The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-03 00:00:00

BRAZILIAN TARIFF.

Although every packet from Rio de Janeiro brings
additional proofs that the Brazilians are preparing tO
retaliate upon our commerce fur our prohibition of
their produce, there are some persons infatuated
enough to entertain "no apprehensions that upon the
expiration of the commercial treaty with England
differential duties will be attempted, under any circum-
stances, to be levied." It is our painful duty to dispel
such a pleasing illusion. In fact, we cannot under-
stand the motives of those writers who are from time '
to time announcing these symptoms of the approaching
denouement, and, in the same sentence, assuring their
readers that they need have no fears that England
will lose her Brazilian trade, or that Brazil will treat
her differently from other nations.
The intelligence that the import duties at Rio de
Janeiro have been increased by the imposition of ~an
extra five per cent., raising them to twenty-one per
cent., upon the goods of all nations alike, has -been
confirmed. The old rate of twenty per cent. ad
valorem, was equally paid by British and foreign na-
tions. The Brazilian Government having been
forced, by fiscal necessities, to increase the revenue,
with a view, among other things, to maintain their
foreign credit, have not encountered any opposition
from the mixed commission of foreign and Brazilian
merchants, to whom the raising of the valuation of the
imports was delegated. ,Although, therefore, . the
proceeding is one whi,:h, had it been burdensome or
oppressive to English commerce, our Government
would have, perhaps, had a right to oppose, we
understand that it is not thought expedient to make
any remonstrances against it, because it is not worth
while to exasperate the Brazilians on the eve of the :
expiry of their treaty, and thus extinguish the smallest
hope of a renewal. - - -
But it is useless to speculate upon results whicliall.
Lancashire can foresee as well as ourselves, if those-
gotiations between France and Brazil should lead to a
treaty of the kind mentioned. Something ought to
have been done before now to bring Sir Robert Peel
and Senor Ribeiro to a friendly understanding. The
merchants of Liverpool have, apparently, thought
that their Brazilian trade was safe in the hands en-
trusted with its keeping. The end will prove whether •
they have been the enlightmed guardians of their own
interests, or the obstinate dupes of their Tory preju-
dices.—Liverpool Mercury.

EDDITCII.--, SUDDEN I)EATIL-011 Monday even-
ing last, an awfully suddon death occurred at 3lappleboroug4 .
Green, within a ti•w miles of I:edditch. Five prize tights
balk' place in the neighbourhood on that day, the combatant's
and many of the spectators afterwards went to a public-house
kept lid• Thomas Stoc•klev, who held the stakes. Stoekley,
who had ken very active in the pursuits of the day, sang a
song to the company assembled, anti got up from his seat to
pay over the stakes, but had scarcely done so, when he fell

INVII and expired. Ile had been subjeet to an internal disease

tier some considerable time past.-Worcester Chronicle.
TIIE WEATHER.—It has blown an almost conti-
roams gale here since Sabbath, accompanied at intervals with
shoWers of hail. The storm was particularly violent last
night ; and we tear much that the damage 'at sea will be
correspondingly great. The schooner William, from Bel-
fast, mentioned in our last as having run ashore at the back
of the south pier, has not yet been got off, and we are afraid
that from the high winds which have prevailed it will now
be inip,e,sible.—All Ohserrer.
A letter from Rome, in the. Gazette des Tribunaux,
relates the followino• tragical event, as having taken place a
short time ago in the most frequented part of the city, and
at a period when the streets are generally fullest. About
t;ntr o'idock, at which hour the heath tno»de of Rome are
flocking to their promenade in the gardens of the
Borghese, from the door jf a house adjoining the shop of
a chemist, at the angle of the Via Babuino and the Via
Condotti, a young woman staggered out, pale and
bleeding, with - a stiletto planted in her breast. _
She could not speak, but pointed with her finger ,to
the haft of the dagger. By the laws of Rome chemists
are interdicted, under penalty of tine and imprisonment, from
acting under any circumstances whatever as physicians or
surgeons, or even granting to a sick or wounded person a tem-
porary asylum. Consequently the chemist of the Via Babuino
refused admittance to the poor victim, desiring her to hasten
to the hospital. Her strength, however, was gone, and. she
would have fallen on the pavement, had not a compassionate
old man got a chair out of the shop, seated her in it, and held
her head on his shoulder. She was young and handsome,
and elegantly dressed, though in a style that showed she did
not belong to the higher orders of society. The crowd natu•
rally gathered around her,- and numerous observations were
made and conjectures formed. At last a man of high stature,
getting a sight of her over the head of the rest exclaimed,
" Ah, I told her what would happen, but she would follow
her own foolish will." This at once. explained the mystery.
This man was one of those bandits whom the pontifical po.
lice can never arrest, but who at last compromise with the

Government, by accepting a pension, and tjlinguishing their
predatory liYes. The dying woma►► was a girl of respectable
parentage, whom- when young he had carried off and made
his wife. In latter days .he had become indifferent and
brutal towards her, and she yielded to the seductions of a
young Neapolitan. She soon repented this.wrong step, and
determined to break with her inamorato. She went to her

husband, Whom she had •quitted with his own consent, and
told him of her resolution ; hitt he advised, her against carry-
ing it into eGct, warning her that she would regret it. She,'
however, told her paramour that all was at an end between
them. He showed no surprise, merely saying, " Good bye,
till we meet again." On the next day he did meet her in the
public street, and at once plunged his poignard into her
bosom. At length some police-ollicers came, and watched .
the corpse till ten at night, when a party of the fraternity .
of Penitents came with a bier, and carried it away, with
the poignard still unwithdrawn. The husband had long,
retired with his associates, the chemist took back his chair,•
and all was quiet. The assassin has as yet evaded the
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suit of justice.
SINGULAR CHICUMSTANCE.—As a patty of gentle-
men were out coursing a few days ago in this neighbour-
hood, with a couple of greyhounds, thee started a hare, and
after a very severe chase poor puss fella victim to her pur-
suers. Immediately afterwards another hare jumped up, and,
singular to relate, one of the dogs started after it, with the
dead hare in its mouth, apparently with the same eagerness
to make it also its victim ; but after running a considerable -
distance, the chase was given up to its companion, but the,
hare in this instance outran her pursuers.—pork Courant.
LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY COURT.--It is now de-
finitively determined that the changes which have been ru-
moured in the Liverpool and Manchester Courts will be car-
ried into effect.: The report, however, of Mr. Jenunett leav-
ing Manchester is unfounded. Some communications have
been going on between the Lord Chancellor and the two
Learned llentlemen who are about to change places ; and we
have to announce that in the ensuing week Mr. Sergeant
Ludlow will take his seat at the Liverpool Court, and Mr.,
Commissioner Skirrow supplying the Learned Sergeant's
place in Manchester. Some hostility to this arrangement has
been manifested by the Learned Profession in Manchester.—
Licopool Standard.
On Friday morning, after two days of boisterous
weather, a heavy fall of snow commenced in the metropolis,
which continued throughout the day. The ground is co-
vered with snow from four to five inches deep, and the ther-
mometer is very low. Winter has now come um earnest.
HOT BLAST CASE.—We understand that the pro-
ceedings in this long litigated case were finally settled on
Friday last by compromise—the Messrs. Ilaird, the last of
the parties with whom an arrangement had to be made with
the patentees, having agreed to pay 100,000/. for the use of
the patent, and a further sum of 6,000/., in name of expenses:,
We learn that had the original demand of the patentees,
viz., Is. per ton, been acceded to, and had uo attempt been
made to break the patent, the whole amount to be paid
would not have exceeded 7,000/. The other parties inte-
rested in the case bad, previously to the above arrangement,'
compromised for ss. a tom—Edinburgh Paper.
TRAFALGAR-SQUARE.—The contemplated imsrci%e-
ments in this square are, at length, likely to be brought to comple.
tion. The fountains were at first intended to have been supplied
with water from the public companies, but the terms required
were such that the Commissioners of Woods and Forests were in.
duced to seek other means for effecting that object at a cheaper
rate. In the course of last summer they applied to Messrs.
Easton and Amos, engineers, of the Grove, Southwark, on the
subject, and, after a careful survey; it appears these gentlemen re-
commended a mode for obtaining the necessary supply by means of
Artesian wells, and which supply they likewise suggested the
practicability of increasing to such a quantity as would be ample,
not only for the fountains, but for all the public offices in the vici-
nity, together with the new Houses of Parliament, and for watering
the roads when necessary ; at the same time they gave estimate*
for carrying the proposed works into operation. The eommls.
sioners, after most mature deliberation, determined upon adopting
these suggestions to their fullest extent, and havegiven orders to
have the works carried into execution forthwith. The water is
proposed to be raised by steam power into large iron reservoirs fixed
over the engine-house, which will be sufficiently elevated to give
the necessary pressure, so as to produce the effect desired by Mr.
Barry in his design for the square. The site selected for the pro.
posed works, and where they are nor in progress, is the stone.tard,
Orange.street, Leicester.square, at the back of the National
Gallery.
FUNERAL OF SIR FRANCIS AND LADY BURDETT.—
This mournful ceremony took place at Ramsbury, in Wiltshire.
on Wednesday last. The body of the deceased Baronet left town •
in a hearse, drawn by six horses, on Monday morning, and rested
the same night at Reading, proceeding on to Hungerford on Trice-
day, where it was joined on Wednesday morning by the different
members of deceased's family, and those few friends who were
permitted to pay the last tribute of respect to the memory of the
lamented Baronet by following his remains to the grave. The
cavalcade left Hungerford at ten o'clock on Wednesday morning,
the hearse containing the body of the late Baronet being drawn
by six horses, and followed by a mourning coach and four, con-
veying the chief mourner, Sir Robert Burdett (son of the de.
ceased); Captain Francis Burdett, and Sedley Burdett, Esq. (his
nephews). A mourning coach and four, containing Lord Dudley
Stuart, Otway Cave, Esq., and Viscount Sandon. Two other
mourning coaches, containing Sir Edmund Antrobus, Colonel.
North, the Rev. A. Meyrick, and other personal friends of this
deceased. The late Baronet's private carriage, drawn by four
horses, was succeeded by a long string of carriages belonging to the
gentry of the county. The procession reached Ramsbury at half
past twelve. While the mourners were alighting, the coffin con.
taining Lady Burdett's remains was brought from the vestry-.
room, where it had been temporarily deposited since the Widnes.
day previous, into the churchyard, and preceded that of Sir Franey
in funeral array, to meet the clergyman. The applications to a- •
teed the funeral had been so numerous, that the family decided oo
confining the invitations to their nearest connections and friends.
DRHADFUL ACCIDENT AT LIVERPOOL.—The wee-
tiler at Liverpool for the last few days has been most temptestu-
ous, and such as to render the navigation of the river to the Che-
shire slips not only inconvenient, but extremely dangerous. Oe
the arrival of the Woodside steamer on Wednesday morning,tm
gentleman in the Custom.house, of the name of Mackerel, being
eager to land, unfortunately jumped short of the pier, and trona
the oscillation of the steamer then moored to the side of it, he
stumbled, when his thigh was absolutely amputated, the severed
limb being retained only by a portion of the outer skin.
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P ARMAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, Fes. 2.

Their Lordships met this morning at half-past twelve
o'clock, and proceeded in procession to to the Palace to present
the address. Before leaving the House their Lordships ad-
j ourncd until Monday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS. Feb. 2.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'Clock.
Several petitions on private Rills were presented.
STATE TRIALS.

Mr. 'THORN ELY presented a petiiiun agreed to at a public
meeting in Liverpool, at which several thousand persons were
present, and signed by Mr. Rathbone, the Chairman, on the
subject of the State trials in Dublin. The petitioners complained
of the selection of the jury, horn which sixty-five names
had been withdrawn, as a dangerous invasion of the right
of trial by jury—( Hear, hear)—and of the challenge
on behalf of the Crown of every Roman Catholic,
as a practical repeal of the Catholic Emancipation
Bill. —( Hear, hear.) They moreover complained of it as an
affront to the whole Roman Catholic body, and they prayed the
&use to in‘titute an inquiry on the subject, and to adopt such
measures as would remedy the evil already inflicted, and pre-
vent the recurrence of such a serious evil in futuro.—(hear.)
Mr. PATTISON presented a petition from Thomas Clark',
of Lomfun, stating that he had been confined in the Queens
Bench Prison for seventeen years, and Fraying for an alteration
in the law with regard to imprisonment for debt.
ANIMALS' FRIEND SOCIETY.
Mr. STUART WORTLEY presented a petition from the
Animals' Protection Society, praying the House to adopt some
measures for the better regulation of the slaughter-heuses of
the metropolis.