The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-17 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

LISBON, DEC. 12.—The Portuguese Government
had the views of the English Government on the
tariff question under their consideration, and Lord
Howard had had an interview with the Duke of Pal-
mella, but it was not anticipated that any immediate
result would be arrived at—unless, indeed, the Duke
thought proper to break off the negotiations. The
real difference between the two Governments was
not believed to be very great, as the Portuguese do
not attempt to abide by their so-called " ultimatum."
It appears by tables published at Lisbon, giving a
list of all classes of British goods that pay a duty equi-
valent to above 25 per cent. ad valorem, that there
were 161 kinds of cotton goods thus situated, and the
average duty on which amounted to 47i per cent.; 65
of woollens, averaging 59i per cent. ; 27 of linens,
averaging 53 1-3 d per cent.; and 88 of hardwares,
averaging 89-1 per cent. The duty on British earth-
enware averaged 764 per cent. ; and that on porcelain
130 per cent. Newfoundland salt fish was taxed
with a duty of 53 per cent. ; Irish butter paid 324 per
cent. ; English cheese from 40 to 60 per cent; and
what makes the latter case the worse is, that in defi-
ance of our treaty, Dutch cheese is admitted at lower
duties than English cheese; the former paying only
lid. per pound weight, while the latter is taxed, the
commonest double, and the finer sorts four times that
amount.

It appears that out of our total imports into Por-
tugal in 1840, the declared value of which was
1,110,2441., cottons alone amounted to 728,3091., and
of these two-thirds were supposed t 6 pass into Spain,
leaving about 600,0001. as the value of British goods
actually consumed in Portugal, and against which
she has to set off the wines, fruit, oil, wool, &c.,
which she exports to England to a far greater amount;
yet a writer in the Revolucao, by the easy process of
doubling the value of British goods imported, ditto
of the interest paid on the Portuguese debt, and
adding both together, and by assuming further
that the British goods which enter are all, or nearly
so, for Portuguese consumption, and on the other
side by vastly underrating the amount paid by us
for the wines and fruit of Portugal—contrives to snake
out a ridiculous balance of about 9i millions sterling
against Portugal, and which he says the latter has
to pay in hard cash every year as the result of "Bri-
tish connection."

The cause of Senhor Silva Cabral v. the National
newspaper for a libel, in charging him with the author-
ship of the ;late publication against M. Dietz, and
stating that they knew where the manuscript copy
existed, came on the 10th. No manuscript copy was
produced, nor was any evidence beyond hearsay
brought to connect the matter with Senhor Cabral.
The Nacional was, however, acquitted by the Jury.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Leedv Mercury.)

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, DEC. 16.—The
middle and low descriptions of Foreign Wool have
been in tolerable request during the past week, such
wool being most adapted for the China trade ; but in
the finer sorts no change of any importance has been
discernible.

WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET.—There is no varia•

tion in our Wool Market this week. Sales in all
kinds are limited; but as stocks continue small, any
sales that are effected are at the top quotations of last
week. There is scarcely any demand whatever for
blanket goods.
TRADE OF LEEDS.—There have been some heavy
deliveries of goods from the manufacturers this week
for the India and China markets ; but with this excep-
tion, the cloth markets at both halls have been exceed-
ingly dull. A more confident tone of feeling, how-
ever, prevails as respects improvement in trade after
Christmas. As usual at this late period of the year
there is very little doing in the warehouses, but a
very confident expectation is generally entertained
that an improvement will take place early in the new
year. Prices are firm, and the stocks of goods on
hand are much lighter than they were some time ago.
BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—We cannot re-
port any change for the better in the Piece Market ;
the merchants buy very sparingly, which is fully met
by the diminished production, and this has had the
effect of preventing any material accumulation. Prices
of all kinds are firm, and at the time of the year, a
slight advance may be fairly looked for. There is a
steady business doing in yarns, and at old prices ; sales
are not difficult to effect, which the spinners feel re-
luctant to comply with, consequently the mills con-
tinue still to be partially employed, and in many cases
working daylight only. The business done in wool
during the week is by no means an average, which
may be attributed to the pricesdemanded by the stapler
being such that the spinner cannot accede to.
TRADE OF MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—
On Tuesday the cloth market was more flat, than for
the three previous weeks, and prices generally were
lower. Since that day there has been no signs of
improvement, and the market to-day must be called
if anything still duller, and it is, in fact, difficult to
describe its real state. Twist is lower for nearly all
numbers, and the probability is that it will further re-
cede, if sales are pressed before the usual purchases
commence preparatory to the spring shipments.

NAVIGATION OF THE RIVER
YANG-TSE-KIANG.
The following letter, dated Yang-tse-Kiang River,
August 23, 1842, from Captain Ord, of the brig Li-
verpool, will be found to contain many important and
interesting particulars relative to this river :
" I left Amoy on the 21st of May, for Chusan, and
after a very severe dead beat along a coast and
through channels very little known, and almost with-
outnthl ofen
_ charts, with the exception of a rough sketch chart,
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islands the navigation is the mostintriciate of any
part of the globe, the currents ru
fearful rapidity, and in whirlpools, andi nirnegndewiring
ships totally unmanageable, an account of which,
and the accidents that have happened, are too
lengthy for this letter. On the evening of the
Bth I was obliged to anchor in twenty-eight fa-
thoms,
rrienntas dangerous gt
heer orunsc
kpsa,r
where to a
tidhebeshinip and cargog driven by
would have been totally lost. At ten P.m. the best'
bower parted ; came to again with the small bower,
close on the rocks. The windlass having carried
away, rode by the mainmast. This damage was all
done by the rush of the tide, there being but little
'were promptly
answered I fired signals of distress, which
answered by her Majesty's ship Thalia, and by several
transports, who sent about 70 hands. At four o'clock
A.M. on the 9th, when the tide eased, we succeeded in
getting the small bower, but not until heaving off one
of the arms which had hooked a rock ; after losing
another stream anchor and hawser, got into safe
anchorage by six o'clock A.M. We proceeded with the
convoy on the 10th, and after a quick and fine passage
arrived at Woosung, in this river, on the 14th July,
where we remained quiet until the 4th of this pre-
sent month, when we received orders from the senior
naval officer at Woosung to proceed to Nankin, in
company with the Baretta Junior and the Sir Robert
Pee], under convoy of her Majesty's ship Harlequin,
and reached the point of the river on the 6th instant.
It is about fifty miles above IVoosung, and about one
hundred from Nankin. It is the most dangerous part
of the river, with rapid tides and shifting banks, so
that the channel is very uncertain ; the width of the
liver at this point, from shore to shore, is about twenty
ijles. It is now my painful duty to give you an ac-
count of the loss of the ship. On the day in ques-
tion, steering after her Majesty's ship Harlequin, we
observed her suddenly ground ; the Liverpool's an-
chor was immediately let go, and in turning round
she grounded also. The two other transports being
a little more astern, dropped their anchors also and
a.7oided the bank which is not correctly laid down on
the chart. We had immediate assistance from the
tran, ports, and when the ship was once again swing-
ing to the stream, the capstan gave way, and the
liare end of the hawser being fast, slipped, and the
ship was
.then immediately forced on the bank again,
and all etfOrts to get her off failed. In the meantime
her Majesty's ship Harlequin had got off. On the
Bth,
strong, with a swell, the vessel strained
a good
id became leaky.
On the 10th we com-
m blowing odwe ianl g a
g the cargo into the junks on the
ebb, overboard on the flood, as they
could not
y alongside. I\re toiled incessantly
day and tq
and throw.
crlei aw rignign
ith every possible assistance, buttonvinced the ship would become a
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