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0k Sanguine about effecting any reduction of the protecive
 duties; only hopes to prevent their augmentation.
1. Kuhne has the character of being an able and honest
Ban. To the museum ; the collection of statues and busts
uta poor affair after seeing the galleries of Italy, and the
Dictureg very inferior to those at Dresden or Vienna.
Calleq on M. Dieterici, Director of the Bureau of Statistics,
"! earnest Free Trader, says all the leading statesmen of
Prussia are opposed to the protective system, whichis forced
bon the Zollverein by the states of the south, particularly
Bavaria, Baden, and Wurtemberg, and by the manufacturers
*f the Rhenigh provinces. Professor Tellkampf called; he
“ys the real object which the Prussian Government has in
Few, talking of differential duties on navigation to England,
'S to coerce Holland into a more liberal system, and pro-“bly
 to induce her to join the Zollverein. . ... In the
“onversation with M. Kuhne he touched upon the state of
Lrelang, and remarked that society has to be reconstructed
" that country ; that we have the work of Cromwell and
William to do over again in a better manner.”
“Berlin, July $1st.—Several persons called in the morn-"Ug.
 Went by railway to Potsdam to dine with the King at
three o’glock at Sans Somci. About twenty-five to thirty
Persons gat down, nearly all in court costume, and most of
them i military dresses. The King good-humoured and
fable, very little ceremony, the dinner over at half past four,
"hen the company walked in the garden. On coming away
the King shook hands. In the evening attended a public
dinner given to me by about 180 Free-traders of Berlin,
the mayor of the city in the chair; he commenced
the speaking at the second course, and it was kept up
throughout the dinner, which was prolonged for nearly three
hour, Two-thirds of the meeting appeared to understand
Wy English speech, which was afterwards translated into

1847
BT. 45.