The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-18 00:00:00

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TREATY ON THE SOUND DU

The Gazette d' Ausbourg publishes the following
authentic text of the above treaty :
" H.M. the EmpPr4 of Austria, H.M. the King
of the-Belgians, and H.M. the Queen of Spain,-on
the one part, ani H.M. the King of Denmark on
the other part, bring animated by an equal desire
to facilitate and increase the commercial and mari-
time relations which. at present exist between their
respe.ctva Sta'es, as much for the object of the
cotnplete and final Suppres-ion of all duties levied
on foreign ships: and cargoes in .their - passage
through the Sound and Belts:, as for the relief of
merchandise passing by the ways which connect the
North Sea and the Elbe with the Baltic, have re-
solved to negotiate to this end-a special treaty, and
have provid.td with full powers, viz., H.M. the
Emperor M. &c., who, having exchanged their
powers; arc., &c., have agreed to the following
articles
" Athele H's Majesty the King of Denmark
undertakes, not to levy any duty.on custmy,
tonnage, liehts, lighthouses, buoys, or any alter
charge on the hull or cargo of ships passing from
the North-Sea to the Baltic, or vice 4ersa, through
the Belts or the Suunil, whethir they purpose to
cross the Danish waters-or from accidents of the
sea, or commercial_ nece,sities, they are obliged
there to anchor or lie. No ship whatever will in
future be Sulljecf, under any pretext, in,its Passage
through the Sounds or Belts; to any kind of doten-
tion or hinderance ; but his Majesty the King of
Denmark expressly reserves to himself the right of
regu'ating, by special agreements, not implying
either visit or detention, the fiscal or customs forms
with re4pect to ships belonging to Powers who are
not parties to the present treaty. 2. Not to levy
on any of these said ships on entering or leaving
Danish ports, either with cargoes or in ballast, or
engaged or not in commercial operations, n‘r
upon their cargoes, any tax whatever from which
these ships would be free in passing through the
Sound or Belts according to the terms •f the
tree,' ies of 1841. between Great Britain and Sweden
on the one part and Denmark on the other, or
according to ancient treaties between Den-
mark and the other high contracting Powers
or the other States of Europe ; • and it is well under-
stood that these dues, which will be so abolished as
not to be levied in the Sound, Belts, or Danish
ports, cannot be indirectly re-established by in-
creasing for this object the existing port or customs
dues, or by the introduction, for the same object,
of new navigation or customs dues, or in any way
whatever.

"Article 11. His Majesty the King of Denmark
engages in addition-1. To preserve and maintain
in the best condition all the lights, ligh houses,
buoys, and landmarks actually existing, either at
the entrance or the approaches of his ports, bar-
beurs, roads, and rivers or channels along his
coasts ; that the buoys, landmarks, &c., actually
existing may serve to, facilitate navigation in the
Cattegut, Sound, and Belts. 2. To take, as before
mentioned, in very serious consideration in the
general interest of navigation, the, utility or pro-
priety either of altering the position or the form of
these said beacons, lighthouses, buoys, and land-
marks, or of augmenting their number, all without
charge of any sort to the foreign mariner. 3. To
cause, as before mentioned, to be supervised the
pilot service, the employment of which will at all
times be at the disposal of captains of vessels in the
Cattegut, Sound, and Belts. It is understio 1 that
the pilot dues will be moderate, and that the exist-
ing lines will not•be augmented, but, in the interest
of navigation itself, that the tariff will be the same
for Danish as for foreign ships, and the pilot dues
will be exacted only from those ships who volun arily
employ pilots. 4. To permit, without any restric-
tion, all private entrepreneurs, Danish or foreign,
to es.ablish or station freely, and on the same con-
ditions, whatever be their nation, in the Sound and
Belts, tug-boats for these ships that wish to employ
them. 5. To extend to alt the ways or channels
which at present connect, or may here if er connect,
the North Sea and the Elbe to the Baltic, exemp-
tion from dues which are at present levied ou
foreign and national merchandise, in acme of these
ways and channels, and known as follows. (Fiat
inser4o.) It is uncleas'o4. • t_a, future
period, nirehandise in any hese eha nel,, enjoys
an analogous exemption, this same exemption from
the transit tax will be extended by right to all the
channels above specified. 6. To lower upon all
these sums channels to a uniform tariff; and pro-
portional to 16 skillings (Danish) for more than
500 Danish pounds, the transit dues upon mer-
chandise which is at present liable to them, with-
out that the tariff be augmented by any other tax
of whatever denomination. In the event of the
lowering of the transit dues below the tariff above
specified, his Majesty the King of Denmark engages
to place all she ways or channels which unite or
shall unite the North Sea and the Elbe to the Baltic
or its tributaries, on a footing of perfect equality
with the ways the most favoured which actually
exist, or which will hereafter be established in his
territory. 7. To extend definitively with his Ma-
jesty the King of Sweden and Norway for the
maintenance, as before mentioned, of beacons on
the Swedish and Norwegian coasts, to facilitate
and light the passage of the Sound at the entrance
of the Cattegut. .
" Article 111. The engagements contained in the
two preceding articles to come into effect after
April 1, 1857.

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Article W. As indemnification and compen-
sation for the sacrifices which the above stipulations
must impose on his Majesty the King of Denmark,
their Majesties tin Emperor, the King and the
Queen, &c., engage on their side to pay his Ma-
jesty the King of Detimark, who accepts it, the
sum total of 30,570,698 dollars, divided as follows :
—AuAria, 20,434 rix dollars ; Belgium, rix
dollars ; Spain, ---.- rix dollars. It is understood
that the high contracting parties are each of them
responsible only for his own portion.
"Article V. The sums specified in the preceding
article will, under the reasons expressed in sec. 3 of
article 6, be pail in 20 years by 40 six monthly and
equal iwtalments, which will comprehend the capi-
tal and decreasing interest of the amounts not due.
" Article VI. Each one of the high contracting
Powers engages to arrange and determine with his
Majesty the king of Denmark, by a special-and se-
parate convention :-1. The mode and place of
payment of the 40 six monthly instalments ; 2.
The mode and rate of conversion into foreign mo-
ney of the aforesaid Danish money ; 3. The mode
and conditions of integral or partial amortisation to
which is expressly reserved the right of always re-
curring for the anticipated extinction of each share
of the indemnity.
" Article VII. The execution of the reciprocal
engagements contained in the present treaty is ex-
pressly subordinate to the fulfilment of the rules
and formalities established by the constitutional
laws of the high contracting parties) who engage
to have them applied with as brief a delay as pos-
sible.

" Article VIII. The present treaty will be rati-
fied and exchanged at Copenhagen."

POISONING CASE.

At the Cork assizes a singular ease of poisoning
by arsenic was tried yesterday. Mary Murphy was
indicted for ad ministering poison to Margaret Casey,
with intent. to cause her death. It appeared that
the prisoner, about two years and a half ago, be-
came intimately acquainted with a man named
Cornelius Casey, the result of which was, that in
something less than two years since she was de-
livered of a child, of which be was the father.
Before her delivery, however, he got married, and
it was his wife that the prisoner was charged with
attempting to poison. Cornelius Casey, it further
appeared, took the prisoner's child from her, and
was keeping it in his own house, and the ptisoder
1 having soruzlit to be allowed to support it, a quarrel
ensued, in the course of which the pi is .)ner assaulted
Marga. et Casey, and accused her of improper c n-
duet before In r martiage, for which assault the pri-
soner was brought before tLe 1 cal reatiistrA-s and
sentenced to seven dtya' imprisonment. Atte
this occurred the prisoner said to son,3,ewof,,itllitde tintenino.-t
Margaret Casey) .
berg of Cornelius Casey's family,
man hiad'ulda
be well to give her (meanincr
doe 1" and also said that "a fa'ry
Subsequent to these convenat lens aroencgoncr
her that Margaret Casey had not long to.
.live."
tation
should get, her child, and sign a release was effected, and it was agreed that
0-atey, r, leasing him from all further. liability the plis; mi.
Cilioz,nastliusio
and after doing so said sheShheadsl
the support of the child,
and prop gatibed
tthlee document,
and
osed that the- prosecutor's family should_
,
drink it "on the head" of the reconciliation.
Accordingly she brought the whisky to the
prosecutor's house, and with it seven cakes,
one for each member. of the family. She thou
distributed ,the cakes herself
ill pr rtion of
Casey had only partaken of a very am
which sick-
hers wl.en she became exceeding sick)
tress was afterwards Rte bare'
by the introduct on of a considerable quantity cf
portion of th.) re-
. oa;stuic lg() her st9rnach. A'
proved to;havbenbteen caused