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1847. pig iron. Bilesia is a wheat-growing country for export
~The protective duties of the Zollverein are particuls®ly
injurious to the Baltic provinces of Prussia, which export
wheat, timber, and other raw produce. The mannfactis'’8
districts of Rhenish Prussia are entirely cnt off and detach®
from this part of the kingdom; they receive their import?
and send out their exports by the Rhine, not throngh *
Prussian port; thus the protective system stands in the way
of the increase of the foreign trade in the Prussian pr
and stops the growth of the mercantile marine, witho?
even offering the compensation of an artificial trade
manufactures, In fact, owing to her peculiar geographit
position, the maritime prosperity of Prussia is more com”
pletely sacrificed than in any other State by the protect’
system.”
“ Dantuic, August 10th, 1847.— . . . . Dined with abort
fifty of the merchants. Nearly all appeared to understa™
English, several speakers, all in English, excepting
There are abont five or six Britich merchants only bere”
mostly Scotch. Dantzic is thoroughly English in ite
sympathies.”
“ Tauroggen, Russia, August 13th.~Left Konigsberg
seven o’clock this morning in an extra post courier in co”
pany with one of Mr. Adelson’s clerks, whom he kindly gent
with me across the Russian frontier.
“My companion, who ir & Pole and a Russian subject
and, a8 he terms himself, an Israelite, gives me a poor pi
ture of the character of the Polish nobility. Making 8 com”
parison between them and the Russians, he remarked thst
the latter are barbarians, but the former are civilized
scamps ; there is some respect for truth in the Russian, bub
none in the Pole. Crossed the Niemen at Tilsit; ¥O°
dotained upon the bridge of boats for half an hour whilst
several long rafts of timber passed: the men who We