The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-22 00:00:00

BRAZILIAN TARIFF.

We subjoin a translation of the instructions issued
by the Brazilian Government to the Commissioners
appointed to prepare the new tariff on goods imkPorted
to that country. The Report of the Commissioners
would be presented to the Brazilian Chambers, at
their meeting, on the Ist of January, which shows
that it is not intended to make any change in the
existing import duties before that time :
BRAZILIAN TARsrr.—The instructions given by
the Minister of Finance, Viscount de Abrantes, to
the Commissioners (45 in number, divided into nine
sections) assigns to each section a different descrip-
tion of goods, wares, or merchandise, and are expressed
as follows, viz.:—

" Art. I. The Commissioners altogether, or divided
into sections, shall hold their conferences or meetings
in one of the offices at the Custom-house, at such
times as the Chairman of the Commission shall ap-
point. And the Collector of the Customs shall render
every assistance in his power to forward the labours
of the Commission, when requested to do so by the
Chairman.

" 11. Any member not being able to continue his
attendance shall intimate the same to the Chairman,
who shall report to the Treasury, pointing out at the
same time a proper person to fill the situation.
" 111. In settling the new tariff, the respective sec-
tions shall describe as accurately as possible, and
classify all the productions and merchandise, general
objects of commerce.

" IV. The Commission shall arrange in alphabetical
order the names of all goods, wares, and merchandise,
according to their respective classes, and prepare an
index specifying the page where they are to b© found
in the tables of the tariff.

" V. The amount of duty (not being less than 2
per cent., nor more than 60) shall be stated opposite
each article of produce or merchandise described anq
classified in the said tables.

" VI. The duties to which the produce and mer-
chandise to be imported fur home consumption, re-
exported, or trarolitppe(l, shall be subject, shall be
caletkted (with such 'exceptions only as may be found
expedient) according to th© weight of solids to the
contents of liquids, and to the number of such as can
be readily counted.
" VII. A table shall be annexed to the tariff of the
tares to be allowed on all goods, &v., which cannot or
ought not to be weighed separate from the packages or
cas6 1.4 which they are contained.
" VIII. That in apportioning the duties the Com-
missioners must attend,
" 1. To their being articles of greater or less ne-
cessity to the community tit large, or to the com-
fort a 'porton-4 classes of the consumers.
4.! To the faoility or difficulty of smuggling the
same.
" 3. To the propriety of encouraging articles the
produce of the country, or manufactured in it, or
even of such as may in time become a substitute
for those corning from abroad.
"4. To. Utreoat facility in calculating the res-
tective duties, so as not to impede the clearing
he same through the different departments of the
Custom-house.

" IX. The Commissioners are required to lay down
rules, by which the officers employed in the Custom-
hoßsa, otight to he governed in the following cases
1. If the article or merchandise should be omitted
in the tariff.
"2. If any dispute should arise between the Cus-
tom. house officers and the proprietors or con-
signees of any goods, as to their classification or
muunt of duties they ought to pay.
" X. The Commissioners are equally required to
propose any other measures which they may consider
necessary or expedient for the more efficacious and
ready collection of his Imperial Majesty's revenue of
customs, and at the same time calculated to promote
tl4o natural course of commercial improvement and
augmentation."
The two chief articles in the above are Nos. V. and
VIII. By No. V. it is shown that no differential du-
ties are coutomplated in favour of or against any
country. By the subdivisions of No. VIII. it is shown,
however, that some intentions exist of levying pro-
tective duties for the encouragement of the home
manufactures. The effect which the mission of Mr.
Ellis may produce in that respect will probably de-
pend on tha concessions he may be authorised to
make regarding the admission of Brazil sugars to
British ports,

WARSAW, OCT. 11.—The Emperor of Russia ar-
rived here the day before yesterday.—PrasBian State.
Gazette'

Mr. JOHN BARNETT.—We regret to state that we
have received a letter from this gifted composer (who
is established at Cheltenham as a vocal teacher), in
which he says—" I have given up all thoughts of
again appearing before the London public as an ope-
ratic composer. Should I produce any more operas,
it will, I hope, be in France or Germany." Is not
this a severe reflection upon the degree of encourage-
ment afforded to exalted musical talent in this coun-
try ?—Musical Review.
We are sorry to say, that the trade at Mansfield,
and the neighbourhood still continues in a most de-
plorable state. Hundreds of the poor framework-
knitters are in a most destitute condition. Every week
goods distrained for rent are exhibited in the market-
place for sale. The bailiffs, we grieve to say, have
now a rich harvest.—Nottingham Review.
THE FREE TRADE THAT IS RUINING ENGLAND.—
The cask of ordinary Bordeaux wine of 300 bottles,
which is sold in Paris for 140 francs, costs in carriage
and in octroi duty nearly half that sum. If the Eng-
lish duty were reduced to about 31. per cask, the
people of London could drink French wine as cheap
as those of Paris : and for one cask that is consumed
now, at least six would be used. The revenue would
be the gainer, even as regards the duty, and import-
ant concessions in favour of English manufactures
would be granted, in return for such a boon to the
wine growers of France. Good French ordinary
wine could then be had in England at the rate of Gd.
to 7d. a bottle, and the better sorts at 10d. to ls. a
bottle. St. George, chateau neuf du Pape, and other
wines of the south, could be had for ls. to ls. Gd. per
bottle, at the. outside; for the finer qualities of these
wines may be purchased, in the countries where they
are grown, for 150 francs a cask. Add to 150 francs,
50 francs for carriage and expenses of every kind, and
75 francs for duty, and the cask of 300 bottles will
cost less than 121. Picardan and other white wines
of the south, which are strong-bodied wines, ap-
proaching Sherry in flavour," and highly agreeable,
may be had at the same price. Many of these wines
are sold in England, under different names, at this
moment by wine merchants at the rate of 3s. and 3s.
Gd. per bottle, for only a few persons are engaged in
the trade ; but if the duties were lowered, they would
find their way in a regular manner into the English
market. A large reduction of duty would increase
the sale of French wines in England at least five-
sixths. As to Brandy, the present rate of duty is
enormous and absurd. Duties which keep out the
wines and brandies of our neighbours, are the sort of
free trade which ruins England, and foments hostility
between her and other countries. _ _

STEAM-RAKED BREAD, A LA VIENNA.—It has
been known for some time at Vienna, that if the
hearth of an oven be cleansed with a moistened wisp
of straw, bread baked therein immediately afterwards
presents a much better appearance, the crust having
a beautiful yellow tint. It was thence inferred that
this peculiarity must be attributed to the vapour,
which being condensed on the roof of the oven, fell
back on the bread. At Paris, in order to secure with
certainty so desirable an appearance, the following ar-
rangement is practised :—The hearth of the ovea is
laid so as to form an inclined plane, with a risa of
about eleven inches in three feet, and the arched roof
is built lower at the end nearest the door, as compared
with the furthest extremity. When the oven is
charged, the entrance is closed with a wet bundle of
straw. By this arrangement the steam is driven down
on the bread, and a golden-yellow-crust is given to
the bread, as if it had been previously covered with
the yolk of an egg.—Correspondent of the Annlls
of Chemistry.