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of opinion the quantity exported from Germany to England, will continue to diminish.
Wheat is, generally speaking, throughout Germany, from 16s/- to 20s/- per quarter, about one third of its price in England. Meat and the other Necessaries of life, bear similar relative values, and labor may be estimated in the same proportion.
Capital bears an Interest of from 2½ to 3½ per Cent. 2½ per cent, is considered a fair return, for money invested in Landed Property.
Maestricht, [Maastricht] 14th March 1830.
In visiting the celebrated subterranean Stone Quarries, at Maestricht, we were joined by a Gentleman, who told us, he was lately