The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-01 00:00:00

GERMAN COMM ERCAIL LEAGUE

The treaty for the continua; ion of the Zollverein has
appeared at length in the officially-published collection
of laws at Berlin. It contains the following stipulations :
"The treaty is concluded between Prussia, Bavaria,
Saxony, Wirtemberg, Baden, the Grand Duchy and
Electorate of Hesse, the States of Thuringia, Nassau,
and Franliiiirt-on-the-Maine, for twelve years from the
Ist January, 1842, to the 31st December, 1853, subject
to the following modifications and additions :
" The places of announcement on the inner frontiers
of Baden, Bavaria, and Wirtemberg, towards the other
States of the League under Article 8 of the treaty of the
22d and 30th of March, anel lth of May, 1833, as well
as that of the 12th of May, 1835, are abolished, and
the communications between the above-mentioned States
are only subjected to such control as is required to
secure the taxes raised in any State of the League, and
affecting goods imported from the others.
" Respecting the duties thus imposed in the interior
of different States, and which in some are levied upon
the raw produce, in others upon that produce when ma-
nufactured, or on consumption, it is acknowledged on
all hands as desirable, that an uniformity in the legisla-
tive ordinances and rates of duty should be introduced,
for which reason the chief attention of the di&rent
States will be directed to the establishment of such uni-
formity, whether the proceeds of the taxes thus raised
are divided as a common fund or not. Until this end
shall be attained, the following principles shall be
adopted touching the impositions above alluded to, and
the trade, with the commodities which they affect, in
order to diminish the inconveniences arising from the
discrepancy in the system of internal taxation, and espe-
cially from the difference prevailing in the rates of duty,
both for the producers and for the revenues of the re-
spective countries ; the duty upon sugar extracted from
beet-root is excepted, for which special provisions have
been agreed to : •
CAs respects foreign commodities, no other tax
shall be levied upon goods admitted at any custom-house
for importation or for transit, with the exception of the
dues levied in any State on the further manufacture of
such produce, without distinction as to its being a fo-
reign or domestic production.
" 2. With respect to the productions of the States of
the League, no dues, whether for the benefit of Govern-
ments or of corporations, shall be levied on the produc-
tions of one of the States of the League on passing in
transitu through another State, whether for exportation
to other countries or to some other part of the League.
" Every State of the League reserves to itself the
right of preserving its internal duties upon the produce
of the land, its manufacture, or upon its consumption.;
it has also the liberty to alter and to abolish those duties,
as well as to impose new ones ; it is, however, agreed for
the present that such duties shall only be levied upon
the hereafter-named productions :—Brandy, beer, vine-
gar, malt, wine, music, tobacco, cider, flour, grist, and
baked articles, meat, and tallow. Upon all these articles
the duty shall be levied as far as possible according to
unform rates, which shall not be exceeded.
With regard to duties of all kinds levied within the
States of the League, a reciprocal treatment of other
States is to be adopted, and in no case are the produc-
Lions of one State of the League to be subject to higher
duties than those of the others,. or than the domestic
productions of each State.. According to this principle,
" Those States which impoSe a duty upon an inland
production, can raise none from the same article when
imported from other States of the League. An excep-
tion is, however, allowed in the case of those States of
the League in which no wine is produced, and which can
impose duties, to be especially agreed upon, on 'the wine
grown in the other. States. • •
" Those States which impose a duty . upon the sale or
transfer of articles of consumption produced within their
own territory, can.- only levy a similar duty upon. the
same artitl, s, when the produce of the other States of
the League. They can, however, leave such articles,
when exported, untaxed, or can allow a drawback
on exportation. Duties raised upon the production or
manufacture of certain articles in any State, can like-
wise be imposed upon those articles when imported from
the other States. The duties to be levied according to
the existing legislative enactments have been agreed
upon, and if changes in the internal system of taxation
of any State are hereafter adopted, they shall be noti-
fied to the other States, and proof shown that the altera-
tion in the duties and drawbacks occasioned by the
change is consonant with the principles laid down above.
" In as far as any number of States of the League
have agreed to an uniform system of taxation, these
States shall be regarded as forming an union entitled to
levy the same rate of duty upon the productions of other
States.

" The internal duties levied upon articles produced
by the States of the League shall, as a general rule, be
paid at the place to which they are sent, unless special
arrangements fur the erection of mutual custom-houses
on the frontiers or in the interior of the respective lands
exist, the costs falling to the charge of the State levy-
ing the duty.

The arrangements for securing the payment of those
duties, such as the necessary examination and control.
and the obligation to keep to certain lines of road in
passing from one State to the other, shall be ordered by
mutual agreement, in such manner as to restrict as little
as possible the freedom of communication. If in such
cases it be necessary for the wares to pass through a
third State, that State shall also be consulted respecting
the arrangements adopted.
" Dues raised on account of communes or corporations
—whether consisting in additions to the duties levied by
the State or in independent imposts, can only be raised
from articles destined for the local consumption of the
tilops where they are taxed, and are subject to the con-
ditions- specially laid down for their regulation, amongst
which the stipulation IL 2 b. is to be observed as the
. principle, which prescribes uniformity in the
treatment u: the Productions of all the States upon which
imposts are levied. On tobacco no duty can be levied by
comma as or corporations.
"'Me Govenimppto of the States if the League pro-
mise to communicate to eft6 other the regulations which
shalt be adopted in conformity with the principles here
established, as well as those now in force, and the laws
and decrees by which new taxes are imposes ; further,
respecting the communal, &c., dues, to communicate the
places, the amount, and the regulations according to
which those dues 4FP tR 6p levied.
" The high contracting paFtlea consider the imposition
of a duty upon sugar extracted l'Font beetrnOt to be ne-
cessary, and the (annexed) special agreement has teen
concluded, which forms a part of the present treaty,
and which is to be regarded as if contained in this docu-
ment. It has further been decided that when the manu-
facture of sugar from other materials, for instance, from
starch, shall hays acquived sufficient extension within
the League, that this article shall liigfl§P be subject to
an uniform duty throughout the Status Of the Irmignet Pp
the same principle with that imposed on beetroot sugar,
"In regard to the circulating medium, the contracting
Governtimatts have, by the treaty or the 30th July, 1838,
-declared themselves ;tgies4 upon an uniform basis
forthvealuein all h
coinage
tofeStatesmoney,of the
whicha4ititoil circulate with
equal
in future devote especial attention toward4s44ticil willrholopain
their whole system of currency, according to the common
foundation thus laid.

" The efil4ting stipulations respecting the drawing up
of the tariff in two ehigf denominations, viz., according
to the dollar of 14 to the mark, and the gulden of 241
to the mark ; and respecting the value of the silver
coinage of all the States (with the exception of the
lowest denominations of coin), which shall be taken at
all the toll-houses throughout the States of the League,
in the proportion of fatty dollars as an equivalent to, seven
gulden, remains in force. ltespeeting the gold coinage,
each State reserves the right of fixing ht w hat value in
eilver the gold coins shall be taken at their respective
tolt-hooses.

" For weight, the com Mon toll hundred weight, which
has been adopted us the standard by the present tariff,
shall continue to be used,. Besides this arrangement, the
contracting Governments wilt direct their attention to
the introduction of that unifor►nity la Clip systems of
weights and measures in their respective States which i§
so desirable.

" Respecting the division of the duties raised upon
common account, in place of the Ordinances of 22d and
30th March, and of 11th May, 1833; of 12th May, 1835;
and of the 18th article of the Treaties of Union of 10th
December, 1835, and 2d January, 1836, the following i§
adopted :

"The amount 64 import duties received shall be di-
vided amongst the States of the League in the proportion
of 'their respective populations, after the following de-
ductions have been made :—The cost of the arrange-
ments at the frontier for raising and securing the dude°,
thus levied, the repayments of sums erroneously charged,
and the compensationg and modifications allowed by mu-
tual agreement to different States.
" The amount of the export and transit duties will be
divided us follows :—The sums received at the toll-
houses of the eastern provinces of Prussia (to the exclu-
sion of Westplidia and the Rhenish provinces), of
Saxony and the Thutingian states, will be derided be-
tween Prussia, Saxony, ftfaci the Thuringian states, ac-
cording to the footing to be agreed upon by them. The
duties raised in the other 'states of the league will be
divided by those states without any other dedti.ctiPPs
than for erroneous payments and fur compensations and
modifications as agreed, in the proportions of their popu-
lation. •

In this division of the import, export, and transit
duties, the population of such states as have by treaty
contracted to receive a fixed yearly sum as their shares
of the duties from some other state, will be reckoned as
forming part of the states which pay this sum.
" The state of the population shall be determined
every three years, and communicated in detail to the
other states of the league by each.
" A special treaty fixes'the share of the duties to be
received by the free city of Frankfort, with doe regard
to the consumption of goods liable to duty within that city.
"The present treaty, if notice be not given at latest
two years before its expiration, will be regarded as bind-
ing for further twelve years from its termination, and
under the same • circumstances it will be prolonged from
twelve years to twelve years.
" This treaty shall be immediately sumbitted for rati-
fication to the high contracting Powers, and the ratifica-
tions exchanged within eight weeks at Berlin.
" Berlin, May 8, 1841.
(Signed)—" Ktilihneyer, Eichtninn, Bever, V. Zahn,
Bar. V. Linden, Mutber. Regenaner, V.
Fra neken berg, Ludwigsdorff; Schwedes,
Bar. V. Schaffer-Bernstein, Biersack,
Then, Magdeburg, Souchay.".
The ratifications were exchanged on the 31st of July,
1841, sth and 9th of August, 1841, at Berlin.

MARCH OF INTELLECT. The following
choice morceauis an exact copy of a note sent by a father
to a schoolmaster, to excuse his son's absence, a proof of
the progress of refinement in one of the colliery dis-
tricts :—" Kepotoam tullid Kolls dunnut waillim cossis
rigs sor." A " classical " interpretation would run
thus :—" Kept at home tp load coals—do not wale him,
because his back is sore."