The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-11-11

psrintendencs and board of direction They have
just added the many other inducements which the
SctsrTise present., 20 shareholders, the gift Of an
Epgsh acre OF cultvable land in the country to be
allotted free OF all charge, with e5 share held
BY any purchaser and 10 the holder of twenty such
shares and upwards afurther plot building ground
Tor dwelling hou'e in town, besides; the shares
having deposit Of fl each, to be paid on taking
them up, and the remaining f4 in payments OF CT
each, at intervals Of six months apart with power
to pay up the whole al or 90, and allowance Of
hve per cent per snnum for so doing.
In the company Of Costa Rica, Cor rich coast, so
called because Of its aboupdng in every description
of wealthy there is 6ne territory of more than
million of acres to begin with beeides the three
mile breadth of land for the Whole route across me
lsthmus, from sea 10 sea and this description OF
property both solid and secure.
Ireland.
The rapid increase in the Irish butter ana provi-
sioa trade with England is attracting much atten-
ton, as the ports from Cork, LIMERICK and other
porte, afe becoming greater, perhaps, than at any
former period In fact this most liable trade is
now quite revived, and has become once more
source Of great wealth TO our agricultural classes.
The enormous increase in the produce of butter is
evidence Of the far greater extent of pasturage
in districts wh.re rillsge had prevailed almost
exclusively in former years On account of this
change in the system Of husbandry, comparatively
little inconvenience has been caused by the de.
crease of population, and the continued exodus"
Still, however tiilage farming is carried on gene
rally Throughout the country TO q vast extent, on
sounder principls than hereto.o-e; and the remu-
nerating prices Of produce are calculated to check
the tendency TO devote the soil to the rearing of
cattle and sheep merely Altogether the country,
regards all branches of agricultural enterprise is
making a decided rally. and the condition Of both
landlords and farmers is much improved The
digging out OF the potato crop has now been CON-
pleted, and the returns generally show that the
proportion Of loss by disease is much less than had
been calculated a month or two hence. The cereal
crops are turning out most abundant, and the sur
plus Of oats is so great that exports to large ex
tent are constantly in progress.
Portugal
We have dates from Gibraltar to the 18th; Caliz
the 10Th; Lisbon the l9.h; ard Oporto and Vigo to
the Goth ut.
Among the passengers by the Tagus is the Duke
Of Terceira and some staff officers, deputed by the
Portuguese government to attend the funeral Of the
Duke of Wellington
A royal decree was published in the Diario do
Gocrno of the 18th inst settling definitely the
port wine question The 0porto Wine Company is
deprived OF the $50 contos year aud all the other
advantages 1t derived from the law of the 18th of
April, lS43 ; 1t will in future have nothing to do
with the examination aud classification of vines,
but commission will be elected by the Douro wine
farmers to provoe for the classification of wines for
shipment and for home consumption, and to see, by
examination upon expectation, that none but ship
ment wines are sent over the Op0rto bar. The
export duty upon all wines at Oporto will be 2,400
refs, or los Cd. pipe, which, with the usual add
tional inposts, will be, in all, about 13s cd. This
decree does away with the exception contained in
the 10Th article of the treaty of 1912, which always
enabled this government to resist the equalization
as a matter Of claim the part of Great Britain;
and it is unjust the Saldanha- Ma alhaens cabi-
net to present 1t as acting under any other nhu
epce than its sense Of the interests of Portugal,
which had convinced M. Magahaens Of the neces-
sity of the change long before he joined the present
cabinet.
The remaining tariff reductions are not likely TO
be decreed before the middle of December, but il is
believed an alteration win, in a few DAYS be made
mix turps of silk cation and yooliau pnois
which, being recently admitted at comparatively
low outy. have proved preudicia TO the Portuguese
silk manufacturers ard it is said by English i'm
porter of these goo0s that the conte plated altera
tion is a reasonable one.
The government telegraph states the wine decree
was generally well received at Oporto, but had the
VINE company telegraph it would probably tell n
different tale, al hough the great bulk Of the people
are at present favorable 10 that and other suppress
sions of monopolies.
OpoIto advioes by this packet contain the follow
The decree arrived here last Saturday relating
to the new export duty wine, and is now in Ell
feet. The duty lie 400 refs per pipe to all ports in
and out OF Europe. which, with the additional per
centsges and emolumcnis, amounts 10 some three
milrels odd, IN place of fifteen mlres odd,
which has been the duty paid on wines to
ports in Europe heretofore Wines existing,
lassifei RS second quality, for shipment out
of Europe will nov be admitted for shipment
to Great Britain any other places in Europe,
on paying an additional duty of milreis per pipe.
Inc decree, on TIE whole, has given general salts
faction and is admitted to be Of the best regal
ated documents which has emsnated from any gov
eminent Of this couutry Shipments of vine are
likely to become brisk, as proof of which the
freight Of wines to London, which was at 22s 3d. to
25s has advanced 10 ios and may possibly advance
mere.
The pfeent vintsge is likely to turn ont ore Of The
worst that could possibly be entertained even i'm
fe,ior to that OF 1915 or 1919 it is Yearly all gather
ed in, but the weather has been very unpropitious
and what was expected a saviour, in the way of
few days fine weather al the end, has been obliter-
ateo hy a continual rain, whereby the grapes have
become quite rotten, and many have never got TO
maturity.
Belgium.
Considerable anxiety is felt in Paris, respecting