The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-26 00:00:00

PROTOCOL OF A CONFERENCE HELD AT THR FOREIGN,

OFFICE.

Present-:—the Plenipotentiaries of Great Britain and

Hanover.)
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The Plenipotentiaries of her Majesty the Queen of
he United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and
of his Majesty the. King of Hanover, having met to-
gether for the purpose of exchanging the ratifications
of the treaty of commerce and navigation, concluded
and signed by them at London on the 22d of July
last, the Hanoverian Plenipotentiary, stated, that the
convention relative to the regulation of the Pruns-
hausen or Stade Toll, signed by the Commissioners
of the Elbe bordering :States at Dresden on the
13th of April last, which convention is annexed
to the treaty of July, had not as yet been rati-
fied by all the contracting parties ; and that conse-
quently it was possible that its stipulations might
not come into operation by the Ist of October next,
the date at which, by the sixth article of the treaty,
his Hanoverian Majesty engaged that the rates of tolls
and charges specified in the said convention of the

13th of April, and in the documents annexed thereto,
should become applicable to British vessels and their
cargoes ; and that in such case, his Hanoverian Ma-
-1 jesty would be unable .to fulfil such engagement at the
time stipulated. That the Hanoverian Government
still, however, entertaining the well-founded hope
that the convention of the 13th of April last would
soon receive the ratification of all the contracting
parties, proposed not to defer the exchange of the ra-
tifications of the treaty of the 22d of July, but to
under an agreement to
until the convention of the 13th of April last shall
the proceed
following t
ffe exchange,ct„ hat for the present, and
have been ratified by all the contracting parties, the
tariff of the Brunshausen or Stade Toll, at present
existing, shall continue in force • except with regard
to all those articles of British produce and manufac-
ture which are specified in the 6th article of the treaty
of the 22d of July, on which articles, when conveyed
up the Elbe in British vessels, no higher duty or toll
shall from and after the Ist of October next be levied
than the amount prescribed for such articles by article
6, above-mentioned ; and also save and except that
from and after the said Ist of October next no fees or
payments in kind of any description whatsoever shall be
levied on British vessels or their cargoes, of whatever na-
ture
assented
those Plenipoten-
tiaries having taken these statements into consideration,
ed to the
proposition
inaybe
; The British
the Hanoverian Plenipoten-
tiary,at cargoes
provided-1. That in the event of the benefit of
any or all of the stipulations of the convention of the
13th April being granted to any one of the Elbe border-
ing States, or to any country whatsoever, Great Bri-
tain shall at the same time be admitted to the enjoy.
ment thereof. 2. That in case the aforesaid conven-
tion of the 13th of April shall not have become
applicable to British vessels and their cargoes by the
Ist of April, 1845, the Hanoverian Government will
then be ready to reconsider the arrangements of
article 6 of the treaty of tile 22d of July, with a view
of giving to British commerce and navigation an ade-
quate compensation. 3. That if the Government or
Legislature of Great Britain shall hereafter deem it
expedient to bring into operation on the Ist of Jan.,
1848, the date at which many of the treaties
of commerce between Great Britain and foreign
Powers are terminable, any new measures of general
application, having the advancement of commerce for
their object, and the adoption of which measures
shall render it necessary to contract fresh engage-
ments with foreign Powers, the Government of

.....
Hanover will be ready to reconsider any stipulations
of the treaty of the 22d of July which may be affected
by such measures, with a view to render them con-
formable to the same, and to the mutual interests of
the two countries. The Hanoverian Plenipotentiary,
on his part, assented to these propositions, provided,
with reference to the one last mentioned, the stipula-
tions of article 7 of the treaty of the 22d of July,
shall in all cases remain in force for the full period
prescribed for the duration of the treaty by article 8
(till the Ist of January, 1854, and further until the
end of twelve months after either of the high con-
tracting parties shall have given notice to the other
of its intention to terminate the same, each of the
parties reserving to itself the right of giving such
notice to the other), which was agreed to by the
British Plenipotentiaries. It was therefore deter-
mined that the ratifications of the treaty of the
22d of July should be exchanged, subject expressly
to the different propositions recorded in the present
protocol; and the Plenipotentiaries accordingly pro-
ceeded to effect the said exchange in the usual form.
ABERDEEN.
W. E. GLADSTONE.
E. HUPEDEN.

—.. VALLEE D'AURE...--TWO
HAUTES PYRENEES.
hunters, whilst ascending the peak of Tremisseques, per-
ceived, sailing beneath them, a vulture of an enormous
size. One of them, seizing the moment of his near
approach, discharged his gun, loaded with five goat shot,
which took effect on the wing of the bird, and brought
him down. Descending the precipice, the adroit marks-
man, proud of his exploit, would fain attempt to take the
animal alive, which, resting against a rock, struck the
hunter on his approach, tearing him frightfully with his
talons, and sunk its beak into his skull. Unable either
to fight or fly, the rash young man must have expiated
the attempt by the loss of life, had not his companion,
with great presence of mind, placed his fusil close to the
vulture's head, and shattered it to pieces. Upon being
measured, the bird was found to be five feet long from
beak to tail ' • his plumes were of great strength and
beauty, his legs enormously thick, and hard as iron,
upon one of which, singular to state, was a silver brace-
let, engraved deeply with the Greek characters, Alpha,
Gamma, Delta ; from a hole, also, pierced through his
beak, it would seem that he bad once been a captive, and
chained,