The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-07-24

All notifications of tariffs should be made in
this way; they should be gradual, and be made
where experience has pointed out they are requir-
ed. We would ask any reasonable man if the
best interests of the country require complete
revolution in the principles which have heretofore
governed those who have legislated upon this
branch of our commercial policyl Is it not more
Of an experiment than we are justified in adopting
at this time 7 We do not doubt for a moment
the sincerity and honesty of those with whom this
measure originated, as we believe they are firmly
convinced that the principle they propose is not
only perfectly feasible but for the real interest and
permanent prosperity of the country. Even upon
the ground that it was, it would not be wise to
bring it into operation so suddenly-it would be
better to adopt compromise and approach the
point proposed gradually, for the purpose of pre-
venting any arrangement in our foreign trade,
and to permit all the qualifications of trade to
form themselves to the new scale of things.
We should think that the experience Of the past
sixteen years. was sufficient to satisfy every one
that experiments in relation to financial or COM
mercial systems, invariably result derange-
ment in these systems and ruin to the commercial
classes The perseverance with which this new
tariff bill has been put forward, and the efforts
made by the government to secure its passage,
have given us the impression that it must be con-
sdered the principal point the party had to carry,
and upon its success rested the permanency Of
their principles. There is, probably, no other
measure in the whole commercial policy of the
government, upon which the people more
sensitive, and which tends more to create
revolutions in the position of the two political par
ties, than the tariff; and it, therefore, is of the
highest importance, that any alteration or modiA
cation contemplated should be properly weighed
and considered before proposed.
The adoption Of the dd palorem tariff bill, will
create political revolution in this country before
party in power against it. We would counsel
them TO be wise in season, and to leave undone
those things they should not do-in other words 70
let well alone. If the defects in the present bin
were pointed out and remedied, we should have a
tariff perfect as possible to obtain, at least one
much more perfect than that proposed.
The proceedings in Congress yesterday were
not very interesting or important. Several
petitions were presented in favor of preserving
the tariff of 1912, which were ordered to be
printed, by the casting vote of the Vice-Presi-
dent. We think the vote of Mr.. Haywood,
against laying these petitions on the table, rather
curious. What effect the resolutions of the New
Hampshire legislature may have upon the demo-
cratic Senator from that State, remains to be
seen.
The House was engaged in the disposal of i'm
portant bills, and adjourned at an early hour.
INTERESTING ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PROM CHIAPAs.-We commence to-day, in an
fharc tho of nf irfa.
resting letters from Cudad Real, the capital of
Chiapas. They are the productions of Mr.. Emil
Herbrugger, professor of music, who is travel
ling through that country on professional tour.
They will be found to contain great deal ofinte-
resting information regarding the habits of the
people of Chiapas. We also have a map of
the department, prepared by that gentleman, one
which we believe to be the most accurate yet
made.
Mr.. Herbrugger has also sent us number Of
curiosities and antiquities, picked up on his
travels which are very curious
Any thing that serves to throw light on the his
tory, geography, or the habits of the people of
that portion OF the country, Of which Mr.. Her
brugger treats, must possess great deal of int.
rest at the present time. 1t is only now that the
people of Yucatan and the southern part of Mex
leo are beginning to know anything of a liberal
form of government and, frsm this time forward,
the march of free opinion, in that portion of the
world, will be onward. 1t is also but lately that
the attention Of this country has been turned to
the affairs of Mexico and Yucatan. Now, how
ever, every species Of information regarding
those countries, will be sought after with great
eagerness.
In this point of view, these letters will, we
doubt not, be eagerly relished by our readers
THE BRITISH PHILANTHROPY AND THE SLAVE
TRApE.-We clip the following from the Trinidad
Spectator:
Yesterday there witnessed In the yard at Co.
vernment House scene dsgraceul to free country
a scene bearing striking resemblance to what IL wit
messed in proessed slave market. The Indian Immi
grants by the Lord William Bentinck, from Madras and
the Cadet from Calcutta amounting to four hundred and
fifty three distributed gratis to the favorits sppl
cants by the Immigrant Agent General in pure Bslti
the number. spped no regard
paid to the ties Of family friendship Wives
parents. While being thus melted out mules, If 9
husbsnd rushed towards his wife, vice verse,
mother to the lot containing her sons the poor affection
creatures were rudsly pushed back in the most bru
tai and unieeling manner by that Indignation Of nhu
%any and the Immigration Agent Gensral
Ifths is not slave dealing, and that too of the
worst kind, we would like to know what it is
Such scenes as that already mentioned above,
are rarely, ifever witnessed in the United States
never nowadays. 1t is reserved for the hui
name British, who are daily exhausting the Bill.
lngsgate vocabulary in denounong the slavery Of
America, to perpetrate these enormities, and thai
too under the sanction of law, and the plea OF be
NETTING the blacks. Out upon such hypocrisy
and humbug.
They can see the mote IN our eye, but canno
! discern the beam in their own!
AwFUL.-The Bostonians will never recover
from the effect the short passage of the Great Bri
tain has had on their nerves. One of the paper.
Of that city is anxious to know if the time taker