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London, England, 1855-07-23 00:00:00

THE TURKISH LOAN.

Convention between her Majesty, the Emperor of t"
French, and the Sultan, for the guarantee of a loan t°
be raised by the Sultan. Signed at London, June
1/ 1/ 270
1855. Ratifications exchanged at Constantinople/ /
12, 1855 :

(Translation.)
His Imperial Majesty the Sultan having addreesea
himself to her Majesty the Queen of the United 101 F:
dom of Great Brit tin and Ireland and his Majesty t-
Emperor of the French, in order to obtain from those
Sovereigns facilities for raising a loan to enable hielit:
penal Majesty to prosecute with vigour the war agaMs,.,
Russia in which he is at present engaged in conjunet'°"
with their said Majesties, his allies ; and her Britaeruf
Majesty and his Majesty the Emperor of the Freer`
having acceded to the request of the Sultan, their MA:le,s;
ties having resolved to make the requisite arraugen:
by means of a convention, and have named as tne_ir,
plenipotentiaries to conclude the same, that is to say • of
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom ',.
Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable Gri
William Frederick, Earl of Clarendon, Baron Jarie °f
Higdon, a Peer of the United Kingdom, a member °
her Britannic Majesty's Most Honourable Privy C 0110,..
cii, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Gextel
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order °
the Bath, her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary
of State for Fureign Affairs. • ttr
His Majesty the Emperor of the French, the Sl° r
John Gilbert Victor Fialin, Count of Persigny, Sellibt°l
Grand Officer of the Imperial Order of the Legi°,ll.;
Honour, Grand Cordon of the Imperial Order 01 '',„t
Medjidie, of Turkey, Grand Cross of the Order of Sal",
Maurice and Saint Lazarus of Sardinia, Grand Cr°,-,f
of the Order of Danebrog of Denmark, his .linabseeu°'
to her Britannic Majesty.
And his Imperial Majesty the Sultan, Constaliti°
Musurus Bey, functionary of the first rank of his ImP„e;
rial Majesty, his Envoy Extraordinary and Miej3!:h"
Plenipotentiary ta her Britannic Majesty, decorated vr'","
the Imperial Order of the Medjidie of the third eltll
Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Maurice and Seln
Lazarus of Sardinia, Grand Commander of the Order of
the Redeemer of Greece ;
Who, after having communicated to each other their
respective full powers, found in good and due ford'
have agreed upon the following articles :

ARTICLE I.
to of
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingwe to
nd

Great Britain and Ireland undertakes to recom-
her Parliament to enable her to guarantee covjonio
with his Majesty the Emperor of the French, a° ot to
Majesty the Emperor of the French engages, subj ee to
the ratification of the Legislative Body of Fr'ne the
guarantee, conjointly with her Britannic tieigi, to
interest of a loan of five millions of pounds
be raised by his Imperial Majesty the Sultan.

ARTICLE 11.
The interest payable on the said loan of five Million.
sterling shall be at the rate of four per cent, per an
There shall, moreover, be paid by the Sublime r°,"l„
the further rate of one per cent. per annum on the 1:1,u-ci,
capital of five millions sterling, by way of sinking fun
ARTICLE 111.

The interest and sinking fund of the said loan an"'
form a charge on the whole revenues of the Ottonll
Empire, and specially on the annual amount of the t:rt
bute of Egypt which remains over and above the Poa
thereof appropriated to the first loan, and, moreover,
the customs of Smyrna and Syria. viill
His Imperial Majesty the Sultan engages that be be'
cause to be remitted to the Bank of England, on et.js
fore the 25th of June and 25th of December in 71,•
year, the full amount of one half-year's interest and s'lo
ing fund on the whole amount of the said loan t°,o
raised under the conjoint guarantee of her Brit'n„oo
Majesty and of his Majesty the Emperor of the FreZole
or on so much thereof as may be raised, until the
capital borrowed shall be repaid.
ARTICLE IV. Of
Their Majesties the Queen of the United ICinge°rthe
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Great Britain and Ireland and the Empero-
French, being desirous to save the Sublime Porfror
expenses of remittance, consent to undertake to tb°
t
mit to the Ottoman Government the proceeds o.'o be
above-mentioned loan of five millions sterliea) +;eo,
raised under the conjoint guarantee of their 1,,i136
With this view, it is agreed that the contractors 0vr.,31
Said loan shall pay the proceeds thereof into the
of England for the account of the Turkish Govero; of
to be transmitted to the Sublime Porte by the agette"

the Governments 01 England and France.
ARTICLE V.
The present convention shall be ratified, and the 11;
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fications shall be exchanged at Constantinople as W
possible. •Arie
In witness whereof, the respective Plenipoteriti 001
have signed the same, and have affixed thereto tile
of their arms. Tao,. 5/1
Done at London, the twenty-seventh day al 74 or
the year of our Lord one thousandeight hundred oe"
five.

(L.S.)
CLARENDON.aSf.
(L.S.) F.
(L.S.)
DE PEnst
C. MIISIIEDO.

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WAR WITH RussrA.—We are happy to hear that witrf
James Gibson's admirable lecture on the Ruebielltl ,14,
which was so favourably received at --111Richmond'
Willis's Rooms, and more recently at Folkestone, 5060'
repeated to morrow evening at the Lecture-hall, iiied
with, on which occasion the band of the Royal
tierAll's
will, by permission of the Colonel Commandant, 91 poi'
and play a selection of favourite airs, at a 'quarter'
7 o'clock precisely. f stbc
LIVERPOOL.—WAE MOVEMENTS.—The City 0 wit.
dean, steamer, sailed from the Mersey on SaturdaiSotifr
75 horses and 95 men belonging to the Tut-Isiah 413000,
gent, the 46th Regiment, and the Land Transport otiosn'
She will proceed direct to the Crimea. To-del 0117'
day) the Arabia, steamer, will embark at LiverP° gOO
horsey, 174 men, and seven officers of the Ist 911
Guard's, 4th Light Dragoons, and Bth Hussara• ,a tle6
RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.—We understand t"" Oil
dividend of the Lancashire and Yorkshire BailljoeS
be at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum. Mr- Its'esssiol;
not leave the direction of the South-Eastern -4 the
but only the chair of the board. We have hear itade",
the award on the Croydon accident has just bee° iii.tli"
and in the proportion of one-seventh to be borne orif
1 South-Eastern Company, and six-sevenths by tile
ton.—Herapath. .oe4
THE AMERICAN MAILS.—The British and Nor: yotlo
rican royal mail steam ship Asia, Capt. -6' or 131;
sailed from the Mersey on Saturday afternoons twit 6
ton and Halifax, with the usual mails for the. , it,
States and British possessions in North -Areerifsse'igb
passengers, and a full cargo of merchandise on_orpie.,
Prior to her departure copies of the varions 'Asia ,e 7,
journals of Saturday were placed on board the blio ill
Messrs. Widmer and Smith, for the press sod l'il of
stitutions of the Western Continent. ;e a Pertsla
RUSSIAN PRISONEAS.—On Friday even.nes sof .o._,
Russian prisoners from Sebastopol, consistin_Sv
.1%05,
officers and six men, arrived at Lewes. The Te°r'sllires
ti.
the 00
wore the Russian helmets, were received tit
station by Lieut. Mann, R.N., governor °bed tc_ste
Prison, and a guard of pensioners, and mar oft privis
prison, but the officers being on parole for,hess s
3 of
lodgings in the town, which were engassed '
iheres 8 001.0 t,
their brother officers previously residing
In the Consistory Court, on Taursday4,trseshl of
Hope v. Hope was dismissed by the Judge, -1-! ssetioeser
ton. It was a suit for separaticn, on the
sieiest;ity
adultery and cruelty, brought by Mrs. 'Wet the or'iwitS
husband. The adultery had been proved, ho-is wife el
had not. The husband likewise charge,,,clLbe coesSel
adultery, which had also been proved. '-i-u e. half
the parties, therefore, (lid not argue the cos
_sea vi jay
WHALES.—Last week a number of bottlo-1?! the se ad
were seen sporting about the Moray Firth, IP They _fits
beurhocel of Burglicad and Lossieniouth;ber of butlie
vaseed towards Cromarty Bay, and anu further the
put out from Invergordon and other ports
ell vie.
0,. ,re
l'i:li to L!i co clin,-, and the 1,114.11(s tel 164! vict
r 114 --or, v.cr:orilictr to toiother accouiii,ot njwor.rable
01,,A do-I on the :.Iloio. at Waterloo, 0 sal) cosideto 0
miles from Dingwall. They must re:l3froiss ig
profit to the captors, as they aVeFr•ig - ,
'feet in length.

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