DUTIES.

Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 71, 17 June 1846, Page 1

DUTIES.

British Spleits., ............ ss. per gallon. Foreign Spirits,, ss. per gallon, ~. It. per ft. *• Uamannfaetared ...... 9d. per tb. Savvy ...,......,,.......>•. 2s. per ib, C1G Aa5,,..,,.,........ 2-i. per lb. Wixes 20 per cent. Ale. Bepr, Porter, aod other] ma.\t liquors .............. J 15 per cent. On all guns or weapons of any! description, or gunpowder, > 30 per cent. or any munition of war .... J Oβ all other goods,, wares,") merchandise, and property.! , . except personal baggsge.Hving j aainuU, and spicie J

We enumerate a few cf the principal conclusions for tostinsc the strength of hemp and chain cables, and ropes of smaller size :—A 25-inch hemp cable contains 8267 yarns; 100 fathoms weighs 13,063 lbs, the greatest breaking strain was 113 tons, the smallest 94 ton?. A 10-inch cable of 1172 yarns; weight of 100 fathoms 4716 lbs , the greatest breaking strain 44 tons, least 34 tons. A5ineh ditto, 135 yarns; weight of 100 fathoms, 540 lbs.: greatest breaking strain 45 tons, least 37 tons. A 2-inch chain cable, weight of 100 fathoms 24,5041b5. j greatest breaking strain, 103 tons, least 96 tons. A 1-inch ditto, weight 5376 ; greatest breaking strain 27 tons ; least, 21 tone. Four-strand rope is weaker than three-strand by 1 -sth : the cables are the weakest, and stretch exceedingly on being strained. A cable strained with a certain force, wae found on a second trial to be equal only to half the former effort. It appears that a rope, when heavily sirained stretches and diminishes its section tor* responding]}', becomes weaker in projiortion, and that the fibres take asl, by which the rope cannot recover it* elaeli. city. Hence it is not safe to suffer die strain on a rope or cuble t> amount to half its utmost power.—Nicholas Tin» mouth's Important Puints of Seamanship. Did you ever know a lady who was too weak to stand up during prayer time in church, could nnt dance all night without being tired at all ? The aristocracy of profession?, like every other aristocracy, mu>t aia c its exactions now-a-days Every mm of education, gentlemanly ftelinys, and upright conduct, mint ba recognised as a gentleman by the privileged orderg. It id personalch:iract<r, much niore than en) , ployment, that determines a man'i pises ia socie'y.