The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-08 00:00:00

TONNAGE DUTIES.

The existing charge under the denomination of anchor-
age duties of 50 rs. per ton per day, on foreign or national
vessels trading with foreign ports, has, by Imperial decree,
dated the 20th of July, been materially modified and re-
duced. According to the new regulations, which are to
take effect on the 6th of November next, immediately
after the termination of the treaty with Great 'Britain,
the charges will be as follow :
" Vessels with cargoes in and out, 900 rs. per ton for
what period soever they may remain in port.
" Vessels with cargo inwards and leaving in ballast,
450 rs. per ton.
" Vessels entering in ballast and clearing cargo, with
450 rs. per ton.
" Vessels entering in ballast and clearing in ballast,
300 rs. per ton.
" Vessels entering in franquia, or touching at any port
of the empire for orders, or for water or provisions, whe-
ther laden or in ballast, 300 rs. per ton.
" Vessels entering in distress, free, provided no part of
cargo be laden or discharged, other than for the purpose
of naying necessary expenses.
" Vessels having discharged and laden at one port of
Brazil, can enter any other port of the empire, during the
same voyage, free of tonnage duty.
" Vessels entering in ballast from any one port of Bra-
zil may during the same voyage enter any and every other
port of the empire free of tonnage duty, provided no mer-
chandise be laden at any such port.
" National vessels trading coastwise to pay 30rs. per
ton, but if one-half o- the crew be Brazilians, only 45r5.,
and if engaged in the fishing trade, free.
" The vessels of those nations in whose ports Brazilian
vessels are charged with higher port charges than are paid
by the respective national vessels, shall pay one-third ad-
ditional tonnage duty, and the government is authorised
to further increase the charge in such cases, so as to
counterbalance the additional charge made upon Brazilian
vessels in foreign ports.
" Exchange, 25d., closing very flat. The Six per Cent.
Stock continued very steady at 72, but subsequent tran-
sactions were at 69i to 70 ex dividend."

DR. Wourr.—Letters from Erzeroum, of the 14th,
state that Dr. Wolff is still detained at Bokharl. The
Emir bad not yet returned from Samarkand. There is a
Persian Ambassador at Bokbara, who will, it is rumoured,
obtain this intrepid traveller's release.—Malla Gazglle.

BELGIUM.—THE " BRITISH QUEEN."—This vessel
has, with her fittings, been adjudged, subject to the ap-
probation of the Minister, to M. Van Leemput, for the
of £6820 sterling. The ship's furniture was bought in,
and is ofiered at £2OO sterling. Such a sale seems extra-
ordinary, but the expense'of mairtiance was b,:com,ng
so irksome to the Belgians, that Wm determination evi-
dently has been to let the steamer go at any price, and
much allowance for so miserable au issue is to be made on
the ground that she bad acquired a bad name.
A NEW MEANS OF DISCOVERING SMUGGLING---'A
well-dressed man, of great rotundity of person, a few
days ago got into an omnibus at Lyons. A wasp settled
on his stomach, and was driven away ; it returned, si,d
was again driven off; on its settling there a third time,
an obliging gentleman is front, desirous of ridding Ws
fellow-traveller of the annoyance, made a sudden attempt
to seise it, but took his measures so awkwardly, that the

stout gentleman all of a sudden became contracted, and
a quantity of brandy contained in a bladder, with a view
to defraud the Octroi, flowed over the omnibus. In the
midst of the confusion caused by this unforeseen accident,
the gentlemen, no longer stout, rrride off.