and weighing from 14 to 34 | Professional books, implements,

ounces the square foot. Sheathing metal.

Specimens of natural history, mi-
neralogy, or botany.

Trees, shrubs, bulbs, plants, and
roots, not otherwise provided
for.
Wearing apparel in actual use, and
other personal effects not mer-
chandise.

instruments and tools of trade, occupation, or employment, of persons arriving in the United States-provided, that this exemption shall not be construed to include machinery or other articles imported for use in any manufacturing establishment, or for sale.

PROPOSED MODIFICATION OF TARIFF.

FREE.

All books, maps, apparatus, and other articles imported for the use of the United States;

Also, statuary, busts, paintings, drawings, etchings, cabinets of coins, collections of antiquities, &c., for the use of colleges and schools;

Also, peruvian bark, berries, nuts, and vegetables, exclusively used for dyes and bolting cloths;

Also, books, maps, &c., purchased for the use of Congress;

Also, Brazil wood, Brazilletts, and all other dyes in wood or sticks; also, burr stones, fruits, and vegetables, green or ripe, except when prepared; orange and lemon peel, leeches, salt, and tea and coffee, from whatever country imported, are free.

100 PER CENT.

Articles paying duty divided into five classes. In the schedule of 100 per cent. are brandies, spirits, same as now.

20 PER CENT.

Among the 20 per cents. are coal, iron, manufactured or unmanufactured. Manufactures of cotton, silk, wool, flax, hemp, leather, paper, and wood. Ale, beer, porter, molasses, and paper. Prepared vegetables and meats, cigars, tobacco, manufactured or unmanufactured. Sugars of all kinds, wine, cut glass, and many other articles of luxury.

15 PER CENT.

Among the 15 per cents. are bacon, boards, and other rough lumber; beef and butter, burlaps, cordage, taps, gloves, leggings, shirts and drawers composed wholly of cotton; copper bolts, rods, bars, and sheets; cotton bagging; foreign fish, flax, flax-seed, furs dressed on skin, glue, gunny cloth, gunny bags, and gunpowder; hams, Indian corn, and lard; upper leather, lead, lead pipes and shot; oatmeal, animal oils, fish oils, product foreign fisheries, osnaburgs, paint, paper hangings, barley, pork, tanned and dressed skins, starch, steel in bars, cast, shear, or German, and in plates, sheets, or otherwise; stereotype plates, periodicals, and other books in course of printing and republication here; plaster of Paris, tallow candles, cotton velvet, white and red lead, window glass, unmanufactured fine woods, firewood, and wool.

10 PER CENT.

Among the 10 per cents. are all acids used in manufacturing and the fine arts; nearly or quite all drugs, medicines, and articles for dyeing not in a crude state; diamonds, gems, pearls, and precious stones, not set; hatters' furs not on the skin; furs undressed on the skin, gutta-percha and curled hair;

moss and other vegetable productions used for bedding, mattresses, unmanufactured India rubber and milk, music, spirits of turpentine, watches, watch materials, lime, spelter, and tutanag in sheets.

5 PER CENT.

Among the five per cents. are old bells, bell metal, bleaching powder, chloride of lime, books, magazines, pamphlets, periodicals, illustrated newspapers, brass in pigs or bars, old brass for re-manufacture, grindstones, gum copal, gums generally, indigo, un-manufactured ivory, lemon and lime juice, lime, maps, charts, palm, cocoa, aloes, pewter for remanufacture, rags, except woollen, raw hides, skin of all kinds not in the other list, shellac, raw silk, tallow and other soap stocks, tin, shells, manufactured zincs, spelter, tutanag. The nonenumerated class pay 15 per cent.

FOREIGN BOTTOMS.

The bill provides that all articles on the free list pay 10 per cent. if imported in foreign bottoms, and adds 10 per cent. to the duties on all other articles so imported, except in foreign vessels exempt by treaty from this discriminating tonnage or other charges. Goods in store imported after the passing of this act, and before it goes in operation, pay duties under the new schedule.

DECISIONS.

The decision of collectors as to the liability of the importations for dues is made final against the importer, unless he gives notice of intention to appeal to the Secretary of the Treasury within 10 days. The secretary's decision is to be final, unless a suit is instituted within 30 days after it is rendered. The act proposes to go into effect on the 1st of January 1855. But you may rest assured it will not be acted on this session.

REMARKS.

It will be understood that I give only the prominent articles in each sche dule, not the whole.

The Secretary of the Treasury has not been consulted at all in relation to this bill, which will not have any very cordial support from the Administration.-New York Times, June 15, 1854.

CLOCK MAKING.

The celebrity attained by New England in the manfacture of clocks gave a peculiar interest to my visit to one of the oldest manufactories of Connecticut : 250 men are employed, and the clocks are made at the rate of 600 per day, and at a price varying from 1 dollar to 10 dollars, the average price being 3 dollars. Each clock passes through about 60 different hands; more than half of the clocks manufactured are exported to England, and of these a large portion are re-exported to other markets. And it is worthy of remark that the superiority obtained in this particular manufacture is not owing to any local advantages; on the contrary, labour and material are more expensive than in the countries to which the exportations are made; it is to be ascribed solely to the enterprise and energy of the manufacturer, and his judicious employment of machinery.-Mr. Whitworth's Report. New York Industrial Exhibition.

COFFEE TRADE.

The total receipts of coffee in the United States for the year ending Dec. 31, 1853, were 1,362,119 packages, weighing 193,112,300 lb., against receipts in 1852 of 1,453,622 packages, weighing 205,542,855 lb., being a decrease in receipts of 91,503 packages or 12,430,550 lb., The export in 1853 was 6,870 packages more than in 1852 ; the stock, 1st Jan., 1854, was 213 packages larger than the

stock Jan. 1, 1853; but the weight this year shows an excess of 3,119,700 lb. (the supply of Java, &c., in mats being much smaller than at the corresponding period last year), and the consumption was 29,303,805 lb. less than in 1852.New York Shipping, &c. List, Jan. 18, 1854.

COTTON.

New York, June 3, 1854.

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS, EXPORTS, AND STOCKS OF COTTON.

STOCK OF COTTON IN INTERIOR TOWNS NOT INCLUDED IN RECEIPTS.

A very important discovery has been made (or perhaps it might more properly be called an invention), by which an elasticity hitherto unknown has been imparted to cotton, that seems likely to create an immense demand for it in a new direction. I speak particularly now of cotton mattresses and beds. Cotton costs from six to ten cents a-pound; feathers from 40 to 60. Although hair and wool mattresses have been extensively used in this country, yet, after all, the vast proportion of the North American people sleep on feathers or straw mattresses. The purity of cotton, and its freedom from an offensive odour,

with the familiarity which all Americans have with it in almost every form, connected with the immense gain in the cost, promise to work a complete revolution in this department of domestic life.-Cor.

EXPORT OF FLOUR.

New York, Nov., 1853.

The total export of flour from New York this year is 297,486 barrels against 87,226 barrels for the same time last year.-Cor.

DEPOSITS OF GOLD.

The entire deposits of gold at the Mint and its branches, in 1853, amounted to 11,130,000l., and coinage to a nearly equal amount had been issued; while the total deposits since the Californian discoveries in 1848 have been 42,520,000l. making an average of about 8,000,000l. per annum.—Annual Return.

HEMP.

New York, May 12, 1854.

The attention of cultivators is being directed to the growth of articles hitherto supplied by Russia. The amount of hemp at present raised in the Western States is estimated at 29,000 tons per annum, and it is alleged that they could produce 200,000 tons.-Cor.

SISAL HEMP.

A friend has presented us with some of this hemp, which he says is grown quite extensively in the southern part of Florida. The sample which we have was cut near New Smyrna; but the climate of the whole region of Southern Florida is equally favourable to its growth. The gentleman who gave us this sample says that the leaf of the hemp plant resembles considerably the century plant, and after it is grown and dry the fibres are separated by machinery, so that this parcel looks like a hank of Manilla grass prepared for the manufacturer. The longest fibres or threads are five feet long, but those from the sides of the leaf are of course shorter; the whole hank being the product of one leaf. As near as we could judge, the fibres are as strong as the best samples of hemp, and it must ere long become an important article of commerce in that section.-Savannah Republican, Oct. 1853.

CONSUMPTION OF MOLASSES.

The decrease in the consumption of foreign molasses in the United States, exclusive of California and Oregon, the past year, as compared with the consumption of 1852, is 840,690 gallons; but the total consumption of foreign and domestic, shows an increase of 7,279,310 gallons, or over 15 per cent., the crop of Louisiana, &c., of 1852-3 having proved the largest one ever made. The consumption of 1853 is 18,517,572 gallons larger than that of 1850, being an increase of 50 per cent., or an annual increase of 124 per cent. The crop of Louisiana, &c., now coming forward, will equal, and probably exceed, the large one made in 1852-3-New York Shipping, &c., List, Jan. 21, 1854.

MANUFACTURE OF SEWING SILK.

The entire consumption of this article in this country is estimated at 800,000 dols. annually of which about three-fourths are made in the factories established at Manchester and Windsor (Connecticut), Paterson (N. J.), and other places. The American article is preferred by our dealers and workmen, and is acknowledged by all to be far superior to the foreign article.-New York Courier and Inquirer.