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

the Prussians.

June 19—Evacuation of Fort Wilhelm by the Hanoverian
troops. Prince William of Hanau made prisoner. Cavalry
encounter between the Austrians and Prussians upon the
Rumburg road.
June 22—Nixdorf occupied by 7,000 Prussians.
June 23—Occupation of Rumburg by the Prussians.
June 24 —Armistice between the Hanoverian and Prus •
sian troops.

June 25—Action near Jungbunzlau between the Aus-
trians and the Prussians. The Prussian troops occupied
Eeichenberg, Trautenau, and Aicha (Bohemia).
June 26—Engagement near Turnau.

June 27—The army of the Crown Prince of Prussia
fought the battle of Nachod. Engagement at Oswiecim.
Fight between the Prussians and Hanoverians near Lan-
gonsalza. General Steinmetz throws back tho Austrian
corps d'arrraec (Ramming) upon Josephstadt. Engagement
of the same corps with the 6th and Bth Austrian corps
under the Archduke Leopold.
_ _ _

June 28—Action near Trautenau. The troops of Prince
Frederic Charles engaged near Munchongratz.
Juno 29—Tho Hanoverian army surrendered at discre-
tion. Capture of Gitschin by the Prussian army.
Juno 30—Actions at Sort, near Turnau, and at, Chwal-
kowitz, between Kalitz and Konigshof. An Austrian
army corps under General Clam-Gallas compelled to retire
upon Koniggratz.
July I—Action at Gitschin.
July 2.7-Arrival of King William at Gitschin. Junc-
tion of the Crown Prince's army with that of Prince Fre-
deric Charles.
July 3—The battle of Sadowa.

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.W.—Arrived—King Oscar,
From Havannah ; Mary Band, from Pernambuco; Hydra,
from Santa Cruz.

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

PLYMOUTH, July 10. —Wind S.W.—Sailed—Boman,
screw steamer, for tho Cape of Good Hope.
FALMOUTH, July 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Gustavo
Josephine, from Nantes.
PORTSMOUTH, July 10.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Bury
St. Edmunds, from Mauritius for London. Sailed—Ocean
Sprite, for St. Kitt's.
GLOUCESTER, July G.—Wind S.W —Arrived—Flat-
worth, from St. John's, N.B.

LET ELECTRIC TELEGRAM I
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning
Arrived July 10.—Lavinia, from Libau ; Andhele, from
Quebec ; Ramonets, from Philadelphia ; Louise, from
Weismar ; Brodrene, from Montreal; Mercurius, from
Belize ; Thompson, from Gottenburg ; Metropolitan, from
Ilamburg.

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. I
Passed.—H.M.S. Gladiator, from Sheerness, for the
West; Star Nymph, from London, for Pernambuco.
Anchored.—Mazatlas, from Shields, for Alexandria;
Aira, from Gothenburg, for Honfleur.

00ITESE OF EXCHANGE--Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 13 11 14
Ditto 3 Months. 11 171 11 18i
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 45 25 50
Brussels
Hamburg — 13 8i 13 9
Paris Short 25 7 25 15
Ditto 3 Months. 25 37f 25 45
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine 117 118
Vienna — 13 '25 13 70
Trieste — 13 25 13 70
Petersburgh
6 28
6 27
Berlin . Madrid _,44 44}
Cadiz
44i
44f
27 66
27 40 60
27
Leghorn
27 40 Milan
Genoa
27 40 28 0
Naples —

EARLDOMS.—It is not often that a commoner, on
being created a peer, is allowed to step over the
two lowest grades of dignity, and finds himself per saltwn
gazetted to an earldom. Tho most recent instance of such
an elevation was that of Bari Russell, and before him those
through of Lord Francis Egerton to the earldom of Ellesmere, of
Lord U. Cavendish to the earldom of Burlington, of Mr.
Coke to the earldom of Leicester, and of Colonel Fitz-
clarenco to the earldom of Munster. Sir Robert Walpole,
in like manner we all know, was raised from his seat in the Lower House
of Parliament to the earldom of Oxford,and i
iethldoeurt P
passing tt ,
. became Earl
grades of a baron and a Viscount. gtt the inferior
oCfomciffh
instance that we can remember is The only other
Commoner,
thwe
Lowther, the patron of half a dozen that of Sir James
who first introduced the rotten boroughs, and
M.F. for Appleby li gouger Pitt into St. Stephen's as
.'
e was a man of fiery and over-
bearingtemper, which led h.
occasionally led people to un into frequent duels, and
Pitt doubt his perfect sanity. When
proposed to make
h of him
a peer, he declared that he
should consider the offer
as a positive affront. Nor didan his
ycioronet short of an earl's
arrogance end here ;
was created
for when he found that he w .
with three other noblemen whowre analr eadrl together
with gether
y
actually
dthat his name stood last in the batch, ho
barons,
attempted to reject the peerage rather than sub-
mit to so great a mortification. With this avowed inten-
tion he 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 ho was only deterred by the ser-
geant and deputy sergeant-at-arms, who wore 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 Kurpah and Madras
qualities, when compared with those current at the
last May sales.