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of the " Agitator's" patronage. The other day he
dined with the Lord Lieutenant and the Secretary for

Ireland—Lords Mulgrave and Morpeth, his nomi-
nees, and saw among the company the Judge he
had appointed, Mr. Perrin, and the Attorney And
Solicitor-General of his own selection. We VOnOess,
however, that we should never haw 'die:Awed of meet-
ing in one of our own tonntry villages with evidence
of successful interference on his part in the appoint-
ment of 11 petty post-office master. But, as we have
already said, Mr. Stonor is a Catholic, and it was he
who put Dan upon .putting his finger into this pie.
We hope that, at all events, the Tctsworth nominee
of these worthies will be found competent to the post
he has been appointed to fill. We understand that
he is a collar-maker. Now these operatives, collar-
makers, are precisely they whom Dan stands most in
' need of, and the sort of people Romanists would natu-
rally be most inclined to patronize. The man, how-
ever, will not necessarily he a worse post-master be-
cause he has been a collar-maker. But can he read

and write, or has he only just begun to take lessons
for the purpose of acquiring those accomplishments ?
We pause for a reply from some worthy of the village

of Tetsworth.—Times.

The letter of our Hamburg correspondent, which
will be found in another column, affords information

relative to the Prussian commercial league, which well
deserves the attention of the country. We have been
hitherto a great deal too indifferent to the progress of
that union, which now includes nearly the whole of
Germany. The States that have actually joined in it
are, we believe, Saxony, Bavaria, Wurtemburg, Baden,
Hesse Cassel, Hesse Darmstadt, Nassau, Frank-
fort on-the-Maine, and two or three other minor
States, containing in the whole a population
of about twenty-ve millions of people. It is
understood that Holland and Belgium, and even
Hanover, as well as Mecklenburg and Brunswick,
will be eventuallly obliged, for the safety of their
own interests, also to give in their adhesion. A
similar necessity will be imposed on Switzerland.
In short, Austria being excluded on one side, and
France on the other, it seems likely that the league
will comprise, in a few years, the whole of the countries
we have mentioned, together with the Hanseatic
Towns. These are important facts, pregnant with
results that must be contemplated as conducive to some
grand design, political as well as commercial. Prussia,
according to the terms of the league, has -undertaken
to collect, on the frontiers of the circle which compte-
bends the Federation, the customs now payable upon

foreign produce of every description ; and to pay to
each State portion of the sum thus collected, that
portion being regulated according to a scale deter-
-alined by the amount of its population. It must be
obvious to any person who has ever travelled in Ger-
many, and has observed the numberless custom-houses
which have hitherto existed in every State, that
the abolition of these establishments, and of the expen-
diture with which they were attended, must be pro-
ductive of unequivocal advantages in a financial point
of view to each member of the union, inasmuch a the
cost of collection by such cumbrous machinery left in
the end little profit to their Exchequers. The col-
lection is now effected by Prussia for them- ; a certain
revenue, generally exceeding that which they had re-
ceived before, is assured to each, and the expecta-
tion of profit thus held out, has been a bait which
none of the States could resist ; or if they did, they
were immediately threatened, as our correspondent
states, by Prussia, who had taken care to
secure the assistance of Bavaria and Wurtemburg
in the first instance, with all sorts of impedi-
ments to their commercial intercourse with
her own territory, as well as with those two consider-
able and highly improving kingdoms. The Prussian
tariff has become that of the whole federation—a
tariff originally fixed in 1819, but which, though it
prohibits no article, and affects to impose no higher
duty than 10 per cent. ad valorem, is found to operate
seriously against British manufactures, inasmuch as
the amount of the duty is estimated by the weight of
the merchandise. The real object of the league, in a
commercial sense, appears to be, to give encouragement
to the manufactures of Saxony, and of the interior
of Germany, with a view to the exclusion of Eng-
land altogether from that part of our Continental
market, which has for some years averaged our
export trade to the extent of twelve or thirteen
millions per annum. From this market, if the
union be not disturbed by political convulsions, we may
be effectually shut out at no remote period, unless by
repealing our Corn Laws, and taking off the duties on
raw materials, we shall be enabled to cheapen labour,
and to produce articles at a price which shall undersell
those of Germany. But in a political point of view,
the federation wears, in our contemplation, a still more
important aspect. If Prussia is to collect her duties
for Bavaria, for instance, is not the revenue thus se-
cured to the Crown beyond the reach of the Cham-
ber of Deputies in that kingdom ? The league once
agreed to, the tariff of Prussia being adopted, the
King has to look thenceforth to Prussia, and not to
the Chamber, for the payment of that portion of
his revenue. So far, it renders him independent of
the Chamber. The same result will take place in
Wurtemburg, Baden, and wherever the representative
system has been established. The consequence will
be, that all the members of the federation must be-
come dependent on Prussia—their general paymaster ;
and that if it should suit the interests of that country,
or rather of Russia, whose creature she is, to declare
war against England, she might coerce these States
into a defensive alliance with her whenever she
pleased. Our Correspondent, who is in a posi-
tion to have the best information on this subject,
states that British commodities are actually prohibited
to be imported beyond. the frontiers of the union. If
this be the fact, the existence of such a federation
ought to be watched with the utmost vigilance by our
Government. The prohibition if it exists, will not
operate probably for some time, as it is understood
that most of the States have laid in a supply of Eng-
lish goods before agreeing to the union. But the
whole question, we apprehend, mr,st come under the
consideration of Parliament, at an early period of the
next session. In the: mean time, we trust that our
correspondent -will provide us with all the details he
can collP,a upon a subject so vitally affecting the inte-
rest; a the whole empire.—Mornlng Chronicle.
(From the Morning Chronicle Correspondent.)
HAMBURG, OCT. s.—The minor German States have
very few manufactories, their principal resources were de-
rived from the importation of British and French manufac-
tures and colonial produce, from which a duty was collected
sufficient to meet the expenditure of the Government, and
enabled them to trade with every part of the Continent
upon an equal footing with the Prussian and Saxon mer-
chants. It is also well known that British cotton and
woollen goods were preferred to the Prussian or Saxon ;
and therefore, unless Prussia could bring the whole of
these States to conform to her system, her project would
be useless, nay, detrimental to her own commerce. By me-
nace, in the first instance, she got Saxony and several of the,
small Principalities, to consent to the union, and then it
was that the first intimation was given that a general
coalition would be looked for. At first, many States
held back, expecting the interferon of England, to break
up a league which has for its object the ruin of the small
independent States of Germany. But to the surprise of
every one, England remained a silent spectator—not even
an inquiry ent
raed into to obtain the least information re-
specting a coalition which aimed at her very existence.
Prussia, taking the advantage of this inactivity, directly or-
dained to punish the refractory States—that unless they joined
the league within a given time, they would be for ever ex-
cluded, and every description of merchandize, whether of
German manufacture or not, even passing only in tran-
situ, would have to undergo a strict examination at every
custom house, upon the lines of the union they passed
through—besides paying the exorbitant duty, and under-
going detentions of every sort—in a word, every difficulty
would be raised, to disturb their intercourse with their
neighbours, and thus isolating them from the rest of Ger-
, many. This had the desired effect, and they all hastened
to enrol themselves under the banner of Prussia. The Ger-
man States are now compelled to purchase Prussian and
Saxon manufactures, no choice remains ; British commo-
dities being prohibited! The customs are under the con-
trol of Prussia, who yearly renders an account of its
operations, together with any new regulations which she
may think necessary to make. The British Government
imagine that as long as Hanover and Brunswick are not
parties to the league it will be powerless, and sink into
insignificance ; but this is perfectly erro•Aeous. Bruns-
wick has hitherto been deterred from joi' sing on account
of a treaty with England and her alliance, with Hanover ;
but she has already felt the blow
~ given to her
export trade, and the great detention r4rid etwense her im-