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

BRAZILIAN TARIFF.

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Although every packet from Rio de Janeiro brings
additional proofs that the Brazilians are preparing
retaliate upon our commerce for our prohibition oi
their produce, there are some persons infatuate:
enough to entertain "no apprehensions that upon thA
expiration of the commercial treaty with Engle'''.
differential duties will be attempted, under any circusu;
stances, to be levied." It is our painful duty to disP
such a pleasing illusion. In fact, we cannot under;
stand the motives of those writers who are from tinl„
to time announcing these symptoms of the approach
denouement, and, in the same sentence, assuring thel
readers that they need have no fears that Engle° t
will lose her Brazilian trade, or that Brazil will tree
her differently from other nations.
The intelligence that the import duties at Rio cis
Janeiro have been increased by the imposition of siai,
extra five per cent., raising them to twenty-one Pe;
cent., upon the goods of all nations alike, has bee/
confirmed. The old rate of twenty per cent. ad
valorem, was equally paid by British and foreign I;
tions. The Brazilian Government having bees
forced, by fiscal necessities, to increase the revenue',
with a view, among other things, to maintain the"
foreign credit, have not encountered any opposition
from the mixed commission of foreign and Brazilie°,
merchants, to whom the raising of the valuation of the
imports imports was delegated. Although, therefore, wr
proceeding is one whia, had it been burdensome °f
oppressive to English commerce, our Governine.°t
would have, perhaps, had a right to oppose,
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understand that it is not thought expedient to make
any remonstrances against it, because it is not Wow
while to exasperate the Brazilians on the eve of the
expiry of their treaty, and thus extinguish the smell°t
hope of a renewal.
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But it is useless to speculate,,upon results which
Lancashire can foresee as well as ourselves if the Def.
gotiations between France and Brazil should lead t!)P0
treaty of the kind mentioned. Something ought II
have been done before now to bring Sir Robert Pee
and Senor Ribeiro to a friendly understanding. The
merchants of Liverpool have, apparently, thought
that their Brazilian trade was safe in the hands on:
trusted with its keeping. The end will prove whethe`
they havebeen the enlightened guardians of their or
interests, or the obstinate dupes of their Tory Prer
dices.—Liverpool Mercury.
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cord and Lady Chichester arrived in London r
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yesterday by the General Steam Navigation Comparm
packet Columbine, Captain W. Norwood, from Rotterdam.
REDDITCII.— SUDDEN DEATH.—On Monday eve h
ing last, an awfully sudden death occurred at Mapplebnroilt
Green, within a f.w miles of Reddltcli. Five prize fighv.
took place in the neighbourhood on that day, the combatant'
a,d many of the spectators afterwards went to a public-h. ,01154:
kept by Thomas Stockley, who held the stakes. Stockley
• who had been very active in the pursuits of the day, saurto
song to the company assembled, and got up from his seat
tea
pay over the stakes, but had scarcely done so, wb en he
down and expired. He had been subject to an internal dises.-
for some considerable time past.— Worcester Chronicle.
THE WEATHER.—It has blown an almost con7ll
nuous gale here since Sabbath, accompanied at intervals tgt
showers of hail. The storm was particularly violent,r;i
night; we fear much that the damage at sea will
correspondingly great. The schooner William, from BePi,
fast, mentioned in our last as having run ashore at the ha
of the south pier, has not yet been got off, and we area afra,
that from the high winds which have prevailed it will 1343
be impossible.—Ayr Observer.
A letter from Rome, in the Gazette de,- Tribunaut
relates the following tragical ev int, as baying taken Placta
short time ago in the most frequented part of the city, a-ut
at a period when the streets are generally fullest. .Abe
four o'clock, at which hour the beau monde of Rorne 90
,ja
flocking to their promenade in the gardens of tk.e "i
of
Borghese, from the door of a house adjoining the sh°Pvis
a chemist, at the angle of the Via Babuino and. the
Condotti, a young woman staggered out, pale an
a
st,
bleeding, with a stiletto planted in her bree to
She could not speak, but pointed with her lingerie"
the haft of the dagger. By the laws of Rome chew's
are interdicted, under penalty of fine and imprisonni eatt fro
acting under any circumstances whatever as phyi,iciauSor
surgeons, or even granting to a sick or wounded person a cOO
Babul
porary asylum. Consequently the chemist of the Via' ~„,tee
refused admittance to the poor victim, desiring her to ..n.he
to the hospital. Her strength, however, was gene, and
would have fallen on the pavement, had not a compassle-o.
old man got a chair out of the shop, seated her in it, onLate,
her head on his shoulder. She was young and haria-ia
and elegantly dressed, though in a style that showed she
not belong to the higher orders of society. The crowd ti4tae
we
rally gathered around her, and numerous observations ly o
made and conjectures formed. At last a man of high stay'r r
getting a sight of her over the head of the rest exclfjTeve
Ab, told her what would happen, but she woule, a
her own foolish will." This at once explained the ~ny'steli.
This man was one of those bandits whom the poirtifiet rte
lice can never arrest, but who at last comprornis• a with;
Government, by accepting a pension, and relinglitsbing rhea
depredatory lives. The dying woman was a girl of respects
parentage, whom when young he had carried, off and ta..,,'"d
his wife. In latter days he had become indif:erent
brutal towards her, and she yielded to the seductions of
young Neapolitan. She soon repented this wron her
g step,
determined to break with her inamorato. She vent t°
husband, whom she had quitted with his own and
told him of her resolution ; but he advised her against eag, ing it into effect, warning her that she would regret, ',..-„,ween
however, told her paramour that all was at an. eny-,,,,„—d bye,
them. He showed no surprise, merely saying-•, “L
-I—in the
till we meet again." On the next day he did wed
Per to her
public street, and at once plunged his po',gnar-
tched
bosom. At length some police-officers came, an- "mil
the corpse till ten at night, when a party of the free
of Penitents came with a bier, and carried it away,
had. long
the poignard still unwithdraa-n. The husband
retired with his associates, the chemist took back his chair,
and all was quiet. The assassin has as yet evaded the pa-
suit of justice. consent,
SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—As a party of gentle'
men were out coursing a few days ago in this neighbour,
hood, with a couple of greyhounds, they started a hare, and
after a very severe chase poor puss fell a victim to her put;
suers. Immediately afterwards another hare jumped up, aril;
singular to relate, one of the dogs started after it, with d'
dead dead hare in its mouth, apparently with the same eager abyt
to make it also its victim ; but after running a considirithe
distance, the chase was given up to its companion, br A
hare in this instance outran her pursuers.—York Cioumsot'de,
LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY COURT.—It IS TAW tti.
finitively, determined that the changes which have bet 300 r
moured in the Liverpool and Manchester Courts will t eas"
ried into effect. The report, however, of Mr. Jemmett Lave
ing Manchester is unfounded. Some communicelioni do
been going on between the Lord Chancellor and 'tided Ire
Learned Gentlemen who are about to change -places • .81100
have to announce that in the ensuing week Mr.Se ,
Ludlow will take his seat at the Liverpool Court, an "aot'S
Commissioner Skirrow supplying the Learned Serg has
place in Manchester. Some hostility to this arrangem
been manifested by the Learned Profession in Blanches,
Liverpool Standard.
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EXTAoRDINARY REVERSE.—An attorney Wye'
the other day to have his name struck off the rolls, in 410 f
iy
to enable him to practise the very opposite profession...lied_
philanthropist. The case was so new, that the books afi ra
no precedent to guide the judge, who observed, that ",„
lawyer was never yet known to have a turn for philantlii,7;rlOr
there would be some difficulty in striking him off the rolthe-
such a very strange purpose." It is to be hoped that,
..at-
violence of the shock caused by the extreme suddennts_vof
the change will not prove too much for the constitutP,P,,
the individual alluded to. Upon inquiry at his resid=e
the answer to inquiries was, that he was going on as r`
as could be expected."—punch.
THE DONKEY DOCTOR AND HIS FEE.—A reap ltt
tbe
donkey, in the town of in this county, lately acted.
part of a physician, and in return for services performer- iof
ceived his fee. The facts are as follow :—Three
tender age, in one family, have for some time past 7,7.5
afflicted with the hooping cough ; and parental anxiety :(1
manifested for their cure. Amongst other remedies propc,r
they were recommended to be passed under the belly ecAte
real donkey, which was accordingly performed with due e
—the patient animal not exhibiting on this
restiveness at the use made of his person.
The
enefit, soi no
(not demanded) was bread and butter—the occasion
lesiongiav
u a valuable
ewnoeueldidhe.avelfitiabedlitnegeelteeethaeeulrrieshemhaenul'sdrbeceip7bciL—ceaT,
us hope that we may be induced to treat such
'l2 more respect
member of the brute creation as the ass, with . the
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than it has been his lot for many ages
hands of his less knowing relative of another
humanity may triumph where its opposite has held swaY.--
West Briton. t o
srheacpe v;eand
that