The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-25 00:00:00

ESTABLISHMENT OF CONTRACT MAIL PACKETS TO

AUSTRALIA, VIA THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE:

On the evening of the 2nd of June next, and on the
evening of the 2nd of' every alternate month, mails will
be made up in London for St. Vincent (Cape de Verds),
the Cape of Good Hope, Western Australia, South
Australia, Victoria (Port Philip), Van Diemen's Land
and New South Wales, to be conveyed from Plymouth
on the following day, by the packets of the Australian
Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company, under contract
with her Majesty's Government.
All letters and newspapers for the Australian colonies
above-mentioned will, hereafter, be forwarded by these
packets, unless specially addressed to be otherwise sent.
Letters and newspapers for the Cape of Good Hope
will be forwarded by these packets, or by the packets of
the General Screw Steam Shipping ;Company leaving
Plymouth on the 15th of each month, according as such
letters and papers may be posted in time for either line
of packets.

tatters for any of the British colonies will be liable to
a postage of ls. when not exceeding half-an-ounce in
weight, letters of greater weight being charged in pro-
portion according to the scale of weight for charging
inland letters, which postage must be paid in advance.
Newspapers will be conveyed free from charge.
Letters for the Cape do Verds will be liable to a
postage of ls. 10d. when not exceeding half-an-ounce,
&c., and newspapers to a postage of 2d. each. The
postage, whether for letters or newspapers, must be paid
in advance.

Those postmasters whose instructions direct them to
send their letters for Plymouth by cross post, will of
course forward the correspondence intended for these
mails in the same manner.

COURSE OF EXCH
AmsterGnm ...... •.. 12 1

iiNGE.-(THIS DAY.)
Leghorn ........ •• .... 30 70
Genoa ...• •• ......•• .. 25 70
Milan .. -• •• •• •• •• •• ••
Venice

Ditto, three months.. 12 2%
Rotterdam .. .. .•.. .. 12 2
1amtwerp.............. 25 '7O
Brussels.. •• —— .. .... 25 70
Ramburgh .... M.B. 13 11%
Altona— .... .. .. • • ....
Paris, 3 days'sight .. • • 25 50
_ _

Naples ...... •• .... •• .10
Palermo, peroz ........ 122
Messina .............. i 225
Li5b0z................ 5314
Rio Janeiro ........ ••

Ditto, 8 month. 25 67%
Marseilles .......... • • 25 70
80nrdeattx.........-
Frankforton,Maine.... 122 U
Berlin • • • . • .• • • • • • •
Vienna, effeo. So • • • • 12 20
Trieste, ditt0.....•..... 12 20
Petersburgh .......... 37%
Madrid .• .. • • 49%
Cadiz • • •.:.•• • • •• • • a • 49%
Barcelona • • • • • • • • • • ••
Saville• • • • •• •• • • •• • • .-

Buenos Ayres ........
New York,6odays'sight
Philadelphia .... •.....

tit.loEB OP BILLION. PEE OZ.
Foreign Geld inbars.. X 3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
Now Dollars ...... 0 4 10%
Silver in bars ........ 0 4 11%

A PRouric KENTISH WOMAN.—At the back of
the cellar of Lincoln Cathedral, lies the body of Michael
Honeywood, one of 367 persons whom Mary, wife of the
late Robert Honeywood, of Kent, ancestor of the late M.P,
for the county, lived to see, lawfully descended from her
viz., 16 of hex own body, 114 grand children, 22E great
grandchildren. In all, 367 persons; 313 of whom followed
her to the grave.