WEBSTER'S SPEECH. Can any man gainsay the truth of all this? Is["little Congress," to which the honorable memthere a merchant, foreign or American, in the ber from Connecticut (Mr. NILES) referred some United States who will express any contrariety days ago-some subordinate officers about the of opinion? Is there a man, high or low, who de- Custom-House, influenced by I know not what mies it? I know of none; I have heard of none. considerations-who may be found ready to susSir, it has been the experience of this Govern-tain such a system. That I do not deny. But J ment, always, that the ad valorem system is open say that no respectable importing merchant can to innumerable frauds. What is the case with be found between Penobscot and Richmond, who England? In her new notions, favorably to free will give his opinion in favor of it, if he is an honStrade, has she rushed madly into a scheme of ad est man, and one who gets his living by importa Svalorem duties? Sir, a system of ad valorem du- tion himself. Well, then, how are we decide ?ties is not free trade, but fraudulent trade. Has Against the authority of our own experience ?— England countenanced this? Not at all; not at Against the authority of these thousands ofsubstanSall. Sir, on the contrary, on every occasion of a tiated facts? Against these cases now blushing revision of the tariff of England, a constant effort with recent fraud? Against the example, not only Shas been made, and progress attained in every of the English Government, but against that of all Scase, to augment the number of specific duties, the continental Governments-for the Zollverein Sand reduce the number of ad valorem duties. A carries its specific duties much farther even than Sgentleman in the other House (Mr. SEAMAN) has England? Against all this, what have we ?Staken pains-which I have taken, also, though I what have we? Why, we have the recommend(believe not quite so thoroughly as he has to golation of the President of the United States and through the items of the British tariff, and see the Secretary of the Treasury-highly respecta (what proportion of duties in that tariff are ad va-ble persons; respectable in private life; reslorem and what are specific. Now, sir, the result pectable, and I may say eminent, in some walks of that examination shows, that at this day, in of public life; but I must add, neither of them (this British tariff, out of six hundred articles, five trained in the knowledge of commerce; neither (hundred are subject to specific duties. Every of them having had habits of intercourse with (thing that from its nature could be made speci- practical men of the cities, or men of mercantile (fic, is made specific. Nothing is placed in the business. And yet here, in the first year of their list of ad valorem duties but such as seem to be administration, fresh to the duties thrown upon incapable of assessment in any other form.-them, they come out with a recommendation of Well, sir, how do we stand, then? We have the a vast change; they propose a new system, adexperience of our own Government; we have verse to all our own experience, hostile to every (the judgment of those most distinguished in the thing that we have ever learned, different from administration of our affairs; we have the pro-the experience of every other country on the duction of proof, on this most important point, in face of the earth, and which stands solely on the (hundreds and hundreds of instances, of the dan-responsibility of their own individual opinions! ger of the ad valorem mode of assessing duties.-I do not think that this is a fair balance of auWhat is produced in its favor? Every importer thority; and since nobody here will uphold it, of the United States, without exception is against since nobody here will defend it, it is fair enough it. Sir, the Administratration has not a mercan- for me to say, with entire respect to the head of tile friend from here to Penobscot, so far as ap-the Government and the Department of the pears, that will come forward and give his opin-Treasury, that the preponderance of authority is ion in favor of this system. I undertake to say quite overwhelming the other way. there is not one. There may be members of the VALUE OF FOREIGN COINS IN THE UNITED STATES. AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE VALUE OF CERTAIN FOREIGN COINS AND MONEYS OF ACCOUNT, AND TO AMEND EXISTING LAWS. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Con gress assembled, That, in all computation at the Custom-House, the foreign coins and money of account herein specified, shall be estimated as follows, to wit; The specie dollar of Sweden and Norway, at $1.06.01 The lira of the Lombardo Venetian kingdom 1.05.0 The thaler of Prussia and of the northern 0.69.0 and the lira of Tuscany, at.. 01.6.0 0.18.0 The florin of the southern States of Germany, at 0.40.0 The torin of the Austrian Empire and of the The pound of the British provinces of Nova 4.00.0 city of Augsburg, at..... The Ducat of Naples, at... 0.48.5 And all laws inconsistent with this act, use here.............. 0.80.0 by repealed. The ounce of Sicily, at... TARIFF OF DUTIES, ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED. SCHEDULE A....(100 Per Cent.) Spirits and Liquors. Absynthe, Arrack, Kirschenwasser, Brandy, Liqueurs, Ratafia, SCHEDULE I....(40 Per Cent.) Alabaster, Almonds, Glass, cut, Mace, Scagliola Tops, or other &C. Snuff, tobacco, all manu- when set, Ochre and ochry earths, Do essential Pack-thread, Painters' colors, dry, or ground in oil, Palm leaf, manufactures Paper, and manufac Wood, manufactures of Harness, coach, wood and mahogany, SCHEDULE B....(30 Per Cent.) ren's composed of straw Alabatta,crude, wrought, | Carriages, and parts of table substances, Ale in casks or bottles, Arms, fire and side arms, Baskets, stances, Books, pocket, Boxes, shell, Bracelets, Braids, Braces, Coal and culm of do, cut or manufac Cork, manufactures of, Cotton, manufactures of, Do Wilton, &e. and Fire screens, Horn, manufactures of Ink powders, Iron in bars, Do bolts, Do castings, Do old or scrap, imi-Precious stones, Jet, manufactures of, Knots, lace, &c. Imitation do, or set in Red chalk pencils, Ringlets of hair, Rubies, set, Saddlery of all kinds, glass, Wares ofbrass,iron, cop- Animal Carbon, Aniseed, regulus, Arrow root, Antimony, crude and Dutch metal or bronze, Articles for dyeing or Bacon, of Barley, pure or hulled, Stars silver or gold li- Wearing apparel of all Bituminous substances, kinds and materials, not otherwise enumerafinished and unfinished. ted, nings, &c. Stone ware, Straw hats, caps, and Straw, manufactures of, Sunshades, finished or Suspenders, Syrup of sugar, Tin, manufactures of Toys, Baizes, Tresses, Webbing of India-rub-Blank Books, bound and Willow hats or bonnets, ivory, component part, SCHEDULE C....(25 Per Cent.) Beds, feather, down, hair, or hair cloth, in leaf, Dyeing articles, not in a? Glass, window, broad, Granadilla wood, Gloves, Boracic, do Green turtle, Bricks,paving or roofing, Butter, Caps, Carbonate soda, Grass, Sisal and grass Cassia buds, mats, Hair-cloth, Hair, goat's, manufac- Hair seating, Jute and jute mats, Castor oil, Castorum, Cedar wood, Cemeut, Roman Mats, or matting, Chi-Chocolate, 66 potash, Mercurial preparations Chromic acid, Mohair, manufactures of Silk, manufactures of Do other than roofing, Citric do Green vitriol, Hams, Gunny cloth, Hatters' plush (silk or Hemp, manufactures of, Hempseed oil, Hydriodate of potash, Indigo, extract of, Iris, or orris root, Ivory, or bone black, Juniper berries, Lac spirits, Lac sulphur, vit-Lead in pigs, bars, sheets, Worsted, manufactures Coral marine, unmanu- SCHEDULE D....(20 Per Cent.) Acids, Acetic, Acetous, Nitric, Benzoic, Boracic, Chrome, Citric, Muriatic, white or yellow, 66 meal, Cream of tartar, Pyroligneous, Tartar-Cubebs, Curled hair, Leaves, medicinal, not) Listings, woolen Logwood, and extract Marble, rough, in blocks, Moss, Do unmanufactured, Mordant Patent, Muriate acid, white or yellow, (Musical instruments or strings of whip, or cat gut, Needles of all kinds for sewing, darning or knitting, Nitrate of Lead, Oatmeal, Oats, Oils, Castor, Linseed, Rapeseed, Hempseed, Neatsfoot and other animal oils, Spermaceti, Whale, foreign, &c. from fisheries, Orange peels, Oranges, Opium, Osiers or willow prepared for basket makers, Paddy, Paint oils, Paints dry or ground in oil, Paper hangings, Paper screens or fire Squills, Starch, boards, Paper sheathings, Paris White or Whiting, Patent Mordant, Paving Bricks, stones Tiles, Pearl or hulled barley, Pencils, slate Periodicals or other works, in course of printing or republication in U. S. Pine Apples, Pipes, Lead Pitch, Planks, Plantains, Plumbago, Plaster of Paris when ground, Plates, stereotype Plush, Hatters, composed of silk and cotton, or chiefly the latter as to value, Pork, Potassium, Potash, Prussiate of, Chromate of, Hydrodate of, Powder, Fulminating Spirit lac, Spirits of Turpentine, Sponge, Spunk, Staves, Stearine Candles, Do Tapers, Steel, SCHEDULE Acid, sulphuric leans, Arabic, gum Ash, soda Bleaching powders or chloride lime, Building stones, Books, printed Burr stones, wrought or unwrought, Cameos, or imitations of not set, Stereotype Plates, Catechu, or terra-japon Charts, Silk, raw, not more advanced than singles, tram and thrown, or or ganzine, Sitver leaf, Sheet tin, Spelter or tutenegue, Steel in bars, cast or shear, German, Tin, Terne plates, plates or sheets, plates galvanized, not otherwise pro vided for, Tow of hemp.or flax, Zinc, spelter, or tutenegue, in sheets. F.... Thibet or other goat hair Cudbear, or imitations of or manufactures of, not set, Thread, laces and insert-Diamonds, or imitations ings, of, not set, Timber, hewed or saw- Engraving plates, (10 Per Cent.) Furs, hatters', dressed or undressed, not on the skin, Gems, or imitations of, not set, Glass, compositions of, not set, Gold beaters' skins, Gum, Arabic, Senegal, Tragacanth, Barbary, Easi India, Jedda, substitute or burnt starch, Hair of all kinds, uncleaned and unmanufac tured, Hatters' furs, dressed or undressed, not on the skin, Do undressed on the akin, Hempseed, Illustrated-newspapers, bound or unbound, India rubber, in bottles, slabs, or sheets, unmanufactured, Indigo, Jedda gum, Kelp, Lemon juice, ed or used in building Engravings, bound or Lime, wharves, Turpentine, spirits of Turtle, Green Prussian blue, unbound. Pulp, dried Pumpkins, Flaxseed, Fuller's earth, Putty, Type metal, Pyroligneous acid, Type, new or old on the skin, Lime juice, Magazines, Maps, Furs, undressed when Marrow and all other grease, and soap stock THE NEW-TARIFF. Polishing stones, Sal ammonia, not otherwise provided | sively for dyeing, un for, Saltpetre, refined or par-Vegetables used exclu- or stuff (Paste, compositions of, Terra-japonica, Paim-leaf, tured, Palm oil, Pamphlets, not set, Pastel or woad, Pearls. not set, 1 Periodicals, (Plates, engraving SCHEDULE Tragacanth, G....(5 Per Cent.) Alcornoque, Argol, or crude tariar, Belis when old, or bell metal fit only to be reanufactured, Berries used exclusively for dyeing, Berries, unmanufactured Bones, tips and teeth, unnanufactured, Frass in pigs or bars, Brass when old and fit only to be remanufactured, (Brazil wood, and all dyewood, in sticks, Bristles, Chalk, not otherwise provided for, Clay, unwrought Cloth, mohair, manufac tures of Copper in pigs and bars, und when old and only fit to be remanufactured, Dyeing berries, nuts and vegetables, used exclusively for dyeing, Dy lac, Flints, (Galle, nut Grindstones, wrought or unwrought, Hides, raw, and skins of all kinds, dried, salted, or pickled, not otherwise provided for, Horus, and tips of, Ivory nuts or vegetable ivory dátto, Ivory, unmanufactured Kerus, Lac dye and lac spirits, (Lastings suitable for shoes, boots, or buttons exclusively, Madder root, Do ground, Mohair cloth, manufactires of manufactured, Waste or shoddy, Weld, Zinc, spelter or tutenegue, unanufactured, not otherwise provided for. SCHEDULE H....(Free.) Animals imported for Antiquities,collections of Cabinets of coins, Coins, gold, silver, or Nitrate potash, crude Oil, spermaceti, whale, Plants and roots not oth- Platina unmanufactured Felt sheathing, adhesive Roots, not otherwise Garden seeds and all provided for, other seeds not other-Sheathing, felt wise provided for, Guano, Household and personal effects of citizens of U. S. dying abroad, Saltpetre, crude Household effects, old, Seed lac,' Shellac, and in use, of persons Shells, unmanufactured or families, if used aSilk twist, or other manbroad and not intended factures of cloth suita- for sale on arriving in ble for manufacturing the United States, shoes, boots, Jolees, Junk, old or buttons, exclusively, Skins, raw, of all kinds, dried, salted, or pickled, not otherwise provided for, Do copper in sheets 48) inc. long by 14 wide, and weighing from 14 to 34 oz. to the square foot, Sheathing metal, Silver, Specimens history, Do mineralogy, Do botany, Statuary, the productions of American artists residing abroad, Tools of trade, occupation, or employment, for use, not in a manufac-C turing establishment, or for sale, of persons arriving in the U. S. Tea, [See Act, Schedule H.J Trees, shrubs, bulbs, of, Trees, specimens [See Act, Schedule H. Whalebone, the produce of American ies, Wearing apparel, in ac tual use, not for merchandise or sale. fisher |