It did not limit the rights of the Powers, as specified in various "Capitulations," to safeguard their own subjects residing in Turkey against Turkish misrule.
The Sultan raised great hopes by issuing a firman granting religious liberty to his Christian subjects; this was inserted in the Treaty of Paris, and thereby became part of the public law of Europe.

The Powers also became _collectively_ the guarantors of the local privileges of the Danubian Principalities.

Another article of the Treaty provided for the exclusion of war-ships from the Black Sea.

This of course applied specially to Russia and Turkey[88].
[Footnote 88: For the treaty and the firman of 1856, see _The European Concert in the Eastern Question, _by T.E.

Holland; also Debidour, _Histoire diplomatique de l'Europe _( 1814-1878), vol.ii.pp.