The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-27 00:00:00

DIRECTO46.

CHAIRMAN—JAMES THOMSON,. Esq. (Messrs. Line
and Co., Madras), Deputy Governor of the Agra Bank,
and late Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, Madras,
and President of the Madras Bank.
Colonel Philip Anstruther, C. 8., Madras Artillery.
The Hon. Philip Pleydell Bouverie, M.P. (Messrs. Ran-
som, Bouverie, and Co.)
Lieutenant-Colonel Grimes, Madras Army, Chairman of the
Oriental Inland Steam Company.
Colonel Atwell Lake, C. 8., late Superintending Engineer
of the Kistnah Irrigation Works.
Lieutenant-Colonel Onslow, late of the Commission for
governing Mysore.
Lieutenant-General Sir George Pollock, G.C.8., F.R.G.S.,

&c.
Major-General Westrow Watkins, Madras Army.

CONSULTING ENGINEER.
Col, J. T. Smith, Madras Engineers, F.R.S., &c.
AUDITORS.—James Bonar, Esq. (Messrs. Small and Co.
Old Jewry).
BANKERS.—Messrs. Ransom, Bouverie, and Co.,
1, Pa11:Mall East.

SOLICITOR.--John INiackrell, Esq., 34, Cannon-street West

SECRETARY.—John Westwood, Esq.
Offices-27, Cannon-street, London, E.C.

Full Prospectuses and Forms of applications for shares
may now be had on application at the Company's Offices,
27, Cannon-street, London, E.C. ; of the bankers, Messrs.
Ransom, Bouverie, and Co., 1, Pall-Mall East ; and of the
solicitor, John Mackrell, Esq., 34, Cannon-street West,
E.C., London ; but no application will be considered unless
a deposit of £1 on each share applied for is previously
made to Messrs. Ransom, Bouverie, and Co., bankers of
the company. The deposit will be returned if the applica-
tion is not acceded to.

Extract from Minutes of Consultation transmitted by the
Government of Madras, on the 15th May, 1858, to the
late Court of Directors of the East India Company :
The Government express their unanimous, strong, and
earnest advocacy that all irrigation works which, on a com-
prehensive view of the wants of the country, may be deemed
necessary to develop its undoubtedly great resources, be
commenced at once boldly and on a large scale, be pressed
forward throughout all times and under all circumstances,
and be looked on, and be practically treated, as in fact they
really are, as the most economical, because the most pro-
fitable, undertakinbrs in which the Government could pos-
sibly engage. It iseneedlag; h4r4'agaitr to btlitrfdrwara
the innumerable instinces in Which money has in the Pre-
sidency been most advantageously invested in irrigation
works. The proceedings of Government have, in this re-
spect, been only too desultory and vacillating, and it is
confidently asserted that India could be plat xl in a
position to pay all her own expenses, and gradu illy dis-
charge her debt far more readily and speedily by a judicious
expenditure than by any scheme of retrenchment or reduc-
tion.

THE TREATY BETWEEN RUSSIA AND

CHINA.

We have received from one of our correspondents
in the north of Germany the following translation
of the articles of this treaty-:
The preamble gives the names of the plenipoten-
tiaries, who are :—On the part of Russia, Count
Euphemius Poutiatin, Aide-de-camp-general of the
Emperor, Vice-Admiral, Imperial Ambassador Ex-
traordinary to the Court of Pekin, and Co'mman-
der-in-Chief of the Russian fleets in the Pacific ;
and, on the part of China, the Imperial Commis-
sioners and Mandarins of the first class Kwei-Liang,
and Hwashana.
" Art 1. The peace and amity so happily exist-
ing between the high contracting powers is hereby
ratified and confirmed for themselves and their
respective subjects. All Russians are to enjoy
the most perfect freedom and security for their per-
sons and property in China, and the Chinese equally
so in the Russian dominions.
" Art. 2. The correspondence between the two
Governments -which 'has hitherto been carried on
by the Russian Senate and the Chinese tribunal of
Li-fan-yan, shall in future be conducted direct be-
tween the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs and
senior member of
the Chinese Council of State, or
the Prime Minister at Pekin. The authorities of
both countries on the mutual frontiers shall be in-
structed to let all couriers with despatches past
freely, without causing them any delay or hindrance.
The same facility
shall be extended to such couriers
as may be only charged with verbal messages from
the one Government to the other. Ambassadors from
Russia may either travel by way of Kiachta and
Urga, or through
Taku, at the mouth of the river
Peiho, or by any other route or town opened by
China. The Chinese Government binds itself to
take the needful measures for the protection and
safe conduct of the
ambassador and his suite, as
also for the suitable reception due to his rank on
his arrival in the capital, where he shall be fur-
nished with
Russia shall
a palace for the embassy, for which
pay the usual rent.
"Art. 3. Trade may
be carried on between Russia
and China both by land and by sea. It is stipulated
that the following ports shall be open to Russian
vessels :—Shanghai, Ningpo, Fuchan,:Amoy, Can-
ton, Tul.,/"" in ro,moott, uua Klung olio,- r"
in
Hainan.
,‘ Art. 4. There shall be no limitation 'to the
number of Russian merchants trading in China, nor
to the amount of the capital employed by them, nor
shall they be subject to any other payments than
the amount of duties stipulated in the Custom-house
tariff; but smuggling shall be punished by confis-
cation of the goods, which in that case shall be sold
for account of the Chinese Government.
" Art. 5. It is mutually agreed that the Emperor
of Russia shall enjoy the privilege of appointing
consuls in all the above-mentioned ports, as well as
to station ships of war there to preserve order
amongst the Russian subjects and keep up the
power and dignity of the consuls. The rights and
privileges to be enjoyed by these consuls shall be the
same as those accorded by China to the consuls of
any other foreign State.
" Art. 6. Should a Russian ship of war or a
merchant vessel be wrecked on the coast of China,
the Chinese authorities are bound to offer every
assistance in their power, and in such cases the
shipwrecked crew may land at any other than the
above-named ports. Russia agrees to p
than
the
Chinese a just and proper indemnity for any as
sistance thus rendered to vessels in distress.
" Art. 7. All disputes between Russian subjects
shall be settled by their consul, and punished for
any infringement of the law. Russians in t
eahenors in-
terior of China accused of crimes anti misdem
shall be escorted to the nearest frontier town and
delivered up to the Russian authorities, or caoin-
ducted to a consular port and placed at the
s-
posal of the consul there for punishmen
being
" Art 8. The Chinese Government con-
vinced that the doctrines of Christianity tend to
the furtherance of order and unanimity amongst
men, binds itself not to hinder its Christian sub-
jects nor molest them in the execution of their
religious ceremonies and duties, and they shall
enjoy the same protection as that afforded to any
other religion tolerated in the Chinese dominions.
And as the Chinese Government considers Chris-
tian missionaries to be good and honest people
Who labour without seeking any material, profit