The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-09-11
DEPARTMENT. NEWS.
STATE DEPARTMENT.

STATE DGfALIMENr-
The npoiuaoc Of Eeeading and Iaoreasig he Commerce
Of Srlana spih the United StaesThe Present Postal r-
The Necessity for CAangeTh Demand for
Lard.Extrscis Of letter from correspondent re
siding at Basic, Switzerland:
~ have the pleasure Communicate the following
information rather opinions OF the bcrniormed
Switzerland, the beet extending increasing
the commerce between this country and the United States.
creasing and that little Switzerland may justly be ranked
among The countries Of the commercial relations with the
United States The reader when he casts his the
figures which mark the amount Of the trade from Switzer
land TO the United States will be struck with the
OF that trade During the first six months Of 1858 there
the OF sso0ooo lsgazed United
Sate consulate Mt this place. and it must be that
Zurich Add to this the egaIized by the com
erca representatives OF the United States but direct
lure 10 say thai Switzerland sends annually to the United
States from four to SIX millions Of dollars in manufactured
goods.
SPY abstract from official raturns which the custom
house authorities at Havrc have recently transmitted to this
through that for the United States monthly, Il soud
rather the 18th September 18th October
age would give the Of 100000 annually.
cannot help remarking that the anomaly of
diamonds SCI and unset a. distinguished In the United States
tart strikes Tue Swiss manufacturer as very odd and in
duces him send his brooch his bracelet
and biz diamonds in another and to have bis agent set them
The subject of commercial treaty with France for the
ans Swiss goods for the United States aud
very interesting one and, properly adjusted might have
perhaps happy effect upon the between the
countries Under proper arrangement the
could have his goods sealed rst station
aud then to unmoested their destination whereas
they subject to be oyerauled and lily repacked,
each station through which they pass the damage
and cetriment o. inany packages
The sws government having failed far in amelora-
ting this state OF things, the Swiss merchant LOCKS
great commercial neghbor, the United States do for
him.
The subject Of improved postal arrangement
tainy meritng the attention Of both The
present rates ecorbon. For single letter any
portion of Switzerland to the United States Liverpool
the postage franc 30 cenmes-equsl to rs cents
their allowances very light that it il almost npossi-
Bile to send ordinary sheet OF paper enree without
mourning The Of donbo rates. or over so cents
This must be apparent Is very serious drawback to
respondence, and yet correspondence necessarily
pany Indeed should that correspondence reach
the magnitude OF this letter would become doors rather
than francs.
may state that an article which the United States can
furnish has been particularly mentioned here by
gagged in with that country Lard could not fail
to be profitable shipment to Switzerland as it always
ranges here from II TO JIG cents per ib.'
In reference to the trade of France with Switzer
land we have procured from the commercial bureau OF the
State Department the following statistics.