The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-03 00:00:00

DIRECTORS.

Lieut.-General the Right Hon. Lord James Hay, Chairman.
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Bury.
Lieut.-Col. the Right Hon. Lord Arthur Hay.
Baron Gudin, Chateau Beaujon, Paris.
William Gladstone, Esq., (Messrs. Thomson Bonar and
Co.), Old Broad-street.
J. Fortescue Harrison, Esq., Cambridge-square, Hyde-
park,

Robert William Kennard, Esq., Upper Thames-street.
Alexander Miller, Esq., Ashford-house, Middlesex.
Aunrrons—(To be appointed at the first General Meeting).

BAIIKERB.

Messrs. Williams, Deacon, Labouchere, Thorn-
In London ton, and Co., Birchin-lane.
Messrs. Hankey, 7, Fenchurch-street.
In Mous Messrs. Guillochin, Sons, and Co.
In Paris Messrs. Charles Laffitte and Co.

SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Amory, Travers, and Smith, London.
Monsieur Doles, Avocat, Mons.
BROKERS.
Messrs. Joshua Hutchinson and Son.
Messrs. Laurence, Son, and Pearce.
SECRETARY —T. R. Preston, Esq.
Temporary Offices No. 46, Moorgate-street.
Prospectuses and Forms of application for Shares may be
obtained at the temporary offices of the Company, or at the
brokers.

Each applicant for Shares will be required to pay into one
of the Bankers of the Company, one pound (1/.) per Share,
on the numbers of Shares applied for, in part payment of the
deposit of V., in exchange for which a voucher will be
given. In the event of the Directors allotting less than the
whole number applied for, the amount paid in will be appro-
priated towards the deposit of(2/.) per sharp payable on those
allotted. Should no allotment be made to the applicant, the
money ledged at the bankers' will be forthwith returned free
of charge.

DELIVERY of LETTERS.—The Postmaster-
General, anxious to promote rapidity and
correctsess 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
means may bo 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 line, and should in all cases end
the addrese, thus :

JAMnES THOMPSON, Esq.,
500, High Holborn,
W.C.

Or, whex the letter is:frost the country, thus
JAMES THOMPSON, Esq.,
500, High Holborn,
London,
`O.
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 initials, to
his own address inside his letters when writing to his corre.corre-
spondents, and on his address card. Also, that if in busi-
ness, he should give the name of the district, or the initials,
in the heading of bills or invoices, in advertisements or
placards, and on any article of manufacture which may bear
his address.
Correspondents not attending to the above arrangement,
should be requested to use the initials in reply.
Information as to the district in which any locality is in-
cluded may be had at any receiving-house in London and it;
environs, or at any head post-office in provincial towns,
at all of which alphabetic lists of streets, dm will be
kept for reference. 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
like information, the Postmaster General is assured, will be
Even in the London Post Office Directory for the year 1857,
n the part headed Street Directory.,,
The wing additional information may prove useful : -
TABLE OF DISTRICTS.

Names. .
•
Initials.
Eastern Central District E. C.
..,1 Western Central District . . W. C.
Northern District
Eallorth Eastern District N. E.
stern District
Eastern District
Southern District
Western District S. W.
rn District
North Western District
If the initial letters be
thus regularly appended the depart-
welt will be able to assort with facility and correctness the
country letters, according to their respective districts, before
they reach London in the morning,
of such letters are y a recent improve
alreadment about 60,000, or fully one-third,
y so assorted with as much correct-
Ness 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
of a fnrther and important acceleration of the morning deli-
Tory throughout London.
By command of the Postmaster-General.
oneft Him, Secretary.
(tonna Post•olaces DN.' 185f.R

TO BE SOLD, pursuant to an Order of the
High Court of Chancery in England, made in a certain cause
of SCOT I' versus DEFFELL, with the approbation of the Vice-
Chancellor Sir Richard Torin Kindersley, to whose Court the said
cause is attached,
TWO UNDIVIDED EQUAL THIRD PARTS or SIFIRFS of
and in the ESTATES called Swansea Brown's flail and Brown's
Town, in the parish of Saint John, in the Island of Jamaica ; end in
the Estates called Hayes Penn and Brown's Pasture. in the parish
of Saint Dorothy, in the said Island, by whatsoever description and,
quantities the same were held by the late John Henry Deffeli, Esq.,
deceased, at his death, which happened on or about the twenty.
eighth day of October, One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight ;
together with the buildings and machinery, if any, thereon.
Tenders for the purchase, by private contract, under seal, to be
delivered at the office of Messrs. H and S. •R. Lewin, solicitors, No.
82, Southampton-street, Strand, London ; or if from Jamaica, sent
by post by letter directed to the said Messrs. H. and S. R. Lewin, on
or before the twentieth day of March, One thousand eight hundred
and fit.y-seven.

CHAS. PUGH, Chief Clerk.

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