, 1859-04-02
The NeEE Gan8 dim Tnrfn.

The tariff recently adopted by the QRnadian
Parliament, makes some sweeping charges.
Duties on manufactured articles are in some
Cases raised five, ten and eren twenty or thirty
per cent. Enulanufactured articles being rcc,1-
'a,cd ly the Reciprocity Treaty, arc Of course
left untouched. The following are some Of tie
principal items:
spir'tuous liquors, 50 per cent.
sugar, 40 per cent., {the duty to be gradually
reduced each year down TO 5 per cent, in l>;...
t"itc and tea 70 per cent, lduty 10 be rrduc
I'll each year. to ) per cent, in lsG3.)
Spices, nuts, dried fruits, cigars and snuff, co
pr cent
Manufactures OF leather, riz: boots and
sfocs. harness aud saddlcry, soap, starch, a5
per cent,
Printing paper, Is per cent.
books. periodicals and pamphlets; brass ip
bars, rods and sheets; brAss or copper wire and
wire cloth; Cauada plates, Timed plates, ga}van.
!z's lr"n and sheet iron; copper, in bars, rods,
bti1s, or sheets, silk twist, for hats boots und
shoes. iron. bar, rod or laoop; nail und spike
rod; hoop tire for driving wheels for |ocomu-
t'ves, bent or welded; boiler plate; railroad
hars; rolled plate; p!atc and angle or other
!rot.; riycts for do; ,sjrc, jcwc]rr and watches;
lead in sheets mal's und charts; sails, ready
tnade; spirits Of tnrpcnfinc; steel, wrought or
cast; Tuscan and grass fancy plates; tin Erun-
n'atcd Or bar; tubes and piping, of copper.
brass Or iron, when drawn vessels, foreign
hHlit, when imported and Registered in The proy>
il,ee, under the law zinc or speItcr. in sheet.
locomotives and engine frames, cranks, crank
aalcs, railway car and locoMutivc ax1es, piston
rods; Euldc ind slide bars, crank pins. connect
l,.E roods, strambna1 md mill shafts, cranks
forged in the rough, 10 per cent.
Whisky. Is erntr per gallon.
All 1111cics nut enumerated, 20 per cent.
Amour fhe II Hr4. eoo3.
farming utensils and implements Of husbanslry:
a''tna!s of afl kinds; personal effects, and itil-
rr'nehts in actual use Df persons coming 10 SET
tic; arms aud st"Fes fur urmy and navy: ash.
put. i,car! and soda; bagk, tanncr's; batrk used
III dying; barley, except pot and pearl; barley,
.natt beans ieau meal berries, used ip ,lyr.
ing; boiling cluthes; bran and shorts; Lrin-
sf"ne, trlstles; broom corn; buckwhcat; buck
Wlcat meal; bulbs und ruuts; bullion: burr
stones; butter; cables; carriages employed in
carrying merchandise thawkers and the Circus
f7"npes excspssd;} India rubber, and gutta
iercl1a coa(i c"rn; cotton and flax waste; cot
tnn w."l, dye studs; emery, glass and sand pa
irr; leu hat bodies aud hats 1eIts; fire bricks;
hstl; do oil iu its crnde or natur; state: fishing
nets and sclncs; fish hooks; lines, and fish
t"inca; TAX, hemp, and tuw, undresscd; flour;
,!p!is. grern; faiss, dried. the growth Of the
Cn'trd States only.
Graina and meal If oil kinds; grindstoncs,
paris; hams: hair, hemp. hides, horns; Junk
anu oakntn, 1ard, munures Of all kinds, marblr
unpublished, mcats salt: mosscs and sea grass
"r upholstery purposes; nitro or saltpctrc. oils,
on cake or l'nseea cake. orr Of all kinds Of
metals, osisT or willow, for baskc. makers use,
pig iron. Ply lead. and iy copper, pitch uni tar,
printing ink. rags, resin md rosin, rice sui
c'"th. salt. articles imported for ship builders
and sail 'nAkers.; State works Of ari, tin und
sine, or spe1tcr in block or pig, taliow, tcaslcs
lead lumber Of all kinds; toGacco unn,au,fac.
tarcd, type metal. watcr lime, wood for hocps
when nut not potched; wool
The proposed duties met with Strong opposj-
tiop. Besides the increased taxation they in,-
pose, it was urged that the mode Of determining
valuation is such as TO operate uneqnally, com
polling Canada West to pay higher duties on
Enods imported from the United Statcs, than
C4nada East will on goods imported from Eng.