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france s cents 4 mills for 900 pounds.

France as cents a mills for 300 pounds.
Great Bnain-Ss 60 per liz pounds, rough and in the
husk or paddy "a cents per quarter Of bushs
henses'c Towns-Hamburg per cent; Bremen, per
cent; Lubec. J per cent ad valorem.
Netheriands-5 45-i00 cents per 22e pounds.
Pornga-From foreign countries 81 10 per ssl pounds
russ'a-si SO $500 per Prussian cwt of 1871 pounds
spainUnder Spanish flag 40 per cent fixed value Of
81 ooper 25 lb.7c Foreign flag one.third
sweden- cent per is o. Convoy duty Is per cent on
imports. Town dues y per cent.
France, Great Britain, Russia and Spain enforce duty
nearly amounting to prohibition these three products
viz. tobacco, rice and wheat Russia places duty of
81 80 on 80 pounds of tobacco the leaf and SO the
same quantity Of stemmed. while only place duty Of
twenty-five per cent her sheetings, hemp and iron
There very little reciprocityn this. France prohibits
the Importation Of tobacco otherwise than for the
ment manufactures Her sliding scale of duties on
wheat amounts to prohibition, and the duty on rice
reaches nearly hundred per the cost at the
place OF Importation In for these restrictions on
our products enforce duty Of from twenty TO iory
per cent on all silks and manufactures OF SILK from
thirty to forty per all her woolen and worsted
manufactures and from twenty to forty on her boot shoe
and glove manufactures Great Britain enforces duty
of seventtoo cents every pound OF unmanufacurea
and dollars sixteen cents every pound of mannfac-
ued tobacco entering her dominions from the IT, States
her sliding scale on our grain amounts almost pro-
hibon duty OF three cents per pound amounting to
one hundred per CENTS placed rice All the re-
strictions Of other powers will compare the same
favorable light The utmost importance is placed by all
the nations Of Europe their with the United
States Our tariff laws watched very narrowly and
any modification made from time to time in their favor is
hailed as an impetus to their trade Concessions
pected from the United States without granting an
equivalent in return Great Britain has very recently
granted liberal scale Of duties regulating the i'm
poraton OF American provisions for which she expects
something In return forgetting the existing difference be-
tween the tariffs of the two nations, much in their
favor and which will require further concessions on their
part to equaze. The principal of the liberaly
shewn in our araws compared with that ofevery other
power the numerous interests work within ourselve
No other country in the world has uch variety Of in
terests striving to work out their advancement The
effect ofths is that compromises resorted tariffs
perfected meeting, as near possible the views of all
parties Foreign governments to be well acquaint.
ed with this fact and leaves to the influences work
internally to bring about changes in commercial sys-
TEN meeting their expectations and wishes The late
cision in the lower house of Congress in relation the
present tariff laws will undoubtedly create much dsap
poptment throughout Europe as the different foreign
manufacturers have looked for notifications and aera
tons in the existing scale of duties that would tend to an
extension Of their trade and of their profits