The Express.
London, England, 1852-07-26 00:00:00

PUBLIC SALES.

23.—Sy 11TMIT. 11000I1RT, NORTON, and Tarot,
at the Mart —Freehold rental of 1901. per annum, arising
out of a dwelling-houses, and premises, No. 31, Holborn
—3,80 W.
A freehold residence, Paradise-row, Church•street, Stoke
Newington, let at 1261. per annum-1,7201.
Freehold residence, No. 10, Sanford-place, Stoke New-
ington, let at 361. per annum-4901.
Leasehold premises and printing ink manufactory, Comp-
ton-street, Clerkenwell, of eis value of 1061. per annum,
held for 62 years unexpired at 521 10s. per annum-3001.
Leasehold house, No. 9, Tudor-road, King Edward's-
:road, Hackney, annual valua34l., held for 71 years at 41.45.
—3301._ _ _

By Mr. MARSH, at the !art.—Leasehold residence and
shop, No. 41, King William•slreet, London.bridge, held for
60 years oneapir4 at 1301. per annum, part of the premises
let of ut 761.-9701.

Three copyhoid enttv.es, Giorc-road, Fulham-fields, let
at 571. per annum-7001.
Seven houses, Paradise Cottages, Albion-rend, Hammer-
smith, let at 1141. 81. per annum, held for 93 years at 121.
per annum-7551.
Twn houses, Nos. 9 and 10, Paradise Cottages, let at 30/.
per annum, held fcr 93 years at 41. 10s.-2251.
Improved leasehold ground-rent., secured upon sixteen
houses and other property, Paradise Cottages, Hammer-
smith, and producing 271. 21. per menu= for 93 years un-
expired-4001.
Freehold ground-rent of 101. per annum, with reversion
in 25 years to SOL per annum, secured upon two freehold
houses, Circus-atreet, Marylebone-3751.
By Messrs. QvALLErr and Liwts, at the Mart.—A villa
residence, known u Twyford-bury, Ft. John's-weed Park,
with pleasure grounds, Ile., held for 94 years at 231.-2,5001.
Two houses, Noe. 1 and 3, Clifton-terrace, Kensington,
of the value of 1161. per annum, held for 72 years at
241. 2c_1341.-1.5901.

By Mesas. Beim* and ROBY, at the Mart.—Freehold
ground rents, amounting to W. per annum, arising from
several houses in Bromley, Middlesex, and Tollington-park
—LOBS!.

W. B. GHAT, at the Mart.—Leasehold house, No.
31, Harriagtoo-square, let at 681., held for 92 years at 111.
—3o3i.

KeUehold house, No. 32, liarrington-sgoare, lc t and held
as preceding-9601.
Nine freehold cottages, Ilford, Essex, let at 67L 17s. per
aaauta—&&o4

PRE-PATWENT or

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Tice.—CiettxHAL Pner•orrtci,, JULT.—On and from the
Ist Angus: next, all letters or packets for places within the
United Kingdom, potted at any branch post-office or re•
oeieing-offize in London, or within the limits of the London
district post, must either be pre-paid by stamps or be *eat
unpaid. Money pre-payment for inland letters will no
lager be permitted at these offices. Letters or packets. for
places within the United Kingdom, posted at the windows
of the chief office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, may ba pre-paid
by in.'ney up to Aro p. m., after which hour they must be
either pre-paid by stamps or be sent unpaid. These regu-
lations do not extend to letters for places abroad, which
may still be pre-paid by money, or stamps, at the option of
the sender.

ROYAL COLLEOE or SURGEONS.—The following
gentlemen were admitted memben of the college on the 23rd
inst.:—Deem. Wm. Greenfield, Belfast; Oeo. Allcard,
London ; Ebenezer Davies, Swansea, Olamorganshire ;
Henry John Davie Mathews, Camberwell; Henry GeitAoll
Nurse, Montsgue-place, Islington; Edward Cooper Willis,
Leamington, Warwickshire; David Arthur, Reath, (la.
morganstiire ; William Edmunds, Canterbury; Joseph
Kaye, Bombay ; James Doubleday, Carshalese, Surrey ;
and Richard Brownie. Benson, Bayswater.

LONDON Strops OP OLDEN TlMES.—Fitgatephen,
who wrote in the time of /leery 11., says.—" Men of all
trades, sellers of all sorts of warts, labourers iu every work,
!every morning are in their distinct and several places."
These situations were sometimes varied, and in the time of
Stow are by him described as follows:—" The goldsmiths
1 of Outhren'elane and the old Exchanae are now fur the
1 most part removed into the south side of the West-Cheap.
The pepperers and grocers, of Super-lane, arc now in Buck-
! lersbury and other places dispersed. The drapers of Loin-
, bardetreet and of Cornhill are seated in Candlewick-street
' and Watling-street. The skinners from St. Mary Pellipus,
or tit the Axe, into Bridge-row and Wallbrook. The stock
fishmongers in Thames-street, wet fishmongers in Knight
Itider-ineeet and Bridge-street," he. ilte. Before the
settlement of the various crafts into rows of shops, they
depended for the isle of their goods to a great extent
ma the regular fairs, which were then the prineipal
mosese of traffic. At that period Bitekkribury and other
localities of the several trades would consist of a sort of
village of rude dwellings, in which the workmen carried
forward their trades. In course of time some of the more
active or skilful would exhibit specimens of their minutia-
tures outside the doors and at the windows of their houses.
Some would then add a stall covered, as a means of defenes
trom the weather. These would gradually give place to
permanent erections, projecting from the dwelling similar to
those we see in Aldgate-street,Migh-street, Camden-town,
and other places where private houses have been altered fur
the purposes of trade. Two or three of the slio,a in Fleet-
street, near the Temple, have bi en little changed except by
the introduction of glass, dte., since the times of James L
Our readers passing that way may notice the heavy projec-
tion and small windows peculiar to the period. Until
within a short time aga, a shop, one of the last of the balk
shops, had probably remained with bat little alteration since
the time referred to.—Titre Builder.

THE CARRIAGE. TAX.—An illustration of one of
the many hardships inflicted upon coach•makers by the'
operation of the tax upon carriages let to hire has occurred
in Newcastle during the recent elections, which we think
would require only to be known to ensure an immediate
revision of that impost. At the time of a contested election
a greater number of hack carriages than are regularly
licensed or taxed, are required for the conveyance al voters
and the general business of the election; and although we
understand tho various coach manufactories of this town
were crowded with their usual unuleable old stock, yet the
committees were obliged to procure licensed earring,* from
other towns to be used in Newcastle, as the coach-makers
here were compelled to refute to let them even (or the space
of two days, for these two days would entail a year's tax of
61, 12s. upon each carriage. Thus the members have it in
their own hinds to reduce at least one portion of elec.-
, tioneering expenses, and at the same time conferring a
benefit upon a suffering trade.—Newcastle Journal.