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London, England, 1838-11-09 00:00:00

adds :—" Her Highness has pUrchased a palace on the Qu'rinal
Hill, and will also become proprietor of several villas, so as
to form suitable establishments for a new princely family.
The accounts of the estate of Chevalier Rossi, who, from
unforeseen losses, failed in 1829 for a sum of 126,000 Roman
Frowns, are still unsettled ; but her Highness has declared her
intention to pay the whole of his debts."

HUNGARY.
PESTH, OCT. 27.-It is now positively stated that the
Hungarian Diet will be convoked to meet in April or May.
It is not so certain that the coronation of the Empress as
Queen of Hungary will take place at the same time. It is
said, or rather we flatter ourselves with the hope, that the
Diet and the Coronation will, on this occasion, be in Pesth,
and Ofen, which would certainly be a great benefit to both
cities, and afford them a compensation for the injury done
them by the inundation.
The Archduke Palatine, who has but lately recovered from
an indisposition, has left his country seat at Aleruth, and re-
sides again in the Royal Palace at Ofen. Princess Milosch,
with her two sons and grandchildren, accompanied by the Ser-
vian Minister Von Simitz, has been ever since the Bth in the
baronial of Hungary, on a visit to her son-in-law. She was
received with great honours by the civil and military authori-
ties at Semlin.

EGYPT.
A letter from Alexandria mentions that Mehemet Ali was
to be attended by Colonel Campbell on his journey to Sen-
naar. He had presented the English Government with seve-
ral objects of antiquity, and amongst others two fine sarco-
phagi, said to have been discovered in one of the pyramids.
Another letter from Alexandria, quoted by the Semaphore,
announces that the regular transports and communications
were being rapidly organised between Cairo and Suez. The
vehicles destined for tha travellers had arrived front England,
and had been sent on to Cairo. The construction of a com-
fortable and commodious inn, on the European plan, in
the centre of the desert, half way between Cairo
and Suez, was still talked of. The Pacha had given
not cnly his consent to the erection of the inn, but
also an assurance that he would assist in expediting
the construction of an establishment so eminently calculated
to diminish the difficulties and inconveniences of a passage
across the desert. Relays were also to be organised, and
horses were to be changed three times between Suez and
Cairo. The first vehicle is to accomplish the journey in the
month of December. Great praise is said to be due to Colonel
Campbell for the vigour with which he has urged the execu-
tion of these measures, so well calculated to revive the pros-
perous days of the trade with India via Egypt. He is also
occupied with the establishment of steam navigation on the
Nile.

Several consuls of Beyruth bad been invited by the
Bishop of Korkefet to be present at the baptism of about
150 Druses, who, to escape punishment from the Egyptian
Government, had decided upon embracing Christianity, and
thus obtaining the sympathy of the Pacha. The number of
proselytes was daily increasing in the villages of the Druses.

COMMERCIAL TREATY BETWEEN

ENGLAND AND TURKEY.

" Constantinople, Oct. 9.

" My Lord—The undersigned, forming the commercial
body established in this capital, take leave to address your
Excellency on the subject of the commercial treaty recently
concluded by your Lordship with the Ottoman Porte.
" They would have acquitted themselves of this most grati-
fying duty at an earlier period, bad they considered themselves
warranted in doing so without an official knowledge of the real
conditions of the convention.

" They are still without this information ; yet the substance
of the treaty is now so generally known, if not from official,
at least authentic sources, that they feel themselves justified
in no longer delaying to congratulate your Excellency on the
success of a negotiation so important and beneficial to both
countries.

" They understand that the treaty comprehends the fol-
lowing arrangements, viz. :
" Firstly, as regards imports.
" That after the usual import duty of 3 per cent. is paid,
an additional 2 per cent, shall be levied on all foreign goods
sGld on the spot or sent into the interior for consumption.
" In consideration of which all internal taxes on the same
are to be aboliahed.

" That such goods as are intended for transit shall pay sim-
ply the import duty.
" Secondly, as regards Turkey produce or exports.
" That all taxes or internal duties of every description shall
equally cease, and that in lieu thereof a fixed duty of 9 per
cent. is established; such duty to be levied on entry at the
place of shipment, and that afterwards the usual rate of 3 per
cent. shall be payable on exportation. That all monopolies,
teskarets, and other impediments of every kind shall be abo-
lished, and a free and unrestricted trade in produce of every
kind, with liberty of free exportation, shall be granted, and
that these regulations are to be observable throughout the
Turkish empire.
" Such, my Lord, the undersigned believe to be the leading
features of the treaty ; and they have no hesitation in declaring
it as their opinion that it would have been difficult to frame
conditions more calculated to promote the extension of British
commerce, or to prove more conducive to the true interests of
the Ottoman empire and its people.
" To enumerate the many great advantages combined in
these provisions would exceed the object proposed in this
address. They are evident to all acquainted with the evils
under which not only foreign commerce, but that of Turkey
itself, has laboured under it, the system about to be abolished.
" By a settlement of a determined rate of duty the trade is
relieved from the great evils of embarrassment, uncertainty,
and risk, to which its operations had been exposed, whilst the
removal of monopolies, and other exclusive privileges, opens
sources of enterprise and profit hitherto closed against all but
a few favoured individuals; and these important advantages
have been acquired by arrangements at once simple and equita-
ble, and such as, in the opinion of the undersigned, will prove
more productive to the Turkish revenue than did the partial and
restrictive system they arc intended to abolish.

" The undersigned believe that the wisdom of this impor-
tant measure will speedily be seen to promote, most eminently,
the prosperity of the empire, in opening its resources to a more
full development, and thus enriching its agricultural population ;
and they view with unmixed satisfaction the triumph of so
sound a principle of policy over the powerful, though but in-
dividual, interests that had so long opposed its adoption.
" As the chief instrument in bringing to maturity a measure
so beneficial to both countries, and which had been so long
desired, your Excellency must in that consciousness feel a
much higher gratification than in expressions of gratitude
from any quarter.
" Yet the undersigned would be wanting to themselves, as
well as to your Excellency, were they to forego the expres-
sion of the sense they entertain of the wisdom of the measure,
and of the judgment and perseverance which alone could over-
come the prejudices that opposed and the powerful interests
arrayed against it.
" They beg, therefore, to request that your Excellency will
accept this joist testimony of their sentiments, as well as in
consideration of the advantages they are sensible they them-
selves will derive from the measure, as in regard to the in-
terests, so much more important, which it cannot fail to benefit
and promote.
" And they have the honour to subscribe themselves,
" My Lord,
"Your Lordship's most obedient
" And very humble servants,

(Signed)
" Niven, Kerr, Black, and Co. Whittall and Co.
R. Sarell. Wm. Wood and Co.
A. Wright. Charles Ede.
C. Hunson and Co. Hayes, La Fontaine, and Co.
W. N. Churchill, per pro. J. Hards.
H. Behonne. R. B. Abbott, per pro. Wm.
G. A. Green. Chassend.
Henry Jacob.
" To his Excellency the Right Hon. Lord Ponsonby,
G. C. 8., her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador Extra-
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, &c. &c."

" Therapia, Oct. 15, 1838.
" Gentlemen—Your knowledge of the principles and
practice of trade, your long acquaintance with the country,
your vast personal interest in the commerce of the Ottoman
empire, unite to give the highest possible authority to your
judgment; and I receive with heartfelt satisfaction the ex-
pression of your approbation of a measure which probes to the
core the main evils that have hitherto affected trade in all its
branches, and provides a cure for them.
6' Many of ygli know that I have laboured With unceas-
ing assiduity during several years to prepare the way
for the recognition in this country of the great principles
upon which the commercial convention is founded, and it
is evident to every one that the proper moment was seized for
the crowning work.

I feel, therefore, that I have a right to be proud of the
approbation you give to my perseverance, and that I may
without presumption accept it, and say that it is enhanced to
me by its being an evidence of the generous disposition of
British merchants to approve whoever shall honestly endea-
vour to perform an arduous duty.
" I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient humble servant,
(Signed) " PONSONBY.
" To the British Merchants resident at Galata and Pera."

Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humourist,
for November, particularly maintains its second title in the
number of exceedingly amusing articles with which it is en-
livened. " The Gurney Papers," bY the talented editor, are
here brought to a close, and the delivery of poor inanimate
Cuthbert from the snares of Mrs. Brand) ball is in Mr. Hook's
best and most amusing style. " Major Gahagan's Historical
Reminiscences" are as broadly humorous as ever, and the
" Personal Narrative of Tristram Dumps" contains some ca-
pital comic incidents. " The Perils of Passion" is singularly
felicitous in the oddness of the rhymes, which are to be found
everywhere but at the ends of the lines. But for downright
laughable humour, " Baron Von Boots, a Tale of Blood," by
Mr. Brownrigg, is irresistible ; every one should become
acquainted with Baron Valhallah Von Boots, the last descen-
dant of the sea kings. Among the more serious, yet not less
interesting articles, are " Au Irish Incident in '98," by Ben •
son Hill, illustrative of the state of society at that period ; a
paper on the Drama of Italy ; and another on the last new
Spanish tragedy, Carlos, the Bewitched; the Right Hon. T.
P. Courtenay's Researches into Shakspeare'a Historical
Plays, &c.
We regret to learn that the last accounts of the state
of the Right Hon. R. C. Fcrrgusson were of so unfavourable
a nature as to preclude all hope of his recovery. We hope that
the electors of Kirkcudbright will be on the alert and provide
a suitable successor.--Morning Paper.