The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER. 26, 1860.

THE FRENCH 7'REATY.

(From a Supplement to the Gazette of Tuesday.)
The following is the English text of the Conven-
tion between her Majesty and the Emperor of the
French, supplementary to the Treaty of Commerce
of Jan. 23, 1860, with a tariff annexed. This Con-
vention was signed at Paris on Oct. 12, and the
ratifications were exchanged at Paris yesterday :
Her Majesty the Queen of tho United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, and his Majesty the Emperor of the
French, desiring to ensure the execution of the Treaty of
Commerce concluded between them on the 23d of Ja-

nuary, 1860, within the limits and in the manner con-
templated by the second additional Article to that
Treaty, have resolved to negotiate a first comple
mentary arrangement in order to determine the specific or
ad valorem. duties which shall be imposed upon the goods of
British origin and manufacture enumerated in the said
Treaty, when imported into France; and they have for
that purpose named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to
say

Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
13ritain and Ireland, the Right Hon. Henry R. Charles,

Earl Cowley, Viscount Dangan, Bardn Cowley, a Peerof the
United Kingdom, a member of her Britannic Majesty's

Most Hon. Privy Council, Knight Grand Cross of the Most
Hon. Order of the Bath, her said Majesty's Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to his Majesty the Em-
peror of the French; and Richard Cobden, Esq., a member
of the British Parliament ;
And his Majesty the Emperor of the French, M. Thou-
venel, a Senator Of the Empire, Grand Cross of his Impe-
rial Majesty's Order of the Legion of HonmuJac., his Im-
porial Majesty's Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs ; and M. Rouher, a Senator of the Empire, Grand
Cross of his Imperial Majesty's Order of the Legion of
Honour, &c., his Imperial Majesty's Minister and Secre-
tary of State for Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works;
Who, after having communicated to each other their re-
spective full powers, found in good and due form, have
agreed upon the following articles
ARTICLE I.—The articles of British origin or manufac-
ture enumerated in the Tariff annexed to the present Con-
vention shall, when imported direct from the United King-
dom, under the French or the British flag, be admitted into
France at the duties specified by the said Tariff.
ART. order to establish the fact that the goods
are of British origin or manufacture, the importer must pre-
sent at the French Custom-house either an official declara-
tion, made before a British magistrate exercising jurisdic-
tion at the place of despatch, or a certificate granted by the
chief officer of the Customs at the port of embarkation, or
a certificate granted by the Consuls or Consular agents of
France at the places of despatch, or at the ports of embar-
kation. The above-mentioned Consuls or Consular agents
of France shall legalise the signatures of the British autho-
rities.

Description of Articles.

Rates of Import
Duties.
1860, 1864.
100 kilo. 100 kill
Free Free
Free Free
80 6 0
Free Free

BISMOUTH.—Credo
ANTIMONY.—Ore and sulphurated
Metal or regulus •• .• ••
NICKEL Ore and Speiss • • • •
Pure, and alloyed with other metals
especially copper or zinc (argentine
or Geman silver) in ingots or pigs.. ,
Ditto, rolled or drawn .. 15 0 10 0
MANGANESE.—Ore ••
ARSENlC.—Metallic .. Free. Free.
ORES.—Not enumerated ..
METAL MANUFACTURES.
CAST IRON.—Not turned nor polished :-
Ist Class. Chairs for railways, plates,
and other castings from the open
mould .. .. 3 50 3 0
2d Class. Cylindrical pipes (straight),
rafters, solid columns, and gas retorts 425 375
3d Class. Pots and all other manufac-
tures not included in the preceding
classes .. .. 5 0 450
Polished or turned .. 9 0 6 0
Tinned, enamelled, or varnished . 12 0 10 0
WROUGHT InoN.—lronwares (heavy);
including framework; pieces of frames;
knees and girders for ships ; ironwork
for carts and waggons; hinges, clamps,
large bolts, braces, and other fastenings
of doors and windows, not polished nor
turned; gratings (solid), beds, seats,
and furniture for gardens and other
kinds, with or without ornaments or ad-
juncts in cast iron, steel, or copper .. 9 0 8 0
N.B.—Axles, springs, and tires for
wheels are not included in the above
category, but are classed among de-
tached pieces of machinery.
Small ironwares (" serrurerie") includ-
ing locks:, and padlocks of all sorts,
bolts, and hinges, in sheet iron,
latches, and flat bolts, and all other
articles in wrought or sheet iron for
fastenings of doors or windows, and
furniture, polished, filed,or turned .. 15 0 12 0
Nails, forged by machinery .. .. 10 0 8 0
Ditto, ditto, by hand .. 15 0 12 0
Wood screws, screw-bolts, and nuts.. 10 0 8 0
Anchors .. „
10 0 8 0
Chains and chain cables .."
Tools, in pure iron, with or without
handles.. 12 0 10 0
Tubes of wrought iron, simply welded,
.of 9 millimetres interior diameter or
more .. .. 13 0 11 0

Ditto, ditto, less than 9 millimetres,
and fittings of tubes .. 25 0 20 0
Tubes in wrought iron, welded on a
mandril, or lap-welded . 25 0 20 0
Fish-hooks (for sea fishing), tinned or
not 5O 0 50 0
Household artitles and other wares

unenumerated : In wrought
sheet-iron, polished or painted 17 0 14 0
Ditto, ditto, enamelled, varnished, or
tinned .. 20 0 16 0
STEEL WARES:—TooIs in pure steel,files,
saws (eircular or straight), sithes, .
sickles, and other unenumerated .. 40 0 32 0
Needles for sewing, less than five cen-
timetres in length .. 200 0 200 0
Ditto, of five and more centimetres in
length .. .. 100 0 100 0
Fish-hooks (for river fishing), blued or
not .. .. 100 0 100 0
Metallic pens (other than gold or silver) 100 0 100 .0
Small articles of ornament, such as
beads, purse garniture, brooches,
and thimbles .. .. 25 0 20 0
Household articles and other wares
unenumerated.. .. 40 0 .32 0
CUTLERY.—Of every description, 20 per
cent. ad valorem, reduced to, 15 per
cent, ad valorem on Jan. 1, 1866.
Instruments, surgical, optical, and 10 per 10 perce t. ad cent. ad
philosophical .. • • .. n
valorem. valorem.
ARMS, not being implements of war :
Side arms .. 40 0 40 0

rates of duty payable on the direct importation into France
from the United Kingdom, under the French or British flag,
of the undermentioned articles of British origin or manufac-
ture, as set forth in the tariff annexed to the Convention
concluded on the 12th inst. between Great Britain and
France, as compared with the corresponding rates of import
duty levied on the same articles under the old French tariff.
New Duties. Former
Duties. (Ad-
ding the two
1880 1864 decimes.)
100,1fils. 100 kill. 100 kile,
F. c. F. c.
Free. Free.

Description of Articles.

METALS.
litoN.—Ore of
Filings, slag and dross, from
the forgo •• •• ••
Pig and fragments of old
cast iron .. 2 50
Purified cast, called "mazee,"
and old broken wrought
iron .. 3 25
Crude, in lumps or prisms,
not freed from the dross 5 0
Bars, square, round, or flat ;
rails of all shapes and di-
mensions ; angle and T
iron and wire, with the ex-
ceptions hereinafter men-
tioned .. .. 7 0
Hoops, of the thickness of one
millimetre or less, sheets,
rolled or hammered ex-
ceeding one millimetre in
thickness ; in plates
weighing 200 kilog-
rammes or less, and of
which the breadth does not
exceed 1 metre 20 centi-
metres, nor the length 4
metres apentimetres .. 850 750 24f.
In plates exceeding 200
kilogrammes in weight
1 metre 20 centimetres in
breadth, or 4 metres 50
centimetres in length .. 950 750 24f.
Sheet, thin, and black iron,
in plates of 1 millimetre
or less in thickness .. 13 0 10 0 24f.
(N.B. Thin sheet and
black iron in flat plates,
cut out or trimmed in
any way, to pay one-
tenth more than rectan-
gular plates.)
Sheets, tinned, coppered,
covered with zinc or lead 16 0 13 0 48f.
Wire, not exceeding 5-10ths
millimetres in diameter,
whether tinned, coppered,
or covered with zinc .. 14 0 10 0 36f. & 84f
STEEL.—In bars of all kinds 15 0 13 0 36f,
Sheet, exceeding 2 milli-
metres in thickness .. 22 0 18 0
Sheet, not exceeding 2 Sheets
millimetres in thickness, 60f. to
and wire, including 30 0 25 0 600 f.
bright wire for instru- Wire,
ments •.. • • 84f.
COPPER.—Ore, filings and old
broken articles .. Free. Free. Free.
Ditto, and brass smelted, in
pigs, bars, or plates .. Free. Free. 12c. to
2f. 40c.

Free.

~ Free and
96c
2 0 4f. 80c.

2 75 Bf. 40c. and
91. 60c.
4 50 Prohibited

6 0 Bars and
rails 12f. to
16f. 80c.

Rolled or beaten into bars
or sheets .. .. .. 16 0 10 0 36f. to 96f.
Wire of all sizes, whether
polished or not .. .. 15 0 10 0 120 f. to
343 f. 20c.

New Duties. Former
Description of Articles. -- Duties. (Ad-
ding the two
1860 1864 d ecimes )
100 kill. 100 kils. 100 kilt
Engraved
Cylindersof copper or brass 15 p. c.
val.;
for printing, whether en- not en-
graved or not .. 15 0 15 0 grayed,
probib.
Copper ware., metal gauze
of copper or brass, works Gauze,
;
of art and ornament, and all others
all othermanufactured ar- prohibi-
tides of copper, pure or ted.
alloyed with zinc or tin 2:5 0 20 0
Manufac. of zinc of all kinds 10 0 8 0 Prohibited.
Lead pipes, and all other
manufactures of lead 5 0 3 0 28f. 80c.
Printing type, new .. 10 0 8 0 60f.t0 240 f.
Tin pots and pans and other
manufactures of tin, whe
thcr pure or alloyed with
antimony .. .. 30 0 30 0 Pots and
pans, 120 f.
to 240 f. ;
others,
prohibited.