The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-20 00:00:00

DUTT ON TEA.

Various rumours having been circulated that it was
doubtful if the Government intended to reduce the duty
on tea from ls. 9d. to is. 3d. before April, 1858, and
the question 'being of great importance 'to the trade, an
inquiry has been addressed to the Board of Customs, to
which the following reply has been received :
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" Custom House, Nov. 17, 1856.
" Sir, I am directed by the Commissioners of her
Majesty's Customs to acquaint you, in reply to your ap-
plication of the 11th inst., that the reduction of duty on
tea from is. 9d. to ls. 3d. per lb., will take place on the
6th April, 1857.-1 am, sir, your obedient servant,

" W. MACLEAN.
"To S. Sampson, Esq., 18, Little Tower street."

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, Nov. 20.—Wind this day at noon, W.;
light airs and hazy.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 19.—Wind N.N.W. to W,N.W

—Sailed—Eastern Monarch, for Bombay ; H.M.S. Ra-
leigh, India; H.M.S.'s Vuloan, Mersey, and Covenanter,
the Cape of Good Hope.
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 19.—Wind N.—Arrived—Midlo-
thian, from Cardiff, for Callao, bore up to stop a leak.
FALMOUTH, Nov. 19.—Wind N.
GRIMSBY, Nov. 19.—Wind N.—Arrived—John T we-
zell, from Blyth, with loss of bowsprit, jib-boom, and
mach damage to bows and stem, having been run into
on the 17th inst., off Flamborough Head;by the ship Mo-
narch, of London.
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ABI/RYSTWITM, Nov. 19.—Wind W.— Arrived—Buttus,
from Quebec.
BRAUMARIN, Nov. 19.—Wind W.N. W.—Arrived—
Avon, from Quebec.
YARMOUTH, Nov. 19.—Arrived—George Rolfe, from St.
John's, N.B.

LYNN, Nov. 19.—The iron Collier Lydia foundered on
the Yorkshire coast, being leaky ; crew landed here.
CRONSTADT, Nov. 10.—The Margaret, hence to Hall,
got on shore near Krasnaga Kjorka on the 6th inst., and
is full of water; crew saved. The Andreas has been cut
through by the ice, and is leaky.
BREMEN, Nov. 15.—The Johanna, of this port, from
Iquique to Falmouth, in entering the River Plate was to•
tally lost off Cape Cerro, on the 26th Sept. ; crew saved
and landed at Monte Video.

(PER ELEOTRIO TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning

Wind N.E.

Arrived—Matilda Wattenbach, from Calcutta; Iverige,
River Congo ; Braganza, Oporto ; Glenalva, Bombay ;
Lady Ebrington, Arica.
Sailed—Herald of the Morning, for Melbourne.
The James Baines may be expected up to-morrow.
QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 18.
Wind W.N.W.
Arrived—Mary Ann, from Rabat; Village Girl, Alex-
andria.
Sailed—Native Lass, for Coast of Africa.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Thumiety, 9.58 a.m.

Wind W. ; tide threo hours' ebb ; cloudy.
Arrived, Nov. 20.--Olinda, from Cronstadt ; Waverley,
Colombo ; Essex, Boulogne ; Eliza Hanson, Malmo ;
' Eutalia Gravelines ; Richard, Helsinborg ; Dolphin, St.
Petersburg. _ _

Sailed, Nov. 20.—Ellen, for Jamaica ; Arabella, Hobart
Town ; Hohenzollern, Copenhagen.
DEAL, Thursday, 9.48 a.m.
Wind, N.W. by W. ; fresh, and hazy.
Anchored—Omar Pasha, from Sydney, London ; Ala -
crity, London, Cape of Good Hope.
Passed—Caringorm, from Anger, for London.

A HINT TO BROKERS.--The recent practices of Rob-
son and Redpath in the respective transfer departments
of the Crystal Palace Company and the Great Northern
Railway, as well as those of Carpentier and Grelet at
Paris, necessitate seme expression of opinion as to the
nature of the indirect facilities that seem to exiit for the
officers of public companies to gamble in stocks or sizeres
to any extent they may think proper. Usually the ini-
pression has been that if a broker in the Stock• Exchange
were to conduct speculative operations of magnitude on
behalf of persons known to occupy situations of trust
at a limited income it would be in opposition to all the
principles recognised by that establishment as essential
for the general security, but it is quite evident that
transactions must have been long carried on for Robson
and Redpath without such inquiries being made as the
nature of their position should have suggested. Not
the slightest fact has transpired to create an idea that
any persons with whom they had dealings in this way
have intentionally abetted them, but the reproach of
great laxity cannot be avoided. As a palliation it may
be urged that if the directors of the companies, who
must have been fully cognisant of the general habits of
their servants, did not think them such as to call for
explanation, it was hardly to be expected that other per-
sons should exercise extraordinary vigilance. It may
be hoped, however, that the experience now gained
will lead to more caution, and that the Committee of
the Stock Exchange will intimate that for the future any
similar instances of carelessness will be made a subject
of strict investigation.—Timm.
LOUGHREA—MALICIOUS °UTILISE AN) INCENDIARIqM,
Nov. 15.—0 n Thursday night last, or early yesterday
morning, one of the houses out of which the tenantry
were ejected on the above estate this time twelve months
was most wantonly and maliciously set on fire by some
person or persons as yet unknown ; and from the deter-
mination of the perpetrators to carry out their designs,
together with the solitude of the place, the entire
roof was consumed, and fell in between the walls of
the house, totally destroying the entire building. Previ-
ous to the eviction of the tenants last November this now
demolished house was in the possession of one John Quin
(there being two of that name), and was given by Mrs,
Blake to a man named Glenane, who, refusing to join in
the general work carried ou against her last year, had an
outrage committed on himself by having his haggard in-
jured and a shot fired into his window. This Glenane
occupied the house partly with his own, and was
just about to remove the remainder of his furniture
there, which the foregoing event prevents. A police
party from this town nightly patrol that road nearly
as far as the village of Kilreekle, when they meet the
Gurlymadden station of police also on duty. But it is
conjectured whoever committed the outrage watched the
favourable opportunity of the police being gone out of
view. Mrs. Blake, who yesterday evening had only
arrived from Dublin, sent this day a despatch into town
here to have the affair represented at the next special
sessions, to be held here on the 28th instant, but she
has been advised not to mind adopting such steps.
There is another feature in the affair which is but fair
to make mention of—that very few, if any, of the ejected
tenants are now upon the property, se that it would be
doubly desirous to discover, by reward, or otherwise,
who the parties are who are thus irritating a naturally
well-disposed woman against other important persons on
the estate, insulting the majesty of the law of the land,
and stigmatising the character of a hitherto peaceable
county.-Bounderis News Letter.