The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-28 00:00:00

MAILS DUB.

Australia and New Zealand, via Eouthamptoa......Aug. 11,
Ditto, via Marseilles ............. Ang. 10.
Ditto, via Panama July 2J.
Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Aug. 4.
Ditto, by French packet . ... Aug. 22.
Cape Verds. by Brazil packet ......
Cape of Good Hope. Ascension. and St. Helena Aug. 12
China, Penang, and dingapore, via bouthampton Aug. 1
Gibraltar, via douthacapton Aug 1
India, via Southampton

unto, via Marseilles
Malta, Fgypt, 3.
Ditto, Marseilles July 27.
Mauritius, Cape of Good lope, and Natal. via

bouthamptou
Ditto, Marseilles ~ Aug. 13
Newfoundland
Portugal ....
United States, (. anada, California, .fro., by British
packet

BUTLER'S GOODWOOD STASES MOUNT.—We believo
there is no doubt but that Butler will ride Mr. Bowes's
Spy for the Goodwood Stakes, the pilotage of Fidelia
being entrusted to Fox.
THE SKIPPZR.—Messrs. Weatherby inform us that The
Skipper was struck out of the Stewards' Cup at Good-
wood at 5.11 yesterday (Monday) afternoon.
Eysore was struck out of the Goodwood Stakes at
3.0 p.m., on Saturday, and Papillon at 3.36 on the same
day.

PRESENTATION OF COLOURS TO PINGWALL.-.
An interesting ceremony took place at Dingwall on Wed .
nesday afternoon. The 78th Highlanders (Ross-shire
Buffs), at present stationed at Montreal, having been
recently presented there with a new set of colours, in
token of the kindness and welcome given to the regiment
by the inhabitants of Ross-shire on their return from
India in 1859, the old colours were presented to the capital
of the county.

On Saturday a general parade of the troops in
garrison at Chatham was held, on the ozeasion of the pre-
sentation of silver medals and gratuities which had been
awarded by the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief to
tho following non-commissioned officers and mon for long
service and good conduct, viz. : —Sergeant-Major John
Watts, Ist battalion of the 7th Royal Fusiliers, medal and
gratuity of £l5; Colour-Sergt. Charles Grace, 29th Regi-
ment, Colour-Sergt. John Roberts, 31st Regiment, and
Sergt. William Coffee, V.C., 82d Regiment, each a meda
and gratuity of £10; Sergt. William M'Evoy, Private
Patrick Donahoe, Private Nathan Keleher, and Private
John Cunolly, 29th Regiment, Private John M'Triggan,
31st Regiment, Private James Donovan and Private John
M'Namara, 2d battalion of the 10th Regiment, each a medal
and gratuity of £5 ; Private Jona Flynn, 29th Regiment,
received a medal without a gratuity. The distribution of
the medals was made by the officers in command of the
respective battalion:.
SPECTROSr;OPE.—Professor Osborn, of Lafayette
College, has so modified the spectroscope that he can de-
tect, from a room many hundred yards distant from a
furnace, the sodium in the coal or decomposed fire-brick
proceeding from the jurnaco mouth; also any lime or
potash that may be present.
The Danish Plenipotentiary sent to Washington
to negociate the treaty for the sale of the Danish West India
islands to the United States returned to Copenhagen last
Wednesday, the ratification of the treaty having been
postponed until the next session of the American Con-
gress.

The enormous sum of £510,000 was remitted by
the Irish in America to their relatives in. Ireland dur-
ing the past year. Of this'ettm X 202,000 was transmitted
as prepaid passage orders. Since 1848 the Irish in
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