The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-17 00:00:00

SPANISH AMERICA.

PARAGUAY.-.-TARIFF CHANGES.—The President of
the Republic, having found by experience that the dis-
position of the Customs' regulation of 1842, and of the
decree of 1845, have not corresponded to the objects
contemplated by the Government for promoting, by all
the means in its power, the progress of industry, has
thought it right to decree as follows :
Art. 1. All machines and instruments of agriculture,
industry, navigation, arts and science, which are not
fabricated, or in general use, in the republic, as well as
silver and gold coined, or native, are free of duty. Art.
2. The different species of duties on imports are
abolished. The goods designated in table No. 1 shall
pay 25 per cent. ; and all the rest 20 per cent. only.
Art. 3. The duties on exportation of the goods which
figure in Table 2 shall be 6 per cent. Art. 4. The ex-
port cf gold and silver, in coin or native, shall be per-
mitted on payment of 10 per cent. daty, like all other
commodities whatsoever. In case of evasion of the
duties, in addition to the value sought surreptitiously to
he withdrawn, a fine of 50 per cent, shall be paid. The
rates of warehousing, transhipment, &c., are to continue
as before.

Table 1., referred to above as subject to the 25 per
cent. import duty. Silk raw or twisted. Silk and
woollen fabrics, or of silk and wool mixed, gauze linen
cambrics, damasks, ribbons, lace, &c. Watches and
clocks, furniture, mirrors, volantes, and saddlery.
Ready-made clothing, shoes, ponchos, wines, liquors,
brandy, vinegar, beer, cider, black tobacco, salt, butter,
perfumes.
Table IL, as subject to the 6 per cent. export duty.
Indigo, black tobacco, rappee, or snuff. Oils, wheat or
Indian corn flour, wine, brandy, vinegar, and every kind
of liquor manufactured in the country. Sugar, rice,
ham, corn in grain, white wax, and honey.—Jan. 2,1846.
(Signed) CARLOS AN TIONIO LOPEZ,

President.

On the same day the President issued another decree
to the following purport:—Considering that it is neces-
sary to prevent evasion of the duties in the navigation
of the rivers, and the embarkation and landing of goods
by contraband, it is decreed: that vessels, as well na-
tional as foreign, on ascending the Paraguay shall re-
ceive a guard on board at the isle of Atajo, who shall
remain until arrival at the destined custom-house. The
vessels which shall ascend by the Parana will receive a
guard
at the Paso de la Patna. When arrived at the
destined custom-house, the guards will be relieved by
others, so that one shall always remain on board until
complete discharge of cargo. The goods landed shall
be conveyed to the customs' warehouses, but in case of
want of room, the custom-house officers are authorised
to hire private warehouses for them. When vessels de-
part and descend the river, they shall carry on board
guards to the same points of Atajo and Paso de la
Patna.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LANCASTER AND CARLISLE
RAILWAY.— On Wednesday afternoon, one of those melan-
choly accidents which have been of such frequent occurrence
on these works, took place at Fiddler's Gill Viaduct, about
four miles from Kendal. It appears that from forty to fifty
men were on the viaduct waiting for some material to com-
mence their work, but nothing had as yet been moved, when
an awful crash took place, the timbers supporting the
machines with which the viaduct had been constructed
giving way, and taking down with them 10 or more of the
men, one of whom, Mr. Bainbridge, was nearly crushed to
atoms, six were sadly injured, and but faint hopes are
entertained of the recove.iy of any of them. The height
which the machines fell is 55 feet, but the unfortunate
fellow who was killed was at a height of 70 feet from
the ground, which he never reached alive, as he was
caught amongst the falling timbers, and taken down after-
wards by his fellow-labourers, dead, and in a dreadfully
mutilated state. Expresses were immediately dispatched to
Kendal for surgeons, and three—Messrs. Gough, Longmore,
and Brumwell—arrived on the spot without the loss of a
moment. At that time the lives of three of the men were
despaired of, but after great attention and skill from the sur-
geons some hopes are now held out. The beams which have
caused this sad affair have supported two heavy iron ma-
chines ever since the work commented, and lifted all the
immense stones which have been employed in building it ;
and as no work was going on at the time the acci-
dent occurred it surpasses the comprehension of the man-
ager of the works how it happened ; and at the same
time it is considered almost miraculous that 30 or 40 men
did not perish; but numbers succeeded in saving themselves
by clinging to the broken timber around them. The in•
spector and conductor of the works had fortunately just left
the place. _ _ .

THE DAGENHAM MIIRDER.—On Saturday Dennis
Flinn and John Hennessey, two labourers, and a female,
named Ellen Rankin, were again examined at the Magis-
trates Court, at Ilford, on suspicion of being concerned in
the murder of George Clark, the police constable, at Dagen -
ham, Essex, when they produced witnesses to prove that
Flinn was at work for Curtis and Co., builders, at Stratford,
at Loughton Church, at the time of the murder, and that
Ellen Rankin was lodging with him at Loughton, which is
fourteen miles from Dagenham ; and it was positively sworn
that they slept together there on the night of the murder.
Hennessey also called his father-in-law,. who swore that
Hennessey was at work with him, on the 29th of June, at
Mortlake, and that he got up at half-past four o'clock on the
following morning. It was likewise proved that a pair of
white gloves found on the prisoner Rankin, which were sup-
posed to have belonged to the deceased policeman, had been
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