The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-30 00:00:00

THE S

EIZED WOOLLEN GOODS«

_
(From the Philadelphia North American )
The agle of these vods took place at the NlAsonic.
Hall
in this city on Tuesday last, and the result was that the/
sold for about .................................... 36,400 0°
They cost in England, according to the ori-
ginal invoices, which were produced on
the trial, 5,586/ 4s. 7id., or ............ .•
The amount of duties paid on these goods at
the New York Custom House, was ......
The exchange, interest, commissions, and
other expenses, would amount to consi
derably over 25 per cent., 0r......... ----•

24,827 70

0,993 70

6,206 92
42,028 32
... 36,400
00
A.Lount sold for ............

Being a loss to the importer on the invoice
cost, of ......................................... $5,62 32
8
Or a little more than `221- per cent. loss.
The appraisement on which they were condemned
was 194 per cent. above the invoice cost stated abover
and was made by seven appraisers, and was in oppesi'
tion to the appraisements of seven merchants of this
city, and two merchants froth New York, and two dis-
interested English manufacturers, who all appraised the
goods in question at within a small fraction (above or
below) of the invoice price.
They were also regularly examined, arid passed as
fairly charged in the invoices, by the appraisers at dr
New York Custom-House ; nevertheless the attempt!:
being made to forfeit these goods, for not having 101.
the proper amount of duties. If this plan succeeds, 11
will prove the most prohibitory tariff that has ever Yes
been
H contrived.
ad these goods been sold on arriva; they /night pe!
haps have realized enough more to have Yielded ,ahfsir
sold for 50,5075, 80 cents, or nearly 40 per
remunerating profit to the importer, but thq Intis" have
than they did sell for, to have paid the cost anti ebargtelli
(not to mention any profit which all merchants e%Peeil
on the condemning appraisement ; and such a price•sueYr
merchant who was at the sale will at once say nec
could have been obtained for them. isl
These facts the claimants think it their duty to
rent. mere
before the public.

DUTCH APIIP.B'
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areao informed, cast anchor at Flushing on the 29tb.
.y, ghness is expected here to-day.
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FRANKFORT, OCT. 24.—The subject of an conversa
tion is the numerous arrests which took place in ificili:
,ate, or
perhaps by its own investigations, had
to knowledge of a plot or conspiracy, other P,lO.
cane to ...
trom solhee
be occupied last night by the gendcaarumseeds,scsafrilinidgeasstteele7trbalts:
ed a
persons to be taken from their beds, and conveY
prisoners to the Romer, where the tvvo Burgomotebrst;
and the chief of the police were assembled (la" ‘
whole night.
'ltie causes of these arrests are not known, ed
but
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police viP
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abroad.probably
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POSEN, OCT. 17.—Our worthy Professor -of
lately found it necessary to take the unpleasant stePhicb
making a declaration in the Cologne Gazette, i° 11"tinFc
he says, among other things, that he is still "°
s:
from the goodness of the King the restoration of
tialwo
ofpapers which were sequestrated 20 years ago at theve are
_the proceedings instituted against him. . that
happy to be able to affirm, on the best authorty,
sent to.
on the very day on which this declaration vvas _ee-
eCologne Gazette he received from Berlin the eg,teso
th
able intelligence that his Majesty had ordered °
papers to be restored to him.
d 25tb' d°es
• The Journal de Franlifort of the 24th an
not make any mention of these events.

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ELECTRO-MAGNETIC M-CILfri`
___.— progre6%
Great and increasing interest results from the
of the experiments to utilize electro-tv
ply that remarkable force to machinery as 3 r.1:1 of
power. The investigations, theoretical and prow,
~1,
Professor Jacobi and M. Lenz to this end take Ted
rank in the scientific world. Their views were details
by the former to the British Association at Glasgu:,
and are reported at considerable length in the At/tear:l"d
whence we select and concoct the following resu t t io
agnetistu, eadteire
28 fee
,er,
experiments made last year with a boat of
length and 7i feet in width, drawing 21 feet of walittea
and carrying 14 individuals. This boat thus three
was propelled upon the Neva at the rate of about te
English miles an hour. , WO
The machine, which occupies very little sPac7 to
set in motion by a battery of six-four pairs of PI e,
plates, each having thirty-siz square inches of Or
with
and charged according to the plan of Mr. Grove
vim
nitric and diluted sulphuric acid. Although these its
may, perhaps, not satisfy the exaggerated expects the
of some persons, it is to be remembered that je the
first year, 1838, this boat being put in motion bi, ~„
same machine, with a battery of 320 pairs of Pt":
each of 36 square inches, and charged with St 1113,1.113:
of copper, only half the velocity was obtained. "'"hi:
enormous battery occupied considerable space, and Lill,
manipulation and management of it was very tool?'
of some. The judicious changes made in the distribul
last to the principles of the voltaic battery,
the rods in the construction of the commutator, ,60,0
lave lee '
the successful result of the following year, 1839. pthullars
log a whole day a party of 12 or 14 persons ha" .01,
gone on the Neva, both with and against the stren-ted
with a velocity not much less than the firefrit3/,,e,"01d
steam-boat. Professor Jacobi thought that more —lisp
not be expected from a mechanical force, whose s„ada
ence has only been known since 186'4, when he made
his first experiment at Konigsberg, in Prussia,
is by
only succeeded in lifting a weight of about 20 ounce
the electro-magnetic power. ih s ry
Should like progress be made, in a few Yeti" t
markable power indy be in general use
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