The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-07 00:00:00

UNITED STATES' POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS.

Mails for the United States are made up in London every
Saturday evening, Wednesday morning, and Wednesday
evening. Letters for the Saturday and Wednesday evening
mails must reach the General Post-office by 6 o'clock
p.m., and those of the Wednesday morning mails by 6
o'clock a.m. that day. Newspapers must always be posted
half an hour earlier. The Wednesday and Saturday's
mails are taken up at Queenstown, on the following day,
by the Liverpool steamers. The Wednesday morning
mails are taken by the Southampton steamers.
Mails from the United States are due in London on
Mondays and Thursdays of each week.
Periodical works not of daily publication, issued in the
shape of pamphlets, may be sent to the United States,
California, and Oregon, by packet, at the following rates :
—Not exceeding 2 oz., id. ; above 2 oz., but not exceeding
3 oz., 6d.; above 3 oz., but not exceeding 4 oz., Bd. ; with an
addition of 2d. for every additional ounce up to 16
ounces, above which the privilege does not extend. At
the same rate of postage, any pamphlet not weighing more
than 8 oz (even' though it be not a periodical publication)
may be sent to the United States, California, and Oregon.
This postage is only the British portion, a further sum
being charged on delivery. The periodical works
or pamphlets must always be sent in a cover open at the
ends (not more than one being sent in a single cover), and
the postage must be prepaid. Other printed papers or
books (except those specified above), addressed to the
places above named, are liable to letter rate of postage.
There must be no writing, or other marks upon such
periodical works, pamphlets, &c., or upon the covers, ex-
cept the names and addresses of the persons to whom they
are sent; nor upon the covers must there be any printing,
except the names and addresses of the persons to whom
they are sent and the names and addresses of the senders
Any other writing, &c., will render the packetsliable to
letter rates of postage

'HE NEWSPAPER PRESS—recently announced
as the forthcoming Organ of Intercommunication
between the various members of the Fourth Estate—has,
according to promise, put in a first appearance this
December. And,' so far as the initial number of a
periodical so entirely new in its general aim
and character can do so, it realizes tha fairest
anticipations of its well-wishers, meaning thereby,
as we should suppose the whole world of newspaper
people whom it more especially addresses—Newspaper
Proprietors and Editors, Journalists, Reporters, and Cor-
respondents, Paper-makers, S tationers, Typefounders, Prin-
ters, Compositors, Readers, Newsvendors, Advertisement
Publishers and "The Trade" generally—to say nothing of
the Public generally ! Twenty Pages, admirably printed
on excellent paper, and with beautiful type—so much for
the mere medium or materiel of the undertaking. As
to the contents they are, at any rate, miscellaneous,
interesting, and comprehensive. Babblinga about old
Times have amused us, especially in the second
portion of them—they at any rate being no "mis-
nomer," being in point of fact the merest
babblings, though of the most harmless character.
The Press Literary Directory promised to be com-
menced in the ensuing number, and thenceforth, we
presume, to be continued until completion, threatens
to put an end to our newspaper system to
its leading characteristic, The Anonymous. What
was it the late-Lord Strangeford, better known in his day
as the Ron. George Smythe, once said —" England,
G,verned by her Journalists, while the names of her
journalists are unknown." To this characteristic of the
anonymous the new Press organ we are here alluding to
would seemingly put an end.