The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-04 00:00:00

new difficulties. They excite a notion that the
most dangerous centre of revolution is in Berne, while in
fact there is nothing so very dangerous there, and, properly
speaking, the whole cause of those political extravagancies
is to be sought in a certain liberal, not so ill meant, humour
and weakness.
VIENNA, OCT. 24.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 99k ; Four per
Cent., 91k; Bank Shares, I,26o.—Allgemeine Zeitung, Oct. 29.
MuNicii, OCT. 25.—Experiments have been made by
the Royal Artillery here with the new battery of cannon
made of Bavarian iron, which have not been satisfactory.
Two heavy six-pounders have already burst, and were shat-
tered into several pieces, so that the iron seems not to be
sufficiently tough. Such precautions were taken that no-
body was hurt.
The Political Gazette of Munich contradicts the report
that Count Soporta is going to Greece as Master of the
King's Household. He has received from King Otha au
invitation to resume the post of Aid-de-Camp, which he
formerly held, as soon as his health should be restored, and
with the consent of the King of Bavaria he will go to
Greece in that capacity.—Frankibrt Papers, Oct. 29.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS *DAY.)

(FROM LLOYD'S.)
DEAL, OCT. 3.—Wind S. W., moderate. Arrived from
the river, and remain, with the outward bound already re-
ported. The Lord Goderich and the Waterloo made their
Nos. at noon,—" All well." The Lord Goderich, Dawling,
for Grenada ; Juno, Cooke, for Jamaica; Ada, Simpson, for
Jamaica; Governor M‘Lean, Freebody, for Sierra Leone,—
and the Oscar, Falcon for Genoa. Arrived and remain, the
Dove, Giles, from St. Petersburgh, for Newry ,em
the
Egbertus, Isklok, from Christiansand, for Rochelle.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 3.—Wind E. N. E. to W. S. W.
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 2.—Wind S. S. W. Arrived off port,
the Swallow, Phillips for Palermo.
FALMOUTH, Nov. 2.—Wind S. W. with light breezes.
GLOUCESTER, Nov. 2.—Arrived the Henrietta, Glassen,
from Memel.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 2.—Arrived the Durham, Spencely, from
Odessa ; Lapwing, Osborne, Smyrna ; Good Hope, Skin-
ner, Naples ; Suitor, Donaldson, Faro ; Caledonia, Craig,
Oporto. Off port, the Globe, Main, Baker.
CLYDE, Nov. I.—Arrived the Robertson, Neill, and
Science, M‘Lellan, from Quebec.
CORK, Nov. I.—Arrived the Olivia, Wilson, Gibraltar.
DROGHEDA, Nov. I.—Airived off port the Medway, Pal-
lister, from Quebec.
NEWRY, Nov. I.—Arrived the Quintin, Leitch, and Tar-
bolton, Anderson, from Quebec ; and Sophia, Twaddle, from

London.
ABERDEEN, Nov. I.—Arrived the Dee, Gamblin, from
Davis' Straits.
HULL, Nov. I.—Arrived the Equity, Hewson, Harriet,
Boston, and Lord Lynedoch, Tosh, from Riga.
WHITSTABLE, Nov. 3.—About 900 cheeses, 18 sack of
mustard-seed, a quantity of cast iron, and a small quany of
earthenware, have been landed here from a vessel sunk itint Sea
Reach, supposed to be the Mary Ann.
QUEBEC, OCT. 4.—The Annandale, Anderson, from Dublin,
when beating up off Crane Island on Tuesday, was run into by
the brig Cousins, and received considerable damage.

EAST INDIA.
The Georgiana, from China, has arrived at Liverpool,
sailed on the 25th April, and from St. Helena on the 6th of
September.
Arrivals at the Cape—The Lord Hobart, from St. Helena,
and Robart, from Rio, on the 20th July.
Departures from the Cape—The Swallow, for Hobart-town,
and his Majesty's ship Isis, for St. Helena, on the 27th July ;
the Mary, for Swan River, on the 31st.
Arrivals at St. Helena—The Moira, from Canton and the
Cape, on the 27th of August, and sailed on the 28th for Hali-
fax ; the Mosambique, from whaling, on the 28th ; the Pa-
lambam, from Bombay and the Cape, on the 29th, and sailed
on the 30th for London ; the Lord Hobart, from the Cape, on
the 30th ; the Parsee, from Calcutta, on the Ist of Septem-
ber, and sailed on the 2d, for London ; the Fame, from New
South South Wales, on the 2d, and sailed on the 6th, for
London.
Departures from St. Helena—The Maria, for the Cape, on
the 26th August; the Coromandel, from London to Madras,
off the Cape.

VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE
CUSTOM-HOUSE, Nov. 3.
The Attwood, from Antwerp ; Ramona, from Rotterdam ;
Mersey, from Oporto ; Active, from Dunkirk ; Johannes, from
Memel ; Escape, from Dunkirk ; Louisa, from Malaga ;
Mentor, from Memel; Nautilus, from Quebec; Haabet, from
Gottenburgh ; Jonge Jacobs, from Ostend ; Helena, from
Memel ; Mauchita, from St. Petersburgh ; Naples packet,
from Naples ; Flora, from Sundswald; Gipsy, from Jersey ;
Kidleys, from Quebec ; Abraham, Flora, and Honitors packet,
from Guernsey; Mary, from Alexandretta ; Die Twe Sod-
skende, from Nykesburg ; Cousin, from Smyrna ; Albion,
from Leghorn ; Mary Eliza, from Havannah ; Percy, from
Honduras ; Goldfinch, from Oporto ; Friends, from Harlingen.
ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, Nov. 3.
The Posthumous, for Demerara; Andromeda, for Rio
'
Janeiro ; Trois Freres, for Brussels • Countess of Elgin, for
Bruges and Ghent ; William and Alfred, for Antigua ;
Meteor, for St. Mary's, River Gambia ; Harriott, for Sierra
Leone; Gazzalee, for Smyrna; Happy Return, for Antwerp;
Atalanta, for Terceira and Fayall ; Pearl, for St. Michael's ;
Lucy, for Malta and Alexandria ; London Merchant, for
Rotterdam.
CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO, Nov. 3.
The Tulloch Castle, for Jamaica ; Ann Mondell, for
Demerara ; Kingston, for Antigua ; Ann, for Jamaica ;
Alarm, for Smyrna; Sir Charles M'Carthy, for the Cape
of Good Hope; Herman the President, for New York; Eliza,
for Leghorn.
CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, Nov. 3.
The Petit St. Piere, for Gravelines ; Dorp Castmeer, for
Worcum ; Anegtte Kerstene, for the Baltic ; Rorbet Quayle,
for Brussels ; Charles Pines, fot St. Kitt's Vestal, for
Opoorto.

long experience, we think it would not be easy to find
men more competent to decide the question proposed
to them. And we think afso that if unblemished in-
tegrity, the absence of all prejudice—of all bias—of
all personal motives and consequences—give weight to
testimony, it must be no ordinary testimony that out-
weighs theirs. Yet they declare that they cannot
draw those distinctions between teas, which are neces-
sary to establish a scede of duties ; and that such scale
will lead to endless frauds and evasions. To the same
effect is the testimony of the principal tea-dealers and
tea brokers in London, as well as that of Sir George
Staunton, a Member of the Committee, who as Pre-
sident or Member of the Select Committee of the
British Factory at Canton, had for two years direct
charge of the tea investment for England, and who
has been officially connected with the Tea-Trade during
a great part of his life. _

be inflicted on the revenue, the public, and the Tea '
Trade ? Merely to support a theory, plausible enough,
it may be admitted, but totally inapplicable in the
present case. All commodities, it is said, ought to be
taxed according to their value ;—granted—what then?
Does it follow that the various qualities of the same
commodity must be taxed according to their value ?
Is there an idiot who can barely count ten upon his
fingers, who does not see the absurdity of such a
scheme ? But your thorough-going doctrinaire is the
greatest of all idiots. Mount him upon a principle and
he rides it to death—never can you convince him that
a theory may be quite unobjectionable, and yet quite
incapable of being reduced to practice. If any proof
of this were wanted, it is abundantly furnished in the
very act by which this notable scheme has been made
the law of the land, the sapient framer of which, in his
attempt to achieve impossibilities, has given as fine a
specimen of bungling as heart could wish. Dividing
his teas into three classes, he is still encumbered with
his own objection to a fixed duty, viz.—that articles
of different value are rated alike; for in each of his
classes there are some teas twice as valuable as others.
He fixes the lowest duty at ls. 6d. per lb., the second
at 2s. 2d., and the highest at 3s. ; and he puts the
highest duty on four or five sorts that belong to the
second class, and on one sort that actually belongs to
the lowest class—this, no doubt, is meant as a boon to
the poor. But if the different qualities of tea are to
be differently taxed, why should not other articles be
treated in the same way ? Is there any peculiarity in
tea that renders its various shades more distinguishable
than those of other commodities? Quite the reverse.
Or is it because tea is a thing of such insignificant