The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-08 00:00:00

NEW TARIFF OF THE GERMAN
LEAGUE.

(From the Leeds Mercury.)
We announced in the greater part of our impression
last week, that the Congress of the German Commercial
League, recently assembled at Stuttgardt, load resolved
to raise the dates on Mixed Worsted and Cotton goods
from 30 dollars per cwt. to 50 dollars per cwt. This in-
formation so Tar anticipated all the ordinary constneereial
and political advices, that some of our readers traveituo-
-posed we must have been misinformed; and a Bradford
Contemporary of Thursday takes upon himself to lecture us
,for disturbing the mercantile community by inaccurate
statements. Unhappily our information was but too correct
—as correct as it was early: it proceeded from a ssrsiree
which could not be mistaken; and which was likely to an-
ticipate other sources of information. Our merceartile
friends at Bradford have not yet received advices of the
intended chaiige from their Continental correspondents;
and we assure them it is with mosesincere pain that we
perform the task of communicating to them such nnfa-
vourable news. It was, however, our duty to • Faddish
what we knew to be the fact on this very important 'sub-
ject; and it is now our disagreeable duty to follow 5t up
with the following particulars:
The decisions of the Congress have been excecssngly
hostile to English interests—hostile to a degree rhieh
ought to engage the serious attention of the Ereglish
Government; especially as
,th e contemplated elvenges
har e been kept so secret that e Pen the Prussian Minister
in London told Sir Robert Peel he knew nothing of them,
end hoped that no such designs were entertained,:even
after they were known to our merchants, and had been
fully published in the eolumns.of this paper.
The resolutions of the Congress of the "Zaire:rein"
have not yet been officially published, nor were ' they
signed by the delegates at Stuttgardt until the 29th of
SePternber. We are; however,. enabled to state the fol-
lowing particulars
,lat. There will be a small increase of duty on Cotton
wanes (though the proposal for a great increase of duty
ou Cotton YARNS has for the present been defeated.);
2d. English and French Qutncaillerie goods, that is,
the Hardware goods of Birmingham, &c., will be placed
under a considerably higher daty,—probably an ad lition
of not less than 50 dollars per ewt.
3d. and most important. Manufactured goo is of
Worsted, Worsted and Cotton mired, fancy woven and
printed, dyed and grey. are in future to pay a, duty of 50
dollars per cwt. The only exceptions under this 'head
are all plain worsted fabrics, such as merinos, saxlniee,
and lastings, which, together with woollen cloths- and
plain kerseymeres, will remain at the former rate of clut,y,
namely 30 dollars per cwt.
These arc the principal changes. The tariff will be
published officially in a short time, when the Exact
terms of it will appear. It is not known how soon the
increased duties will come into effect.
The articles which will be principally affected are ma-
nufsctured in Yorkshire and some parts of Lancashire •
they may be enumerated as follows—
Figured Merinos.
Printed Merinos.
Dyed and printed Muslins de laine.
Printed Saxonies.
Dyed, printed, and figured Orleans.
Figured Alpacas.
Figured Parisians and Chusans.
Crapes of all kinds, fancy and printed Lastings,
Stoekinetts, fancy Pantaloon Stuffs.
Simmer Cloths.
Fancy Buckskins, Cassinetts.
Fancy Worsted and Cotton Valentias, &c.
It is too well known to persons interested te th
woollen manufacture that the articles on which-nu in-
crease of duty has now taken place, have within a very
few years been subjected to duties so heavy as al-
most or entirely to exclude them from the German
markets. Cloths and kerseymercs have ceased to be
exported to Germany, and the place of those goods
had been taken by the above fancy articles, of vitriotts
kinds and texture. The object of the League, evi-
dently is to dispense with English manufacture,e as
fast us they can. The duties are, therefore, now raised
enormously on all the fabrics we have specified 3- and
even printed or figured worsted goods, though unuaised
with cotton or any other substance, are subjected to the
increased duty ; which is a step beyond what r. as ex-
pected to have been proposed to the Congress. The
duty on a piece of 6-quarter figured merino, costarg at
present in the dyed state about 305., will be very nearly
I 55., i.e. 50 per cent. ad valorem.
It is feared by persons engaged in the trade, tha
many of the articles we have named, and which eceisti-
tute the great bulk of our woollen and worsted exports
to Germany, will be quite excluded by the increased
duties. The object of the League is to-force the manu-
factures of Prussia and Saxony. In Saxony, plain and
figured worsted goods of various kinds are already
made, and, with the additional protection nosy given,
they will soon come into extensive use, to the csciusion
of the English stuffs.
But a more formidable Power than Saxony is it the
bottom of this hostile measure. Prussia, notwit Ireland-
ing all the liberal professions of her Government, has
been the main-spring of the movement ; and it may help
to explain the conduct of,
.this. Government, when we
state that the King. of
,Prussia himself is the real head
(our informant calls him " the owner") of a trading-com-
pany formed at Berlin neder, the firm of " die Beelaind-
lung," which has erected a fiery large manufactory for
plain and fancy worsted' gdods on the principle Of our
power-loom concerns in Yorkshire. Of course this com-
pany hopes to supply Germany with a great part of the
goods heretofore imported from England ; and i t is pro-
bable that the smaller manufacturers in Gerniany will
soon feel the pr oximity of their mighty rival.
The Prussian Ambassador in London will, no doubt,
exert his utmost skill to persuade Sir Robert Peel that
the augmentation of the German Tariff is a measure of
small importance ; he will take credit for the duty on
Yarns not having been raised. The fact is, that it is at
present the obvious iuterest.of Prussia to admit E'nglish
yarns at the lowest,rate of duty, or even duty-free ; they
constitute the raw material of her rising manufacture; ;
and if it were not for the strenuous opposition ofbt re
smaller States in the League, especially of Wirtera erg
and Baden, she would wish to remove all duty from
yarns, both cotton and worsted. But when thesp,r;3reruttengr
mills -of Ger Many become more numeroiuns and
the League
eStablislied, then there will be a struggle
ful one.
duty which havetaken
The augmentations of
by Prussia ; and such Is her
to lay heavy duties on yarns, and prob ably a success-
place have been proposed
slight oppost a. We must
been carried with verybd return for our own liberalised
commanding influence
in
say that this is a very a
theCongress,.t9iiat they have
Tariff, which has It is too apparent
and other kinds of Baltic
given great encouragement to timber
produce.
I establishment of all kinds of mat.ufactures
approaching when
and unless some unforeseen check -should
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lug blow after blow, is an act of the utmost injustice
and folly.

IMP
ORTATIONS,OF FOREIGN
CATTLE.
We learn from a Danish gentle Men well aeqttainted
with the trade and statistics of Denmark, that there
is every probability of an extensive trade inr cattle
between that - country and. England. The cattle
'hitherto sent to Hamburgh are likely to be,sent to
this country, as the better market. Arrangements are
-making, since the passing of the new English tariff,
to run steamers next spring direct from Tonder, in
the province of Sleswick, and also from a port in the
more northernly ' province of Jutland, to Hull or
London. This will raise the price of cattle in Den-
mark, Hamburgh, and the Baltic, and reduce it in,
England. Within the last few years great improve-
ments have been made in the agriculture of Denmark.
A trade in cattle to England.would still further acce-
lerate improvement. • It is' of importance to knpw that
the "exportations of oats and-other kinds of grain from
Denmark to England, within the last four years, have
led 'to the iMportation ofEnglish woollens and cottons
in return, and that the peasantry of Denmark are
a-better clothed in consequence. IN e thus- see a prac-
tical proof of the reciprocal.advantages of cottimerce.
The ships 'which bring'grain to England seek freights
of maichaiidise back to Denmark. This is the natural
course of things ; andwherever Niv ,rive foreigners
, . ,
sure, in one way or another; directly or indirectly, to
access to our lima:els for their product; there we_ are
obtain markets for our own' manufactures in return.
Leeds Mercury.