The Press.
London, England, 1856-09-13 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

of it that he said, " he would send the money down
out of his own pocket." In reply to a shareholder,
Dr. Lloyd said the compromise was not entered into
on account of any circumstances connected with the
death of Mr. Aitken's wile, but owing to the way in
which he bad obtained the policy.
Several other gentlemen addressed the meeting—
some for, some against Mr. Baylis—when at last a
resolution admitting the compromise to have been an
error, and that the balance be paid so soon as the
board can have payment legally authorised, was
carried by acclamation. A committee was then
appointed to inquire into the state and prospects of
the association, and to ascertain the steps necessary
to be taken for its future government. Mr. Mechi
proposed to restore Mr. Baylis to his seat at the
board. The board, upon this, demanded a poll,
which was fixed for Friday.

THE NEW POSTAL DELIVERIES for the metropolis
have commenced. By this system London and the
suburbs are divided into ten postal districts. In each
district there will be a chief sorting-office, having a
direct postal communication with the chief office of
every other district, and with every post town in the
kingdom. Letters arriving at these chief offices will
only have to be separated into letter-carriers' walks,
when they will be immediately distributed. In many
of these walks there will be hourly deliveries of
letters, ten times daily ; into which deliveries the
letters which are now continually flowing into the me-
tropolis from provincial towns and from foreign mails
landed at the outports throughout the day, will fall.
The facilities which the new arrangements will afford
the inhabitants of London for communication with
each other will be very great. At present some con-
siderable time elapses before a letter can be delivered,
even in the same street in which it is posted, but by
the new arrangements this inconvenience will no
longer be felt, and prompt business or social appoint
merits may then be arranged at a short notice through
the post.
THREE EXTENSIVE FIRES occurred in the metro-
polis last Sunday :—Rutland Wharf, a massive range
of corn warehouses in Thames-street, broke out in
flames early on Sunday morning, and was almost
entirely destroyed, and a large quantity of grain
burnt and injured. The large leather-cloth inanufac •
tory in the New Kent-road, opposite the Elephant
and Castle, was also burnt to the ground, and 4,0001.
worth of property destroyed ; while a coachmaker's
premises (Stoneham, of Bedford-street, Euston-
square) was also burnt down about the same time.
THE LONDON CHARTISTS are making preparations
for a metropolitan demonstration to John Frost, who
is to make his public entry into London next Mon-
day. The democrats are convoked in Finsbury-
square, Lincoln's-inn-fields, and Russell-square, from
which places respectively they are to march on to
Euston-square railway terminus, to receive Mr. Frost.
A carriage will be waiting to receive him, and the
procession will then proceed, by a route to be further
indicated, to Primrose-hill, on which, at two o'clock,
a mass meeting will be held.
THE REGISTRAR GENERAL'S RETURNS for the past
week show an ordinary rate of mortality-1,100
deaths being registered for that time; the births
amounted to 1,634.
THE EARLY CLOSING Assocrmox held their fif-
teenth autumnal meeting on Wednesday at Exeter-
WI. Mr. Samuel Morley, the Rev. Mr. Kitto, and
other gentlemen interested in the movement, ad-
dressed the meeting, and the report read by Mr.
Lilwall stated that the movement was progressing
satisfactorily. Resolutions in accordance with the
object of the meeting were proposed and carried.
THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE CITY, by the
fall of a house, was referred to at the City Commis-
sion of Sewers on Tuesday. The following motion
was carried unanimously :
That it be referred to the general purposes committee
to inquire into the cause of the falling of the house in
Little Swan-alley, and into the working of the present sys-
tem of house inspection, with especial reference to dan-
gerous structures ; and also whether it is necessary to
make any, and what, alteration of system; and to report
thereon to this commission.

A Miss ELIZABETH HALL, aged twenty-three, the
daughter of a respectable coach-plater in Orchard•
street, drowned herself in the Serpentine last week,
owing to family disagreements.