The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-15 00:00:00

M. Guizot's note must necessarily contain a formal
disapproval of his conduct, and did not hesitate to say
that he should lay this reply before the House of
Commons : for (said Lord Aberdeen) if M. Guizot
thought to strengthen his Parliamentary position by
refusing to ratify the treaty, the English Cabinet
also must take measures for its own justification to
the English Parliament. His Lordship then urged
M. de St. Aulaire to withdraw the note, which he
would consider as not having been presented to him,
and to inform M. Guizot that the better way to avoid
complicating the question would be, to demand, in a
simple note, without producing any reasons, that the
protocol should be closed which had remained open
for ratification on the part of France. By simply
demanding the closing of the protocol without assign-
ing any-motives, M. Guizot would not have to fear
any embarrassing reply from the English Cabinet,
and the question would thus be cut short without any
difficulty.
M. Guizot followed the advice of Lord Aberdeen,
in withdrawing his first note ; and then, a week since,
forwarded to the English Cabinet another note, in
which he demanded, without assigning any explana-
tion, the closing of the protocol, which actually took
place on Monday last, Thus the non-ratification of
the treaty of December 20, is now for ever consum-
mated. It now remains to be known whether the
treaties of 1831 and 1833 will be maintained or not.
I am able to inform you that it is the intention of M.
Guizot to abrogate them, because the only chance of
safety for the I rench Cabinet was the abolition for
ever of the right of search. The most devoted adhe-
rents of the Cabinet, such as MM. Fulchiron, Jacque-
minot, Jacques Lefevre, and others, have already
declared to M. Guizot that they will vote for the abo-
lition of the right of search in the forthcoming ses-
sion, so that M. Guizot had no alternative.—Corre-
spondent of the Post.

TARIFF OF THE GERMAN COM-

MERCIAL UNION.

This paper, which has been so long expected, and
upon the contents of which so many dreary fore-
bodings have been uttered by our manufacturers, has
at last come to hand; and we are happy to say that
the prognostications of evil so widely disseminated
have proved almost entirely without foundation; in-
deed, we had hardly expected to have found the docu-
ment so harmless to British interests and commerce.

The most important articles of British export are,
with one exception (that of figured goods of mixed
cotton and wool, such as mousseline de laine), left in
almost the same situation in which they were placed
by the last tariff; nor have our imports of iron been
more affected, though it is quite evident that
strenuous efforts had been made by various of the
German States producing that article to procure the
imposition of a heavier duty upon English iron of all
sorts, and indeed almost one-half of this State paper
is taken up with protocols and arguments for and
against increasing the duties upon the two articles of
cotton and iron. Fortunately, however, some of the
most important and influential States of the Union
saw the mischief that would be inflicted upon the
general well-being of German commerce by an in-
creased tax, which would tend to cripple their own
trade to a degree hardly to be foreseen ; and the con-
sequence was, that with the exception of the increase
upon printed goods manufactured of a mixture of
cotton and wool, the tariff is really very little altered.
The following are the heads in whicn the present
differs from the former scale of duties :

centner'

centner;

ccntner,

centner

1 centncrl

1 centner;

1 centnerl

1 centner'

1 ship's
last, 376
cent ner ;
or by rafts
75 cubic
feet.

Iship's
last, or
by rafts,
90 cubic;
feet. i

[ship's lasi

4 sheffelsl
or 1 ton