The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-09 00:00:00

The Royal Family were taken their accustomed walks
and rides yesterday.
Sir R. and Lady Sale and Sir W. Nott were preventel
from joining the ro jai circle at Windsor Castle, on
Thursday.
Lord F. Somers,A left Windsor Castle yesterday.
Capt. F. Seym)ur has returned to town from the
Continent.

NEW FRENCH CUSTOM-HOUSE

DUTIES•

The Moniteur of Thursday publishes three royal or-
donnances of a commercial character. The first, which
is dated the 2d instant, orders, in virtue of the provi•
sional and additional treaty of navigation and commerce
concluded with Denmark in February, 1842-Ist. That
the tonnage dues on Danish vessels arriving in French
ports shall be fixed at 2f. 10c. per ton, French admea-
surement, without addition of the decime established by
the law of May 25, 1799. 2d. That the duty shall be
only six centimes per ton when Danish vessels put into
French ports from stress of weather, or leave with the
same cargo ; when they enter merely to obtain informa-
tion, and carry on no commercial operation ; when they
leave French ports after having undergone damage at
sea, with or without lading. The same concession is
made in favour of post-office steamers, or steamers merely
for the conveyance of passengers and baggage. The
second ordonnance, which is dated the 3d, modifies as
follows the duties on certain articles of export and
import
IMPORTS.—Guaicum and cedar woods, imported in
French bottoms, from countries out of Europe ; wood
for cabinetmakers, from French Guyana and Senegal.
without distinction of quality, half the present rate of
duties ; wood of cail-cedar and sweet-smelling cedar, the
same duties as for cedar woods.

Threads and cloths of phormium
tenax, wild banana, called abaca
.44
.) •
and Indian hemp (jute) :
es
5'
p:11
Per 100 kilogrammes.

Threads without distinction of quality 60 80 80
Cloths and other rless than 8 threads 77 107 107
tissues mea- 18 threads 9O 126 126
suring more or j 9,10, and 11 threads 129 194 IP4
less (decou- above this tho same duty as on flax
verts dansres- ' and hemp.

pace 5 millim L
Complete Machines and Machinery worked by Stearn,
per 100 kilogrammes :—Stationary, 30f. ; for naviga-
tion, 451.; locomotives without tenders, 65f.; for spin-
ning hemp, 65f. ; for other spinning, 45f. ; for weaving
hemp and flax, 20f.; for other weaving, 20f.; cards not
mounted, for flax and hemp, 401. ; others, 301.; Tulle
looms, (systeme Jacquard), 80f. ; paper machines,
(continuous), 40f. ; printing machines for type, 401. ;
ditto, for cloths, 40f.
Machines and Machinery not worked by Steam : For
agriculture, and waggons fur transporting earth from
excavations, the body in wood and the wheels in iron,
25f. ; tenders, boilers, gasometers, distilling or evaporat-
ing apparatus for boiling syrups, or heating with steam,
and large caloriferes, if of iron, 45 ; copper, 60.
Machines or Machinery not named in the above : 100
kilogrammes or less, 801. per 100 kilogrammes ; 100 to
200 inclusively, 60 ; 200 to 1,000 inclusively, 50 ; 1,000
to 2,500 inclusively, 40 ; 2,500 to 5,000 inclusively, 30 ;
more than 5,000, 20.
DETACHED PORTIONS OF MACHINERY.—PIaques et
rubans de carde of all kinds peignes de tis.age, shuttles
of all kinds, 200 f. per 100 kilogrammes ; objects in cast
iron (heavy), 25 kilogrammes or less, 100 ; 25 kilo-
grammes to 100 inclusively, 70 ; 100 to 200, 60 ; 200 to
1,000, 50 ; I,COO to 2,500, 40 ; 2,500 to 5,000, 30 ; more
than 5,000, 20.
In wrought iron (heavy), 5 kilogrammes or less, 120 ;
5 kilogrammes exclusively to 25 inclusively, 110 ; 25 to
50, 100 ; above 50, 80 ; in copper or steel, 2001. fur 100
kilogrammes.
The declaration relative to machines and machinery
will be, after the payment of the duties, submitted to the
Committee of Arts and Manufactures for its control as to
the real nature of the object declared. Optical and
mathematical instruments are to pay 30 per cent. upon
the value fixed by the Committee of Arts and Manufac-
tures. Cylinders, plates, and engraved dies, 15 percent.
Essence de houille (this probably means naptha of coal,
but it may mean coal tar), 13f. 100 kilogrammes, or 101.
if imported in French bottoms. Huano or guano in
foreign bottoms, and by land, 2f. There are only two
modifications in the export duties, viz., capsules of ful
minating powder, 25c. per 100 kilogrammes, and resi-
duCTl of animal black, 2f.
The :hire ordormance di dares that machines and
machineries, complete or detached, can only be imported
IV the following: Ports :—Dunkirk, Lille, Valenciennet,
'ortach, Strasbourg; Saint Louis, Bellegarde, Toulon
Mars -illes' Cette, Borsleaux, Nantes, Brest, Rouen,
Havre, 1.),
uluCalais. The
';is
declaration at ?l e imCustom house, a Iporter must furniist
sh,
in support of
of all the objects 4 .`t< the different metals of which
' '
'id drawings do:N to scale, and pro-
perly coloured, showi. s‘,
A.O must also sign an un-
the machinery is compose... - toy supplementary duty
dertaking, and give bond to pa) fi an the report of the
that may be subsequently impose,.
Committee of Arts and Manufactures.

TAMNrVgIj
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VISIT OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE
OF PRUSSIA TO THE PIMLICO SLATE WORMS.—On
nesday last his Royal Highness and suite, accompai.
by his Grace the Duke of Wellington, honoured Mr.
Magnus by a visit to .his establishment, in Upper Bel
grave-place. The Prince was much pleased with the
various specimens in the show-rooms, and frequently
expressed his surprise at the apparently perfect trans-
mutation of simple slate into the most costly marbles
and precious stones. Among the articles which excited
the most attention, was a perfect imitation of lapis
lazuli, and an enamelled slate billiard table, similar to
one recently furnished by Mr. Magnus to his Grace the
Duke of Wellington, for his mansion at Strathfieldsaye,
and which is said to be the most beautiful and perfect
ever manufactured. His Royal .Highness and his Grace
subsequently examined the machinery for sawing, plan-
ing, moulding, and polishing slate, and also the enamell-
ing chambers, and left evidently much gratified with the
visit to this novel and very interesting establishment.
FATAL AND MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.-011 Monday
evening an accident of a most painful and melancholy
character occurred in the establishment of Messrs. Bea-
mish and Crawford, South Main-street, Cork. Mr.
Thomas Patterson, a carpenter, was engaged in repairing
some flooring on the mashing loft, when one of the joists
which he it seems had sawn nearly across, gave way,
precipitating him to the ground, a fall of about fifteen
feet. He was immediately taken up, but in almost a
lifeless state; besides the injuries his body had sustained,
the head was severely fractured. Mr. Alderman Roche
was in immediate attendance, and paid every attention to
the sufferer, accompanying him to the South Infirmary,
and subsequently to his own house, where he expired
about an hour or so after he arrived there.—Cork
Southern Reporter.

A daring burglary was committed in the dwelling-
house of Mr. C • ,rge Saltmarsh, of Moulsham, on Fr:day
morning last. The thieves forced open and entered the
ki.chen window, and stole from the cellar two loaves of
home-baked bread and about 4lbs. of salt pork from the
tub; they then ransacked the front dwelling-room, open-
ing a bureau by means of false keys or pick-lock keys,
pulling out all the drawers, from which they took two so-
vereigns, examined apparently all the papers and drawers
and scattered their contents on the floor, A pocket-book
also occupied their scrutiny, as, in their haste to exa-
mine its contents they pulled out the leaves, and
strew .d the memorandums about the house ; a tea, caddy-
standing upon the bureau was emptied, thrown on the
floor, and 6d. in silver, and four penny pieces were taken
therefrom. A cupboard in the same room was examined,
and the spoons turned over, but not being silver they
were left behind. They then unlocked the front door,
which they left wide open, and escare I with their booty.
Notwithstanding the vigilance of the police, not the least •
trace has been disc n•ered of these daring burglars.
They were heard of by one of the neighbours at the
bottom of the yard in the middle of the night, and one
of them said " Come on." It is supposed the thieves
must have been well acquainted with the premises, and
that they took their shoes off to prevent disturbing the
inmates.—Essex

THE MONTGOMERYSHIRE BOROUGHS. The Li-
beral party of Montgomeryshire are preparing with
more than customary activity and vigilance for the ap-
proaching regi-tration courts. We understand that ob-
jections have been made at their instance on all the
improper entries on the register of each of the adverse
contributories ' • and every available means will be taken
to purify the list of voters. The Conservative party
are also on the alert, and in one division of the borough
of Newtown sixty-eight objections have been made to
Liberal electors, and it is reported that in the parish of
Newtown a much greater number of notices have been
served on parties, but owing to some irregularity, no
official list has been publishd. The general unpopu
larity of the sitting Member, even in those of the con-
tributaries who are decidedly favourable to his politics,
renders it almost a matter of certainty that he would
not again be returned in the event of an election.—
Shrewsbury Chronicle.
FALMOUTII AND PENRYN FLOATING HARBOUR.—
The projected conversion of Penryn Creek into a float-
ing harbour has been, this day (Thursday), submitted
to, and unanimously approved by a large and highly re-
spectable meeting at Falmouth, Sir Charles Lemon,
Bart., M.P., presiding. Capt. Holland, the projector,
laid before the meeting a long and able statement of Ws
plans and estimates, and of the anticipated advantages
to be devised from the completion of the project ; the
whole of which was received with marked attention
and satisfaction. The first resolution, affirming the
propriety of undertaking the work, was moved by
E. W. W. Pendarves, Esq., M.P., and seconded by the
mayor of Falmouth, S. Brougham, Esq. It was csreed
unanimously, as were also the other resolutions for
taking immediate steps to ascertain the feasibility of the
measure, for the appointment of an engineer, and of a
provisional committee. A subscription towards the
expenses of the proposed preliminary measures was at
once opened, Sir Charles Lemon and Mr. Pendarves
giving 201. each.—West Briton.
THE EXCURSION TRIPS ON. TUE GREAT WESTERN
RAILWAY.--A writer inKeene's Bath Journal complains
that the Directors of the Great Western Railway have
allowed only one clear daeymtsoesuecsh of the citizens of Bath
as may wish to avail themselves
cheap run to London ;whereas. theyof the
facilities
of
a have allowed the
Londoner a week to enjoy the pleasures of the country.
The editor of the Journal, too, expresses hope,aefiewe that in
future the trips will be so timed as to
spection of the British Museum (now closed) andaon ithner-
public exhibitions ; and that Sunday will be " included
in the term allowed between going and returning,
in whichicase one day of such excursion will occasion no
loss of wages." We have no doubt that the Directors
and officers of the Company are anxious to give the
greatest possible amount of accomodation, and that they
will be glad to attend to any reasonable suggestions.—
Railway Record.