The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-22 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

Lisaox, SEPT. 13.—The Chamber of Deputies has again
been occupied the whole Neel with the finance projects. All
the new imposts proposed have passed; the tax on salaries
and pensions, graduating from ten to thirty per cent. ;
that of ten per cent. on the dividends of the home debt.
the additional impost of five per cent. on the sale of property.
the augmentation proposed on several articles of the Customs'
tariff, the increased duties on consumption in the suburbs of Lis-
bon, the abolition of the drawback of 15 per cent. of duties given to
foreign goods importedin Portuguese shipping, and of the exemp-
tion from duties on Portuguese colonial produce, which, with
the exception of the fisheries, will now be subject to a con-
siderable duty, have all been passed by large majorities. The
11th project, now under discussion, is for the endowment of
the Board of Public Credit with the proceeds of the new taxes,
in order to enable it to pay the half dividends on the foreign
debt, with which it is henceforth to be charged. The debate
on this project con.menced on Saturday, and will be renewed
to-day. Some alterations were made in the project for the
abolition of the differential duties, which, as now passed, is as
follows :

1. The 15 per cent. on duties remitted in favour of Portu-
guese shipping is to be abolished, and, therefore, all foreign
goods imported, whether in Portuguese or foreign vessels, if
coming from countries where Portuguese shipping is treated
on terms of equality, to pay the duties set down in the customs'
tariff.

2. An additional duty to be imposed upon goods imported in
foreign vessels, from countries where Portuguese shipping is
not received on terms of equality; and such additional duties
to be exactly equivalent to any differential duties imposed by
foreign countries on Portuguese shipping.
3. The indirect, or carrying trat.e, is still to benpen to fo-
reign vessels ; but goods imported for consumption in Portugal,
if brought in any other ships than Portuguese, or ships of the
country from which the goods are exported, to be subject
to an additional tax of 20 per cent, on the amount of duties
as per tariff ; and the same additional duties to be raid by ves-
sels coming from any countries from which Portuguese ship-
ping is excluded.
It will be observed. that by the above law English goods
imported in Portuguese shipping will pay the regular duties
of the tariff, from which 15 per cent. has hitherto been de-
ducted: and the same goods imported in British shipping
will, as long as we continue to lay differential duties on
Portuguese shipping and produce, be subject to an additional
duty equivalent to the same. If imported in any other than
British or Portuguese shipping, an additional duty of 20 per
cent. on the customs' tariff will be imposed. With respect to
the alterations in the tariff, and the additional duties on
woollen goods, which it is to be feared will press very heavy
upon the coarser kinds of cloth, and even act as a prohibition
of some of our woollen manufactures, the policy of imposing
them is doubtless a mistaken one, and the Customs will perhaps
lose on the whole instead of gaining an additional revenue ;
but it is impossible to convince people here of the
impolicy of the proceeding. A large deficit exists,
to supply which they are calling on all sides for sacrifices,
and comparisons are immediately made between the taxes im•
po-ed on Portuguese prodlice in England and those on Eng-
lish goods in Portugal. It was stated in the Chamber on
Friday that we lay 100 per cent. on their wines, while some of
our finer cloths did not pay 10 per cent. duty ; and as to the
coarser kinds, they could produce them themselves in suffi-
cient quantity. Senhor Brandao proposed to raise the, duty
to twelve testoons a pound weight on all kinds of cloth, which
is double the amount as &zed by the new project : his argu-
ment was, that this womigt.6not exclude the finer cloths worn by
the richer classes, but would act as a moderate duty, while it
would operate as a prohibitory duty on tle coarser kinds, and
therefore protect their manufacture of those articles. Senhor
Branilao's proposal was ultimately referred to the Tariff Com-
mittee.

The revolutionary press is furious at the repeal of the
favourite measure of its patrons—the differential duties. The
Nacional says that 8,000 people will be thereby thrown out
of employ, and that the ship-builders' yards at Lisbon,
Oporto, &c., will soon be deserted, and calls on the ship-
owners not to allow their vessels to rot away in the Tagus,
hut rather to break them up, and cast their fragments at
the doors of the Ministers, and of the Legislators, who
have perfected the ruin of the country. We, of course,
come in for our share of the abuse, and the people are told
that ere long the " leopards" of England will replace the
" Quinas" of Portugal. However, the Nacional comforts
itself to-day with the news of the resignation of the Melbourne
Miniatry, and the moral certainty that they shall speedily get
quit of Lord Howard de Walden.

The trial of Mr. Macdonell, for a breach of the police laws,
comes on before our conservator to-morrow. He will be dis•
charged, no doubt, but required to leave the country. The
Queen and King-Consort come in this week from Cint.ra to
remain. Lord and Lady Howard are also expected at their
town residence in a day or two. Marquis Sa!danha is ex-
pected to leave on the 17th for Madrid.

The Gazette du Midi informs us that thirty-two
Spanish refugees, who were working in the canal of Arles,
have been arrested and sent to prison. It appears, from an
article in the Courrier de Lyon, that the Spanish refugees,
e.nployed as labourers on the repairs of this canal, had been
guilty of insubordination, and, in consequence of some dis-
pute with the French labourers, a severe conflict, in which
the Spaniards were the aggressor., took place, and it be-
came necessary to imprison some of the most culpable of the
Spaniards.
A New York Paper publishes the following un-
der tke head of " London versus New York" In London. In New York.
Murdered ......... 1

Poisoned...... 17
..... 6 ...... 14
Killed by accident ...... 171 83
Killed in various other ways... 9
28
Drowned .............. 76 ...... 86
Burnt to death .................... 0 ......
Suicides . ...........
........... 29
45
53
Unknown deaths, probably
murdered'........................ 12 ...... 179 Still-born ........................... 92
432 ...... 5
Intemperance ................ 19 33

Total ......... 740
1,130
Why is it that the murders committed in New York are 17
times greater than in London, whilst the populution of the lat-
ter city is five times greater than that of the former? 'and why
are the number of deaths from other causes above-mentioned so
disparaging to our metropolis ? The answer is, there are in
New York five grog-ihops where there is none in Londo!
FATAL ACCIDENT AT ST. KATHARINE'S
WhIARP.—On Saturday night, between eleven and twelve
o'clock, a boy, aged fifteen years, named David Price, who
Ills been for some time past in the habit of waiting upon the
people connected with the Leith steam-ships at St. Katharine's,
went on board the Royal Victoria, which arrived the same
morning, and was lying alongside the steam-wharf, with a
bundle of clean linen, and remained on board some time.
While he was below Mr. Adams, the agent of the Company,
who is generally the last on board the Leith steam-ships, on
Saturday night left the vessel, and a man
.named Ferguson,
employed on the wharf, supposing no other person was coming
on shore, unloosened the upper lashings of the long gangwayt
board and ladder, which was in a sloping position from he
wharf to the ship, and was preparing to hoist it up meansbyt
of the crane, when the boy Price made his appneaartarbizen.g, ?Zed
on the board, and was preparing to ascend it
'the vessel sheered
the lashings were cast off. At that moment
between out, the
tbhoea board le
sfseel , l
and
dd t Price
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wharf, was
aprecipitatedn
. though into
immediateth water,
about half an hour afterwards.
as-
sistance was at hand, he was drowned. His body was recovered

A few days ago a workman, under treatment
in the Hotel Dieu, for brain fever, in the temporary absence
of the person who attended upon him, rose from his bed, and
rushing upon the terrace, plunged from thence into the river.
The coldness of the water had a salutary effect upon the pa-
tient, who, being a good swimmer, struggled successfully
against the current, and having effected a landing in safety, he
was conveyed by some municipal guards, who were on the
spot, to the boa' ital.