New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-11-27
The Iron Business

The Un,on gives semi-oflcial notice that no in
crense Of the duties on Iron will be allowed to pass
the present Congress. We presume TINS may be
snken as decisive Of the fact but the reasons given
for it seem not at all conclusive The Union cacu-
lates as follows
Tho annual product OF pig iron in England is one
million FIVE hundred thousand The railroads now
in contemplation and TO be completed in England alone
will comprise seven thousand four hundred aud ninety
four miles required for railroad purposes IN rance SIX
hundred and twenty miles in Prussia, two thousand
two hundred miles In India, two thousand miles :
amounting in the whole TO eUe thousand three hundred
and fourteen miles ofydrodd, cktch must 6esaf'sd many
from EaRldad Il is estimated that 1t requires I'VE hun
dre6 tons OF iron for every mile oil railroad so hht 10
supply the demand TO complete the roads mentioned
thsrc will be wanting six million one hundred and hity'
ssven Thousand Of iron Can England meet this de-
nnand To meet the demand Of England alone, she
must supply. without aordine pound TO the continent
or lrda three million seven hundred and forty seven
thousand tons Recoect that her annual product is
oply one million five hundred thousand tons and she
uas produce four million SIX hundred and FIFTY seven
thousand tons than the usual annual production Ia
meet the demand,
These strike US as the most loose and unreliable
statistics we have met since the days OF Cambrel-
ing. Tho Heralds money articles have sometimes
approached but never quite equaled them Twelve
thousand miles OF Railroad are IN contemplation
bu. how soon to be bajt VIII hall OF them erfr
be constructed? And will the other halt be com
pleted this Century? Who knows Who esti
mates 500 tons of Iron to the mile OF Railroad
Who certifios that France and Prussia, and India
DO and always must procure their Railroad Iron
from England 7-Surely of all tools that pool
workman can handle statistics are the most uncer
tain and perous
But suppose all The Unions calculations were
sound, how fatal the mistake made in cutting down
oar Iron duties to the ReteRut standard Eng
land can spare us no Iron. says the Organ thci
how are we to get Revenue or Iron either from oui
lower dunes2 The Tariff of - had operated vast
" to extend and was still rapidly extending. oui
Home Product OF lrcn. Every week a new fur
mace blownin an old one enlarged Here was cst'
tom reliance for cheaper Iron soon as the increase
In the manufacture could overtake the increasing de
mand, as it was morally certain soon to do. But
now this is broken up by the New Tariff new lrol
Works are established very rarely, and the ole
ones are more rarely extended The iron'worker:
say, We can live at present prices but what Sc
.curi,y have we that any thing ike these viii be
maintained Thirty per cent duty viii do witt
Pig Iron at 500 IN Europe but when Pig falls tc
slo or sic there it will be no duty AT all and We
Cannot WltnSlHliu ina tOEclsu COHlptllt,Nu W 49,
" or unwisely, this apprehension is crppEng and
contracting the Home Product Of Iron. Capitalists
viii not advance the heavy sums needed to put new
rolling mills IN operation with such prospect OF
losing every cent o. itby change n the market
Thus we have let go the certainty we had OF cheap
or Iron through the improvement and increase o
tho business here, aud the Union says we are ie
get little or none from abroad, Where then, is the
wisdom and wherein the advantage, OF our rcduc
s,oa Of duties Can the Organ tell
F POPULAR LECTURES are at d low ebb IN our
City at present-rnost undeservedly, They hsve
been run into the ground by the multiplicity snd
Indifference Of those delivered durins some torne'
winters When the matter had got 10 such pass
that every body lecsured, nearly every body de-
sAnsd Ae:ng lectured. and Sc the business came to
dead halt. Yet we believe if the Mercantile Ii
hsary Association had the energy and good taste
in connection with similar Institutes IN Boston and
Rhladslphia TO invite THOMAS CARIfIE over the
water to deliver Course OF Twelve Lectures IN
each Of these Cities, and pyoterins hun hbersl
compensation therefor the pubic would Jnstlty and
sustain them IN the enterprise Why should not
something OF this sort be un6ertsken7 Why might
we not this winter have a brief Course bv RALpYs
WALDO EAkRsoNi Europe has no prcEoander
tninker no more brilliant essayist He d.hvsrei
. course last winter iu Boston on Representative
Great Men which Were heard with dsScb, bx.
large audiences Might we not have them here
HENRY GIIrs, we are glad to hear. WIZ lecture
hsre this winter. Like Emerson's his Lectures
are carefully elaborated and are specimens of the
hghes. art, Lectures by clerSymen. merchants
doctors. editors, &c Will do when they must ba,
Lectures BY Scholar and Poet, who takes tune &c
give them the utmos, finish both In matter and elo
cation. are different sort Of ware sltosether
Gsss we Go without such IN New York this winter