The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-23 00:00:00

"'MEMORANDUM D.

a In response to the memorandum of the Hon. Mr. Galt
and his associates, the Hon. Mr. Smith, the Hon. Mr. Henry,
and the Hon. Mr. Howland, the- Committee of Ways and
Means, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury,
are prepared to recommend to the House of Representatives
for their adoption a law providing for the continuance of
some of the measures included in the Reciprocity Treaty,
soon to expire—viz., for the use and privileges as enjoyed
now under said treaty in the waters of Lake Michigan, pro-
vided the same rights and privileges are conceded to the
citizens of the United States by Canada in the waters of the
St. Lawrence and its canals as are enjoyed by British sub-
jects, without discrimination as to tolls and charging rates
proportioned to canal distance ; also for the free transit of
goods, wares, and merchandise in bonds, under proper regu-
lations, by railroad across the territory of the United States
to and from Portland and the Canada line ; provided equal
privileges shall be conceded to the United States from
Winisor or Port Sarnia, or other western points of depar-
ture to Buffalo or Ogdensburg, or any otherpoints eastward,
and that the free ports established in the provinces shall be
abolished; also that the bounties now given to American
fishermen shall be repealed, and duties not higher imposed
on fish than those mentioned in schedule A, providing that
all the right of fishing near the shores existing under the
treaty heretofore mentioned shall ba granted and conceded
by the United States to the provinces, and by the provinces
to the United States. It is also further proposal that the
following list of articles shall be mutually free—viz.; Burr
millstones, unwrought, cotton and linen rags, fire-wood,
grindstones, rough or unfinished, gypsum, or plaster un-
vaund. Schedule A. - $1 50e. per
barrel; herring, pickled or salted, $1 per barrel; salmon,
$2 50c. per barrel ; shad, $2 per barrel ; all other fish,
pickled, $1 50c. per barrel, provided that any fish in
Packages other than barrels shall pay in proportion to the
rates charged upon similar fish in barrels. All other fish,
ie. per lb. As to the duties which will be proposed upon
the other articles included in the treaty, the following are
submitted, viz :—Animals, living, of all sorts, 20 per cent.
ad valorem; apples and garden ft uit and vegetables, 10 per
cent. ad valorem ; barley, 15c. per bushel ; beans, except
vanilla and castor oil, 30c. per bushel ; beef, lc. per lb. ;
buckwheat, 17e. per bushel ; butter, 4c. per lb.; cheese, 4e
per lb„; corn, Indian, and oats, 10e. - per bushel ; corn-
meal, Lahan, and oatmeal, 15c. per bushel ; coal, bitu-
minous, 50c. per ton ; all other coal, 25e. per ton ; ileur,
23 per cent. ad valorem;, barns, 2e.. per lb.; hay, $1
per ton ; hides, 10 per cant. ad valorem; lard, 3c. per lb. ;
lumber, pine, round or log, $1 50c. par 1,000 feet; ping,
sawed or hewn, $2 50c. per 1,000 ft.; planed, tongued,
and grooved, or finished, 25 per cent. ad valorem; spruce
and hemlock, sawed or hewn, $1 par I,oooft. ; spruce,
planed, finished, or partly finished, 25 per cent. ad valorem;
shingle, bolts, 10 per cent. ad valorem; shingles, 20 per
cent. ad valorem.; all other lumber of black walnut, chest-
nut base, white wood, ash, oak, round, hewed or sawed, 20
per cent. ad valorem; if planed, tongued, or grooved, or
finished, 25 per cent. ad valorem; ores, 10 per cent. ad
valorem; peas, 25c. per bushel ; pork, le. per lb. ; potatoes,
IO per bushel ; seed, timothy and clover, 20 per cent. ad
vp": rcon ; trees, plant and sh:-u'o, ornamental and fruit, 15
buceutt. ad raloreln tallow, 2c. per
.lb.; wheat, 20e. per

u' MEMORANDUM C.

In reference to
it , i -.- " ' Washington, Feb. 6:
the memorandum received from the
Committee of Nn s
regret to bo obligeTitonna Means the provincial delegates
not so
state that the proposals therein con-
tained in regard to
not
soechornmercial relations between the
two countries is
.they can recommend for the
adoption of the respective laes
gtishxtures. The imposts which
it is proposed to lay upon
entry
into
00 productions of the British
Provinces on their
opinion
markets of the United
seriously
uuwill be in some cases
States are such as in their
mposstsly.interfero with the
prohibitory, and will certainly
t,
ran
are so much beyond
Da and course of trade. These i
qutivhaelent for the
what the delegates conceive to
committee
reluc-
internal taxation of the United States that
tautly brought to the conclusion that the
longer desire the
.trade between the two countries to "
carried on upon the principles of reciprocity. withotteo
COICICUITNICO of the British Minister at Washington, they
peetfully to decline to enter into
are therefore caiged res
the engagement soggosted iu the memorandum ; but tiro
present views of the United States may soon be so modified
as to permit of the interelnlnfm of the productions of the
two countries upon a more liberal i.,:isis.' "

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STRIKE OF MARoNs.—On Monday morning the
Durham masons turned out on strike for a rise of wages
born 28s. to 30s. per week, and shorter hours of labour,
and three months hence for a half-holiday on Saturdays.
MARYLEBONE INSTITUTE AND CLUB.—On Mon-
•
day last, Feb. 19, a lecture was delivered by Mr.
Uiiarivs John Brett, entitled "Au Evening with Tom
Ileca:2' It consisted of a critical dissertation upon the
life tqld writings of the poet, illustrated by a varied and
ean.tertaining selection from his works, and the object of
4eoco;:eu:e was to render apparent the wonderful versatility
'f
2 i
genius, while claiming for him a much higher
position in the poetic ranks than has been generally
deemed Lis due. The attendance was‘ good, and the
lecture was received with marked
applause