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MEXICAN TARfFF.-rhe President of the Uni ted States has approved of the notifications of the Mexican tariff suggested in the following letter from the Secretary of the Treasury ana orders have been issued m conformity thereto:

 TREASURY DEPsRTMENT, t0o 5th, fSt7 k S;r-The military contributions. in the form ofduties upon imports into Mexican ports have been levied by the Department of War and of the Navy during the last six months, under your order of the 3lst of March last and in view of the expe- of the practical operation of the system res. pectiuIly recommend the following mod6c alions in some of its details, which will largely augment the revenue.

 That the duty silk; fax, hemp or grass, cotton wool worsted or any manufactures of the same, or of either, or mixtures t.ereof, eoffec teas sugar. molasses, tobacco and all manufactures thereof including cigars and cigatos, glass china aud stone ware iron and steel, and all manufactures of either not prohibited be thirty per cent adealorem on copper, and all manufactures thereof, tallow, tal- low candles, soap, fish, beef, pork, hams bacor tongues, butter, lard, cheese, ce Indian corn and meal, potatoes, wheat, rye, oats and ali other gran rye meal and oat meal, four, whale and sperm oil clocks, boots and shoes. pumps, bootees and slip pers. bonnets. hats caps. beer, ale, porter, cider, timber, boards, blanks, scantling, shingles. laths pitch. tar, rosin, turpenne. spirits of iurpentine vinegar apples ship bread hides, leather, and manu- facures thereof and paeer of all kinds twenty per cent aduaiore,a; and these reduced rates shall also apply to all goods, on which Ire duties are not pad remaining not exceeding ninety days in deposit in the Mexican ports, introduced under previous regu- lations enforcing military contributions.

 Yours, most respectfully,

 R. J. WALKER, Secretly of the Treasury.

 To the pREsiDFNT