ARTICLE 6. The preceding rules will go into force from January 1, 1863, and are neither applicable to war vessels nor steamers carrying despatches, or those which make periodical voyages according to a regularly published table. Done at Galatz, October 17, 1862.

ED. ENGLEHART.
A. DE KREMER.
D'OFFENBERG.
OMER FERZI.
SAINT PIERRE.
T. STOKES.
STRAMBIO.

Tariff of prices for towing, fixed by the European Commission of the Danube.

SEC. 1. For doubling a bend of the stream: single vessel, three ducats; two at a time, two ducats each.

SEC. 2. For towing from one part of a port on the Soulina to the other, by the order of the captain of the port: single vessel, four ducats; two at a time, three ducats each; three at a time, two ducats each. Every vessel using the iron cables of the tower will pay one ducat per cable in addition to the prices fixed in sections one and two. SEC. 3. For every other service the captain of the towboat makes his own price.

If the vessels towed into the mouth of the channel, and every one of the ports situated up the Soulina, and vice versa, employs the cables of the towboat, they must pay for each cable.

As far as Galatz or Braila, five ducats; as far as Toultcha, three ducats.

The price of towage must be paid into the hands of the authorized agents of the tower, who receipts for the same. It can also be paid to the cashier of navigation of Soulina.

NOTICE TO SHIPMASTERS.

The European Commission of the Danube has the honor to inform you that the buoys and other floating signals stationed on the Danube, opening into the Tehatal d'Ismail to indicate the direction of the navigable channel, will be withdrawn from the 15th November, 1862, and replaced immediately on the breaking up of the ice in the following spring.

Shipmasters are also informed that soon after the opening of navigation in 1863 a black buoy will be placed at the mouth of the Soulina to mark the head of the projected bank at the right shore. Vessels must take the route by the north of this buoy to cross the mouth of the channel.

March. April.

July. August. September. October. November December.

8113,076 300 48,000 308 56,548 390 63, 838 319 53, 166 264 46, 284 252 40, 050 385 58, 107 461 69, 153 106 20,363 2, 881 471,036 163.5

91 17,255 321 56,448 330 30 64,480 415 73,545 341 61,740 291 56, 142 276 48,655 408 66,429 479 76,015

117 25,277 3,085 548,717

2,276

2

698

325

1

440

7,144 11

4,790

2

814 168

68,490

AUSTRIAN DOMINIONS.

VIENNA.-T. CANISIUS, Consul.

I have the honor to lay before you my quarterly report.

MARCH 31, 1862.

The export from my consular district to the United States has been very limited during the last three months, and will remain more or less in that condition until our difficulties at home come to a termination. Vienna suffers very much by our war, and several manufactories which produced shawls and chenille goods exclusively for the American market had to stop working.

The total export from here to the United States during this last quarter amounts to 168,300 florins, which is 469,040 florins less than during the foregoing quarter. This last quarter, ending March 31, is usually the dullest of the whole year, but doubtless it would have been better if peace had been restored. Statistics that have been lately published by government, with respect to the commercial movements in Austria during 1861, show results of a favorable character, and especially a considerable increase in the exports of grain over the preceding year.

The total export of this article has been as follows:

The entire export of all different kinds of grain is for a value of 45,538,698 florins, and the greater part of it was shipped to France and England.

The great financial embarrassment of Austria seems to be constantly increasing, and all the financial schemes are of little avail. M. Von Plener, the secretary of the treasury, a few days ago laid before the reichsrash (congress) a plan to increase the direct taxes, which project was not very favorably received either by the reichsrash or the press. M. Von Plener does not propose the imposition of new taxes, but an increase of some of those already existing. I believe it is not possible to impose new taxes upon the people, even if M. Von Plener wished to do so, for the taxation of everything is already so complete that hardly an untaxed substance could be found except air and water.

The taxes to be increased are those on land, building classes, profits from business or professions, and incomes. The tax on house rent is not to be raised, that class of property being already overburdened, and paying between groundrent, tax on the edifice itself, and percentage on the rent, altogether about thirtythree per cent. The arguments of M. Von Plener consider that improvements in agriculture, increase of population, and of consumption, and the augmented prices of produce, justify an increase in the land tax, which is accordingly to be made.

The tax on houses is to be raised because the proprietors have hitherto been much more favored than the payers of the land tax, namely, the tenant. The propriety of raising the income tax and building class tax proportionately with other taxes is set down as needing no proof. The manner of the augmentation is according to the principles of equality. Accordingly the supplementary rate of land tax hitherto paid is increased by five-twelfths of the ordinary tax, the house class tax, the taxes on business profits and incomes, and the impost in Venetia known as contritento arti et commercio are doubled. In countries where the war augmentation of one-third on the land tax is in force, the same will be increased from the present twenty-four per cent. to twenty-eight; in the other