The Press.
London, England, 1854-04-22 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

TILE BOOKSELLERS' PROVIDENT INSTITUTION num•
bers 520 members, of whom during the past year
eighteen members and thirteen widows of members
have received assistance from the funds to the amount
of 6241. 4s. 6d. The receipts from subscriptions and
donations have been 452/. 10s. 3d. ; from invested
capital, 4051. 14s. 11d. The amount of capital in-
vested up to the present time is 20,9041.
THE METROPOLITAN CAB DRIVERS are forming
an association to find legal assistance for each other
when charged with offences at the police courts, as
also to create a fund out of which all fines inflicted
upon them are to be paid. There are upwards of
11,000 licensed drivers in London, and by a weekly
subscription of threepence the association anticipate
a monthly income of 5001.
SOME NEW POST. OFFICE MONEY REGULATIONS,
which came into operation on the Ist instant, are of
considerable interest and importance. They will
render money-orders to a great extent negotiable, be-
cause, provided they are crossed by bankers, they
will be honoured by the Post office without reference
to the signature of the previous payees. The strict-
ness hitherto observed in refusing payment of money-
orders unless signed in full by payees, and unless
holders could describe the remitters, has been the
chief cause of checking the utility of the money-
order department. Numbers of persons refused or-
ders in payment because of the numerous sources of
error.

A NEW MILITARY TRAINING GROUND IS to be es.
tablished, for which the authorities of the War-office
have obtained a grant from Parliament of 100,0001.
They have accordingly purchased about 4,000 acres
of land at Aldershot, Farnham, and Ash, in the
counties of Hants and Surrey, about thirty-five
miles from London. From the bold elevations and
undulating character of the ground it is admirably
adapted for that purpose. The Basingstoke Canal,
with some contributory lakes at Ash, afford opportu-
nities of display in crossing rivers, and in various
other military exercises. It is intended to encamp
the militia on the ground in the ensuing month. Par-
ties are already building and speculating on the im-
proved value of land in that locality.

A VACANCY in the representation of Flintshire has
been occasioned by the elevation of the Hon. Ed-
ward Mostyn to the peerage. Mr. Thomas Edward
Lloyd Mostyn, his lordship's eldest son, has issued
an address to the electors, soliciting their suffrages.

FOR THE REPRESENTATON OF CAMBRIDGE there are
already four candidates offering themselves to the
Liberal electors, the Hon. F. Campbell, Mr. Adair,
Mr. Mowatt, and Mr. Edwin James, Q.C. Messrs.
Mowatt and James will, it is said, be the parties se-
lected.

POLITICAL PARTIES IN HASTINGS are busy preparing
for an election, consequent upon the intended accept-
ance of the Chiltern Hundreds, immediately after the
reassembling of Parliament, by one of the present
members. On the Conservative side, Mr. Alexander J.
Beresford Hope, Mr. Crake, Mr. W. D. Shadwell, and
Mr. F. North have been spoken off as possible candi-
dates. The Liberals have opened communications
with Mr. Locke, who unsuccessfully contested the
borough at the last general election.