The German papers inform ...
Thc German papers inform us that the Government of Prussia has hit upon a new method of applying the Sink- ing Fund to the redemption of the public debt. Instead of buyinig up stock from day to day in open market, as heretofore, the purchases are to be confined to two days in the year-riz., the 2d of January and the 1st of July; on each of wvhich days half the amount of the wlhole annual Sinking Fund is to be expended. Then, as to the portions of the debt to be thus paid off, they are to be detcrmined by the novel expedient of a lottery; a certain number of bonds, amounting to halfa million, to be drawn in March and September. The list of them to be published ; and their nomint2l value to be liquidated to the holders on the pay-day next succeeding. WVhat advantage may be pro. duced by this plan, the Berlin papers have not attempted to specify.