salted); bottles of earth and stone; casts of busts, statues,
or figures; caviare; cranberries; cotton manufactures, not being
articles wholly or in part made up, not otherwise charged with duty;
enamel; gelatine; glue; hay; hides, tawed, curried, or in any way
dressed, not otherwise enumerated; ink for printers; inkle (wrought);
lamp-black; linen, manufactures of linen, or of linen mixed with cotton,
or with wool, not particularly enumerated, or otherwise charged with
duty, not being articles wholly or in part made up; magna-grocia ware;
manuscripts; maps, and charts; matresses; meat, (salted or fresh), not
otherwise described; medals; palmetto-thatch manufactures; parchment;
pens; plantains; potatoes; pork, fresh and salted; silk, thrown or
dyed, viz., silk, single or tram, organzine, or crape-silk; thread, not
otherwise enumerated or described; woollens, viz., manufactures of wool,
not being goats' wool, or of wool mixed with cotton, not particularly
enumerated or described, not otherwise charged with duty, not being
articles wholly or in part made up; vegetables, all, not otherwise
enumerated or described; and vellum.

Sir Robert Peel announced the intentions of government with respect to
the reductions in the timber duties on Tuesday, the 10th of February.
He was anxious to make the statement at the earliest opportunity, on
account of the importance of the subject, and as the American mail was
on the eve of sailing from Liverpool. "We propose," he said, "to make
ultimately a reduction in the differential duty on foreign timber, so
that the duty shall remain after the reduction at 15s., instead of the
present amount. I think on hewn timber the duty is now 25s.; we propose
to reduce it 15s. But, with the view of insuring to the consumer as
great a benefit as possible, the Baltic timber-trade partaking now
very much of the nature of a monopoly, in consequence of the very great
demand for it, we do not propose that the reduction shall be immediate.
We propose that from the 5th of April, 1847, the period of the year we
think most suitable for making a reduction of duty, the duty on hewn
timber shall be reduced by 5s.; and on the 5th of April, 1848,
by another 5s. With respect to sawn timber maintaining the same
proportions, the reduction of duty ought to be 6s. on the 5th of April,
1847, and another 6s. on the 5th of April, 1848. With respect to the
smaller description, such as lath-wood, spars, and oars, the reduction