The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-17 00:00:00

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GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.

Berlin dates ate to the 14th.
The sittings of the conference were still spout in
disattesions on the establishment of the College of
Princes of the Bond, and the creation of a temporary
ministry of the Union. It was determined that the
distribution of votes in the College of Pilaus should
be in proportion to the number of deputies esc't
state seeds to the Staaten-haw of Erfurt. For
the present it win decided that two ministers would
ba sufficient to represent the Band, u it has little
administrative busies's, the fasetionsof one oi' them
to be discharged provisionally by the Prussian Mi-
nister of Foreign Affairs.

Two-thirds of the Prussian loan of 18,000.000 Sutlers
have been taken by the Prussian Bank and the Com-
mercial Marine Society, at 961 to 97. The' remain-
ing third is open to the public at par, with ioterest
at 21 per cart , guaranteed from Ist of January to Ist
of July, the date of the lest payment.
The &oats Aisseiger published, in extaneo, the
memorial hid by the Minister of Finance before the
congress of merchants and tradeeinesositieh is now
sitting for the purpose of drawing tap the proposals
to be made by Prussia at the apr.eoaching Zollvorein
Congress at Cassell :
To. memorial oommenre with an explanation of the rea-
sons ( the peatical events of tto last two year.) which deter.
mined the goveramants to pastors the ususl trieacial ca-
rer, and to continuo le force the old tariff. Ihe stormily
of certain retains in that tare had sweetly rams n urgent
that notwithstanding any objections arising out of it, poli-
tical c indieios of Germany, the govemutent, feeling it its
duty no lager to delay, had pe•pisod to the goveramenta of
the Zmilvereis to convoke the aria postponer congers at
Cassell, is the comae mouth of July; and, at toe same
time, bad hastened to prepare throe proposals which the
nature of the case required. la drawls; v.p that proposals
the Prussian governmest had well weighed the position
hitherto ocespied by Persia ia the tariff questions, as well as
the roast condilos of Orr ; had sever c insidered the
tariff t be•finally settled system which was not to be touched.
nor had it listened to say proposals which did not moot tha
practical want' of the people. The lair, point of view ra
retired more than ever sot to be lost sight of. The are-
times which were robed in the post you against a revision
of Oa tariff hod not boos grimly removed ; not the least
mar them was the apprehensim that important alt-rations
in the Elliman tariff would reader difficult the commercial
anion of Germany. The urgency of the cam, however, re-
quired that this objection should not lead the govonstateas of
the Zollverrin to refrain from making the seeswary alters-
Poets, bat only to receive and judge with caution proposals
reersimesded by many, but of a less urgent asters. The
govrnimeat of Frusta returned to the proposals made in
1848 for a moderatioa of the duties on raw materials and
articles of food with some aright armadas, and additions,
sad though its loss would be rest is oassaquesee, it also
reposed great reductions is the navigation dues no the
Mao, Mosel, WSW, and Mho rivers 11111 well ea Oa several
anid,a of exportation. The introductory portion of the
memorial concludes with tho mention of the lad series of
proposals romomeasselml. They are for a largo increase in the
duties on canton and other yarns. The memorial is then di
Mead into several anti' as. Beetles 1 costains the details
of the: proposals with respect to the duties on articles
of food. Until the year 1828 the scale of duties
was as assorted one. In the higinnint of that
yam a duty of 5 ailhergorchen the marred (5f schsffels, or
1 bushel), was imposed oa all kinds of grain and fruits. An
exception was maft ia favour of pall imported through the
Welcher or Niemen ; rye, harry, sad ors paid only ;
wheat tad all other kinds of rats sad fruits paid 2 tither.
Broaches. This seals the memorial proposes to extend
throughout the whole of the &inertia. The duty on butter
I peromed to he rirdue•d from 3 theses 20 silbergroochen
per oat. to 2 dialers. Rice in the husk and cleaned has
hitherto paid the sane duty, 2 thorn per cent. To enable
capitalists to meet mills for removing the hook. it is proposed
to redoes the daty on rice is the hark to 20 silberrosehea,
and on the other only to 1 thaler 20 iilberamethen. Shire
the establishment of the Z inertia, the duties on cattle have
undergone Ave different alterations, is 1821, 23, 24, 27, and
31, the nature of the alteration being is every ease an M-
amie, so that from 20 silliermseches per on in 1816, the
duty in 1831 had risen to 6 theirs. The memorial pr poses
a redaction of the duty on oxen from 6 thaters to 2 thalen
16 silheraroachen, on cows from 3 dealers to 1 thaler 15 ill-
hergrasebea, onyoung arts from 2 Malin to 1 thaler, oa
alas from 5 slbergraches to 26 silbergromorts, and on
pigs from 20 silhergroschen to 71 silborgrosshon. The
memorial motives this reduction all admatagoor to Prussia,
from the possibility of its competing with lirsteria. Meek-
Isobar', Hanover, and Belgium' in the apply of the
English markets. Section 2 deals with raw materials It

00-1;11111•6111 by stating that until 1642 the manufacturere
in the Z Alverein were more advantageously placed in re-
spect to raw materials, but that the abolition since then of
all duties on raw materials imported Into Rutland bad
altered the relation.; bet, though small in the Zollverein,
the duties prevented ea advantageous competition with
Great Britain. The Prussian government bad on a former
occasion (in 1846) prowdaed a reduction in soma of the chief
articles of raw material, and it aow to remove
Mem all entirely, retaining, however, a small export duty on
raw materials of home manufacture, such as different kinds
of gums, coloured woods, saltpetre, moss, tow, vegetable oils,
a. goats' hair. Tie three exceptions to the general aboli-
tion of Ike deli a are tallow, sine, end potash ; oa the first
the redaction proposed is loom 3 to 2 timbre, and on sine
from 2to 1 %haler. Potash is not included in the mo-
peed, bemuse it is made in the Zollverein. Section 3 deals
with maaufactured articles, and is divided Into live head.:
1. Linea yarns and linen articles. The memorial states that
the attention of the government had for some time past
been draw. to the gradual diminution of the export. of na
tonal linen articles with the poverty and want of the poor
tioa of the population occupied with this manufacture. Tha
remit of the inquiries which had been isatitatad proved that
through all its stages the manufacture of limn in the states
of the Zollverein bad remained kr behind the
which this breach of industry bad mode in Grist g:itratia."
The chief same of the progress of Great Britain was %smal-
ltime], considered to be Its spinning machinery. The
government of Preemie had already called attention to ear-
tain necessary measures for improving this beam* of national
industry, such as the better cultivation elf flax, improved
systems of spianing, weaving, bleaching ; all them, kroner,
it considered utterly useless, males enerelle Mime were
taken to prouto's spinning by machinery. T manages this
object, the government bad in 1846 respond as iseresise in
the Zfilverein tariff of the deity ea linen yarn mu by
machinery from 2 to 4 %halm per cwt, and a premium in
the shape of • drawback of 3 thalami per wt. ea the exporta.!
lion of biome produca. The propene', however, was not oar- !
tied, and in consequence the imagoes of spindles in West-
pasha and Silesia was sines 1846 °sly 1,388. In Silesia the
number in 1846 was 43,138, in Westphalia 1,826; together
44,963. The numbers sow were, in Silesia 44,060, and la!
Westphalia 2,291 • together 46,831. While the eoseamp-
tion of linen goads in Westphalia alone would require
90,000 spindles to be in madam operation. The Prussian
fovernment, therefore, propose to isms, the duties is the
llowing manner :
O. Limon yarns :-1. Raw unblembod, from 2 to 4 thaws
per cwt. 2. Bleached or sobered, from 4 to 6 finders per
cwt. _ .

6. Psekieg and 'oilcloths (dm duty remains tie ewe).
e. Unbleached bank cloths, drills, sad twills. twos 4 to 6
*stews per ewe.
el. Blenched, coloured, printed, AN., lima
cwt
of ell
kinds. tram 20 sad 30 thalen to 26 *den per cwt.
o. Baptiste, gauss, lam, to , free 80 and 60 Onion te 76
Balm per cwt.
The four categories la which the latter articles an laciuded
erto thee proposed to be reduced to two. 2. Cotten yards
end autos weds. TM menet %malty el age& yams n•
Weed is the Zoilverein in the siarteoe, 163743, wet 616.063
cwt. ; la the tollowiag its yoae the merge we 863,121
cwt. The mount prodncid by the antloasi tasaVecturers
was la the Ant period 23 per mat., sad In the &mad, 82 per
eget. Ustal the mid of 1842, the duty on wettest yards was 2
Slaters per cwt. Oa the let Jeamry, 1643, it was laersawd
to 3 *siert Netwithetailliag the Mussy, t►e masks