The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-05 00:00:00

LATEST N WS.

THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.
PARIS, THURSDAY, 9 A. 31.

The Moniteur contains an article on the ques-
tion of the union of the Danubian Principalities.
The PlenipoteLt;ary of France at the Conference
of Vienna had st tted it as his opinion that it was
the combination best suited to assure to thosepro-
vinces the strength necessary to become a bulwark
for the Ottoman Empire. The French Government
has not ceased to profess the same opinion, and
what has recently taken place between it and the
other Cabinets has only tended to confirm it in its
convictions. It does not despair of seeing them
prevail in the councils of the Powers, and that
the one most interested will admit that the union
of the Principalities has nothing which is not
completely in accordance with tke rights of suze-
rainty of the Sublime Porte with regard to the
Danubian Principalities.

MARSEILLES, FEB. 4.
We have arrivals front Constantinople to the
26th January.

The Presse d' Orient announces the reception of
the Commission for reconstituting the Danubian
Principalities by the Sultan. The Porte is pre-
paring a general amnesty for Moldo-Wallachia.
Rustum Pacha replaces M. Mussuras as Minis-
ter of Turkey at Turin.
The Gazette de Teheran publishes a State docu-
ment, complaining of the injustice of the English
in declaring war while negotiations were pending
at Constantinople.
The taking of Bushire was known on the 4th
of January. Persia is not discouraged, but is
sending troops into Farsistan.

The rumours of a conees4ion and of pacificp ar
rangements are unfounded."'

The English are moving troops from Bushire
upon Shiraz.

The Pays announces that another collision has
taken place on the frontiers ot Persia between the
Russians and the Turcoman tribes. In virtue of
a convention signed between Russia and Persia
in the year 1846 the Russians constructed the
fortress of Petrowsky on the Caspian Sea, near
Astrabad. The commander of the fort, iu order
to protect the garrison from a surprise, lately
erected two exterior works communicating with
the fort. These works had scarcely been finished
when, on the 11th of January last, the Turco-
mans, profiting by a dense fog, fell suddenly on
the Russians and forced them b fall back on
the fortress with a slight loss. The Governor
having placed the garrison under arms, sallied out
with a strong force, and held in check the Turco-
mans, who had already begun to demolish the
works ; and he, at the same time, demanded assis-
tance of the Governor of Ashoorada, which was im-
mediately sent to him. The Russians then
pursued the Turcomans, killed some, and took more
prisoners ; among whom was a chief of the prin-
cipal tribe of pirates in the Mazandaran, who was
at once sent to the Governor-General at Astrakhan.
The Russians by waging an implacable war against
the Turcoman robbers have rendered some service
to the merchants trading in those countries.

TREATY FOR THE REDEMPTION OF
THE SOUND DUES.
The following is the outline of the treaty about
to be concluded between Denmark and the various
European Powers trading with the Baltic, for the
redemption of the Sound Dues :
The preamble states, that with a view to facilitate
and increase the commercial and maritime relations
at present existing between Denmark and the other
contracting States, these parties have agreed to
negotiate a treaty for abolishing the dues levied on
ships and other cargoes passing through the Sound
and the Belts, and for diminishing the transit duty
payable on goods passing overland from the Ger-
man Ocean to the Baltic.
In the first article the King of Denmark under-
takes for the future not to levy any duty under the
name of customs, tonnage, or for lighthouses, buoys,
&c., on any vessels, or their cargoes, passing from
the German Ocean to the Baltic, or vice versa,
through the Belts or the Sound, and this, too, irre-
spective of whether the vessels simply pass through
the Danish waters, or whether they be compelled
by stress of weather or for the sake of commercial
operations to cast anchor there, or to put into a
port. No vessel of any sort belonging to the
contracting Powers is in future to be subjected
to any detention or other hindrance while
passing through the Belts or the Sound ; with
regard t 3 the vessels of other States not partici-
pating in this Tresty, the King of Denmark is to
be at liberty to settle by separate arrangements the
fiscal conditions that are to be accorded to them.
The King undertakes further to free from all dues
for lighthouses, beacons, buoys, &c., and, in general,
from all maritime taxes, with the exception of ab-
solute port dues and customs, any such vessels of
the contracting parties as may enter or leave Danish
ports, either in cargo or in ballast, and equally
whether they have or have not entered into any
commercial transaction at the port.
In the 2d article the King binds himself to main-
tain and keep in good order all the lights, beacons,
buoys, &c., at present in use, both at the ap-
proaches to Danish ports and roads, or along the
Danish coast. Secondly, in the interest of com-
merce and navigation, to pay due regard to the
expediency of modifying the position or the form
of these said lights, beacons, buoys, &c., or of
increasing their number, and this without any
charge or burden to foreign vessels. Thirdly, to
keep up the present supply, of pilots, whom it
shall be optional to all masters of vessels to
employ or not. The charges for pilotage are
also never to rise higher than they are at present ;
they are to be the same for Danish as for
foreign vessels, and are to be payable only
by those vessels that tyke pilots on board. Fourthly,
he will permit private individuals, whether natives
or foreigners, to establish stations in the Sound and
Belts for providing steam tugs to vessels passing
through and desirous of profiting by this facility.
Fifthly, he extends to all canals or other routes
leading from the German Ocean to the Baltic the!same
exemption from duty which Danish and foreign
merchandise of certain kinds enjoy on certain
routes, (here follows a specification of the various
kinds of merchandise and the various routes); and if
in future any goods not specified here should succeed
in obtaining an exemption from transit duty on any
one of those routes, that exemption shall be extended
'to all others. And sixthly, he undertakes to re-
duce the rate of transit duty on all those goods
now liable to it r
to an unif
lborm rate of 16 skillings
fo 500 . Danish weight ; and
Danish money
finally, should the transit dues come, at any
future time to be lowered on any one of the routes
below this rate, the King undertakes to put
all the routes now connecting, or which may
hereafter connect the German Ocean or the Elbe
with the Baltic or any of its tributaries, on a
footing
of perfect equality with any routes that may
hereafter be opened between any two ports of his

According to Art. 3, the provisions of Articles 1
and 2 are to come into force on and after April the

Ist of this year.

Art. 4 binds the States entering into this treaty
with Denmark to pay the latter as an indemnifica-
tion for the sacrifices it makes in the above articles
the sum of 30,570,698 rix dollars, according to
various quotas already agreed upon, and with the
provision that each State is liable only for its own
quota.

In Art. 5 it is provided that the various amounts
above specified shall be_paiti within 20 years, in AO