The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-16 00:00:00

ARTICLE I.

The merchants of the two mighty States are reciprocally per.
mitted and allowed to carry into each other's territories their goods
and manufactures of every description, and to sell or exchange
them in any part of their respective countries ; and on the goods
which they import or export, custom duties shall be levied, that
is to say, on entering the country the same amount of custom
duties shall be levied, once for all, that is levied on
merchandise imported by the merchants of the most favoured
European nations; and at the time of going out of the
country, the same amount of custom duties which is levied
on the merchandize of merchants of the most favoured European
tuitions shall be levied from the merchants, subjects of the high
contra cting parties; and except this, no claim shall be made upon
the merchants of the two States in each other's dominions on any
e or under any denomination ; and the merchants or persons
or dependent uroir the high contracting parties in
• mutually, shalt receive the same aid and
which are received by the subjects of

pret,

connected w.
each ether's dominio.

support, and the same respect,

the most favoured nations.
ARTICLE 11.
As it is necessary, far the purpose of attending to the

affairs of

the merchants of the two parties respectively, that from both t,
vernments commercial agents should be appointed to reside in stated
places ; it is therefore arranged that two commercial agents on the
part of the British Government shall reside, one in the capital,
and one in Tabreez, and in those places only, and on this condi.
tion, that he who shall reside at Tabreez, and he alone, shall be
honoured with the privileges of Consul-General; and as for a soles
of years a Resident of the British Government has resided at
Bushire, the Persian Government grants permission that the said
Resident shall reside there as heretofore. And, in like manner,
two commercial agents shall reside on the part of the Persian Go-
vern►uent, one in the capital of London, and one in the port of Bom-
bay, and shall enjoy the same rank and privileges which the com-
mercial agents of the British Govermneut shall enjoy in Persia.

The question of the Reform of the Chamber of Depu-
ties excites comparatively little interest in the political
circles of the French metropolis. Whether it be that
such Reform is deemed impracticable, or that our volatile
neighbours tire of their own projects, almost as soon as
they adopt them, certain it is that hardly a syllable ap-
pears in the Journals about AL GANNERON'S proposal
for excluding paid functionaries from the representation
of the French people.
Another phase of the same Reform question comes
before the Chamber of Deputies this week. It has re-
ference to the electors, and not t 3 the elected. It de-
mands such an extension of the suffrage as shall include
all Professors of Law and Physic ; members of the In-
stitute; and officers on half-pay, not paying the requisite
amount of taxes. The object of such a measure is to
secure the representation of the mind, as well as of the
money of France. We anticipate its rejection by a large
majority. The classes interested are too dissociated to
make them formidable to the Government, and the Mi-
nisters must be sensible that they could anticipate, no-
thing but opposition from such a quarter. In the repre-
sentation of money, and money only, lies the security of
such a corrupt Government as that of France.

Madrid letters tell us that with the exception of the
Duke of OSUNA. and the Marquis of SANTIAGO, none of
the Spanish Grandees attended the last grand ball given
by the British Ambassador. This news has cost their
wives and daughters more uneasiness, than it is ever
likely to do us. We quarrel not with the Grandees
of any country for declining a dance, even though
a Queen were to set them the example. Solecisms
in • manners, and instances of bad taste ap-
pertain too much to every class. to blame
them more in a Peer than in a coal•porter. Moreover,
we happen to care very little about what regard the
Grandees of Spain may have for the representative. of
.this country. The power of the Grandees, like the
power of the POPE in Spain, has become a recollection, and
nothing more. 'While the Spanish Government and the
Spanish people repose confidence in the friendship of our
Minister, and of England, we can afford to laugh at
the exclusive impertinences of Spain's degenerate and
powerless Grandees.

A letter from Madrid mentions the death of Lieut.-
General the Marquis DE CASTELLDORIUS, Grandee o
Spain, and Senator for the province of Catalonia.

DEATH OF GEORGE BELL, ESQ.

We regret to announce the death of this enterprising
Scotsman, who expired on the 28th of pctaber last, at
Acoyapa, a small town in Central America. Mr. Bell,
whose connection with the " Vixen" case is matter oflegis-
lative notoriety, had accompanied an exploratory expe-
dition to the river Bluefields, along the frontier of Cen-
tral America. Whilst he was engaged in peaceable
communication with them, intelligence reached the au-
thorities of that State, that the Governor of the Fort of
St. Juan Nicaragua (subject to its authority) had been
Seized as a hostage by the Commandant ofthe British settle-
ment situated on'the Mosquito shore, on the banks of which
he was the proprietor of a large tract of valuable land.
It'appears that, with four countrymen, he had ascended
the Bluefields to the distance of upwards of 100 miles, for
the purpose of entering into commercial intercourse with
the native Indians inhabiting the settlement at Belize ;
and in revenge for this act, Mr. Bell and his companions
were captured, marched fOr nearly seventy miles into the
interior, and put in prison. Soon after his imprisonment
Mr. Bell fell a victim to the combined effects of hardship,
unhealthiness of climate, and vexation of mind. His
giwanions survived their captivity, and, we believe, are
now on their homeward voyage.

LORD CARDIGAN. —The late Adjutant of the
11th Hussars has contradicted the statement of the United
Service Gazette, that he had resigned in consequence of Lord
Cardigan having required him "to make memoranda, pri-
vately, of officers who absented themselves from evening
stables." Lord Cardigan, he says, never required him to re-
port officers in the manner alluded to.
The Duke of Wellington was loudly hooted and
hissed, on his way to the House of Peers, last evening ; and
Sir Robert Peel, who was not recognised until his approach
towards the House of Commons, was greeted with similar ex-
pressions of public disapprobation.
MANCHESTER ANTI-CORN-LAW BAZAAR.--
The total receipts of tlie`Manchester Anti-Corn-law Bazaar for
eight days, or 56 hours, it is said, will not be less than nine
thousand five hundred pounds!
DESTRUCTION OF OKEHAM CHURCH BY
FIRE.-We are sorry to have to announce the all but total
tdestruction of this ancient and venerable fabric, on Sunday
he 13th instant. The church is situate on a hill, little more
than half a mile from the town; and in less than a quarter of
an hour after the congregation had left the church in the fore-
noon, it- was discovered to be in a blaze in the organ loft.
Such was the rapidity of the flames, that in less than half au
hour the fire raged from one end of the building to the other.
The roof fell in. We regret to state that every monument
was destroyed. The Tower was preserved from the general
wreck.—Devonshire Chronicle.
Died, at Bain, parish of Straiton, Ayrshire, on
the 26th January, Margaret Pateisen, in her ninety'-seventh'
year. She was the oldest parishioner, and daughter of the
celebrated Robert Pateison, '
the original of Sir Walter Scott's
" Old Mortality." ,