The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-11-19 00:00:00

THE TREATY OF 1856.

The following are the principal articles of the Treaty
of 136

" Art. 7. The Qleen of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of the French, the King
ol Prussia, the Emperor of Russia, and the King of Sar-
dinia declare the Sublime Porte admitted to participate in
the advantages of the public law and system (concert) of
Ear, pe. Their Majesties engage each on his part, to re-
spect the independence and territorial integrity of the Otto-
man Empire; guarantee in common the strict observance
of that engagement ; and viii,in consequence, consider any
act tending to it. violation as a question of general interest.
Art S. If there should arise between the Sublime PI rte
and one or more of the other signing Powers any misunder-
standing which might endanger the maintenance of their
relations,the Sublime Porte, anti each of such Powers, before
having recourse to the use of force, shall afford the other
contracting parties the opportunity of preventing such an
exe.m.itypy_means of their medial' in.

" Art. 10..1 he Convention of the 13th of July, 1,11, which
maintalus the anc.:dat rule of the ottoman Empire relative
to the closing of the Strait. of the Bosphorus aud of the
Dardauelles has been revised by Common consent.
. . . .

" Tue Act concluded for that purpose, and in conformity
with that principle, between the high contracting partial,
la and remains annexed to the present Treaty, and shall have
the same feree and validity u till formed an integral part
there. t.

" Art 11. Tae Black Sea le neutralized ha water. and
its posts, thrown open to ha merc,ntlie marine of every
Dation, are formally and in porpetuity Interdicted to the dog
of war, either of the Power. possessing Its coasts, or of any
other Power, with the exoeptions mentioned in Articles 11
and 19 of the present Treaty.
'Art 12. Free from any Impediment, the commerce In
the ports and waters of the litcck Sea shall be subject only
to regulations of healtn, customs, and police, framed in a
spirit favourable to the developement of commercial trans-
actions. . . .

" is order to afford to the commercial and maritime inte-
rests of every nation the security which is desired, Russia
and the Salim., Porte will admit C..nsuls Into their ports
situated upon the coasts of the Black Sea in conformity with
the principles of international
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"Art. 13 The black Sea being neutralised according to
the terms of Art. 11, the maintenance or establishment upon
its coast of military maritime arsenals becomes alike mine-
ems.ary and purpoaMesa ; to COD, queued, the Emperor of
R.issia and the Sultan engage not to establiah or to maintain
upon that coast any military-maritime arsenal."

To the Treaty was added the f 'Noising Convention
respecting the Straits of the Dardanelles and of the
Bosphorus:

"Art. I. Ills Majesty the Sultan, on the one part, declares
that he is firmly re,olved to maintain for the future the
orit.ciple invariably estahllnhed pe the arcient rule of hie
Empire, and in virtue of which it he., stall time., been pro-
hibited for the 'hips 4.1 war of foreign Powers to enter the
Straits of the Danitnelles and of the Bosphorus : and that,
so long ite the Porte I. at peace. his Majesty 11111 admit no
foreign ship of war into the said S:raits.
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And their Majesties the Qn.een of the United Kingdom
I,f Crest Britain and Ireland. the Emperor of Austria, the
EsTeror of the French, the King of Prussia, the Emperor of
all the Meths, and the King of Sardinia, on the other part,
engage to respect thin determination of the Sultan, and to
conform themselves to the principle above declared.

. .
" Art. 2. The Sultau reserves to himself, as In pagt times,
to deliver flrmane of gamma for light vtssela under litsi of
war, which shall be rmuloyed. as Ls usual, In the service of
the IMAM.. of Foreign rower.

Art 3 The same;xception applies to the light veuels
under ft ig of war which es h of the contracting Powers Is
authorised to station at the mouths of the Danube In order
to secure the execution of the regulations relative to the
liberty of that river, and the Lumber of which Is not to ex-
ceed two for each Power."
And with respect to the smount of naval forces
whit h Russia and Turkey might respectively keep in
the Black Sea it was agreed in a separate Cmvention
between those two I'4. gers as follows :

" Art. I. Tne high contracting partlea mutually engage
not to have in the Black Sea any other reseals of war than
those of which the number, the force, and the dimensluins are
hereinafter stipule, ed.
" Art. 2 the high contracting parties reserve to then,
seine. each to maintain in that sea six steam vessels of 50
miAree In length at the time of Notation, of a tonnage of &JO
tons at the Inaxirmon, and four light steam or sailing
yawls of a tonnage which shall not nosed 200 tons each."