The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-27 00:00:00

110 HOLDF:RS OF POLICIES IN 'DIE
EQUITABLE LIFE OFFICE.

POICM4 SECURED,
Thom per ons who will be entired to Points Additions to their
Policies, it they s arvlve the 31st December, 18 •9, are informed that
such addition. rimy be secured at the HA ND-IN-HA,NI) LIFE
OFFICE, upon most favourable terms, which may be ascenained
-upon application to the Actuary.
Parties wiffning to avail themselves of this arrangement are
respectfully requested to signify the same without delay, in order that
the requisite. number may be obtained and the scheme adopted forth-
with.

By order.
RICHD. RAT, Secretary.
Hand•in-lland Fire and Life Office. I, New Bridge-street,
Blackfriars, London.

DELIVERY of LETTERS.—The Postualster.
General, anxious try Promote rapidity and
correctness in the delivery of letters, has, for postal purposes,
divided London and its environs into ten districts, each to be
treated, in many respects, as a separate town • and to render
this arrangement effectual, he earnestly requests that every
lucans may be taken by the public for causing letters to be
directed according to the district for which they are intended.
!Initials will suffice, and for the house at which this notice is
left the initials are W. C., the district being the Western
Central. In the direction of a letter, these initials should be
legibly written in a separate lino, and should in all cases end
ties address, thus :

JAMES TIIOMPSION. Esq ,
COO, High Holborn,
VF. C.

when the letter is from the country, thus :
JAMBS THOMPSON, Esq.,
5500, High Holborn,
London,
W. C.
Among other means of inducing this practice, it is sug-
gested that, when convenient, each resident of the Western
District should add the name of the district, or the to
his own address inside his letters when writing to his ci,rre
spondeu ta, and on his address card. Also, that if in busi-
ness, b e should give the name of the district, or the initials,
in tb e heading of bills or invoices, in advertisements or
Pla•er.rds, and on any article of manufacture which may bear
his address. _

'Correspondents not attending to the above arrangement,
could be requested to use the initials in reply.
Information as to the district in which any locality is in-
eluded may be had at any receivin•house in London and its
environs, or at any head post-office in provincial towus,
at all of which alphabetic lists of streets, &c., will be
kept for referenee. The British Postal Guide, which can be
procured (price 6d.) at any head post-office, will hereafter
contain a similar street list showing the district initials : and
Ike information, the Postmaster General is assured, will be
given in the London Post Office Directory for the year 1857,
in the part headed " Street Directory."
The following additional information may prove useful :

TABLE OF DISTRICTS.

Names.
Eastern Central District
Western Central District - -
Northern District
North Eastern District
Eastern District
south Eastern District
Southern District
South Western District
Western District
North Western District ...

Initials.
W. C.
N.
N. E.
E.
S. E.
S.
S W.
w.
N. W.

If the initial letters be thus regularly appended the depart-
raent will be able to assort with facility and correctness the
conntry letters, according to their respective districts, before
they reach London in the morning.
By a recent improvement about 60,000, or fully one-third,
of such letters are already so assorted with as much correct
mess as circumstances allow - a change which has greatly ex-
pedited the delivery; and it is hoped that, if the previous
assortment, with full facility for correctness, can be extended
to all, this advantage, seconded by other improvements now
in progress, will eventually secure to the public the benefit
Oa further and important acceleration of the morning deli.
Very, throughout London.
By command of the Postmaster-General.
ROWLAND HILL, Secretary.
General Post-office, Dec., 1856.

THE MONS UNITED COLLIERIES
COMPANY (Limited).
Capital One Million, in 100,000 Shares of 101. each, deposit
21. per Share on Allotment.

TRUSTEES.
His Grace the Dalcz of Wellington.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Albemarle.
H. S. Thornton, Esq., Banker, Birchin-lane.
T. M. WoveHu, Esq., Governor of the Bank of England.

DIRECTORS.

Li out.-General the Right Hon. Lord James Hay, Chairman.
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Bury.
L ieut.-Col. the Right Hon. Lord Arthur Hay.
Flaron Gudin, Chateau Beaujon, Paris.
'William Gladstone, Esq., (Messrs. Thomson Bonar and
06.), Old Broad-street.
Fortescue Harrison, Esq., Cambridge-square, Hyde-
Parl;.
obert William Kennard, Esq., Upper Thames-street.
A lexander Miller, Esq., Ashford-house, Middlesex
kunrroas—(To be appointed at the first General Meeting).