Among these we are surely entitled to reckon Switzerland and Germany--including in the latter denomination that powerful confederacy, the Zollverein, which embraces the Hanseatic towns. These are Protectionist--determined at all hazards to maintain their doctrine of fostering native industry, and meeting us, not with reciprocity, but with augmented customs' duties. The following extracts from the last modifications of the general tariff of the Zollverein may be instructive:-- MODIFICATIONS OF THE GENERAL TARIFF OF THE ZOLLVEREIN. IMPORT DUTIES ON, OLD DUTY. NEW DUTY. Cotton twist, unbleached, per cwt., £0 6 0 0 9 0 Iron, raw, do. (Free.) 0 1 0 " pig, rails and raw, cast and refined steel, 0 3 0 0 4 6 Linen, viz.-- Yarn, raw, per do. 0 0 6 0 6 0 " bleached or dyed, 0 3 0 0 15 0 " boiled with ashes, 0 1 6 0 9 0 Thread, 0 6 0 0 12 0 Manufactures, raw, 0 6 0 0 12 0 " bleached, &c., 1 13 0 3 0 0 Woollen manufactures, 4 10 0 7 10 0 The law which gave a tariff to Switzerland on the 30th of June 1849, commences by enacting "that all the articles which are imported into Switzerland, are, with certain exceptions, specified by the present law, submitted to an import duty," and proceeds to impose duties of various kinds on all conceivable articles of importation. So far from being in favour of Free Trade, the Swiss nation is distinctly opposed to it; because, as in France, the people engaged in those important branches of industry are fully alive to their interest, and exercise the power they possess to render the revenue laws subservient to it.