Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-18 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

Le Nord publishes the text of the re:cript by
which, with the exception of Anapa, Soulthoutn-
Kale, and Redoubt-Kale, all other Russian ports
on the cost of the Black Sea are closed to the
vessels of the other Powers. It is as follows :

Since the restoration of peace some doubts may have
arisen relative to the navigation and commerce of foreign
nations in the Black Sea. It is, therefore, with a view to
put an end to doubt on the subject that the Imperial
Government deems it advisable to make the following
communication to the public, and especially to foreign
commerce.

As solemnly proclaimed by the Treaty of Paris, the
waters and the ports of the Black Sea are open to the
commercial navies of all nations. Free from cell restric-
tions, commerce in the waters and ports of the Black Sea
is subject only to regulations of quarantine, customs and
police, in a spirit favourable to commercial transactions.
Such are the express terms of the Treaty of Paris. It
is the intention of the Imperial Government to adhere
scrupulously thereto in so far as it is cerncerned.
But the regulations for health, customs, and police,
however liberal may be the spirit in which they are
conceived, renders neceisary measures of surveillance,
and along the Asiatic coast of the Black Sea they are
doubly necessary in consequence of the internal state of
the provinces of the Caucasus.
Establishments far quarantine and customs exist at
Anapa, Sonkhoum-Kale, and Bedoubt-Kale. Consequently,
for the moment, those three points are alone open to
foreign vessels. If, eventually, circumstances, should
allow the establishment of customs and quarantine offices
in other localities on the said coast, and to admit thereto
foreign vessels, due notice will be given to commerce.
Meantime the approach of the ports, bays, and havens
on the Asiatic coast, with the exception of Anapa,
Saukhoum-Kale, and Redout-Bale, is prohibited to foreign
vessels.

To certify the regularity of their destination, foreign
vessels are bound to have their ship papers vised by the
Russian consular agents.

The Imperial Government does not wish in any
manner to obstruct or impede the development of licit and
regular commercial transactions. It is in the sanitary
interest of its coasts, much more than in a fiscal interest—
it is in the interert of public order, as beneficial to foreign
commercial transactions as to those of the natives them-
selves, that the Imperial Government will enforce—as it
has a perfect right to do—the observance of the restric-
tions above announced. Any attempt of the masters of
foreign ships to communicate with the coast—with the
exception of Anapa, Soukhoum-Kale, and Redout-ICale—
will, therefore, render it necessary for the Russian autho-
rities to have recourse to those measures of repression
established egainst smugglieg, and against every infringe.
ement of the sanitary laws. Those who expose themselves
thereto, must take the consequences of their conduct upon
themselves.

THE BALTIC.

HAMBURG, Nov. 15.

Considerable anxiety is manifested here relative
to the turn which the general monetary crisis now.
pending in various parts of Europe may take.
There have been as yet no failures in this city of
any consequence, and public credit has been firmly
upheld among the principal firms throughout the
crisis. The banks here have not withheld their aid
in discounting bills at the current rate of from 10
to 101 per cent. on paper of second-rate reputation
even, and best bills are discounted at 9 to 9!
freely. The hitherto high prices of all kinds of
colonial produce, of iron and silk, have undergone
a considerable reduction, as the natural conse-
quence of the great depression experienced. and
the desire of many firms to realise some of the
heavy stocks on hand, and to meet payments of
bills filling due. There has been one instance of
failure within the hist few days, in consequence of
the chief of the firm, a Mr. Riems Ihneidee, decamp-
ing suddenly, via Liverpool, to Havannah, leaving
bills to the amount of about 150,000 marks banco.
Two other minor houses—Messrs. llaussen and
Johannsee, and a Mr. Landau, both engaged
in the export trade—have also stopped in the
regular way. but the united amounts do not
exceed 300,000 marks, The queetion of free com-
petition in trade in Denmark generally, but in
Coponhagan in particular, which has hitherto been
confined to corporate enactments, has been finally
decided upon in the National Diet, and will come
iuto operation in the year 1862. We learn from
Stockholm that the house of Messrs. Johns and
Co. of that city has engaged to supply the loan of
20,000,000 of rix thalers banco to the Government
to carry out the railway schemes, at an intereat of
5 5-Oths per cent., and to be liquidated at par in
the space of 40 years.
M. Mercier, the new French Ambassador, has
arrived at Stockholm, and had presented his cre-
dentials to the Crown Prince Regent. The health
of the King had somewhat improved.