The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-28 00:00:00

TREATY WITH TUSCANY.

An order of her Majesty in Council declaring a
treaty of commerce, &c., which has been concluded,
and is now subsisting between her Majesty and the
Grand Duke of Tuscany, has been furnished to the
Commissioners of Customs by Mr. Trevelyan, one of
the secretaries to the Lords of the Treasury, by direc-
tion of their Lordships, for their information; and
copies of the same have been forwarded to the prin •
cipal officers of the revenue at the several ports and
places throughout the kingdom for their government
in the matter. The order, after citing an Act passed
in the 59th year of the reign of his late Majesty
king George 111., entitled "An Act to carry into
effect a convention of commerce concluded between
his Majesty and the United States of America, and a
treaty with the Prince Regent of Portugal ;" and the
provisions of an Act passed in the Bth and 9th years
of the reign of her present Majesty, entitled "An Act
for granting duties of customs," extending the privi-
leges contained therein, with respect to shipping,
trade, and duties, to such other states as her Majesty
may subsequently by an Order in Council, declare
and determine—sets forth that "now, therefore, her
Majesty, by and with the advice of her Privy Council,
and in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in
her by the said Act of the Bth and 9th years of her
Majesty's reign, doth declare that a treaty has been
concluded, and is now subsisting between her
Majesty and his Imperial and Royal Highness the
Grand luke of Tuscany. (Signed) W. Bathurst."
It will be recollected that a Treasury letter was sent
to the Customs Board about the end of March last, to
the effect that the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs having signified to the Lords of the Committee
of Privy Council for Trade that the Tuscan Govern-
ment had issued a notification admitting all British
and lonan vessels into the ports of Tuscany upon the
footing of national vessels, without awaiting the
ratification of the commercial treaty then in course of
negotiation, the Lords of the Committee had
recommended that corresponding privileges should be
conceded to all the vessels of Tuscany which should
touch at British ports, and that the Lords
Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury therefore
desired that the Commissioners of Customs would
take the necessary steps for giving effect to the
recommendation of the Board of Trade, which was
done accordingly. This notification of the Order in
Council, therefore, although giving no additional
privileges to the trade of either state to those
' contained in the Treasury order of March last, may
be said to confirm the commercial privileges tem-
porarily granted, and formally promised by the
Government.

RAILWAY COMPENSATION.—By an Act of Parlia-
ment which came into force on the 26th of August, 1846
(9th and 10th Victoria, chap. 93), pi °vision was made
for compensating the families of persons killed by acci-
dents. Lord Campbell, in the early part of the session,
called the attention of Parliament to the law of deodands
and to the anomaly in the law which provided compen-
sation for injuries received, but gave no damages in
eases where death resulted. On the 18th of August, in
the same year, an Act was passed to abolish deodands
(9th and 10th Victoria, chap. 62), and from and after
the Ist of September last deodands were abolished. On
the 26th of the same month an Act was passed to afford
compensation to the families of persons killed by acci-
dents, and to these two Acts Mr. Coroner Bedford referred
on Friday night, in summing up the evidence on the late
explosion. The Act is entitled "An Act for compen-
sating the families of persons killed by accidents." It
contains seven sections, by which it is provided that an
action may be maintained against any person causing
death through neglect, &c., notwithstanding the death of
the person injured. An action so brought is to be for
the benefit of certain relations, and to be brought by and
in the name of the executor or administrator. In such
action the jury may give such damages as they may
think proportionate to the injury resulting from the
death to the res; ective parties for whom and for whose
benefit the action is brought, and the amount recovered,
after payment of the extra costs, is to be divided by the
jury among the relations mentioned in the Act. An
action under this statute must be brought within twelve
months, and in the " particular" of demand full informa-
tion is to be afforded.

MR. COBDEN AT Moscow.—The celebrated
Cobden is still among us. He came from Nishni Nov•
gorod, where he had been attending the fair. The im-
mense variety of articles which were exposed for sale,
and the admirable order which prevailed at the exchange
of goods, have quite exceeded his expectations. On the
road of Nishni Novgorod Mr. Cobden visited several
manufacturing districts, and here it was that the in-
dustry of our peasantry astonished him. " Here we
have manufactures in full perfection," he exclaimed at
\Vochna, where it was well known that silk goods to the
value of several hundred thouand roubles are annually
manufactured. At Moscow, also, several manufactures
have•Txcited his astonishment and admiration. Mr.
Cobden assured M. Gutsehkow, the proprietor of ealicO
printing mills, that he had nowhere seen so completely
organized a manufactory of this kind. He highly com-
plimented M. Prochorow, another manufacturer, for the
care which he bestowed upon the children in his mills.
In the cloth• factory of M. Kotow he was especially
pleased with the order which prevailed there, and the
admirable combination of the isolated divisions of the
manufactory. Mr. Cobden said, " You need not be
afraid of any competition; cloth-weaving is in the most
favourable state in Russia, and all circumstances com-
bine to bring this branch of industry to the highest per-
fection." He expressed his satisfaction, and his desire
to become better acquainted with the state of the menu,'
factures and of the labouring classes.