The Levant mail brings intelligence from Constantinople to the 8th,
and from Alexandria to the 6th instant. The most important fact is the offer of the Turkish authorities to establish district councils in the Lebanon, for local self-government and assessment of tribute ; but it is feared that the provincial rulers are not fit men to carry out such a measure.
The mail also brings the text of the treaty concluded between the Shah of Persia and Sir John M`Neill. It provides for the reciprocal admission of each other country's goods and manufactures of every de- scription, upon the payment in one sum, "once for all," of the customs- duties exacted from the most favoured European nations ; and the mutual cession to the subjects of either country of the privileges of the most favoured nation. Two British commercial agents are to reside in Persia, in the capital and at Tabriz, besides one at Bushire ; and com- mercial agents of Persia are to reside at London and Bombay.
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