The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-11 00:00:00

REUTER'S EXPRESS.

BERLIN, Sept. 8.
The following is the text of the navigation
treaty between Great Britain and Prussia, signed
at Gastein by Lord Napier and Herr von Bismarck
upon the 16th ult.
" Art. 1. British ships and their cargoes in
Prussia, and Prussian ships and their cargoes in
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
no matter whence the ships sail or whither
they are bound, and whence the cargoes originate
or whither they are destined, shall be treated in
every respect exactly in the-same manner as native
ships and their cargbes. It is, however, understood
that this clause shall neither apply to the exclusive
fishery rights which the subjects of either of the two
countries possess within the waters of the other, nor
to the local advantages which certain privileged
classes in Great Britain enjoy in certain ports, but
not British subjects in general. Every favour or
liberty which one of the contracting parties may
concede in these respects to a third Power shall
simultaneously and without further condition be
granted to the other.

" Art. 2. The arrangements made in the preced

ing article apply also to the colonies and foreign
possessions of her Britannic Majesty, as well as to
their ships and cargoes ; nevertheless, as far as re-
gards_ coast navigation, hold good only in such of
those colonies and foreign possessions whose coast
navigation has been, or in future shall be, opened to
foreign vessels in conformity with acts of Parliament
referring to the subject.
" Art. 3. If a war or merchant vessel of one of
the contracting parties strands or shipwrecks upon
the coasts of the other, the same protection and
assistance shall be afforded to it as to a native ship.
The owners, or their agents, or representatives;
shall be charged with no other expenses than a
native ship would have to pay in the corresponding
case of shipwreck. Should the commander of a
merchantmen be compelled to sell by auction a part
of his cargo -to cover expenses, no obstacle shall be
placed in his way by the authorities. He is, how-
ever, bound to observe the existing regulations and
tariffs. Goods and wares saved from the wreck
shall be free of all duty, so far as they do not pass
into consumption. In the absence, or at the re-
quest of the owner, of the commandet of the ship,
or of some other representative of the owner, the
consuls-general, consuls, vice-consuls, or consular
agents of both parties, shall be empowered to under-
take the despatch of necessary assistance to those in
need of it.

" Art. 4. The consuls-general, consuls, vice-con-
suls, and consular agents of either contracting party
who may be stationed in the territories and posses-
sions of the other shall receive every legally admis-
sible assistance in obtaining possession of the per-
sons who have deserted from the ships of their
country.

" Art. 5. The right of joining this present treaty
is reserved to every State now belonging to the
Zollverein, or which may at a later period annex
itself thereto.

" Art. 6. This present treaty shall be of the same
duration as the Treaty of Commerce signed between
the Zollverein and Great Britain upon May 30 in
the current year. It shall come in force four weeks
after the exchange of the ratifications.
" Art. 7. The present treaty shall be ratified and
the ratifications exchanged at Berlin within six
months, or, if possible, earlier. In token of which
the plenipotentiaries of both parties have signed the
same, and appended to it the seal of their arms.

" Done at Gastein this 16th August, A.D. 1865.
(Signed) " Von BISMARCK.
" NAPIER."

ANuTHER ALPINE ACCIDENT.

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)
ERLANGEN, Sept. 1.
Intelligence has been received here of another
terrible Alpine accident. It appears that two stu-
dents of theology at Erlangen University, Herren
Chrestin and Hinsch, accompanied byNussbaumer,
a Neukirchen guide, attempted the ascent of Gross-
venediger, after receiving the assurance that the
enterprise was quite devoid of danger. They reached
the top of the mountain safely at noon. In their
descent the student Hinsch followed the guide.
Nussbaumer suceeeded in passing over a bridge
formed by frozen snow across a crevasse, but
the ice broke beneath Rinsch, who was at once
precipitated, without being greatly hurt in the
fall, to a depth of 100 feet down the crevasse.
The unfortunate young man fell until he was jam-
med in by the breast and back. He shouted for
help, announcing that his arms were still free.
The guide, however, had not only neglected
the precaution of tying the party together, but
had not even brought a rope with him. He called
down to the sufferer that a rope must be fetched,
and that he could not be back in less than eight
hours. " I can't hold out so long," was the reply ;
" say good-bye for me to my parents." A plaid was
thrown down in the hope of its imparting a little
warmth, but the sufferer was unable to use it, pro-
bably soon losing all power of motion. His friend,
in the meantime, had hastily descended with the
guide to a herdsman's hut, but no rope was to be
had, and they were obliged to go as far as Neukir-
chen, where they arrived at 8 p.m., seven hours
after the disaster. The guide refused to reascend,

but Chrestin at once returned in the night with five
men as far as the hut, and reached the crevasse by
eight o'clock in the morning. One of the men was
let down into the crevasse about 50 feet, being un-
able to descend further, owing to the narrowness of
the space. Some distance lower he perceived the
corpse of the unfortunate youth, with the head
hanging on one side. He had been frozen to death.

ABD-EL-KADER, when warned to delayhis journey
home on account of the cholera having broken out at Mar-
seilles, replied in the usual fatalist language, " Allah ! Who
must die, must die !" and refused to alter his arrangements.
THE LETTERS OF KING GEORGE 111. •TO LORD
NORTH, edited by Mr. Donne, the Examiner of Plays in
the Lord Chamberlain's Office, to be published by Murray,
will soon, as we are informed, be in the hands of the
printer.