The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-21 00:00:00

NEW BELGIAN TARIFF.

(From the Correspondent of the Journal des Debars.)
" BRUSSILS, OCT. 14.—1 send you the resolutions
come to here a few days ago, by which several modifica-
tions are to be made in the tariff of the customs of this
country. It will not appear in the Moniteur Belge till
to-morrow. With respect to all articles which can in
any way interest the trade of France, an exception is
made in favour of that country. England alone will be
the sufferer. Printed cottons which pay 211 francs per
100 kil., are henceforth to pay 325 francs. The duties
on bleached, coloured, or printed silks, which were for-
merly at the rate of 4 francs per kilometre, have been
raised to 10 francs. With regard to France, the present
duties ore maintained on cotton cloths during a year,
and on silks during the period yet to run of the conven-
tion of 16th of July. There is no doubt that the effect
of these differential duties will be to substitute the cotton
manufactures of Rouen and Mulhausen in Belgium for
those of Manchester. Belgian industry has suffered
from the royal ordinance which recently raised the duties
on machinery on its entry into France. People cannot
conceive here why, at the moment that France was
ringing with the praises of the machinery exhibited
at the Exposition, a duty should be laid upon fo-
reign machinery, which is tantamount to a prohibition,
for the new duty, instead of being twenty-two per
cent. as is pretended, is in fact forty per cent. The evi-
dent intention of the Belgian Government is to do away
with all causes of jealousy or discontent on the part of
France. If it limits the duration of the exemption in
favour of France, it is principally in order to put the
French Government and the Chambers in a position to
come to an arrangement of as broad and durable a nature
as possible. Whatever may be said to the contrary, the
feelings of the great majority of the people of Belgium
are in favour of France."
" LEOPOLD, KING OF THE BELGIANS, TO ALL WHOM IT

MAY CONCERN, GREETING.
" On the report of our Minister of the Interior and of
Finances, we have resolved, and we hereby resolve, that
the tariff of duties on entry be modified as follows :
" Machinery.—French steam engines, 15f. per 100
kilog. ; steam-engines for navigation, 25f. ditto ; locomo-
tives, without tender, 35f. ditto ; all kinds of machines
and mechanism, not specially denominated, 25f. ditto ;
cards for combing, 75f. ditto ; tenders, boilers, gasome
ters, &c., in iron or cast iron, 20E, in copper or any other
metal, 40f. ditto ; detached pieces in cast iron, 15E, in
malleable iron, 20E, in copper and other materials, 40f.
ditto ; machinery in wood, at the rate of other wooden
works. _

" Chemical Productions.—Alum, 4f. per 100 kilog. ;
soda, &c., 61. ditto ; sal ammoniac, 20f. ditto.
'Tissues of Cotton.—Unbleached or bleached, the pre-
sent duty ; dyed or printed, 325 E per 100 kilog.
" Tissues of Silk (excepting Ribbons, which continue
at the present duty).—Unbleached or half-bleached, the
present duty ; bleached, dyed, or printed, 10f. per kilog.
" Tulles and Lace.—Cotton tulle, unbleached, as at
present ; bleached, dressed, or coloured, 181. per kilog. ;
worked, 121.

" SPECIAL DISPOSITIONS.

W " The metal cases in which /tin shall be imported are
subject, according to the metal, to a different duty from
the goods.
" Engines and machinery may be imported by sea, by
the Maese, and by the Custom-house offices attached to
the state railroads.

" The duties on machines or part machines are com-
puted on the net weight.
" The declaration must establish, indepently of the
nature of the machines and the general weight, the pieces
of which it consists.

" There shall be produced in support of that dQclara-