The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-11 00:00:00

THE COMMERCIAL 2'/LEA TY.

The following is the Treaty of Commerce between
Her Majesty and the Emperor of the French,
signed at Paris, January 23, 1860, and the ratifi-
cations of which were exchanged at Paris,
February 4, 1860 :
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland and his Majesty the Emperor of the
French being equally animated with the desire to draw
closer the ties of friendship which unite their two people,
and wishing to improve and extend the relations of com-
merce between their respective dominions have resolved to
conclude a treaty for that purpose, and have named as
their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say :
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Most Hon. Henry Richard
Charles Earl Cowley, Viscount Dangan, Baron Cowley, a
Peer of the United Kingdon, a Member of Her Britannic
Majesty's Privy Council, Knight Grand Cross of the
Most Hon. Order of the Bath, Her Majesty's Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of the
French, and Richard Cobden, Esq., a member of the
British Parliament.

His Majesty the Emperor of the French, M. Baroche,
Grand Cross of the Imperial Order of the Legion of
Honour, &c., a Member of his Privy Council, President of
his Council of State, provisionally charged with the De-
partment of Foreign Affairs, and M. Rouher, Greed Officer
of the Iraporial Order of the Legion of Honour, &c.,
Senator, his Minister and Secretary of State for the De-
partment of Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works.
Who, after hating communicated to each other their re-
spective full powers, found in good and due form, hate
agreed upon and concluded the following articles :

ARTICLE I.
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The articles are as follows :
Refined sugar.
Turmeric in powder.
Rock crystal worked.
Iron forged in lumps or prisms.
Brass wire (copper alloyed with ain't), polished or unpo-
lished of every descrip ton.
Chymical productions, enumerated or non-enumerated.
Extracts of dye-woods.
Garancine.
Common soap of every description, and perfumed soap.
Stoneware and earthenware, fine and common.
China and porcelain-ware.
Glass, crystal, mirrors, and plate-glass.
Cotton yarn.
Worsted and woollen yarn of every description.
Yarns of flax and hemp.
Yarns of hair, enumerated or non enumerated.
Cotton manufactures, enumerated or non-enumerated.
Horsehair 'manufactures, enumerated or nou-enumerated.
Worsted and woollen manufactures. enumerated or non-
enumerated.

Cloth
Manufactures of hair.
Silk manufactures.
Manufactures of waste and floss silk.
Manufactures of bark and all other vegetable fibres, enu-
merated or non enumerated.
Manufactures of flax and hemp.
Mixed manufactures of every description.
Hosiery.
Haberdashery and small wares.
Manufactures of caoutchouc and guttapercha, pure or
mixed.
Articles of clothing, wholly or in part made up.
Prepared Skins.
Articles of every sort manufactured from leather or skins,
included or not under the denomination of small wares, fine
or common.

Plated articles of every description.
Cutlery.
Metal wares, whether enumerated or not.
Pig and cast-iron of every description, without distinction
of weight.
Bar and wrought iron. with the exception of the kinds
specified in Article XVII.
Steel.
Machinery, tools, and mechanical instruments of every
description.
Carriages on springs, lined and painted.
Cabinet-ware, carved work, and turnery of every descrip-
tion ; worked ivory and wood.
Brandies and spirits including those not distilled from
wines, cherries, molasses, or rice.

Ships and boats.
With respect to refined sugar and chymical productions
of which salt is the basis, the Excise or Inland duties shall
be added to the amount of the above specified duties.
ARTICLE 11.
His Imperial Majesty engages to reduce the import duties
in France on British coal and coke to the amount of 15c.
for the hundred kilogrammes, with the addition of the two
decinues.
His Majesty the Emperor also engages, within four years
from the date of the ratification of the present treaty, to
establish upon the importation of coal and coke by land and
by sea a uniform duty, which shall not exceed' that which
is fixed by the preceding paragraph.
ARTICLE 111.
It is understood that the rates of duty mentioned in the
preceding articles are independent of the differential duties
in favour of French shipping, with which duties they shall
not interfere.

AILTICIA IV.
The duties of ad valorem stipulated in the present treaty
shall be calculated on the value at the place of production
or fabrication of tho object imported, with the addition of
the cost of transport. insurance, and commission necessary
for the importation into France, as far as the port of dis-
charge.
For the levying of these duties the importer shall make
written declaration at the Custom-house, stating the
value and description of the goods imported. If the Cus-
tom-house authorities shall be of opinion that the declared
value is insufficient, they shall be at liberty to take the
goods on paying to the importer tho price declared, with
an addition of 5 per cent.
This payment, togethea with the restitution of any duty
which may have been levied upon such goods, shall be
made within 15 days following the declaration.

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