The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-29 00:00:00

IMPORTANT .REDUCTIONS 111 10. REIGN

POS I AGE.

Yesterday the following notice of reductions of the
postage on letters to France and various foreign
countries via France was issued by Mr. Rowland
Hill :

General Post.office, Dec., 1854.

On and from the Ist January next, the following re
duced rates, when the postage is paid in advance, will
be chargeable on letters sent between the United King-
dom and France and Algeria, whether conveyed by
packet or by private ship, viz.:—
Fur a letter not exceeding loz. in weight, 4d.
Do. do. ioz. and not exceeding Bd.

Do. do. }oz. and not exceeding loz., ls.
Do. do. ioz. and not exceeding loz., ls. 41.,
and so on, increasing one rate of 4d. for every additional
quarter of an ounce.

Double the above rates will be chargeable on all
letters to or from France and Algeria posted unpaid.
The foregoing rates include both the British and
French postage from any part of the United Kingdom to
any part of France or Algeria, and vice versa.
On and from the same date, letters sent via France
addressed to the undermentioned foreign countries and
places will be liable to the following combined British
and foreign rates of postage, viz. :
Letters for Luxembourg (Grand Duchy of), Baden,
Holland, Prussia, Bavaria, Wurtemburg, Switzerland,
and German States, viz. : Hohenzollern, Birkenfeld,
Hesse Homberg, Lippe Detmold, Schwartzburg Rudol-
stadt, Reuss, An halt, Nassau, Saxe-Cob'irg Gotha, Saxe-
Memingen Hildburg Hansen, Hesse (Electoral), Hese
Darmstadt, Saxe-Weimar Eisenach, Frankfort on-the.-
Maine, Hamburg, Bremen, and Lubeck, may be paid
to their destination at the following rates .—Not exceed-
ing oz., Bd. ; exceeding I oz. and not exceeding / oz.,
ls. 41. ; exceeding / oz. and not exceeding / oz., 2s. ;
.xceeding I oz. and not exceeding 1 oz., 2s. Bd. Let-
ters for Luxembourg, Holland, Prussia, and the Ger-
man States, intended to be sent via France, must be
so directed.

Letters for Sardinia may also be paid to their destina-
tion at the following rates, viz. : Not exceeding oz.,
10d. ; exceeding 4 oz. and not exceeding oz., is. Bd. ;
exceeding oz. and not exceeding oz., 2s. 6d. ; ex-
ceeding oz. and not exceeding 1 oz., 3s. 4d.
Letters for Spain and Portugal can be paid only
through France at the following rates :—Not exceeding
oz., 10j. ; exceeding 4 oz. and not exceeding o oz.,
Is, 3d. ; exceeding oz. and not exceeding 4 oz., 2s. ld.;
exceeding 4 oz. and not exceeding 1 oz., 2s. 6d. Let
tars for Cadiz and Vigo are forwarded by Peninsular
packet, unless specially addressed via France. Letters
for Portugal intended to be sent via France must be
so directed.

Letters for the Two Sicilies and Tuscany may be paid
to their destination ; those for Parrna and Modena,
via Austria, only through Austria ; those for the Papal
States and Austrian Dominions, to their destination ;
those for Greece, by French Mediterranean packet, to
destination ; those for Greece via Austria, and for the
lonian Islands via Austria, may be paid to Trieste ;
those for Hanover, Saxony, Mecklenburgh Schwerin,
Mecklenburg Strelitz, Bruns wick, Oldenburgh (except the
Principality of Birkenfeld), Servia, Poland, and Russia, to
their destination, All these letters will be charged as
follows, viz. : —Not exceeding oz., is. ld. ; exceeding
oz. and exceeding , 2s. 2d. ; exceeding oz. and
not exceeding oz., 3s. 3d. ; exceeding aoz , and not ex-
ceeding 1 oz., 4s. 4d. Letters for Venetian Lombardy
are forwarded through France, unless otherwise ad-
dressed; but letters for any other part of the Austrian
dominions intended to be sent via France must be so
directed. Letters for the lonian Islands and the Northern
States of Europe, intended to be sent via France, must
be so directed.

Letters for Moldavia, Wallachia, and Turkey in Eu-
rope, via Austria, maybe paid to their destination. Not
exceeding oz., 18. 7d. ; exceeding 4 oz. and not ex-
ceeding oz., 3s. 2d. ; exceeding # oz. and not exceed-
ing oz., 4s. 9d. ; exceeding oz. and not exceeding 1
oz., 6s. 4d. Letters for these places, intended to be
sent via France, must be so directed.

Letters for Constantinople, the Dardanelles Beyrout,
Smyrna, and Alexandria, sent by French Mediterranean
packet, may be paid to their destination at the following
rates :—Not exceeding oz., [s. ; exceeding oz. and
not exceeding oz., 2s. ; exceeding oz. and not ex-
ceeding oz., 3e. ; exceeding oz. and not exceeding
1 oz., 4s. Letters for Alexandria, intended to be sent
by the French Mediterranean packets, must be so
directed.

Letters for Mytelene and Gallipoli, by French Medi
terranean packets, may also be paid to their destination
Nut exceeding f oz., ls. ld. ; exceeding oz. and not
exceeding oz., 2s. 2d. ; exceeding oz. and not ex
ceeding a oz., 3s. 3d. ; exceeding oz. and nut exceed.
ing 1 oz., 4s. 4d.

The pc;stage upon letters for Spain and Portugal, as
well as upon those intended to be sent via Austria to
Parma, Modena, Greece, and the lonian Islands, must
be paid in advance ; but letters addressed to any other
of the above-mentioned countries and places may either
be paid in advance or forwarded unpaid, at the option
of the sender. If unpaid, however, letters for France
or Algeria will, as already stated, be charged double,
REGISTERED LETTERS.—Letters for France, and for
the above countries, when sent via France, may be re-
gistered at the desire of the senders, and in such case
the postage must be paid in advance, at double the rates
of postage chargeable for ordinary letters.
ROWLAND HILL, Secretary.