Great Britain), it could only be by the establishment of such a rigorous conscription of all ranks as we believe would not be endured, and by a change in the whole tone of this country, as to the military service, such as we have no expectation of seeing effected.

We humbly submit this our una

nimous report to your majesty's royal consideration.

WHARNCLIFF.
JAMES KEMPT.
SANDON.

E. HYDE EAST.
R. C. FERGUSSON.
E. BARNES, Lieut.-Gen.
T. REYNELL.

India Board, March 15, 1836.

His majesty the king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his majesty the king of the French, being desirous of extending the facilities of communication by post between their respective dominions, and to accomplish by means of a convention this important object, have, for this purpose, named as their plenipotentiaries, that is to say:

His majesty the king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the right hon. Granville earl Granville, a peer of the United Kingdom, knight grand cross of the most honourable order of the bath, a privy councillor, and his majesty's ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary at the court of France:

And his majesty the king of the French, M. Louis Adolphe Thiers, commander of the royal order of the legion of honour, &c., a member of the chamber of deputies of the departments, minister secretary of state for the department of foreign affairs, and president of the council of ministers :

Who, after having exchanged their respective full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles:

Art. I. Persons desirous of sending letters either from France to the United Kingdom of Great

Britain and Ireland, and to those British colonies or possessions where the post-office of Great Britain has established post-offices, or from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the British colonies or possessions, to France, shall have the option:First, of allowing the whole of the postage of such letters to be charged to the receiver; secondly, of paying the postage in advance to the place of destination; thirdly, of paying the postage only as far as the frontier of the country to which the letters are sent.

Art. II. The system of optional payment of postage specified in the preceding article, in favour of ordinary letters from the two countries, shall be applicable to letters and packets containing patterns of merchandise.

Art. III. Letters and packets containing patterns of merchandise, which shall be forwarded from one country to the other, either paid or unpaid, shall be conveyed at such reduced rates of postage as are allowed for such articles by the laws and regulations of each country.

Art. IV. The inhabitants of the two countries may send from one country to the other, letters termed registered or recommended letters. The postage of such letters shall be fixed according to the combined

rates of both countries, and shall always be paid in advance to the place of destination.

Art. V. The postage of a single letter, (for which the post-offices of the two countries shall account to each other), for ordinary letters, paid or unpaid, is fixed as follows, that is to say :

FOR THE FRENCH POST-OFFICE..

1. Between Paris and the frontier of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, one franc.

2. And with respect to any other part of the French territory situated on either side of Paris relatively to the frontier of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, a charge in proportion to the rate of postage above fixed for the conveyance between Paris and the said frontier. FOR THE POST OFFICE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT

BRITAIN AND IRELAND:1. Between London and the frontier of France, 10d.

2 And with respect to any other part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland situated on either side of London relatively to the frontier of France, a charge in proportion to the rate of postage. above fixed for the conveyance between London and the said frontier.

Art. VI. The postage of a single letter, for which the French post-office will have to account to the post-office of the United King dom of Great Britain and Ireland, with regard to letters arriving from the British colonies and possessions, or from other countries beyond sea, destined for France, or from France for the British colonies and possessions, or other countries beyond sea, which shall be conveyed by the regular packets of

the post-office of Great Britain and Ireland, is fixed as follows, that is to say:

1. From and to Jamaica, Barbadoes, Martinique, Guadaloupe, St. Domingo, the British settlements and islands, the mails for which are conveyed by the Jamaica and Leeward Island packets, the United States of America and British North America, 2s. 3d.

2. From and to Portugal, 2s. 7d. 3. From and to Madeira, the Azores, and the Canaries, 2s. 8d. 4. From and to Carthagena, La Guayra, and Honduras, 3s. 1d.

5. From and to Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Chili, and all other places in South America, the mails for which are conveyed by the Brazil packet, 3s. 7d.

With respect to such of the above-mentioned letters as shall be Conveyed by merchant vessels leaving the ports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or arriving at those ports, the rate for which the French post-office will have to account to the postoffice of Great Britain and Ireland, is fixed as follows, that is to say :

For letters destined for France, 1s. 6d. for each single letter.

For letters coming from France, 1s. also for each single letter.

The postage of the letters from France for the countries beyond sea, mentioned in the present article, which shall be conveyed by merchant vessels leaving the ports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, shall be paid in advance agreeably to the practice, with respect to the letters sent from the United Kingdom.

Art. VII. The two post-offices shall mutually account to each other for the postage received on. letters, whether paid or unpaid, forwarded from one office to the

other, according to the scale of postage in force in that one of the two countries to which the account is to be rendered.

Nevertheless, the post-office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, shall account to the post-office of France at the rate of a single rate of postage for each quarter of an ounce, on letters addressed to France, post paid, to their destination.

Art. VIII.-English newspapers sent to France, shall, like newspapers coming from other foreign post-offices in correspondence with France, and like French newspapers in France, be subject to a rate of only four centimes for each newspaper, to be paid by the receiver; and, reciprocally, French newspapers destined for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, shall be subject only to a postage equivalent to that of four centimes, and to be paid by the English receiver. The whole, how ever, upon the condition, that on both sides the newspapers shall be printed in the language of the country in which they shall have been published; and that with respect to them, the laws and decrees which regulate their publication and circulation shall have been duly complied with.

With regard to newspapers coming from foreign countries through the French territory, and destined for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the English post-office shall pay to the French post-office, for the conveyance of those newspapers through France, a postage of four centimes on every printed sheet.

Art. IX. His majesty the king of the French promises to use his good offices with the governments of those countries, of which the

post-offices are in relation with the post-office of France, in order to procure for the inhabitants of Great Britain and Ireland, whose correspondence with those countries passes through the French territory, the option reserved by Article I., of the present convention to the correspondence between France and the United Kingdom.

Art. X. Letters misdirected or missent, as well as letters addressed to persons who have changed their residence, shall be returned without delay to one of the offices of exchange belonging to the postoffice from which they have been forwarded, for a return of the postage at which they were delivered by that office to the office of the other country.

Art. XI. Dead letters of every description shall be mutually returned by each office at the expiration of every month, or oftener, if possible; and those letters which shall have been charged in account, shall be returned for the same amount of postage which was originally charged for them by the office from which they were sent.

Art. XII. Independently of the respective offices for the exchange of letters for the two countries, which are established at Dover and Calais by Article I. of the convention of June 14, 1833, and through which principally the correspondence between Great Britain and France shall continue to be forwarded, it is agreed, that bags may be made up for the transmission of local correspondence between Brighton and Dieppe, Southampton and Havre, and all other places on the coast of each of the two countries, for which such direct communications may hereafter be deemed necessary.

The inhabitants of the places

zerland; making in all six francs, twenty centimes.

3. Letters from the Ionian islands shall pay for every thirty

Art. XIII. The transit postage through France on letters from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to those countries to which France is the channel of communication, and from those countries to the United Kingdom, shall continue as fixed by article IX. of the convention of the 17th May, 1802, with the exception of the undermentioned modifications, that is to say :

1. Letters from Austria, and from the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom, shall pay for every thirty grammes, net weight, independently of the sum of one franc fifty centimes, stipulated by the before - mentioned convention as transit postage through France, the sum of one franc eighty centimes, as a reimbursement to France of the sum paid to the Austrian post-office for the conveyance of the said letters through Switzerland; making in all three francs and thirty centimes.

2. Letters from Turkey, from the Levant, from the Archipelago, and from Greece, shall pay for every thirty grammes, net weight, independently of the sum of three francs stipulated by the abovementioned convention as transit postage through France, the sum of three francs twenty centimes, as a reimbursement to France of the sum paid to the Austrian post-office for the conveyance of the said letters through the Austrian territory and through SwitVOL. LXXVIII.

dently of the sum of three francs, stipulated by the above mentioned convention as transit postage through France, the sum of two francs forty centimes, as a reimbursement to France the sum paid to the Austrian post-office for the transit of the said letters through the Austrian territory and through Switzerland, making in all five francs, forty centimes.

With respect to those foreign governments, the transit postage of whose correspondence is now paid to France by the post-office of Great Britain, both going and returning, the French government engages, in the event of the renewal of any post-office conventions with those governments, to demand that they should bear the charge of one of the rates of transit.

Art. XIV. The post-offices of Great Britain and France shall, every month, balance their accounts for the mutual transmission of letters; and those accounts, after having been examined, compared, and settled by the postoffices, shall be liquidated at the expiration of every three months by that post-office which shall be acknowledged to be in debt to the other.

Art. XV. The form in which the accounts mentioned in the preceding article are to be made up, as well as the mode of verifying the account of the postage to be mutually accounted for by each office, and all other matters of detail which are to be arranged by mutual consent for ensuring the Y