Star.
London, England, 1820-01-28 00:00:00

FROM GER MAN PAPERS.

Faom THE Damson.—No subject which has refer-
ence to the social welfare of Germany excites at pre-
sent so great an interest in the Mass of the German
nation as the regulation of the trading relations of
the country. From the Vioula to the Rhine there is
hardly a village in which this subject is not discussed
by the whole of the trading and industrious part of
the population . 'll,o cause of the present
distress is generally attributed to the restr;ctions on
the intercourse between the different Federal States,
and the preporplerancy of English and French in-
dustry. There can be no doubt that much must Le
attributed to the transition to a state of peace; for
from France, England, and America, we have the
same complaints respecting the decay of trade...—
However, the festrictionson trade in the interior, and
the, unrestricted competition of foreign countries,
have added much to the evil. The excessive fall of
the produce of the earth is a plienonienon, respecting
the causes of which we can as little be in doubt as
respecting its ruinous effects. It is more than cheap-
ness--it is a complete want of market for the pro-
ductions of the earth, which has taken place. It is a
great mistake to suppose that the cahse of this is to
be sought for. in the productiveness of late years.
This would have occasioned a fall in pikes, but
were we not completely deprive:l of a market, the
storing up in granaries by speculatUrs would have
prevented the total want of sale at any price. The
people who supply our wants in manufactures livo
on the other side of the channel, and the line of
French Custdm-house Officers, where our grain can-
not find its way. Thus we are in the same state with
all other countries in which the productions of industry
do not go hand in hand with those of agriculture, as
Poland for instance. This detrimental state of things
is now warmly felt by great and small lauded pro-
prietors, and the landholders therefore take as warm
an interest in the regulation of German trade as the
manufacturers and merchants themselves do. .
. . . . A few yeits ago, when the English and
French adopted measures injurious to German in-
dustry, we did mot even take any notice of them ;
bat now every step these countries take excites a
universal sensation. We have perceived with pain
that the French manufacturers lately supplicated
their King to endeavour to obtain a free exportation
to Germany, whilst France is almost shut to us ; aaa
the English have even imposed duties on cur only
exchange:sle commodity, cur raw wool. At this
moment we look with anxiety to the decisionoof the
English Parliament respecting the Cora Bill. In
Eng-loot! grain is more than double the price of what
it is in Germany, as the importation is only allowed
when the quarter rises to eighty shillings. Wete tl.e
importation not restricted, the grain of the north of
Germany would find a -good- market in England,
and the effects of this Would Ile felt in Bavaria and
Swabia,' as the grain would then- take its coarse
down the-streams. But this is not to be thought of
till the Geiman federation brings England to her
senses, by retorting her own measures on her. From
the reception which the traiing deputations have met
with from the different GCrri44ll Goverionents, it is
clear that they are aware of what will be hastefichl
to the country. Their favourable reception at the
Court of Prussia has produced a great sensation is
all Germany, and v e entertain the strongest expecta-
tions of some substantial measures /ions the Congress
of Vienna:—Alleme:ne Zeituni;-.