DECEMBER 5, 1862.

I have the honor to inform you that, in conformity with the instructions received in circular No. 17, addressed to the consular officers of the United States, dated Washington, July 30, 1862, I have communicated to the prefecture of the province of Ancona, as the chief authority, a copy of the provision of the law mentioned therein, and have inquired if the "privilege of purchasing supplies from the public warehouses, duty free," is now or will be extended to the vesselsof-war of the United States. The prefect answered, that he himself, not being able to give me the information required, applied for it to the ministry of foreign affairs at Turin, and received in answer a copy of the note addressed to the royal extraordinary commissioner at Palermo, which the prefect communicated to me. I herewith enclose a copy of the original note above mentioned, and a translation of it.

DECEMBER 31, 1862.

In conformity with section 152 of the general instructions, I respectfully report that according to a royal decree of September 11, 1862, of the kingdom of Italy, substantial changes will take place commencing with the 1st of January, 1863, in regard to public revenue. The royal decree issued thereupon is too large and too detailed to be communicated properly in an extract; I therefore thought it convenient to transmit a printed copy of the whole, which I accordingly send herewith under a separate envelope as printed matter. A main point of this royal decree is, that on and after the first of January, 1866, the ports of Ancona, Leghorn, and Messina will cease to be free ports, only Genoa remaining further as such.

The second matter which requires to be noticed is a royal decree, in consequence of the legislative act dated August 24, 1862, fixing the weights of gold and silver and copper coin, viz:

ROME.-W. J. STILLMAN, Consul.

SEPTEMBER 30, 1862.

I have the honor to report that the statistics of trade between the United States and Papal States show a very meagre total. The general trade of the Roman States is not extensive, and coming mostly by second hand, through the free port of Leghorn, it is almost impossible to classify it as to the country from which it originally came, or to which it goes.

The principal imports are tobacco, pine timber, coal, salt fish, cloths, hardware, alcohol, coffee and sugar, rosin, and a little cotton. The exports are hides and skins, wool, oak timber, wheat and maize, rags, mosaics, pictures, and statuary.

As I understand that the Roman government does not publish statistics of trade at present, it is impossible to give any accurate data of the amount either of export or import, and I confine myself to estimates of the amount of such articles as our country may be specially interested in.

The

The tobacco trade is a monopoly of the government. The amount annually imported is about 4,000,000 pounds. Pine timber is imported from Trieste, and is of the Alpine pine-not well fitted for cabinet or joiners' work. amount imported is about 75,000 feet. Its average price about twenty-eight cents per cubic foot-a value too great to enable it to be used in ordinary work, and most articles manfactured from wood are of oak. Wooden wares, furniture, and such portions of house carpentry as with us are of pine, are here mostly, for cheapness, made of oak.

It seems to me that importations of our wooden wares, and even pine lumber, might be advantageously made from the United States. Our improved agricultural implements are unknown here, and, as the country is mostly cultivated in enormous farms, it strikes me that their introduction would not be difficult, even in face of the prejudice against labor-saving machines.

The quantity of salt fish consumed in the Papal States is very great; but the trade, like that of tobacco, is a government monopoly.

The coal is English bituminous, mainly for the use of the railways.

About 800 to 900 barrels of American alcohol are imported, and considerable quantities of rum.

Last spring some American lard in tubs-about fifty or sixty barrels—was imported from Leghorn, and found a ready market, and a very small quantity of American cheese. There has also been considerable demand for rosin. Coffee and sugar are mainly imported from the French colonies. I doubt not that a considerable market might be found for ice by making an arrangement with the government which holds the monopoly of the sale. Rome is supplied at present with snow, from the neighboring mountains, packed in winter.

The exports to the United States go mainly by way of Leghorn, and might, I imagine, be considerably increased by the establishment of direct trade between Civita Vecchia and American ports.

The wines of this portion of Italy, which are unknown in America, are cheap and excellent; and although the lighter kinds would with difficulty bear transportation, those of the southern districts, nearer the Neapolitan provinces, are equal to the common Bordeaux, and as capable of bearing a sea voyage. These can be obtained here, perfectly pure and in good quality, at the rate of seven

to ten cents a bottle.

The extraordinary cheapness and abundance of fruits, apricots, peaches, pears, figs, &c., has suggested to me the feasibility of exporting them to the United States in cans, as we are accustomed to prepare them for winter use. I am satisfied that a profitable trade of limited extent might be established in this direction.

TURKISH DOMINIONS.

Treaty between the United States of America and the Ottoman Empire.

By the President of the United States of America.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas a treaty of commerce and navigation between the United States of America and the Ottoman Empire was concluded and signed by their respective plenipotentiaries at Constantinople on the twenty-fifth day of February last, which treaty, being in the English and French languages, is word for word as follows: [The English version only is here given.]

Treaty of commerce and navigation between the United States of America and the Ottoman Empire.

The United States of America on the one part, and his Imperial Majesty the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire on the other part, being equally animated by the desire of extending the commercial relations between their respective countries, have agreed, for this purpose, to conclude a treaty of commerce and navigation, and have named as their respective plenipotentiaries, that is to say: The President of the United States of America, Edward Joy Morris, minister resident at the Sublime Porte, and his Imperial Majesty the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, his highness Mehemed Emin Aali Pacha, minister of foreign affairs, decorated with the imperial orders of the Othmanieh in Brilliants, the Majidieh, and order of merit of the first class, and the grand crosses of several foreign orders, who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles:

ARTICLE I. All rights, privileges, and immunities which have been conferred on the citizens or vessels of the United States of America by the treaty already existing between the United States of America and the Ottoman Empire are confirmed, now and forever, with the exception of those clauses of the said treaty which it is the object of the present treaty to modify; and it is moreover expressly stipulated that all rights, privileges, or immunities which the Sublime Porte now grants or may hereafter grant to or suffer to be enjoyed by the subjects, ships, commerce, or navigation of any other foreign power, shall be equally granted to and exercised and enjoyed by the citizens, vessels, commerce, and navigation of the United States of America.

ARTICLE II. The citizens of the United States of America, or their agents, shall be permitted to purchase, at all places in the Ottoman Empire and its possessions, (whether for the purposes of internal trade or of exportation,) all articles, without any exception whatsoever, the produce or manufacture of the said empire and possessions; and the Sublime Porte having, in virtue of the second article of the convention of commerce of the 16th of August, 1838, with Great Britain, formerly engaged to abolish all monopolies of agricultural produce, or of every other article whatsoever, as well as all "permits" (tezkerehs) from the local governors, either for the purchase of any article or for its removal from one place to another when purchased, any attempt to compel the citizens of the United States of America to receive such "permits" from the local governors shall be considered as an infraction of this treaty, and the Sublime Porte shall immediately punish with severity any viziers or other officers who shall have. been guilty of such misconduct, and shall render full justice to citizens of the United States of America for all losses or injuries which they may duly prove themselves to have suffered thereby.