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The items of Information in thefollowing article will be new to readers gcnerally, and are of some interest. On the conclusionsthe writer draws from hisfacts, there will, of course be a diíierence of opinión.Perhaps not one in a thousand of our citizens knows ihat the duties on wheat are twenty five cents, oo corn fifteen, and on oats ten cents per.bushel. Last year millions of bushels of wheat were admitted into England from tliis country free of duty , and when the abundance of wheat is so great that no wheat is wanted at ány rate in that country, the extreme duty is half a dollar. The average duty on Breadstuñs is as low. in that as in this country. Here wheat lands are wórth from one to two hundred dollars per acre, there the poorest land is worth five hundred dollars. Americans should. modify their own corn laws before they croak and murmur against Great Britain. Ifour neighbors the Texians should bring cotton and sheep's wool to New England tobarter for cotton and woolen manufactures, they wou ld be charged with three cents per pound on the former. and twelve cents average per pound on the fine qualities of the latter. Did they go to Oíd England, they have,their cotton admitted at half a cent per pound and fine sheep's wool ai two cents per pound. This is a plain statement of the case, and shows that the American Tariff is a selfish affair, got up and carried through without considering the relative situation of other countries. ; If the iron manufacturers of England, Scotland and Wales, who are now selling,their lowest price bar.Iron at about eighteen dollars peatón at home, should wisb. to barter for the produce of this country. they would be taxed with twenty-sevon and a half dollars per ton, - more than one hundred and fifty per cent, ad valorem duties. Cheese is an article wbich is prohtbited as merchandise in thisconntry, and New York merchante who now receive presente from Liverpool mercbants, have to pay nine cents per pound duty to government; while last year a million and a half of American cheese was admitted into Liverpool at one penny duty. The duty on lard in England, of which an immense amounthas been shipped from this country, isónly onefarthing, while here, it is four cents. The duty on flaxseed is but one shilling on eight bushels, &c. &c.When these things are fully known to the people, they.will not subrait to paya tax to government of five dollars on good cloth fora coat pattern, nor one dollar on a printed calicó dress, particularly when in one year the Jonathans of New EngJandsend fifteen niillions to China, while John Buil sends only twelve million.s.