The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-13 00:00:00

THE CNITE.D STATES.

NEW YORK, Feb. 27.—The most important mca•
sure of the week is the new Tariff Bill, which was
appeided to the General Appropriation Bill on
Saturday last, and passed to be enacted by an un-
expected vote, and is now pending in the Senate.
The following is a copy of the important parts of
the till :

"Be it further enacted, that on and after the Ist day
of July, 1555, there shall Ls a reduction of 20 per cent.
on the rates cf duty imposed by the act entitled ' An
Act Reducing the Duty on Imports, and for other Pur-
poses,' approved the 30th of July, 1846, on the goods,
wares, and merchandise imported from foreign countries,
enumerated and provided for in schedules A, 13, C,
E, F, G, and 11, and also those provided for in the 3d
section of the said act, except as hereinafter provided.
" Sect. I.—And be it further enacted, that the fol-
lowing named articles embraced in schedule D of the said
act of July 31, 1.846, be and they are hereby transferred
to schedule C, to wit :—.Manufactures and articles of
silk, or of which silk shall be a component material; that
the manufactures and articles of flax, or of which flax
shall be a component material, and blankets of all kinds
embraced in schedule E of the said act of the 31st July,
1816, be transferred to schedule D ; that wool, unmanu-
factured, shall be transferred to schedule G ; that flax,
nnmanufacturad, silk, raw, with or without the gum, not
being doubled, twisted, or advanced in manufactures in
any way ; jute, manilla, and sisal grass, coir, and other
vegetable substances unmanufactured, not otherwise
provided for ; lac spirits, lac sulphur, lamp black, Prue'
sian blue, articles not in a crude state used in dyeing or
tanning, not otherwise provided for ; brimstone crude
in bulk, cream of tartar, extracts of indigo, indiarabber
in bottles, slabs or sheet unmanufactured, extract of
madder, barilla, cudbear, bleaching powder, or chloride
of lime, indigo, cochineal, woad or pastel ; acids, acetic,
benzoic, boracic, citric, muriatic white and yellow,
nitric, oxalic, pyroligneous and tartaric, and all other
acids used for chemical, medicinal, or manufacturing
purposes not otherwise provided for, be transferred to
schedule H • and that salt, berries, nuts, flowers, plants,
and vegetables, used exclusively in dyeing or in com-
posing dyes—but no article shall be classed as such that
has undergone any manufacture—Brazil wood, brazil-
letto, and all other dyewoods in sticks ; burr stones,
wrought or unwrought, codilla, or tow of hemp or flax ;
fruits and vegetables, green or ripe, not otherwise pro-
vided for; garden seeds and all other seeds for agricul-
tural, horticultural, medicinal, and manufacturing pur-
poses, not otherwise provided for ; bolting cloths ; mad-
der-root, madder, ground or prepared ; foe, animals of
all kinds, be transferred to schedule I.
" Sect. ---And be it further enacted, that all goods,
wares, and merchandise which shall be imported from
foreign countries, after the passage of this act, and be in
public stores on the let day of July aforesaid, shall be
subject, on entry thereof for consumption, to no other
duty than if the same had been imported respectively
after that clay."
It this bill becomes a law, brandies, distilled
liquors, cordials, &c., will pay an ad valorem duty
of from 80 to 100 per cent. ; wines, cigars, snuff,
cut glass, meats, preserved fruits, &c., from :32
to 40 per cent. ; iron, cotton fabrics, woollen fa-
brics, carpets, ale, clothing, coal, cutlery, furniture,
glass tumblers (not cut),hats,hemp, jewellery,laces,
linen manufactures, molasses, paper, pepper, plated
ware, silk manufactures, soap, sugar, raw tobacc ),
wares of brass, iron, copper, zinc, (U., will pay 24 per
cent, ad scdorem, instead of 30 per cent. as hereto-
fore ; unmanufactured wool will pay 8 per cont. ;
blankets and flannels 20 per cent. ; and books, en-
gravings, periodicals, &c., hitherto
paying 10 1)
cent., will pay 8 per cent. It is remarkable that
this important move in favour of free trade was
brought about by the votes of the Massachusetts
of
Delegation, hitherto the stanchest advocatespro-
► tution,