The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-26 00:00:00

MONEY ORDERS.

General Post•office, August, 1854.

ENGLAND.
A major money order office will be opened at Eton,
Bucks, on the Ist September, and at Park street, Bris-
tol, on the 12th September.
Minor money order offices will be opened at the un-
dermentioned places on the respective dates named :
County. Head-office, &c.
Comb Martin, Devon, Ilfracombe, Ist Sept.
R.hyinney, Monmouth, Newport, Mon. let do.
Shipdham, Norfolk, Thetford, 12th do.
The Money-Old,r office formerly known by the name
of " Abchurch-lane" is now called " Sherhorne-lane."
IRELAND.
On the Ist September next the undermentioned Major
Money Order-offices will 'be reduced to minor offices ;
Postmasters -must, therefore, after that date, pay
no money order issued at those offices unless the
corresponding advices shall have been received
by them through the Chief Money Order Office, Dublin,
with the stamp of that office affixed to the document.
Ball County. Head office, &o.
yconnell
Tyrrell's Pass

IMPORTAVT ("RANGES IN THE POST-
OFFICE DEPAILTMENT.

For the future the Post-office department will be pre-
sided over by a Postmaster-General, with a salary of
2,5001. a year. One secretary, with a salary rising from
1,5001. to 2.0001. a year. There will further be two
assistant secretaries, with salaries rising from 700/. to
1,0001. a year. One chief clerk to secretary, with 6501.
a year. Three head clerks in secretary's office at from
500/. to 6001. a year. Four classes of secretary's clerks,
at from 4001. to 5001. ; and from 801. to 1501. a year.
An arbitrator on railway charges, with a salary rising
from 7001. to 1,000/. a year. An inspector-general of
mails, at a salary rising from 600/. to 8001. a year ; and
four mail inspectors at from 3001. to 500/. a year.
There are also to be a comptroller of the Inland-office,
at a salary rising from 600/. to 800/. a year, and a vice-
comptroller with a salary rising. from 5001. to 600/. a
year. One receiver and accountant-general, with a
salary rising from 600/. to 800/. a year. A. cashier, a
chief examiner, and a principal book-keeper, at salaries
rising from 400/. to 5501. a year each. A comptroller of
the Money Order-office, at a salary rising from 5001. to
700/. a year, and a chief clerk to that comptroller, at
from 350/. to 450/. a year. There are to be surveyors
to the General Post-office, with salaries from 500/. to
700. a year, and their clerks are to receive salaries
rising from 100/. to 150/. a year. There is to be a soli-
citor to the General Post-office, whose salary is to be
2,500/. a year, and his clerks are to reoeive salaries
rising from 400/. to 500/., from 260/. to 380 i., and from
2201. to 240/ a year. There are to be secretaries to the
General Post-offices of Edinburgh and Dublin, at sala-
ries rising from 700/. to 1,000/. a year.
The clerks in the mail, inland, and London district,
account, and money order offices, will be divided into
three classes, with salaries rising from 801. to 1501., from
180/. to 240/., and from 2601. to 350/. a year. Ttie
letter sorters, letter carriers, stampers, porters, and rnes•
sengers, are to be divided into four classes, with wages
rising from 19s. to 235., from 255. to 305.. from 325. to
384., and from 40s. to 50s. a week. The inspectors of
letter carriers in the Lonlon Post-office are to be divided
into two classes, with salaries rising from 110/. to 200/.,
and from 210/. to 300/. a year. The mail guards are to
be divided into two classes, with salares rising from 70/.
to 901., and from 100/. to 1201. a year. The offices of
secretary to the post-master general, inspector-general
of the missing letter department, superintendent of mail
coaches, inspector of dead letters, receiver-general, and
inspector of ship letters, are to be abolished. Country
postmasters are in future to appoint their own clerks.
Provincial postmasters, whose salaries are not above
175/. a year, are to be appointed by the Treasury, at the
recommendation of members of parliament, and those
whose salaries are above that sum are to be appointed
by the Postmaster-General. The clerks in the London
Post-office are to have a month's holiday every year, and
the sorters, letter carriers, and other inferior officers, a
fortnight's holiday, without any deduction from their
pay. Letter carriers, guards, and other inferior officers,
are to be entitled to superannuation without subscribing
to the superannuation fund. Security bonds are to be
no longer required from the officers of the London Post-
office. Persons appointed as letter carriers and letter
sorters in the General Post-office must be between the
ages of 17 and 27, and mail guards must be between the
ages of 20 and 25. The private secretary to the Post-
master-General is to have 300/. a year for the services
he performs as such. The inlmd and London district
offices are to be consolidated. Promotion is to de-
pend entirely on merit, and in every department
the lowest officer will be ellgible to the highest office
in it.

THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS AND THE

NEW BEER ACT.

Last night a meeting of licensed victuallers residing
in the neighbourhood of Greenwich, Lewisham, and the
other surrounding villages, was held at the Royal
Standard Tavern, Blackheath, for the purpose of con-
demning the act for the closing of public-houses for the
greater part of Sunday, and of taking measures for its
early repeal.

The chair was taken by Mr. Clarke, who strongly re-
probated the measure, as interfering not only with the
interests of the trade, but also with the convenience of
the public. They were still, notwithstanding the en-
lightened and liberal view which Mr. Long, the police
magistrate of the Marylebone district, took with respect
to the question of what constituted a bona fide traveller,
at the mercy of the petty tribunals, and would not be
safe until the Court of Queen's Bench decided on the
point. The case of Mr. Ware, the landlord of Jack
Straw's C.rstle, Ilampgefid, which drew forth the fle-
ei,ion to which he ha I alluded, had been defended by
the Metropolitan and Suburban Licensed Victuallers'
Protection Society ; and he thought it advisable that the
members of the trade residing in the district of Green-
wich should afford their utmost assistance to that society,
a deputation from which, he was happy to hear, was
about to wait on Lord Palmerston to try and induce him
to suspend the operation of the act until an opportunity
should be given to the Legislature of fully reconsider-
ing a measure which it had enacted in baste and under
the erroneous impression that it was approved of by the
trade.

The meeting was addressed by Messrs. Day, Poole,
Bennett, Moore, and Waittle, who severally complained
of the manner in which the act was hurried through
Parliament.

Resolut►ons were agreed to by the meeting, and a
memorial prepared ►n the same spirit for presentation to
the Home Secretary.
A vote of..thanks •to the•chairman terminated the
proceedings.

IMPROVEMENTS IN PRACTICAL
MINING.

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Some of the greatest improvements in science very fre-
quently work their way in a silent and unobtrusive
manner, and people are sometimes hardly aware even
of their existence, until some fine morning they brush
the dust from their eylids, and find themselves just a
quarter of a century behind the age. Such is prejudice,
or rather that spirit of inaction which lies like an in-
cubus upon the bulk of mankind, and induces them
rather to follow blindly in the footsteps of others
than to be at the trouble to exercise their own
judgment. We were forcibly reminded of this fact the
other day, on witnessing one of Medwin and Hall's
portable steam-engines at work at a mine in the west
of England. " Here ! " said the captain, " I have as-
certained more, by this little engine, of the value of
my mine in three weeks, than under the old system
I could have done in six months. Suppose, for
instance, I had gone to one of our first engi-
neers (you know what engineers are), why, they'd
have kept me waiting a month of Sundays for
it ; and then, when I got it, I should have had
to build; and erect, and go to no end of ex-
pense, before I could get to work, as, I dare
say, they have found out before this at the Exmouth
and Adams United Mines, and a few other places. In-
stead of this, however, I thought I would look in at the
Blackfriars-road ; and upon my word," said be, "it
was, in point of ready accommodation, like going to a
chandler's shop for a ha'porth of soap, or a penny
candle. What power do you want ?' they said.
Twenty-horse,' said I. Here you are, then. Are
you
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shall be at the station to-night.' And so it was, and at
work here the day after its arrival ; fur it wants no fixing,
as you see." " I'll tell you what it is,' continued the
captain : " half the- mines -that are opened now, are
opened in the dark. The directors keep on holding
meetings, and receiving reports ; and, among others,
they get one every now and then from the engineer, just
to say how he is getting on, and when you are likely to '
have your engine, which is generally about six months
before you really get it ; whereas, if they'd take the
tools as they are—all ready made to their hands —they'd
settle the business in no tine. It is only right to speak
well of the bridge that carries you safe over."—Mining
Journal.