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GERMAN PAPERS.

agRLIN, JULY 21.

The Frankfort Fair, which is now has
turned out, as merchants of this city say, tolerably
well for our manufacturers; there was particularly
a great demand for leather and cloth. The Eng-
lish sold their goods this time at higher prices than
usual, and had hot, in general, brought great
quantities with then, ; but they had a numerous as-
sortment of patterns, on winch they have received
very large orders.
Our manufacturers therefore know with tolerable
certainty, what they have to expect from the next
fair.—(Nereetberg Correspondent, Jitty 26.)

VIENNA. JULY 17.

A great bankruptcy of a Greek, a Turkish sub-
ject, Constantine Urinates, has excited extraordi-
nary sensation here.
Several houses who were eng 'ger' in extensive
busiuess with him, and accepted without being
covered, are interested for large sums, which there
is little hope of recovering, as there are said to be
few effects. Hitherto, however, only one house
here has been so far affected by this event as to
suspend its pigments.
As its demands upon the Greek are sa;rl to he
enormous, it has delivered its porte-finille for the
present, for the benefit of its creditors, to two other
merchants, in order to effect, ns far as may be, an
extra-judicial compromise. Chance would have it,
that one of the merchants who were requested to
take the porie-feuilk, discounted a bill upon the
house an hour before it declared its insolvency, and
immediately after the business was completed, was
requested by the same house to take its porie-
femilk. It may be easily imagined with what ill-
humour he heard this request. The police are in
search of the seller of the bill, who has absconded.
FROM Tilt LOWER RHINE, JULY 17.

There is no probability that the Congress at
Aix-la-Chapelle will lead to any new territorial dis-
cussions. A slight look at the map sheers, indeed,
that the geographical shape of many States in the
frontier lines, given them by the Vienna Congress,
is far from being such as is suitable to the nature of
the situations of the countries, and the peculiar claims
of the people ; never were there fewer natural boun-
daries than in the present divisions of States : Italy,
Turkey, Poland, the Netherlands, and, above all,
Germany, every where .hew frontier lines, in which
we can hardly recognise any other ground than tk.
convenience of mutual obstruction, and objects
arising from other relations. But it would be a
great mistake to attribute them to mere arbitrary
arrangement, or to have less confidence w their
duration.

The earth is no where divided into such homo-
geneous clearly defined masses that a secure politi-
cal system could be founded upon the structure of
its surface ; the interest of abstract political relit.
Lions roust nut be overlooked ; certain divisioos,
particularly in North Germany and in our Kheni.h
provinces, seem, indeed, to exceed all allowed
limits of geographical deformity, and no great art
is requisite to proptiecy, that these geographical

relations *ill he changed sooner than cilium But
it must not be believed that such changes can be
designed in the midst of profound peace without
urgent cause, when the division has but just been
made, and amidst surh contending interests and
opinions. The consolidation of States depends on
very different things, fron► the goodness or badness
of their frontier lines. Prussia wits strong under
Frederick ll.though its provinces were so scattered
notwithstanding the co►►solid.tt►on (arrondissement)
of its chief possession in 1806, it was then the
weakest. At present scarcely Frederick's genius
would give sufficient unity to !Lid' a State—only
Constitutions, representative Parliaments, are able
to combine what is scattered and divided into one
Powerful whole. if the Congress of Aix.le-Chu.
pelle gives us a new advance to is free Constitution.
it gives us a thousand times more than by a new
territorial division. The formation and improve.
meta of the Geruian federal system must besides
render the difference of internal frontiers of less and
less importance, even now the gain would not be
worth the confusion. We believe that almost all
the conjectures and expectations of the public on
this heud are founded on illusion, and that such
plans may be admitted only after the storms of
war and other troubles. in consequence or the
catastrophes that may have occurred, but not in Is
peaceful meeting in times of tratiquillity.—(Allge.
melee Zeitung to July 29.)

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