New-York daily tribune., 1843-09-22
no n,rr,en, Of interest, and would regard a

The TRr rBrNE was not received at the Readng
Room of the North and South American Coffee
House by the last steamer, greatly 20 the disap-
pointrnent Of the Americans, and the London lneI-
chants who have business relations with AmeFi-
ca, and 60 there in great numbers to read IT.
English manufacturers and merchants reProach
their own government rather than ours ior the
depression OF business and trade by reason OF our
Tariff. I was equally surprised and gratliied to
find wealthy and intelligent English manufactu-
rers express just and fair sentiments upon this
subject.
Could our Free Trade People hear intelligent,
practical men on this side Of the Atlantic, talk
upon this subject, they would blush to find them
selves advocating Free Trade in favor Of na-
tion whose policy is eminently restrictive. And
could those who believe, or pretend to believe,
that the consumer Of imported articles pays the
duty, hear the language OF the manufacturer OF
these articles we should see the end Of that falla-
cy. 1t is truly amazing that not even the evl-
dcnce of facts and figures. Of dollars and cents,
can dispeI this dclusion. The Free Trade poll
ticians like fanatics in religion, have found "a
dear lalschood' and they "hug 1t to the last"
But were they here, among manufacturers,
they could not keep their eyes closed to the fact
that Tariff is not tax upon those who con-
sumo the articles subject TO duty.
England is far more extensively Agricultural
than l had supposed. And this interest is the
great obstacle to the even more boundless extent
Of her Commerce and Manufactures; for 1t snot
here, as with us, that the Agricuturlsts are the
| ycomanry of the country. The Lands, YOU
know, arc owned by the Nobility, while those
who cultivate the soil arc scarcely a remove above
the Gurths and Wambas who formerly wore
the collars Of Athelstanc and Cedric. Having
entire control of one of the Legislative branches
Of the Government there will be no voluntary re-
linquisllmcnt of or relaxation i'll policy which
virtually prohibits the Agricultural products Of
Nations upon whom England relies TO purchase
her Manufactures There is, however, to be
great conflict between these classes, whose inter
csts are becoming more and more fatally hostile.
PARIS. Aug. 30
Since this letter was commenced, by the
agency Of steam, that element which brings
States and Nations into each others neighborhood,
| have been transferred from the Metropolis OF
ENGLAND to that of France: beautiful France"
We came direct from London to Havrc C23O
niles by steamer, in 19 hours from Havre to
Rouen go niles by steamer, and from Rouen to
Paris (l00 niles by Railway.
The weather is in the highest degree favorable
to the crops here. The Peasantry, between Havre
and Paris, as we passed, were busy in their fields
Their modes of harvesting are, however, exceed
ing primitive A farmer of Western New York
would be amused to see French harvest field
The grain is cut (by men and womcn) with a
sickle, and after being raked and bound very
clumsilv, the sheaves are placed in sort of rack
on donkev's back, who carries them 10 a street
where they are loaded into wagon and taken
home. The work done in an Ontario or Genesee
wheat field, by four men, occupies at least "a here.
The French are much charmed with the
templated visit of Queen Victoria to Louis Phil
ippe at his Villa, which they confidently expect.
The sudden departure OF the Prince de Join
vile from Windsor was owing to the arrival of
Espartero. II is said that the King of France
proposes the alliance fHis youngest son with the
still Younger Queen of Spain.
You will have heard, ere this reaches you Of
the rebuff given at Dublin to one of your neigh
bors. The blow rebounded throughout England,
the London papers having all copied what Mr.
O'Connell said, approvngly This makes
finish of the Herald in Europe.
| see that you are re-publishing my hastily
written and crude Letters from the Evening
Journal 1t will not be decent, therefore, TO
double dose your readers. So adieu
COLUMBIA CoLLEGE--The Commencement of
this venerable Institution will be celebrated on
Tuesday next in the middle Dutch Church in
Nassau. street. and the academic term begins
on the next day We have received copy OF
the Statutes, as lately revised by the Trustees.
The initiatory steps in the study of the German
Language make a part of the sub-graduatc
Course, and farther progress IN 1t, with German
Literature, are left opuonal,-thc instruction IN
them being given, if desired, to the members Of
the higher classes without additional charge.
We have before noticed the appointment of DR..
| TrIYAMrF to this Chair. BY the recent election
of Dr. HAcKLEY to the Chair Of Mathematics. the
Faculty is full, and consists of the following emi-
nent men-lhe first four of whom arc alumni of
the College-viz
NArHAxtEL F. MOORE, L. l. D., President.
The Rev. JoH> McyIcEAR D. D, Professor Of lntelec
tual and Moral Philosophy of Political Economy and of
Rhetoric, and the Bellies LettreS.
| CHARLES ,NrHoN, L. l.. D.. JayPfoiessor Of the Greek
sud Latin Languages and Literature, aud Rector of the
| Grammar School.
JlNEs RESwicx l. L, D., Professor Of Natural and Ex
| perimenta Philosophy, and Chemistry.
joins LEWIS TEulKANrf, !. U. D., Ge6hard.ProtessoT
of the Getman Language and Literature
The Rev. CHARLES w. HAcSLEy, D. D., Professor Of
Mathematics and Astronomy.
We also remark another change in the sta.