The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-30 00:00:00

MANNING THE NAVY.

At the Court at Windsor, the 29th day of No-
vember, 1839,

PRESENT,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Whereas her Majesty was graciously pleased, by
her royal proclamation bearing date the 13th day
of April last, to promise and declare that the
bounties of £lO for every able seaman, and £5 for
every ordinary seaman, fit for her Majesty's service,
shall be paid in the manner thereby directed, to
every such able and ordinary seaman not above the
age of 45, nor under the age of 20 years, who should,
on or before the 15th day of June then following,
enter themselves to serve in her Majesty's Royal
Navy, either with the captains and lieutenants of
her Majesty's ships, or officers employed in ten-
ders, or at rendezvous on shore for raising men for
the service of the Royal Navy : and whereas her
Majesty was also graciously pleased by her said
proclamation to declare that all able:bodied lands-
men, not above the ago of 25, nor under the age of
20 years, who should so enter themselves as afore-
said, should receive the sum of 40s. each man as
her Majesty's royal bounty :
And whereas the time limited for payment of the
said bounties, so faras they relate to able seamen and
ordinary seaman was, by Order in Council of the
11th day of June last, prolonged and extended from
the said 15th day of day of June to the 31st day of
July last ; and whereas by two other Orders in
Council, the said bounties have been since reduced
to £8 and £4 respectively, and lastly to £5 and £3•
respectively; and the time limited for the payment
of the said-last-mentioned reduced bounties was
prolonged and extended to the 30th day of Nov.,
inst. ; and it being judged expedient for her Ma-
jesty's Service that such bounties should, so far as
they relate to able seamen and ordinary seamen, be
continued to be paid for some time longer, her Ma-
jesty, with tho advice of her Privy Council doth
therefore order, and it is hereby accordingly or-
dered, that the time limited for payment of the said
bounties of £6 to able seamen, and of £3 to ordi-
nary seamen, be prolonged and extended from the
Ist day of December next to the 31st day of January
next inclusive ; whereof all persons concerned are
to take notice and govern themselves accordingly.
Wm. L. BATHURST.
SOUTHEASTERN RAIL WAY.

The South-Eastern Railway traffic return shows
this week an increase of £1,700. The proposed ar-
rangement between this company and the London,
Chatham, and Dover continues to be regarded with
great interest by the shareholders. Some two years
and a half ago, when the South-Eastern were earn-
ing only 3 to 4 per cent, per annum, and when
their position and prospects were by no means so
good as they are now, that company offered to gua-
rantee to the East Kent, for five years, a rate of
dividend 1 per cent, less than that on South-Eastern
Stock : at the expiration of that period South
Eastern and East Kent stocks were to rank alike
as regards dividend. The proposal was not closed
with. Now, a considerable difference is observable
in the relative position of the two companies. The
traffic of the South Eastern is experiencing a rapid
development, and this from sources which, being
local, are solid, because independent of continental
disturbance. Their branches and guarantees,
including, more especially, the Reading, Guild-
ford, and Reigate line, now show results or a
more promising character. Again although the
company are threatened with competition to
Dover, there is some prospect that the facilities
for the conveyance of the mails by the Folke-
stone route, where the company
are exempt from
rivalry, may be materially Increased, one of
the projects under consideration with this view
being the formation, at moderate expense, of a
breakwater at Folkestone. That the regularity of
service incidental to a mail route
-will attract pas-
senger traffic does not require demonstration.
Whilst the prospects of the South Eastern Company
are held to be thus reasonably reassuring, it is not
overlooked that the capital of the East Kent Com-
pany is some half a million larger than at the period
when the offer cited was made, and the force of their
antagonistic attitude was impaired by the deficiency
of their finances. It is notorious that they have
been unable to place the whole of their capital,
the position of which in the share list cer-
tainly does not indicate financial strength.
Meanwhile the South-Eastern, who are, it is said,
about to declare the largest dividend ever paid by
them, are steadily moving up to a higher financial
grounl, from which they will be still better able to
repel the threatened opposition. These considers-

twos cannot fail to have a bearing upon the nego-
tiations now pending between the two companies,
A fusion is undoubtedly, in the interest of both,
most desirable. The South-Eastern must be anxi-
ous to consolidate their position, whilst the London,
Chatham, and Dover will assuredly fare the better
if working in harmony with, instead of in op-
position to, their powerful neighbour. The pre-
sent week will probably show whether moderate
counsels preside at the respective boards —1) 7
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ay News.

CHINA, JAPAN, AND THE EASTERN ARCIIIPE-
-Mr. Tweedie has published a map for issue with
LAG°.
the " London and China Telegraph," which points out the
telegraph lines to India, and the proposed lines to China,
Java, and Australia. The new porta in China and Japan,
the Taku fbrts, Russian boundary, the proposed canal
across the Isthmus of liraw, and other interesting. features
are distinctly marked.

THE TREATY BETWEEN FRANCE
AND AUST.RIA.

The Afoniteur of yesterday, in addition to the
treaties already published, gives the text of the
treaty concluded between France and Austria. It
is as follows :
" His Majesty the Emperor of the French and his Ma-
jesty the Emperor of Austria, desirous of putting an end to
the calamities of the war, and to prevent the renewal of the
complications which gave rise to it, by contributing to erect
on solid and durable foundations tho internal and external
independence of Italy, have resolved to convert into a defi-
tive treaty of peace the preliminaries signed by their hand
at Villafraeca.
[Here follow the names and titles of the Zurich
Plenipotentiaries.]
" Art 1. There shall be in future peace and friendship
between his Majesty the Emperor of the French and his
Majesty the Emperor of Austria, as also between their
heirs and successors, their respective States and subjects,
for over.
" Art. 2. All prisoners of war shall be immediately re-
turned on both sides.
"Art. 3. To attenuate the evils of war, an exception is
made to the general law, and all Austrian vessels captured,
not yet condemned as prizes, shall be restored.
" The vessels and cargoes shall be restored in the same
state as when taken, after payment of all expenses, charges. '
&c., incurred by their capture, and on payment of the ugual
allowance to the captors (fretacquisauseapteurs); no indem-
nity can be claimed on account of prizes sunk or destroyed ;
nor for the loss of merchandise even not condemned as prize
property.
" It is also understood distinctly that all decisions given
hold good.
[Art. 4 declares the cession of Lombardy to His
Majesty the Emperor of the French, with the de-
tails given in the two treaties already published.]
" Art. 5. His Majesty the Emperor of the French de-
clares his intention of handing over (remettre) to his Ma-
jesty the King of Sardinia the territories ceded by the pre-
ceding article.

" Art, 6, The territories still occupied in virtue of the
armistice of the Bth of July last shall be reciprocally eva-
cuated by the belligerent Powers, the troops of which will
retire immediately beyond the frontier line stipulated in
Art. 4.

[Arts. 7 to 17 inclusive are verbatim the same as
those already published in the treaty between
Prance and Sardinia, relative to the settlement of
the financial points between the two countries, and
the money indemnity to be paid to Austria and
France.]

• " Art. 18. His Majesty the Emperor of the French and
his Majesty the Emperor of Austria engage themselves to
favour with all their efforts the creation of a Confederation
between the Italian States, to be placed under the honorary
presidency of the Holy Father, and the object of which
would be to maintain the tadependence and the inviolability
of the Confederated States, to assure the development of
their moral and material interests, and to guarantee the
internal and external safety of Italy by the existence of a
federal army.

" Venetia, which remains placed under the Crown of his
Imperial, Royal, and Apostolie Majesty, will form one of
the States of this Confederation, and will participate in the
obligations as well as in the privileges (droits) resulting
from the federal pact, the clauses of which shall be deter-
mined by an assembly consisting of representatives of all
Italian States.

" Art. 19. As the territorial deliminations (circonscrip-
tions) of the independent States of Italy which took no
part in the late war cannot be changed except with the
sanction of the Powers that presided at their formation and
acknowledged their existence, the rights of the Grand
Duke of Tuscany, of the Duke of Modena, and of the Duke
of Parma are expressly reserved between the high con-
tracting parties.

"Art. 20. Desirous of seeing the tranquillity of the States
of the Church and the power of the Holy Father assured ;
convinced that such object could not be more efficaciously
attained than by the adoptoin of a system suited to the
wants of the populations and conformable to the generous
intentions already manifested by the Sovereign Pontiff, his
Majesty the Emperor of the French and his Majesty the
Emperor of Austria will unite their efforts to obtain from
his Holiness that the necessity of introducing into the Ad-
ministration of his States the reforms admitted as indis-
pensable shall be taken into serious considerations by his
Government.

" Art. 21. With a view to contribute by every effort to
quiet the public mind, the high contracting parties declare
and promise that in their respective territories, and in the
lands restored or ceded, no individual compromised by the
recent events in the Peninsula, no matter what his rank or
position in society, shall be prosecuted, annoyed, or troubled,
in person or property, on account of his conduct or political
opinions.

"Art. 22. The present treaty shall be ratified, and the
ratifications exchanged within one fortnight, or earlier if
possible. In faith of which the respective Plenipotentiaries
have signed it and fixed their seals thereunto.
"Done at Zurich on the 10th day of the month of No-
vember of the year of grace, 1850,

" BOURQUENEY.
BANNEVILLE.
" KAROLYI.
" MEYSENBUG."
t4ADDITroNAL ARTICLE TO THE TREATY SIGNED BE-
TWEEN FRANCE AND AUSTRIA AT ZURICH ON THE
10TH OF NOVEMBER, 1859.
" The Government of his Majesty the Emperor of the
French engages itself towards the Government of his Im-
perial, Royal, and Apostolic Majesty to make, on account
of the new Government of Lombardy, which will guarantee
its repayment, to pay to it 40,000,000 florins (conventions-
munz), stipulated by the 7th article of the present treaty,
in instalments, as follows

"Eight millions of florins shall be paid cash, by a bill on
Paris, without interest, en the expiration of the third month
dating from the dayon which the present treaty was signed,
and which will be handed to the Plenipotentiaries of his
Imperial, Royal, and Apostolic Majesty when the exchange
of ratifications takes place.

" The payment of the remaining 32,000,000 florins shall
take place at Vienna, cash, in ten successive instal-
ments, to be made every two months, by bills on Paris,
each of 3,200,000 florins. The first of these payments will
be made two months after the payment of the bill of
8,000,000 florins above stipulated. For that date, as for
the other following, the interest will be reckoned at 5 per
cent., dating from the first day of the month which will
follow the exchange of the ratificaticns of the present treaty,
" The present additional article shall have the same
force and value as if inserted vet baeim in the treaty of this
day.

" It shall be ratified in one single act, and the ratifica-
tions exchanged at the same time.
" In faith of which the respective Plenipotentiaries have
signed the present additional article, and affixed their seals
thereunto.

" Done at Zurich on the 10th day of the month of No,
vember, of the year of grace 1859.

" BOURQUENEY.
" BANNEVILLE.
" KAROLYI.
" MEYSENBUG.
" Art. 2. Our Minister and Secretary of State in the
Department of Foreign Affairs is charged with the execu-
tion of the present decree.
" Done at Compiegne, the 27th of November, 1859.
" Seen, and sealed with the Seal of State.
" NAPOLEON.
(Countersigned) " DELANGLE,
" Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice.
" A. WA LE WSK I,
" Minister of Foreign Affairs.