The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-15 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF TILE NEW TARIFF.

The following are the proposed reductions on the
principal articles enumerated in the Tariff, which we
have given at great length in The Sun of this day.
Horned Cattle—at present prohibited—are to be ad-
mitted at the following duties : Oxen, 20s. ; Cows, 15s. ;
Calves, 10s. each.

Bacon—the cwt., from Foreign countries, Ms. ; and
from British possessions, 3s. 6d. Beef, salted, not
corned, Bs. ; and British, 2s. the cwt.
Butter—the cwt., 1/.—.55.
Pork—salted, not hams, at Bs., Foreign ; and 25., Bri-
tish, the cwt.

Horses, the present duty of 205., to be reduced to 10s.,
from British possessions.
Fish of all kinds from British possessions are to be
admitted duty free ; those from foreign countries upon a •
much reduced scale.
Fruit—Upon all raw produce not specified,l4 pity l•
upon British produce only to be reduct 4 froin-5-reFvent.""!
to 24-. Upon enumerated articles t dpty Js4O'
generally reduce, British produce being eoloured to half
the amount levied.

Licorice—The duty on the juice to be reduced from
31. 15s. the cwt. to 20s. on Foreign, and 10s. on British.
Butter—The present duty of 20s. to be reduced to 55.,
on British imports only.
Cheese—Theo duty of 10s. to be reduced to 2s. 6d.
the cwt. on British only,
. ,
Spices—The duty on British produce_ll, are to be re-
duced generally 50 per cent,
Clover Seed—The duty to be reduced to 10s. Foreign,
and ss. British.

Skins—The present duty on Squirrel skins of I ls. Gd.
reduced to ss. on Foreign, 2s. Gd. on British produce.
Hides—The present duty of 2s. 4d. reduced to Is. on
Foreign, 6d. on British imports.
Gloves—The duties of 45., 55., and 7s. have been re-
spectively reduced to 25., 2s. 6d., and 5s upon Foreign,
Is., is. 3d., and 2s. 6d. upon British imports.
Olives—The present duty of 41. 4s. reduced to 40s.
upon Foreign, and 20s. upon British produce.
Timber—Canada, to is. and 25.; and Baltic to 205.,
255., 30s.

Coffee—The present duty of Is. 3d. is to be reduced
upon all foreign coffee to Bd., and upon all the growth
of British possessions to 4d.

Mahogany—The present duty of 30s. per ton upon
that imported from the Bay of,llonduras or the Mosquito
Shore, as also that of 41. upon the growth of British
possessions, is to be reduced to 10s.; while the duty of
51. upon that otherwise imported is reduced to 30s. upon
foreign, and 10s. on British produce.
Coals—On exportation, a duty of 4s. the ton.

THE SUGAR QUESTION.
Sir it. Peel, in submitting his financial statement
to the consideration of the House of Commons on
Friday evening last, justly remarks, that to diminish
the duty on British plantation sugar without admitting
foreign sugar to our markets to compete with' it,
would be to increase the bounty already conferred by
monopoly on the West India sugar producers, and
that such a reduction would not benefit the consumer,
while it would infallibly damage the revenue. He
then proceeds to state that if her Majesty's Govern-
ment were not embarrassed by the Slavery question,
it might be of great advantage to propose a reduction
of duty on all descriptions of sugar, but that he can-
not consent, nor can those with whom he acts consent,
to permit the importation of sugar, the produce of
Brazil and Cuba, without making some stipulation
with respect to the state of slavery in those countries,
especially Cuba. Ile then goes on to admit, that, be-
sides being of advantage to the revenue, if the com-
petition were free, it would also be greatly to the ad-
vantage of the West India proprietor to en-
courage the consumption of sugar, &c. Would not
a person ignorant of the actual state of the case, ima-
gine from the foregoing remarks, that sugar is pro-
duced in no other parts of the world, excepting the
British possessions, Cuba, and the Brazils ; and that
because it is raised by slave labour in the two latter
countries, that Her Majesty's Government is reduced
to the dire necessity of either making the consumers
in the United Kingdom pay threefold the value of the
sugar they purchase, or encourage slave labour by
allowing its produce to compete with that raised by
free hands? If Sir Robert Peel clings to the notion
that the community at large is so uninformed, as not
to perceive the fallacy of the position he has assumed,
he clings to an error which will be fatal to his admi-
nistration. The British people know as well as he
knows, that sugar is raised by free labour in large
quantities, in various parts of the world, and they
also know, as he does, that mixing up the ques-
tion of slavery with that of the admission of
foreign sugar, is nothing more or less than
a pitiful manamvre, practised for the purpose of en-
riching, at their expense, the West India proprietors,
not on account of any services rendered by them to
the mother country—services they have rendered
none ; on the contrary, the West India Colonies have
ever proved a most costly • appendage to Great Bri-
tain, a drain on her wealth, and a grave for her gal-
lant sailors and soldiers.* It is quite clear, therefore,
the West Indians are not propitiated for ieir merits.
The truth is, they happen to form an influential class
in the State, without whose aid Sir Robert is aware
he would not be able to maintain the position of Pre-
mier for a week. Come what will of it, then, he
must buy their alliance, although not by another open
gift of twenty millions, yet by an indirect mode
of getting at our pockets through the interven-
tion of a close and vicious monopoly, which will
yield them incalculably more. The public may rest
assured, that the bargain driven by Sir Robert with
this baneful class has, in plain English, been
this : Support my sliding-scale for the sake of the
landlords here, and as a recompense, your sugar
monopoly, however at variance with other measures I
may propose, shall not be touched. How the land-
lords of Great Britain may relish the partnership, is
difficult to say, but they are now compelled to fra-
ternise with 'West Indian lords of the soil, and, like
Lockit and Peachum, in the Beggar's Opera, turn to
each other and exclaim, "Brother, brother we have
both sinned," &c. The harmony of these allied land-
lords will be presently disturbed by a third class—a
legion, namely, the consumers, who will demand
from Sir Robert Peel a reason why they are.
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will have the amount
1 sake of our sugar proprietors.