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London, England, 1844-10-25 00:00:00

wines in cask, and two francs per hectolitre for •
wines in bottle. Moreover, the excise duty now ex-
isting on the same wines will be reduced 25 per cent.
The actual import duty existing in Belgium on silk
tissues of the Zollverein will be reduced 25 per cent.
Pending the present treaty, the customs and excise
duties thus reduced cannot be increased and it is
understood that the wines and silks of any other
origin than those of the Zollverein cannot be subject
in Belgium to any more favourable duties than those
respectively applied to the wines and silks of the
Zollverein.
Art. 23. The exports from Belgium of bark for
tanning, by the custom-houses of Jalhay, Petit Hear,
and Francorchamps, will take place at a duty of 6 per
cent. ad valorem.
Art. 24. The stuffs of Nuremberg comprised in
the Belgian tariff under the category of haberdashery
will be separately classed in this tariff at 5 per cent.
ad valorem. The import duties into Belgium upon
articles of mode from the Zollverein will be fixed at
10 per cent. ad valorem, as determined by the Belgian
tariff before the decree of July 14, 1843. Working
iron and steel tools, the products of the Zollverein,
shall not on entering Belgium be subjected to higher
duties than the present ones. The same regulation
applies to cotton stuffs of all kinds from the same
States. Mineral water of the Zollverein is exempt
from all duties on entering Belgium.
" Art. 25. Belgium shall continue to admit, at a
duty of 5 centimes per 100 kilos., Westphalian or
Brunswick thread, until the quantity of 250,000
kilogrammes has been admitted per year.
" Art. 26. The law of June 6, 1839, concerning
the commercial relations of Belgium with the Grand
Duchy of Luxemburg remains in state quo.
" Art. 27. In order to favour the commercial rela-
tions of, and the transit operations between, the
States of the two high contracting parties, they re-
ciprocally promise to render the communication by
their land frontiers as easy, quick, and economical as
possible. Should precautionary measures be judged
necessary on either side, to prevent or repress abuses,
they shall be combined in such manner that neither
the facility nor the cheapness of the transits towards
either territory shall be altered for the worse.
" Art. 28. The two high contracting parties reserve
to themselves the power of determining hereafter, by
mutual accord, the measures to be adopted in order
to repress the Custom-house frauds upon the frontier
which separates Belgium from the Zollverein. The
Belgian Government undertakes to put into force
immediately proper measures (by virtue of the 178th
and following articles of the law of August 26, 1822,
and the 13th and following articles of the law of
April the 6th, 1843) to suppress the depots men-
tioned in the above quoted laws. In return, the
Prussian Government undertakes to repress as much
as possible all frauds which may be practised to the
detriment of Belgium on the Belgico-Rhenish frontier.
" Art. 29. Every German State in connexion with
the Zollverein shall be considered one of the contract-
ing parties to the present treaty.
" Art. 30. The present treaty shall be ratified, and
the ratifications exchanged at Brussels within fifty
days, or sooner, if possible. The Belgian Government
undertakes, within ten days of the signing of the
treaty, to put into force the arrangements of the Ist,
3d, and 22d articles. The treaty will be in force
during six years, commencing the 6th of January,
1845. Nevertheless, the two high contracting parties
may, by. mutual consent, carry it into effect before
that period. Should neither of the high contracting
parties, within the six months preceding the expira-
tion of the above six years, declare officially its in-
tention to dissolve the treaty, it will remain in face
beyond thht term, and sb on, from year to year.
In confirmation of which the respective Plenipo-
tentiaries have signed the present, and sealed it with
their arms.

(Signed)
" Brussels, Sept. 1, 1844:'

" GOBLET,
" ARNIM.

FORGERY OF BANK OF ENGLAND

NOTES.

The discovery of a forgery of Bank of England
notes has created great excitement among all who
are acquainted with it, as there is every probability
of the fraud having been carried on to a most alarm-
ing extent. The notes discovered to be forgeries are
all for 1001., and all of them, it seems, are dated the
sth of December, 1843, and one marked with the
letters "E," although their numbers are different, as
if they formed part of a series. The paper on which
they are printed distinguishes this from all similar
attempts that have been known for some years. In
the ordinary forgeries of 51. notes, the water-mark
has been copied on a wooden block, and a mark,
snfficiently like the ordinary water-mark to deceive
the unpractised eye, has been made on the false note
by intense pressure. In these 100/. notes, on the other
hand, there is areal water- mark ,such as could only have
been obtained by manufacturing paper expressly for
that purpose. The parties who have seen the notes
declare that they are such excellent imitations, that
none but experienced inspectors of the Bank cf
England could detect the forgery, and even those only
by the most careful examination.
As far as can be learned at present, it seems that
the perpetrators of the fraud selected the foreign
Bourses as the places where they should give circu-
lation to their forgeries. The notes already dis-
covered have come from Belgium and Antwerp ; and
it is said that a real note, bearing the same date and
letters as the forgeries, and now in the possession of
the Bank of England, can be proved to have travelled
to Paris. The supposition is, that this note, which '
was paid into the Bank of England as far back as
last June, is the original, according to which the for-
geries were made as copies. Therefore, it is far from
improbable that the paper was made, and the plate
engraved, at Paris
The whole amount of the notes already discovered
is less than 1,0001., but there is no reason to believe
that this is the whole extent of the fraud. If the
forgeries were copied from the note now in the Bank
of England, there has been sufficient time to issue a
great number of them, and it is hardly to be expected
that so much pains would have been taken for the
sake of a limited amount. The foreign Bourses are
notorious for the facility with which stolen Bank of
England notes are circulated, and considering the
absence of immediate check, it is obvious that the
facilities for circulating forged notes may be equally
great. Every caution, therefore, should be used by
merchants and all whose business requires them to
receive remittances from the continent, for it is evi-
dent that a party has been at work whose acts it
requires the greatest vigilance and acuteness to de-
tect.—Timer.