The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-23 00:00:00

`AUTHENTIC COPY OF THE TEXT.

(From Second Edition of the Daily News.)
The following is an authentic copy of the Treaty
of Peace concluded at Paris :-
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[TRANSLATION].

1 The Plenipotentiaries, after having exchanged
their plenary powers found to be in good and due
form, have agreed upon the following articles :--
ARTICLE I.
From the day of the exchange of ratifications of thu
present treaty, there shall be peace and friendship be
tween his Majesty the Emperor of the Franch, her MA
iesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britab
and Ireland, his Majesty the King of Sardinia, his Ma-
jesty the Sultan of the one part, and his Majesty tht
Emperor of all the Russias of the other part, as well a-
between their heirs and succesiov, their respectiv,
states, and subjects in perpetuity,

ARTICLE 2.
Peace being happily e6tablitelied between their afore
,4aid Majesties; the territories conquered or occupied b 3
their arwies during the war shall be reciprocally evacu
'aced.

Special arrangements shall regulate the mode of era
cuation, which shall be effected as soon as po.isible
(aussi prompte que faire se pourra.)

ARTICLE 3.
H.H. the Emperor of all the Russias engages to re.
:tore to ET M. the Sultan the town and citadel of Kars,
as well as all the other parts of the o:togn 4n territory of
.vhich the Russian troops are in p issession.

ARTICLE 4,
Their Majesties the Emperor of the French, the Queei
~f the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Ki,ig of Sardinia, and the Sultan engage to restort
to 11.31. the Emperor of all the Russias, the towns am
ports of Sebastopol, Ba!aklava, K.atniesch, Eupatoria,
K,rteh.

[A. vexatious accident occurring at the last moment,
gas occasioned the loss of two or three slips of this por
tion of the M.S ]

ARTICLE 9.
H. M. the Sultan, in his constant anxiety for the
well-being of his subjects, having granted (octroye)
finnan, which, in ameliorating their lot without dis
tinction of religion or race, proves his generous inter,
ions towards the Christian populations of his empire,
end desiring to give a further proof of bis sentimera-
in this regard, has resolved to communic:ite to the con-
-racting powers the said finnan, spontaneously emanat-
ing 1r 'm his sovereign will.
The contracting powers acknowledge (constatent) th-
great value of this communication. It is quite under-
mtood that the fact of this communication cannot in anyl
case give to the said powers a right to interfere, either;
collectively or separately, in the relations of his Majesty
the Sultan with his sul,j cts, or in the internal adininis-A
tration of his empire.

ARTICLE 10.
The Convention of July 13, 1841, which maintains
the old regulation of the Ottoman Empire relative to th.-!
closing of the Straits of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles,!
has been revised by common accord.
The act concluded with this view, and conformably to,
that principle between the high contracting partied is i
!and remains annexed to the recent treaty, and shall have,
!he same force and value as if it had formed an integral
part of it.

ARTICLE 11.
The Black Sed is neutralised. Open to the mercantile
inarine of all nations, its waters and ports are formally
land in perpetuity interdicted to fl sge of war, whether
belonging to the bordering powers (puissances riveraines)
a- to any other power, save and except the exceptions
mentioned in articles 14 and 19 of the present treaty.
ARTICLE 12.
Freed from" all impediments (entrave), trade in the'
!ports and waters of the Black Sea shad only be sub-
Ijected to regulations of health, customs and police, con
'ceived in a spirit favourable to the development of coin.'
inercial transactions.
In order to give every desirable security to the corn-
niercial and maritime interests of all nations, Russia and,
the Sublime Porte will admit consuls in ports situated
on the coast (littoral) of the Black Sea conformably tel
the principles of international lase.
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ARTICLE 13.
-, The Black Sea being neutralised according to the,
-, terms of Article 11, the maintenance or establishment
on its coasts of military-maritime arsenals (arsenaux
„ militaires ntaritimes) bec ones as unnecessary as without
(devaien,vt
M. the
nEecessite comfmleisahnsßobjet). Indciamt!
We have just witnessed a successful trial of a
sequence
r
e
iewly-patented method of extracting gold from ‘,l the Sultan
':..cl.
Welsh quartz, which seems likely to render some ; serve any military-maritime arsenal upon that coast.
parts of that country and some other districts':, ARTICLE 14.
,f these Islands almost as bus
Their Nlajestiee the Eoleeriir of a 1 the Russias and
y scenea as:the Sultan having conduled a convention fir the pur ;
;;pose of determining the force arid number of light ves-1
she Australian diggings, Mr. CHARLES Low,
~ eels necessary for Vie serv;ce of their coasts, which they
,vho has taken out the patent, had long enter- reserve to themselves the right of keeping up in the
.-, Black Sea, this convention-
tamed the opinion that gold was held in quart; is annexed to the present
e` treaty, and shall have the Fame force arid value as if it
land powdbly in other rocks iu a state of chemical had formed an integral part of it. This convention can
!combination ; and that to this reason was to be_ neither be annulled nor modified without the assent of
lascribed the impossibility of its extraction by the the powers parties to the present treaty,
useful process, amalgamation. He called atten- ARTICLE 15. -
The act of the Csingress of Vienna having established!
Lion to this view in the public journals, in copse e:: the principles destined to 'regulate the navi_ntion of the;
- quence of which many samples of British ores were rivers which separate or traverse several states, the con-
trading;
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sent to him for analysis. In experiments upon ' the future these principles shall be also applica'A to the!
these in the laboratory he fully demonstrated
5: Danube and to its embouchures, They declare that this!
~ !.itispemteion constitutes henceforth a part of the public
that, by fusing the quartz with lead, which takes ,•law of Europe, and they take it (the disposition) under;
t
rup _ the -_gold from the ore, and then b their guarantee.
y-7` The navit,ation of the Danube cannot he subjected tol
the well-known process termed cupellatiott getting ,-:any hindrance (entrave) or dues (redevance) which
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rid of the lead, the gold could be obtained with
shall not be expressly provided for by the stipulations
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icintained in the following articles. In consequence!
ease, though not to be separated by any other,
no toll (peage) shall be taken that may be based solely!
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,known process. In the laboratory therefore thef,Aupon the fact of the navigation of the river, nor an).:
Success was complete; duty (droit) upon merchandise which may be on board
it was clear that gold:- vessels. The police and quarantine regulations to be'
existing as a carburet or sulphuret, or just pos-: established for the security of thestates separated of
sibly in some excessively comminuted form inatraversed by this river, shall be conceivedin such a
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.4manner as to favour th circulation of vessels as much
quart; would yield to smelting, though obdurate
.4as possible (autant que faire se pourra). Save theee re-
togulations no obstacle whatever shall be placed in the
all other modes of metallurgical operation. P,,i,- . .
way of the free navigation.
- It remained but to verify on the large scale'
ARTICLE 16. , and by the ordinary arrangements of the smelter;
With. the object of realising the dispositions. of the'
e preceding article, a commission in which France, Aus
what appeared satisfactorily established in the,;.tria, Great Britain, Prussia, Russia, Sardinia, and,
!some
of the experimenter. This was done in ,};Turkey, shall each be represented by a delegate,
I shall be charged to design and.cause t; be executed the
isome large furnaces erected for smelting purposes
I .'necessary works from Isatcha downwards (depuis
lat Rotherhithe ; fifteen tons of Welsh quartz
.' Isatcha) in order to clear the mouths of the Danube as'
were smelted in the ordinary way, of course with
'Fell as the neiebb iurin parts of the sea, from the ud
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other
nam
obstaclesrs which
obstruct them, so as to put
the addition.'of the requisite quantity- of lead ; - that part of the liver, and ttie said parts of the sea, it
'and navigability,
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'and at the termination of this part of the trial the best possible state of
.4 To cover tne expenses of these works as wel as ofi
the lead containing the gold was drawn outithe establishments having for their objects to assure and
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Ns exempt from ecclesiastical censure if they do.
7.—The seventh Clause provides that neither
)f the PARTIES to such marriage shall be liable to

Loy co-aggro or Punishment.
B.—The eighth Clause excludes Scotland from
he operation of the Bill.