The Morning Chronicle announces the final ratification at Constantinople of
the commercial treaty between England and Turkey ; and gives the following summary of the chief articles " By the first clause of this important treaty, our trade with Turkey is for ever protected from those invidious distinctions and exclusions of particular articles, to which, under the plea of protecting national manufacture,' it is subjected in other countries. The establishment of a low and fixed duty, to be paid by the importer, in lien of those formerly levied on the purchaser, and the abolition of all those mischievous impositions of the interior customhouses and provincial governors, cannot fail to give a considerable impulse to our trade.
"By the second article, foreign goods in the hands of our merchants are entitled to the same pir ivileges and freedom of circulation ; and we are thereby coustituted agents fur all such nations as may not choose to become parties to this convention.
"By the third article, our vessels are for ever freed from any taxes or charges in passing the Dardanelles or Bosphorus, which the jealous influence of Russia might at any time induce the Turks to impose upon them, with a view to impede our navigation or inime our commerce. A free transit is also granted to all foreign goods passing through Turkey for exportation. "By the first article of the second part, all privileges, rights, and immunities granted by the present and former treaties, are for ever confirmed ; and, by a guarantee that we shall be for ever placed on the same footing as every other foreign power, a protection is afforded from the difficulties in which the framing of secret and unrecognized articles of treaties by other powers might have a tendency to involve us. " The second article of this part permits a free trade and export throughout the Ottoman dominions of every article the country produces or manufactures. The twofold effect of thus developing the resources of Turkey, by enriching her treasury, and rendering her independent of Russia for those articles which she is now obliged to import from her, cannot be estimated too highly. " The third article of the secood part places our merchants on precisely the same footing as the most favourerl subjects of Turkey itself. In other countrimr, as our readers are aware, this immunity can only be purchased by many years of residence and naturalization.
"The fourth article of this part, by granting a facility of transport, and fixing a specific interior duty, instead of the oppressive taxes and extortions formerly levied, will give a freedom and extension to Turkish commerce that must be attended with incalculable advantage. "The fifth article obviates all the delays and difficulties to which our ships are now exposed in obtaining firmans.
We have on former occasions adverted to the effect of extending the treaty to Egypt, which is done by the sixth article "
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