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950 THE PRESS, OcToBER 2, 1858. number of the boats not to be limited, and no monopoly allowed. Jf any smuggling takes place, the offender to be punished according to law. Art. \V.—MI questions in regard to rights of property or person between British subjects to be subject to the jurisdiction of the British authorities. Art. XVl.—Chinese subjects guilty of any criminal act towards British subjects to be arrested, and punished by the Chinese authorities according to the law of China; British subjects committing any crime in China to be tried and punished by the Consul or other public functionary according to the laws of Great Britain. Art. XVlL—Determities the mode of procedure in the matter of complaints on the side either of British or Chinese subjects. Art. XVlll.—Provides for the protection of the persons and property of British subjects. Art. XIX.—If any British merchant vessel in Chinese waters is plundered by robbers or pirates, the Chinese authorities are to use every endeavour to capture sod punish the offenders and to recover the stolen property. Art. XX.—Wrecked or stranded vessels, or vessels under stress of weather, are to be afforded relief and security in any Chinese port, and the crews are to be furnished by the Chinese, if necessary, with the means of conveyance to the nearest consular station. _ Art. XXl.—Chinese criminals taking refuge in Ho ig Kong or on board of British ships shall, upon the requisition of the Chinese authorities, be given up; the same also if taking refuge in the houses or on board the vessels of British subjects at the open ports. Art. XXII.—The Chinese authorities to do their utmost to arrest Chinese subjects failing to discharge their debts to British subjects, or fraudulently absconding, and to enforce recovery of the debts. The British authorities to do like wise as regards British subjects indebted to Chinese. Art. X_Xlll.—Debts incurred by Chinese at Hang Kong must be recovered in the courts of justice on the spot. If the debtor should abscond, and should possess real or per sonal property in the Chinese territory, the Chinese authorities, in concert with the British Consul, are to see justice done between the parties. Art. XXI V.—British subjects shall pay on all merclian diz- imported or exported the duties prescribed by the tariff, but in no case shall they pay other or higher duties than the sithjezts of other foreign nations pay. Art. XXV.—lmport duties to be considered payable on the landing of the goods, and duties of export on the ship ment If the same. krt. XXVI.—The tariff fixed by Article X. of the Treaty of Nankin to be revised by a commission of British and Chinese officers, to meet at Shanghai, so that the re vised tariff may come into operation immediately after the ratification of the treaty. Art. XXVI I.—Either contracting part• may demand a further revision of the tariff and of the commercial articles of the treaty at the end of ten yearn ; but six months' notice mast be given, or the tariff is to remain in force for ten years more, and so at the end of each successive ten years. Art. XXVII f.—lt is agreed that, within four months of the signature of the treaty, the Chinese Collector of Duties at ports already opened and hereafter to he opened to British trade shall be obliged,'on application of the Consul, to declare the amount of duties leviable on produce between the place of production and the port of shipment, and upon imports between the consular port in question and the inland markets name] by the Consul ; and a notification thereof shall be published in English and Chinese. British subjects may, b-iwever, clear their goods of all transit ditties by payment of a single charge ; the amount of the charge to be calculated as near as possible at the rate of two and a half per cent. ad rafters& duty, and it is to be fixed for each article at the conference to he held at Shanghai. The payment of transit dues by commutation is in no way to affect the tariff duties on imports or exports, which will continue to be levied separately end in full. Art. XXlN—Regulates the amount of tonnage dues. British merchant vessels of more than 140 tons tourthen to pay at the rate of four mace per ton; if of 1511 tons and under, at the rate of one mace per ton. Vessels engaged in the coasting trade, or clearing for Hong Kong from any of the open ports, shall be entitled to a special certificate, exempting them Worn all further payment of tonnage dues in any open port of China for a period of four mouths from the date of her port clearance. Art. XXX.—The master of any British tnereltant vessel may, within f3rty-eight hours after his snivel but not later, depart without breaking bulk ; iu which case he will not be subject to pay tonnage dues. No other fees or charges upon entry or departure shall be levied. Art. XXXL—No tonnage dues to be paid on passenger boats, or boats conveying baggage, letters, articles of pro vision, or other articles not subject to duty. All cargo boats, however, conveying merchandize subject to duty shall pay tonnage dues once in six months, at the rate of four mace per register ton. Art. XXXll.—The Consuls and Superintendents o Customs to consult together respecting the erection of buoys and lightships as occasion may demand. Art. XXXlll.—Duties to be paid to the anthorized Chinese bankers, ether in Syce or in foreign money, ac cording to the assay made at Canton, July 13, 1843. Art XXXIV.—Seta of standard weights and measures to be delivered by the Superintendent of Customs to the consul at each port, to secure uniformity. Art. XXXV.—British merchant vessels to be at liberty to engage pilots to take them into any of the open ports, and to convey them out after they have discharged all legal dues and duties. Art. XXXVI.—The Superintendent of Customs shall depute one or more Customs' officers to guard a British merchant ship on arriving off one of the open ports. They shall stay either in a boat of their own or on boat 1 ship ; their food and expenses shall be suppliei from the Custom- house, and they shall be entitled to no fees from the muter or consignee. Art. XXXVll.—Ships' papers, bills of lading, &c., to be lodged in the hands of the Consul twentrfour hours after arrival, and full particulars of the vessel to be reported to the Superintendent of Customs within a further period of twentrfour hours. Omission to comply with this rule within fortyeight hours punishable by a fine of fitly tsels for each day's delay. The total amount of penalty not to exceed 200 taels. The master responsible for the cor rectness of the manifest—a false manifest subjects the master to a fine of 500 taels—but he will be allowed to correct any mistake within twentrfour hour.; without in. curring a penalty. Art. XXXVI the master shall begin to discharge any goods without the permit from the Superintendent of Customs, he shall be fined 500 taels, and the goods dis charged shall be coufi-cated wholly. Art. XXX IX.—llritish merchants must apply to the Superintendent of Customs for a special permit to land or ship cargo. Cargo landed or shipped without such permit will be liable to confiscation. Art. XL—No transhipment fain one vessel to another can be made without epectal permission, under pain of confiscation of the goods transhipped. Art. XLl.—The Superintendent of Customs shall give a port clearance when all dues and duties have been paid, and the Consul shall then return the ship's papers. Art. XLII.—If the British merchant cannot agree with the Chinese officer in fixing a value on goods subject to an ad valorem duty, each patty shall call in two or three merchants, and the highest price at which any of the merchants would purchase them shall be assumed to be the value of the goods. Art. XLI I I.—Provides that duties shall be charged upon the net weight of each article, making a deduction for the tare weight of coogee, six., and regulates the manner in which the tare on any article such as tea shall be tiled. The British merchant may appeal to his Consul within twenty-four hours. Art. XLIV.—Upon all damaged goods a fair reduction of duty shall be allowed, proportionate to their deteriora tion. If any disputes arise, they shall be settled in the manner pointed out in the clause of this treaty having reference to articles which pay duty ad valorem. Art. XLV.—British merchants who have imported merchandize into an open port and paid duty Ditty re import their goods under certain regulations, without payment of any additional duty. British merchants desiring to re-export duty-pai.l im ports to a foreign country to be entitled, under similar regulations, to a drawback certificate, which is to be valid tender in payment of Customs' duties. Foreign grain brought into a Chinese port in a British ship, if no part has been landed, may be exported without hindrance. Art. XLVL—The Chinese authorities at the ports to adopt the means they may judge most proper to prevent the revenue suffering from fraud or smuggling. Art. XLVlL—Britiell merchant vessels not to resort to other than the ports declared open; not wilds/fully to enter ports, or to carry on clandestine trade along the coasts. Vessels viohuing, this provision to be, with their cargoes, subject to coutiscottou by the Chinese Govern ment. Art. X LVIIL—If a British merchant vessel be concerned in smuggling, the goods to be subject to confiscation by the Chinese authorities, and the ship may be prohibited from trading further, and sent away as soon as her accounts shall have been adjusted. Art. X I.IX.—A II penalties or confiscations under the treaty to belong and he appropriated to the public service of the Chinese Government Art. L.—All official communications addressed by British Diplomatic or Consular agents to the Chinese authorities are henceforth to be written in English. For the present, they will be accompanied by a Chinese version, but it is understood that in case of there being any diffe rence of meaning between the English and Chinese text, the English Government will hold the sense expressed in the English text to be the correct sense. This provision is to apply to the present treaty, the Chinese text of which has been carefully corrected by the English original. Art. I.l.—The character " I " (" barbarian ") not to be applied to the British Government, or to British subjects, in any Chinese official document issued by the Chinese authorities. Art. Ml.—British ships of war coming for no hostile purpose, or being engaged in the pursuit of pirates, to be at liberty to visit all the Chinese ports, and to receive every facility for procuring necessaries, or, if required, for making repairs. The commanders of such ships to bold intercourse with the Chinese authorities ou terms of equality and courtesy. Art. Llll.—The contracting parties agree to concert measures for the suppression of piracy. Art. LlV.—Confirms all advantages secured to the British Government by previous treaties, end stipulates that the British Government shall participate in soy advantages which may be granted by the Emperor of China to any other nation. Art. LV.—The conditions affecting indemnity for expenses incurred, and loss sustained, in the matter of the Canton question, to be included in a separate article, which shall be in every respect of equal validity with ether articles of the treaty. Art. LVl.—Ratifications to be exchanged within a year alter the day of signature. Separate article provides that a sum of 2,000,000 taels , on account of the losses sustained by British subjec ts through the misconduct of Chinese authoritie s at Canton, and a further sum of 2,000,0 0 0 taels on account of the expenses of the war, shall be paid to the British Rept:wit taiive in China by the authorities of the Kwang rung province. The arrangements for effecting these payments to he determined by the British Representative in concert with the Chinese authorites at Kwang Tung. The British fames are not to be withdrawn from Canton until the abssimMeetints are discharged in full. with Wunjab Singh, of Rewa, at Bearroh, on the 28th of August, and killed about 200 of his men. CENTRAL INDIA. The Gwalior rebels, after their defeat on the 14th of August, fled in a scuth.easterly direction, giving out that it was their intention to enter the Bombay Presidency vid Mundisore. However, on finding this line of retreat was menaced by the force frsiu Neemuch, under Colonel Franks, they turned north towards Bheelwara. On the 2Sth of August reschttlJabta Paton, which they surrendered after some days' fighting with liana's troops. They obtained possession of the town, which they have plundered. The Raua fled, and is now in Colonel Lock hart's camp at . Soosueeu. Soosueen is fifty-the miles off Oojein. A column under Colonel Hope left Indore on the 3rd instant, to support the one which had been previously despatched under the command of Colonel Lockhart, her Majesty's 02nd Highlanders. The rebels are in full possession of Paton, repairing defences and throwing up breastworks on the roads ap- proaching. Adil Mohammed has moved from Seronge, and taken possession of Mowassa; the movement threatens Bhilsa, and toward Gozerat. A small force from Ahmedabad attacked and dispersed a body of Mekrsnees and ltheels, at Mundelte, on the 22nd of August. The rest of the Bombay Presidency is quiet. Bombay Castle, Sept. 7, 1858. (Signed) D. L. ANDERSON, Secretary to Government. NEW OUTBREAK. PS. The following message, dated Kurrachee, September 4, has just been received : Major Hamilton writes from Mooltan that, at noon, on the 31st ult., the 69th and tl•Lnd Native Infantry, and the Native Artillery, all disarmed, broke out and tried to seize the guns and arms of the Fusiliers. They were repulsed, great lumbers slain, and the rest driven from cantonment to jungles towards the river. Our loss was four men of the Royal Artillery, and regret to say, Captain Mules, of the Fusiliers. Major Hamilton heard of the intended outbreak in time to warn military authorities. He had, with the Police Battalion, already arrested ninety of the fugitives. D. L ANDERSON, Secretary to the Government.. Bombay Castle, Sept. 7. Received at Malta, Sept. 2-1, eight morning. V. MONTANAIIO. To J. D. Dickinson, Esq. THE TREATY WITH CHINA. Is last week's PRESS we wete enabled to give an outline of tho Treaty between her Majesty and the Emperor of China, signed at Tiensin, June 26. The following summary has since been forwarded to us from the Foreign-office : Art. I.—Confirms the Treaty of Nankin of 11.42, and abrogates the Supplementary Treaty and General Regula tions of Trade, Art. 11.—Provides for the appointment of Ambassadors, Ministers, or other Diplomatic Agents on the part of either coentry at the Courts of I'ekin and St. James's. Art. 111.—Contains provisions for the permanent estab lishment of a British Minister, his family, and suite, at Pekin, and the forms to be observed in his communica tion►s with the Imperial Government. Art. IV.—Makes arrangements for the travelling and the transmission of the correspondence of the Minister and the employment b 3 him of special couriers. Art. V.—The Emperor of China consents to nominate one of the Secretaries of State or some high officer to transact business with the British Minister, either personally or in writing, on a footing of perfect equality. Art. Vl.—The same pr.vileges are to be granted to the Chinese Minister in London. Art. V IL—Consuls may be appointed in China and may reside in any of the open ports, and their official rank and position as regards the Chinese local authorities is determined. Art. VIII.—The Christian religion as professed by Protestants or Roman Catholics to be tolerated, and its professors protected. Art. IX.—British subjects to travel for pleasure or trade into all parts of the interior, with passports from their Consuls, countersigned by the local aut'iorities. The regulations as regards these passports are determined. The provisions of the article not to be applied to ships' crews, for the due restraint of whom regulations are to be drawn up by the Consul and the local authorities. No pass to be given to Nankin, or cities in the hands of the rebels. Art. X.—British merchant ships are to be allowed to trade up the great River ( Yang-tse), but in the present disturbed state of the Upper and Lower Valley no port is to be opened for trade with the exception of Chin Kiang, which is to be opened in a year from the signature of the treaty. When peace is restored British vessels are to be admitted to trade at such ports as fa• as Hankow, not exceeding three in number, as the British Minister, after consulting with the Chinese Secretary of State, shall determine. Art. XL—ln addition to the present ports, New Chwang, Tang Chow, Tsi Wan ( Formosa), Chow Chow (Swatnw t. and Kiung•Chow ( Hainan), are to be opened, and the right of residence and holding landed property is conceded. Art. Xll.—British subjects are to mske agreements for landed property at the rates prevailing among the people. Art. XIII—No restrictions to be placed on the employ ment by British subjects of Chinese subjects in any lawful capacity. Art XlV.—The hire of boa's for transport of goods or passengers to be settled between the parties themselves, without the interference of the Chinese Government. The