The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-06 00:00:00

UNITED STATES POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS.

Mails for the United States are made up in London every
Saturday evening, Wednesday morning, and Wednesday
evening. Letters for the Saturday and Wednesday evening
mails must reach the General Post-office by 6 o'clock
p.m., and those of the Wednesday morning mails by, 6
o'clock a.m. that day. Newspapers must always be posted
half an hour earlier. The Wednesday and Saturday's
mails are taken up at Queenstown, on the following day,
by the Liverpool steamers. The Wednesday morning
mails are taken by the Southampton steamers.
Mails from the United States are due in Lohdon on
Mondays and Thursdays of each week.
Periodical works not of daily publication, issued in the
shape of pamphlets, may bo sent to the United States,
California, and Oregon, by packet, at the following rates :
—Not exceeding 2 oz., I.d. ; above 2 oz., but not exceeding
3 oz., 6d.; above 3 oz., but not exceeding 4 oz., Bd. ; with an
addition of 2d. for every additional ounce up to 16
ounces, above which the privilege does not extend. At
the same rate of postage, any pamphlet not weighing more
than 8 oz (even though it be not a periodical publication)
may be sent to the United States, California, and Oregon.
This postage is only the British portion, a further sum
being charged on delivery. The periodical works
or pamphlets must always be sent in a cover open at the
ends (not more than one being sent in a single cover), and
the postage must be prepaid. Other printed papers or
books (except those specified above), addressed to the
places above named, are liable to letter rate of postage.
There must be no writing, or other marks upon such
periodical works, pamphlets, &c., or upon the covers, ex-
cept the names and addresses of the persons to whom they
aro sent; nor upon the covers must there be any printing,
except the names and addresses of the persons to whom
they are sent and the names and addresses of the senders
Any other writing, &c., will render the packetsliable to
letter rates of postage.

TIIE ST. STEPHENS —litSt week (No. 3) threatened to
become " too much of a good thing"—this week (No.
4), however, it evidences a very great improvement in
more ways than one. First of all, it appears, now,
in a more compact form—in a form, that is, brought within
much more reasonable dimensions. And the arrangement
of the matter is better. Superfluous materials, for one
thing, are entirely this week got rid of—such, for example,
as the extracts from the public press, necessarily ephemeral
in themselves. There are in No. 4, indeed, only two divi-
sions—namely, the summary of the week's events, and the
full report of the Parliamentary proceedings.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Lord
Suffield, Lord Royston, Lieut.-Colonel Keppol and suite,
honoured the performances at the Adolph Theatre last
evening.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Lieutenant-
Colonel Koppel, hunted with her Majesly's buckhounds,
near Stoke, yesterday. The Princess of Wales is going on
very favourably towards recovery.
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.—The following papers
were issued- yesterday morning Copy of Correspon-
dence between the'Poor-law Board and the Guardians of
the Strand, the Rotherhithe, and the Paddington Unions,
concerning the Inquiries held by Mr. Cane and Mr. Far-
nail." The Poor-law Board recommend many improve-
ments to be adopted in each of the above workhouses, and
point out to the guardians deficiencies at present existing.
Copies of an Order issued by the Poor-law Board for the
Appointment of a Vestry Clerk for the parish of St. Mary,
Battersea; of Memorial adopted at a Public Meeting of
Ratepayers relating to the Appointment; and of the An-
swer to the same, and of Correspondence on the subject."
" Copy of a Letter, dated 14th February, with its Enclo-
sure, from the Town Clerk of the City of London, to the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners, relative to the Bunhill-fields
Burial Ground." "Copy of a Letter, dated 22d February,
1867, from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England
to the Town Clerk of London relative to Bunhill-fields
Burial Ground."
SUICIDE OF A FRENCH MARQUIS.—Some work-
men going to their occupation at an early hour a few morn-
ings back found the corpse of a man near the gates of the
park Monceaux, near Paris. A bullet had passed through
the head, and near the body was a broken cane and a re-
volver. A little further on an empty purse was picked up.
Tho corpse has been recognised as that of the Marquis do
G—, 45 years of age, who lived in the Roo Chaptal.
He had left his home the previous evening to visit a
friend, upon whom, however, he had not called. No rea-
son can be conjectured for his committing suicide, but
there can be no doubt that he committed the fatal act
himself.— Galignani.
SUPPLEMENTARY ARMY ESTIMATES.—Yesterday
a supplementary army estimate was published to cover
the charges for granting an increase of pay to the non-
commissioned officers and mon of the army and militia,
and for the more efficient recruiting of the army. The total
is £500,000, of which £416,750 is for army purposes and
the remainder for militia.
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