the amendment to allow 4,500 dollars for the return of the ministers from France and England.

Mr. Sprague resumed the remarks which he commenced on Tuesday, and spoke about two hours and a half in conclusion.

After Mr. Sprague had concluded, Mr. Kane moved that the senate now adjourn.

Mr. Webster moved the printing of the British act of parliament of the 22d April, 1831, and also of a portion of a document which accompanined the president's message, being a tabular statement of the duties as they existed before the present arrangement was carried into effect.

Mr. Forsyth inquired the reason of this motion.

taken up, amended so as go into effect after the 14th inst. and passed.

Mr. Smith offered a resolution, which was agreed to, calling on the president of the United States to furnish to the senate lord Aberdeen's letter in answer to Mr. Barbour's of the 27th November, 1828; and also, so much of a letter of the 22d April 1831, from Mr. McLane to Mr. Van Buren, as relates to the proposed duty on cotton. The vice president laid before the senate a communication from the secretary of the treasury on the subject of money paid for drawbacks, premiums, allowances and bounties. Ordered to be printed.

Mr. Dickerson presented instructions from the legisla ture of New Jersey, instructing their senators to procure Mr. Webster stated that the object of his motion was to appropriations for surveys of certain bays and rivers. enable the senate the better to understand the modifica- Mr. Clay offered a resolution, which was agreed to, tion which had been made in her tariff laws by Great calling on the secretary of the treasury to furnish to the Britain. The gentleman from Maine had read a part of senate such additional correspondence as may have taken the correspondence of the American minister, complain-place between the treasury department and the collectors ing of the destruction of the equality in the trade by the of the revenue, or appraisers, showing the construction at act to which he had referred. At an early stage of the the treasury of the laws levying duties on foreign imports, session, there were gentlemen of the senate who were as is not embraced in the report made in compliance with uninformed as to the existence of this law. the resolution of the 23d January last.

Mr. Forsyth objected to the motion to print a docu- Mr. Smith rose to make an observation or two, prement which could only be useful to illustrate the argu-mising that what had fallen yesterday from the gentleman ments of gentlemen on the other side of the question. Every one, he said, knew that there had been a modification of the British law on this subject.

from Maine, rendered it necessary for him to state facts. The gentleman from Massachusetts had stated that the act of parliament introduced by Mr. Herries, imposed a higher Mr. Webster replied that every body then had got this scale of duties than that which existed under the act of knowledge very recently. Six weeks ago the chairman 1825. He (Mr. S.) had stated that this act never passed; of the finance committee did not know it. He then but that another act had passed, imposing duties on imbriefly referred to the course pursued by the general go- material articles, but leaving all material articles, such as vernment when the tories brought a bill before the British flour, meal, rice, &c. untouched. The word "inconsideparliament at the close of the Wellington administration.rable" had been commented on by the gentleman from Whether, since this arrangement has been made, Great Maine. Mr. McLane had protested against the bill of Britain has found it convenient, under the reservation in Mr. Herries, and the act which passed did not impose lord Aberdeen's letter, to change her whole system of the the duties which are contained in that bill. tariff duties as far as regards the West India islands, we are now inquiring, as a question of great moment. If the gentleman from Georgia meant to say that the question was not relevant to the bill, as one making appropriation for the services of the year, be it so. But its general bearing on the question immediately under discussion could not be doubted. It is a subject which ought to be, and which he presumed would be, fully discussed here.

Mr. Smith rose to state that he did know of the existence of the law of the British parliament.

Mr. Holmes reminded the senator from Maryland that he had expressed a doubt of its existence; and when he, (Mr. H.) told him where it was to be found, the senator from Maryland said it was not there. Mr. Forsyth repeated that the evident object of the motion was to illustrate the arguments of gentlemen on the other side, and suggested that the important facts were all to be found in the correspondence already laid before

the senate.

The chair (Mr. King) decided that the motion to print was informal, and could not be received.

Mr. Sprague referred to the act of parliament, and stated his intention to print it in the report of his speech. Mr. Smith said that the act had not passed into a law. Mr. Sprague stated that it had passed, and had been communicated to the senate and ordered to be printed. The law passed on the 22d April, 1831. The senator from Maryland says that the act has not passed. Mr. Livingston says it has passed. He then went on to shew some of its provisions.

Mr. Smith interrupted. "I know that perfectly well." Mr. Sprague rejoined. The senator from Maryland knows that perfectly well; yet two minutes ago he said the law had not passed. Now he knows this perfectly well, and yet, in the presence of all these gentlemen, he had but just declared that he did not know that the law had passed. Mr. Sprague then read one or two passages from the law, and asked the senator from Maryland if he did not also know that perfectly well.

Mr. Webster said that when this subject, six weeks ago, was before the senate, it did not seem to be known, with Maryland did not then inform the senate of the fact. He any certainty, if any act had passed. The senator from (Mr. W.) could not find the act; and he had accordingly written to a friend in New York, who forwarded him a copy of it. That copy he had shown to a friend, and by this friend it was communicated to the senator from Mary

land.

Mr. Smith. I know that; you all heard it.

Mr. Webster resumed: The senator from Maryland said that the Herries bill had failed when the Wellington that no law had passed. Now he tells us that he knew all administration went out of power; and had further said about it. He (Mr. W.) thought he had reason greatly to doubt the accuracy of the senator's recollection; and he thought it would be a becoming act, if that senator could himself be brought to question it. The gentleman now says that he well knew that lord Grey's administration that he knows of nothing done by that administration unimposed new duties, yet, at the same time, he tells us favorable to the American interests. If the senator knew

all this before, why had he not communicated his knowledge to the senate? The senator was not given to be so that the recollection of the gentleman is so much overlittle communicative of what he knows. But the fact is, loaded, that it cannot bear every thing which is imposed on it. The gentleman had evidently confounded the laws with each other. Had he informed the senate of the existence of the act, he (Mr. W.) would not have taken the trouble to write all over the country to obtain it.

Mr. Smith said he had seen it in the Albion. Mr. Holmes referred the senator from Maryland to the printed reports of their several speeches to show how the case stood. He, (Mr. H.) had stated that the duties imposed by the bill of Mr. Herries were unfavorable to the United States, but that this act did not pass. Mr. Holmes had said that this act did not pass, but that a more obnoxious one had passed. The senator from Maryland denied that this was the fact. Mr. Holmes had also stated Some conversation ensued on a motion of Mr. Foot, that the trade was open to the British two months earlier that the senate adjourn to meet at 11 to-morrow, but it than it was to American vessels. This also was conwas decided to be a motion without the rule of order.-tradicted by the senator from Maryland. On going home, The senate then adjourned. and examining his books, he, (Mr. H.) had found that April 6. The resolution of Mr. Foot changing the he was accurate in both his statements. He (Mr. H.) hour of meeting, after the present week to 11 o'clock was was astonished to hear the senator from Maryland say

that he had given him the information, when, in fact, he (Mr. H.) gave the information to the senator from Maryland, and told him he would find it in the Albion.

The senate adjourned until Monday.

April 9. The vice president laid before the senate a communication from the president containing the correspondence between lord Aberdeen and Mr. Barbour and Mr. McLean and Mr. Van Buren, called for by the resolution of Mr. Smith.

Mr. White reported a bill making appropriations for the Indian department, with an amendment.

Mr. Sprague consenting, amendments were severally moved by Messrs. Dallas and Hayne, and agreed to. On motion of Mr. Smith, the bill was also amended by adding the following:

"For surveying of the lands ceded by the Creeks to the United States, $50,000."

Mr. Smith then moved to add at the end of the bill a clause to enable the secretary of state, the secretary of the treasury, the secretary of war, and the secretary of the navy, to have the papers in their departments ar ranged and indexed, $2,500 to each department. On motion of Mr. Foot, the senate took up the revo- Mr. Clay objected to this amendment as a most exlutionary pension bill, when Mr. Robinson moved an traordinary and useless appropriation of money. He stated amendment to include the officers and soldiers who serv- that it had never, within his knowledge, taken five mi ed under generals Wayne and Clarke-which motion gave nutes to find any document, unless it was, perhaps, an old rise to a debate; Messrs. Bibb, Grundy, Robinson and revolutionary paper. It is a business which properly apBenton advocated the amendment; and Mr. Foot opposed pertains to the clerks in the office; and here is an appropri it. Before any decision was had on the motion, the billation of $10,000 asked for, to do what the present clerks was laid on the table. were bound to do.

Mr. Forsyth offered a resolution which was agreed to, calling on the president to communicate to the senate all the instructions given by this government to our ministers to Great Britain; and all the correspondence of our ministers on the subject of the colonial and West India trade, since March 1825, &c.

Mr. Smith sent to the secretary's table a letter from Mr. E. Livingston to Mr. Verplanck, of the house of representatives, stating the necessity of an appropriation of twice the amount named in the amendment.

Mr. Foot remarked, that a sentence in the letter now read, disclosed the true cause of the confusion which Mr. Sprague offered a resolution calling for informa-prevailed in the departments. It was entirely attributation relative to the military road from Matanawcock to Mars' hill, in the state of Maine, which, by unanimous consent, was agreed to.

The senate resumed the consideration, as in committee of the whole, of the general appropriation bill. Mr. Kane then spoke for about an hour and a half in conclusion, in reply to Mr. Sprague.

Mr. Smith, of Maryland, then rose and said that, with a view to put an end to the discussion, and to accellerate the passage of the bill, he was instructed by the committee of finance, to withdraw the amendment which had led to this debate.

The chair decided that the motion, although it would have been in order as the motion of an individual, was not in order as the report of a committee.

Mr. Holmes then took the floor and spoke for about 15 minutes, when

On motion of Mr. Johnston, the senate adjourned. April 10. Mr. Grundy reported the bill from the house, establishing certain post routs and for the discontinuance of others, with amendments.

ble to the removals after the president came into office. Persons of capacity and experience were turned out, and others put in their places, who knew not where to look to find necessary papers. The removals in the state department had been numerous; and he instanced, as a consequence, that a gentleman had been detained here three weeks before the clerks could find where his account was stated!

Mr. Clay made some further observations on the subject. It was an extraordinary proceeding at this late period of the session, at the moment when we are told of the necessity of passing the appropriation bill through with expedition, because the clerks are suffering, and the secretary of the senate has been obliged to raise money on his own credit, to come here for this appropriation, on the ground that the secretaries cannot go on with the public business without this additional aid. The law had determined the number of clerks in the departments, yet this number had been increasing for some years; and now, unwilling to ask for new clerks, the departments ask for a gross sum of money. He requested that the yeas and

The yeas and nays were then ordered.

The senate resumed the consideration of the bill mak-nays might be taken on this question. ing appropriations for the support of government, during the year 1832.

The vice president stated the question-the senator from Maine being entitled to the floor.

Mr. Smith rose to address the chair.

Mr. Marcy then suggested to the chairman of the committee on finance to withdraw his amendment.

Mr. Forsyth asked to hear Mr. Verplank's letter read. Mr. Smith said he could not find it among the documents sent to him, and then withdrew his amendment. The senate then took up an amendment, making an ap

Mr. Holmes, of Maine, rose and said he believed he would not permit the gentleman to interpose, and addressed the senate for two hours and a half, without con-propriation for extra clerks in the office of the surveyor-gecluding, when he gave way to a motion to adjourn-aud the senate adjourned.

April 11. The senate proceeded to the consideration of the revolutionary pension bill. The question being on the amendment of Mr. Robinson;

Mr. White moved a further amendment so as to include "any other person who was in the service of the United States, against any Indian tribe, previous to January 1,

1795.

Messrs. Frelinghuysen, Grundy and Smith, were opposed to the amendments; the latter gentleman avowed his hostility to the bill, the amendments, and to pensions of all kinds.

Mr. Buckner thought the amendments went too far. Mr. Smith moved to lay the bill on the table, which motion prevailed.

Mr. Johnston, introduced a bill authorising the payment to the state of Louisiana of 5 per centum on the proceeds of land sales.

The senate then resumed the consideration of the general appropriation bill.

Mr. Holmes addressed the senate for two hours in conclusion of his remarks.

neral of public lands, but before this was disposed of,
On motion of Mr. King, the senate adjourned.
April 12. A communication was received from the mas-
ters commandant of the Navy, asking an increase of pay.
Mr. Hayne reported a bill relative to the pay of the
marine corps.

Mr. Dallas presented a memorial from the board of health of Philadelphia, praying additional powers.

Mr. Frelinghuysen's resolution relative to the purchase of the old journals, was agreed to.

A letter was communicated by the secretary of state, from the consul at Havre, stating that there was an indication on the part of the French government to increase the duty on cotton.

The senate then resumed the consideration of the general appropriation bill, which was amended; but before the bill was gone through with, the senate adjourned.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Friday, April 6. The speaker laid before the house sundry communications from the secretary of the treasury, viz:

A report of the register and receiver of the land office Mr. Smith hoped the senate would now go on with the for the district of St. Helena: a letter transmitting inforbill, deferring the discussion on that particular subject mation as to the quantity of public land remaining ununtil Mr. Sprague's resolution, relative to the West In-sold; the quantity granted for internal improvements, dia trade, came up. education, and charitable institutions; the amount paid by

Mr. Bullard explained in what manner the appropriation of last year had been expended in the improvement of the navigation. About 50 miles had been opened of an obstruction extending in all 60 or 70 miles; so that a steam-boat had passed through, though not without some difficulty. He dwelt upon the advantages which would result to the commerce of all the southern part of Arkan-ation of the motion of Mr. Davis, of Mass. relative to the sas from removing the obstruction in this river, through which a navigation of 1,000 miles from the Mississippi would be opened.

The house then resumed the consideration of sundry bills relative to the District of Columbia, as in committee of the whole, and, after a protracted discussion on two, Saturday, April 7. Mr. Boon submitted a resolution the one relating to the bridge over the Potomac, and the calling on the secretary of war for the survey of the Wa-other for the erection of an aqueduct and bridge above bash river.

Mr. Howard then briefly explained his object. The bill had been drawn up with some care, in conformity with suggestions received in the course of a correspondence with some of our principal seaports. The objecting. of the bill is to enforce the quarantine beyond the limits The house, in committee of the whole, took up the of the jurisdiction of cities, which never could go far-bill to enlarge the revolutionary pension list. Messrs. ther than the limits of the states in which they were situated. He thought proper that the general government should interpose to supply the deficiency.

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the same precision as those of iron, Mr. Cambreleng's representations, though endorsed by Mr. McDuffie, would share the fate of Sarchett's, endorsed by Mr. Tyler, cum multis aliis.

The extent of the proceedings of congress, (though | woollens. Were the qualities of cloths to be stated with we expended much time and labor to condense them), have so far exceeded their usual space, that the extra matter contained in the supplement would have been postponed, to make room for other and more immediately interesting articles, could we have anticipated events that have happened at Washington. The affairs belonging to the unparalleled outrage committed on a member of the house of representatives, causes a man's blood to rush more freely through his veins than it is wont, and demands the present occupancy of several of our pagesby which our general arrangements for the business of the week have been completely overthrown, and a good deal of labor lost in the preparation of articles, which, by being deferred, must be cast away. Such are among the "miseries" that beset weekly editors. A week's de-industry of the United States have received, have had more lay in any thing which has the character of an article of news, is fatal. And besides, many things are omitted that we had especially resolved to publish.

We are exceedingly anxious that this question should be disposed of and settled, with a prospect of permanency. All parties to it suffer, and, perhaps, almost equally, by the frequent and rude agitation of it; for, while in some instances, such agitation has a tendency to reduce the price of commodities in a ruinous extent, the inevitable result is, that, production being impeded, price rises so as to yield enormous profits. The old saying is, that a "nimble six-pence is worth more than a slow shilling;" and the repeated checks which the manufacturing effect to keep up a general higher price of commodities, than the "American system," if operating to its utmost extent, as feared by its enemies, could have possibly had: for these checks have reduced the amount of the supTo dispose of the conflicting reports from the com- ply, as well as prevented the formation of new establishmittee of ways and means of the house of representa- ments, and forbade, or retarded, the introduction of new tives, and yet obtain room for much current matter, we and improved machinery, on a scale commensurate with have incurred the pretty serious expense of issuing a the growing demands of the home market. And, on the whole sheet supplement the present number containing whole, every thing is rendered so uncertain, that those thirty-two closely printed pages. This is an operation who have money withhold it from that circulation which which cannot be often repeated, much as we desire to is most profitable to every country. If an 100 dollars be compliment our readers, and give fulness to the record-placed in permanent stocks, they cannot be said to make but we wish that it might. inore than two turns a year, yielding to one person a gain of 6 per cent. per annum; but 100 dollars employed in the making of boots, hats, or sad irons, while yielding the same profit to its owner as if vested in moneyed institutions or public stacks,—is, probably, turned over 50 or 100 times in a year, and, at every turn, yields some additional profit on labor or capital, variously employed or invested; and it may, without metaphor, be said, that every one in the community receives some interest on this money. The pressure for money, in all of our cities, is The report of the minority is, indeed, a triumphant exceedingly great-because that it circulates slowly in paper, and we shall entertain a poor opinion of Mr. consequence of a foreign demand for it, to pay the cost McDuffie's magnanimity, if he does not yield obedience of excessive importations-the chief operations having to the stubborn truths which assail him. But, perhaps, strict regard to present necessities; and very few large he will "argue still"-the explosion of one absurdity only amounts are thrown out, as it were, for a general scramengendering a disposition to start another, in infinite pro-ble among the industrious and enterprizing, and on which gression. Such is the "besetting sin" of some logicians.

We were also under some old obligations to pay a compliment to Mr. McDuffie, for sundry notices of us in the house of representatives-and to his logic, we have, pari passu, given the "hic jacet" of Messrs. Ingersoll and Gilmore; his 40 per cent. on the value of cotton exported, and various other curious and crude notions, are now, deep in the sea of speculation, buried; and we trust that he will "get understanding" and suffer them to rest there forever.

every one might gather his "toll;" for, as one man ceases to expend, labor becomes less active, and a common diminution of expenses follows, perpetually adding to the original evil. But, severe as the pressure is, we have no hesitation in saying, that 500,000 dollars cast into the local circulation at New York, (small as the amount may appear compared with the mighty operations in that city), would relieve the pressure there: but several millions, perhaps, in the present depressed state of domestic industry and heavy foreign demand for our money, would be required to relieve that pressure.

We have yet on hand judge Baldwin's opinion on the Cherokee case, and a large amount of other like "stockmatter" for insertion, with sketches prepared of several highly interesting debates and proceedings enough to fill several sheets. Mr. Clay's report from the committee of manufactures on the subject of the public lands, (to which committee that subject was strangely referred), is also received and the report of the committee to investigate the affairs of the bank of the United States may be immediately expected; with several other long and valu- These, we apprehend, are plain practical propositions able reports and papers, from various quarters, especially unintelligible to the "philosophers" and school-men, the the treasury department; and besides, there is the extra-presidents and professors of colleges, and those whose ordinary case of the assault and battery of Mr. Stanberry by general Houston, the matters belonging to which have, and probably will, occupy a great deal of room. We can only say, that we shall do all that we can to keep up register; though, at the present time, we desire to hold a considerable space in reserve for our own use, in relation to that which, after all, is the most important subject before the people of the United States-the preservation or destruction of the PROTECTING SYSTEM.

the

THE TARIFF QUESTION. Other engagements, and a severe pressure on our pages for the insertion of important papers on current matters of high interest, have prevented a continuance of the general discussion of the tariff question, for the present. We shall, probably, in our next, however, offer some curious facts in relation to VOL. XLII-SIG. 9.

chief transaction is in the annual sale of one lot of cotton or tobacco-but familiar to every mechanic, manufacturer and artizan, as his daily business.

We are well assured that very large sums of money, or credits, or means, are now suspended by movements in congress, on the tariff question. We have heard of two or three cases by which half a million is suspended in its desired use in Pennsylvania; and have understood that much money is waiting for investment in mannfacturing operations in Tennessee and Missouri. So it is All extensions have been stopped, except every where. of an existing necessity to complete them. Every body is hauling-in, and so every body is in want. Take the following as within the knowledge of one gentleman, of Philadelphia, as stated in a letter recently received at this office

"The friends of a protection to our industry are much depressed here; goods are at least 15 per cent. lower within a month; some mills have stopped spinning; all improvements are suspended. I know of twenty-two houses which were to be built at Manayunk and Norristown, that have been suspended within a week.”

The difference in favor of British goods imported, since the conclusion of the late war, (having regard to honest importations only), because of this gross error in our calculation of duties, has amounted to very nearly the enormous sum of twenty millions of dollars. We say, the mere difference; or, in other words, the duties on British ad valorem goods, imported in the period stated, were twenty millions of dollars LESS than the tariff laws contemplated that they should amount to-enough money to have joined the Hudson to lake Erie-lake Erie to the Ohio river-and the Ohio river to the Chesapeake bay, by a rail road. Let this proceeding be corrected!

Now, look a moment at this operation in two villages. Say, the intended houses would have cost only 1000 dollars each-22,000 dollars are kept from common laborers, stone quarriers, brick makers, masons, carpenters, painters, glaziers, and other trades interested in fitting and furnishing houses, and the dollars are locked-up, or sent to England. If they had passed into the hands of the mechanics in weekly wages, they would have gone to the baker and butcher, the farmer and the grocer, the shopkeeper, shoe-maker, tailor, &c. as on "the wings of the wind," and have proceeded onward in infinite variety, and, on a very reasonable calculation, have done the business of 440,000 dollars, in only twenty changes of possessors, by the time that the houses would have been builted some of the friends of the protecting policy, as being and furnished, and made racney "plenty" with many. But in the suspension of these investments, this wholesome and beautiful operation is entirely prevented.

The mere merchant, AS SUCH, cannot apprehend the force of these remarks, for he creates no value beyond the cost of his own subsistence. When his operations are finished, nothing permanent and useful remains to shew that they had existed at all; but, it is possible, that he may have contributed to the improvement of some foreign land, wherein the VALUE was earned on which he traded, and TO WHICH IT RETURNED, AS IT MUST.

Because of these things, and for our own relief from the subject, we are earnest, indeed, in the wish, that the tariff question may be speedily settled. It would be pleasant even "to know the worst" that can happen-to ascertain ANY THING on which a calculation may be made.

AMERICAN MONEY. A merchant of Philadelphia, who has been extensively engaged in the French trade, and is also a warm, liberal and efficient supporter of the "American System," has complimented us on our late notices of the difference of exchange, as applicable to the payment of duties on ad valorem goods imported; and thinks it strange that the congress of the United States, and secretary of the treasury, should insist on saying, that 480 American dollars, or cents, in London, are only 444 at New York. On this account, a very large sum has been lost to the revenue of the United States-a duty of 20 per cent. for an example, being only one of 18, on the cost of English goods.

The gentleman says that France has a right to complain of this and he gives us the following statement:

"1000 dollars shipped to Havre, will sell for 5f. 30c. each, or 5,300 francs; which, being laid out in goods, subject to a duty of 20 per cent. ad valorem in the United States, will pay, on importation, $218 80.

MR. CLAY'S REPORT. A reference of an inquiry into the expediency of reducing the price of the public lands, or of ceding them to the states in which they are situated "on reasonable terms," to the committee on MANUFAC TURES, had an "ugly appearance," as a venerable senator said respecting another matter and considerably alarmdesigned to embarrass that great question; but whether the motive was "wicked or charitable," it has been nullified or cheered by Mr. Clay's brief but UNANSWERABLE report. The knots are untied, crooked things are made straight-and the supposed delicacy of the subject removed by plain and practical expositions of the "naked truth." We have reaped great strength where it was apprehended that the seeds of weakness and disunion had been sown-as was clearly seen in the brief debate that ensued on a motion to print extra copies of this report, by the flutterings of "wounded pigeons." The right and expediency of persevering in the present land system is maintained with all that boldness and power for which Mr. Clay is so remarkable, while plans are submitted which the representatives of the states, more immediately interested in the project, will not easily be brought to oppose. If there was a design in this proceeding to embarrass the "American System" and Mr. Clay, its ancient and most powerful supporter, the "pistol has missed," fire as Mr. Ritchie would say. Indeed, if so, it would seem right to observe, that

"Some muskets so contrive it,

"As to miss the things they drive at;
"And, if aimed at duck or plover,

"Bear wide, and kick their owners over." The subject was grappled by a fearless and a master hand-and is subdued.

THE SYSTEM. The Worcester, (Massachusetts) Spy,

of the 11th inst. has an advertisement of Messrs. B. Butman and Co. for the sale of "200 bbls. Howard street flour, choice brands, and 50 do. Baltimore white wheat flour, a very superior article for family use." Worcester is a large town in the interior of Massachusetts; and often receives more Baltimore flour, in a year, than all England will accept, in the same time, from all the United States.

But-1000 dollars shipped to London, being equal to 866 oz. of silver, at 4s. 10d. (now only 48. 94d.) gave The "Connecticut Mirror" gives a description of a only £209 88.-which, being vested in British goods sub-plain but highly finished carriage, and harness for four ject to a duty of 20 per cent. ad valorem in the United horses, that has been manufactured at Hartford for the States will pay, on importation, $204 77. president of the United States. The whole affair was left with the makers, being regulated only by the price1,000 dollars. All the materials are of American manufacture. It is stated that the late minister for Russia brought home an English carriage with him; but the Yankee builders wish that they could send carriages to England, being better and cheaper than the English.

Being a difference of 14 dollars and 3 cents in favor of the British goods, as compared with French productions."

This difference is 1.4 per cent.-or, on every million of dollars worth of goods, 14,000 dollars in favor of British manufactures, compared with those of France.

The foreign estimated value of the ad valorem goods imported has been about 35 millions a year. Of these let us say that 20 millions are from Great Britian, and that the average duty thereon is 30 per cent. ad valorem.

MR. P. P. BARBOUR has addressed a long letter to the editors of the "Richmond Enquirer," to vindicate himself against the charge that he did not vote on the The 20 millions in goods should then pay in duties bank bill of January 1815-the whole amount of which 6,000,000 dollars but the fact is that they only pay about is, that, though Mr. B. could not vote for the bank, as he 5,400,000 dollars, because we call the pound sterling 444 thought, without a direct violation of the constitutioncents when it generally is 488 cents; and so 600,000 dol-yet, as it was believed by others that "existing circumlars, for the benefit of British manufacturers, and the pre-stances" required the establishment of a national bank, the judice of our own, are annually lost to the treasury of the only alternative was to vote against it, or not vote at all; United States. and, after having "deliberated for days and nights with painful anxiety," he adopted the latter course; and says that his motive for this action, (which every body will readily believe), "was disinterested patriotism."

The real amount is much larger for the British importations have a greater value, and the nominal rate of duties on them averages more than 30 per cent. But we have preferred the round numbers for the sake of the example.

The moral to be derived from the judge's statement is THAT OTHERS HAVE AS GOOD A RIGHT TO BE INFLU