The Sun.
London, England, 1833-03-05 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS.

CORFU, FEn. Corfu Gazette says, that on
the 28th of January the squadron with his Majesty the
King of Greece was seen off the island of Zante, steering
to the Archipelago. The Captain of the Austrian schooner
Enrichette, who arrived at Corfu from Z ante, on the
Ist of February, says that the convoy with the Bavarian
troops on board was overtaken, near Cerigo, by a violent
storm, and that part of the ships were obliged to seek re-
fuge in the port of Candia.

(From the Munich Political Gazette.)
MUNICH, FEB. 25.—The house of Eichthal, in this
city, has just received by estafette the following private
communication from Trieste, dated the 21st February :
" We hasten to send you the agreeable intelligence that
a ship has just arrived from Syra, the Captain of which
states that the Royal Greek expedition arrived safe at
Napoli di Romania on the 31st of January. This vessel
from Syra is the Austrian schooner Aurica Dea, and
was thirteen days on the voyage.
"P. S. Another Austrian ship, the Senora Guiseppena,
Captain Nicol° Eincorich, has just arrived from Corfu,
which confirms the arrival of his Majesty's ship the King
of Greece, at Napoli di Romania."
VIENNA, FEB. 22.—Five per Cent. Metalliques,
91 1-5 ; Four per Cent. 81; Bank Shares, 1219.
A//genieine Zeitung, Feb. 27.
SWITZERLA NIL-Switzerland is now endeavouring to
extend its commercial relations with France. With this
object a memorial was lately delivered to the Ministry by
the Government of Berne. This memorial shows what
injury the system of import duties hitherto followed has
done to both countries, and how smugglers alone have
profited by it. If the import duties in both countries
were reduced, the commerce of both would be benefitted
by a more extensive exchange of their productions.
Braun, FEB. 23.—The report that a new law, regu-
lating the condition of the Jews, is to be issued from the
Grand Duchy of Posen, seems to have reached Posen, and
has induced the Jews there to send a deputation to Berlin
to remonstrate against it. The daily complaints that come
from the Grand Duchy make it necessary to revise the
laws relative to the Jews. Of course religion has no con-
cern in this matter. It may be estimated that the Jews
form a third of the population in that province. De jure
they have not the rights of citizens, but they possess them
de facto ; thus they have contrived to obtain the advan-
tages of civil rights without bearing the burdens. They
are not liable to military service, but may carry on the
business of money-changers, may take eight per cent. in-
terest, and pay but very little to the public treasury.
They have found means nearly to monopolize all trade ;
the retail trade in manufactures and three-fourths of the
public-houses in the town of Posen are in their hands.
The same may be said of the grocery and wine trade, the
business of money-changers, pawnbrokers, &c. In the
country and the small towns the same state of things exists,
and often in a degree still more injurious. It has lately
been found that a single Jew possesses several public-
houses in Posen, under different licenses purchased of
Christians. The ignorant but good-natured peasant is
often induced to give way to drinking, and to pawn the
corn in the fields and the cattle in the stable. To remedy
this state of things, a new ordinance relative to the Jews
has been drawn up, and has been published in several
pap rs. Another article from Berlin, by a different cor-
respondent, affirms that this new ordinance was not at all
suited to the enlightened spirit of the present times, and
that it was given up.—Frankfort Papers, Feb. 27.