The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-12 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Market quiet and drooping. Sales, about G,OOO
bales.

CEN TRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day,

OLD COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)
THE SUGAR ROBBERIES.

John Green, Samuel John Phillips, and William he-
mee, were again placed at the bar, charged upon a fresh
indictment ; the two former with stealing, and the latter
receiving, a large quantity of sugar, the property of Messrs.
Holdsworth, Hunt, and Co.

The prisoner Phillips was last night aquitted of the
charge laid against him, but the present indictment was
proceeded with to prove, if possible, his complicity in the
robbery.
The jury, alter an hour's deliberation, returned a verdict
of not guilty against Green and Phillips, but guilty against
Ivemee.

Mr. Poland said as there were still other indictments
against the prisoners he should proceed with them.

Commercial Treaties with Prussia and
Austria,

The President of the Liverpool Chamber of Com-
merce has received the following letter from the
Foreign-office respecting our commercial relations
with Prussia and Austria :

"Foreign-office, May 9, 1865.

" Sir,—l am directed by Lord Russell to acquaint you,
for the information of the Chamber of Commerce over
which you preside, that her Majesty's Ambassador at Ber-
lin, having addressed to tho Prussian Government certain
questions as to the position of her Majesty's Government
with regard to the new Zollverein tariff, has received in re-
ply authoritative information to the following effect :
• "1. Great Britain will be admitted to all the benefits of
the new tariff of the Zollverein States on the Ist of July
next, whether the treaty between Great Britain and the
Zollverein be concluded or not at that date.
"2. The tariff of the Zollverein States, which will come
into force on the Ist of July next, will embrace all the re-
ductions contemplated by the Franco-German treaty of
1862, including those for 1866.

"In communicating the above information the Prussian
Minister for Foreign Affairs requested that the attention of
her Majesty's Government might be called to the two fol-
lowing points, although he added that the events to which
they related were not likely to happen :
" 1. Should the treaty recently concluded between Austria
and the Zollverein not come into effect their relations will
continue to be regulatedby the treaty of 1853, which grants
certain preferential rights to Austria until the Ist of January,
1866 ; and in that case England, in common with other
Powers, would not he admitted to those rights until the
last-named date. Should the treaty be accepted and ratified
at Berlin and Vienna, Great Britain will be admitted to all
the exemptions and deductions of duty accorded by it to
Austria, from the Ist of July, 1865.
" 2. In case the commercial and political relations of the
Zollverein should not be entirely regulated with all foreign
States before the Ist of July next, England and the other
States -which are freely admitted to the benefits of the
new tariff might incur the obligation of exhibiting certi-
ficates of origin on goods imported into the Zollverein.
" I am, sir, your most obedient humble servant,
" A. H. LAYARD.
" To the President of the Chamber of Commerce,
Liverpool."

By
advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.61 per £1 stcrlin2.
Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about
10ths per cent. clearer in London than in. Hamburg.