The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-28 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 bo posted
half an hour earlier. The Wednesday and Saturday's
mails are taken up at Queenstown, on the following day,
by the Liverpool steamers. Tho Wednesday morning
mails are taken by the Southampton steamers.
Mails from the United States aro duo 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., ld. ; 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 bo not a periodical publication)
may be sent to the United States, California, and Oregon.
This postage is only the British portion, a further sure
being charged on delivery. Tho 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
are 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 packets liable to
letter rates of postage.

MR. AND MRS. CLARENCE Hour.—These talented
artistes, so favourably known in the Australian colonies
and New Zealand, have been fulfilling several highly suc-
cessful engagements in the provinces, where their friends
and admirers have given them a most hearty and flattering
welcome. On the occasion of their first appearance at
Birmingham last week in "Belphogor" they received at
the hands of the crowded audience quite an ovation, being
called out at the end of each act to bow their acknowledg-
ments. Mr. Clarence Holt is an actor of great merit, and
we trust the time is not far distant when we may give him
a welcome at ono of our legitimate theatres, when, we
doubt not, ho will shine a particular and brilliant star.
MEMORIAL OF LORD PALMERSTON.—The com-
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Bonney, and other gentlemen, have determined that a
statue of the deceased nobleman shall be erected in the
open air, in some public place ; and that the memorial in
the Abbey Church of Romsey shall consist of a mortuary
chapel, made by the reproduction of the
eastern apse, with
a recumbent or sitting
statue within it.
A THING TO COME.—A bill is passing through
the United States' Congress authorising the President to
appoint three commissioners, at a salary of $5,000 each per
annum for three years, to arrange, consolidate, revise, and
simplify all the statutes of the United States.
CUSTOM-HOUSE CLERKS.—After more than two
years' agitation, the Treasury, by the approval of
Sir Thomas Fremantle and the Board of Customs, have re-
organised the whole of the classifications of the above de-
partment. The different offices are divided into three
classes, viz., the Ist class £230, rising £lO per annum to
£3OO ; 2d class, £l5O, rising £lO per annum to £220; and
the 3d class, £BO, rising £lO to £l4O. The first two years
of the junior classes is by £5 rises instead of £lO. These
alterations are a great boon to the warehousing departments
of the customs, but in such offices as the controller-generals',
inspector-generals', examiners', and long-room, the lower
half is the only portion slightly benefited by the change,
whilst the upper half is damaged, and in very many in-
stances serious prospective injury has been caused, and we
believe that great discontent is the result. The number
of clerks in the indoor departments of the Customs is 571,
exclusive of principals, and not 161, as erroneously stated
by several of our contemporaries.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
so day sslaht is 'about 1071 per cent. At these rates there
is no profit en the importation of go:d iron the United
States,