The duty of 20s. on Foreign Muscovado sugar, under the
old law, fell on Thursday to 18s. 6<1.; and the new law not having come into operation, merchants have paid the duties upon nearly all the stock of sugar in the port of London, In order to avoid the discriminative duty between Clayed Brown and Muscovado of 18. Oil. The operation will knit somewhere about 20,0001. into the pockets of the merchants at the expense of the revenue.—Shipping Gazette.
A grand costume ball, for the advancement of the Spitalfields School of Design, was held last night in Drag Lane Theatre, under the patronage of the Queen, the Royal Family, and an unusually long list of the highest nobility. The attendance was right royal, in rank and numbers; and the spectacle was magnificent.
The prosecution of Mr. Barnes in the Central Criminal Court, for the abduction of Miss Harvey, was abandoned, yesterday; as the marriage is found to be valid and irrevocable.
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