The Sun.
London, England, 1833-02-15 00:00:00

TARIFF OF DUTIES AT FLUSHING.

Potashes, per 500 kilogrammes, 15c.; tin, per 600 plates,
20e.; manufactures, 1 florin per 120 fl. of the value ; cocoa,
do. ; camphor, do. ; cotton, per 50 kil., sc. ; coffee, do. ;
currants, do. ; cochineal, do., 10e. ; curcuma (Java), 1 fl
per 120 fi. of the value; fruits, do; window glass, per crate,
sc. ; corn, per last, 15c. ; hemp, per ship hound, 74c. ;
horn, per 100, Sc.; dry hides, per 100, 50e.: indigo,
per 50 kil., 10e. ; lead, per do., 2c. ; moiler, per do.,
5e.; olive oil, per aum, sc. ; rice, per 50 kil., 21c. ;
raisins, per 50 kil., sc. ; linseed, per 24 barrels, sc. ;
co za, per last, 45e. ; hempseed, per last, 373-e. ; pepper,
per 50 kil., 10c. ; spices, per 1205. of the value of If. ;
raw sugar, per 50 kil.. 2ac. ; refined sugar, per 50 kil.,
se. ; tobacco, per 1205. of the value of Ifl. ; tea, per 50
kil., sc. ; pewter, do. ; pitch and tar, per ldst, 15e.;
wine, per barrel (four to a ton), 10c.; Rhenish wine,
do., 20c. ; brandy, per do., 20c. ; rum, per do., 45c.
It was thought at Flushing that the duty would be
levied on the Sth, and that the formalities woul.l be
very embarrassing. It seems that an officer of thy navy
will accompany the custom-house officer, and will have
the superintendence of every thing. It is eves said, that
the passengers %%ill not be allowed to proceed with the
ship. It is further stated, that a single ship *ill not be
allowed to go up the Scheldt, but that it will have to wait
till two, three, or four arrive, which will be convoyed up
the river to L►lle, by a gun-boat. The same will be ob-
served for those that came down the river; the convey-
ance of ammunition is forbidden.

On the Bth, there were at Flushing two ships bound to
Antwerp. It was not known when the mail left, whe-
ther they had been visited and obliged to pay the duty. The
arrival of these two vessels, which has probably been delayed
by the rough weather of yesterday, is impatiently expected ;
they will put an end to all uncertainty respecting a piece
of intelligence which, notwithstandig the positive infor-
mation that we have received, is still doubted here. W
tremble to see it confirmed; the revival of the duty of
1814 being considered as a most fatal blow for one port,
not so much on account of the amount of the duty as of
the embarrassing formalities which precede and accompany
the levying of it, and because this duty, moderate as it is,
being allowed, would establish a precedent that might
in the sequel be attended with many disastrous 'conse-
quences.—Journal du Commerce of Antwerp, Feb. 12.
ANTWERP, FEB. 12.—The two ships expected from
Flushing hail not arrived at one o'clock, but the latest
accounts we have received leave no doubt of the existence
of the measure so fatal to our commerce, which Holland
has just taken. This measure is the closing of the
Scheldt. It was yesterday mentioned to the Government
in the Chamber, and what did the Government answer ?
It answered, first, that it knew nothing of the matter :
that as for the conduct it would observe, if the fact were
so, it did not know much more. That the liberty of the
Scheldt was indeed a condition to which the raising of the
blockade of Maestricht was subordinate, and that it might
justly make reprisals by blockading that place again, but that
it would not do so, because this would be a rash step ; but
that if Holland pushed it to extremity, it might resolve
to proceed against the hand of Tornaco par contumace.—
Journal du Commerce of Antwerp, Feb. 13.
VIENNA, FEB. per Cent., 90; Bank Stock,
1186.

The Constantinople wail of Jan. 11, brings no news
Allgenic4ne Zeitung, Feb. 7.

The Old Bailey GccsiOns commenced yester-
day, before Mr. Baron BAYLEY, Mr. Justice PATTESON,
the LORD MAYOR, the RECORDER, and the other City
Authorities. A few trials for petty larcvn-y took place,
but none of any public interest.

CHOLERA IN IRELAND.—The following
shows the state of this disease in Ireland fer the wet k
ending Bth February ;—New cases, 536 ; deaths, 305 ;
recoveries, 196. The deaths now far exceed the re-
coveries, which has notlatterly been the case. The place-
at which the disease most prevails are Tralee, Kilnagariff,
C.,atlepollard, Killoughter, Kilkenny, and Herbertstown.
XAVIER CHAUBERT, the celebrated Fire
King, who caused a little " sensstion" in London about
three years since by his poison and boiling-oil swallowing
feats, has recently opened a druggist's shop in New York.

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STANDARD NuVELS'.
LONDOX, 18S g.'

• -The present number of thiS attractive work
contains the entire of Madame De Stael's
" Corinne," translated—and very well trans-
lated too—by Miss Isabel HI, with the. excep-
tion of its poetical passages, which Miss Landon
has taken under her own special superintendence.
It has also the advantage of two clever embellish-
ments, one of which represents Corinne impro-
vising among ruins in the vicinity of Naples, It
would -be superfluous to speak in praiSe of a
book which all the world has agreed to. admire.
We shall content ourselves with saying that it is
one of those rare productions of genius, which,
the " Anastasius," when once read, are never
forgotten.

WALKS THROUGH _LONDON.
_LONDON, 1833.

To country cousins—those good-humoured
annoyances—whom the majority of Londoners
always love best at arm's length—this book will
he a very acceptable present. It will enable
them to dispense with a Ciceroni—a point of
great moment to their town kinsfolk. The de-
tails of the various public buildings, exhibitions,
amusements, &c., are full and correct. Indeed
very considerable labour has been expended on
every part of the volume.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF POLITICAL ECO-

HOMY.—No. NHL THE CHARMED SEA.

Either we have not been successful in our en-
deavours to penetrate through the allegorical veil
in which Miss Martineau envelopes her illustra-
tions of political economy, or the present number
is one of the least able of the series. The inten-
tion of the authoress is to exhibit the progress of
society from a state of barter to the use of money,
and in her summary at the end of the volume
the principles she lays down are perfectly sound,
but in the course of the tale turns are occasion-
ally given to the arguments which induced us to
believe that the object in view was to persuade
the world that it was a good thing to intrust the
regulation of the circulating medium to some
one body, such as the Government or the Bank
of England, upon whose honesty reliance could
be placed. We particularly allude to the 7th
chapter. We trust that we have fallen into a
mistake, for we should be loth to find so mis-
chievous a proposition supported by a writer
to whose principles we have hitherto been happy
to accord almost unqualified praise. The lighter
parts of the story, the sugar which is mixed up
with the wholesome, though, to unaccustomed
tastes, less palatable medicine, which it is the
main object of Miss Martineau to induce the
novices in political economy to swallow, is, as
usual, excellent. We extract a description of a
party being lost in a snow-storm in the deserts
of Siberia

"The clouds hung so low that they seemed to rest on the
tops of. the stunted firs; and they slowly rolled and
tumbled, as if they were about to enwreatb and carry up
those who were moving beneath them. It was time now,
Paul perceived, to cease his grumbling, as something more
important was on hand than the chase of a black fox.
On issuing from a wood, a blinding, suffocating mass of
snow was driven in their faces, and compelled them all to
turn their backs if they wished to breathe. Not the More
for this would Emilia allow them one moment's pause ;
and perceiving that the lame Taddeus, whit had, long had
some difficulty in proceeding in the usual manner, was
utterly unable to walk backwards, she snatched his hand-
kerchief from his neck, hung it over his face like a veil,
seized both his bands, and pulled him on thus blind-folded.
" ' Surely,' said Taddeus, we had better climb a:tree,
and wait till the drift is past.'
" ' Aye, and have our feet frozen off, to say nothing of
noses and eats,' replied Paul. ' And supposing we lived
till morning, how are we to get home through snow three
yards deep, maybe, and not frozen to walking consistence?
No, no ; our only chance, if we have one, is in getting on
as far as the rocks, at any rate. But God knows I can't
keep this up long.'
" Paul had more to say ; for the last thing he ever
thought of was leaving off talking ; but his companion
could no longer hear him. The snow, falling noiselessly
as the light, yet stifled all sounds, and the last words of
Paul's which were heard, came like murmurs from under
a pillow. When these had ceased for some little time,
Taddeus addressed him, and got no answer. Growing
uneasy, he put out his hand to feel for hint. Paul was
certainly not within some yards. Uttering now her first
exclamation of fear, Emilia sptang back upon her foot-
steps, motioning to Tztdd. us not to stir, and in tteo mi-
nutes returned with her husband, who had tripped and
fallen, and been half buried in snow before he could recover
himself. In order that this might not happen again, his
wife slipped her girdle, and tied it round his arm, hold-
ing the other end herself, and dragging on their lame
friend as before.

" This will never do,' said Taddeus, resolutely stop.
ping short. ' You two will be lo•t by lagging with me.
I shall go back to the wood, and fare as I best may till
the storm is over ; and God speed you!'
" Paul answered only by pushing him vigorously on,
setting his back against Taddeues, so that the breadth of
only one person was opposed to the drift, and one made a
path for all. This was an amendment ; but Taddeus was
still convinced that the two would get on better without
him, and again he stiffened himself against being driven
forward.

" lam going back,' said he, very distinctly. If the
plain is passable in the morning. you will come and look
for me. if not, never mind. You know I cannot be
sorry to get quit so easily of such a life as mine.'
" Paul growled impatiently ; but, for once, Taddeus
was too nimble for them. He had played them the slip,
,ind they groped after him for some minutes in vain.
" It does not much matter,' mo,tered Paul to himself.
' It is only being found a few feet further from one an.
other eight months hence, when the snow melts. Emilia
and I will stay together, however ; we Will keep one an-
other warm as long as we can. 'Ti. not so very cpld
now, though, to my feeling, as it was; and yet I can
scarcely tell whether Emilia grasps me or not. 'Tis the
sleepiness that is so odd. One might choose a better
time for going to sleep, though there is a big, soft, feather-
bed about us. But I don't believe I can keep awake
two minutes longer. Holloa ! there ! What's that ?
Why ! is this Poland again ? Aye, home : yes, yes.
Why, mother, you have seen the faint before, and
you did not scream so then. But it is so dark.
Bring lights. Have you no lights? Eh, what? I can't
hear you. My ears ;—hotv they ring ? Lights, I say !
Eh ? Good-night, mother. I'm sleepy. I—l can't.-...
good-night.'
" And Paul ceased his muttering, having sunk down in
the snow some moments before."

INTIMIDATION.—LandIords and their agents
have driven whole' streets of their tenantry to the poll,
like droves of cattle to the market. In one town the
landlord openly avowed his intention of thus forcing the
return. In another, after the election was over, the oc-
cupiers of a Peer's houses, who had dared to obey the King's
writ, and choose two Burges,es to represent them, were
-served, to the number of some threescore, with notices to
quit, by way of revenge, or at least of punishment, to
eter others from offending in that behalf. In a third
place, the landlord had actually, with a view to the elec,
nun, token the precaution of making his yearly tenant.,
on pain of notice to quit, give up their holdings, and be-
come weekly tenants, so that they might, 011 the first die.
obedience, be turned into the streets, within seven days at
farthest, nay, possibly within as many hours ; for he had.
only to follow up this pi oceeding (to, which we cannot
ldefi,tethhaerglei.iiioth with the con- • •
find any adequate name), with another not one whit worse,
and give the week's notice se as to expire on the day of
the poll; and then the voter who exercised his right •
his duty to his
ct'acogivaniunt4isytm,ait'aii iftcdilthidueln:edrotni"nh.taiysviloensis lee ping with his tautly iu the
street that very night its December..—Edinburgh