The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-24 00:00:00

BOARD OF CUSTOMS MINUTE, NOV. 14, 1840.

The following copy of a letter from Mr. Gordon, one of
the secretaries of the Lords of the Treasury, together with a
copy of the letter from Mr. MacGregor, therein referred to,
to be transmitted to the collector and comptroller at all the
outports, for their information and government, who are to
admit all foreign sugar allowed to be entered for home use,
of the quality and description of the sample transmitted here-
with, as clayed sugars, at the duty of £3 3s. per cwt., toge-
ther with five per cent. thereon, having particular reference
to the concluding paragraph of ?Mr. MacGregor's letter :
_

" Treasury Chambers, 22d October, 1840.
" GENTLEMEN,—I am commanded by the Lords Com-
missioners of her Majesty's Treasury, herewith to transmit
to you a copy of a letter from the Board of Trade, of the 20th
instant, on the memorial of Messrs. Usborne and Co., pray-
ing the admission to entry of certain clayed sugars ; and I
am directed to express the concurrence of my lords in the
views of the committee of Privy Council for Trade, and to
desire that you will govern yourselves accordingly.—l am,
gentlemen, your obedient servant,
(Signed) " It. GORDON.
" To the Commissioners of Customs."

" Office of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade,
Whitehall, 20th October, 1840.

" Sir,--With reference to Mr. Van Spiegel's letter of the
12th September, transmitting a report of the Commissioners,
of her Majesty's Customs, on an application from J. Usborne
and Co., for the admission to entry of certain Clayed Sugars,
put under stop by the Customs, I am desired by the Lords of
the Committee of Privy Council for Trade to inform you,
that my Lords are of opinion that the sugars in question, and
any future importations of a similar description, may be
admitted to entry on payment of the duty of £3 3s. per cwt.
together with five per cent. My Lords, however, wish it to
be distinctly understood, that sugars which have undergone
the Vacuum Stove Process' of preparation, are not to be
considered as coming within the class of Clayed Sugars, as to
the specified rate of duty.-1 am, sir, your obedient servant,
" J. MAC GREGOR.
" Robert Gordon, Esq., M.P., Sic. &c."

It having been represented to the Board that a quantity of
Foreign Spirits, not sweetened, which had been intermixed
with some ingredient for the purpose of giving the spirits the
flavour of rum, was recently exported from this country to
one of the British possessions in North America, and admit-
ted to entry there at the duty payable on rum, instead of the
higher duty which was legally due on the spirits, in conse-
quence of the said spirits having been erroneously warehoused
here as rum, and cleared under that denomination for expor-
tation ; the Board, with a view of preventing a similar occur-
rence, direct that in all future cases such spirits be described
in the entries for the same, at the several ports in the United
" Spirits of Strong Waters, not being Brandy,
Rum, Kingdom, o r
G
as commonly designated."

LONG CONFINEMENT OF DEBTORS.—A. recent return
was made by Mr. Barrett, the keeper of \Vhitecross_street
Prison, of the number of persons in his custody, as ordered
by the House of Lords, on the !notion of Lord Lyndhurst,
from the several metropolitan prisons. Mr. Bratt reported
that a person had been confined upwards of hve years. In
the Queen's Bench Prison there is a person named York,
who has been located within the walls upwards of 18 years ;
and in the Fleet a man named Board has been domiciled
upwards of 20 years. In the Marshalsea Prison a person
has been confined about four years. These persons could
have petitioned the Insolvent Debtors Court at any time
after they went to prison.