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GERMAN PAPERS.

MARCH
The fall of the house of Albrecht, In Zeit; which employed
shove 800 workmen, is a severe blow to the credit of our Saxon
manufacturers. Albrecht, of all our manufacturers, supplied our
fairs with the finest manufactures of cotton and Merino wool.
His insolvency greatly Injured several Lelpsic houses which are
still standing, as well as that of Reichenhach. It is reported that
he has stopped payment solely because, in the late crisis, he could
not find means to pay the weekly wages of his workmen till the end
of the fair. This house liar assuredly not been jobbing in the
funds, or been guilty of any extravagance ; but the decline in the
price of the cotton anti wool which had been purchased at high
rates, and the probability of low prices of goods at the next fair,
seem to have induced the head of that house to contra his tempo-
rary embarrassment, though the work in hand and the Gutstanding
debts are said to he very considerable. It is also said, that mea-
sures have been adopted by the city and the Government, that the
business may he continued without Interruption.
Still it is evident, that if the Government does not effectually
support the bankers, or grant considerable loans dimity to the
manufacturers, the present blow will for ever paralyze all the Saxon
manufactories, and be followed by universal distress and poverty in
the manufacturing districts.
FRANKFORT, MARCH 21.
EXTRACT FROM THE SIXTH SITTING OF THE GERMAN

MET, HELD MARCH 9.
The 31inister President reminds the Assembly, that in the sit-
ting of the 7th of February, 182'2, he communicated the Act regu-
lating the navigation of the Elbe, concluded at Dresden the 23d of
June, 1821, and which was carried into effect the Ist of 31arch,
1822. In the 30th article of the treaty it was stipulated, that from
time to time Commissioners from the Slates on the banks of the
Elbe should meet, for the purpose of seeing that the Act was
strictly observed, of remedying complaints, and of deliberating on
such measures and regulations as, from the most recent experience,
tnight be calculated to give increased facilities to the commerce and
naviFation of the Elbe.
1% ith this view, the first meeting of the Commissioners took
place at Ilamburgh in 1824, and agreed on some supplementary
regulations, which were signed by all the Plenipotentiaries the 18th
September 1824.
Phis convention having obtained the ratification of all the States
concerned, and these ratifications having been exchanged and de.
posited In the archives common to all the States on the banks, in
the Privy Imperial Aulic Chancery ; and the convention itself hav-
ing been carried into effect on the whole course of the Elbe, the
Austrian Legation has been commanded to acquaint the Diet with
this convention.

The Assembly ordered the convention to be deposited in the ar-
chives of the Confederation.

AI7GIITSURG, MARCH
Messrs. Schumann Brothers, booksellers at Zwickau, have ad.
vcrtised in the iiihremeine Zeitung, and other papers, that the first
volume of the Life of Napoleon, by Sir Walter Scott, has been
lately published in London, that it will consist of five large vo-
lumes Bvo. and he all published by the end of August ; that a Dr.
Barmann is making a translation, which they will publish in seven
pocket volumes (with copper-plates), the first two to be delivered to
the subscribers in June, and the whole before the end of the year.
They will also print an edition in English, and the price is to be
about fifteen pence a volume.