The STew British Tariffs 
u 22 tee t in length and upwards, and under £ s. d. £ s. d. 
4 inches in diameter.the 120 2 0 0 0 1 0 
All lengths, 4 inches and under 6 inches 
in diameter,.4 0 0 0 2 0 
Spokes for wheels, not exceeding 2 feet in 
length,....thousand 2 0 0 0 1 0 
“ Exceeding 2 feet in length,. 4 0 0 0 2 0 
Billet or Brushwood, used for stowage, 
£100 value 5 0 0 0 5 0 
Cotton Wool, or waste of cottonwool, cwt. 0 2 11 0 0 1 
Remarks. —-There is an additional duty 
added to the above of 5 per cent. 
The pound sterling is estimated by our 
own government at $4 84, and as there are 
240 pence in a pound, the penny may be taken 
for two cents nearly, United States currency. 
The highest duty on Flour, (the barrel be¬ 
ing estimated at 38| gallons of wheat,) im¬ 
ported from the United States, is $2 78 ; 
and on Colonial 69 cents, the duty being 
more than four times as much on the former 
as is charged on the latter. But this does 
not fully show the difference in favor of Co¬ 
lonial flour, as it will be perceived by the 
foregoing table, that while the duty on grain 
and flour from the United States, is reckoned 
from the average price of 51s. per quarter 
and under, to 73s. and upwards, the Colonial 
is reckoned only between 55s. and under to 
58s. and upwards; consequently, whenever 
the price averages 58s. and over, it is admit¬ 
ted at Is. per quarter, from the Colonies, 
while from the U. States, at 58s. it pays a 
duty of 14s.; from which point it slowly re¬ 
cedes till it reaches the minimum at 73s. 
which is scarcely ever attained in the Eng¬ 
lish market. Again: while the Colonies 
pay no duty above 5s. which is reached at the 
average price of 55s. the States pay a duty 
of 17s. on this average, which is increased 
to 20s. when the average recedes to 5 Is. and 
under. This deceptive sliding scale has 
been so adroitly graduated by British states¬ 
men, from a knowledge of its practical work¬ 
ing for the last 50 or 100 years, that it 
effectually secures to the Colonies a market 
at all times accessible at very low duties, 
while to the citizens of our own country, it 
amounts almost to a prohibition, at all times. 
The present duty, though nominally reduced 
from the former, about 50 per cent, at its 
maximum, yet it is so discreetly arranged 
for the protection of the Home and Colonial 
Agriculturist, as to afford nearly the same re¬ 
sult in the average duties levied on the ex¬ 
portations from the U. States. 
By Mr. Gladstone’s bill, passed by the late 
English Parliament, and approved by the 
Sovereign, July 16, 1842, entitled “The Pro¬ 
visions Abroad Bill,” all flour imported into 
the British possessions after July 5th, 1843, 
will pay a duty of 2 s. sterling, and salted 
provisions 3s. sterling per cwt. 
Wheat, without further regulation, will 
continue to be admitted free, on condition 
that it is consumed in the Provinces. But it 
is perfectly evident to us, that it is no part 
of the policy of the British government, to 
shut out trade from this country through 
their Canadian possessions. She intends 
making them the conduit, by which our lux¬ 
uriant Western harvests are to be drained ofl 
to supply her artisans at home, (who are 
more profitably employed than in raising 
their own provisions,) till they have become 
sufficiently advanced to furnish supplies from 
their own luxuriant fields. To what other 
motive is to be attributed the alleged loan of 
.£5,000,000 from the British Government to 
the Canadian authorities, for the construction 
of their splendid lines of canals, connecting 
the detached points of their inland navigable 
waters, so as to admit the ready passage of 
an ocean steamer, full freighted from the 
docks at London or Liverpool, to the far¬ 
thest point now reached by the water craft 
of our inland seas 1 What a contrast this 
far reaching policy of England’s statesmen 
furnishes to some of our petty Solons, mous¬ 
ing around the scanty crumbs of an almost 
empty treasury, while a bolder and more li¬ 
beral policy would fill their coffers with 
wealth! Soon we may see the vessels of 
Bristol and Glasgow, discharging their full 
cargoes at Chicago and the Sault St. Marys, 
while they kindly relieve our American ship¬ 
ping from the trouble of bringing down the 
rich products of the West. 
To relieve our readers of any doubts on 
this most important subject, we quote briefly 
from a dispatch forwarded by Lord Stanley 
to Sir Charles Bagot, dated Aug. 17, which 
has but this moment met our eyes. He 
says— 
“ Her Majesty’s Government desire to observe, that, 
under the 37th and 38th clauses of the Possessions 
act, 3 and 4, William IV. c. 59, which are unrepealed 
by the act of this session, any article may be entered, at 
any of the frontier ports of Canada, without payment of 
duty, and may be delivered to be passed on to one of the 
warehousing ports, under bond for the due arrival and 
warehousing of such goods at such port . The existing 
exemptions would relieve parties from the observance 
of those regulations, and from any charge attending 
their fulfilment, in respect to the articles to which they 
apply. Her Majesty’s Government, however, question 
whether these exemptions ought riot to be extended to 
other articles besides flour and salt meat', and they 
think, that if the St. Lawrence is really to compete vnth 
the Erie canal, the freedom ivhich it offers should extend 
to all articles, embraced by the export trade of the agri¬ 
cultural States of the West, and not merely to a selec¬ 
tion from any of them. 
“ If, therefore, it should appear of more importance to 
the inhabitants of Canada, to retain , or to receive and 
extend the power of transmitting the produce of the 
