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view, I am not able to offer any remark as to the Prussian military S3'stem, 
but in a commercial sense, from what I have seen, I cannot imagine anything 
which must so completely cat up and destroy a country in case of any pro- 
tracted hostilities. Merchants, farmers, artiticers, workmen, clerks, all, all 
were in the arm}', and the cfi'ects which must have ensued in case of reverses 
would be a picture which man cannot draw. Those tliat remained behind 
must indeed thank Providence that their relatives were mostly so speedily 
restored to them. 
E0ST0CK.*-'Fe&/-?((7r!/ If.h, 18G2.— A brisk demand for wheat in France in 
the middle of 1861, and stocks in Rostock rose in price, but England got most 
of the exports of the year, viz., 107,000 quarters. 
Crop of wheat in 1861 deficient iu quality ; the exports of 18G2 will be 
small. Rye was a better crop. 
Barley, peas, oats, and rape-seed, were below an average. 
Exports of wheat in l.St)2, 77,000 quarters ; of other grain hardly any. 
Cattle had been carried olf by a " sort of scurvj^ ; " sheep by the small-pox. 
" Population covers the country but thinly, and is getting more and more thin 
in consequence of emigration to foreign countries." A harsh feudal Govern- 
ment (Mccklenberg) allows of no free settlement, and makes even matrimony 
difficult and dependent on the permission of the feudal sire. 
1863. — " The corn trade, which constitutes the whole export business of the 
ports of Rostock and Wismar, has been lively in both, owing to the excellent 
crop of 1863 and to accumulated stocks from the year 1862." Total export of 
grain, 116,000 quarters in 168 vessels. The independent classes of agriculturists 
are pi'osperous, but the labourers and pojr farmers are mider great dependency 
and oppression, and their interests are extremely neglected, as the legislature 
is entirely in the hands of the landed proprietors. These classes are therefore 
emigrating, and a gradual decrease of the population is the result. Mecklenberg 
is solely agricultural. 
1864. — The low ]iriccs which have ran2;ed for corn during the last three 
years have in a great measure hitherto been compensated by the brilliant 
result in the productiveness of the soil ; besides, butter, wool, and cattle, could 
always be sold at well-remunerating or even very high prices. 
Great uneasiness prevails amongst the landed ])roprictors and farmers on 
account of the constantly-increasing emigration of the labouring classes of this 
country. This has been so general during the last years, in spite of the 
American war, that during the time of harvest operations hands were generally 
scarce, and it is feared when the war in America ceases emigration will take 
much greater dimensions still. 
The causes of emigration are, therefore, much discussed in this country ; 
and the legislature, instead of lightening the burdens of the labouring classes 
by granting free settlomeiils, and free trade, and choice of profession, would 
like to check emigration by maldng the poor classes still more dependent of 
their lords and patrimonial sires. The legislature is fully in the hands of the 
latter, and for the present there is not much aspect that they will come to 
better insight. 
Little other corn or pulse. 
The deficient crop had little effect on exports, as the stocks £i-om the year 
before were large. 
llosTocK. — Exports in 1865. 
Wheat 
Rye .. 
118,846 quarters. 
2-1,000 
* R'jstock draws its supplies from a more limited area than Dantzig. 
