The last letters from Mad...
The last letters friom Madrid .and Cadiz state that the Spanish Government is about to rermove the prohibition that has hitherto existed on the importation of cottons and other goads into Spain, and that the duties ont imports -generally are to undergo a material diminution. It is well known that from the prevalence of smuggling in Spain, bothon the coasts and on the frontiers of France and Portu- gal, very little monev in the shape of duties finds its way into the Spanish treasury; and the object of the Govern- ment, therefore, is to redufce the commercial tariff to a rate so low, that the importer may no longer have any motive for evailing payinent by resorting to contraband agents. If some of the old Spanish prejudices respecting prohibitions are thus made to giye way, it will be among the most re- markaable proofs of the straits the Court is reduced to by the want cdf money.