The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-18 00:00:00

NEW BRAZILIAN TARIFF.
The packet Linnet, Lieutenant Douglas, arrived at
Falmouth yesterday morning, from the Brazils. Her
dates are from Rio Janeiro, Aug. 25; Bahia, Sept. 5;
PernambuCo, Sept. 15. On freight 15,0001., more
or less, although it has been estimated at Is,ooo/., in
gold and diamonds. Passengers Viscount and
Viscountess d'Abrantes, and two servants ; Senor
Macedo and Miss Macedo ; Mr. Habbe, Russian
Charge d'Affaires; Mr. Falconer, Mr. Eggers, Mr.
Lambert, and Mr. Holloway. The two former gen-
tlemen are deputed to confer with the British Govern-
ment in relation to the expiring treaty; the Viscount
having full powers as Minister Plenipotentiary and
Ambassador Extraordinary, and the Senor is ap-
pointed as his secretary.

By decree dated 12thinst. (August), the per centage
of duties to be enforced from and after 11th November,
on imports cleared for consumption, is declared to be as
follows : SIXTY PER CENT.

Every description of manufactured :and; unrnanufac
tured tobacco. FIFTY PER CENT.

Ale and porter, brandy, cider, gin, hewn stone of
every description, linen coffee bags of every description,
liqueurs of every description, poignard_knives, refined
sugar, tea, wines of every description.

FORTY PER CENT.
Candles—composition, tallow ; carpeting, carriages of
every description or any part or parts thereof, chande-
liers, china inkstand's or sand boxes ; choccolate—ordi-
nary ; coffee bagging, earthenware ; not otherwise spe-
cific], fire-works of every description, furniture. Glass
—ordinary plain wine, liqueur, champagne, and porter
glasses, ordinary plain mugs and tumblers from 10 to 1
to the quartilha, ordinary plain decanters to 1 quartilha.
(The foregoing described in ,tariff as N. 1.) Ordinary
cast or wrought, or cast and wrought wine, liqueur,
champagne, and porter glasses, ordinary cast or wrought,
or cast and wrought mugs and tumblers from 10 to 1 to
the quartilha, ordinary cast or wought, or cast and
wrought decanters to 1 quartilha. (The foregoing de-
scribed in tariff as N. 2.) Ordinary plain cast or wrought
wine and liqueur glasses, with cut or plain bottoms.
(Described in the tariff as N. 3.) Square bottles with
stoppers to 3lbd., without stoppers to 21bs., wide
mouthed bottles with stoppers to 41bs., wide mouthed
bottles without stoppers, common green or other dark
bottles to 1 quartilha, chimnies, lamps, gunpowder, har-
ness, ivory-handled brushes, mahogany and other fine
wood in boards or veneer ; paper—folio post and impe-
rial. hanging, painted, gilt, or silvered ; playing cards;
preserved fruits, dry or in liquor, ready-made clothing,
scales, shaving and other soap, vinegar.

_ -
TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT.
Aniseed, biscuit ; brass—sheet and plate, copper,
copperas ; fish—salted or pickled ; flour, gall Aleppo ;
iron—bar, pig, rod, and sheet ; ivory, jerked beef ; lead
—bar and sheet ; leather—hog skins, kid skins, Mo-
rocco, sole, varnished, waxed calf skins ; osier, salted
beef and pork, saltpetre, steel, tar ; tin—bar and rod, tin
plates.

TWENTY PER CENT.
" Barilla, embroidery of every description, not being of
pure gold or silver, or being mixed with silk, linen, or
cotton, handkerchiefs of linen, cambric, or cotton ; lace
—cotton, not embroidered, thread, or silk ; regimental
sashes of silk net.

TEN PER CENT.
Books, charts, damasks, dresses, embroidery of pure
gold or silver, globes, hair ; instruments—mathematical
and philosophical ; maps, silk net and sewing, velvet.
SIC PER CENT.
Gold and silver bullion, cord, lace, spangles, if of pure
metal. FIVE PER CENT.
Coals, gold for gilding, manufactured silver.
FOUR PER CENT.
Jewellery of gold or silver, gold manufactured.
TWO PER CENT.

Animals for breeding, diamonds, and other precious
stones not mounted, plants, seeds.

THIRTY PER CENT.

All and every other article not included in the fore-
going.
The amount of duty upon most articles is stated in the
tariff : all other goods are to be cleared by valuation,
such being subject, as heretofore, to be taken, upon pay-
ment of the estimated value and ten per cent. additional.
The duties upon transhipment or re-export are re-
duced to one per cent., subject to the approval of the
Legislature, and sureties must be given, until the deci-
sion of the Legislature be known, for 151 per cent.
upon all merchandise sent from Brazil to the coast of
Africa; 2} per cent. if shipped to other foreign ports.
The five per cent, hitherto charged for storage and
clearance is included in the above recited per centages.
All descriptions of merchandise denominated estiva
goods aro allowed to be landed fifteen days, other de-
scriptions two months, free of charge for storage ; both
being subsequently chargeable one-fourth per cent. per
month or part of a month. Goods re-exported subject
to the like payment of one-fourth per cent. per month
for such period as they may remain in the Custom-
house.

The Government is authorised to impose upon the
merchandise of any country, in which the produce of
Brazil is liablo to a higher duty than similar produce of
other countries, an additional duty, so as to neutralise
the ill effects of the difference of duty upon Brazil pro-
duce, such additional duty to cease when the increased
duty upon Brazil produce shall be abolished.
A similar differential duty will be charged upon the
merchandise of any country in which the produce of
Brazil is chargeable with a higher duty if imported in
foreign vessels than in national bottoms.
The above recited duties on imports cannot be in-
creased during the finance year 1844-1845, but the Go-
vernment is empowered to direct the payment, in gold or
silver coin, of five per cent. of the amount of these duties,
upon such articles as are chargeable with more than six
per cent. and less than fifty per cent.

DREADFUL -URDEIL—One of those shocking mur-
ders, at which humanity revolts, and which is a blot on
civilization, occurred on Friday morning last, about six
o'clock. The victim was Matthew Brennan, who had
been in possession of a farm in Coolcullun, the property
of:Lord Frankfurt, since March last twelvemonths, from
which two brothers, of the name of Purcell, had been
dispossessed for the non-payment of rent. The unfor-
tunate man's throat was cut from ear to ear, the wind-
pipe and arteries separated, three wounds inflicted on
the head, and one under the left breast. The victim of
the demoniac assassin or assassins had several gashes in
his hands, as though he had endeavoured to ward off
the deadly blows. An inquest sat on the body on Sa-
turday last, when a verdict of wilful murder was re-
turned against some person or persons unknown. Such
frightful agrarian outrages should make their due im-
pression on the mind of Lord Devon and his brother
Commissioners, and stimulate them, as an act of Chris-
tian duty, to recommend to Government such measures
as are calculated to amend a system prolific of the Worst
of evils.—Kilkenny Journal
THE CRARGE OF MURDER AT PADDINGTON.—
Yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, a protracted inves-
tigation, adjourned from the previous day, was resumed
before Mr. G. L Mills, deputy coroner for Middlesex, at
the Dudley Arms, Harrow-road, respecting the death of
Ann Lee, aged thirty-six, the wife of a labourer named
Michael Lee, now in custody on the charge of having
murdered her. The accused, who stands remanded from
Marylebone Police-court, was brought to the inquest-
room in custody of Sergeant Thompson, of the D divi
sion. The evidence, which was of a conflicting character,
has already been noticed. After much discussion the
jury returned an open verdict, " That deceased was
found drowned, but how she came into the water there
was no evidence to show," with a request, however, that
the police would still pursue their inquiries.
DISGRACEFUL SCENE.—On Wednesday night two
amazons, named Pyne and Russell (well known in St.
Giles's and to the police), had a quarrel at a public-
house, and it was agreed that they should settle their
differences in a pugilistic conflict in the street. 'They
according stripped themselves to the waist, tied up their
hair, and having appointed backers or seconds in the
persons of two other of the " softer" sex, repaired to
Tottenham-court-road, where, pursuant to the usages of
the prize ring, they prepared for the " fray," amidst a
crowd of profligate and idle spectators, who !formed a
ring, and the combatants commenced striking at one
another right and left, and dealing knock-down blows,
whilst the screams and hollowings of the crowd were
like a gang of savages. At length police-constables 5
and 41 E arrived on the spot, and interfered, when they
were attacked ; but they seized on the principals and
seconds. The latter quietly surrendered themselves, as
did also Russell but Pyne, after great resistance, fell
on the ground, fought, bit, kicked, and tore like a mad
woman, and it required eight officers to take her to the
station-house ; and, strange to say, on her arrival there
the officers were more exhausted than herself. She and
the other prisoners were locked up, and yesterday morn-
ing the whole of them were taken before the magistrate
at Clerkenwell Police-court. Pyne was committed to
the House of Correction for a month, Russell for seven
days, and the seconds were discharged with a salutary
admonition. Pyne tripped lightly from the bar, saying
she would have it out another day.
TILE NEW VACCINATION ACT.—An extraordinary
instance of the facilities afforded, by the loose manner in
which the new Vaccination Act is framed, for imposition,
was brought before the Marylebone Board of Guardians,
at its last weekly meeting, and which, no doubt, is prac-
tised equally in every other district of the metropolis.
Mr. Daniel], one of the guardians, expressed his surprise
at the large amount paid for the purposes of vaccination,
but more particularly' at the fact, that the parties vacci-
nated were not confined to infants or to the young, but
extended to the old. He found that there were a large
number of persons vaccinated whose ages were between
forty, fifty, and sixty years, and in one instance there
person
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oyer. Mr. Bushell said the Act of Parliament.
contemplated that persons should be vaccniatievdast:elrez:
vaccination to infants, it
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was " persons." In
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of a discussion, it was stated that the Le) f c
comprehensivenin g
term
vacci-
nators, who received a fee of Is. 6d. for each case of vac-
cination, in order to insure customers gave 6(I. out of the
is. 6d. to persons of any age to come and be vaccinated,
retaining for themselves the remaining shilling, and there
were plenty of old people, who, in order to obtain the
sixpence. were glad to undergo the process of vaccina-
tion. A committee of inquiry Lasa,ppote
IwN
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sSuCs to sw,e RElV.airneads.sured, from
peak positively, that sur-
vaes)T7)lrrisE c,eand several other officers under the Income-tax
Act, have not even yet been compensated for the vast
labours and very great unpleasantness undergone, though
the Government have,
some time ago, received into their
exchequer two years f the tax. Well may reasonable
Tories even (as they do) confess their shame at this
treatment of highly respectable public officers.—From a
Correspondent.