The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-03-10 00:00:00

LONDO.I7 LATEST NEWS.

City, Hall:past Seven o'clock, Saturday Evening.
A variety of causes during the last day.or two have conspired
to cause a depreciation in the 'honey market. Among these
is an apprehension that, should the repeal of the malt tax take
place. the ministry will be obliged to adopt a property tax, and
that, in consequence, funded property will be interfered with.
We have also had a slight pressure fur money, added to which
the unsettled state of the French government and the illness of
the Emperor of r.ustria, may be consideied as tending to cause
some degr.e of uneasiness among our speculators. Consols for
the account have declined to 914, and for Money to 911,1. The
Exchequer Bills, however, maintain their quotalion of do to 37
premium. and are steady. The 3 par Cents Reduced, the 3i per
Cents Reduced, the Old Annuities, and Bank and India stock
are now closed for the dividend.

In the Foreign Market there is a eorresprinding depredation
in the various securities. The trans-Atlantic Bonds have be-
come heavy, at 8-11 for Brazilian, 34 tOr Colombian, and 441
for Chilian. The Northern Bonds are also flat, and the Spa-
nish and the Portuguese Securities have both seceded from our
last quotations. The following are the closing quotations of the
various Securities :

3 per Cent Consols 911 }6 Chilian 41145
New 3% per Cents 99i i Columbian . 37 a
1
Exchequer Bills 35 3t) Dutch 5 per Cents .....103 A
India Bonds l7 11-; Do. '2l per Cents 561 i I
India Stock ror Act 25 81 11exican . 42'
Con Sols for Act. 9lli i Portuguese . ' . 920 1
Beigieln lO2l ipanisu ..... .......51

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Braiilian B44lSiTip 6l-21

We have accounts from Bombay to-day, with intelligence
from Persia conveying the official report of -Dr. -Ross, the civil
surgeon of the Bagdad residency, announcing the cessation of
the plague there, as well as throughout Mesopotamia. It ap-
pears to have been very fatal, from 3 to 4uoo persons having
fallen victims, notwithstanding that upwards of 14,000 Malm-
metans and 4000 Jews fled into the Desert to escape the pesti-
lence. The Christian inhabitants had kept a strict quarantine,
and the panic had been so great, that it was with difficulty per-
sons could be got to carry the dead to the grave. The number
of those who had perished in the villages around was not known.
At Keimanshaw, however, this fearful disease still raged, anu
from 30 to ‘lO died daily, and the inhabitants are slid to have
never been perfectly free from this fatal visitation since 1831.
We have also advices from Calcutta, by which it appear; that
the expedition against Joadpore had been determined upon, and
that the force to he despatched would he- most fro midable. It
was to assemble at Ajmere on the 4th of 'November. The rajah
of Joudpoor, Mann Singh, was also making his preparations,
having hired 17,0(X) Araks in addition to the rajponts, amount-
ing to 20,000 wan, and he was also enlisting a great number of
the disbanded soldiers of the company.
By late advices from Rangoon we learn, that the Woungee
or \ iceroy having determined, at the suggestion of the British
president, and pending a reference to the court of Ava to reduce
the rates of charges levied on ships frequenting that pOrt, the
following had been published fur the information of im..t.:hants
im general, comprising the port dues and import and export
duties at Rangoon. The charges numbered 3,4, and sin the
following list have been reduced one half, making a difference
of about 328 rupees iu the amount hitherto demanded on ships
and large brigs. As that portion of the duties enjoyed by the
government of Ava had not been touched, it was expected the
assent of the King would be given to the liberal and enlight-
ened measures of the Woongee:—

ON A THHEE-MASTED SHIP.
No. 1. Expense of certain presents of cloths, a piece of
Cullumetirry chintz, at 32 rupees, 1 piece book mus-
lin at 61 rupees, 1 piece coarse white cloth at .4 rupees,
and 2 handkerchiefs at 1 rupee, and the charge of 21
rupees for conveying the same to Ava, with a report of
the arrival of the vessel
No. 2. Anchorage and inward pilotage 230 picols of Kha-
roollut silver. or
No. 3. Subsistence money to the superior local officers,
500 picots of 25 per cent. silver, or
No. 4. Ditto ditto to the junior, ditto, 182 picots of ditto 158 7
No. 5.--Cost of 'AM plates of earthenware and 7 rise of
sngar given to the officers who visit the ship on her
arrival
N 0.6. Cost of present to the custoku-house officers on

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beginning to unload the cargo, principally the first
piece in the first tire hales opent-d, hut now taken in
money, whether the vessel has an import cargo or not,
50 picols of 25 per cent, silver
No. 7. Cost of two pieces of book muslin to the Woon-
gee and Itywoon on the departure of the vessel
No. 8. Fee fora Chokey 1 ass
No. 9. Cost of a piece of handkerchief to the Chokey
man who rents the ship on her departure . 4 8
No. 10. Ditto of handkerchiefs to gate-keepers, clerks,
and peons .
No. 11. Presetyt to linguist, which, however, is consi-
dered optional - 25 0
No. 12. Pilotage outward, at the rate of 10',rupees per
foot, say

1 282 8
Besides the above port charges, an import duty of 10 per
cent. for the king, and `2, per cent. for the public officers is taken
in kind, and the export duty, although nominally 1 per cent.
on timber only, may be estimated at 8 per cent. on timber and
R per cent. on produce, for town duties to that extent of all
denominations are levied, which fall almost exclusively upon
the exporter. On a brig'of the first class the charge is reduced
to 221 Madras rupees on charge No. 1 as above, and charge No.
11 to 20 rupees, and the whole amount levied on her, supposing
that her draught of water is 16 feet, amounts to 1179 Madras
rupees. On a -brig of the second class, the charges numbered 3,
-1, and 5 are 'reduced by one-hair, and the charge No. 2 to 221
rupees, the charge No. 11 to 15 rupees, making the whole, sup-
posing her draught of water is 14 feet, ainount to 8:54 Madras
rupees. -On vessels measuring above 9 cubits and under 25
cubits keel, reckoned from the end of the tiller to the foremast,
the charge No. 2 is reduced to 143 rupees, No. 3 to 100, No. 4
to 50, NM 5 to 3d, and No. 6 to 2, and No. 10 and 11 are not
demanded at all, making the whole amount 4221 Madras rupees.
Vessels whose breadth of beam, on the inside, does not exceed
8 Burmese royal cubits, pay the chokey charge No. 8 of 10
rupees only, agreeable to the second article of Mr. Crawford's
commercial treaty. Vessels importing cargoes of cocoa nuts,
pay the charge No. 6 and some presents in nuts, the cost of
which, to a ship and first class brig, increases that charge, No.
6, to sbi rupees, and to a second class brig 481- rupees, On
the other hand, a return of a portion of the import duty is made
to a vessel importing more than 2,250 rupees' worth of cargo.
This custom arose from an indulgence which Alompra granted
to the fits! officer of a ship to import 150 pieces of cloth free
of duty, and to the second officer half that number; but the
commandels of vessels now claim and receive under the term
" privilege" an equivalent in a portion of the import duty levied
on their cargo, and this, if the vessel's cargo consists of piece
goods, is paid in 18 pieces of cloth, and if other goods in 180
rupees. Al 2 per cent, duty on 225 pieces of cloth gives 27
rupees, and their value, according to the fixed rate, will be 270
rupees; but a third is deducted and kept by the customhouse
officers, for themselves.

The price of teak timber, which has risen since the reduction
of the port charges, was, at the last advices, as follows:—Shin-
bill, per pair, 6 to 8 rupees; Dugus, the same each; Doogus,
12 rupees; Actus, 2 to 4 rupees per pair.
The boisterous state of the weather has precluded our usual
continental advices.