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the property which its shareholders will acquire.

[PRICE 41). STAMPED SD.

RAIL TV -4 Y lATELLIGENo

THE SOUND DUES TREATY.

The draft of the proposed treaty drawn up by
the commissioners in .conference at Copenhagen, to
settle the terms on which the Sound dues are to be
abolished by the Government of Denmark, is
published in extenso in the Brussels journal, Le
Nord, of Monday, together with the schedu'es
specifying the various articles exempt from toll.
The King of Denmark engages not to levy any
charge whatever upon vessels or cargoes passing
from the North Sea to the Baltic, or vice versa,
through the Belts, or the Sound, whether they merely
traverse the Danish waters, or whether they anchor .
therein. No vessel is hereafter, upon any pretext
whatever, to be subjected, in passitis the Sound or
Belts, to any detention or impediment. The King
of Denmark, however, reserves to himself a right
to settle by special arrangements, Rot involving
either search or detention, the fiscal and customs
regulations to which vessels shall be subject be-
longing to powers which have not taken part in
this treaty. Vessels entering or leaving the Danish
ports, whether laden or in ballast, shall be exempt
from all lighthouse and other such dues, not having
the character of customs duties, or of peculiar har-
bour dues. The Danish Government undertakes to
maintain all existing beacons, lighthouses, buoys, and
landmarks, along the coast or in the approaches to its
harbours, road , rivers, and channes, and also to
take into its serious consideration every userul ad-
dition or alteration, without any cost to foreign
vessels. It will also exercise supervision over the
pilot service, which is to be always available for
captains and masters of ships, at their option. The
pilot charges are to be modified ; they are in no
rasa to be increas=d, and they are to be the same
for Danish as for foreign vessels, and not to be
demanded except from those vessels which volun-
tarily employ the pilots. Any private indivi-
duals, Danes or foreigners, are to be
without any restriction, to establish or station
in the Sound steam-boats serving exclusively
for towing vessels which may choose to employ
them. The exemption from tolls which a great
variety of articles at present enjoy in certain of the
channels, routes, or passages connecting the North
Sea with the Baltic, is henceforth extended to
every such channel or route either now existing or
which may hereafter be made between the North
Sea and the Baltic. (A very long list of the com-
modities which enjoy this exemption is annexed.)
It is quite unders'.ood that if any other articles of
commerce are at any future time favoured with a
similar exemption in any one of the channels re-
ferred to, the same exemption shall hold good on all
other routes. An uniform tax by weight of sixteen
ski Lings Danish for 500ibs. Danish is to be levied
upon all merchandise, not at present exempt, con-
veyed by whatever route ; and the King of Den-
mark engages to place all the routes of communica-
tion upon a footing of perfect equality with the
most favoured routes now existing, or here if er
to be established, between any two or several
Danish ports. The foregoing stipulaf ions are
to take effect from the Ist of April, 1857. As
indemnification and compensation for the sacrifices
thereby incurred, the governments contracting
with him engages to pay the King of Denmark,
who accepts the same, a total amount of 30,570,698
rigsdalers ; each of them to be responsible only for
its own quota. The sum is to be paid within 20
years, by 40 half-yearly payments of equal amount,
including a diminishing interest upon the sum not
yet payable. The mode and place of payment is
to be settled by each Government with the Danish
Government, by a separate convention, as well as
the conditions upon which the payment may be an-
ticipated or redeemed.