This table gives us the fact, that in three years here quoted, wheat and wheat flour equivalent to an annual average of 8,143,339 bushels of wheat, were imported into France, and nearly all for French consumption. The year 1840 was the year of the largest export from the United States, and was one of short crops in England and France also. Last year the crops were also small, and a succession of defective crops have largely reduced the stocks in the granaries of Europe. This year the harvest of England is sufficient for its own use, while that of France is short, as well as that of Spain. These facts, in connection with the abundance of money in Europe, interest being for the first time for many years, at 3 per cent in Paris, leads to the conclusion that prices will so rise as to afford a market for American flour, more especially to supply the 240,000 barrels necessary for the French colonies. The flour imports of France, it ap pears, are mostly from the United States. This state of affairs on the continent, as well as that in England, is likely to lead to a demand for American produce, more especially as the prices are so low as to compete successfully with the agricultural produce of Europe. This produce, both for England and the continent, must be paid for in specie-a fact practically evinced by the present low state of the exchanges with Europe, at this season of the year, when usually they rule highest. The precious metals are now flowing in from Europe in answer to the low state of sterling bills, of which the best descriptions have been sold as low as 5 per cent, nominal premium; a rate which will allow of their purchase for the purpose of importing their proceeds in specie. Favorable as are the foreign exchanges at this point, they are still more so at the leading points of the south, being at a nominal discount of 14 a 2 per cent at New Orleans, where also sight bills on New York are at a heavy discount, a fact which, as indicated in our last number, has led to the export of specie from this city to that point to an amount ranging from $1,500,000 to $2,000,000; the amount afloat, at one time, being so great as to induce the insurance offices to decline further risks for the present. Large sums in specie have arrived at New Orleans direct, for the purchase of cotton; and also at this point, both on speculation and for employment. Such a movement at this season of the year, when usually it goes abroad, is indicative of a larger import, as the produce moves forward to the points of sale in accumulating quantities. The flow of specie may be so large to this side as to cause some uneasiness to the Bank of England, but it is now beyond her power to control it. The demands upon her are not the proceeds of loans that may be checked at pleasure, or the consequence of high prices there, which may be reduced by a restringent policy; but they are the proceeds of produce at low prices, which must be had to keep in motion the manufacturing interests. It is one of the moving causes that is undermining the whole paper system, and will.oblige England to keep her currency on a level with that of the rest of the world with which she holds commercial intercourse. In the few years preceding the late revulsion, attempts were made to spread the paper system on the continent of Europe, and some progress was made therein, many new banks having been established in France, Belgium, and some other countries. These were, however, speedily overtaken by disaster, and now that the paper system in the United States has been nearly destroyed, and the manufacturing supremacy of England, (the support of her paper system,) done away with by successful rivalry, there remains but another short crop to put a finish to that pernicious system. The present state of affairs in this country promises a period of solid prosperity, which can in future be but little influenced by convulsions abroad. COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS. TARIFF OR RATE OF DUTIES PAYABLE ON GOODS, WARES, AND MERCHANDISE IMPORTED INTO THE UNITED STATES, FROM AND AFTER THE 30TH DAY OF AUGUST, 1842, ACCORDING to act of CONGRESS OF THAT DATE. Compiled for the Merchants' Magazine, by HENRY DOANE, clerk in the Square Yard department of the Customhouse, New York. 39 Animals specially imported,........ do. cordial, so called,.. do. oil of..... Antimony, crude,. do. preparations of......per cent Antique oil, perfumery,......per cent Anvils, 21 free ..per lb. All goods, wares, or merchandise, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, exported to a foreign country, and brought back to the United States; and books,and personal and household effects, (not merchandise,) of citizens of the United States, dying abroad,.. Apothecaries glass measures, with engraved lines. (See glass.) do. vials and bottles, not exceeding the capacity of six ounces each,...... ...per gross 1 75 do. exceeding the capacity of six ounces, and not exceeding 16 oz. each,.. .per gross 2 25 Apparatus. Philosophical instru. ments, books, maps, and charts, statues, statuary, busts and casts of marble, bronze, alabaster, or plaster of Paris, paintings, drawings, engravings, etchings, specimens of sculpture,cabinets of coins, medals, gems and all other collections of antiquities; provided the same be specially imported in good faith for the use (and by the order) of any society incorporated or established for philosophical or literary purposes,or for the encouragement of the fine arts, or for the use and Arsenic,..... ...per cent .....per cent ..per cent Articles, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, its territories or fisheries,..... Articles composed wholly or chiefly, in quantity, of gold, silver, pearl, and precious stones, according to materials. free Bar-iron, in bars or bolts, when man ufactured in whole or in part, by rolling,......... do. not manufactured in part or whole, by rolling,...... Barwood,... Barytes, sulphate of,... Bastard files,.. Baskets, of wood, ozier, palmleaf, willow, straw, or grass,...per cent 20 20 Articles, all not free, and not subject to any other specified duty,..pr. ct. Articles manufactured from gold, silver, brass, iron, steel, lead, copper, pewter, tin, German silver, bell-metal, zinc, and bronze, not otherwise enumerated,....per cent Articles, all imported for the use of the U. States,............. Artificial feathers, or parts thereof, per cent 25 do. flowers, do............per cent 25 Assafoetida, gum,................................................ ................... free Asses skin,.. per cent 25 25 Beads, wax, amber, composition, and all others not enumerated,...pr. et. Beans, Tonkay, Vanilla, and all others,..... 30 free do. screws,.. do. imitation of,............per cent Avaroot,.......... free Arbusson, carpeting,.........sq. yard 65 Augers,.. per cent 30 Awl hafts,.. per cent 30 Awls,.... Axes, Bacon,.... .per lb. 3 free Baggage, personal, in actual use,... Bagging, cotton,.. Bags, Grass,... Gunny, ཆན གཎཆེན པ ཆེ ཕན གཇུབ འི ཆེ ཆེ སྤྱི སྤྱི Metal, old, for remanufact'ng, free Belts-sword leather,........per cent free 35 20 20 20 Bismuth and oxide bismuth,per cent of which English forms the text, 20 Black ivory or bone,..... ..per lb. Lamp,.. ..per lb. 320 Black lead pencils,... Lead pots,.. do. Lead powder,.........per cent Lead crucibles,........per cent Glass bottles, not exceeding the capacity of 1 qrt. each, pr. gro. 3 00 do. exceeding 1 quart,......pr. gro. 4 00 Blacking, shoe and boot,....per cent Blacksmiths' hammers,... Bladders,...... 20 21 per lb. ..per lb. 20 Blankets, woollen, cost not exceed. ing 75 cents each at the place whence imported, and dimensions not exceeding 72x52 inches each, nor less than 45×60,......per cent do. Goats' hair, or Mohair, per ct. do. all other woollen,......per cent Blue vitriol,. ..per lb. Boards in the rough, not planed nor wrought into any shape for useper cent do. wrought into shapes that fit them, respectively, for any specific or permanent use without further manufacture, shall be deemed as manufet'd wood, and pay....pr. ct. Bobbinet, cotton lace,.......per cent Bobbin,..... ..per cent when bound,........... Unbound, or in sheets,. Provided, That whenever the importer shall prove to the satisfaction of the collector when the goods are entered, that any such book has been printed and published abroad more than one year and not republished in this country; or has been printed and published abroad more than five years before such importation: then, and in such case, such books shall be admitted at one half the above rate of duties. Provided that the said terms of one year, or five years, shall in no case commence or be computed at and from the day before the passage of this act. do. Latin and Greek, or in which either language forms the text, when bound,.. 20 .per lb. 33 13 On books printed in Hebrew, or of which that language forms the text, when bound,...per lb. Unbound, 10 ...per lb. 8 All printed in foreign languages, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew excepted, when bound or in boards,. ..per vol. In sheets or pamphlets..... per lb. 15 Editions of works in the Greek, Latin, Hebrew, or English languages, which have been printed 40 years prior to the date of importation,.............. per vol. Reports of legislative committees appointed under foreign governments,.... ..per vol. Polyglots, Lexicons, and Dietion 5 5 per cent 20 .per cent 20 Hemp,.. Borax, or Tincal,.............per cent 25 Botany, specimens of, specially im ported,...... Bottles-Apothecaries, not exceeding free the capacity of 6 oz. each, per gro. 1 75 Exceeding 6 oz., and not exc'ding the capacity of 16 oz. each, pr.g. 2 25 Perfumery and fancy vials and bottles, uncut, not exceeding the capacity of 4 oz. each, per gross 2 50 do. do. exceeding 4 oz., and not exceeding in capacity 16 ounces each,.......... .......per gross 3 00 Black and green, and jars, exc'ding 8 oz., and not exceeding in capacity 1 quart each,..............per gross 3 00 Exceeding 1 quart each, per gross 4 00 Cut and engraved. (See glass.) Demijohns and Carboys, of the capacity of half a gal. or less,...each Exceeding half a gal., and not exceeding 3 gallons,..........each Exceeding 3 gallons,..........each Bougies, gum-elastic,........per cent Boxes-Gold or silver, musical, ja. panned, (dressing,) all wood, or sand, of tin,....... .per cent Tortoise shell, paper snuff-boxes, Box boards, paper,............................ 15 30 50 30 309 .per cent .per lb. 3 Bracelets--Gold or set, or gilt. (See Old, and fit only to be remanuf'd, free Other manufactures of, not other. wise enumerated,.......per cent Braziers' rods, and round or squar'd iron, 3-16ths to 10-16ths of an inch diameter,..... per lb. 21 free Brazil Wood, in stick,................................ Ground, ...per cent 30 Brazilletto Wood, in stick,.......... Ground,... Brazil Pebbles, prepared for spectacles,......... Bread Baskets, japanned, plated, or silver,...... Bridle Bits,...... Bridles,...... ..per cent free 30 ..per gross 2 00 ..per cent 30 Bricks and paving tiles,......per cent Britannia Ware,... 25 ..per cent 30 ....per cent 30 Brimstone, crude, and flour sulphur, free Bronze, manufactures of, not other. ..per cent Brooms and brushes of all kinds, " Brown Spanish Dye,...........per lb. Ground in oil,.......................... Brown Smalts,....... Buckles, metallic, of all sorts,per ct. Buffalo cloth, cotton goods manufactured by napping or raising, cutting or shearing, if costing less than 35 cents the square yard, to be estimated at 35 cents, per cent Bugles, musical instruments...pr. ct. Bugles, beads,..... 30 30 25 25 30 Building stones,... .per cent 20 Bulrushes,...... ..per lb. 1 .per cent 20 Bulbs, or bulbous roots,..... free 35 Bullion,. free do. or suspenders of silk, with buckles or without, cotton, or worsted,............ ..per cent Woollen, if made on frame, pr. ct. If made by needle,.....per cent 50 Indiarubber or in part, costing less than $2 per doz., to be valued as costing $2, Leather,... Brads not exceeding 16 ounces to the 1000,... •per 1000 Exc'ding 16 oz. to the 1000,pr.lb. Braids-Curls, chains, and ringlets, made of hair, for ornaments for 55 Other, not otherwise specified, Butter,.. Buttons-Metal of all kinds,per cent If costing less than $1 per gross, to be valued at $1-all others, |