8 OCTOBER 1842, Page 10

We understand that the Convocation at Stuttgardt of the Delegates

of the Germanic Customs Union has now broken up ; and, to our no small gratification, we find that, thanks to the enlightened views of the principal state, the many strenuous and vigorous attempts to raise the import-duties on some of the most important British export articles have failed, and that consequently these rates remain unaltered for at least three years to come. We allude, of course, to cotton-twists, the total imports of which into the Germanic Union from Great Britain amount annually to 54,000,000 pounds weight, and iron, of which the quantity manufactured in pigs now exported from Scotland far exceeds the general estimate.— Times.