The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-04 00:00:00

" (Translatiqn.)

" His Majesty the Diaperor and Padishah of the Otto-
mans and His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias,
being mutually desirous of maintaining the stability of the
orthodox Greco Russian religion professed by the majority
of their Christian subjects, and of guaranteeing that reli-
gion against all molestations for the future, have named—
His Majesty the Emperor and Padishah of the Ottomans
and his Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias

who, after having Communicated together, have agreed
upon what follows :
" Art. 1. No change shall be made as regards the rights,
privileges, and immunities which have been enjoyed by,
or are possessed ab antiq,•o by, the orthodox churches, pious
institutions, and clergy in the dominions of the Sublime
Ottoman Porte, which is pleased to secure the same to them
in perpetuity, on the strict basis of the status quo now
existing.
" Art. 2. The rights and advantages conceded by the
Ottoman Government, or which shall hereafter be con-
ceded, to the other Christian rites by treaties, conventions,
or special arrangements, shall be considered as belonging
also to the orthodox church.

" Art. 3. It being acknowledged and proved by histo-
rical tradition, an by numerous documents, that the
orthodox Greek Church of Jerusalem, its Patriarchate,
and the bishops subject to it, have been since the time
of the Caliphs, and under the successive reigns of all the
Ottoman Emperors, particularly protected, honoured, and
confirmed in their ancient rights and immunities, the Sub-
lime Porte, in its solicitude for the conscience and religions
convictions of its subjects of that faith, as well as of all
other Christians who profess it, and whose piety has been
alarmed by several occurrences, promises to maintain rd
to cause to be respected those rights and those immunities,
both within and without the city of Jerusalem, without
any prejudice to the other Christian communities of na-
tives, rayahs, or foreigners, who are admitted to the
adoration of the Holy Sepulchre and of the other sanc-
tuaries, either in common with the Greeks or in their own
separate oratories.
"Art. 4. His Majesty the Sultan, now gloriously reign-
ing, having judged it necessary and equitable to corroborate
and to explain his sovereign firman, adorned with the Hatti
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"It is agreed that an ulterior understanding shall be
come to with respect to the regulation of certain matters
of detail which are not mentioned in the abovenamed
firmans.
" Art. 5. As the subjects of the empire of Russia, secu-
lar as well as ecclesiastic, who are permitted by the treaties 2
to visit the holy city of Jerusalem and other places of de-
votion are to be treated and considered on an equality with
the subjects of the most favoured nations, and as these, as
well Catholic as Protestant, have their special prelates
and ecclesiastical establishments, the Sublime Porte pro-
mises, iu the event of the Imperial Court of Russia making
such a demand, to assign a suitable locality in the city or
environs of Jerusalem for the construction of a church to
be set apart for the celebration of divine service by Rus-
sian ecclesiastics, and of an hospital for indigent or sick
pilgrims, which institutions shall be under the superin-
tendence of the Russian Consultate-General in Syria and
Palestine.
" Art. 6. It is understood that by the present act,
called for by exceptional circumstances, none of the stipu-
lations existing between the two Courts are impaired, and
that all the previous treaties, corroborated by the separate
act of the treaty of Adrianople, retain their full force and
value. t

" The six; receding articles having been settled and con-
cluded, outignature and the seal of our arms have been
set to the present act, which is delivered to the Sublime
Porte in exchange for that which is delivered to us by

aforesaid

" Done at
Hegira,

, on the

1853, and of the

" (Signed)
" Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of
His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russian to
the Sublime Ottoman Porte."

THE SHIPMENTS OP SPECIE.—The shipments of specie
by the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Indus amount
to 90,5081., of which 66,8391. is silver for Bombay,
Madras, Penang, Singapore, Hong Song, and Canton ;
and 23,6691., gold, for Alexandria, Ceylon, Singapore,
and Hong Kong.