Bottles, 30 Bread, 20 Candles, 20 Cheese, 30 Coal, 30 Cotton goods, (cord, gimps, } galloons, &c.,) } 30 ... thread, twist, yarn, &c., 25 ... caps, leggins, stockings,} &c., } 20 Duck, 20 Flax, 15 Flour and meal, 20 Grain, 20 Iron, 30 Lead, 20 Leather, 20 Provisions, 20 Soap, 30 Spirits, 100 Sugar, 30 Tobacco, unmanufactured, 30 ... manufactured, 40 Wool, 30 These duties are somewhat lower, though not materially so, than the former tariff of 1842; but they certainly offer no inconsiderable amount of protection to home industry and produce. We have already seen the progress which has been made by the American cotton manufacturers, iron-masters, and miners; and it is now quite evident that, unless that progress is checked--which it only can be by the will of the Americans--our exports to that quarter must naturally decline. This is not our anticipation merely; it has been expressed openly and anxiously in the columns of the Free-Trade journals. In the iron districts of Scotland and Staffordshire, the apprehension that henceforward the American market will be generally closed against them, is, we know, very prevalent; and the following extract from the report of the _Morning Chronicle_, (April 11, 1850,) on the condition and prospects of the iron trade in the spring of 1850, applies exactly to the opening of 1851:-- "The present state of our commercial negotiations with the United States, particularly in relation to the exportation of iron from this country, promises greatly to aggravate existing evils. It is feared by many largely interested in the iron manufacture of this neighbourhood, that the efforts of Sir Henry Bulwer at Washington to obtain a modification of the American tariff, with respect more especially to the importation of iron, will prove abortive for some time to come. Our exports of iron from South Staffordshire are said to be already considerably reduced; and should our Transatlantic friends continue, as they threaten, their restrictive commercial policy, business in these important manufacturing districts must of necessity be still more limited than it is at the present moment."