The New York herald., 1863-10-19
inPuRTAgr FROM THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.
Commercial ana Religions Intolerance
Towards Ame ri cans.

OUR HONOLULU CORRESPONDENTS.
HoSoLuIu, !. l., August n, 1868.
Adaaacs Of E"0sisA Aonopo.s-Iajas'ce 10 imer.ean ~"
Avests, and Appal 10 tie Uw.isd States import
asa Eestsa9 Of Merchants anil l,ap0rters of Ne~ Eng
land Goods-Har on Amsrtca~ Clergyman, dc.
Too long has our government ubdcr the pressure OF
domestic difficulties lent The interests Of is cizens in
The Pacific unattended 70.
This Kingdom, geographically as important 70 the Pa.
oiic Cuba 70 the Atlantic, is being allowed
gradually 10 be gathered under British dominion Eng
sshmsn cecnry almost evory important post under
governnent.
The rev bishop and pr'es,s sent out by Queoa Vic.
torts beng pushed Into prominent positions. Ameri-
commercial interests assaioi and placed under
disabilities and The American merchants have
appealed the United States Minister resident for pro-
teoion
Licenses 70 perform the marriage ros are refused to
American Protestant clorrymen, and threats made
oponiy to wrcss their churches from them.
We loarn that The Amer'c,n Minister has sent
10 government for Of and will demand the
immediate restitution Of the imposts oga ally
from American msrchants.
English capitalists have loaned money 10 lhc govern.
ard The usual means being employed by Eng
land embarrass the government I'll shall be ripe
Raihcr Into her collection o. foreign possessions.
The following r a report OF toe commercial meeting
and statement Of Inc case, from the Honolulu newspa-
meeting Of merchants aud others ine ested 10 i'm.
p0rais from the United Satos held Saturday,
August % at the call OF committee appointed at pre-
vfous meeting, 10 request iuteyew with his Royal
HqDess tho acting Minister Of Finance for the purpose OF
presenting commur cton with reference TO the exaction
by the government o. ten cr cent duties the nominal
value Of invoices from tho Eastern United States, nvoced
In the paper currency Of that country.
We understand The committee reported that his Royal
Ighness unable 70 them, bnt had received
the comDuDcaion Of the mcrc cbants and his reply
read 10 The meeting This reply was deemed unavorabe
to tho interests represented at the meeling and
with OF The case beore The United States
Minister resident, and appointed committee call upon
commercial interests Of the United this king
dom, which they deemed lad and would suler by the
t0n Of the Hawaiian government.
The statement Of the clsc have learned IT, s
follows the arrival Of the bark Arctc here from
Boston, last March, number Of importers by her peti
tooed the acting Minister OF FiIaucc TO make certain de-
ductons from the apparent value OF their invoices on
which tho duty Of ten per cent to be levied on tho
ground that they nvoced 10 the legal tender paper
currency OF the United 6tates and that The did not
represent tha actual I'D vaorcm coet OF the
currency OF this Kingdom by as much as the difference
between the value OF gold and paper currency the date
Of their purchase. THIS principle had already been
c0g1zed by the government OF Canada IN all of ad
duties. In England and France the duties being
mostly specific the did not call for special action
The reply Of the Minister 10 this petition was TO the
effect that the government eded the justice
tho principle upon which the claim based, but that
merchants should have presented documentary owl
deDce as n tho amount OF deduction which should be
aliowod THIS some VI the parties interested immediately
dcuce required tho COVE rsUed the circular Of
April IS, which we republished 10 commercial lumn
Of the 18Th OF August and when the certificate Of the
Hawaiin Consul at boson, GER iy ing 10 the relative
values Of gold aud paper corro.cy at the date Of the
Arccs sailing was presented the government replied
that the action OF the rulc established by their
not retrospective thus virtually excluding by their
oco o April 49, from the benefits of the hosc who,
March 80 The justice OF Their oam had been to some
procuring the evidence which the government
bad stated as necessary 10 su6stantiate their Claim.
the arrival oi tho bark Helen Mar, from Boson,
there was received by Of the oousgnees certificate
from the tiawaan Consul at Boston, DO placed 10
the Custom House here the benefit Of concerned,
and thosc who had applied TO that Official 10 Boston for
that tne certificate furnished would be sufficient
all the INVOICES AS compliance with the Custom
House regulations here clearly impossible owing 70
the failure OF the government 10 notify their consul what
form OF certificate TO send with the same despatch the
merchants bad ordered their correspondents obtain the
certificates the importers by that vessel request the
government 70 either allow that certificate apply
their invoices, grant time certificates
IN the Prescribed form To this request we learn the
government replied that all the requirements OF
the circular Of tho 18th April complied with "a thing
impossible a. shown above) 90 deduction could be made,
thus excluding importers BY ossels from the beuc
s Of tho rule by making its conditions impossible
fuldI and gold 10 steadiy falling 10 the United states
making Its concession little or nothing. rhe
ma ter having now been passed into the hanis Of the
United States Minister resident, TO be treated dplona
caliy, presume 1t will be questioned who her under
this decision OF tho government American has
the treaty between this government aud The United
States.
II has always been the custom here 10 reduce all IN
voices made out n the currenco Of foreign nations when
presented 10 tho Custom House their values N the cur
rency Of this Kingdom by ackeowledgcd standards Of
their specie va ues, and II would but under
the treaty 10 allow American importers privi
leee the difference In this being currency
in which the nvocos made out Is nuctualing and
therefore necessity exists 10 prove lie depreca
ton Of value at the time of Purchase surely when
such an amount has been exacted and pad under pro-
test would DO but right 70 allow sufficient time 10 pre-
cure proper evidence OF the apoant thus ovead and
return It,
To exact duiy OF per cent on the nom nal value OF
the invoice when gold was at premium OF fifty per cent
virtually 10 exact an ad vaorem duty fifteen per cent
on the gold values, which the applied 10 goods
Of other countries the treaty with the United States
No duty customs or other inpost shall be charged
upon any goods the produce manufacture Of
try upon Importation from such country the other
ohcr or higher than tho duty or impost charged upon
goods OF the same kind the produce manufacture OF or
imported from any other country" And then follows
other state sha enjoy any favor privilege or i'm
mnnity whatever In matters OF navigation
which shall not also at the time be extended the
subjects or citzcLs OF the other contracting party
Now, unless the government IS prepared TO demand
duties OF per ccni English and German INVOICES on
their vanc IN the paper currency OF the United States
cannot demand them upon American invoices that cur
rency nor evade It's Obligation 70 do Justice BY
promugatng order which II would be impossible 10
fulfil, IN time 10 meet the cxigcncies Of the case.
wehI 10 the matter Of Eoss anS pa gods &
ported IN American vessels article OF Fngnh manu-
facture may be bought 10 Manchester by house,
and carried 70 rcmen and then brought 10 this port pay
ing ten per cent on s actual ooet and sea charges TO
Bremen, computed according TO the gold standard, while
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carried 20 Boston and thence 70 this port refusal Of
the government 70 allow its invoice reduced the
gold Standard oblges TO pay nearly double the OF
duties paid In the other
We understand such 10 have actually occurred
The treaty with the United States expressly spuates
IAN goods and articles OF whatever description, not
being Of the produce or manufacture Of the United
Staes which can bc legally imported into the sandwich
Isands shall, when imported n vessels OF the United
States pay no other or higher dues lmpets charges
than shall be payable upon the like goods ana articles
when imported IN the vesses Of the most favored for.
cign nation other than the nation OF which the said
goods and articles are the produce and manufacture"
n such case can be proven, we think II will be con.
edcred a violation OF the treaty obligation.
In thn connection we would say that We presume bis
Majestys government have acted advscdy In this mat
ter but we think that the weight OF responsibility
resting the Incumbent OF the occ OF Minister II.
nance, and holding other Ministerial and important STA
tons, OF 30 great and complicated nature hardly
70 allow Of that special consideration which questions Of
This kind demand.
Base Ball.
EAoLB or NEW YORK vs. EXCELSIOR or BROOKLYN.
These two clubs played short and well contested game