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ARTICLE XV.

The present treaty shall be ratified and the ratifications
exchanged at Bagdad in the space of three months or
sooner, if possible.
In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have
signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seal of their
arms.

Done at Paris, in quadriplicate, this 4th day of the
month of March, in the year of our Lord 1847.

COWLEY.

Fssoan (in Persian).
SEPARATE NOTE REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE X. OF THE

FpREOOTNG TREATY.
(Signed in the English and Persian;languages.)
The undersigned, her :Britannic Majesty's Am-
bassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the
Emperor of the French, and his Persian Majesty's
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to
his said Imperial Majesty, being duly authorised by
their respective Governments, hereby agree that the
following ceremonial shall take place for the re-
establishment of diplomatic and friendly relations
between the Courts of Great Britain and Persia.
This agreement to have the same force and value as
if inserted in the treaty of peace concluded this day
between the undersigned :
The Sadr Azim shall write, in the Shah's name, a letter
to Mr. Murray, expressing his regret at having uttered and
given currency to the offensive imputations upon the
honour of her Majesty's Minister, requesting to withdraw
his own letter of the 19th of November, and the two letters
of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the 26th of Nos
vember, one of which contains a rescript from the Shah
respecting the imputation upon Mr. Murray, and declaring,
in the same letter, that no such further rescript from the
Shah as that inclosed herewith in copy sas communicated,
directly or indirectly, to any of the foreign missions at
Teheran.

A cony of this letter shall be communicated, officially,
by the Stidr Azim to each of the missions at Teheran, and
the substance of it shall be made public in that capital.
The original letter shall be conveyed to Mr. Murray at
Bagdad by the hands of some high Persian officer, and
shall be accompanied by an invitation to Mr. Murray, in
the Shah's name, to return with the mission to Teheran, on
his Majesty's assurance that he will be received with all the
honours and consideration due to the representative of the
British Government, another person of suitable rank
being sent to conduct him, as Mehmandar, on his journey
through Persia.

Mr7Murray, on approaching the capital, shall be received
by persons of high rank deputed to escort him to his rein.
dance in the town. Immediately on his arrival there the Sadr
&aim shall go in state to the. British Mission, and renew

SATI/RDAY,

friendly relations with Mr. Murray, leaving the Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs to accompany him to the Royal
Palace, the Sadr Azim receiving Mr. Murray and con-
ducting him to the presence of the Shah.
The Sadr Azim shall visit the mission at noon on the
following day, which visit Mr. Murraywill return, at
latest, on the following day before noon.
Done at Paris, this 4th day of March, 1857.
COWLEY.

Fgaosii(in Peril tn.)
(Annex to the preceding Note.)
THE SHAH TO THE SADR Amt.
(Translation.) December, 1855.
Last night we read the paper written by the English
Minister Plenipotentiary, and were mach surprised at the
rude, unmeaning, disgusting, and insolent tone and
purport. The letter which he before wrote was also imper
tinent. We have also heard that in his own house he is
constantly speaking disrespectfully of us and of you, but
we never believed it; now, however, he has introduced it
in an official letter. We are therefore convinced that this
man, Mr. Murray, is stupid, ignorant, and insane, who
has the audacity and impudence to insult even kings !
From the time of Shah Sultan Hossein (when Persia
was in its most disorganised state, and during the last
fourteen years of his life, when by serious illness he was
incapacitated for business) up to the present time, no
disrespect towards the Sovereign has been tolerated either
from the Government or its agent. What has happened
now that this foolish Minister Plenipotentiary acts with
such temerity ? It appears that our friendly missions are
not acquainted with the wording of that document; give it
now to Meerza Abbas and Meerza Malcom, that they may
take and duly explain it to the French Minister and :Iyder
Effendi, that they may see how improperly he has written.
Since last night till now our time has been passed in
ye:l6°n. We now command you, in order that you may
yourself know, and also acquaint the missions, that until
the Queen of England herself makes us a suitable apology
for the insolence of her envoy we will never receive back
this her foolish Minister, who is a simpleton, nor accept
from her Government any other Minister.

THE SUPPLY OE UULD.

WE are threatened with a regular and an un-
limited supply of gold. The Chancellorsville Com-
pany, some time established, and with extensive
works at Frodsham, in Cheshire, publicly tested
on Saturday, at their works, their new method
of extracting gold from quartz. The quartz, it should
be observed, came from an estate belonging to the
company in Virginia. The operation was conducted
in the presence of the assayer to the Mint, the
assayer to the Bank of England, Professor Henry,
and a large number of gentlemen of scientific stand-
ing. After inspecting the crushing process, these
gentlemen proceeded to watch the mode of extraction
of the gold. This is done by the chemical process
of amalgamation with quicksilver. The quartz
powder when crushed is calcined, washed in mineral
acids, and then amalgamated with quicksilver. After
a time the mercury is removed and placed in a retort,
where it is distilled into water, leaving the gold button
behind. The quicksilver is distilled into a retort,
and takes up the gold from the matter. An amalgam
is formed, from which the gold is easily separated.
The result of the trial of Saturday was to produce
one ounce, seven pennyweights, seven grains of gold
from one ton of quartz—a large and profitable return.
The success of the experiment was undeniable, and
if the supply of auriferous quartz can be depended
upon, the Chancellorsville Company will have solved
a great problem. Their future operations are not to
be limited to the Virginian quartz; the gold-bearing
rocks of Wales are to be subjected to trial, and the
long-disputed question of the gold resources of the
United Kingdom fairly tested. The company are
sanguine of success, which, if realised, may lead
to most important results.

FORTY-SEVEN OF THE LEALUNG PASSENGERS by
the Parana, West India steamer, have published a
protest against the system of overcrowding those
vessels at St. Thomas's, the head-quarters for the
reception of the intercolonial steamers. The
passer, gars write:—

We arrived at St. Thomas's with a view to take passage
in the Parana for Southampton ; that ship, although offer-
ing accommodation for only ltiO, or at most 200, passen-
gers, received 302, notwithstanding the urgent protest of a
great number of passengers. Thus the Parana, instead of
offering the order and comfort to be expected for the
comparatively high fares paid in a steamer of one of the
oldest and richest lines, presented the aspect of an emi-
grant ship, her passengers crowded together, sleeping,
washing, and dressing wherever they could. irrespective of
sex, age, and condition—this being naturally a matter of
serious discomfort to the class of passengers usually found
on this route, and especially to the numerous invalids on
board. The, scenes at the dining•table are better
conceived than described. The crowded state of the
saloon, the comparative scarcity of provisions chiefly in
request, to the great regret of must concerned, have
rendered regard to the conventional rules of society, and
almost regard to decency, out of the question. The scarcity
of such provisions is the less excusable, inasmuch as a
sufficient supply could easily have been obtained at St.
Thomas's before starting.
Yellow fever broke out on board, and eleven of the
crew died. The evil complained of is very serious,
for in the event of' any accident happening to a ship
loaded with 302 passengers, but carrying boats only
for 200 persons, what is to become of the odd 100 ?


JUNE 13, 1857.

VrocOinp Zn 7partinincnt.

HOUSE OF LORDS-MONDAY.
THE CASE OF MR. SHEDDON.

Earl GREY rose to present a petition from Mr. W.
p. R. Sheldon, complaining, among other things,
that—

By a decision of the Court of Session in Scotland in
1803, and of this house in HOB, obtained in his infancy,
he has been deprived of his Ptatus of a natural-born subject
of this realm, and as the legitimate child of his par nts,
and of the means of duly investigating in any court of law
the question of such status, and causing the same to be
recogoi seol, and praying fir such relief and redress as to
this house may seem meet, and to move to refer the said
petition to a select committee.

The noble earl, in a speech of great ability, entered
at some length into the details of the case, which
are as follows :—About the year 1764, Mr. William
Sheddon, only son of a Scotch landowner, emigrated
to America; four years afterwards he returned to
Scotland on a visit, but sailed again in 1709, and
remained in America, engaged in mercantile pur-
suits, for the rest of his life. While there he was
twice married—first in 1785, of which marriage a
daughter only was born, and afitin some few years
later, with the issue of a son. It is upon this second
connection, with a Miss Wilson, that the question is
raised of the legitimacy or bastardy of her son. It
is stated on the one hand by the petitioner that the
union in question was solemnised in the first instance,
in 1790, by civil contract—a ceremony alleged to
impart the validity of marriage acccordinl to the laws
of New York, where it was performed. Either, how
ever, to remove doubts, or to make assurance still
more certain, or to facilitate the succession of his
son, Mr. Sheddon, six days before his death at New
York, on the 7th of November, 1798, was married
over again to the lady with whom he had been eight
years living, and this time according to the rites of
the Protestant Episcopal Church ; and on the day
before his death Mr. Sheddon was reported to have
written home to his relatives, announcing his mar-
riage, and saying "that it was to restore her and her
two children to honour and credit." On the 13th of
the same month Mr. Sheddon died, leaving
property of great value and a certain landed
estate in Scotland. Closely connected with the late
Mr. Sheddon, both in business and by blood, was
a family named Patrick, and Mr. William Patrick
was appointed guardian of young Sheddon upon his
father's death. After the news of that event reached
Scotland proceedings were taken with reference to
the Scotch estate, upon the assumption that the son
born in America was not entitled to succeed his father
in possession, and the succession was opened in due
form to Dr. Robert Patrick as next heir. This was in
1709. In the year following William Patrick Ralston
Sheddon, the son aforesaid, arrived in Scotland from
America, and passed under the tutelage and care of
Mr. William Patrick. In 181)1 the guardianship of
the boy was transferred from William Patrick to
Hugh Craufurd, and two years later this Hugh
Craufurd instituted an action against the Patricks for
the recovery of the lands to the use of his young
ward. The action was defeated, and an appeal to
the House of Lords met with no better success, an
adverse judgment having been pronounced by Lord
Eldon himself in 1808. The case was again argued
in 1849, and again in '5l. Mr. Sheddon having
amassed a large fortune, by successful application to
business, claimed the paternal estate and maintained
his legitimacy upon the ground that his father and
Anna Wilson, his mother, had been married, in 1790,
by civ 1 contract, previous to his birth in 1704.
On both occasions he was defeated, and he now
applied for a select committee of that house to inquire
into his case.

The LORD CHANCELLOR protested against inter-
ference cf the house, for if the civil marriage could
be proved the petitioner required no Act of Parlia-
ment to enable him to assert his rights. A decision
against the petitioner had been pronounced by the
Scotch Court of Session ; that decision had been
confirmed by their lordships' house, and it would be
a dangerous precedent to set asido the judgment.
Lord BRoUGHASI was in favour of an inquiry, and
sug4e-tai that Earl Grey should bring in a bill upon
the question.
Lard Sr. LEONARDS opposed the motion.
Lord LYNDHURST asserted his belief in the authen-
ticity of the proofs of the marriage by civil contract
in 1790. The evidence had not yet been heard ;
it was held in retentia. It was said you cannot
prove this marriage till the question of fraud is dis-
posed of; when that is done then the evidence may
be read. The fraud was not disposed of, and in so far,
therefore, all the evidence has never been produced,
though it would most satisfactorily prove the reality
of the marriage. But that was tar from being the
whole. The lady who was the mother of the peti-
tioner was the daughter of a British officer who had
clist.nguished himself very much in the war, and
she was living at New York in the immediate
neighbourhood of her father:—