The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-01 00:00:00

EGYPTIAN TARIFF.

We published in yesterday's columns the circular ad-
dressed by Mr. Stoddart, the' British Consul at Alexan-
dria, to the English merchants and' residents. The fol-
lowing is a translation of the note of the English• and
Austrian Consuls-General to Mehemet Ali :

" TO HIS HIGHNESS 3IEHEMET ALIT PACHA OF EGYPT, AT

CAIRO.

" On the 20th, or 23d of November last, the merchants
learned from the, officers of the Customs of Cairo and
Alexandria, that, dating from the said day, the new
tariff, or appendage of the treaty of c 'mmerce, con-
cluded at Constantinople in 183 S, should be considered
in force. In effect, the tariff has been enforced from the
days above mentioned, but only with respect to mer-
chandise imported ; as to exports, the officers have con-
stantly refused to permit them otherwise than under the
restrictions of the monopoly. There have been some
exceptions, but these were in virtue of repeated and
urgent solicitations, and with the special license of the
Egyptian authorities. And, moreover, these partial con-
cessions have been subject to capricious and vexatious
difficulties and modifications, to such an extent, that
commerce has generally preferred to relinquish them
altogether than to struggle against the will of the Go-
vernment.

"It has never been officially announced that effect was
given to the treaty. The Government confined itself to
the announcement that the import duty would be received
according to the new tariff, which neither was, nor could
be, anything more than the consequence of the pure and
simple execution of the treaty of commerce of 1838.
More recently. the monopoly of liquors and of skins
has been abolished in consequence of the urgent repre-
sentations of the undersigned.
" By the 2d article of the treaty of 1838, English and
Austrian merchant; have the right to buy and export
the agricultural and all other products of the territory
of his Hiaolmess the Emperor of the Ottomans. The
same article Faarantees the full enjoyment of this right
by the provision that the Porte shall make compensa-
tion to the injured parties for all losses or grievances
arising from any contravention of the stipulations of the
treaty.

" After the representations now made by the under-
signed, it is easy to conclude that their adhesion to the
course hitherto pursued,* the Pachn of Egypt must be
injurious and derogatory to the treaty solemnly concluded
between their august Courts and the Sublime Ottoman-
Porte—a treaty which the high contracting parties are
equally interested to put in execution purely and simply,
and without the least delay ; it is from these motives
that the undersigned hereby declare to his Highness the
Pacha of Egypt, that the merchants of their respective
countries wilt, immediately be instrucied that the import
duty of two, per cent., called the duty of compensation,
claimed by the Egyptian Officers of Customs since the
new tariff was put in execution, and until the treaty of
commerce in question shall have full effect, is not due ;
and they demand, in the name of their Governments, the
reimbursement of this duty in every case in which it shall
have been effectually levied.
(Signed) " BARNETT, Consul-General of England.
LAURIN, Consul-General of Austria.
" Alexandria, March 3, 1842."

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PITCHING IT.—All the droppers in at Nisi, on the
Western Circuit, know that Mr. Erle, the eminent
Counsel, is not less renowned for his peculiarly
happy command of good mother English, and close
and forcible reasoning, than for shrewd and quaint
humour, as racy as it is overpowering, when the spirit
is on him, and he flows out " i' the vein." He re-
lieved the Court the other evening, in the midst of a
hard dry historical case, with a joke that fell like dew
in the desert. A learned brother had risen to ad-
. dress the jury. Some momentary interruption pre-
vented him from proceeding—at the very instant that
he was to roll forth the opening period of his
exordium a calf bellowed out a most extraordinary
note, from ' a spot immediately contiguous to the
court, which re-echoed the sound. Mr. Erle, in his dry
way, exclaimed, "It is the key note, ray lord, my friend
may go off !" Taking all the circumstances of the time
End incident into account, it , was a must happy saying,
and the court roared again. So general was the cachi-
nation that we fancied we saw gentle clouds of powder
floating round the judicial wig.—,Western Times.
The Akbar of Algiers gives the following compara
tire statements of the navigation and European population
of the several, French settlements in that part of Africa.
The first is a table of the navigation during 1840 and 18.41,
showing an increase of 1,228 ships. These ships were 1
I thus divided among different nations : —French, 1,846;
Algerian French; 622; Algerian 'with license (conge),
399; English, 200; Russian,- 29; Swedish and Nor,.
wegian, 65; Danish, 15; Hanoverian, 1; Dutch, 10;
Belgian; 1; Prussian, 4; Austrian, 224; Sardinian,
478; Tuscan, 540; Roman, 105; Neapolitan, 439;
Greek, 52; States.of Barbary, 9.3; Spanish, 943; Hain-
burgh, 2; Mecklenburg, 1. The other table shows the
European population was, on December 31, at' Algiers,.
20,930; Oran, 5,301; Bona, 4,030 ; Philippeviile, 3,823;
Bugia, 432; Chercheii, 333; Mostaganem, 826—making
a total of 35,727, being an increase of 7,530 upon the
number on 31st December, 1840, which was 28,197.
ILLICIT DI§TILLATION.—The proposed increase of
the'cluty on Irish spirits has, it would appear, already .
revived in this province the pernicious system of illicit
distillation to a considerable extent. About Ballinasloe,
Ballinrobe, and Oughterard, we learn that seizures of
stills and large quantities of malt are daily being made.
by the revenue force. In fact, unlicensed pottsen dealere
are everywhere actively engaged . preparing ,en inferior
stibstitilte 'for. genuine ' Pa'rliairtent • Whisk ey, lintliing
right well that the public will purchase the " mountain--
dew'' at six shillings per gallon, a remunerating price,
in preference to Irish spirits subj ' t to the advanced rate
of duty.---Mayo Telegraph.
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