17. The day before leaving port, masters will call at the captain of the port's office, where they will receive an order for their powder, in case they had any deposited. 18. It is prohibited to sail about the harbor, in boats, after the eight o'clock gun; and any person arrested for violating this law will be taken on board the flag-ship, where he will remain at the disposition of the admiral.* 19. As a protection against desertion, and to impede the decoying of men from one ship to another, a shipping master has been appointed for the port, who only is authorized to take cognizance of the shipping of men on board of vessels in this port. To this shipping master it is prohibited to ship any man, until he is well assured that such man has been legally discharged from the vessel in which he arrived at this port, and with the knowledge and consent of the consul of the nation to which such vessel belongs. Masters of vessels can make their own contracts with seamen that have been legally discharged; but on no pretext, whatever, shall any seaman be employed on board any vessel in this harbor, unless he has been legitimately shipped before said shipping master, and it has been made known by the shipping master, and the captain of the vessel, to the consul of the nation to which such vessel belongs. If any master of a vessel shall receive or employ any seaman, in contravention of the foregoing regulations, he shall incur a penalty of fifty dollars for every seaman so received on board, which penalty shall be duplicated in every case of finding men illegally on board a vessel, after having been cleared at the custom-house. It is the duty of the shipping master, Mr. Daniel Warren, to observe these rules, and to report any infraction thereof to the captain of the port, for the enforcing of the penalty. 20. The carrying of concealed arms being prohibited by the laws of the country, under pain of six years imprisonment, the penalty will be enforced on any one that may be found on shore with pointed knives, pistols, or other prohibited arms; and it is charged upon all masters of vessels that they observe that their men respect this law. 21. Every master of a vessel will hoist his national flag when the flag-ship hoists hers, whether it be for a festival or other cause; and on leaving his vessel, will leave it charged upon his officers. 22. Masters of vessels will receive a copy of these rules from the boarding adjutant. NOTE-Vessels touching at this port in ballast, or with cargo, to try the market, or procure supplies, will be quarantined if the bill of health is not certified by the Spanish consul at the port of departure; but they can communicate with the city by letter, which will be taken by the health officer, and answers returned by the same conveyance; and can receive their supplies and clear while in quarantine. If they do not break bulk, the charge for tonnage dues will not be incurred, and the total expense will not amount to more than $110, for a vessel of 200 tons; the charge of 14 rials per ton, for the mud machine, being the principal expense. Vessels in ballast can clear, and remain in port as long as they please afterwards; and, should they then take cargo, the expense for re-entry is very light. POLICE REGULATIONS OF HAVANA. No one will be allowed to disembark on the island without a passport, except in case of inevitable loss of papers by shipwreck, capture, or other similar cause, and the presentation of a bondsman, who will answer to the authorities for the term of one year, and present him, should he be demanded. Passengers from foreign ports should have their passports certified by the Spanish consul. No master of a vessel will receive on board any passenger, to convey from one point tɔ another, without a passport, under penalty of twenty-five dollars. The limit in the eighteenth rule, respecting boats in the harbor after night-fall, has been extended by the commandant of marines until eleven o'clock. Any person that receives a slave on board any vessel, to be conveyed from one point to another, without permission from the master of a slave, shall incur a penalty of fifty dollars, without prejudice to any action at law that may be brought against him therefor. No master of a vessel will receive on board any deserting soldier or sailor, under the pains and penalties prescribed in the military code. All colored persons, slaves or free, that arrive from foreign countries, shall be sent immediately to a deposit, prepared by the government for that purpose, where they shall remain until the moment of leaving the island; or they can remain on board the vessel, provided the consignee will give a bond for one thousand dollars, to be forfeited in case they leave her, which bond shall not be cancelled until the return of the boarding officer, on the departure of the vessel. Purchases made from slaves or servants shall be forfeited, and the purchaser punished as he may deserve. The same is understood of purchases of soldiers, unless it be some article of their own manufacture, or made with the intervention of an officer. No person shall make, sell, purchase, or carry, under the penalties assigned by law, any of the following weapons:-Pistols of all classes; muskets or carbines, less than four palms in the barrel; gun or pistol-canes, of any kind; sword-canes, nor any cane with a concealed blade of any kind; dirks or daggers of any kind less than four hands in the blade; knives with spring backs, or any other contrivance to fix the blade when open; bayonet, without the gun; nor any pointed knife, great or small, of any kind. Much complaint having been made of the injury sustained from the owners of eating and liquor shops, who, together with their assistants, insidiously entice and entrap the crews of foreign vessels, on the plea of being their countrymen, and the identity of language, which induces them to join their meetings, where they suggest to them the idea of leaving their vessels, as also of claiming the wages they suppose due, holding out to them the prospect of new and more lucrative voyages, these inveiglers having no other interest than to make the sailors pass the night at their houses, causing them a daily expense on trust, which is increased by fraud and intoxication, in order to be claimed afterwards of the masters or consignees of the vessels to which they belong—it is ordered that the owners of such establishments, and boarding-house keepers, shall not admit them into their houses, nor give them any thing on trust, much less allow them to pass the night there, without written consent of the masters of their respective vessels, under pain of forfeiture of what they may supply them, and all damages that may arise from the concealment and detention of mariners. [This law has been amended by the imposition of a fine of twenty-four dollars on any boarding-house keeper that shall keep a sailor over night without permission, over and above the forfeiture above named.] TARIFF DUTY ON COCOA NUTS. J. W. M'Culloch, comptroller at the treasury department, has addressed a letter to the collector of customs for the district of New York, under date "Treasury Department, Comptroller's Office, April 15th, 1844," as follows: "SIR-It has been represented to this office that upon an importation of cocoa nuts at your district, duty has been charged at the rate of 20 per cent ad valorem; but, as upon this article, like other nuts not used in dyeing, duty should be charged at the rate of one cent per lb., you will in future collect that rate of duty upon it, under the second clause of the eighth section of the tariff:* The weight of cocoa nuts upon which duty should be levied, must include the shell, but not that of the husks, or outer covering." * The words are these:-"On all nuts not specified, except those used for dyeing, one cent per pound." COMMERCIAL STATISTICS. COTTON TRADE OF TRIESTE, AUSTRIA. IMPORTATIONS OF COTTON, AND AVERAGE PRICES AT TRIESTE. THE American cotton imported into Trieste is mostly consumed in the interior of Austria. Some, however, is sent to Switzerland, and likewise to Venetian Lombardy; but probably, before long, the importations for the supply of Venetian Lombardy and of Switzerland will be made direct to Venice from the United States, by a commercial company, which has been lately established at Venice, under the authority of the Austrian government. The direct importations of cotton from the United States into Trieste, during 1842, were much interfered with by importations of nearly an equal amount from Liverpool, Havre, and Marseilles. 29,400 bales were, however, disposed of between the commencement of the year and the 21st of November, at which period the stock on hand of American cotton was 21,000 bales, with an extremely dull market. The usual quality of the Mako cotton is considered superior to the American, with the exception of Sea Island, and the finest Louisiana. There is a superior quality of Mako cotton, which ranks between the finest Louisiana and the Sea Island. Much of the Egyptian cotton, for the manufactures of the interior of Germany, not only of Austria, but of Zoll-Verein, is supplied from Trieste. Large quantities are also sent to Switzerland. So long as the monopoly on tobacco continues, there is but one principal article of the produce of the United States (viz: cotton) which can enter into a direct commerce with Trieste. In 1835, cotton first become an article of importation, and 322 bales were received at Trieste, from the United States. The quantity imported from the United States has continued to increase, as will be seen from the table below, compiled from authentic tabular statements politely furnished the editor of this Magazine, by J. George Harris, Esq., late of the United States Tobacco Agency in Europe: IMPORTS OF COTTON INTO TRIESTE, FROM 1815 TO 1839, INCLUSIVE. AVERAGE PRICES OF COTTON AT TRIESTE, FROM 1815 TO 1839. The foregoing prices are quoted in florins, and for 100 lbs. of Austria, equal to 123 lbs. avoirdupois. The florin is worth 484 cents, United States currency. Mr. Harris says that Brazilian cotton, which formerly commanded in the Austrian market one-third more than American, now sells at the same price; the only sort that brings a better price than our common qualities being a small proportion of the very finest of the Egyptian, which stands to the main crop in a relation similar to that which the Sea Island stands to the crop of the United States. The current commercial tables of Trieste, annually published, (and for which we are indebted to Mr. Harris for a series,) show a gradual and increased demand for our cotton, together with a corresponding increase of comparative prices, while there has been a slow and constant decline in the demand and price for that of other countries. In 1843, a larger quantity, however, of the Egyptian cotton, found a market at Trieste, than in any one year previous; but, under existing circumstances, this is no indication of the active demand; "for it is," adds Mr. Harris," a well known fact there, that the crop of the previous year was forced into market by the Pacha, at numerical prices, in consequence of the severe pressure which he experienced in money matters." EXPORTS FROM GREAT BRITAIN TO THE BRAZILS. The gross amount of English and Irish produce exported to the Brazils, was— In 1841, 1842,.. £2,556,554 In 1843,.......... In the latter year, the leading articles exported were as follows: £2,140,127 |