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

The articles which will be principally affected are ma-
nufactured 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.
Summer Cloths.
Fancy Buckskins, Cassinetts.
Fancy Worsted and Cotton Valentias, &c.
It is too well known to persons interested in the
woollen manufacture that the articles on which no 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 kerseymeres have ceased to he
exported to Germany, and the place of those goods
had been taken by the above fancy articles, of various
kinds and texture. The object of the League evi-
dently is to dispense with English manufactures as
fast as they can: The duties are, therefore, now raised
enormously on all the fabrics we have specified ; and
even printed or figured worsted goods, though unmixed
with cotton or any other substance, are subjected to the
increased duty ; which is a step beyond what was ex-
pected to have been proposed to the Congress. The
duty on a piece of 6-quarter figured merino, costing at
present in the dyed state about 305., will be very nearly
155., 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 consti-
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 now given,
they will soon come into extensive use, to the exclusion
of the English stuffs.
But a more formidable Power than Saxony is at the
bottom of this hostile measure. Prussia, notwithstand-
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 under the firm of " die Seehund-
luny," which has erected a very large manufactory fur
plain and fancy worsted goods 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 it is pro-
bable th it the smaller manufacturers in Germany 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 interest of Prussia to admit English
yarns at the lowest rate of duty, or even duty-free ; they
constitute the raw material of her rising manufactures ;
and if it were not for the strenuous opposition of the
smaller States in the League, especially of Wirtemberg
and Baden, she would wish to remove all duty from
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commanding influence in the Congress, that they have
been carried with very slight opposition. We must
say that this is a very bad return for our own liberalised
Tariff, which has given great encouragement to timber
and other kinds of Baltic produce. It is too apparent
that the Powers of the German League are bent on pro-
moting the establishment of all kinds of manufactures
in Germany ; and unless some unforeseen check should
be experienced, the time is rapidly approaching when
we shall have to regard the Germans rather as our
rivals than our customers.
This, and every other event of a si Oar kind, is a new
and powerful reason for our Government freeing ;he
manufactures of this country from every shackle and
burden. Unless this is done, and our own restrictive
policy is entirely abandoned, we continue to give the
sanction of our authority and example to those anti-
commercial principles, which, we now see, may be turned
with such fatal effect upon ourselves. To impose arti-
ficial burdens upon our manufactures, and to court the
hostility and rivalry of foreign Governments, as we do
by our Corn-law, at a time when those manufactures
need every possible advantage and relief, and are suffer-
ing blow after blow, is an act of the utmost injustice
and folly.

IMPORTATIONS OF FOREIGN
CATTLE.

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We learn from a Danish gentlemen well acquainted
with the trade and statistics of Denmark, that there
is every probability of an extensive trade in 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.
inalcing, since the passing of the new English tariff,
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 know that
the exportations of oats and other kinds of grain from
Denmark to England, within the last four years, have
led to the importation of English woollens and cottolis
in return, and that the peasantry of Denmark are
better clothed in consequence.
.We thus see a prac-
tical proof of the rTprocal advantages of commerce.
The ships which bring grain to England seek freights
of merchandise back to Denmark. This is the natural
course of things ; and wherever we give foreigners
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access to our markets for their produce, there we are
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