The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-03-01 00:00:00

FRANCE.

(room tirt “GLotve 0714,1.EsraNDENT.)
, . Tneshey Evening.
Diploinaq hays alSpaiently plyed ita k?st eard
in the ittenYpi to n'iystify and hale a pla'iti
object—viz., the feirriation of a strong national
kingdom in North Italy----and the latest dodge
abOt the Vey Duke of Genoa is the last effort of
61 tiring despisndenti as to gaining a single pint.
When pooi !lid% , self of Carthage, was in the
last agony of deeljair at her Abandonment, she
sighed forth her final aspTintion
Si quis mihi parvulus ad 63
Luderet Xneas.
To keep up a baby on the Tuscan throne watild
be a small speck on the Italian horizon, what
Edmund /3iirke called "a .. seminal ;principle
rather fopmed body,' and round that
Feify . or einbryO Austrian intrigue
The child's mother,
Elizabeth el Saxony,' thioronghly devoted
both to the Vietitlese arid, 13-avarian coutts
from consanguinity, and wadi& ennet p.t Florence
what young Bomba's mother is abet? i•ehle
Naples. lam sorry to know that Napoledif TH.
has been inveigled into acceptance of this scheme,
and has even forwarded it to your Foreign Office
for endorsement. with what result it is out of my
departmerit to gum.
One thing is now positive, viz., that the rumour
of withdrawal by France of her army of occu-
Ottion from the Po, is utterly untrue! I have
Govetrinidtit Authority for stating that WPM
additional men will forthwith reinforce the
3ddod in arias tinder
reach _
banners, south of
Al'ps thici id-clay the felpgitilh brings us from
Turin the instant eallirig into active gertley. the
classes of 1830, 11, meads all the
disposable youth of the land horn in iiiete several
years. The formation of foar armies, each 46040
strong, which I already intimated, is a certainty,
and should things come to a dead lock, the
sledge-hammer and crowbar will be wielded
against every obstacle.

THE TREATY OP COMMERCE WITH

FRAIceP;

The following is an additional article id the
Treaty of Commerce, concluded at Paris on the
23rd of January, 1860, between her Majesty and
the Emperor of the French, signed at Paris on
the 25th of February, 1860, and ratifications
exchanged at Paris on the 28th of February,
1860

_
"By Article VIII. of the Treaty of Commerce between
hef Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain arid Ireland and his Majesty the Emperor of
the French, siined at fafis obi the 23rd of January
last, her Britannic Majesty rindegook fo recom-
mend to Parliament the admission into the United
Kingdom of brandies and spirits imported from
France at a duty exactly equal to the excise duty
levied upon home-made spirits, with the addition of a
surtax of 2d. a gallon, which would make the actual
duty payable on French brandies and spirits Bs. 2d. a
gallon. Since the ratification of the said treaty, the
Government of her Biltaitic Majesty have ascertained
that the surtax of 2d. a gallon is not sufficient to
countervail the charges with which, in caniecitiedg of
the operation of the laws of Customs and Excise, home-
made British spirits have now to contend; and that a
surtax limited to the rate of 2d. a gallon would still
leave home-made British spirits subject to a differential
duty in favour of foreign brandies and spirits.
" Consequently, the Government of her Britannic
Majesty having represented these circumstances to
the Government of his Majesty the Emperor of the
French, and his Imperial Majesty having consented
that the amount of the said surtax shall be increased,
the two high contracting parties, to the said treaty
of commerce do, by the present additional article
agree that the amount of such surtax shall be sd. a
gallon, and her Britannic Majesty engages to recom-
mend to Parliament the admission into the Unite.),
Kingdom of brandies and spirits imported from France
at a duty exactly equal to the Excise duty levied upon
home made spirits, with the addition Of a surtax of bd.
a gallon.
"The present additional article shall have the same
force and validity as it it had been inserted in the
Treaty of Commerce of the 23rd of January last.
"It shall be ratified, and the ratifications thereof
shall be exchanged at Paris within, five days from the
date of its signature.
" In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries
have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals
of their arms.

" Done at Paris this 25th day of February, in the
year of our Lord 1860. " COWLEY.
" E. BAROCHt,
" E. ROUHER."