The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-03 00:00:00

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, Oct. 3.—Wind this day at noon—Southi
fresh_breeze, and cloudy weather, with rain.

GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, October 3.—Star, of Hope, from Taganrog. ;
Courier, from Odessa; Iris, from Guernsey; Varumgung,
from Buenos Ayres.
Sailed —Panther (steamer), for Boulogne ; Hanover
(steamer), for Callao.

DEAL, Saturday Morning.

Passed—H.M.S. Lucifer, from Portsmouth, for the river ;
Douglas, screw steamer, from London, for Bordeaux:, Ham-
burg, screw steamer, from the west, for London.

ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—An ordinary
general meeting of this society, for the election of Fellows,
was held yesterday in the Council-room at South Kensington
—his grace the Duke of Buccleueb, K.G., vice-president,
in the chair. The minutes of the last meeting having
been read, and the candidates for ordinary fellowship
having been proposed and duly elected, the chairman
announced that his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke
Nicholas of Russia had been recommended by the council
for election as a member of the society. This announce-
ment was received with applause, and his Imperial High•
ness was unanimously elected an honorary member.
ROMAN RUINS NEAR CHELTENHAM. —A discovery
made in a field named Wickham, near Andoversford,
has recently been the source of considerable interest and
speculation to antiquarians and such of the public as have
been made acquainted with the particulars connected with
the remarkable Roman site now in the course of excavation
a short distance beyond the Andoversford Inn. For many
years coins and various other relics of bygone ages have
been discovered, which, submitted to accomplished numis.
matists and others skilled in a knowledge of the manners
and customs of the Romans during their stay in this coun.
try, tended to confirm the belief that a station or village
had existed in the locality. With a view to test the truth
of the belief so generally entertained, works have been
going on during the past fortnight, the excavations being
under the personal superintendence of Mr. Laurence, the
owner of the field, and a few gentlemen interested in the
matter. Several acres have been found to be covered over
with the substantial foundations of houses, some of which
must have been of great size. The ground already opened
has furnished abundantly the usual refuee of Roman sites,
the so-called Samian ware, with black, red, or brown pot-
tery, bones, teeth, and horns of oxen and deer, teeth of
sheep and horses, the large oyster shells, ornaments, and
implements in bronze and iron, querns, window glass, &c,
Tesselated pavements such as were found on the Sudely
estate are also no doubt to be found here. Among the most
curious and instructive of the discoveries yet made in this
field is a piece of sculpture cut in the oolitic stone of our
hills, showing three full length figures in high relief, the
style of whose array may assist in the precise determination
of the age. This, however, is a point hardly doubtful, for
during the past week coins have been found and carefully
described which range over the period between Domitian
and Arcadius inclusive. These latter would imply that the
remains belong to the very close of the Roman period in
Britain.--Cheltenham Times.

TRANSMISSION OF PATTERNS BY POST.—Patterriti
of merchandise similar to these already transude:
siblo by post between England and France at reduced
rates, may now be transmitted by post between any Placov,
in the United Kingdom at the following rates of peats,,.o
which must in all cases be prepaid by means of Pr 07078
stamps, viz. :—For a packet of patterns weighing 'l° twin
than 4ez, 3d; more than 4oz, bat not mots, is.;
Soz, Gd; more than Boz, but not more thano; special
more than 16oz, but not more than 24001 is
and regula-
attention is directed to the following ralesi. No packet
tions, which will be strictly enforced, viz. 'anceedieg that
of patterns must exceed 240 z in weight'an A letter. 2.
weight it will be treated and oharg!d value. This rule
The patterns must not be of intriorleo sad indeed, what-
;
excludes all articles of a saleable naa
material, sent esten-
tapart
from its mere 'use
ever may have a value of its of any
as a pattern; and the cuantilY4 an great that it can fairly
sibly as a pattern, must notch;
ground, an intrinsic value.
be considered as having, ail
no ot intrinsic value will be
Packets containing letters. 3. There must be no
treated and charged as
than the addressof
~feer „ the person for
writing or printing -
intended, the addressof
fawn the sender, a
whom the packet i 5
tors, and the prices of the articles,
trade mark and
eknaerwill be treated as
Samples,
Twat the ends, so as to be
a letter. 4. The
teabapnanctootevtrebres
open
. ,
'linen', or other
a nepo
atahsdt
ytees
ororwnf
f.iseos,zei;t:
juh,a9esgvut. bei
itoical .
sentni artneroipael,ntied a t covers,t h me
neck;
ever, of seeds, drugs,
cyckbe;
inclosed la
wed that they cannot be readily opened, even
bags s°,,Greey be
altbetigm.transparent, must not be used for this
Non-
purpaan. compliance to this rule will alto subject the
picket to be treated as
pac a letter. 5. In all other respects the
regulations of the inland book post will apply to the inland
pattern post. Under these regulations, in order to prevent
any interrupt ion to the regular transmission of letters,
a pac-
ket of patterns may, when it is necessary, be kept back for
24 hours beyond the time when, in the ordinary course, it
would be bi warded. N.B. The rule which forbids the
transmission through the post of any article likely to injure
the contents of the mail bags or the persons of any officer of
the Post-uffice is, of course, applicable to the pattern post;
and a packet containing anything of the kind will be stopptd
and not sent to its destination. Articles such as the fol-
lowing have been occasionally posted as patterns, and have
been detained as unfit for the post—viz., metal boxes, por-
celain and china, fruit, vegetables, hunches of flowers,.cuts-
tings of plants, spurs, knives, scissors, needles, pins, pieces
of machinery, watch machinery, sharp .pointed inl
sisrubottles,
samples of metals, samples of ore, samples in g absq,
Co Per
pieces of glass, acids of various kinds, currycomof, l'
various
and steel engraving plates, and confectironerynera.
now_
kinds. By command of the Postmaster-
e,
Oct 11. 1
LAND HILL, Secretary. General FueBtv,
_laical wt,.11.1y.
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