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DUTIES ON IMPORTATIONS INTO BRAZIL.-Continued.

New Regulation for the Valuation of Liquids, generally, and Flour from Wheat, organized in conformity with the decree of the 7th January, 1840, and put in force on the 27th February.

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Oil, Vegetable, all other not specified...132 gallons
Oil, Fish, whale and spermaceti,........132 gallons
Oil, Animal, all other not specified,...132 gallons
Spirits, all not specified,......
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Wine, Figuera and Vienna, new,
and Madeira, common,.......................
Wine, of Spain,................
Wine, all other in casks, not specified,
Wine in bottles, Champagne and
Constantia, or imitations thereof,..
Wine, Madeira, Muscatel, Sherry,
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deaux, of whatever quality,.......
Wine, Muscatel and Frontignac,.................
Wine, all other in bottles, not specified,...9 quarts

COMMERCIAL RELATIONS OF SWEDEN WITH THE UNITED STATES.

DERIVED FROM CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENTS PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION
OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

Several commercial treaties have been concluded between Sweden and the United States. The first was negotiated at Paris, in 1783, and expired by its own limitation in 1788. This treaty placed the United States flag, in the ports of Sweden, on the footing of the most favored nations, granting equal privileges to Swedish vessels in the United States. Lu 1816, another treaty was concluded with Sweden, the provisions of which were similar

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in their effect to those of the preceding treaty. This treaty expired in 1824. On the 4th of July, 1827, a third treaty was concluded with Sweden, by which the commercial intercourse of the two countries is placed on a footing of the most perfect reciprocity. By this treaty, United States vessels are allowed the same privilege of indirect trade to the Swedish ports which is enjoyed by national vessels, and are made liable to no other or higher exactions, in the shape of" tonnage, lighthouse, pilotage, and port charges, as well as the perquisites of public officers, and all other duties and charges, of whatever kind or denomination, levied in the name or to the profit of the government, the local authorities, or of any private establishments whatsoever." This treaty is still in force; its operation, although limited, in the first instance, to the period of ten years, being continued, by its terms, until one "of the high contracting parties shall have announced, by an official notification to the other, its intention to arrest the operation of said treaty." The 9th and 10th articles of this treaty also preclude either of the contracting powers from establishing "any prohibition or restriction of importation or exportation, or any duties of any kind or denomination whatsoever," on the products of the soil or industry of the other contracting power, unless similar prohibitions, restrictions, and duties, be likewise estat shed upon articles of the like nature, the growth of any other country. A perfect reciprocity is also guarantied in regard to "all bounties and drawbacks" which may be allowed within the territories of either of the high contracting parties, upon the importation or exportation of any article whatsoever.

On all articles in the vessels of those countries which have no treaties with Sweden there is imposed in her ports a discriminating duty of 40 per cent, and on all exports in similar vessels a like duty of 50 per cent.

United States vessels pay a tonnage duty of about 9 8-10ths cents per last; the Swedish last, in the admeasurement of vessels, being generally found to exceed 11, and some. times to equal 2 American tons. Foreign vessels, not protected by treaty, pay a tonnage duty of about 293 cents per last.

TARIFF OF SWEDEN.

List of Duties on the Principal Articles of Import into Sweden.

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Dressed, more or less, or tanned, and sewed together, all sorts, pay 50 per cent more than the above duties for undressed skins and furs.

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Gauze, half lawn, muslin, mull, or jaconet, to 9 qrs. wide, per ell
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6 528-1000 cts. 816-1000 of a ct. 13 56-1000 cts. $1.20

53 056-1000 cts. 32 640-1000 cts. 32 640-1000 cts.

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Horses and Colts imported for the improvement of the breed pay one fourth of the above duty.

Ewes and Rams, from Germany and countries on the Atlantic, imported for improving the breed,...........................

Free.

THE BOOK TRADE.

1.-Cottage Residences; or a Series of Designs for Rural Cottages and Cottage Villas, and their Gardens and Grounds, adapted to North America. By A. J. Downing, author of a treatise on Landscape Gardening. 8vo. pp. 187. New York: Wiley & Putnam. 1842. We have for a long time desired to see a work of this kind, adapted to the tastes and condition of our republic; a work that should lay before the American citizen plans and views calculated to improve our rural and domestic architecture. We have been sadly deficient in this respect; in proof of which one need only pass through any of the towns and villages in the interior to convince him that very little attention, comparatively, has been paid to the style of building, which, for the most part, is rude and uncouth. We therefore heartily thank Mr. Downing for presenting the public with a work so admirably adapted to this object. It is the first volume, we believe, yet published in the United States devoted to rural architecture; and will, we trust, be instrumental in reforming altogether the crude and barnlike appearance of our infant villages. The volume is beautifully printed, and illustrated with numerous engravings.

2.-Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of THOMAS NOON TALFOURD, author of "Ion." 12mo. pp. 354. Philadelphia: Carey & Hart. 1842.

This volume corresponds in style and size with the "Miscellanies of Macauley," collected and published by the same enterprising house some time since. The contents of the present volume consist chiefly of criticisms and essays originally published in the leading periodicals of England, such as the "New Monthly Magazine," "Retrospective Review," and the "Examiner." Talfourd has few if any superiors, as a pure, chaste, English prose writer. He has all the smoothness and finish of Edward Everett, with far greater force and energy of style. He possesses a true appreciation of the sublime and the beautiful; and in his criticisms of poets and novelists, he appears to enter into the inmost recesses of the human soul, and bring out all the hidden riches of thought and springs of intellectual movement within its sacred precincts.

3.-The Christian's Triumph; including Happy Death-bed Scenes, illustrative of the Power of the Gospel: Drawn from Facts. By J. G. ADAMS. Boston: A. Tompkins. 18mo. pp. 216.

The object of this volume, as stated by the author, is "to give those who are inclined to use in earnest that oft-repeated expression, ‘Universalism may do to live by, but will not sustain the soul in death,' an opportunity of learning the error of this statement, and to exhibit, in undeniable facts, the power and influence of the gospel in the hour of dissolution." The volume contains the closing scenes in the lives of more than sixty persons of every age, sex, and condition in life, who have embraced the doctrine of the universal holiness and happiness of man in a future state.

4.-Emma, or the Lost Found; or, Reliance on God Rewarded. New York: Dayton & Newman. 1842.

This little tale, which is, we believe, the first attempt of a young gentleman, a reporter for one of the New York daily journals, at authorship, evinces a capacity for this branch of fictitious narrative that may be improved by experience. It is a simple narrative, written in an agreeable and easy style, inculcating, in an attractive form, correct moral sentiments and right feelings. Its design and tendency are good, and we trust the author may be induced to devote his leisure to the production of a series of stories of a similar character.

5.-Elements of Rhetoric; comprising the substance of the article in the Encyclopedia Metropolitana; with Additions. By RICHARD WHATELY, D.D. Boston: James Munroe & Co. 12mo. pp. 347. 1842.

This treatise has already taken a high rank among works of the same class, and its adop tion in our seminaries of learning generally, to the exclusion of more faulty works, will, we are confident, tend to promote the acquisition of this important branch of external education.

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