The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-05-14 00:00:00

SOAP TAX.

19, Dowding-street, May 7, 1833.
Mr. Ewing presents his compliments to the editor of the
Glasgow Herald, and, understanding that great inconvenience is
at present experienced by the soap trade, from want of re-
quisite information as to the time and mode of the contemplated
reduction of duty, he yesterday applied at the Treasury, and re-
ceived last night, in the House of Commons, from Mr. Spring
Rice, the following memorandum:—
" The duty and drawback on soap to be reduced one-halt, on
the Ist of June.

" Soap manufacturers to be allowed to warehouse the whole
of any making of soap cleansed subsequent to the 6th of May,
upon giving notice to the surveyor of excise of their intention
so to do at the same time as the notice for cleansing.
" Proper places to be entered for warehousing, and the soap
so warehoused to be placed under the survey of the excise.
" The present duty to be charged on all soap cleansed be-
fore the Ist of June; and the difference of duty. on the ware-
housed soap to be allowed to the manufacturers in the next ac-
count.

" No allowance, in charging the duty, to be made on the soap
warehoused.

AVIII,GGERY V. SHIPPING AND COMMERCE.—A valued
correspondent of Sunderland writes us to the following
effect :—" I wrote you last November on the subject of
the Dutch embargo, when I hazarded some speculations
respecting the effect that very wise whig measure was
likely to produce upon the trade of Sunderland, and
which opinions you published. I observe my friend, Al-
derman Thompson, has moved for certain returns con-
nected with this subject, which has induced me to seek
for official information, and the following is extracted
from the transactions of our Custom-house :—" From Ja-
nuary 1, 1832, to Nov. 6, (the day on which the embargo
began to operate.) In a period of ten months, 321 Bri-
tish vessels, registering 54,861 tons, and 58 foreign yes,
sell, registering 5,486 tons—total, 379 vessels, register-
ing 60,347 tons, cleared from Sunderland to Holland. 7--
From the said 6th November, 1832, to the, 30th April,
1833, 7 vessels, of course all foreign, registering 699 tons,
(in a period of 6 months,) have cleared from Sunderland
to Holland." Oh, whiggery, whiggery, what hast thou,
done for Sunderland ! In looking at this question in a
local point, calculating each 12 register tons to carry a
keel of coals, these vessels took from us upwards of 5000
keels. The keel dues and casting, which go entirely into
the hands of the labouring class, upon this quantity of
coals, would have been nearly £lO,OOO. Can the poor
feel grateful to our whig rulers ? Each of these 379 ves-
sels, in beef, bread, and other stores, would expend £5O :
thus nearly £2,000 is kept out of circulation amongst the
tradesmen of the place ; therefore can you wonder that
they disregarded the mandate of my Lord Durham • re-
turn Barclay for Sunderland.' These vessels chiefly car-
ried small coals, and, for want of this trade, the coals are
laid at the pits' mouth to be consumed there. Each keel
gives a profit of £2 to the coal owner, consequently they
lose £lOOO by the embargo. Therefore by this stupid
measure the town of Sunderland is deprived of the circu-
lation of £40,000, the poor a profit of £lO,OOO, and the
coal owner a profit of £lO,OOO more; whilst the duty,
which is 2s. per ton, would have amounted to upwards of
£lO,OOO more. To punish the Dutch King for an ima-
ginary crime, Sunderland alone suffers to the extent of
£40,000, and the country to the extent of £lO,OOO. Very
ridiculous policy, you must admit. We are now begin.
ning to awaken, and feel somewhat alarmed, and talk of
embodying these facts in a petition to be laid before the
honourable house."—Cizrlisle Patriot.