The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-19 00:00:00

H.l SUN,

The Town-hail was densely c owded throughout the inves-
tigation, which lasted four hours.
The officers of the 14th, by the Magistrates'. decision, have
placed themielves in an awkward position, in consequence of
their being under orders for India in It is rumoured
that the matter will not drop here, but that it will be made the
subject of a Court-martial.

TREATY OF COMMEkCE AND

NAVIGATON BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC
OF TEXAS AND GREAT BRITAIN.
The republic of 'texas and her Majesty the Queen of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, being equal-
ly desirous of affording every facility and encouragement
to their respective citizens and subjects engag,d in com-
mercial intercourse with each other, have nominated as their
Plenipotentiary to conclude a treaty for this purpose, that is
to say,
The Republic of Texas, Gen. James Hamilton, &c.
And her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Hon. Henry John Vis-
count Palmerston, Baron Temple, a Peer of Ireland, a mem-
ber of her Britannic Majesty's most honourable Privy Council,
a member of Parliament, knight grand cross of the most hon-
ourable order of the Bath, and her Britannic Majesty's prin-
cipal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Who, after having communicated to each other their respec-
tive full powers, found in good arid clue form, have agreed u' on
and concluded the folio ing articles:—
Article 1. There shall be reciprocal liberty of commerce
and navigation between and amongst the citizens of the Re-
public of Texas and the subjects of her Britannic Majesty;
the citizens or subjects of the two countries respectively
shall not pay in the ports, harbours, roads, cities, towns, or
places whatsoever, in either State, any other or higher duties,
taxes, or imposts, under whatsoever name designated or in-
cluded, than those which are there paid by the citizens or
subjects of the most favoured nations; and the citizens or
subjects, respectively, of the two high contracting parties,
shall enjoy the same rights, privileges, liberties, favours,
immunities, and exemptions in matters of commerce and
navigation, that are granted, or may hereafter be granted, in
either country, to the citizens or subjects of the most
favoured nation. No duty of customs or other impost shall
be charged upon any goods the produce of the country, upon
importation by sea or by land, from such country to the other,
higher than the duty or impost charged upon goods of thy' same
kind, the produce of or imported from any other country.
And the Republic of Texas and her Majesty the Queen of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland do hereby bind
and engage themselves not to grant any favour, privilege, or
immunity, in matters of commerce and navigation, to the citi-
zens or subjects of any other State, which shall not be also and
at the same time extended to the citizens or subjects of the
other high contracting party, gratuitously, if the concession in
favour of that other State shall have been gratuitous, or on
giving as nearly as possible the same compensation, or equiva-
lent, in case the concession shall have been conditional.
Art. 2. No duties of tonnage, harbour, lighthouse, pilotage,
quarantine, or other similar or corresponding duties, of what-
ever nature, or under whatever denomination, shall be imposed
in either country, upon the vessels, or upon any articles the
growth, produce, or manufacture of the other, in respect of
voyages between the two countries, if laden, or in respect of
any voyage, if in ballast, which shall not be equally imposed in
like cases on national vessels ; and in neither country shall any
duty, char,e, restriction, or prohibition be imposed upon, nor
any drawback, bounty, or allowance be withheld from any goods
imported from or exported to any country in the vessels of the
one country, which shall not he equally imposed upon or with-
held from such goods when so imported or exported in the
vessels of the other country.
Art. 3. The citizens and subjects of each country shall enjoy
full liberty to go to the ports and harbours of the other country,
where other foreigners are allowed to enter, to unlade their
merchandis,. therein, to hire and occupy houses, and peaceably
to conduct their respective trades and professions.
The ships of war of both countries, respectively, shall have
the liberty to enter freely and touch at all such ports in each
country into which the ships of war of anv other nation are
permitted to enter ; subject, boy ever, to the regulations, laws,
and statutes of the respective countries.
Art. 4. The stipulations of the present Treaty shall not be
considered as applying to the navigation and carrying trade
between one port and another, situated in the dominious of one
contracting party, by the vessels of the other, so far as regards
passengers, commodities, and articles of commerce. Such na-
vigation and transport lacing reserved by each contracting party
to national vessels.

Art. 5. The high contracting parties reserve for future
negotiation, at such time as they may mutually agree upon,
the condition upon which the trade and navigation shall be
regulated between the Republic of Texas and her Britannic
Majesty's colonial possessions in Europe, Asia, Africa, and
America. _ _ .

Art 6. Whereas, in the present state of Texian shipping,
the republic of Texas would not enjoy the full benefit of the
reciprocity intended by this Treaty, if no vessel were to be ad-
mitted into British ports as a Texian vessel, unless it had been
built within the territory of Texas; it is, therefore, agreed that
for the space of eigl.t years, to commence from the date of the
exchange of the ratifications of this Treaty, any vessel where-
soever built, being bona fide the property of and wholly owned
by one or more citizens of the Republic of Texas, and whereof
the Master and three-fourths of the marines, at least, are na-
turalized citizens of the said Republic, or persons domiciled in
that Republic by act of the Government as lawful citzens of the
Texian Republic, to be certified according to the laws of that
country, shall be considered as Texian vessels, her Majesty
the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-
land reserving to herself the right at the end of the said term
of eight years, to claim that the provisions of the British Na-
vigation Act relative to the nationality of foreign vessels shall
be strictly applied to Texian vessels in British ports.
Art. 7. The Consuls and Vice-Consuls of each country
shall. within the territory of the other, enjoy all the rights,
privileges, and immunities which are accorded to such
i func-
tionaries by the law of nations ; and it is provided that n the
ports of each country, respectively, the authorities shall give all
due legal assistance and protection for the apprehension, safe
keeping, and delivering of all deserters from the ships of war
and trading vessels of either country ; and all the powers and
privileges granted in respect to the matters to which the stipu-
lations of this Article relate, by either of the contracting par-
ties to any other nation, shall be granted by such contracting
party to the Consul, Vice-Consuls, ships of war and trading
vessels of the other.
Art. S. If any ships of war or merchant vessels should
be wrecked on the coasts of either of the high contracting
parties, such ships or vessels, or any parts thereof, and all
furniture and appurtenances belonging therunto, and all
goods and merchandize which shall be saved therefrom, or
the produce thereof, if sold, shall be faithfully restored to
the proprietors, upon being claimed by them, or by their
duly authorized factors ; and if there are no such proprietors
or factors on the spot, then the said goods and merchandize,
or the proceeds thereof, as well as all the papers found on
board such wrecked ships or vessels, shall be delivered to the
Texian or British Consul, in whose district the wreck may have
taken place ; and such Consul, proprietors, or factors, shall
pay only the expenses incurred in the preservation of the pro-
perty, together with the rate of salvage which would have been
payable in the like case of a wreck of a national vessel; and
the goads and the merchandise saved from the wreck shall not
be subject to duties unless cleared for consumption.
Art. 9. The exercise of the rites of religious worship and
the freedom of conscience shall be reciprocally secured to the
citizens and subjects of each country, by the Government of
the other. The rites of sepulture shall be reciprocally ac-
corded by each of the contracting parties to the other; and
there shall be no law passed by either Government that shall
violate the rights of property, or Rink the power of bequeath-
ing personal estate, by will or testament.
The citizens or subjects of the one country residing in the
other shall not be liable, under extraordinary warrants or
otherwise, to compulsory services, or to forced loans ; and on
all questions affecting the rights of person or property the
Courts of Judicature of the one country shall be impartially
open to the citizens or subjects of the other.
In the event of a war between the contracting parties, the
citizens or subjects of the one country residing in the other
shall, reciprocally, have twelve months, after a formal declara-
tion of the same, to depart with their property and effects, arid
without any hindrance or disturbance whatsoever.
Art. 10. The present Treaty, when the same shall have been
ratified by the President of the Republic of Texas, by and with
the advice and the consent of the Senate, and by her Britannic
Majesty, shall be binding- and obligatory on the contracting
parties for eight years from the date of its signature, and fur-
ther, until the expiration of 12 months after one of the high
contracting parties shall have notified to the other an inten-
tion to terminate its duration.
It is further agreed, that in 12 months after one of the high
contracting parties shall have received from the other such no-
tification, this Treaty and all the stipulations it contains, shall
cease to be obligatory upon either party.
Art. 11. The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the rati-
fications shall be exchanged at London, as soon as possible
within the space of nine months from this date.
In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have
signed the same, and affixed thereto the seals of their arms.
Done at London, the 13th day of November, in the year of
our Lord, 1840.
(Signed) P A LNIERSTON. (L. S.)
J. HAMILTON. (L.S.)

FRENCH CARDINALS.—The number of French
Cardinals has varied at different epochs. Before the Re-
velution there were generally four, sometimes five and
seven ; and very rarely. ten. In 1791 there were five.
Some months after the Concordat of 1801, Napoleon de-
manded the purple for the Archbishops of Paris, Lyons,
'euen, and Tours, and made them each a yearly allowance
t' -nofe , and 45,000 fr. for expenses of installation.
of 30'6' -aeon, there were never more than five C4rdi.
Under N.rpo. , ,
craimea to have one-third of the
pals; though he .
1.7. each Prelates. At the Revo.
College composed or only four ; and in Octo.
luti rn of 1830 there were ,
7wance made by Napo-
ber of the same year the al:
rdinance. The
leen was countermanded by a Royal 9
election of his present Holiness, which
convinced the French Government of the importance of
rend followed,
maintaining a certain number of Cardinals to represent
the interests of France in such an important matter. Ac-
cordingly, since that time three French prelates have
been invested with the purple; viz., M. de Cheverus,
Archbishop of Bourdeaux. in 1836 (he died soon after) ;
M. de la Tour, d'Auvergne, Bishop of Arras, last year;
and now M. de Bonard, Archbishop of Lyons. In the
two first of these cases a sum was voted by the Chambers
to maintain the dignity of the function, and the same prin-
ciple has just been recognized in the case of M. de Bonard,
a sum of 45,000 francs having been voted fur the expenses
of his installation. There are now (we believe) three
French Cardinals, viz., the Prince de Croi, M. de la
Tour-d'Auvergne, and M. de Bonard.—Univers.
STATISTICS OF THE GREEK CATHOLIC
CHURCH IN THE LEVANT.—The patriarch has four resi.
dences : at Damascus, as patriarch of Antioch ; at Cairo,
as patriarch of Alexandria ; at Jaffa, as patriarch of Jeru-
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are :—Archbishoprics, Aleppo, Tyre, Besre, and Aouran,
Dierbekir :—Bishoprics—Seede, Beyrout, St. Jean
D' Acre, Fourzoles, Balbeek, Tripoli in Syrie, Horns. There
are two suffragan bishops and pa.riarchal grand vica s, ore
Seinarita Aleppini, the Scinarite Paysani, and
at Cairo, the other at Jerusalem. There are three co i.
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gregations of monks, all of the ceder of Sr. Basil the
Ain-trez, diocese of Beyrout. The patriarch is
;fththee Sanctiasmo Salvat)re.
Yorkshire. who transmits to him
and confirmed in his autho-
rity His title is, Patriarch of Antioch and of all the E
by the Pope,
ast.—
Tablet.
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DEATH OF THE DOWAGER LADY STOUR-
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ioned. —0 n this lady, who
She
was second daughter and co-heir of Nlarmaduke fifth Lord
roetcofir dazitolivreood demise
Hall, o
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Langdale, which title became extinct on hisdeath in 1777,
WMeo Monday last to
was married, 15th of June, 1775, to Charles Philip the
late Lord Stourton, by whom her Ladyship had issue a
family of ten children, eight of whom survive their mother.