The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-06 00:00:00

The Volunteers.

Yesterday several of the London Volunteer regi-
ments held a very instructive and pleasant field day
under Colonel Erskine, the Inspector-General of
Volunteers, at Penshanger-park, the seat of Earl
Cowper, in conjunction with the Hertfordshire
Volunteers. The London Corps left town by the
Great Northern Railway, and were on the ground
shortly before twelve o'clock. These comprised the
London Rifle Brigade, under Col. Warde and Major
Rose ; the Queen's (Westminster), under Lord
Grosvenor and Lord Gerald Fitzgerald ; the North
Middlesex (29th), under Captain Brown and Cap-
tain Maule ; and the St. George's, under Col. Lind-
say. The local corps, which were under the com-
mand of Earl Cowper, were the Ist and 2d Herts,
comprising the Hertford, Ware, Bishop Stortford,
Ifitchin, Waltham, and Cheshunt corps. The Essex
Yeomanry Artillery were present with six guns. The
whole force was divided into two brigades ; the first,
composed of the Queen's, the North Middlesex, and
St. George's being under the command of Lord Gros-
venor, with Major Charter as brigade major; and the
second, composed of the London Rifle Brigade, and
the local regiments, being commanded by Lord G.
Fitzgerald, with whom was Capt. Bax, of the Stith
Middlesex, as brigade major. The fight commenced
by the first brigade, covered by the Queen's as skir-
mishers, advancing through the thickly wooded
park, the enemy having been discovered posted in
great numbers on an opposite eminence, between
which and that occupied by the attackers was a
deep ravine with a stream of water running through
it. The Queen's quickly drove the enemy's skir-
mishers in, and then the first brigade deployed into
line, and kept up a long and well sustained file fir-
ing, which made the surrounding woods echo and
re-echo. The line then advanced down the ravine,

" His Majesty the King of Prussia, acting for
himself and on behalf of the sovereign countries and
parts of countries, &c., which have joined his tax
and duty system, and in the name of the other
members of the German duty and commercialunion,
&e., on the one part, and her Majesty the Queen of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
upon the other part, both actuated by the wish to
regulate and extend the commercial relations be-
tween the Zollverein and the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland and territories thereto
appertaining, have determined to conclude a treaty
with that object, and have nominated as their
plenipotentiaries the following (names given), who,
after mutual exchange of their powers (which have
been found proper and sufficient), have agreed upon
and concluded the following articles :
" Art. 1. The subjects of the States of the Zoll-
verein who reside temporarily or permanently in the
territories or possessions of her Britannic Majesty,
and the subjects of her Britannic Majesty who
reside temporarily or permanently in the States of
the Zollverein, shall there enjoy, with regard
to pursuance of trade and commerce, the same
rights, and be subjected to no higher or other taxes
than the subjects of any third country the most
favoured in these respects.
" Art. 2. The products of the soil and trade in
the territories and possessions of her Britannic Ma-
jesty imported into the Zollverein, and those of the
Zollverein imported into the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, whether intended for
consumption, warehousing, re-exportation, or tran-
sit, shall be subjected in those places to the same
treatment, and shall in especial pay no higher or
other dues than the products of any other country
the more favoured in these respects.
" Art. 3. Export duties shall be paid upon no
other goods and at no higher or other rates than in
cases of export to the most favoured country, either
in the Zollverein when goods are exported to the
territories and possessions of her Britannic Majesty,
or in her Britannic Majesty's territories and posses-
sions when they are exported to the Zollverein.
"Art. 4. Transit of goods to and from the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland shall be free
from all transit duty in the Zollverein, and transit
of goods to and from the Zollverein shall enjoy tho
same advantage in the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland.

" Art. 5. Every advantage, privilege, or reduc-
tion in the tariff of import or export duties which
one of the contracting parties should concede to
a third Power shall be simultaneously and uncon-
ditionally conceded to the other. It is further
stipulated that neither of the contracting par-
ties shall enforce an import or export prohibition
against the other which is not simultaneously ap-
plied to all other nations. The contracting parties
engage not to prohibit the export of coals, nor to
burden it with duty. The preceding stipulations
relating to export prohibitions shall not prejudice
the obligations of the German Federal States
belonging to the Zollverein, arising out of their
regulations.

" Art. 6. With respect to making or ticketing
goods or other packages to patterns and manufac-
turers or trade marks, the subjects of the states of
the Zollverein shall enjoy the same protection as
the natives of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, and the same privilege shall be ex..
tended to her Britannic Majesty's subjects in the
State of the Zollverein.
"Art 7. The stipulations included in the previous
articles 1 to 6 apply also to the colonies and foreign
possessions of her Britannic Majesty. In these colo-
nies and possessions the products of the state of the
Zollverein shall not be subject to any higher or
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upon exports to the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland.
" Art. 8. The present treaty shall come into
operation on July 1, 1865, and shall remain in force
until June 30, 1877. In case neither of the con-
tracting parties shall have given notice to the other,
twelve months previous to that date, of an intention
to terminate the treaty, the same shall continue in
force until the expiration of a year from the day
upon which one or other of the contracting parties
has given notice of its cessation.
" Art. 9. The present treaty shall be ratified, and
the vouchers exchanged in Berlin within three weeks,
or, if possible, earlier.
" In token of which the representatives of both
parties have signed the same and have attached
their seals.
" Done at Berlin this 30th May, of the year of
grace 1865.

BISMARCK-SCHONILWSEN.
" POmMER ESCIIE.
" PIIILIPSBORN.

4‘ DELBRUCK.

" NAPIER.
" JOHN WARD,"

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