Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-05-15
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PnE RGATY OF PEACE.

FME lskAAaY OF PEACE.
The Loeds8 Neus has 4 copy of one o
the peace docsmentsy which is considere,
to be an authentic. It contains thirty-fou
articles.
The first restores perpetual friendship be
tween the contending powers.
Second.-All territories conquered or oc
cupied during the war shall be reciprocally
evacuated
Third. restores Kars and all 9th
er Ottoman territory
Fourth.-The allies restore Sevastopol
Balaklava, Kamiesche, Eupatoria, anc
Kertch
(Fifth to eighth article inclusive missing.
Nlnth.-The Sultan, grants equality te
the Christians in his dominions, and the
other contrating parties divest themselves o.
all right to interfere in the internal govern.
ment of the Ottoman Empire.
Tenth. The convention of 1841 closing
the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles is re-af.
firmed
Eleventh. The Black Sea is neutralized
and forever closed to all ships of war of any
power with the exceptions specified in the
fourteenth and nineteenth articles.
Twelfth. Trade is made free in the
Black Sea and counsels are admitted to all
Its ports.
Thirteenth.-Neither Turkey or Russia
are to hold arsenels in the Black Sea.
fourteenth. "A convention regulating
the force for the coast service concluded in
dividually between the Russia and Turkey
But it is appended to the treaty and is un-
alterable except with the general consent
Fifteenth.-The free navigation of the
Danube to be made law of Empire.
Sixteenth and Seventeenth. Appoints
delegates from the various contracting pow
ers to put the Danube in navigable order,
and makes provision for keeping it so.
The eighteenth provides for permanent
commission to superintend it's police, whilst
the nineteenth allows each of the contract
ing powers to station two small ships at the
mouth Of said river.
The twentieth defines the new frontier of
Bessarabia, and the twenty-6rst cedes and
annexes the added territory to Moldavia.
The twenty-second article continues Mol
davia and Wallachia under the sovereignty
of Turkey. The twenty-third guarantees
to said provinces freedom of religion and
commerce. The twenty fourth makes pro-
vision toward their definite organization,
and the twenty fifth provides that the con-
stitution for the government of the Princi-
palities shall be framed in Paris. The
twenty-sixth says the Principalities shall
maintain a militia and may construct defen-
ces approved by the Porte The twenty
seventh provides that in case of internal dis
turbances in the Principalities the Porte
cannot interfere without consulting the con-
tracing powers.
The twenty-eighth article continues Ser
via a dependency of the Porte, and the
twenty-ninth gives to the Porte the right to
garrison it.
The thirtieth gives to Russia and Turkey
their former possessions in Asia, with new
f,ontiers marked out under the treaty.
The thirty first provides for the immedi-
ate evacuation of Turkey by the allied and
Austrian forces.
The thirty second allows trade to 60 on
as before the war, until the new arrange
M ,nts are made.
The thirty-third relates to the Aland Is
land, and the thirty fourth designates the
time when the treaty shall be ratified
The London Sun publishes the treaty
with a mourning border round it!