The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-27 00:00:00

POST OFFICE NOTICE.

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REDUCTION OF POSTAGE ON LE FTERS BE-
TWEEN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND

SWEDEN AND NORWAY.

On and after the Ist January next the postage upon
letters posted in the ;United Kingdom, and addressed to
Sweden or Norway, and vice versa, when conveyed vie
Denmark by the London and frainburgh Padiets, will
be reduced to the 'following uniform rates, via :
On letters between the United Kingdom and Sweden,
Is. 11. the half ounce;
Ue letiera between the United Kingdom and Nor Way,
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Is. 6J. the halfounce;
And so on -according to the scale iti operation in the
United Kingdom for charging inland letters.
The above mentioned rates comprise both the British
and Foreign postage on the letters to the place of their
destination, and they may be either paid-in advance, or
the letters may be forwarded unpaid at the option of
sender, except, however, as regards registered letters,
the postage upon which, us well as the registration fee,
must be paid in advance.
The Brithh postage on letters conveyed .between the
United Kingdom and Ssteden
.or Norway, by private
ships, direct or vial Denmark, will be reduced to 6d. the
half-Bunco, and so on, and this rate must be paid in the
United Kingdom, tho foreign postage On such letters
being collected in Sweden and Norway respectively, .
Letters for Sweden or Norway, directed to be for-
warded by the routes of France, Prussia; Or any other
foreign country, except Denmark, must be treated in
every respect as letters sent in transit through such
countries.

British newspapers addressed to Sweden or Norway,
if duly stamped and posted in accordance with the usual
official regulations, and newspapers addressed to the
United Kingdom from Sweden or Norway, will not be
liable to any charge for postage in the United Kingdom
when conveyed by packet nifllenmark.
Newspapers transmitted by private ships betwedn the
United Kingdom and Sweden or Norway, will be•
chargeable with a postage of Id. each, which. must be
paid both upon those dispatched as well as upon those
received.

WooLwldH..--.This rectory, now vacant by the
death of the Rev. William Greenhaw, is worth 7401. per
annum, and is in the gift of the Bishop of Rochester.
We regret to learn that Loid and Lidy Myers
have sustained a severe domestic afiliotion:iby the demise of
their eldest son, the Hon. George Horace Pitt, who died on
Friday afternoon, after a short illness. The hon. deceased
was in his 17th year, having been born in March, 1834.

DEATH OF MRS. WALLACK.—This lady, wife of
Mr. J. Wallack, the comedian, and a daughter of the cele-
brated " Jack Johnstone," died on Wednesday night. Mr.
Wallack has been very seriously ill for some weeks.

FRIGUTFUL FALL.—A melancholy iceident hap-
peaed on Saturday night at the brewery of Messrs. Smithera
had Isaacson. Three men.in the employ of Messrs. Palmer
and Green, who had been engaged in repairing the pipes of A.
well in the brewery4'had just completed' •theirijob, and the
last man, named Church, had ascended .to within eight feet
of the top, when he missed his footing and fell a distance of
nearly SO feet;. his head, feet, and arms *coming in contact
with eight or ten ,projections in his fall to a platform, within
20 feet of the water. His fellow-workman who was holding
the top ladder for his ascent saw the poor fellow fall. Mr.
Charles Pocooki who lives in the house• attached to the
brewery, being called up, lost no time in sending fol. a Bur-
geon and some of the brewery men. Half an hour elapsed
before he was got `out, 'and he then presented a shocking
spectacle.. His jaw was much cut, his head was cut in two
or three places, and one of his arms was dreadfully shattered.
By the time'he was taken out of the well,"Mr. Pocock, sur-
geon, arrived, and, directed his removal to the hospital; and
he was. taken away in a fly, senseless.—Brighton Gazette.

RAILWAY. ACCIDENT AT CANTERDURY.-011
TUQS-
day afternoon, an accident occurred at the railway crossing
in St. Dunstan's in this city, which fortunately was not at-
tended by:th• fatal consequences that appeared imminent.
An engine, which had been employed i❑ helping a train over
the rise, was returning to the station, and' before the gate-
keeper, William Pettit. a steady old servant, could open the
gates, the engine clashed through, sending the gates firing,
completely', destroying one, and by the other knocking down
the gate-keeper, dislocating his ancle, and otherwiseinjuring
his leg. He was immediately conveyed to the hospital,
where he received every attention.

Vice stings U 3 even in our pleasures, but Virtue
consoles us even in 'our pains. —Eliza Cook's Journal.
M. LABARRAQUE.—This gentleman, one of the
most distinguished members of the Academy of Medicine, has
just died at the age of 74. lle had acquired a considerable
fortune by his works, which have given him a European re-
putation, and bad long since retired from practice.

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