The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-08 00:00:00

IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR THE MORNINO
MAILS.

In consequence of the numerous complaints that have
been made to the Right Hon. Viscount Canning, the Post-
master-General, from parties who have experienced much
delay in the delivery of their letters in the country by the
morning mail trains, the Post-office authorities have
deemed it necessary to issue the following important
notioe as regards the time of posting letters and news-
papers at the receiving-houses in the metropolis and
vicinity, to be forwarded the next morning by the early
morning mails, which will not only save much delay, but
disappointment to those they are addressed to in the
country, if strictly adhered to. A general notion prevails,
that all letters put into the boxes at the receiving-houses
very early the same morning, will be forwarded to their
destination by the mail express trains, and thus are the
delays complained of occasioned by themselves, and not
Post-office, or railway companies.
The public should be informed that all letters or news
papers intended to be sent off by the morning mails must
be posted at the receiving-houses the previous evenings
before 10 o'clock, or they will not get off until the usual
hour of departure the next evening, as the boxes through-
out the metropolis are cleared at 10 p.m. Letters and
newspapers for the north and north-western counties,
Scotland, &c., can be posted at the branch-offices, Charing-
cross, Old Cavenilish-street, and the Borough, the same
morning, viz., newspapers, 6.45 a.m., letters 7.15 a.m.
At the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, and the
branch-office, Lombard-street, the boxes for newspapers
will does at 7 a.m., and for letters at 7.45 a.m., which in
eludes all the different towns and places transmitted by
the mail trains of the North-western Railway (Euston-
square) and the Great Northern Direct (King's-cross).
To all other parts of England, Wales, and Ireland, the
letter boxes will be open at the above offices for news-
papers until 7 a.m., and for letters until 8 a.m. At the
General Post-office and the Branch-office, in Lombard-
street, for newspapers until 7.45 a.m., and for letters until
8,30 a.m.

There are upwards of 350 post towns in England and
Wales, to which letters and newspapers can be forwarded
by the morning mails.
To Scotland, Ireland, France, and all countries vitt
Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and the Mediter-
ranean, Belgium, Holland, Prussia, Austria, the whole of
Germany, Russia, Poland, Greece, Turkey, &c.
The public are respectfully requested to pay strict at.
tention to the time of posting their letters and newspapers
for the morning mails.

The Duke of Buccleuch and the Earl of Dalkeith,
M.P., have arrived at Montagu House, from Dalkeitn
Palace. .

The Marchioness of Ormonde and infant daughter are
going on favourably, in Charles-street, Berkeley-square.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Gladstone) will
give his first Cabinet dinner for the season on Wednes-
day, the 15th inst., in Downing-street.

Viscointess Palmerston will hold her second assembly
snSaturday next, in Carlton-gardens ; previous to which
the noble Secretary for the Home Department will enter-
tain some of the foreign corps diplomatique at dinner.

The British _Minister, his Excellency Sir Hamilton
and Lady, Seymour, family, and suite, are shortly ex-
pected to return to this country from St. Petersburg,
•having, it is understood, been recalled, in conjunction
with General Castelbaiac, the French, Ambassador. Sir
Hamilton has been Ambassador at the Court of the
Emperor since the translation of his Excellency Lord
Bloomfield to Berlin.

ENTERTAINMENT AT THE MANSION-HOUSE.—The Lord
Mayor and the Lady Mayoress entertained last evening,
in the Egyptian Hall, gansion-house, at dinner, a select
party. Covers were laid for 120, and amongst the com-
pany were— His Highness Meer Jafur Alee, Mirza Ally,
Ackbar Khan, Mr. Acton Ayrton, Archibald Hastie,
Esq., M.P., Apsley Pellat, Esq., M.P., James Ker-
shaw, Esq., M.P., Rear-Admiral Collier, Captain
Inglefield, R.N., Captain and Mrs. Shea, Sir John
and Lady Hansler, Mr. Alderman and Mrs. Carter, Mr.
Aldirman and Sheriff Wire and Mrs. Wire, the Rev. Dr.
Vivian and Mrs. Vivian, the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Mortimer,
Rev. Mr. Moon, the Lord Mayor's chaplain; Dr. and Mrs.
Langmore, Mr. and Mrs. R. Chamberlain, Mr. and Mrs.
Salt, Mr. and Hossask, Mr. and Mrs. Cabe, Mr.
and Mr:. Chandos Pole, Mr. and Mrs. Tudor, Mr. and
Mrs. Wicking, the Rev. J. Letts and Mrs. Letts, Mr.
and Mrs. Ellis, Mr. Lucas, Mr. Tapling, Mrs. Honiball,
Mr. Palmer, Mr. A. Robins, the Rev. T. Gregory, Mr.
James Thompson, Mr. and Mr:4. Finnerley, Mr. Philipps,
Mr. and Mrs. Edmiston, Mr. T. R. Andrews, Mr.
Deputy and Mrs. Peacock, Mr. Deputy and Mrs. Har-
risln, Mr. Deputy and Mrs. Conder, Mr. Deputy and
Mrs. Dakin, Mr. and Mrs. Ashby, Mr. Thorp, Mr.
Samuel Thorp, Mr. and Mrs. Randall, Mr. and Mrs.
Waterlow, Mr. and Mrs. Murrell, Mr. and Mrs. Dawson,
Mr. and Mrs. Fry, Mr. Ford Hale, Mr. and Mrs. Tay-
lor. Mr. Hopgood, Mr. Warren, Mr. and Mrs. Mat-
thews, Mr. and Mrs. Elliott, Mr. Donald Nicol, &c.

EDUCATIONAL EXHIBITION.`.•The Council of the
Society of Arts have determined to hold an educational
exhibition in the month of June, of the present year,
when the conferences of the representatives of its various
affiliated institutions, now amounting to 335 in number,
will take place. The council have already sought the
aid of her Majesty's Secretaries of State for Foreign
Affairs and for the Colonies, with the view of obtaining
models of the schools of primary instruction by the
Departments of Public Instruction in France, Holland,
Prussia, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Canada, and
at Washington, New York, or Massachusetts, and spe-
mens of every article authorised to be used in the diffe-
rent classes of schools recognised by each State, as well
of the writing, drawing, needlework, printed examina-
tion papers. &c., done in the schools. The council have
also asked to ba furnished with copies of the codes of
public instruction in force in each country, and they
promise to publish, at the time of the exhibition, an
English synopsis of the whole. Letters have also been
addressed to the large educational bodies and Govern-
ment
~departments dealing with this subject, claiming
their co-operation in the undertaking.
THE RAILWAY BRIDGE AT PADDINGTON.—This bridge,
which forms the high road for the great omnibus and
general traffic to Bayswater, and which has been entirely
closed for some time, to enable the Great Western Rail-
Way Company to raise the arches sufficiently to allow the
passing of the trains to and from the new terminus, has
now been re-opened for the traffic, to the great conve-
nience of the vast number of public vehicles of all kinds
which in tb• meantime have been subjected to delay and
inconvoinence by having to take a circuitous route of
WY-Ulf ;We to and from their destinations.