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-
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 he 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 OpricE.;—St. Martin's-le-Grand.
BitANCH OFFICES.— Borough, Chafing-cross, 0:d
Cavendish-street, and Sherborne lane (for issuing money
orders only)
POST-OFFICES ,WITHIN THE THEM; MILE CHICLE.
Battle-briage., 3, Pleasant-row ; Bloomsbury, 1, Broael-
street ; Camberwell-green ; Camden-town, 98, High-
street ; City-road, 36, near Old-street ; Clerken well
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 ; hackney, Church-street, 8 ; High
Holborn, 62 ; Islington, 86, Upper-street ; Ken-
nington Cross, 2 ; Kingsland-road, 4, Orchard-
place ; Lambeth, 33, Mount-street ; Limehouse, 53,
Three Colt-street ; Mile End, 6, Ireland-row ; Old Kent-
road, 9, Northampton-place ; Oxford-street, 210 ; Pic-
cadilly, 65 ; Pimlico, 23, Queen's-row ; Ratcliffe, 77,
Broad-street ; Shoreditch, 211 ; Strand, 282, -opposite
Norfolk-street ; Tottenham-court-road, 103 ; ,Upper
Baker-street, 54 ; Walworth, 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, Brentford, Brixton, Bromley (Kent),
Brompton (Middlesex), Cashalton, Chelsea, Chiselhurst,
Clapham, Croydon, Deptford, Dulwich, Edgeware, Ed-
monton, Eltham, Enfield, Erith Great Ilford, Greenwich,
Hammersmith, Hampstead, Hampton, Harrow, Hendon,
Highgate, Hounslow, Kensington, Kingston, Lewisham,
Norwood, Paddington' Putney, Richmond, itomford,
Shooter's Hill, Southall, St. John's Wood, Stanmare,
Stoke Newington, Stratford, Sydenham, Tooting, Tot-
tenham Cross, Turnham Green, Walhain Green, Walt-
had) Cross, Wandsworth, Woodford, and Woolwich.
When application is made fur 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
of 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 fire. The weather, during the day and
evening, was delightful, 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, transparencies, rind other suitable
decorations. We feel great pleasure in adding, that all
the arrangements gave the greatest satisfaction, and that
the numerous attendance of visitors must have been very
gratifying 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.
In New York the panic which prevailed according to the
last fortnightly intelligence having subsided, money is
somewhat easier, and• anticipations are consequently
for Med of a very favourable Autumn trade. Materials
of all kinds, wool excepted (which has declined) are in
process of improvement. In cotton the transactions
this week have been numerous, and the silk market is
also rather better.—Nottingliamslare Guardian.
HONG-KONG.—According to the telegraphic accounts
from Hong Kong yesterday, which reached to the
6th of July, the rate of exchange has experiencel 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 mall having been is. Bd. The impedi-
ments to communication with the interior continued, it
is said, to support prices, and four chop,: anew Congou
had been settled for in Canton at inn?. t •eli above the
opening rates of last year, and at Shanghai 20 chops at
two tack The quality of the new silk is described as
very had, and only 300 hales had arrived. The present
steamer has :brought 400 bal-s of old. Tie exports to
date were 77,000,0001 b. of tea and 61,500 bales of silk.
PROFESSOR WILSON'S MON UMENT. —We are happy
to learn that the subscription fur the monument to Pro.
fossor Wilson progresses most favourably. Among the
names recently added to the list aro those of the Dukes
of Hamilton, Buccleuch, Roxburgh, and Argyll ; the
Earls of Haddington, Stair, Rosebcry, a,nl,
M.P.
Viscount Mahon ; Hon. T. B. Macaulay, p. ; v
Stirling, of Keir, M.P. • Archibald liastie, M.P. ; Wm,
Forbes, of Callender, M.P. ; Col. Mims, of Caldwell,
M.P. ; the Lord Justice General, the Lord Advocate,
Lords Robertson, Wood, Rutherford, Handyside, Neaveg,
the Dean of Faculty, Professors Alison, Elackie, M`Dou'-
gall, Simpson; and Swinton. The subscriptions already
exceed 9001. The sum required is about 1,4001. We
hops soon to be able to announce that the whole amount
required for the completion of the monument has been
subscribed,-.Northern ktandard.