NAVIGATION LAWS. (From the Washington Republic.)

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 411, 23 March 1850, Page 2

NAVIGATION LAWS. (From the Washington Republic.)

As the following letters relate to a subject which excitei much interest, we avail ounelves of the opportunity of publishing them for general information :—: — New York, Oct. 2, 1849. Sir.— W« must aik the favour of your reply to this letter, at your earliest convenience, to govern us in acting on orders we have to charter American vessels to proceed to the Engliih possessions in the East Indies and load cargoes for London, under the new navigation acts of Great Britain. These orders are received by us from Houses in England, and we hare already chartered the ihip Ambassador, of this port, to load at Calcutta for London. By the act of Parliament, we believe it is required that the President will grant the same privileges fo ships under the British flag that England grants to vi. Will a British ship be allowed to enter here with a cargo of foreign produce (not of Great Britain) after the Ist January next, on the same condition as ships under the flag of the United States. We trust you will pardon our thus trespassing on your time. And remain, Sir, Your obedient servants, Barclay and Livingston. To Hon. W. M. Meredith, Secretary of the Treasury.

Treasury Department, Oct. 12, 1849. Gentlemen, — In reply to the inquiry made in your letter of the 2nd instant, 1 have to state that, in consequence of the recent alteration in the British navigatiou laws, British vessels from British or other foreign ports will (under our existing laws) be allowed after the Ist January next, to enter in our ports, with cargoes of the produce of any part of the world. I have fum ther to state, that such vessels and their cargoes will be admitted on tho same terms as to duties and impoits as veiseli of the United States. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, Vf. Meredith, Secretary of the Treasury. To Messrs. Barclay & Livingston, New York.