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

DIRECTORS.

Lieut.-General the Right Han. 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 Dollar and
Co.), Old Broad-street.

J. Forteseue Harrison, Esq., Cambridge-square, Hyde-
park

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

BANKERS.

{Messrs. Williams, Deacon, Labonchere, Thorn-
In London ton, and Co., Birchin-lano.
Messrs. Flankey, 7, Fenchurch-street.
In Mons Messrs. Guillochin, Sons, and Co.
Ii Paris Messrs. Charles Laffitte and Co.

SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Amory, Travers, and Smith, London.
Monsieur Dolez, Avocat, Mona.
BROKERS.
Messrs. Joshua Hutchinson and Son.
Messrs. Laurence, Son, and Pearce,
SECRETARY —T. R. Preston, Esq.
Temporary Offices No. 46, Moorgate-serest.
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 poand (11.) per Share,
on the numbers of Shares applied for, in part payment of the
deposit of 21., 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 (21.) per Share payable on those
allotted. Should no allotment be made to the applicant, the
money ledged at the bankers' will bo forthwith returned free
of charge.

DELIVERY of LETTERS.—The Postmaster-
General, anxious to 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
*leans 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 line, and should in all cases end
the address, thus :

JAMES THOMPSON, ESq.,
500, High Holborn,

Or, when the letter isfresa the country, thus :
JAMES THOMPSON, Esq.,
500, High Holborn,
London,

w; C.

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 tials, to
his own address inside his letters when writing toini his corre-
spondents, and on his address card. Also, that if in busi-
ness, should give the name of the district, or the initials,
in the heading of bills or invoices, in
ure advertisements or
placards, and on any article of manufact which may bear
his address.
Correspondents not attending to the above arrangement,
should be requested to nse 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 its
eRv-irons, or at any head post-office in provincial towns,
At all of which alphabetic lists of streets, &e. will he
kept_ for referenee. The British Postal Guide, which can be
(price 6d,) at any head post-office, will hereafter
likporouverneda
similar street list showing the district initials : and
Information the Postmaster General is assured, will be
given in the London Post Office Directory for the year 1857,
th
headed " Street Directory."
" MalTlng additional information may prove useful :
TABLR OF DISTRICTS.
/Tames
Nesten Central: District
Initials.
rn Central District
ITe
W• C.
Nortethnerni .....
Eastern Easternt.
Sontk District
.........
E.
Southern plant District
South Nresternrit .1.
Western bistriet .
North Western Dr se . •......
If If the initial letters berithtne
leant will be able to assort regularly appended the part-
country facility and correctness the
graornhienir
country letters, accordin
they reach London in the respective districts, before
By a recent improvement a.boift.6
of such letters are already en O,OOO or fully one-third,
aassortedcila with as- much correct-
Ness as circumstances allow—
nga which has greatly ex-
pedited the delivery; and i is hoped that, if the previous
amortroent, with full facility f correctness can be extended
secouded by other •
to all, this advantn;r,
in progress, will evolittiany seems to the
_1 c the bench.
of a further and important acceleration or the morning deb-
-oGueniterrjal
very throughout London.
By command of the Posntmoasinaliter
Secretary.
aentro4l batoidce, 185 G.

An accident which, though comic enough, might
easily have had a tragical ending, occurred the other
day at Madame Tussaud's Exhibition. A. medical stu-
dent, examining the guillotine in the Chamber of Horrors,
took it into his head that the sort of yoke which fits
down on the shoulders of the criminal to hold him in
his place would not be sufficient to confine a person
who struggled. His curiosity on this point led him to
watch till the place was empty, when he actually put
himself in, letting down the yoke. He soon found
that he was quite unable to lift it, and it at once flashed
into his mind that the sharp axe which was suspended
over his neck could not he very firmly fixed or it
would not fall (as it does) with a touch. He was afraid
to struggle, lest the shaking should bring it down and
at once deposit his head in the basket of sawdust below
him, into which his eyes were of necessity steadily
looking. Having stayed some time in this plight, he
was overjoyed to hear the approach of a visitor, whom
he suppliantly implored to release him. " I'm think-
ing," said the gentleman (a Scotch visitor of the metro-
polis) to his wife, "I'm thinking he must be hired to
show bow the thing acts, and I think we'd better not
interfere." So the luckless student was left till M. Tus-
saud came in, and made fast the axe before releasing
him. The axe has been removed and laid by the side
to prevent future accidents.-- Weekly Registrar.
AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL ECONOMY.—To know why
property is depreciated in this colony, and how that pro-
perty is to be retrieved in value and wages sustained,
are elements of a problem demanding primary considera-
tion. Were we to confine the instance to Geelong, it
might be asked from what cause springs the decadence
in the value of property ? The answer might be a plau-
sible one, and at the first glance satisfactory. It might
be alleged that the settlement of the colony denuded the
town of a superfluous population, and dispersed them
through the interior ; it might be alleged that capitalists
who invested money in country lands were mere specu•
lators. Both causes are worthy of consideration, but do
not meet the question at issue. Tithe is an evident
crumbling away of everything into which colonial enter-
prise centres. There appears to be a dispensation abroad
which encourages the few who have money to hug it,
and entails ruin on all those who, by using capital, em-
ploy labour, benefit the colony, and ruin themselves.
Instead of inquiring why this state of things should be
—instead of submitting to them passively, and trust-
ing that when things are at the worst they will
mend," we would counsel examination, which, if en-
tered upon, would lead to a monetary cause and a cur-
reacy solution. The wants, the luxuries of the popula-
tion are not lessened, but the means to represent these
wants and luxuries we lack—and why ? Because the
amount of money doled out to us is limited, and compa•
ratively with that our enterprise is unlimited, and falls
under the undue domination of alien capital. While
such a system endures the property of the colony will
retrograde. Barter of raw gold fOr foreign merchandise
will go on, but colonial settlement will not. There
will be no permanent prosperity in Victoria, so long as
the chief portion of the population is engaged in mere
distribution of imported articles, paid for by the sa•
orifice of the produce of the digging interest. There
is not an ounce of gold raised but pays an impost
to foreign capital—but is subverted to English uses,
cheapened when in our bands, but appreciated to the
English standard directly it passes into the bank
There is not au ounce of gold raised that ought to leave
the colony until the wants of the colonists are ful-
filled ; and were there a mint the sacrifice spoken of
would be obviated. The more go'd there was coined the
better would be the position of property and of wages.
e on
buy would
at
So long as our sovereign would pass among ourselves at
full value, the exporter of gold would not be able to get
hold of it for less than 2Cs.
give 80s. per oz. the banks would
If
the
not o tGbe v Government
able to
765. per oz, The difference in price would be saved to
the colony, but far more than the difference in price
would the colony advantage by a monetary medium coo_
stantly supplied and only limited to demand. If the
landlord, the householder, the digger, the agriculturist,
the labourer, could be brought calmly to see their true
interests, their extrication from embarrassment would be
evident, and could be pointed
out clearly ; but so long
cre-
dits, as
imperils our Victoria, and. the gold interest 15
a limited amount of capital, supplemented by huge
glected, property will continue to decline in rel
though the 53d clause be repealed, the ballot O
main-
tained, triennial Parliaments made the law of the land,
and property qualification be abolisbed,—Greelong Nlt