text:  Next America as all our readers must be aware has after a struggle passed a tariff subverting altogether the arrangement established by the Compromise Act of 1833 and imposing upon the various descriptions of manufactured goods rates of duty varying from thirty to forty and fifty per cent and upwards which have had the effect of stopping a great portion of the shipments of cotton goods to that country from Great Britain during the past autumn and without doubt have added greatly to the distresses of our manufacturing population