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London, England, 1855-05-28 00:00:00

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MONET ORDERS. GENERAL POST-OFFICE, May,
1855.—England.—On the Ist of June major money-
order-offices will be opened at the undermentioned places:
Aldershott Camp, Southampton (Farnborough station
head office, when the office itself is not a head office) ;
Llandudno, Carnarvon, Conway, ditto ; Rochdale-road,
Lancashire, Manchester, ditto. Minor money-order-
offices will be opened at the undermentioned places on
the same date :—Prestwich, Lancashire (Manchester
head office, when the office itself is not a head office) ;
Radcliffe, Lancashire, Manchester, Monmouthshire,
Pontypool, ditto, Broughton, in urness, and North
Sunderland, formerly under Whitehaven and Belford
respectively, .re now subordinate to Ulverstone and
Chathill. The money-order-office opened on the Ist of
May under Manchester is at " Wilmslow" not " Wins-
low," as stated in the notice upon the subject. Ireland.
—On the let of June minor money-order-offices will be
opened at the undermentioned places :—Ovoca, Wicklow;
Kircubbin, Down (Newtonards head office, when the
office itself is not a head office).—ROWLAND HILL,
Secretary.

THE IRITIBH SQUADRON IN THE WHITE SEA.--General
Post-office, May, 1855.—Letters addressed to the British
squadron in the White Sea may be forwarded by the
private steamers which leave Hull on Friday evening,
the Ist of June, and on every alternate Friday evening
subsequently, for Christiania, whence the letters will be
sent on to Hammerfest by the regular Norwegian mail-
packet, or by such opportunities" as may offer by private
ship: Letters will also be sent to tbe'sqUadron by any
vessel of war or transports thatmay be proceeding to the
White Sea. TheMerds -oChinrissioners of her Majesty's
Treasury have been pleased by warrant to direct that
the correspondence of the British squadron in the White
Sea shall be placed upon the same general footing .as
the correspondence of her Majesty'S forces in the Black
Sea and in the Baltic. The letters, therefore, of Com-
missioned, non-commissioned, or warrant officers, as well
as those of soldiers and seamen, forwarded via Chris-
tiania, will be liable to a combined British and foreign
rate of postage of 3il. when not exceeding a quarter of an
ounce in weight ; ed. when exceeding a quarter of an
ounce, and not exceeding half an ounce; and so on, in-
creasing 3d. for every quarter-of an ounce.. The same
rate of 3d. per quarter of an ounce will be chargeable
upon the letters of commissioned or warrant officers con-
veyed by Queen's ships or transports, but the letters. f
soldiers and seamen may be sent by those vessels at the
reduced rate of id., when not exceeding half an ounce in
weight. In all cases the postageonisthe paid in advance,
or the letters will not be forwarded. Newspapers for the
squadron in. the White Sea, when forwarded via Hull
and Christiania, will be liable to a postage of 2d. each,
which must be paid in advance, but by Queen's ships or
transports they will be transmitted free of postage.—
ROWLAT7D HILL, Secretary.
CAVALRY HORRES.—General Wyndham has given
notice of a motion relative to the deficiency in the supply
of cavalry and artillery horses, arising from the cessa-
tiopb
et e may
ery
owing s
of horse breeding of that particulare presftoarme
necessarilyentirel
nonbe tgoe theae r
al destructionly
known
to:
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ass horses was thus
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wavertyo
largeraise
proportion
first-class
reared for the market, which were taken
years old for coaching purposes, and as colts at two
at five-or
old for artillery and cavalry service. six years
after the destruction of the coaching
For some years
not felt, the country being- at , ng trade the evil was
war has broken out, the demanNe4ce. Since, however,
came suddenly upon the ton for military horses has
failed. 'lll
--P Pliant general ntrY, and the supply has
Its Boum .n seeks to correct the evil at
4°Viago tOttto‘itZtouhal g a• trade which vice 4d, e-
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