The New British Tariff.—Value of a Home Market—The Pork Business of the West, y 
United States , without the restrictions of the bond now 
required, down the St. Lawrence, than to enjoy the pri¬ 
vilege of exporting their produce to other British colo¬ 
nies, with such advantages as the differential duties, 
imposed under the new act, may afford them, Her 
Majesty’s Government have no desire to place the 
commerce of Canada, by Imperial legislation, under re¬ 
strictions, farther than as they are required, by a due 
regard to the rights of the inhabitants of the other pos¬ 
sessions of the crown ; and therefore, they would readi¬ 
ly consider the expediency of proposing to Parliament, 
to remove the duties now laid on the introduction of 
flour, salted meat, and any other article of agri¬ 
cultural produce into Canada , at the same time, 
however, placing the same articles, when exported 
from Canada to the other colonies, upon the footing, 
with respect to duty, of foreign produce, at the Custom 
Houses of those colonies, and requiring proof of their 
privileged admission into the country. 
“Her Majesty’s Government are most willing, inde¬ 
pendently of the suggestion which has been just made, 
to entertain any plan for giving farther facilities to the 
transit of the produce of the United States, by way of 
the St. Lawrence, in case it should be considered that a 
system of branding packages, or any other mode, would 
be more simple and satisfactory for the purposes of 
commerce than a compliance with the provisions of the 
present law. 
The statesman who can fail to perceive 
the drift of England, shadowed forth in the 
above exponent of their policy, is only fitted 
to draw instruction from his horn book. 
We will only add that Wheat is admitted 
free of duty in all the British Possessions of 
N. America. 
Flour is admitted free, in Upper and Lower 
Canada, while in New Brunswick and Nova 
Scotia, it pays a duty of 5s. sterling per bbl. 
In the British West Indies, it pays both an 
Imperial and Colonial duty ; the first fixed 
and regulated by the Home Government; 
the latter fluctuating, and dependent solely 
on the whim or caprice of the members of 
the Local Legislation. 
Value of a Home Market. —We clip from 
an exchange paper the following list of arti¬ 
cles consumed by a single manufacturing 
state, which shows very conclusively where 
our western products will find a satisfactory 
market, if our manufacturers are sufficiently 
protected. 
“ Mansachusetts is a manufacturing state. Her popu¬ 
lation, in round nnmbers, is 700,000. In a single year 
that state purchases and consumes enough of the pro¬ 
ducts of the soil, &c., to require the expenditure of 
$42,000,000. The following are the items of expen¬ 
diture : 
Cotton, 
185,000 bales, 
$7,200,000 
Flour, 
620,000 bbls. 
4,100,000 
Corn and other grain, 
3,730,000 bush. 
2,790,000 
Coal, 
. 175,000 tons. 
1,300,000 
Wood, 
. 188,600 cords, 
1,300,000 
Wool, 
8,000,000 lbs. 
3,200,000 
Lumber of all kinds, 
• • . . 
3,690,000 
Amount carried forward, . 
$23,580,000 
Amount brought forward, . . $23,580,000 
Leather and hides, .... 7,600,000 
Beef, pork, hams, and lard, . . 2,800,000 
Butter and cheese, .... 1,000,000 
Horses, cattle, sheep, and swine, . 600,000 
Potatoes,.. 300,000 
Poultry of all kinds, .... 70,000 
Pig lead, ....... 1,450,000 
Furs, buffalo robes, &c„ . . . 45,000 
Rags, junk, &c., for paper, . . 965,000 
Lime . . . 8,299 casks, 72,000 
Pot and pearl ashes, . 500 tons, 58,000 
Tobacco, . . 960 hhds., 68,000 
Rice, . 325,000 
Tar, pitch, and turpentine, . . . 1,200,000 
Iron, 800,000 
Sugar and molasses, .... 47,000 
Staves, casks, boxes, &c., . . . 360,000 
Domestic spirits and beer, . . . 100,000 
Feathers, hair, and bristles, . . 185,000 
Oysters, venison, sand, sweet potatoes, summer 
fruit, such as peaches, melons, &c., . 210,000 
Hay, grass seed, flax seed, flax linseed oil, cas¬ 
tor oil, beans, beeswax, tallow, onions, nuts, 175,000 
$42,010,000 
{c We have no statistics referring to the consumption 
of other manufacturing districts, but it is known that 
other states of the Union manufacture almost as'much 
as Massachusetts—possibly more. If adequate pro¬ 
tection were extended to domestic industry, manufacto¬ 
ries would multiply and extend themselves, employing 
millions of idle capital, and bringing into requisition 
the services of thousands of idle citizens; so that in a 
few years, the western and southern planter would 
find, at his very door, as it were, an adequate market 
for all his surplus supplies. The advantages of a 
home market over a foreign one, are apparent to all 
minds, and therefore do not need elucidation.” 
THE PORK BUSINESS OF THE WEST. 
Few of our readers, if they have never 
crossed the valley of the Ohio, penetrated the 
Wabash, and stood on the banks of the Upper 
Mississippi, can have even a faint idea of the 
fertile corn region which stretches out here 
in almost boundless magnificence, and of the 
immense herds of swine that are reared to 
consume it. The census for 1839 gives to 
the four states of Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, 
and Illinois alone, nearly eight millions of 
swine, and we suspect this is rather under 
than above their real number. But from 
this data it will be seen what an extensive 
business the rearing and fattening of pork 
has already become in the West, even with 
its present sparse population; what then 
must it be, when the whole of this immense 
valley comes to be put under a high state of 
cultivation ! 
Wherever one passes through the towns 
and villages, on the canals and rivers, he 
sees large slaughtering and packing estab¬ 
lishments; and on the roads, in almost every 
direction, from November till the last of 
January, he meets droves after droves of 
