Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-05-03

entitled to much praise, both for taste and work
manship.
"That the effect of this exhibition upon the Ger
man people" says the reviewer, as well from III
novelty and nature as from the official parade at
tending it, should have been of exciting kind
! was only natural whilst, considered apart from
the question of its real utility, and under the po
Htcal point of view alone OF tending to strengthen
the bond Of national feeling which the Zoll- Vereir
was the great instrument OF first ehectually &C.
menting, it has wonderfully fulfilled the expecta.
tons that were entertained of il by the rulers oil
the Zoll-Verein States
| One of the first fruits of the enthusiasm thus
created has been the formation at Berlin of an as
ISOLATION called The Central Union, for The oell-
being of the ,corking class to the funds of which
the King has contributed donation of $4,000,
Prussian,) or about 900 United States curren-
cy. The objects of this union are to minister 10
the wants, physical and moral, of the workpeople
in factories and other aborers by the establishment
of savings banks, the awarding of premiums, the
formation of schools, and the propagation of useful
publications.
The constitution of Board of Trade has long
been tavorite object with the Prussan Govern
ment, and It's actual establishment, though ayowedly
for the service of the Prussan Government, must
be regarded as Zoll- Verein measure. The Pres-
dent of this Board, NJ. de RoENNE is well and advan-
ageousy known in this country as the formerly
resident Minister from Prussia to the United States
The acquisition of colonies has long been a ia
vorite object with the States forming the Zoll Veren
confederacy. commission was sent to explore
the Mosquito country in Central America il has
returned but the report has not yet been published.
The enterprise is to be national one, under the
egis of the Zol-Verein
That emigration is want OF Germany, every
days experience tends TO prove. A printed circu-
lar, dated October, 1874, shows that the number of
who, the average of the last few years.
annually migrate from Germany Chiefly to the
United Sates) is about 10000, and that they carry
with them, at the least, capital of five millions of
Prussian dollars, Tor three millions and one-thrd
United States currency.) 1t further shows that the
emigrants from Bavaria alone for the five years
from 1885 to 1899 amounted to "a, $780, with
capital of seven millions of forms, or three millions
of dollars in the currency of the United States.
Germans are admitted to be among the best of emf
grants, rendered by their patient SOBER steady,
and economical habits.
The treaty between the Zoll- Verein and Belgium
which was negotiated on the part of the former by
NJ de RoENNE, is considered the greatest stroke of
policy the Zoll Veren has yet achieved. Its princ-
pal and prominent feature consists In the stipulation
which converts, for all practical purposes, the Bel
gian seapors into seaports of the Lol Veren giving
the latter, through its shipping, direct CONNER
cial intercourse with transatlantic countries. The
latest news from Europe shows that France is dis
satisfied with this treaty, and accuses Belgium OF
having conceded to the Zoll-Veren advantages to
which she France was exclusively entitled and for
which she had paid stipulated price in the terms
Of her existing treaties with Belgium. We know
nothing OF the progress of the commercial negotia-
tions between the Zoll-V eren and Brazil and Hol-
land, nor of the success Of the commercial mission
10 China. more important mission than either is
the visit of NJ de RoENNE to Hamburg and the adj
lacent free cities, with view to bring about the ac-
cession of the HANsE-TowNs to the Zoll- Verein.
This would he measure fraught with most i'm
portant consequences to the commerce and manu-
features of England and the English journals say
that few things would inhict heavier blow upon
their commercial welfare than the accession OF
Hamburg to the Zoll-V eren, IN the actual state OF
The Toll perein tariff. 1t is said that nne-tenths OF
the whole British trade with Germany, as comprised
under the general head of I" Germany" in the Brit
ish Parliamentary returns, takes place through the
ports of Hamburg and Altona. DIR. SoETBEER, in
his report the commerce of Hamburg, says
- According 10 the moneyvalue, Hamburg takes the
most important place for England after the United
States of North America. Hamburg imports from
England more than twice as much as all France"
In his opinion, :. it is Hamburgs vocation to remain
German seaport, and, as such, cosmopolitan
commercial city, % Even in the event of the ex-
tension of the ZoV eren the shores of the North
Sea, the MISUNDERSTOOD interests Of Germany re-
quire that Hamburg should remain a free port,
and neutral commercial republic" Late Ger
man newspapers state that party, not as yet nu-
merous, but likely to increase, has commenced get
ling up meetings in Hamburg in favor Of an annex
alton with the Zoll-Veren.
Such is reply to the question, " What is
Prussia and Germany doing p We have shown
that spirit of inquiry and Of enterprise is wide
awake in them, and we bid them " God speedr' in
every undertaking which is founded on right and
carried forward with justice.