The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-24 00:00:00

THE DANUI3JAN PRINCIPALITIES.

The following is a translation of the Protocol
drawn up at Constantinople on the 11th of Febru-
ary, 1856, in common by the Ministers of the Porte
and the representatives of France, England, and
Austria. This document is addressed to Count
Walewski, to be submitted by him to the Paris
Conferences to serve as a groundwork for the com-
mittee appointed to consider the future condition
of the Danubian Principalities :

" Art. 1. The treaties concluded between the Sublime
Porte and Russia relative to Moldavia and Wallachia having
ceased to be in force in consequence of the war, the organ-
ised laws emanating therefrom are no longer the fundamental
law of these two countries.

" Under these circu►nstances the Porte confirms anew the
pliv.ileges and immunities enjoyed heretofore by the said
Principalities, under its suzerainty, since the stipulations
granted to them by the Sultans R4jazet I. and Mahneond 11.
"It wishes to assure to them the enjoyment in an equit-
able and durable manner, by placing them completely in
harmony with the advancement of the age, with the wants
and desires of all classes of the population, and with the re-
lations established by common agreement with the Ottoman
Empire.

" 2. Wallachia and Moldavia, the respective territories of
which form an integral part of the Ottoman Empire, will
each have, as heretofore, a separate administration and inde-
pendence under the suzerainty of his Imperial Majesty the
Sultan. The Hospodars will be named for life from the most
distinguished families of the country. Their rule will be
supported by institutions of a nature to maintain good order
in the Principalities, and to place the welfare of all classes on
a suitable footing.

" 3. The Principalities shall be independent of any foreign
protectorate, and in their relations with foreign Powers they
will be only represented by the Sublime Porte.
4. The treaties concluded by the Sublime Porte will be
valid for the Principalities.
"5. The Principalities will b• in direct communication
with the Imperial Government illiroug,h Kapou-Kiayas, or
agents, nominated by the Hospodars, revocable at their will
and accepted by the Sublime Porte.

"6. Wallachia and Moldavia shall each pay annually to
the Imperial Government a fixed tribute of just and mode-
rato proportions. On the other hand, they shall not be sub-
jected to any other charge of whatsoever description nor com-
pelled to make payments in kind either by requisition or
forced purchase.

"7. The Principalities will have the right to maintain
such force as they may deem requisite for police and to assure
the maintenance of public order. They will fix by agreement
with the Sublime Porte the number of their troops ; and the
number, once fixed, cannot be augmented without a new
agreement. No person, moreover, shall have a right to op-
pose the execution of defensive measures which the Sublime
Porte and the Principalities may deem it advisable to adopt
for the common safety of the empire.
"8. Moldavia❑ and Wallachian vessels will continle to
navigate freely under the privileged flag granted to them by
the Sublime Porte.

" 9. In case of order being disturbed it belongs to the
Porte alone to re-establish it ; but it will not have recourse to
armed intervention until having come to au understanding on
the ssbject with the high contracting Powers as to the means
and duration of such interveotion.

" 10. No fortress shall be constructed on the right bank
of the Danube, nor on any point of the Moldo-Wallachian
territory, without a previous understanding ou the subject
with the suzerain Power. . All questions relating to such for-
tresses in time of peace shall also be settled by free and com-
mon consent. The Sublime Porte, in time of peace, may gar-
rison such of those fortresses as may have been erected at its
exclusive expense.
" 11. If the e:tablishment of a permanent system of
quarantine between the two banks of the Danube should, con•
trary. to all expectation, be deemed necessary in future, the
Board of Health for Moldavia and Wallachia would only
emanate from the Government of the Principalities. The
principle- of every quarantine before being carried out shall
be discussed with the Sublime Porte.

„12. Conformably to privileges granted oh antiquo to
Moldavia and to Wallachia, his Majesty the Sultan recognises
and protects the independence and the internal administra-
tion of the Principalities, and the Sublime Porte is resolved
to abstain from all interference, under any form whatsoever,
with the acts of the internal Government, unless they be
manifestly contrary to the present act and to the fundamen-
tal statute, which will be the complemtnt thereof, or be an
infringement upon treaties concluded with foreign Powers,
and on the legitimate interests emanating therefrom.
” 13. All religions confessions shall enjoy equal liberty and
protection in the two Principalities.
"14. No individual nor corporation can be deprived of pro-
perty for any reason whAsoever without a just indemnity,
decided by a mixed commission, giving every desirable gua-
rantee to the parties concerned.

" 15. Strangers are allowed to possess landed property in
Wallachia and Moldavia on the same terms as the natives,
and by submitting to the laws.

"16. All Moldavians and Wallachians without exeeption'
arc eligible for public offices.

" 17. The relations between landlord and peasant shall be
regulated on an equitable footing and made as mutual as
possible. CorTees and cases of personal serfdom which may
still exist, under whatever denomination, are to be declared
redeemable by purchase by a special law to be rendered and
put in practice within one year at latest, so that they may
entirely cease at no very distant period.
" 18. All classes of the population without distinction of
birth or faith shall enjoy civil rights, especially the right of
property under every
,form • but the exercise of political
rights shall not be granted to natives placed under foreign
protection.

13. Landed property shall be liable to taxation like any
other, but the capitation tax shall be abolished.

" All trades shall be free, and monopolies of every descrip-
tion in town or country radically suppressed.
" 21. The Hospodars shall be elective for life. The Porte
shall never revoke their appointment, except in cases of high
treason proved judicially iu a form to be determined.

" 22. The candidate chosen from a list of three names
selected according to fixed regulations, and approved by his
Majesty the Sultan, shall be Hospodar.
" 23. As soon as the essential bases of the new organisa-
tion of the Principalities shall have been laid the election of
the new Hospodars will take place. Till then the two Prin-
cipalities shall be administered each by a provisional or Kai-
make n ian Government, for the formation of which the Sublime
Porte will consult the high contracting parties. The Provi-
sional Government enjoying the authority attributed to tbo
Hospodars will proceed, with the shortest delay possible, and
in presence of au Ottoman commissary, to the new respective
organisation of the two Principalities.
4‘ 24. The civil list of the Hospodar shall be fixed once for
all when he assumes office.

" 25. They shall have the right to appoint and dismiss
their Ministers. They shall have the armed force at their
disposal, conformable to the laws ; they will cause an annual
budget to be returned, and also an account of the expenses of
the Legislature ; they will see the laws carried out, and have
the right to grant pardons. They will convoke and close the
legislative sessions according to the form prescribed by law;
their initiative and the manner of their sanction shall be
regulated by a law.
" 2 . The Legislature shall be so constituted as to be in-
dependent in its composition, and in its ensemble to shield
the interests of all classes of the popu]ation, to satisfy their
legitimate wishes, and to control efficaciously the acts of the
Government. It will also vote all the laws relative to the
organisation of the army, to the administration properly so
called, to that of finance, justice, public instruction, property
of the State and monasteries, and also relative to great con-
cessions of public works.
The bills voted by the Legislature and promulgated by the
Ifospoclars being of general application for the natives shall
be also binding on the other inhabitants of the Ottoman eye-
r.ire established, or who may establish themselves in the
Principalities, or who possess landed property there.
"27. The judicial power shall be independent of the execu-
tive power, and shall provide all requisite guarantees.
" 28. Whatever may be the definitive form of the Legisla•
ture, it will comprise a Senate consisting of all the leading
men of the country.

" 29. As the constituent legislation of the two Principali-,
ties is to be uniform, a commission half Moldavian, half Wal-
lachian, designated by the Kaimakans, with the consent of
the Ottoman commissary, ,hall proceed forthwith to Constan-
tinople to substitute for the organic regulations not only the
new combinations rendered necessary by the preceding arti-
cles, but all those of which experience shall have shown the
utility, especially as regards the organisation of the legislative
power.
30. The labours of the Commission shall be submitted to
the Sublime Porte, and communicated by it to the high con-
tracting parties. They will receive the solemn approbation
of his Majesty the Sultan, and be published in his name at
Bucharest and at Jassy within three months' time.

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BIRTHS.
OP A. SON.
On the 22d inst., at Barming-heatb, Kent, the wife
Mr. J. H. Webster.
On the 23d inst., at 29, St. James's-street, Islington,
Mrs. Robert Moffatt.
OP A DAUGHTER.
On the 23d inst., at 41, Upper Harley-street, the wife
of Charles Beevor, Esq., F.R.C.S.
On the 22d inst., at 19, Warwick-crescent, Hyde-park,
the wife of S. J. Simmonds, Esq.
- MARRIED.
On the 22d inst., at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, W. B.
Whitehead, Esq., of River View, London, Canada West,
to Constance, daughter of T. Jones Howell, Esq., of 6,
Eaton-place west.
On the 22d inst., at Torquay, Edward Bousted, Esq.,
Clapham-park, surrey, to Charlotte Elizabeth, daughter
of the late George Stebbing, Esq., Sonthsea, Hants.
DIED.
On the 20th inst., Charles Arbouin, Esq.
On the 20th inst., Mr. John Strong, of Skinner-street,
New road, ironmonger, aged 33.
On the 22d inst., at High-street, Deptferd, Mr. Jobe.
Ashford, jun., aged 34.
On the 20th inst., Mr. John M. White, late of Nor-
thampton-terrace, City-road, aged 65.
On the 21st inst., at Hamburg, James Davenport, Esq.,
merchant. aged 61.
On the 21st inst., at Weymouth-street, Portland-place,
Mrs Kennard aged 80.
On the 19th inst., at Thorne, Yorkshire, the Rev. Eric
Rudd, incumbent of Thorns, and vicar of Appleby, York•
shire, aged 83..
On the 21st inst., at Park-cottage, St.Paul's-road,Thling-
ton, Mr. James Bewicke, aged 67.

LONDON: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG,
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