The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-30 00:00:00

PENNY RECEIPT STAMPS.

The information contained in the following cor-
respondence regarding the penny receipt stamps,
which are to come into operation next Monday
week, will be useful to persons engaged in trade
who may wish to have their own printed forms
made up into books : •

" Plymouth, Sept. 17.
" Sir,—We find by advertisement that we can got any
form of receipt stamped. Wo wish to have a regular form
made up into books. What we wish to know is, whether
you can stamp the books, or wheber the forms must be
sent you before they are mad intD books. We must, of
course, send the money wit'stie pia-ce!. How many days
would occur before we received the stamps after sending
the Raper ? _

" Any further information you can afford relative to
this matter will much oblige, Sir, your obedient servants,
" WILLIAM E. liENDLE and CO.
"Thomas Keogh, Esq., Inland Revenue,
Somerset-house."

"Inland Revenue, Somerset-house, Sept. 26.
" Gentlemen,—l have submitted to the board your
letter of the 17th inst., and they have directed me to in-
form you that the forms of receipts which you desire to
have impressed with the new duties should be taken to
Mr. Nettleton, the sub-distributor of stamps at Plymouth,
to whom you should pay the duty, and he will thereupon
transmit them through the head distributor for the district
to the office for stamping, and return them to you as early
as practicable before the 10th of October, from which date
the duties in question will come into operation.
" I am to add, it is very desirable that the paper sent
in for stamping should be in loose sheets, and not bound
up into books. "I am &c.

" THOMAS KEOGH.
"To Messrs. William E. Rendle and Co."

THE RE-PAVING TEE STRAND AND FLEET-STREET.—
The works which have been going on in these two im-
portant thoroughfares will, it is expected, soon be com-
pleted. Yesterday the laying down of the new granite
roadway through Fleet-street, was completed as far as
Chancery-lane, and the repairing, up to the west side of
Temple-bar is rapidly progressing. In the Strand the
works have been completed as far as Arundel-street,
operations having been commenced eastward of that
place. In consequence of the passage of Temple-bar
being stopped, all vehicles passing westward or east-
ward, are obliged, in the first place, to turn off at Wel-
lington-street, Strand, and via Long-acre, Holborn,
Fetter-lane, &c., reach Fleet-street, and in the second
case the route is, *of course, reversed. This has the
effect of taking all such vehicles no less a distance than
one mile and three-quarters out of their way.
CONSUMPTION OF SMOKE BY THE RIVER STEAMERS.—
Taking time by the forelock, several of the river steamers,
above and below bridge, are experimenting on the best
methods to be adopted for the consumption of smoke in
their furnaces, so that by the prohibition time pointed
out in the act of Parliament, both their funnels and the
river thoroughfare may be smokeless..
EVICTION OF IRISH TENANTRY IN MARYLEBONE.—
Yesterday, from an early hour in the morning, the ,
vicinity of Portman-square presented an unusual scene
through the ejection of the Irish colony, which has so
long inhabited a place running parallel with Edwards-
street, from Orchard-street, known as Orchard-place, but
formerly as Kell Mell-buildings. 18 months ago notices
were served (under the seal of Lord Portman, the ground
landlord), upon all the families who inhabited this sink
of filth and misery, that the leases under which the
houses they inhabited were held by their landlords,
expired on Michaelmas day, 1853, but no notice was
taken by the people of the repeated warnings they have
received on the subject. Everything was left till the
last minute, and yesterday morning the process of sum-
mary ejection was carried out under the orders of Mr.
Hardwicke, the surveyor and agent to Lord Portman.
NAPLES.—lntelligence has been received from Naples
that the period for the admission of wheat, flour, oats,
barley, and maize, duty free, into the kingdom of the
Two Sicilies, has been extended by a decree, dated the
22d inst., from the end of December, the time originally
named, until the end of May next.

AN ANTI-PERCUSSION SKULL —This week, while a
little boy was amusing himself at the window of his
parents' house, he accidentally overbalanced himself and
fell to the ground, from a height of three storeys. Sin-
dular to say, although the back of his head struck the
paving-stones in the court, yet he sustained compara-
tively but little injury, and has now quite recovered.—
North British Daily Mail.
EARLY USE OF Layard, in his work upon
Nineveh and Babylon, in reference to the articles of
bronze from Assyria, now in the British Museum, states
that the tin used in the composition was probably ob-
tained from Phoenicia ; and, consequently, that that
used in the Assyrian bronze may actually have been ex-,
ported nearly three thousand years ago from the British
Isles.--Notes and Queries.
How TO BREATHE THE "FREE AIR" or AUBTRIA.—
Keep your mouth shut.--Puna.