The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-07 00:00:00

E TREATY WITH FRANCE.

Yesterday was issued, with the Parliamentary
notices, the copy of a second additional article of
the Treaty of Commerce concluded between her
Majesty and the Emperor of the French, signed at
Paris on the 27th ult. This article is as follows:
. "It having been found impossible to conclude the nego-
tiation of the arrangement which is to fix, according to
toof
paragraph 1 of Article XIII. of the Treaty of Commerce
concluded between Great Britain an.odtdhsfirhixandcheb,
British January last,
merchandise the r ate oi
imported
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into
duties
France,to bew i leviedthi
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period stipulated by the said artieler,i
parties have considered it advisable, in, the interest of the
invested with
arrangement with a view to insure
respective commerce of the
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gradual
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of the aforesaid Treaty within Pe.
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the Queen of the
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and ratified in such a manner as to come into force with
respect to the Articles to which they apply, at each of the
periods fixed by Article XV. of the Treaty of which they
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November next.
" The present additional article shall have the same force
and validity as if it had been inserted in the Treaty of Com-
merce of the 23d of January last. It shall be ratified, and
the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged at Paris within
four days at latest from the date of its signature.
"In witness whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries
have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seal of
their arms.

" Done at Paris this 27th day of June, in the year of
our Lord, 1860. .

(L.S.) a COWLEY.
(L.S.) " E. InouvENEL
The ratifications were exchanged on the Ist of this month/

GAME CERTIFICATES BlLL.—This bill, intro-
duced by the Government, has been printed. It pro-
poses the following scale of gamo certificates or licenses, to
be granted by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue :
From the sth of April to the sth of April, £3; from the
sth of April to the 31st of October, or from the Ist of No-
vember to the sth of April, £2; gamekeepers' license in
Great Britain, £2; dealer in game in England, £2. A
number of exemptions from liability to duty are continued
from former acts—such as hunting deer or coursing hares,
and taking woodcocks and snipes with nets or springes,
and the tenant of lands may by himself or those he permits
take or destroy conies.