Spirituous liquors, 2 ankers, 14 gallons; beer or porter, 3 gallons: wine, 1 gallon: coffee, 10 lbs. Russian weight: tea, 14 lb. Russian weight: sugar, 40 lbs. Russian weight, 36 lbs. English. Duty is to be paid on any overplus found on board the vessels, if such goods be admitted to duty. Note-If the overplus be entered, it is not confiscated: if not, it is confiscated, and a fine levied of five times the duty on admissible goods, and twice the sale value on prohibited goods. Account of the Quantity and Value of the different Articles of Russian Produce, shipped at Petersburgh for Great Britain, during each of the Five Years ending with 1835.—(Parl. Paper, No. 587. Sess. 1836.) Lathwood 154,621 125,183 3,755,490 108,705 3,261,150 139,057 4,171,710 Deals Total value Or in sterling. 473,100 118,275 459,833 114,971 608,084 PEWTER (Ger. Zinn, Zinngeisserzinn; Fr. Etain; It. Stagno; Sp. Estano, Peltre; Rus. Olowo), a factitious metal used in making plates, dishes, and other domestic utensils. It is a compound, the basis of which is tin. The best sort consists of tin alloyed with about 1-20th or less of copper, or other metallic bodies, as the experience of the workmen has shown to be most conducive to the improvement of its hardness and colour, such as lead, zinc, bismuth, and antimony. There are 3 sorts of pewter, distinguished by the names of plate, trifle, and ley-pewter. The 1st was formerly much used for plate and dishes; of the 2d are made the pints, quarts, and other measures for beer; and of the ley-pewter, wine measures and large measures.-(Ure.) PHILADELPHIA, a large city and sea-port of the United States, in Pennsylvania, near the confluence of the rivers Delaware and Schuylkill, in lat. 39° 57′ N., lon. 75° 10′ W. Population, in 1830, 168,000. Harbour, Light-houses, Pilotage, &c.-Vessels of the largest burden ascend the river as far as Newcastle, but those drawing above 18 or 20 feet water cannot reach Philadelphia, on account of a bar a little below the city. The entrance to the magnificent bay formed by the embouchure of the Delaware has Cape May on its north, and Cape Henlopen on its south side. The former in lat. 38° 57′ N., lon. 75° 47′ 45′′ W., is a sandy headland, rising about 12 feet above the level of the sea. It has recently been surmounted by a light-house, 60 feet in height. The light revolves once a minute; an eclipse of 50 seconds being succeeded by a brilliant flash of 10 seconds. It is seen in clear weather from 20 to 25 miles off. Cape Henlopen, marking the southern boundary of the bay, is in lat. 35° 47' N., lon. 75° 4′ 35" W. A little south from it is a hill, elevated about 60 feet above the level of the sea and on it is erected a light-house, 72 feet in height, furnished with a powerful fized light, visible in clear weather 10 leagues off. To the N. of this principal light, and close to the extremity of the cape, a second lighthouse has been constructed, 36 feet above the level of the sea, which is also furnished with a fized light, which may be seen at about 6 leagues off. The channel for large ships is between Cape Henlopen and the banks called the Overfalls. The navigation is, however, a little difficult, and it is compulsory on ships to take pilots. The latter frequently board them at sea: but if not, as soon as a ship comes between the capes, she must hoist the signal for a pilot, and heave to as soon as one offers to come on board. (Coulier sur les Phares, 2d ed. See post, for regulations as to pilotage.) Trade. The exports principally consist of wheat and wheat flour, Indian corn, and other agricultural products, lumber, coal and iron, various species of manufactured goods, &c. The principal imports are cotton, woollen, and silk goods: sugar, coffee and tea, wines, spices, &c. In point of shipping, Philadelphia is the third port of the United States: being in this respect inferior only to New York and Boston. The registered, enrolled, and licensed tonnage belonging to Philadelphia, in 1832, amounted to 79,968 tons, of which 27,244 were employed in the coasting trade. The total value of the articles imported into Pennsylvania, in the year ended the 30th of September, 1832, was 10,678,358 dollars: the total value of the exports during the same year being 3,516,066 dollars. Banks.-There were, in 1830, in Philadelphia, 12 joint stock banks, exclusive of the Bank of the United States. Allowing for the share of the capital of the latter employed in banking speculations in the city, the total capital engaged in bank business in Philadelphia that year may be taken at 10,667,000 dollars, on which a dividend accrued of 693,075 dollars, being at the rate of 6-497 per cent. The bank of the late Mr. Girard, being a private establishment, is not included in this estimate.-(Statement by J. H. Goddard, Esq., New York Daily Advertiser, 29th Jan. 1831.) None of the Philadelphia banks issue notes for less than 5 dollars. They all discount good bills, having 60 or 90 days to run, at 6 per cent. In Philadelphia the banks have been pretty successful; but in Pennsylvania, generally, there have been many failures. Insurance. There were, in Philadelphia, in 1830, 9 marine insurance companies, with an aggregate capital of 3,280,000 dollars: they divided amongst them, during the same year, 275,400 dollars, being at the rate of 8.396 per cent. There were also, in 1830, 4 fire insurance companies in the city, having amongst them a capital of 1,600,000 dollars. Their dividends, during the year, were 90,000 dollars; but, as one of the companies, with a capital of 200,000 dollars, paid nothing, the dividends amounted to 6-428 per cent. on the producing capital. In Pennsylvania, the dollar is worth 7s. 6d. currency; so that 11. sterling 17. 13s. 4d. currency.(See NEW YORK.) Weights and Measures same as those of England. Regulations of the Port.-If any master or captain of any ship or vessel, or other person, shall refuse or neglect to comply with the directions of the harbour master, in matters within the jurisdiction of his office, such person shall, for each and every such offence, seve. rally forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding 100 dollars. And the said harbour master, shall in full compensation for his services be entitled to have, recover, and receive from the master, captain, owner, or consignee of each and every ship or vessel arriving at the port of Philadelphia (coasting vessels not exceeding the burden of 75 tons excepted) the sum of 1 dollar for each and every voyage by such ship or vessel performed, and no more. Every ship or vessel that may arrive in this harbour, and that shall come to anchor in the stream anywhere between Almond and Vine Streets, having previously caused her gunpowder, if any she had on board, to be landed as the law directs, may remain in that situation 24 hours, and no longer, taking care to lie as near to the island or sand bar as may be consistent with their safety. But if, from the circumstance of a vessel having servants on board, or from any other cause, it may be thought necessary or convenient to lie a longer time in the stream, then, and in every such case, the owner, master, pilot, or other person having the charge or direction of such vessel, shall remove her from opposite the city, and shall moor her or cause her to be moored, to the northward of Vine Street, with 1 anchor and cable up, and 1 anchor and cable down the stream: and in both the above-mentioned situations, the regulation contained in the next succeeding article to be duly attended to. If any vessel properly moored in the stream shall have her anchor or cable overlaid by any other vessel in anchoring or mooring, the master or person having the care or direction of such last-mentioned vessel shall immediately, or as soon as may be after application made to him by the party aggrieved, cause the said anchor or cable so overlaying to be taken up and cleared. When any ship or vessel shall be hauled in to any wharf or dock, or alongside of another vessel, that may be lying at such wharf or dock, the owner, master, pilot, or whoever may have the command, care, or direction of her, shall have her securely made fast, and if outside of another vessel, shall get one good fast from each end of the vessel to the shore, with sufficient fenders between them and the inside vessel; and shall cause the flukes of their anchors to be taken in board; and, within 24 hours thereafter, cause her jibboom, spritsail yard, main boom, spanker and ringtail booms, if any they have, to be rigged in, and their lower yards topped up, in such a manner as least to interfere with vessels passing. If the fasts of vessels when moored at a wharf shall extend across a dock, so as to obstruct the passing or repassing of shallops, lighter, or other craft or vessel, the master or other person having the com mand of such ship or vessel shall, upon the first application, immediately cause such fast or fasts to be cast off or slacked down." No outward-bound vessel, putting off from a wharf, shall lie longer in the stream between Vine Street and Almond, in the district of Southwark, above mentioned, than 24 hours. And if vessels lying at the end of wharfs so much interlock with each other as to prevent vessels hauling in and out of docks, the master, owner, pilot, or other person having the charge of the same, shall, immediately on application from any person so wanting to haul his vessel in or out of docks aforesaid, have the vessel or vessels so interfering, moved in such a manner as to accommodate the one applied for; in which case the vessel making room for another to haul in or out shall have liberty to make her warps fast to the most convenient place adjacent, for a reasonable time; and all sea vessels, when transporting or wanting to haul into a wharf or dock, or to make sail, in order to proceed to sea, shall have the same privilege. When any ship or vessel may be lying alongside any wharf, and not taking in or discharging, she shall make way for and permit any vessel that wants to unload or load, to come inside, next the wharf, antil she discharges or loads her cargo; and the said vessel, when so discharged or loaded, shall haul outside and give way to the vessel that first occupied the wharf; provided that, from the 10th of December to the 1st of March, no vessel be compelled to move from her berth (only those at Gloucester Point piers), excepting to let ves. sels in and out of docks. Every vessel arriving from, or bound to, a foreign port, is required by law to receive a pilot, or to pay half pilotage in the warden's office, where the master of every such vessel is required, under the penalty of 10 dollars, to make a report within 36 hours after his ar rival, and again before his departure, signing his name to said report in the warden's book. Every vessel of 75 tons and upwards arriving from, or bound to, any port within the United States, and the master of all such vessels, are bound as above. The pilot of every vessel is required to inform the master of his having to report at the warden's office. As vessels obliged to receive a pilot are required to pay 10 dollars in addition, as winter pilotage, from the 20th of November to the 10th of March, both days inclusive. Foreign vessels, i. e. French, Spanish, Portuguese, Neapolitan, Danish, Russian, South American, and Haytian, to pay 2 dollars 67 cents in addition to other pilotage. Every pilot detained more than 24 hours by any master, owner, or consignee, is entitled to 2 dollars per day for every day he is BO detained. Every pilot detained more than 48 hours by the ice, after he has conducted his vessel to a place of safety, is entitled to 2 dollars per day for every day he is so detained. Every pilot compelled to perform quarantine is entitled to 2 dollars per day, for every day he is so detained, and cannot be dis charged in less than 6 days, without his consent. Every pilot obliged by the ice or stress of weather to proceed to another port, is, when there, entitled to his pilotage; and if there discharged, to 8 cents a mile for every mile he has to travel home. Every pilot is required, under a penalty of 12 dollars, to make report, within 48 hours, at the warden's office, of every vessel he con ducts to the city. 1 No ahip or vessel loading or discharging hemp at any wharf, or within any dock, shall be allowed to have any fire on board; neither shall any vessel lying outside or near her be permitted to have fire on board, while it may be considered dangerous. And no tar, turRates of Commission recommended for general Adoption, and allowed by the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, when no Agreement subsists to the contrary, established at a stated Meeting on the 10th of March, 1823. On bills remitted for collection under protest for non-acceptance or non payment, 1-2 commission to be charged On consignment of merchandise withdrawn or re-shipped, full commission to be charged to the extent of advances or responsibilities incurred, and 1-2 commission on the current value of the residue, On sales of merchandise originally consigued to another house, but withdrawn, and where no responsibilities are incurred, only 1-2 commission to be charged on the current value. The current value in all cases to be settled by certificate of 2 respectable merchants, auctioneers, or brokers, The above commissions to be exclusive of guarantee, brokerage. storage, and every other charge actually incurred. The risk of loss by fire, unless iusurance be ordered, and of robbery, theft, and other unavoidable occurrences, if the usual care be taken to secure the property, is, in all cases, to be borne by the proprietor of the goods. [The following table exhibits the Number of Vessels which arrived in the port of Philadelphia from the 1st of January 1787, to the 1st of January, 1840. Value of the Goods Imported into this port during the year 1837 and 1838, and three quarters of 1839. Showing an increase in the three quarters of this year, of $2,153,349, over the whole of 1838. Duties accruing to the United States from Imports into this port during the fiscal year in 1838 and 1839. 1st quarter, October 1st to December 31st, 1838, 2d do. January 1st to March 31st, 1839, 3d do. April 1st to June 30th, 4th do. July 1st to September 30th Total, $139,682 90 735,680 51 717,063 78 - 1,078,695 77 In 1838 the amount was Showing an increase of $2,971,122 97 - 1,054,014 17 Statement showing the Amount of Domestic Produce Exported from the port of Philadelphia, to Foreign Ports, from the 1st of January to the 30th of September, 1839. From the 1st of August to 31st December: no records previous part of the year. || Opening of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal mparative Statement of the Value of Foreign and Domestic Goods exported from Philadelphia during the years 1837 and 1838, and the three quarters of 1839 ending September 30th. Comparative Statement of the Amount of Foreign Sugar Imported into the Port of Philadelphia for Five Years, from 1835 to 1839, inclusive. With the Quantity Exported during the same period for the benefit of Drawback. Comparative Statement of the Quantity of Coffee imported into Philadelphia from Foreign Ports, during the Five Years commencing with 1835 and ending with 1839. Imported from Bags Hhds. Tcs. Bls. Bags. Tcs. Bls. Bags. Hhds. Bls. Bags. Hhds. Bls. Bags. Hhds. Tcs. Bls. |