Spirits Brandy, rum, (except the produce of this island,) gin, whiskey, and all other spirits and cordials, per gallon.... Sugar, refined, per lb..... Swine, per head......... Tea, per lb...... Tobacco, manufactured unmanufactured... 640s. per cent ad valorem, and 3d. per lb. 480s. per cent ad valorem, and 3d. per lb. 1408. per cent ad valorem, and 2s. 6d. per Wines, in bulk or bottled, per tun, 290s. and Wood-hoops, per M....... Staves, heading, red or white oak, or ash, per M. Glass and silk manufactures... 128. 83. 83. 4s. 18. 2s. 40s. per cent ad valorem. 40s. per cent ad valorem. Cotton, linen, woollen, leather, paper manufactures, mock jewelry, hardware, 40s. per cent ad valorem. Except the following, which shall not be hable to any duty under this act :Coals, coke, coin, bullion, books and printed papers, diamonds, fresh fruit and vegetables, bay and straw, oil, meal or cakes, as food for cattle, mulberry and other plants, cotton, wool, ice, fresh fish, turtle, poultry, fresh meats, leeches, gums, resins, tortoise-shell, guano and other manures, singing birds, dogs, specimens of natural history, army clothing, slates, regimental necessaries, raw hides, hemp, flax, and tow, sarsaparilla, and dyewoods. Molasses and unrefined sugar of foreign manufacture, are prohibited. NEW DUTIES AT PORT SPAIN. The following is a table of the new duties for this, port, which will go into operation on January 1st, 1848: Flour, per bbl. of 196 lbs., 5s.; meal, or other flour not wheaten, per bbl., 1s.; do. de., per puncheon, 4s.; crackers, and other breadstuffs, per bbl., 74d.; corn, per bush., 24d.; black-eyed peas, do. do.; meat, salted or eured, per 100 lbs., 4s. 2d.; fish, dried or salted, do., Is.; do., pickled, do., 23. 6l.; lard, do. do.; cheese, do., 5s.; soap, do., 18.; candles, tallow, do., 2s. id.; do., wax, sperm, composition, and all others, do., 6s.; sugar, refined or raw, do., 59.; rice, do, 2s.; butter, per lb., id.; tea, do., 2d.; oats, per bush., 24d.; tobacco, leaf or manufactured, per lb., 3d.; malt-liquor, in wood, per 64 galls., 5s. 4d.; do., in bottles, per doz., qt. bottles, and in proportion, 61.; spirits turpentine, per gall., 1d.; tar, per bbl., 6d. ; pitch, do. do.; coal, per hhd., 1s.; building-lime, do. do.; bricks, per 1,000, 1s.; lamber, white, sprnce, and pitch pine, per 1,000 feet, 6s. 3d.; shingles, per 1,000, 1s.; shooks, per bundle, 6d.; staves, per 1,000, 10s.; neat-cattle, each, 2s. 1d.; horses, mares, geldings, colts, and foals, each, £2; mules, 10s; asses, 2s.; carriages, on springs, four-wheeled, £7; do. do., two-wheeled, £4; muskets, guns, and fowling-pieces, 5s; gunpowder, loose, in kegs, per lb., 2d.; do., in canisters, 5d.; articles of silk mannfacture, per £100, ad. val., £7 10s. ; non-enumerated articles, per £100, ad. val., £3 10s. EXEMPTIONS.-Coin, bullion and diamonds; printed books; guano, or other manure; steam-engines and appurtenances; sugar-pans, and apparatus used for the manufacture of sugar or other produce; temper-lime, and draining-tiles. All live stock, except horses, mares, geldings, colts, foals, mules, asses, and neat-cattle. Provisions and stores of every description, imported for the use of Her Majesty's land or sea forces. Upon all sugar, molasses, rum, cocoa, coffee, cotton, indigo, and other produce exported from this colony, per £100 ad. val., £3 10s. Upon all ships and vessels coming to and entering at this colony, the following duties on tonnage, viz:--upon every ship or vessel of 50 ton and upwards-for every ton of the registered tonnage, 1s. 6d. No duty of tonnage shall be payable on any vessel entering and clearing in ballast. The following goods landed upon any public wharf or quay, in the town of Port Spain, the following rates of wharfage to be paid by the importer:-On every thousand feet of lumber, staves, or staves in shook, thousand bricks, and thousand shingles, Is. TRINIDAD TARIFF AND TONNAGE DUES. The following tariff has been passed by the Council of Government of Trinidad, in lieu of the Imperial duties; the abolition of the latter having been agreed upon in the passing of an ordinance to that effect:-' TABLES OF DUTIES ON IMPORTS-PASSED IN COUNCIL, OCTOBER 1, 1847. TABLE I." Upon all goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into this Colony, the following duties: Lard, per 100 pounds. Cheese, per 100 pounds.. Soap, per 100 pounds. Candles, tallow, per 100 pounds.. 66 wax, sperm, composition, and all others, per 100 pounds. Sugar, refined or not, per 100 pounds. Spirits and strong waters, per gallon................................................................ Oats, per bushel..... Tobacco, manufactured or unmanufactured, per pound.. Spirits of turpentine, per gallon..... Tar, per barrel...... Pitch, per barrel.. Coin, bullion, and diamonds; printed books; guano, or other manure; steam-engines and appurtenances; sugar pans, and apparatus used for the manufacture of sugar, or other produce; temper lime and draining tiles. All live stock, except horses, mares, geldings, colts, foals, mules, asses, and neat cattle. Provisions, and stores of every description, imported for the use of Her Majesty's land or sea forces. TABLE II. Upon all sugar, molasses, rum, cocoa, coffee, cotton, indigo, and other produce exported from this colony, per £100 ad valorem...... £3 10 0 TABLE III. Upon all ships and vessels coming to, and entering at the colony, the following duties on ton.rige : Upon every ship or vessel of 50 tons and upwards-for every ton of the registered tonnage of such ship or vessel........ £0 1 6 Upon every ship or vessel of 25 tons and upwards, but under 50 tons-for every ton of the registered tonnage of such ship or vessel.... £0 1 3 And upon every ship or vessel under 25 tons-for every ton of the registered tonnage of such ship or vessel....... £0 0 3 Provided always that no such duty or tonnage shall be payable in respect of any vessel entering and clearing in ballast; and provided that where any ship or vessel, of which the registered tonnage shall be less than 50 tons, shall enter more than twice in one and the same year, the tonnage payable upon, or in respect of such vessel, for every entry after the second in the same year, shall be 3d. sterling per ton, and no more. THE CONSULAR SYSTEM OF FRANCE. In a former part of the present number of this Magazine, will be found some important suggestions for the re-modelling of our consular system. They come from a highly respectable gentleman abroad, whose long experience as a consular agent of the United States entitle his suggestions to the highest respect. Our national legislators would do well to examine the ordinance of the king of the French, in regard to the consular system of that kingdom, lately published in the "Journal des Debats." It certainly furnishes some suggestions that would be of value in legislating in Congress on the subject. The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun gives the substance of the French king's ordinance, as follows: "A regular system of instruction and advancement is introduced, well calculated to render consuls respectable even without large salaries. They are to be brought up like diplomates in a regular school, to which none are admitted who have not previously passed a regular examination in regard to their knowledge on law, science, and commerce. When they have passed this examination, they are to be admitted as consular pupils, (eleves, consul,) and placed with some consular agent to acquire the practical duties and routine of the business of consuls. After a number of years, and a second examination, they are promoted from consular pupils to consular agents, and thence, as opportunities may occur, from that post to a consulate of the second rank, from which at last they become consuls of the first rank, and consuls-general.” The Paris correspondent truly says, "Such a system is admirably calculated to produce men who will command respect, and whose spelling, at least, need not be corrected in the State Department." He might have added; that it would promote purity among politicians, by removing the temptations at present offered to men to become merely partisans, in the shape of consulships; for it is well known our consuls are not appointed merely for their fitness, but mainly to reward their party services. RAILROAD, CANAL, AND STEAMBOAT STATISTICS. LITTLE MIAMI (OHIO) RAILROAD. THIS road, extending from Cincinnati to Springfield, a distance of 84 miles, was first opened in 1841. The capital stock of the company is divided into 20,000 shares; the par value of each share is $50. The dividends are payable in June and December. The original cost of the road was $1,262,000. The flat rail is used. We give below a table of distances, rates of fare, &c.: Freight Rates.-Coal, iron, sugar, salt, butter, groceries, and dry goods, $3 20 per ton, through; lumber, $350 per M.; corn and grain, 7 cents per bushel; light and bulky merchandise, $4 per ton, through; four-wheeled carriages, 4 cents per mile; horses, 4 cents per mile. This road shows an increase in its receipts for the month of October, 1847, over the receipts of the same month in 1846, of $2,820; of which increase $2,775 is on receipts from passengers, and $15 only on freight receipts. MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILROAD. COST OF ROAD, ETC.-PLACES THROUGH WHICH IT PASSES-DISTANCES—RATES OF FARE AND FREIGHT-MERCHANDISE TRANSPORTED OVER THE ROAD IN 1847. This road was built by the State of Michigan at a cost of about $2,500,000, and was first opened February 1st, 1846. It cost the present company, having been disposed of to a corporation, principally of Eastern capitalists, $2,000,000. The stock is divided into 22,000 shares, and the par value is $100. Dividends are payable on the 1st of June and 1st of December in each year. The H rail is used, weighing 61 pounds per yard. The road extends from Detroit to Kalaniazoo, a distance of 146 miles. We give below a tabular statement of the distances, rates of fares in first-class-cars, etc.— Freight Rates-Coal, iron, and manures, 39 cents per 100 lbs. ; lumber, 25 cents per 100 feet; shingles, 65 cents per M.; corn and grain, 39 cents per 100 lbs.; heavy mer chandise, such as salt, butter, sugar, beef, pork, and fish, $1 per bbl.; groceries, 39 cents per 100 lbs.; dry goods, 55 cents per 100 lbs.; flour, per barrel, 66 cents; wheat, per hundred pounds, 33 cents; whiskey, beer, and cider, $1 10 per barrel. For lesser dis. tances than through, the above rates are charged pro rata. No parcel is taken on this road, from one station to another, for less than 12 cents. Vehicles, 95 cents per 100 pounds; horses and cattle, $1 35 each; hogs and calves, $1 64 each; sheep, $1 10 each. Mr. J. W. Brooks, Superintendent of this road, furnishes the following statistical table, showing the business of the road for the year ending September 1, 1847 :— ACCOUNT OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS, BY THE MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILROAD, FROM SEPTEMBER 1, 1846, TO SEPTEMBER 1, 1847. ARTICLES. 820,690 | Potatoes...... ARTICLES. Imports. Merchandise.......lbs. 12,263,748 Exports. 150 ...bush. 2,179 86,756 Tobacco............ 12,169 Lumber.............feet 380,931 .42,936 For the earnings of this road since its purchase in September, 1846, to 1st of May, 1847, and other particulars, see Merchants' Magazine for November, 1847. WESTERN AND ATLANTIC RAILROAD. This road, built by the State of Georgia, extends from Atlanta to Dalton, a distance of 100 miles, and was opened in 1847. The flat bar rail is used 50 miles, the rest bridge and flange. The following table shows the distances, rates of fare, &c., from Atlan'a to The following are the rates of freight, as adopted by the State of Georgia: Iron, 15 cents per 100 pounds, through; lumber, $1 per M. for first ten miles, and 25 |