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TURKEY — SERVIA.

Trade and Commerce.

The commercial intercourse between Roumania and the United Kingdom is shown in the subjoined statement, which gives the value of the exports from Roumania to Great Britain and of the British imports into Roumania, in the years 1865 to 1869 : —

Exports from Roumania

Imports of British Home

to Great Britain

Produce into Roumania

£

&

1865

348,381

162,828

1866

441,628

185,598

1867

525,867

432,365

1868

1,422,149

634,913

1869

1,312,924

907,838

The staple article of Roumanian exports to the United Kingdom is corn, the value of which was 1,239,676/. in 1869, comprising 465,239/. for wheat; 103,775/. for barley; 665,123/. for maize; and 5,539/. for other kinds of corn and grain. The British im- ports into Roumania consist of miscellaneous articles of British manufacture.

The principal shipping ports of Roumania are Ibraila and Galatz, both on the left bank of the Danube, the former in Wallachia, and the latter in Moldavia.

III. SERVIA.

Government.

The principality of Servia, since 1815 under the rule of native princes, was placed under the protection of the great European powers, as a semi-independent state, by the Treaty of Paris, of March 30, 1856. The twenty-eighth article of the treaty orders that, ' The Principality of Servia shall continue to hold of the Sublime Porte, in conformity with the imperial decrees which fix and determine its rights and immunities, placed henceforward under the collective guarantee of the Contracting- Powers. In conse- cpience, the said principality shall preserve its independent and national administration, as well as full liberty of worship, of legis- lation, of commerce, and of navigation.' The election of its rulers is left to the Servian nation, under the nominal sanction of the Sultan.

Prince of Servia. — Milan Obrenovic IV., born 1855, the son of Milos Obrenovic — son of Ephraim, brother of Milos I. Todorovich Obrenovic, first independent ruler of Servia — and of Marie Katargy, of Bucharest. Succeeded to the throne, by the election of the