17 DECEMBER 1842, Page 12

The merchants of Glasgow allege a special grievance to this

country in the New American tariff. By a treaty between the United States and Great Britain, in 1815, it was provided that neither country should impose a higher duty on the produce or manufactures of the other than on the like articles of auy other foreign country : the new tariff act levies increased duties on goods imported into the United States, payable from the 1st September last : but it contains a proviso exempting goods shipped in any vessel which shall have left her last port of lading east- ward of the Cape of Good Hope or beyond Cape Horn, before the 1st September 1842. This proviso, say the merchants, is inconsistent with the treaty of 1815 ; and so it clearly appears to be. They say they can prove that silk goods which were got up in Glasgow expressly for the New York market were charged 100 per cent duty ; while China silks, entered at the Customhouse at the same time, were admitted at 20 per cent. The loss to the British merchants trading with the United States is estimated at 150,0001. or 200,0001. St. Petersburg lies eastward of the Cape of Good Hope ; so that Southern Asia is not the only quarter in which they have to fear rivalry. Mr. G. Pattison, the Secretary of a Committee in Glasgow, has had a correspondence on the subject with Mr. Fox, the British Minister at Washington ; who seems to think that the British Government is the proper party to be called upon to interpose. The Committee have also procured the Town-Council to memorialize Government to take active steps.