The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-25 00:00:00

POST-OFFICE NOTICE.

As the transmission through the post of letters con-
taining coin, bank notes, or other valuable articles,
creates dangerous temptations and is unsafe, persons
having occasion to remit money are strongly re 7
commend to employ crossed cheques or drafts not made
payable to the bearer, and when the sum is small to
make use of the Money Order-office. If bank notes or
bank-post bills be sent, the safest course will be to cut
them in half, taking care to record their numbers
and dates, and not to transmit both halves by the same
post. In these and all other cases of valuable property
the letter should be registered. Money orders for sums
not exceeding 51. are issued and paid at every head
post-office in the United Kingdom, and in London at
the following offices :--
CHIEF OFFICE.—St. Martin's-le-Grand.
BRANCH OFFICES.—Borough, Charing-cross, Old
Cavendish-street, and Sherborne lane (for issuing money
orders only)
POST-OFFICES WITHIN THE THREE-MILE CIRCLE.
Battle-bridge, 3, Pleasant-row ; Bloomsbury, 1, Broad-
street Camberwell-green ; Camden-town, 98, High-
street ; City-road, 36, near Old-street ; Clerkenwell
Green, 41 ; Coventry-street, Soho, 1 ; Dock Head,
11 ; East India-road, Poplar ; Gray's-inn-lane, 43,
Upper North-place ,• Great Surrey-street, 231, Great
Tower-street, 36 ; Nackney, Church-street, 8 ; High
Holborn, 62 ; Islington, 86, Upper-street ; Ken-
nington Cross, 2 ; Kingsland-road, 4, Orchard-
place ; Lambeth, - 33, Mount-street ; Liinehouse. 53,
Three Colt-street ; Mile End, 6, Ireland-rOw ; Old Kent-
road, 9, Northampton-place ; Oxford-street, 210 ; Pic-
eadilly, 65 ; Pimlico, 28, Queen's-row ; Ratcliffe, 77,
Broad-street ; .Shoreditch, 211 ; Strand, 282, opposite
Norfolk-street ; Tottenham-court-road, 103 ; Upper
Baker-street, 54 ; Wal worth, 15, Crosby-row ; Wap-
ping ; Westminster, 8, Broadway ; Whitechapel-road, 1.
POST-OFFICES IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF LONDON,
BEYOND THE THREE MILE CIRCLE, BUT WITHIN THE
TWELVE MILE CIRCLE :—Barking, Barnet, Bayswater,
Bexley, Blackheath, Bren Hord, Brixton, Bromley (Kent),
Brompton (Middlesex), Cashalton, Chelsea, Cbiselhur,t,
Clapham, C-roydon, Deptford, Dulwich, Edgeware, Ed-
monton, Eltham, Enfield, Erith Great Ilford, Greenwich,
Hammersmith, Hampstead, Hampton, Harrow, Hendon,
Highgate Hounslow, Kt nsington, KingAon, Lewisham,
Norwood, Paddington, Putney, Richmond, Romford,
Shooter's Hill, Southall, St. John's Wood, Stanmore,
Stoke Newington, Stratford, Sydenhatn, Tooting, Tot-
tenham Cross, Turnham Green, \lranian) Green, Walt-
ham Cross, Wandsworth, Woodford, and Woolwich.
When application is made for a money order to be ,
paid in some part of London at a distance from St.
Martin's-le-Grand, it should be clearly stated on which
~f the above offices the order is to be drawn, otherwise
payment can be obtained only at the chief office.

CREMORNE GARDENS.— BENEFIT OF MR. T. B.
SIMPSON.—The annual benefit of Mr. T. B. Simpson,
the proprietor of this delightful place of amusement,
took place yesterday evening, on which occasion there
was a grand gala fête. The weather, during the day and
evening, was delighttul, and Mr. Simpson left nothing
undone to secure the gratification of his numerous
patrons. The gardens and grounds were beautifully
illuminated, and on no previous occasion do we remem-
ber to have seen so picturesque'and artistic a display of
variegated lamps, tran.parencies, and other suitable
decorations. We feel great pleasure in adding, that all
the arr'ngements gave the greatest satisfaction, and that
the numerous attendance of visitors must have been very
gratifing to Mr. Simpson, and an evidence of the esteem
in which he is held.

NOTTINGHAM. —The lace trace remains unaltered with-
out improvement, and confined to the ordinary incidental
transactions in common goods. In the hosiery trade
the continued operations of the German buyers to whose
arrival we referred in our last, have served to maintain
the slight improvement formerly experienced ; although
the manufacturers are acting with extreme caution under
the stimulus, and squaring the production to the demand. li
In New York the panic which prevailed according to the
last fortnightly intelligence having subsided, money is
somewhat easier, and anticipations are consequently
formed of a very favourable Autumn trade. Materials
of all kinds, wool excepted (which has declined) are iu
',rams of improvement. In cotton the transactions
this week have been numerous, and the silk market is
also rather better.—Notfinghanaltire Guardian.
HoNa.KoNG.—According to the telegraphic accounts
front Hong Kong yesterday, which reached to the
6th of July ;• the rate of exchange has experienced no
alteration at Canton, and only a slight decline at
Shanghai, the quotation at the former place being still
ss. id., while at the latter it is 6s. 7d., the quotation
by the previous mail having been 6s. Bd. The impedi-
ments to communication with the interior continued, it
is said, to support prices, and four chops of new Congou
had been settled for in Canton at four taels above the
opening rates of last year, and at Shanghai 20 chops at
two taels. The quality of the new silk is described as
very bad, and only 300 bales had arrived. The present
steamer has brought 400 babe of old. The exports to
date were 77,000,0001 b. of tea and 61,500 bales of silk.
PROFESSOR WILSON'S MONUMENT.—We are happy
to learn that the subscription for the monument to Pro.
fessor Wilson progresses most favourably. Among the
names recently added to the list are those of the Dukes
of Hamilton, Buccleuch, Roxburgh, and Argyll ; the
• Earls of Haddington, Stair, Rosebery, and Ellesmere ;
Viscount Mahon ; Hon. T. B. Macaulay, M.P. ; \Vm.
Stirling, of Keir, M.P. ; Archibald Hastie, M.P. ;
Forbes, of Callender, M.P. ; Cal. Alive, of Caldwell,
M.P. ; the Lord Justice General, the Lord Advocate,
Lords Robertson, Wood, Rutherford, Hand yside, Neaves,
the Dean of Faculty, Professors Alison, Blackie, M`Dou-
gall, Simpson, and Swinton. The subscriptions already
exoaefk9Po/. The sum required is about 1,4001. we
hope soon to be able to announce that the whole amount
required for the completion of theMolitinlent has been
gubsoribedo4fortlan, 4tanclard.

SECOND REPORT OF COMMITITE ON

EMIG itANIL 811,LP-S..

In a second report recently issued by the Committee
on Emigrant ship; the conclusions arrived at from the
evidence are fully detailed, and the s committee make
several reosmirendations which will be of considerable
importance to owners and charterers. Their inquiry
.was a laborious one, its difficulty being increased by
anything like complete returns of the condition in
which emigrant vessels arrive in the ports of the United
States, and hence one of tho recommendations most
urgently insisted upon is that negotiations should be
opened with the Government at Washington for an
effective co-operation in some system for the mutual
enforcement of sound regulations. ..Among the causes
of disaster to emigrant ships iron cargoes are the most
serious, and more strict general provisions- are conse-
quently recommended against bad or dangerous stow-
age. With respect to sanitary arrangements, the com-
mittee propose that the number of passengers allowed
to be carried without a medical officer should be re-
duced from 500 to 300, even this extent being regarded
as improper, since, as a general rule, all ships with
passengers should carry surgeons, and a different prac-
tice is only justifiable by the difficulty of finding
them. Improved arrangements are at the same time
suggested that might induce competent men to offer.
Power is also proposed to be given to the Government to
prevent emigrant ships from leaving ports where cholera
or other dangerous epidemics prevail, and, in case of any
exception being permitted, the vessel is at all events to
be required to carry a surgeon, even though the number
of passengers may be below 300. It is likewise consi-
dered that every vessel bringing emigrants across the
Irish Channel for embarkation should be compelled to
protect them from the weather. At present, on board
these boats the cattle and live stock are screened, while
the deck passengers are left without shelter of any kind,
and often arrive in a state that lays the foundation of
permanent disease. In reference to space it is recom-
mended that no ship should give less than 14 feet in the
between decks to each emigrant, and, the committee
likewise refer to the opinion of Mrs. Chisholm and others
that the practice of allowing two children under 14 years
of age to be counted only as one person should be
greatly modified. They next touch on various points
connected with ventilation, cleanliness, &e., and also re- •
commend that an addition should be made to the dietary
scale in the Passenger Act of 1852. On the subject of
the size and seaworthiness of ships, the evidence against
large ones is general, and it was stated that the Emigra-
tion Commissioners have resolved for the future not to
charter vessels with two passenger decks, the ground of
oljection being the difficulty of thorough ventila-
tion. The committee recommend. that, except in spe-
cial cases, the number of passengers allowed in one
vessel should not exceed 500, and that all vessels should
be brought within the scope of the Passenger Act where
the number carried is in the ratio of two persons to the
100 tons; likewise that the exemption of steam-vessels
carrying mails from the operation of the act should be
done away with. In relation to manning, it was stated
that the Emigration Commissioners insist upon four men
to the lop ;tees. in their. vessels hut great,pb.jvtions
would be made to this ,by private charterers, and the
committee limit themselves to the suggestion that in-
creased vigilance should be used to ascertain the effici-
ency of the crew, apart from the mere question of num-
ber. It is further considered that it might be an advan-
tage if masters were bound, under penalty, to put back
in those cases where vessels are found to be unsafe for a
long voyage before losing sight of land, and that it should
be rendered compulsory on owners and charterers -to
resort in the fullest manner to all the means in use for
testing the compasses. Finally, the committee make
some general observations respecting the regulations
necessary with regard to lodging-houses, &c., the capa-
city and readiness of boats and the other appliances for
saving life, and also as to the desirableness of carrying
the requisite supply of water in metal casks. As re-
spects the detention-money allowed for the support of
emigrants when the sailing of a ship is delayed, an
opinion is expressed that it should be increased from ls.
to ls. 6d. per day.