The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-03 00:00:00

GERMAN COMMERCIAL UNION.

The following extract is fre*.n a German paper, which
reached us last night by the -Hamburg mail :

"Munich, Aug. 19.
" Some journals have lately stated that there is an En-
glish envoy hem to enter into negotiations with the Com-
missioners of the Commercial Union, as there is a Belgian
envoy at Berlin for the same purpose. Such negociations
can, of course, aim at nothing but some reciprocal faci-
lities in commerce, as the German Union can receive only
German States.

" What instructions this English envoy may have are
unknown here ; however, he can in no case enter into any
direct communication with the Commissioners of the Com-
mercial Union, because they have the subject of their dis-
cussions positively laid down, and have neither vocation nor
authority to enter into negotiations of any kind with a fo-
reign state. We, however, consider it as an advantage that
the l3ritish Ministry, becoming more and more sensible of the
importance of the German Commercial Union, has sent hither
Mr. John M'Gregor, a man of established reputation as a
political economist, to make the views of that Government
better known in Germany, and occasionally to advocate
them, and gradually come to an understanding which may
lead to the conclusion of a treaty. Mr. M'Gregor has been
zealously endeavouring for these three years to reprr,sent to
the English the true nature of the German Commercial
Union, and the erroneous idea of the party of the Portfolio,
which latter, confounding the commercial with the political
question, endeavoured to prove that the invisible hand of
Russia is behind the German Commercial Union, seeking
to establish a second Europc,an continental system against
England, while in the East it is in a similar manner spread-
ing its note against that power. This, notion, which is
rather extravagant in respect to the German Commercial
Union, would never have been able to gain such ground in
England, had it not been supported by the equally erroneous
idea that the Commercial Union was founded on a prohi-
bitory system ; a reproach which, it is notorious, may even
now be brought with tenfold more reason against the British
commercial system, while France seems more inclined
to
retrograde than to make concessions in the_. of a more
liberal and enlightened commercial policy. —Hamburg
Papers, Augra4

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MRS. GRA HANI.—No futther intelligence having
been sent to this lady's friends in town, they presume that she
continues to go on favourably.
Private letters from Berlin, of the 21st August, say
that the negotiations which have been carried on for some time
with Russia for the conclusion of a new commercial treaty are
broken cff, without tending to the desired result,
because would not accede to the terms
proposed by Prussia.
These proposals were, in the main,
permission to export a
Prussian manufactures; a reduction of the transit dutty itPrussian woollen cloth% dettlned for China, which
pre-
sent so high as tci o equivalent to a prohibilt.iointu;isetoa which
condition flkosia would not concede, out ofsoic
byd
TrW wanufactories which have been established.n
grandees, and are not yet able to bear foreign g Rfourss theian
negotia-
tions was not expected that more success woutlbecal
regulation of the
tions which are now carrying
Prussia is said to tteieiden;hPeetnitC
on for
frontiers between Russia and Prussia.
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re-
quire that, in order to remove thbe.i
when they visit a piece
subject, when
to which the
inhabitants of the frontiers are su
jtehe Prussian frontier, by the
of land belonging to them beyond.
onuteaachpassisdpeorot,f regulation that admittednobody;shaltshneallbe
a certain extent of territory
intercourse may at
allottedwitho
the frontier line, within which. line a free
which would
all times take place. Russia is said not to be disinclined to
adopt this measure, but to propose conditions
render the whole of no avail,