombardments—the
attack. on the Malakoff and Redan I Nirifter ! What
were the =puttee, hattoring-rams, and sham dray-horse, em-
ployed at the siege of Troy, compared with the thundering
batteries, mo shells, and earthquake mines, which re-
duced Sevutopol to chaos? What a weighing of destinies
there would have been at Alma and Inkermannl How
Venus and the ether guldeases would have interposed to
avert the bullets that floored Sir George Brown—the hand-
some Sir George!—and killed the brave Cathcart! What •
pathetic picture Homer would have drawn of Sir De Lacy
Evans, swing In hie tent under the influence of calomel,
giving his orders through the wet canvas! How the veno
would have risen when he described the morale conquering
the physique, Or rather physic; and Sir De Lacy mounting
his charger, sharing in the dangers of the well-fought
field—happily with that impunity bis devotion and his pa-
triotian so tidily merited' And are such deeds to go
manna ? Is Alfred Tennyson dead? Istontine 1 Hetet wo-
of'''. Popoff I—have ye nil been snatched oft ?—have ye
all popped off, enemies though ye were, without
having your names wedded to immortal verve ?
Is Sir Harry Jones, cm his litter, to be for-
gotten? Is Todleben—the ingenious Todleben—to be
lees noticed than If h. Lad been pie& Ben Toddle, hitched,
like Ben Battle and Young Ben, into • punning ballad. and
sung about the streets—at least a nine days' wonder? I
depreeate such injustice! I deplore such degeneracy .
Visited Barite Megaziee for July.