The Express.
London, England, 1860-07-17 00:00:00

FOREIGNERS TRADING IN RUSSIA.

Intelligence of a highly important character
has been received from Russia. It appears
that the Emperor has issued a ukase sweeping
away the whole of the disabilities hitherto attaching
to foreign subjects trading in that country. The
cramping effect and vexatious character of those
disabilities may be estimated from the fact that in
the whole Russian empire there are, to the best of
our belief, not more than a score of foreign mer-
cantile firms which have been able to carry on busi-
ness without taking the oath of allegiance to the
Russian government. We give below a copy of the
imperial ukase. It is couched in terms of justice
and enlightenment which will be hailed with the
greatest pleasure by all interested in trade with
Russia. It marks a step towards freedom of trade
more important than any that has been taken in
Russia for the last thirty or forty years :

Imperial Russian ukase of the 7th (19th) June, 1860, to
the High Executive Senate.
By the manifesto of the lest January, 11407, the commer
eial privileges of foreigners were subjected to certain limi-
tations. Now, however, by reason of the gradually in-
creasing facilities of communication, and the rapid deve-
lopment of international commercial relations, such restric-
tions are out of date. Moreover, too, in most of the
considerable European countries, commercial privileges
coequal to those of natives are accorded to our subjects as
well as to all other foreigners.
Taking aloof into coneideration the beneficial influence
which the more free introduction of foreign capital may
exercise upon every branch of national wealth, and being
desirous of giving a new proof of our anxious solicitude
for the interests of commerce, agriculture, and industrial
enterprise in our empire, and being desirous, moreover, of
showing to foreign countries just reciprocity, we have
deemed it expedient to grant to all foreigners resident in
Russia privileges in these respects such as our own subjects
enjoy in foreign countries. Hence, and in accordance with
the advice of our council, we COniniend :
1. Foreigners are at liberty to enter into every commer-
cial guild, equally as subjects of the empire, and then to
enjoy all commercial rights hitherto appertaining to native
subjects. (Sections 77 to 107, Commercial Code.) Note.—
Jews, subjects of foreign countries, distinguished by their
social and commercial position, may by the existing regula-
tions, via., by special authorisation of the Ministers of
Finance, Interior, and Foreign Affairs, trade and found
banking of by inscribing themselves in the first guild.
To such Jews, also, the establishment of manufactories and
the acquisition mid hire of bustled pantomime are allowed
ti}on the conditions set forth in this ukase.
2. The habitations and shops of foreigners, and all the
lands thereto appertaining, are under the protection of the
existing laws. The searching of them, or the invest ion
of mercantile books, can only take place under conditions
precisely the sante as are prescribed by the laws in reference
to subjects of the same class.
3. Foreigners may purchase, and acquire by inheritance,
or by gift, or from the crown, every description of move.
able or immoveable property, with the exception of course
of such property as by the law■ of the empire can only be
I held by ltereditary Russian nobles or by foreigners who have
acquired the rank of nobles.
4. Foreigners, Jews excepted, may by authority delegated
to them by the proprietors of inhabited lands, superintend
them. They may also hire and hold as tenants, or other-
wise upon legsl instruments, puessuions and hinds in-
habited or not, with no other restrictions, end upon the
Mlle conditions otherwise as are permitted and apply to
native subjects.

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