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

MAILS DUE.

Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton July 20.
Ditto, via Marseilles July 14.
Brazil and Cape Verdes, by British packet ...... —Aug. 5.
Ditto, by French packet July 22.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena July 22.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton—July 20.
Ditto, via Marseilles • July 4.
Falkland Islands

Gibraltar, via Southampton July 27.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton July 20
Ditto, via Marseilles
India (Bombay), via Southampton. July 11.
Ditto, via Marseilles July 22. d
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton July 13.

Ditto, via Marseilles Jug 14.
Mauritius, via Southampton .July 13
Ditto, via Marseilles July 13.
Newfoundland
Portugal

Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon...
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet
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 Teneriffe ...,July il.
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and
Honduras)
• •.• ...July 14.
Cuba and Mexico July 30.
Bahamas, via New York. July 26.
Bermuda, via Halifax Aug. 1.

EARLDOMS.--It is not often that a commoner, on
being created a peer, is allowed to step over the
1 two lowest grades of dignity, and finds himself per saltun:
gazetted to an earldom. The most recent instance of such
an elevation was that of Earl Russell, and before him those
a n"the great
of Lord Francis Egerton to the earldom of Ellesmere, of
Lord G. Cavendish to the earldom of Burlington, of Mr.
Coke to the earldom of Leicester, and of Colonel Fitz..
clarence to the earldom of Munster. Sir Robert Walpole,
d Housegt
of
fe
ralalrlkniamowen,
twtaos rathieseedarfirdoommhoifs seat in
Oxford,the
Commoner," the elder Pitt, in like manner became Earl
of Chatham without passing through the inferior
grades of a baron and a viscount. Tho only other
instance that we can remember is that of Sir James
Lowther, the patron of half a dozen rotten boroughs, and
who first introduced the youger Pitt into St. Stephen's as
M.P.for Appleby. He was a man of fiery and over-
raring temper, which led him into frequent duels, and
rij,j. 18.,,,i1y led people to doubt his
occasnu.
to
Pitt propose,. make him a peer,
should consider the offerof perfect sanity. When
he declared that he
any coronet short of an earl's
as a positive affront. Nor did his arrogance end here ' •
earl together
with when he found that he was created an
with three other noblemen who were already barons,
and that his name 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 boat 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 Cora-
mons.—Once a Week. .

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PIGEON FLYING MATar.—Yesterday morning a
match to fly pigeons for a sweepstakes of £4 was decided.
There were eight competitors, and the birds wore tossed
up at Brighton. The winning pigeon arrived at Walworth
in 51 minutes.
The Emperor received at the Palace of the
Tuileries a letter by which her Britannic Majesty notified
the marriage of the Princess Mary, daughter of the late
Duko of Cambridge, with Francis Paul Charles, Prince
'Peck. The Emperor also received General de Montebello,
on his arrival from Rome.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is about 1091 per cent. At these rates thet4
is a profit on the importation of Itt from the Uai
Stated,