The New York herald., 1867-04-08

upon the whole nssisn winch ahs eay possible fcun
aAisoa offhs Prusan mrs itkeiy 70 b repevca
~ me French with more unequiyocaf express'ons o.
dkcontent than the suppressed murmUrs -whaoa ~ OK
cites In this country. ~ -4t.ss.t y n. .s ss \.
photographs establish pent Of this city has arranged
grand faoedn containing the original portraits Oh tne
prominent men In the Prussan army during the cam
pagn OF 1885, which will be sent 20 the Paris ExhiD
including the King both Princes, Count Bismarck. &C.
Is teen feet high and eleven feet wide and encased ID
anely ornamented oak Frame bearing the inscrgop ss
In memory OF Prussias campaign OF the year 1906 "
The arrangement OF this s0bieon Was oncaiy
by order Of the King tho Office Of the general stan
skin ~ n"
The government Of the Rhsnish provinces At Cologne
mercs and Agriculture that an unlimited sale objects
at the Paris Exhibition should not be permitted, this
would convert the Exhi6itioa into public mart or far
ment Of their trading LICENSES On the other hand the
ministers did not deem 1t advisable TO prohibit sales
imped exhibitors and occasional could
not properly be considered an Infringement OF the
snd goods should moi be allowed to be removed on be-
log sold, before the exhibition has fully tsrmnatedthe
French managers will attend 70 that without needing
Prussan instructions; or II an exception is granted,
fresh goods replace those taken away should be ad
mitted The instructions have been communicated TO all
provincial governments In Prussa for their guidance
From official data relatingto theconssmpton Of beer
In Prussia quoe few hgures According 70 the amount
Of rcveeue collected from the mali tax the quantity of
malt produced In Prussia In 1894 2605 4S2 hundred
weight OF which 70 per cent consumed by city and
town breweres. Reckoning the average quantity OF
beer produced from hundred weight Of malt at 100
quarts which rather below the roal 6gure the total
beer production in 1854 amounted $40 quarts
or 1903 quarts for each head Of the population. Com
parng this to the in former years. a rapid in
crease s remarked for 1855 IL was only 92 1885,
s7s 1851 1oa; 1883, 1le; 1859 II 40: 1850. IL %;
1851 H. 7S; 1862 20l and 1863 13 IS per capa Of the
population As 70 the consumption the different pro-
vnces the deviation from the average considerable
Posen i sl Pomeran cis sss Bern
62 0l Potsdam, 1918; westphaa, 9.69 Rhenish
Provinces, IA So &c, per head. The high figure
Increased ty formidable quantities OF imported beer
from the interior and from Bavaria and Saxony while
in those provinces which show the lowest ngures such
Pomerania Possn the cereysan beverage is sup.
planted by whskey and brandy II " Is further
sidered that many brcwcrics employ substitutes for
malt snch as potatoes. sugar molasses &c, which
not subject TO an internal tax the amount Of beer
sumed in the government district OF Berlin may
respectable quantity worthy Of the Germans who
from time immemorial have been devoted to "King
Gambrinus" the beer drinking subjects par erotsnoc
But IL the Germans great in beer they equally
great in books, The systematic Capitalization of the
book trade in this country admits Of very exact statst
cal in'ormation Ieipsc being, since century, the
principal depot whence tho whole OF Germany obtains
It's supply, and where all transactions OF the trade
regulated The number OF firms connecled With tho book
trade published in the catalogue OF the year. IS
3l0O all OF whom have their agents Leipsic whence
any book published cap be obtained at the shortest
ticc or these 100 houses 26l publishers OF
books exclusively, but also Of maps music drawings,
&c while 1880 booksellers or keepers Of book.
in the German provinces Of Austria u 10 Hungary &c
1913 In Saxony 1877 in Bavaria, 70 In Wurtemburg AZ In
Baden 200 in the other smaller States to whom
be added the German booksellers in foreign COUNTRIES
viz "a In Switzerland, 81 in Russia 81 in America. 81
in the Netherlands and less than 10 each Of the King
doms Of Greece Italy the Papal Dominons Turkey and
Asia This city boasts or not less than 34l. Lspsc
trcads close her heels with 234, while Vienna which
has almost the population that Of Berlin and
hvo times that OF Lepsic has only l03 bookselg and
publishing firms
ina number q works published in Germany in 1915
was 1000: In 1925 5000 and in lS4e had increased to
ll,0S6 From that period decrease be noted, the
year l04o showing only 6<o7 works. after which tho
production slowly ross again 70 I'D n 1892 96oi Ia
os%n: @s9 Is aSnsa party g sss Ss
statssnt or The different branches or literature may be
added md that military itsraufs hls iaceased since
the preccdiag year from i4s 20 III wcrks nasnr.l
other branches show dimunion that Of bellies Ldtyss
from o36 70z works Theology always ahead OF ell
others Ia quantity counting In 1855 not less than All,
pedsgogics 7oo; history and biography, 634 languages
l6S; medicine, lS7 maps and charts, 303 &c.
Tho periodical press o. Germany, including tho G,r
man provinces Of Austria and s..erand ccnssssd ss
political journals together 1057 Not included in
this ngurs are the Journals In foreign tongue, pub
lished In Switzerland, viz loS Frcnch IL Italian.
may stated that the total number Of journals In
france is I'll, OF which so political and 435
poical the total number OF those in England 10 20eA
ing that in this respect Germany occupies tho nrt rank
among European nations. Southern Germany exports.
nss onIy far greaser qssntity q books shsa
the S S'n Ss,s Ssss c q. M
but excels In the beauty and cheapncss Of typography,
ID regard which the cities or Stuttgart and Augsburg
stand psominsn the greatest establishments for print
nau books and nsery al the popular illustrated works
and Journals are published.