The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-11 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

LONDON, July 11.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly ; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

CLYDE, July 10.—Wind N.Y.—Arrived—King Oscar,
from Havannah ; Mary Band, from Pernambuco; Hydra,
from Santa Cruz.

TROON, July 10.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Reciprocity,
from Quebec.

PLYMOUTH, July 10. —Wind S.W.—Sailed—Roman,
screw steamer, for the Cape of Good Hope.
FALMOUTH, July 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Gustave
Josephine, from Nantes.

FOUTSMOLTTII, July 10.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Bury
St. Edmund; from Mauritius for London. Sailed—Ocean
Sprite, for St. Kitt's.

GLOUCESTER, July 6.—Wind S.W —Arrived—Flat-
worth, from St. John's, N.B.

LS7 ELECTRIC TELEGRIPI. j

GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning
Arrived July 10. —Lavinia, from Libau ; Andhele, from
Quebec; Ramoneta, from Philadelphia; Louise, from
Weismar ; Brodrene, from Montreal ; Mercurius, from
Belize ; Thompson, from Gottenburg ; Metropolitan, from
Hamburg.

Arrived, July 11.—Orin, from Rotterdam ; Panther, from
Boulogne ; Blanche Maria, from Landernau.

Sailed, July 11.— Star of Denmark, for Calcutta. ; Sir R.
Peel, for Dunkirk.

DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Passed.—H.M.S. Gladiator, from Sheerness, for the
West ; Star Nymph, from London, for Pernambuco.

Anchored.—Mazatlan, from Shields, for Alexandria ;
Aira, from Gothenburg, for Honfleur.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 13
Ditto 3 Months. 11 17f
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 45
Brussels
Hamburg — 13 8}
Paris Short 25 7*
Ditto 3 Months. 25 37*
. _ _ ___

11 14
11 18}
11 18±
25 N
25 60
13 9
25 15
25 45
25 45
118
13 70
13 70

Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh
Berlin
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples

25 40'
117
13 25
13 25
25f
6 27
44
44}
27 40
27 40
27 40
27 40

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6 28

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

44i
4,1
4
27 61
27 60
28 0
28 0

Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton—. July 20.
Ditto, via Marseilles July it
Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet ...... Aug. 5.
Ditto, by French packet July 24.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena July 22.
china, Penang, and Singapore. via Southampton—July 20.
Ditto, via Marseilles . July .4.
Faikland Islands

Gibraltar, via Southampton July 27.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton July 20.
Ditto, via Marseilles
India (Bombay), via Southampton. July 13.
Ditto, via Marseilles July 22. A
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton July 13.

Ditto, via Marseilles Ju►y 14.
Mauritius, via Southampton
Ditto, via Marseilles, July 13.
Newfoundland
Portugal
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon...
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet ....... July Is.
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton

Ditto, via Cork
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry „.July 20.
West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerife .„ —July 11.
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and
Honduras) . ....July 14.
Cuba and Mexico • •
Bahamas, via New York.
Bermuda, via Halifax ....................
.....•..Ajjuuugilyy 230
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EARLDO3iS.—It is not often that a commoner, on
thel
being created a peer, is allowed to step over the
two lowest grades of dignity, and finds himself per saltuns
gazetted to an earldom. The most recent instance of such
an elevation was that of Earl Russell, and before him those
of Lord Francis Egerton to the earldom of Ellesmere, of
f
Lord G. Cavendish w the earldom of Burlington, of
t Mr.z -
Coke to the earldom of Leicester,
clarence to the earldom of Munster. Sir Robert Walpole,
we all know, was raised from his seat in the Lower House
through
and
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Co
Colonel
inferior Pi
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without
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sofisinng hr
like
grades of a baron and a viscount. Oxford,
manner
"the great
became Earl
unt. The only other
instance that we can remember is
Lowther, the patron of half a dozen that of Sir James
who first introduced the - rotten boroughs, and
M.l). for Appleby. gouger Pitt into St. Stephen's as
lie was a man •
temper, which led him of fiery and over-
bearingoccasionally into frequent duels, and
led people to Pitt doubt his perfect sanity. When
Proposed to make him
a peer, he declared that he
should consider the offer of
as a positive affront. Nor daindyhciosronet short of an earl's
arrogance end here;
for when he found that he was created an earl together
with three other noblemen who were already barons,
stood last in the batch, he
actually attempted to reject the peerage rather than sub-
mit to so great a mortification. With this avowed inten-
tion be presented himself at the door of the House of Com-
mons, intending to take his old familiar seat as a plain
knight of the shire, and he was only deterred by the ser-
geant and deputy sergeant-at-arms, who were obliged to
draw their swords before they could succeed in making
him beat his retreat from the floor of the house, and take
up his seat under the gallery, on the benches assigned to
peers who wished to be present at the debates of the Com-
mons.—Once a Week.
The quarterly sales of indigo commenced yester-
day with a very limited attendance, and little ani.
mation prevailed. The quantity to be offered is
about 10,670 chests. The sales obtained were fully
4d. per lb. lower for fine shipping; Bengal, 2d. to
4d. for ordinary, and 3d. for liurpah and Madras
qualities, when compared with those etureut at the
last May sales.