---------------------------------------------------------------------- | In Lots of |----------------------- DESCRIPTION OF GOODS. | Less | 5 Tons|10 Tons | than | and | and |5 Tons.| above.| above. ----------------------------------------------+-------+-------+------- Bark, asphalt pipes, petroleum, vinegar, clay | | | drain pipes, oils, paper, trees, butter, | | | fresh meat, coffee, spirits, cheese, hair, | | | dyeing earths, pencils, sugar, sumac | II. | A | | | | Raw tobacco, pitch, lithographers’ stone, | | | cabbage and vegetables in bulk, herrings, | | | window glass, dye-woods, cotton yarn, | | | Glauber-salts, soda, cotton twist, wool, jute| II. | B | | | | Raw asphalt, ashes, potato meal, beetroot, | | | seeds, sheet iron, iron pipes, iron wire, | | | lime, linseed, cake, lead, parts of machines,| | | pasteboard, corn and grain, raw sugar, iron | II. | C | | | | Guano, grindstones in the rough, stone | | | troughs, coal tar, worked stones, sleepers, | | | spath millstone, fuel, marble in blocks | II. | D | | | | Raw iron, cast iron, gravel, wood, coal, | | | limestone, pebbles, raw chalk, clay, manure, | | | coal, coke, turf, ore, tiles | II. | D | S R ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This diversity of system and practice will give some idea of the difficulty experienced in framing a classification suitable to each country, or, indeed, to various portions of the same country. The difficulty will be still better understood by observing the different manner in which goods placed in the 2nd Class, under the Railway Clearing House Classification, are classified in other countries.