The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-11-11

The saiDgs during the week comprised four vessels to
Melbourne with aggregate tonnage of 1887 and one
vessel to Morpeth, Of the small register of 5S tons
total Of five vessels and aggregate registered tonnage
Of 500.
The following arrivals of ships with gold Australia
Eagle, from Melbourne, with 63952 ounces value
aSs o GOO s the caaI9tss a from ADELAIDE with
with 4 452 our ces, worth f1S0 GEO.
Later Australian has appeared in the HERALD than
that received in London BY the Eagle
frghtful accident happened on the river Midway,
near Tunbrdge Wells on the 2st ult by which nearly
forty persons pershed In consequence of the Midway
after having finished their days work. being
veyed through the food in drawn by three horses
when, on arriving at Hartlake Bridge they beca ne
alarmed at the rush of water and uttered loud cries
The party consisted of men, women and children The
noise they made alarmed the horses, who it appears
away and in contact with the side Of the bridge,
which, being in fapdated state, broke down, and the
wagon precptated into the liver and all the persons
in il drowned Thirty seven persons we're n issng
Prvy Council held by Queen Victoria at Windsor
Castle the oath inst at which the British Parliament
vas pro- oma further prerogued till the 10th November.
en is not therefore deemed at by the Eng sh
cabket sufc emily urgent to warrant extraordinary
conyot at on OF the legislature as anticipated.
The London Si1, (evenng paper) states rumor that
the Emperor and Empress Of the French would vieit Lon
don in November and that preparations being made
in official quarters for their reception, which would be
unusually Splendid particularly in the city. This state
ment was regarded as 3 hoax.
The following is extracted from the latest weekly
mercial report Of the Freman's Journdl:-
We have little domestic news this week. Races at the
Curragh, and almost incesssn wet in Dublin have helped
to make very dull week, and neither the produce
money markets have much to boast of in the way OF bust
ness The corn market yesterday dull in the extreme,
and it is believed that large quantity of grain Of all
kinds win be brought TO market in the next few
The warke character Of the foreign advices
forbid the hope that lower prices to be looked for
at least to any great extent. Nothing fresh has trans
PRED in reference to the stock exchange failure of
1ast h,kt Loan kaavs
was at first anticipated. The second case, which we
ferred to having been sufficiently settled has been
gent IN question was not very kindly treated BY
Of his fellow brokers' and that the exposure might
have been easily avoided with little more good feeling
Money Is tolerably album ant, but not cheap.
This cuttoms duties for this week eli 58, against
f2l O64 for corresponding week last year. showing de
refined So saS ~ns
eto spirits $780, tobacco, $780, and miscellaneous
fSb0
the current quarter, Soo
same time last 4O,ZOf
Decreas, .......................... $4,000
TIE IRISH LINEN TRADE AND THE AMERICA AN TARIFF.
special meeting Of the Belfast Chamber Of Commerce
held on Thursday lOct TO- for the purpose OF brin
trade 10 full participation in the reduction Of duties
which the American Presidents Cabinet have BY trea-
suy circular announced to BIO under their
The objects Of the meeting were stated at considerable
length by Mr.. McAdam Who after giving history OF the
protective duties on linen, proceeded TO say
In the whole United States there we're but Ii, $50
spndles employed in the spinning Of fax which under
the amount many individual Irish factories, and only
one half Of what contained in the York street mill
alone. The yarns spun moreover, were, with few
tons employed exclusively In the make of and
other fabrics with which the linens exported from
did not in the least interfere Hence, the present
high duty Of importance in protections point OF
view but was in reality tax the American
of uout f3b0 600 annually Should the linen acture
at future time become Of importance in the United
States it weud be amply encouraged by the energy Of
the American people, and by the great natural capab
ties for manufacturing pursuits which existed in the
Union. II Of much interest to compare the policy
of the United Kingdom with that of America In this
question Of protective duties linens. Great Britain
Ireland constitute the greatest linen manufacturing
State Of the world for In 1851 their ags egate exports
and imports OF fax yarrs and linens reached the sum
f8 1872 8, while those Of Germany, France, and Bel
eum ado cd together, but 81 6s3,737 Yet the i'm
largely reduced by Sir Robert Peel and his successors
and in last session Of Parliament their remnants
entirely swept away by Mr. Gladstone's tariff On the
other hand the United States Of America without any
native Of linens to give color TO protec
ton imposed the high duty OF 20 per cent Oh articles
extensively med throughout the Union 1t VA
fur her to be observed that by the repeal OF the
laws and by the sweeping reductions made in our duties
| of late YEAR,, the commerce OF thu Uni'ed stab"
| had gained to enormous amount thst " th'
| universal market thus sforfed in the British
/ Isles for her staple productions must b. attri
buisd, to great extent, that commercial proaperis,
which has led 10 the present favorable potion Of he
frances, But, In return for these great adys