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Raris correspondent says that "whatever may have been said of

the unpopularity of the treaty of commerce, and of its having a merely political object, it is quite clear that both countries are preparing to take advantage of its stipulations at the earliest possible date. Inquiries of all sorts on behalf of English houses pour in on us in almost every branch of trade; and, if the political horizon were only brighten-an ac- tivity thus far unheard of, would 'take place in the commercial relations of the two nations."