The Leeds Mercury of this day makes a very untoward
announce- ment, following very unpleasantly the promulgation of higher duties on our manufactures in France and the United States-
" On Wednesday, the intelligence reached Leeds, Bradford, and other towns of the West Riding, that the Prussian Government intends to propose, at the meeting of Deputies from the States in the German Commercial League, to take place early in the month of July at Stutgard, that the duties on all foreign woollens and worsted-stuffs shall be raised from 30 dollars per hundred- weight to 50 dollars per hundredweight—that is, from 4/. 10s. to 71. 10s. The proposed high rate of duty would be equivalent to 50 per cent ad valorem on the average ; and it would, we believe, amount to a prohibition on most kinds of worsted-stuff goods."
The manufacturers are in great alarm. A meeting at Bradford has sent a deputation to Sir Robert Peel on the subject.
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