The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-12 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 London on
Mondays and Thursdays of each week.
Periodical works not of daily publication, issued in the
shape of pamphlets, may be sent to the United States,
California, and Oregon, by packet, at the following rates :
—Not exceeding 2 oz., ; 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., br upon the covers, ex-
cept the names and addresses of the persons to whom they
are sent; nor upon the covers must there be any printing,
except the names and addresses of the persons to whorl
they are sent and the names and addresses of the senders
Any other writing, &c., will render the packetsliable to
letter rates of postage.

ABOUT CLUBS. —Clubs are now not what they for-
merly were. Like many other things, they have
grown
grander and more ostentatious with the progress of civili-
sation and the increase of national wealth ; but it may be
doubted whether what they have gained in splendour t
the
hey
have not lost in sociability and ease. A club
now in
generality of cases is a palace Where the soul is
through mag-
dazzled wit
gilding and oppressed by footmen. soul
is
h
nificent halls, sit in saloons worthy of Versailles, and ad-
enoug h to reflect the g
mire yourselves in mirrors big iant
Co °rata from head to foot. The club has accordingly
come to be regarded more as a piece of gilded convenience
and show than as the scene of social gatherings and intel-
lectual recreation. It is an hotel for dining at a house for
smoking in, an address forolfetpteorslit,icaarleiandflinugen-re n
oeTa,r place
for appointments, a centre
rather than a quiet meeting-ground for equals andYtfami-
liars,where ideas may be exchanged over the supper-table
or the pint of wine. A few clubs of the older fashion still
thee:leb aremain, but they are not likelp
o become
nume-
rous.thiswaleaditffheereln. The6tthce Addisonsntury—the golden
and Steels,
te aelg
and Goldsmiths, the Garricks and Reynoldses, had a Tory
snug idea of clubbing. They did not suffer themselved to
freeze
desert or o
f velvet pile carpet, parch in separate
b groups, scattered about a great
d
but gathered together in a room
ese
of moderato capacity where the electric currents of wi
could circulate through the whole body of members. A few
familiar friends sitting around
when the
table, meeting on stated
evenings,
and breaking up
and artistic circles.—
all
the
idea of club life as it was 100 they liked, give the best
Year
rars ago among the literary
Mr. Isaac Butt, Q.C.,Round.
papers, has become a Roman according to the Irish
publish aCatholic. He is about to
pamphlet, giving
is said that this change • his reasons for the change. It
has is by no moans a hasty one,
been medit • as ho
l Meditating it for years,

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SPORTING. INTELLIGENCE —This Day.

NEWMARKET RACES—This DAY.
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
DERBY.
The NEWMARKET DERBY of 25 sovs each, 10 ft, with 100
added, for three year olds ; colts Bst 111 b, fillies Bst 71b ;
the winner of the One Thousand Guineas or Two Thou-
sand Guineas Stakes at Newmarket, the Oaks or Derby
at EMI; the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Ascot, or the
St. Leger at Doncaster 71b extra ; maidens if they have
never saved their stakes in the above-mentioned races
allowed 71b; the second to receive 100 sovs out of the
stakes; the last mile and a half of the B.C. 57 subs.
Knight of the Crescent
Strathconan

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Four ran.

Knight of the Crescent was objected to, but the objec-
tion was overruled.

PLATE.

Janitor
Alice Lee
Sweet Anno

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Won by six lengths.
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES.