According to an agreement made by the States of the Zollverein, the king has authorized that the levying of the import duty on corn, codded grain of all sorts, flour, bruised and shelled grain, peeled barley, groats, and bruised or peeled corn, shall be suspended from the 15th inst. to the end of the year 1853. This is hereby made known to the public, and notice is also given that the customs and revenue authorities have been provided with instructions regarding the suspension of the duty.

BODELSCHWING, the Minister of Finance.

Berlin, October, 1853.

The prolongation of the period assigned for the free importation into Prussia of corn and farinaceous products till September 30, 1854, is announced in the Staats Anzeiger. Most of the various other States of the Zollverein either have already promulgated the same notice or are about to do so.

HARVEST.

Berlin, Dec. 19, 1853.

The general report on the harvest, which has lately been published, the results of more than 300 reports of agricultural societies shows, that the harvest has been by no means so bad as expected, and that there is no fear of scarcity. Reports to the same effect have come in from almost all parts of Germany. Every difficulty that stood in the way of the despatch of corn by canal has been removed by an energetic concentration of efforts, and the import duty on all grain has been repealed till after next harvest shall have been got in. By these measures Prussia has been saved from dearth, without the intervention of any prohibition of exportation or other violent measures.— -Cor.

DUTY ON RICE.

Staats Anzeiger, November, 1853. An order has been issued from the Finance Minister for the repeal of the duty on rice till the end of this year. The approaching accession of the Steuerverein, in which this duty has also been temporarily repealed, made it necessary for the Zollverein also to take the same step to prevent duty-free rice being imported from Hanover after the turn of the year without further payment of duty, and thus competing unfairly with duty-paid rice in the Zollverein.

FOREIGN SYRUP.

By royal ordinance and despatch from H. M. Minister at Berlin, May 4, 1854, the duty of two thalers per centner on foreign syrup, prescribed by the ordinance of the 11th of June, 1853 (Gesetz-Sammlung), from the 1st of January, 1854, to the end of August, 1855, shall apply only to ordinary syrup, that is to say, to such as, according to the result of the tests which are to be directed for this purpose by the customs authorities, contains no crystallizable sugar, or only a small quantity. Any syrup which is found to be incompatible with the terms of the aforesaid rule shall be charged with the import duty of four thalers per centner.

This order shall be applicable to all the clearances already effected, from January 1, 1854.

MONEYS.

The money of account in this country is stated in thalers divided into thirty silver groschen. The bank notes bear a relative value with the silver currency.

Bank notes of 1,000, 500, 100, 50, 25, 5, and 1 thalers.

The Cologne mark is in use here as in other parts of Germany for the purchase and sale of precious metals. The mark being equal to 3608 grains troy. ADAM SPIELMANN & Co.

WEIGHTS.

The weights adopted as the basis of the tariff are the hundred weight of the Great Duchies of Baden and Hesse, and the toll cwt. which is divided into 100 lb., of which-

NETHERLANDS.

Holland, or the Seven United Provinces, as it was formerly called, on being united after the reign of Napoleon, with the ancient Netherlands, or Low Countries, adopted the latter general appellation for both parts; but, on the separation in 1830, in consequence of the rebellion among its newly acquired subjects, it was reduced to its former limits, though it retained its new name of "The Netherlands," whilst the other half was formed into a separate kingdom, denominated "Belgium."-Ed.

PROVINCE OF NORTH HOLLAND.

Principal Ports.-Amsterdam, Muiden, Zaandam, Enkhuizen, Medimblik, Edam, Monnikendam, Alkmaar, Den Helder, Texel, Terschelling, Purmerend.

PROVINCE OF SOUTH HOLLAND.

Principal Ports.-Brielle, or Briel, Maasluis, Helvoetsluis or Hellevoetsluis, Rotterdam, Delfshaven, Schiedam, Viaardingen, Dordrecht.

PROVINCE OF ZEALAND.

Principal Ports.-Vlissingen (Flushing), Veere (Campveer), Zierikzee, Bromvershaven, Middleburg.

PROVINCE OF FRIESLAND.

Principal Ports.-Stavoren or Staveren, De Lemmer, Workum, Harlingen, Dokhum, Makkum.

PROVINCE OF OVERYSSEL.

Principal Ports.-Kampen, Zwol or Zwolle.

PROVINCE OF GRONINGEN.

Principal Ports.-Delfzyl, Termunterzyl, Groningen, Oude Pekel-A, Lang Akkerchans, Zolthamp.

According to orders from the King, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Justice, and the Marine, make known to those whom it may concern, that, in order to observe a strict neutrality in the war which has just broken out, no privateers having commissions or letters of marque, either alone or with any prizes which they may have made, shall be admitted to enter our ports or the mouths of our rivers, except in case of actual stress of weather; in consequence, orders have been sent to keep a strict watch over such privateers and their prizes, and to compel them to put to sea again as soon as possible. The above ministers, with the authorization of the king, warn all the inhabitants of the kingdom not to engage in any way in the present war by means of armaments, as no letters of marque issued by the belligerent powers to Dutch citizens, without the authorization of the king's government, will have legal value. The ministers hereby make known to the public that the Dutch government, in observing the most absolute neutrality, will not sanction any commission or letter of marque; therefore, the subjects of the king, and all those who are subjected to the laws of the kingdom, would, by taking any part in the war, by fitting out vessels, run the risk of being treated as pirates by other nations, and expose themselves to prosecutions before the Dutch tribunals, as well for making an attack on the safety of the State as for piracy.-Official Journal of the Hague, April 1854.

DESERTERS.

By O. C., March 9, 1854, seamen, not being slaves, who desert from merchant ships belonging to subjects of the King of the Netherlands, within Her Majesty's dominions or the territories of the East India Company, shall be liable to be apprehended and carried on board their respective ships. (See p. 9.)

LIGHTS, BUOYS, &c.

The Hague, July 19, 1853. The Minister of Marine hereby gives notice that the painted buoy serving as a beacon for the Friesland Sea Gat has been replaced by a red anchor buoyshaped buoy, of the first size, which is furnished, for plainer distinction, with a top-basket; the large Cape on the Englishman's Bank bearing S.W. quarter S., and the Large Cape on Schiermonnikoog S. a quarter E.

Any further changes in the buoys of the Friesland Sea Gat will be published hereafter.

The Minister aforesaid,

J. ENSLIE.

ALTERATIONS.

The Hague, March 24, 1853. The Minister of Marine provisionally informs such as are interested thereby, 1st. That the present existing sea-pier called Feldkaap, on the Island of Flieland, is soon to be taken down, and to be replaced in the same bearings by a new pier.

2ndly. That a new sea-pier is to be erected on the Robbenbol, being the west corner of the dry Horst of Flieland, in the immediate neighbourhood of the Eyerland Shallows, furnished with two screens of an oval or elliptic shape, the one bearing N.E. and S. W., and the other N.W. and S.E. (unadjusted compass.)

3rdly. That on the high sand hills near and at the Koog, on the Island of Texel, a screen is to be erected, bearing N.E. to E. and S. W. to W. (unadjusted compass.)

The above-mentioned pier on the Robbenbol and the screen at the Koog are to serve as bearings for the recognition of the Island of Texel, and the there existing Eyerland Shallows, as a caution for ships to keep off the coast. After the above-mentioned new works shall have been erected, further notice will be given thereof.

The Minister aforesaid,

T. ENSLIE.

The Hague, April 9, 1853.

The Minister of Marine, with reference to the announcement of 21st of February last, gives notice, that the present light on the Lighthouse of Kykdum will, in the evening of 11th May next ensuing, no longer be lighted, and that from that day up to the completion of the works for exchanging the aforesaid coast lighting for a new Catadioptric Lighting Apparatus of the first rank, an auxiliary light will burn on the lighthouse aforesaid, consisting of a Catadioptric Lighting Apparatus of the fourth rank (small size), lighting the horizon from north through west to south (adjusted compass), and visible at a distance of two miles.

The time of lighting the new Catadioptric Lighting Apparatus of the first rank will be announced in due time.

The Minister aforesaid,

T. ENSLIE. The Hague, April 16, 1853. The Minister of Marine gives notice, that about the middle of the month of May next ensuing, the iron pyramid-shaped sea buoy, situate outside the slijkgat of Goedereede, will, for the purpose of repairs, be temporarily substi tuted by an ordinary black sea buoy of the first size, marked "Goedereede.” The replacement of the pyramidical sea buoy will be announced in due time. The Minister aforesaid, T. ENSLIE.

FRIESCHE SEA GAT.

The Hague, August 18, 1853. The Minister of Marine hereby gives notice, that on account of the change which has taken place in the Friesche Sea Gat, the outside buoy and the outer buoys have been placed more eastward, and the number diminished by a black and white buoy, so that, at present the White Flag buoy, is the fourth white buoy on entering; that likewise the painted buoy, indicating the Sea Gat, has been substituted by a red anchor-shaped buoy with a basket top.

This red anchor-shaped buoy is placed in 100 palms depth, in the following bearings:

The large lighthouse at Schiermonikoog, S. E.

The large lighthouse at the Englishman's Bank, S. W. S.

The bearings in which this buoy, coming from sea, can be recognized, are :

The steeple of Wierum in three, with the lighthouses on the Englishman's Bank (namely, Wierum, to the west of the small lighthouse).